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Page 67 of 901922 · PDF PAGE 130
… with merriment, but Feccles said :— “Now, that’s all right. But this is a very serious business. You're not going about it in the right spirit. We've got to go about it very quietly and soberly, and then open up when the word comes Over the top.” We pretended to pull ourselves together to please him, but I couldn’t blind my eyes to the fact that I was likely to lose my money, because the white elephant had turned into a quite ordinary Zebu or Brahman cow, or at the best a two-humped or Bactrian dromedary, in any case, an animal entirely unfitt…
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…isn’t it?” He turned to Maisie for confirmation. He was, so he said, quite unable to trust himself to calculate. Maisie entered into the spirit of the absurdity and counted it solemnly out on her fingers. The tone of his voice had been mournful, as if his plans had been seriously disconcerted. That was another trick of his that put people off. It was Lou’s sparkling eyes that told me what he meant. And then I was brought up with a tremendous shock to realise what it meant to me. I went to the chart myself with excited curiosity, quite as if I h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…ds like Phthah or Harpocrates whose natures do not accord with this gesture. Or the thumb, the hngers being closed. The thumb symbolises spirit, the forefinger the element of water. ~ 378 “
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…est force in Nature, because her clarion sounds the summons of creation. It is she that is the Vicegerent of the All- Father, and of His spirit hath He dowered her with a triple essence. In southern lands, even before the Equinox opens its gates before her conquering armies, one feels her imminent. Her light-armed troops swarm over the breached ramparts of the winter, and their cry is echoed in the dungeons of the soul by those whom she has come to save. Yet in her hands is nothing but a sword. It is a disturbance of the equilibrium to which th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…hird consciousness transcending its parents, which is again reflected into matter as a child; so, immeasurably higher, upon the Plane of Spirit, Subject and Object join to disappear, leaving a transcendent unity. This third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to …
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…hird consciousness transcending its parents, which is again reflected into matter as a child; so, immeasurably higher, upon the Plane of Spirit, Subject and Object join to disappear, leaving a transcendent unity. This third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to …
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…he Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinité Space that fiâmes with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused throughout the City of Jewels. Each “plane” is a veil of the one above it; the original individual Ideas become diversified as they express their éléments. Two men with almost identical ideas on a subject would Write two totally different treatises upon it. 15) The general control of the Astral Plane, the ability to find — 250 —
1909 · PDF PAGE 282
…e Meye a BY) D1AGRAM 31. ‘The Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Practicus in the 3° = 8° Ritual, represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles : while the chalice of water placed at the junction of the cross and triangle represents the maternal letter Mem.” which, the tablet bearing the mystic seals and names drawn from the Kamea of Mercury * is shown the Theoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven planes of the Tree…
1909 · PDF PAGE 282
…e Meye a BY) D1AGRAM 31. ‘The Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Practicus in the 3° = 8° Ritual, represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles : while the chalice of water placed at the junction of the cross and triangle represents the maternal letter Mem.” which, the tablet bearing the mystic seals and names drawn from the Kamea of Mercury * is shown the Theoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven planes of the Tree…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
… mort ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day matter is repîaeed by Spirit, tbe bmnau by the divine ; ulîimately the change will be complété; God manifest in flesh will be bis naine, This is the most important of ail magical secrets that ever were or are or can be. To a Magician thus renewed the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel becomes an inévitable task; every force of his nature, unhindered, tends to that aim and goal of whose nature ne…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
“akasha”, the “Spirit”, the Aethyr or physics, which is the framework on which ail forms are founded; it receives, records and transmits ail impulses without itself suffering mutation thereby. The “Earth” is the sphere wherein the operation of these “fundamental” and aethvric forces appears to perception. “Under the Earth” is the World of those phenomena which inform those perceived projections, and détermine their particular char- acter. “Dry land” is the place of dead “material things”, dry (i.e. unknowable) because unable to act on our minds…
