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Page 69 of 801944 · PDF PAGE 18
…oned, with sword and balances, thus obviously referring to tile zodiacal sign of Libra, the Balance. Frater Perdurabo had made a very profound study of the Tarot since his initiation to the Order on 18th November, 1898; for, three months later, he had attained the grade of Prac‐ ticus; as such, he became entitled to know the Secret Attribution. He constantly studied this and the accompanying explanatory manuscripts. He checked up on all these attributes of the numbers to the forms of nature, and found nothing incongruous. But when (8th April, 1…
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
…quantitative experim ent would break hopelessly down. So for the Buddhist. I take my refuge in the Buddha. That there was once a man who found the Way is my encouragement. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. The Law underlying phenomena and its unchanging certainty; the Law given by the Buddha to show us the Way, the inevitable tendency to Persistence in Motion or Rest—and Persist- ence, even in M otion, negates change in consciousness—these observed orders of fact are our bases.
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…s is perhaps only ridiculous ; but it isa wicked imposture to pretend to have received from the Rosicrucians manuscripts which are to be found in the British Museum. To obtain money on these grounds, as has been done by certain moderns, is clear (and I trust, indictable) fraud ; and ever to have countenanced those frauds, of which he must surely have been aware, seems hardly creditable to so earnest and venerable a student of the mysteries as Dr. Wynn Westcott.? It is presumable, however, that he was the dupe of his fear of, if not of his trust…
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
…also, perhaps, of Adonis and Attis, on the one hand, and those of Hermes on the other, at that period when initiation all over the world found it necessary, owing to the growth of the Roman empire, and the opening up of means of communication, to replace conflicting polytheisms by a synthetic faith. (This is absolutely new to me, this conception {720} of Christ as Mercury.) Some difficulty about the ... (This sentence is now quite unintelligible.) To continue the identification, compare Christ's descent into hell with the function of Hermes as …
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
…agiography. But I have no hesitation in referring the student to my essay for the solution of any and every difficulty which he may have found in the consideration of this matter. Having completed this treatise, I discovered myself to be inspired to write a number of short stories based on The Golden Bough. They are "The Hearth", "The God of Ibreez", "The Burning of Melcarth", "The Old Man of the Peepul Tree", "The Mass of St Secaire", "The King of the Wood", "The Oracle of Cocytus" and "The Stone of Cybele". Now with regard to my magical work …
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…bservation showed 365 days to be more accurate; so they decided to call it “Abraxas” (A 1—B 2—R 100—A 1—X 6o—A 1—S 200). When the others found this out they put themselves right by altering the spelling of Mithras to Meithras, which adds (like Abraxas) to 365. In this there is still an error of not quite six hours; so that, in the course of centuries, the Calendar kept slipping. It did not assume its present form until the time of Pope Gregory. The Point of all this, that they divided the Circle of the Zodiac into 360 degrees, is that this is a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
…gree of O.T.O.) The Crocodile (Mako, son of Set; or Sebek). This same doctrine of maximum innocence developing into maximum fertility is found in Ancient Egypt in the symbolism of the Crocodile god Sebek. The tradition is that the croco‐ dile was un provided with the means of perpetuating his species (compare what is said above
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…etter analogy) as one does after bracing oneself against the pain inflicted by a dentist. I could not imagine anything better in life. I found myself suddenly in an entirely new world. I was part of the glories of the past; and I made a firm resolution to be one of the glories of the future. I should like the haunted room over the Great Gate of Trinity to be turned into a vault like that of Christian Rosencreutz to receive my sarcophagus. I must admit that I don't know of much else in England of the works of man which I would not make haste to …
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
…f Horus, is linked with Aquarius and Leo. The central mystery in that past Aeon was that of Incarnation; all the legends of god‐men were founded upon some symbolic story of that kind. The essential of all such stories was to deny human fatherhood to the hero or god‐man. In most cases, the father is stated to be a god in some animal form, the animal being chosen in accordance with the qualities that the au‐ thors of the cult wished to see reproduced in the child. Thus, Romulus and Remus were twins begotten upon a virgin by the god Mars, and they…
1906 · PDF PAGE 268
…der mipdp, et seg., g.v. p. iil); O. Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, ed. princ., p. 4; Lev. xvii. Further historical authority may be found in Gibbon and others. 2 Punch, vols. viii., Ixvi. Cf. Art. ‘ Bur- nand” in Dict. Nat. Biog., scil, Viz. a-u-c, xvii, S. P. Q. R. 3 From Z£ucyc. Brit., Art. ‘‘ Existence,’ and ‘* Buddha,’”’ Mahaparinibbana Sutta, to whom the author wishes to express his acknowledg- ments. 4 This joke is the old one. Jones asks Smith, ‘‘Why are you so late?” Smith wittily answers: ‘‘Absurd! I must always come before tea; y…
1906 · PDF PAGE 269
