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Page 66 of 1071929 · PDF PAGE 13
… were infinitesimal, 99,487,306,294,236,873,489 to 1. It would have been madness to trust to luck in so essential a matter. Dodu set to work to bribe the Gov- ernor himself. This was unfortunately impossible; for (a) no one could approach the governor even by means of the intermediary of the bribed guards; (b) the offence for which he had been promoted to the governorship was of a nature unpardonable by any Government. He was in reality more a prisoner than ourselves; (c) he was a man of immense wealth, assured career, and known probity.
1919 · PDF PAGE 119
…self in the course of the Operations. But it is to be said generally that the choice of one formula or the other is automatic, being the work of that inmost Will which is alive within you. Seek not then to determine consciously this decision, for herein true instinct is not liable to err. But now I end, without further words: for in our Holy Books are written many details of the actual practices of Love. And those are the best and truest which are most subtly written in symbol and image, especially in Tragedy and Comedy, for the whole nature of…
1919 · PDF PAGE 186
…-Khuit and the establishment of His perfect kingdom let all be done! Now, O my son, thou knowest that it is Our will to estab- lish this Work, accomplishing fully that which We are com- manded in the Book of the Law, “Help me, O warrior lord of Thebes, in my unveiling before the children of men!””— and it is Thy Will, manifesting as thou hast done in the Sphere of Malkuth the material world, to do this same thing in an even more immediate and practical way than would naturally appeal to one whose manifestation is in the Heaven of Jupiter. So th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 412
…on alone renders the majority of Buddhist documents, if not valueless, at least unreliable. We, however, taking this book as an original work by Bla- vatsky, need not be bothered by any doubts more deadly than that as to whether her command of English was per- fect; and in this treatise, in spite of certain obvious senti- mentalities and bombasticisms, we find at least the founda- tions of a fairly fine style. I think that what she says in this sub-section refers to a statement which I got from my Guru in Madura to the effect that there was a c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 433
… one find the true Adept. Read Liber Legis, Chap. II., verse 24, and learn where to look for hermits. 55. A sense of pride would mar the work. Aye, build it strong, lest the fierce rush of battling waves, that mount and beat its shore from out the great World Maya’s Ocean, swallow up the pilgrim and the isle—yea, even when the victory’s achieved. We now perceive more clearly the meaning of this pas- sage. Just as the man, in order to conquer the woman, used restraint, so also must this true Soul restrain itself, even at this high stage, althoug…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…d R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc. By a glance at the Tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly all others. The Occult Review says: “Despite its cumbrous sub-title and high price per page, this work has only to come under the notice of the right people to be sure of a ready s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…d R.R. et A. C._ It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonized with those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc. By a glance at the Tables, anybody conversant with any one system can understand perfectly all others. The Occult Review says: “Despite its cumbrous sub-title and high price per page, this work has only to come under the notice of the right people to be sure of a ready s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…urae Regina Isis. At the End of the Century: At the End of the Year: At the Hour of Midnight: Did I complete and bring to perfection the Work of LILL+ "* ii Esdras, viii, 52-54. + Lamp of Invisible Light. L.I.L. The title of the first AZthyr derived from the initial letters of the Three Mighty Names of God. In all there are thirty of 45
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…urae Regina Isis. At the End of the Century: At the End of the Year: At the Hour of Midnight: Did I complete and bring to perfection the Work of LILL+ "* ii Esdras, viii, 52-54. + Lamp of Invisible Light. L.I.L. The title of the first AZthyr derived from the initial letters of the Three Mighty Names of God. In all there are thirty of 45
1929 · PDF PAGE 493
…lly brilliant idea of concocting a fable that his German girl was a new Sappho. He made her copy out a number of poems from my Collected Works and sent her round to Putnam's to persuade them to publish the really remarkable work of this romantic young American beauty rose. The girl told his wife in bed one night, they having found a bond of common sympathy in their contempt and loathing for "The Worm" as we had familiarly called him. She told me at once, and I have every reason to believe that the letter I wrote to Putnam's is treasured in the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 502
