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Page 69 of 871909 · PDF PAGE 265
…he Kerux, and turning towards the Candidate says to him: “Tn all your wanderings through darkness, the lamp of the Kerux went before you though you saw it not! It is the symbol of the Hidden Light of Occult Science.” It here representeth to him a vague formulation of his ideal, which he can neither grasp nor analyse. Yet this Light is not the symbol of his own Higher Self, but rather a ray from the Gods to lead him there. * Meaning also: “ Let the Light arise in the Candidate,” Il R 257
1996 · PDF PAGE 8
…d, he then introduced Wilkinson to Eliza M. Butler of Newnham College, Cambridge, an academic acquaintance.3 His letter of introduction, though half-joking, reveals his attitude to the work: Some 25 years ago I wrote a Commentary on The Book of the Law — over a quarter of a million words of the most tur gid and incomprehensible hogwash ever penned. Certain adventurous spirits, however, have claimed to have found specks of gold in the silt. (I have never been able to face the ms. since it was typed — not even to correct “literals.”) One of them…
1912 · PDF PAGE 6
…n. xxxv. He lectureth upon metaphysics—for he is now totally insane—to many learned monks of Cantabrig. They applaud him and detain him, though he hath heard the questing and would away. But so feeble is he that he fleeth by night. xxxvi, It hath often happened to Sir Palamede that he is haunted by a shadow, the which he may not recognise. But at last, in a sunlit wood, this is discovered to be a certain hunchback, who doubteth whether there be at all any Beast or any quest, or if the whole life of Sir Palamede be not a vain illusion. Him, with…
1939 · PDF PAGE 39
…ting things are to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. But these four letters, though in one sense they represent the eternal framework, are not, so to speak, original. For instance, when we place Tetragrammaton on the Tree of Life, the Ten Sephiroth or numbers, we do not include the first Sephira. Yod is referred to the second, He to the third, Vau to the group from 4 to 9, and Hé final to the tenth. No. 1 is said to be symbolised by the top point of the Yod. It is only in No. 10 that w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 151
…thy breath ; His name—it is Death! My seasons and years, Shalt thou traffic with these? Art thou Fate? Are her shears Asleep or at ease? Though Time were no more than the shape of thy glass— Beware ! let him pass ! ORPHEUS. Not these do I fear, O Earth, for their peace. I cry till they hear O’er the desolate seas. I call ye! give ear, O seasons, to these Fleet-footed, the strings of the lyre ! forth ! I invoke ye—and cease. VOL. III. Come O hours of the day, And hours of the night, Pause now while ye may In your heavenly flight ! Give answer an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…ink, and goes away and tries to change some of the counters for the things he really wants, and he can’t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. But I was telling you about the ways to the Fourth House, and the third way is all full of lions, and a person might be afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth and shuts it. So we went through quite safely, and I thought of Daniel in the lions’ den. The Fourth House is the most wonde…
1929 · PDF PAGE 193
…he fact that their minds are no use for anything at all any more. They become incapable of mental concentration, or a connected train of thought; only too often the obsessing spirit gains power to take hold of them at will, and utters by their mouths foulness and imbecility when the whim takes him. True souls would never seek so ignoble a means of manifesting in earth-life; their ways are holy, and in accord with Nature. While the true soul reincarnates as a renunciation, a sacrifice of its divine life and ecstasy for the sake of redeeming thos…
1939 · PDF PAGE 48
… I brought you to thirst in the desert of delusion; I left you wandering in the jungle of delusion, a prey to all the monsters which are thoughts. It came into my mind that it was up to me to do something about it. We have constantly been discussing mysterious entities as if we knew something about them, and this (on examination) always turned out not to be the case. 2. Knowledge itself is impossible, because if we take the simplest proposition of knowledge, S is P, we must attach some meaning to S and P, if our statement is to be intelligible.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 375
…n. xxxv. He lectureth upon metaphysics—for he is now totally insane—to many learned monks of Cantabrig. They applaud him and detain him, though he hath heard the questing and would away. But so feeble is he that he fleeth by night. xxxvi, It hath often happened to Sir Palamede that he is haunted by a shadow, the which he may not recognise. But at last, in a sunlit wood, this is discovered to be a certain hunchback, who doubteth whether there be at all any Beast or any quest, or if the whole life of Sir Palamede be not a vain illusion. Him, with…
1910 · PDF PAGE 375
…n. xxxv. He lectureth upon metaphysics—for he is now totally insane—to many learned monks of Cantabrig. They applaud him and detain him, though he hath heard the questing and would away. But so feeble is he that he fleeth by night. xxxvi, It hath often happened to Sir Palamede that he is haunted by a shadow, the which he may not recognise. But at last, in a sunlit wood, this is discovered to be a certain hunchback, who doubteth whether there be at all any Beast or any quest, or if the whole life of Sir Palamede be not a vain illusion. Him, with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 173