…t press it. But in the so- affected ambulatory vibrations (as I must insist, and you practically agreed) of the lower chakras may yet be found to lie the solution of our primordial dilemma. What is the divided middle? Test enthymeme ruin our exegesis ere it be fairly started. S. I will answer you without further -cir- curnlocution. The laws of Thought are reducible to three: that of identity, 4 is 4 ; that of contradiction, 4 is not mof-A ; and 1 This is the invariable invocation used. by the pious Hindu before any meditation or holy conference…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…re attributed to Hod. Being in the same plane as the Sevens on the Tree of Life, but on the other side, the same inherent defects as are found in the Sevens will apply. Yet one may perhaps urge this alleviation, that the Eights come as (in a sense) a rem‐ edy for the error of the Sevens. The mischief has been done; and there is now a reaction against it. One may, therefore, expect to find that, while there is no possibility of perfection in the cards of this number, they are free from such essential and original errors as in the Lower case. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…t seemed rather vieux jeu, but my ability to fraternize fully with Mohammedans has proved of infinite use in many ways. My sheikh was profoundly versed in the mysticism and magic of Islam, and discovering that I was an initiate, had no hesitation in providing me with books and manuscripts on the Arabic Cabbala. These formed the basis of my comparative studies. I was able to fit them in with similar doctrines and other religions; the correlation is given in my 777. From this man I learnt also many of the secrets of the Sidi Aissawa; how to run a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…ome trifling breach of discipline during "prep". After the hour was over the prefect in charge gleefully hastened to the housemaster. He found me there already. I got my licking; but there was a fine series of expulsions to balance it. Of course my action was technically indefensible; but after all, I had held my tongue uncomplainingly for months and it was only when they appealed to the housemaster to fight their battles that I appealed to him to fight mine. {84} I may as well emphasize at this moment that I remained amazingly innocent. My stu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
…there was absolutely nothing to stop us. But we couldn't go, any more than if it had been the moon. Throughout my life I have repeatedly found that destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say "No". I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. One may be wholeheartedly eager to do something which is as easy as falling off a log; and yet it is impossible. W…
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
…rs ?” ‘‘ Children,” answered the Glorious One, ‘* do not be so foolish as to think that death is necessarily an evil. I have not come to found a Hundred Years Club, and to include mosquitoes inthe membership. In this case to have kept Perdu’ R Abu alive was to have played into the hands of his enemies. My First Precept is merely a general rule.? In 1 The Buddha had such long ears that he could cover the whole of his face with them. Ears are referred to Spirit in Hindu symbolism, so that the legend means that he could conceal the lower elements …
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
Spirit represent a later accretion. Neither is to be found in the original twenty4wo Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah. The world of Assiah, the material world, does not appear except as a pendant to the Tree of Life. In the same way, the element of Spirit is attributed to the letter Shin, as an additional ornament, somewhat in the same way as Kether is said to be symbolized by the topmost point of the Yod of Tetragrammaton. It is constantly necessary to distinguish between the symbols of philosophical theory and those more elaborate symbols based u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…e reason. The taste told him at once that he had discovered an immensely rich deposit of alkali. His geomancy had not misled him; he had found mineral wealth. He proceeded to exploit his discovery and would have become a millionaire in short order had he not met with the opposition of Burnner, Mond & Co. On the other hand, his clairvoyance was hopelessly bad, so that he could not pass the examination for the Grade of Zelator of A.'. A.'. though in other points entitled to a much higher degree. One of his practical objects in visiting England wa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…erland. {94} 1. I remember my first stolen visit to the Theatre ---Little Christopher Columbus. Weren't all these people afraid of being found out? 10 My grand passion was Beachy Head. The fantastic beauty of the cliffs can never be understood by anyone who has not grappled them. Mountain scenery of any kind, but especially rock scenery, depends largely on foreground. This is especially the case when one has acquired an intimate knowledge of the meaning, from the climber's point of view, of what the eyes tell one. The ordinary man looking at a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…proclaimed the Law in the first person, as one might say, either in speech or writing. Accordingly, when (on arrival at San Francisco) I found myself invited to address a semi-public gathering, I began my speech with the words, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", and proceeded as best I could to explain their import. Again, on the last day of the year, whose midnight I habitually devote to a meditation on the past, culminating in a formulation of my future career, I was moved to write what was shortly afterwards published first a…