… all banishment from the world of reasonable things is portrayed in almost endless variety. The screen is grotesque, yet is undeniably a work of genius. It possesses a unity. The dead souls have composed a living soul. Everyone who saw it went away horror-struck or in the spirit of Shimei. But they all talked of nothing else. Bob Chandler came again and again to gaze and gloat. He brought everyone he knew to look at it. And even artists famous for their classical refinement had to admit its grisly power. In short, the dead souls conquered the c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 304
THE EQUINOX destroy itself. Science will then never be able to perform the work of faith, any more than faith can decide in a matter of science. An affirmation of faith with which science is rash enough to meddle can then be nothing but an absurdity for it, just as a scientific statement, if given us as an article of faith, would be an absurdity on the religious plane. To know and to believe are two terms which can never be confounded. It would be equally impossible to oppose the one to the other. It is impossible, in fact, to believe the contr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 304
THE EQUINOX destroy itself. Science will then never be able to perform the work of faith, any more than faith can decide in a matter of science. An affirmation of faith with which science is rash enough to meddle can then be nothing but an absurdity for it, just as a scientific statement, if given us as an article of faith, would be an absurdity on the religious plane. To know and to believe are two terms which can never be confounded. It would be equally impossible to oppose the one to the other. It is impossible, in fact, to believe the contr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 366
…l ; he had not turned a hair. He stood watching me while he pulled out his pipe, filled it and lit it. “* Never waste time on the way to work,” he observed, in a tone which I can only describe as pseudo-sancti- monious. ‘ Do you find yourself sufficiently recovered,” he added in mock anxiety, ‘‘ to resume the vertical position which distinguishes the human species from other mammals? I believe the observation is due to Vergil,” he continued.
1954 · PDF PAGE 58
…; but I don't know the solution-or if there is a solution. I did think of calling Magick "Magick without Tears"; and I did try having my work cross-examined as I went on by minds of very inferior education or capacity. In fact, Parts I and II of Book 4 were thus tested. Love is the law. love under will. Fraternally, 666
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…, instant success. Tried the same with a European, but failed. 3rd. Tried in vain two “practical volitions” but was too unwell to do any work. 4th, Nirvana,Selfish- 28 m. ness, Magical Power Hiero- phantship, etc. After this meditation I arrived at the following decision: I must not cling to the Peace.t It certainly has become real to me, but if * In this exercise the pendulum tends to swing out of plane. Here are Frater P.’s two methods of correcting it: (a) Fix mind on the two points of a pendulum-swing and move pendulum sharply like chronogr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…, instant success. Tried the same with a European, but failed. 3rd. Tried in vain two “practical volitions” but was too unwell to do any work. 4th, Nirvana,Selfish- 28 m. ness, Magical Power Hiero- phantship, etc. After this meditation I arrived at the following decision: I must not cling to the Peace.t It certainly has become real to me, but if * In this exercise the pendulum tends to swing out of plane. Here are Frater P.’s two methods of correcting it: (a) Fix mind on the two points of a pendulum-swing and move pendulum sharply like chronogr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 22
…le : one picks up a loose word here and there : one doubts : one guesses : one is illumined in a mo- ment. One is rather reminded of the working of a helio- graph under unfavourable conditions. But (as with that instrument) by dint of repetition one gets the all-important message at last : and the situation is saved. It is undoubtedly the importance which he at- taches to Sin, Repentance, Penance, Grace, as the means of raising the old to the new Adam that cost el Haji so much pains in persecution by the more orthodox Muslim : possible the teac…
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
… we could admit it as a scientific fact, would prove that this state may last for four days.) Let us now come to the secret of the Great Work, which we have given only in Hebrew, without vowel points, in the Rituel de la haute magie. Here is the complete text in Latin, as one finds it on page 144 of the Sepher Yetzirah, commented by the alchemist Abraham (Amsterdam, 1642): 1 It will be objected that Lazarus stank, but this is a thing which happens frequently to healthy people, as well as to sick men, who recover in spite of it. Besides, in the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
… we could admit it as a scientific fact, would prove that this state may last for four days.) Let us now come to the secret of the Great Work, which we have given only in Hebrew, without vowel points, in the Rituel de la haute magie. Here is the complete text in Latin, as one finds it on page 144 of the Sepher Yetzirah, commented by the alchemist Abraham (Amsterdam, 1642): 1 It will be objected that Lazarus stank, but this is a thing which happens frequently to healthy people, as well as to sick men, who recover in spite of it. Besides, in the …