… a case in the War Office last month, a matter of supplying certain furs. As you know, the seal furnishes a valuable fur. Less valuable, though superficially similar, is that of the rabbit. Now in trade, so it appears, it is impolitic to say rabbit, which sounds cheap and nasty, so the Scriptural equivalent, coney, is employed, thus combining Piety with Profit. Having caught your coney, you
1929 · PDF PAGE 224
…mark, just over the heart, was a faint blue crescent. Lisa recovered rapidly from her illness, but not too quickly for the amorous Turk; though he was surprised and annoyed to find that she had recovered her early grace and activity. The fat had gone from her in the three weeks of illness; and when she began to be able to move about, and drive in the city, she looked once more almost as she did on the night when Cyril first saw her, a gay, buxom, vigorous woman. The change cooled Abdul's ardour, and her own feelings altered with it. Her lover's…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
… tall, with the scholar's stoop. He possessed real original talent, with now and then a flash of insight which came close to genius. But though his intellect was keen and fine, it was in some way confused; and there was a lack of virility in his make-up. His hair was long, lank and unkempt; his teeth were neglected; and he had a habit of physical dirt which was so obvious as to be repulsive even to a stranger. But there was no harm in him; he had no business in the Black Lodge at all; it was but one of his romantic phantasies to pose as a terri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…an Angel he is liable to endless déceptions. He does not know Himself; how can he explain his business to others ? How can those others, though they do their best for him, aid in anything but tri fies ? One must therefore be prepared for dis- appointment at every stage until one attains to adeptship. This is especially true of divination, because the essence of the horror of not knowing one’s Angel is the utter bewilderment and anguish of the mind, complicated by the persécution of the body, and envenomed by the ache of the soûl. One puts the w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX 8 P.M., Dec. 16. Have just been working out the meaning of the word obtained last night. I then thought the value was 507=“That which causes ferment” or 5 plus 7=12=He longed for, missed, etc. This shows how I went astray. I find however that the word actually adds to 607=Adam Primus. But 6 plus 7=13 Unity, Love, and The Tarot Trump is DEATH, and this is what he said he was writing. (Note Apr. 21, 1917. Ha=The Sun; tha=The Moon, as stated in the Hatha-Yoga Pradipiha.) . (Well worked out, method good; but not much of a place to have …
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…ffects which set the bail in motion. I may therefore regard the act of striking as a cause- effect of my original Will to move the bail, though necessarily previous to its motion. But the case of magical Work is not quite analogous. For my nature is such that I am compelled to perform Magick in order to make my will to prevail; so that the cause of my doing the Work is also the cause of the balPs motion, and there is no reason why one should précédé the other. (Cf. Lewis Carroll, where the Red Queen screams before she pricks her finger.) “Let m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
love. And she understood, in some sub-current of thought, why Suffragettes forced men to use violence upon them; it is but a repressed sexual instinct breaking out in race-remembrance of marriage by capture. But more dangerous even than such ideas were many which she learned to group under a name which one of them gave her. It was not a name that one can transcribe in any alphabet, but it was exactly like a very short slight cough, hardly more than a clearing of the throat, a quite voluntary cough of the apologetic type. She had only to make th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 170
…one ought to take a refreshing dip in the tao, no more. I think this must be brought forward as the Cardinal Point of Our Holy Law. Thus though Nuit cries “To me!”, that is balanced by the Formula of Hadit: ‘“Come unto me’ is a foolish word; for it is I that go.” Now the Semen is God (the going-one, as shewn by the ankh or Sandal-strap, which He carries) because he goes in at the Door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out 1:62, 65 11:7
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
… but Simon Iff interfered. "Madame is not accustomed to seances," he said; and Cyril darted a look at her which compelled her obedience, though she had no idea in the world why she should, or why she shouldn't, do any given thing. She was like one in a strange country; the only thing to do is to conform to the customs as well as one can; and to trust one's guide. "Baby" continued to yell. The Pasha, prepared for the event, whipped a bottle of milk out of his pocket, and she began to suck at it contentedly. "What ridiculous fellows those old alc…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…nd he never scruples to use it, to drive us half mad w ith horror, or, as in his earlier most exquisite works, to move us to the noblest thoughts and deeds. True, his debt to contemporary writers is a little obvious here and there; but these are small blemish on a series of poems whose originality is alw ays striking, and often dread- ful, in its broader features. We cannot leave George Bishop without a word of inquiry as to what became of the heroic figure of Mathilde D oriac. It is a bitter task to have to write in cold blood the dread- ful t…