1954 · PDF PAGE 313
…eration is 175, which is that of the sum of the first 49 numbers, as is proper to Venus. We may then expect the head or headdress of the spirit to be in some way characteristic of the Sign of Pisces. The general form of the body will be indicated by the Daleth, the letter of Venus, and the lower part (or perhaps the quality) will be determined by the watery Mem-the termination Aleph Lamed is usually taken to indicate appropriate symbols. For instance, the Aleph might show a golden aura, and the Lamed a pair of balances. Some further detail migh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…ouche is sealed upon the forest: groves are gray With filtered glamours of the day, the steely ray flung off his shield. She kneels, yon spirit of the earth; she kneels and looks toward the east. In her gray eyes awakes the beast from slumber into druid mirth. She is amazed, she eager, she, exotic orchid of the glade ! waits the ripe, exultant blade, life tempered by eternity. She And I who witness am possessed by awe grown crimson with desire, Its iron image wrapped in fire and branded idly on my breast. Her face is bronze, her skin is grecn, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 5
…ng? Art thou grown jealous of the fiery band? Lo! thou hast spoken, and thy strong command Bade earth and air divide, and on the sea Thy spirit moved—and thou must envy me! Our love must lie beneath thy bitter ban! Thou petty, envious God! My King, be sure His brute force shall not to the end endure; Some stronger soul than thine shall wrest his crown And thrust him from his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. For me Forsake thy hopes in him. We worship, we, Rather the dear delights we know and hold; The first cool kiss, within…
1912 · PDF PAGE 422
…se and myrrh !) (Bring gold and frankincense and myrth !) ‘The root of David shoots a stem. ‘The straw is fragrant as with wine. (O Holy Spirit, shadow her !) (O Holy Spirit, shadow her !)"" Gormley writes—‘The hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursety rhymes of our childhood ; it is therefore somewhat ofa relief and a pleasure to read t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 422
…se and myrrh !) (Bring gold and frankincense and myrth !) ‘The root of David shoots a stem. ‘The straw is fragrant as with wine. (O Holy Spirit, shadow her !) (O Holy Spirit, shadow her !)"" Gormley writes—‘The hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursety rhymes of our childhood ; it is therefore somewhat ofa relief and a pleasure to read t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
… himself will not act unworthily, but if we hammer into his head from infancy that most of his natural impulses are evil, we enslave his spirit. The most natural actions are done furtively. He lurks and lies. Brought up to believe that his right is wrong, he will do what he thinks wrong as easily as what he thinks right. In this way canned ethics breed crime. Jane Wolfe soon found that we were immune from the effects alleged to follow various causes. Erotic pictures did not stimulate us sexually. Descriptions and illustrations of diseases neith…
1911 · PDF PAGE 299
… the Hosts of the Sea, The fairest ofall of whose daughters was mother to me ; By the Lord of the Winds and the Breezes, the King of the Spirits of Air, In whose bosom the infinite case is that cradled me there ; By the Lord of the Fields and the Mountains, the King of the Spirits of Earth That nurtured my life at his fountains from the hour of my birth; By the Wand and the Cup I conjure ; by the Dagger and Disk I constrain ; Iam he that is sworn to endure; make thy music again] I am Lord of the Star and the Seal; I am Lord of the Snake and the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 299
… the Hosts of the Sea, The fairest ofall of whose daughters was mother to me ; By the Lord of the Winds and the Breezes, the King of the Spirits of Air, In whose bosom the infinite case is that cradled me there ; By the Lord of the Fields and the Mountains, the King of the Spirits of Earth That nurtured my life at his fountains from the hour of my birth; By the Wand and the Cup I conjure ; by the Dagger and Disk I constrain ; Iam he that is sworn to endure; make thy music again] I am Lord of the Star and the Seal; I am Lord of the Snake and the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
…g. The papyri are full of formulas for operating such transmutations. But I think that this was mostly to afford some relaxation for the spirit of the dead man; he nipped out of his sarcophagus, and painted the town all the colours of the rainbow in one animal shape or another. The only experience I have of anything of this sort was when I was in Pacific waters, mostly at Honolulu or in Nippon. I was practicing Astral Projection. A Sister of the Order who lived in Hong Kong helped me. I was to visit her, and the token of perfect success was to …