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Page 69 of 831906 · PDF PAGE 100
…these twenty lines is against Rudyard Kipling’s silly vitalisation of machinery, and his ignorance even of the correct terms, CASTOR. In truth, my friend, if you would wear your crown This side of Orcus, you should go away. POLLUX. Ay! let the men work! Fora mind as yours Is good, and skill as theirs is also good. CASTOR. But mix the manual and the mental—well, No ship was built by pure philosophy. POLLUX. Nor yet designed by artisans. JASON. Enough ! Come, great Alcides, it is time to go. ARGUS. A fool allows a moment’s irritation To move the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…things a knower of Nature, be so absurd as to attempt to throw the Hammer of Thor? Unless he be simply insane, he must be initiated in a Truth which transcends the apparent facts. He must be aware that ail Nature isa continuum, so that his mind and body are consubstantial with the storm, are equally expressions of One Existence, ail alike of the self-same order of artifices whereby the Absolute appréciâtes itslf. He must also hâve assimilated the fact that Quantity is just as much a form as Qualityj that as ail things are modes of One Substance…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…al men Science are in absolute agreement that the advance in our [59] knowledge, great as it has been, leaves us as ignorant of ultimate truth and reality as we were ten thousand years ago. The universe guards its secret: Isis can still boast that no man hath lifted her veil! "But, suppose our trouble were due to the fact that we only received our impressions in disconnected pieces. A very simple thing might seem the maddest jumble. Ready, Cyril?" "Quite ready." "I. A. A. I. U. I. A." "R. F. G. L. S. L." "What were we saying?" Lisa laughed rath…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…tations of the unconscious Will of the sleeper, and that not only are they images of that Will instead of représent¬ ations of objective truth, but the image itself is confused by a thousand cross-currents set in motion by the various complexes and inhibitions of his character. If therefore one consults the oracle, one must take sure that one is not consciously or uncons- ciously bringing pressure to bear upon it. It is just as when an Englishman cross-examines a Hindu, the ultimate answer will be what the Hindu imagines will best please the in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
… this? Listen, and hear! I find myself confronted with the crux: that, a Buddhist, convinced intellectually and philo- sophically of the truth of the teaching of Gotama; a man to whom Buddhism is the equivalent of scientific methods of Thought; an expert in dialectic, whose logical faculty is bewildered, whose critical admiration is ex- torted by the subtle vigour of Buddhist reason- ing; I am yet forced to admit that, this being so, the Five Preceptst are mere nonsense. If the Buddha spoke scientifically, not popularly, not rhetorically, then …
1910 · PDF PAGE 349
…eal magic, but she has learnt the tales spread by fools about sorcerers, and fostered by them as the best possible concealments of their truth. Of these ingredients she has brewed a magnificent hell-broth. No chapter lacks its jewelled incident, and the web that she has woven of men’s passions is a flame-red tapestry stained with dark patches of murder and charred here and there with fire of hell. Marjorie Bowen has immense skill; has she genius? How can a stranger say? So many nowadays are forced by sheer starvation into writing books that wil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 349
…eal magic, but she has learnt the tales spread by fools about sorcerers, and fostered by them as the best possible concealments of their truth. Of these ingredients she has brewed a magnificent hell-broth. No chapter lacks its jewelled incident, and the web that she has woven of men’s passions is a flame-red tapestry stained with dark patches of murder and charred here and there with fire of hell. Marjorie Bowen has immense skill; has she genius? How can a stranger say? So many nowadays are forced by sheer starvation into writing books that wil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…he new talisman, Thelema, is master of the planet. But now observe how the question of the Magical Link arises! No matter how mighty the truth of Thelema, it cannot prevail unless it is applied to and by mankind. As long as the Book of the Law was in Manuscript, it could only affect the small group amongst whom it was circulated. It had to be put into action bv 112
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…ubt and répugnance in Frater Perdurabo^ mind, and they hampered His work. He was half-hearted. Yet, even so, then intrinsic power of the truth of the Law and the impact of the publication were sufficient to shake the world so that a critical war broke out, and the minds of men were moved in a mysterious manner. The second blow was struck by the re-publication of the Book in September 1913, and this time the might of this Magick burst out and caused a catastrophe to civilization. At this hour, the Master Therion is concealed, collecting his forc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…fication and behoof, 'Festina lente.' This epigram has been translated by a famous Spanish author, 'manana.' Dante adds his testimony to truth in his grandiose outburst, 'Domani.' Also, an Arab philosopher, whom I personally revere, remarks, if we may trust the assertion of Sir Richard Francis Burton, K.C.M.G. — and why should we not? — 'Conceal thy tenets, thy treasure, and thy travelling!' This I do. More so," he concluded cryptically, "than you imagine!" They were still waiting for their local funeral (which the French grandiloquently descri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…tself. This principle may be extended to ail departments of the éducation of children. They should be put into contact with ail kinds of truth, and allowed to make their own reflections thereon and reactions thereto, without the least attempt to bias their judg¬ ment. Magical pupils should be trained on similar lines. They should be made to work alone from the first, to cover the whole ground impartially, to devise their own experiments and draw their own conclusions. 201
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…rror is an improvement. We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, ail such — 342 —
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
… the rush of incessant meteors—lost in the void. All this is old knowledge; but who has taken steps toalterit? The answer is forbidding: truth compels me to say, the mystics of all lands. Their endeavour has been to slow the rate of change; their methods perfect quietude of body and mind, produced in varied and too often vicious ways. Regularisation of the breathing is the best known formula. Their results are contemptible, we must admit; but only so because empirical. An unwarranted reverence has overlaid the watchfulness which science would h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
… infinite again. I have not gained one jot since first I saw The stately bosom of the Venusbherg, Save that mine eyes have seen a little truth, My body found a little weariness. © I am very feeble! Hither comes the hunt! [4 horn winds quite close by. The noble, doomed, swift beauty! Closer yet Pant the long hounds! What heart he has! One, two ! See the brach1 dying by his bloody flank ! So could not Tannhauser awhile ago. My help lay outside and above myself. What skills him he is brave? He ends the same. Poor stag! hunters up. My very kinsmen!…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…was fatal folly! The full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Truth,” in which we find the following; “After some eight hours’ discipline by Pranayama arose ‘The Golden Dawn.’ “While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by dull bars of slate-blue cloud arose the Dawn of Dawns. In splendour not of earth and its mean sun, blood-red, rayless, adamant, it rose, it rose! C…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…was fatal folly! The full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Truth,” in which we find the following; “After some eight hours’ discipline by Pranayama arose ‘The Golden Dawn.’ “While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by dull bars of slate-blue cloud arose the Dawn of Dawns. In splendour not of earth and its mean sun, blood-red, rayless, adamant, it rose, it rose! C…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…cerer of the Jura that in order to invoke the Devil it is only necessary to caîl him with y our whole will. This is an universal magical truth, and applies to every other being as much as to the Devil. For the whole will of every man is in reality the whole will of the Uni verse. It is, however, always easy to call up the démons, for they are always calling you; and you hâve only to step down to their level i. “The Devil” is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that The …
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
… The Whore in Heaven,’ will horrify the votaries of Mrs Grundy. At the same time, these daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we live in a hypocritical age, and apparently the author of these extraordinary poems realises the fact, for his volume is ‘ privately printed.’ The epilogue, ‘ A Death in Sicily,’ is really a magnificent poem—pagan in its intensity and vivedness of colouring ; but the prudes who think nakedness impurity and who abjectly fear death will denounce this really gifted poet as ‘ immoral.’ ”—Oxford Magazi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…or Union with God, or Spiritual Development, or Mahatmaship, or Freedom, or Occult Knowledge, or whatever he may call his inmost need of Truth, of our Order of A.-. A.*. It is designed principally to awake interest in the possibilités of human progress, and to proclaim the principles of the A A The outline given of the several successive steps is exact; the two crises — the Angel and the Abyss — are necessary features in every career. The other tasks are not always accomplished in the order given here; one man, for example, may acquire many of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…e by birthright from him; wherefore he goeth at once unto the station of the Hiereus to fix the light there. The Hegemon, the Goddess of Truth, passeth twice because her rule is of the Balance of the two Scales, and she retireth to her station there to complete the reflux of the Middle Pillar. But Anubis of the East and the others circumambulate thrice as affirming the completion of the reflexion of the perfecting of the white Triangle on the Altar.” * The circumambulation being completed, the members and remaining officers remain standing whil…