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Page 71 of 941929 · PDF PAGE 14
…ore, do the same with Monet, and then, dressed in their uniforms, take the boat of an octopus-fisher, row to the harbour, and ask in the name of the governor for the use of his steam yacht to chase an escaped fugitive. We should then steam into the track of ships and set fire to the yacht, so as to be rescued and conveyed to England, whence we could arrange with the French Government for rehabilitation. Such was the simple yet subtle plan of Dodu. Down to the last detail was it perfecteduntil one fatal day. The spy, stricken by yellow feve…
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
… my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! 7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar- kraat. Commentary: Aiwass is the name given by Ouarda the Seer3 as that of the Intelligence Communicating.
1996 · PDF PAGE 169
…explosion.” 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! Commentary: The name Mary is connected with Mara, mors, etc., from the Sanskrit *mr, “to slay”; and with mare, “the Sea,” whose water opposes the Fire of Horus.3 I here quote a passage from “Liber XCVH”4 which deals with this fully.
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
…hou also the Moon in thy working, as aforesaid, etc. Anaphaxeton is sometimes written Anepheneton. (Colours.—Triangle outlined in black; name of Michael black on white ground; the three Names without the triangle written in red; circle in centre entirely filled in in dark green.) THE HEXAGRAM OF SOLOMON. Tuis is the Form of the Hexagram of Solomon, the figure whereof is to be made on parchment of a calf’s skin, and worn at the skirt of thy white vest- ment, and covered with a cloth of fine linen white and pure, the which is to be shown unto the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any to hear. Know that the greater the Adept, the more truthful; should he—in error—speak, the more must he appear a liar to those of his fellows who hear his voice. For he speaks, as beholding the Face of God; they hear, as idols the work of men’s hands that have ear…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…w, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you like; but in the name of your own Higher Self wilfully do xo injury to your own body or mind by over indulgence or under indulgence. Discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. Soon after his arrival in Ceylon, and at the time that he was working with Frater I. A. the greatness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…w, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you like; but in the name of your own Higher Self wilfully do xo injury to your own body or mind by over indulgence or under indulgence. Discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. Soon after his arrival in Ceylon, and at the time that he was working with Frater I. A. the greatness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention…
1929 · PDF PAGE 567
…s round to Grant Richards, who said it was not in his line. I asked him to suggest a likely firm. He said Hutchinson or Collins. Neither name meant anything to me. I gave Collins the first chance simply because he was on my way home. Invited to interview the responsible man, I found myself wondering who he was --- I had surely met him before. He shared my feeling and was the first to discover the source. Over fifteen years earlier he had been on the staff of a paper called What's On belonging to my old acquaintance Robert Haslam and at one time…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…, a cap, a long white robe of linen, and other garments for the purpose ;' also a girdle of lion’s skin three inches broad, with all the names written about it which be round the outmost part of the Magical Circle. Also perfumes, and a chafing- dish of charcoal kindled to put the fumes on, to smoke or perfume the place appointed for action; also anointing oil to anoint thy temples and thine eyes with; and fair water to wash thyself in. And in so doing, thou shalt say as David said : THE ADORATION AT THE BATH. “TuHovu shalt purge me with hyssop,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 173
… In an inversé kind of religious hysteria, Though every one a perfect fool is, To Judge by philosophic criteria, My Lord Archbishop. The name of Winchester, Harrow, or Eton * makes them not two inches stir. They know not Trinity, Merton, or Christchurch ; They worship, but not at your back-pews-high-priced Church. ‘Tve seen them at twenty thousand feet On the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat | Their prayers 73—will your Grace do as much for your Three As they do for their One? I have seen—may you see! They sleep and know not what a m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 380
…F. who manufactured brass bedsteads. The uprights of these were packed with forged pesos of Fernando VII and one other king-I forget his name-made of the same standard silver alloy as the genuine coins, and so well executed that the only way to tell the false was that they looked newer than they should have been, in view of the date! And so (continued my informant) there was a panic, and no one would take any money at all, and the city was dying on its feet! So the Government gave orders to
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
… is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." But in such a case one may expect to have to reinforce it by a certain amount of historical, literary, or philosophic study-and research. 4. Quite right, dear lady, about your incarnation memories acting as a "Guide to the Way Back." Of course, if you "missed an Egyptian Incarnation," you would not be so likely to be a little Martha, worried "about much serving." Don't get surfeited with knowle…
1929 · PDF PAGE 561
…e surprise, in the presence of six men, dressed in black sprinkled about the room. Only one was seated; and he jumped up and asked my my name. I told him. He asked for my papers. By the merest chance I had left my passport, which I usually carry with me, in the bedroom. I told him I would go and get it. Two men sprang to the door. My inquisitive friend snapped out, "Apportez-moi le bagage!" which a couple of his satellites proceeded to do. I was, by this time, completely bewildered, but he motioned me to a chair and sat down, asking various que…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…ish and an occa- sional touch of Early Victorian prunes-and-prismism. He has every other qualification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl’s lette…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…ish and an occa- sional touch of Early Victorian prunes-and-prismism. He has every other qualification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl’s lette…
1922 · PDF PAGE 321
…ould do without sleep, for they work much the same by night as they do by day.’ ‘That was written three thousand years ago, and even the name of the woman who wrote that poem, albeit it is one of the most famous poems in the world, is lost. But there are the shepherds saluting each other to-day as they did then. MANTA PEI said Heracleitus, ‘all things flow.’ And everything that tries to escape that law, that relies on its strength, that becomes nigid, that endeavours to calla halt, is broken up by the irresistible waves of time. We think steel …
1922 · PDF PAGE 323
…ill,” he said. It was obviously a point of politeness. “ They don’t know what to say,”’ explained the elder boy in a lenient tone. ‘‘ My name is Hermes,” he said to Lou, “and this is my friend Dionysus.” We broke into a fit of uncontrollable laughter which Hermes evidently thought highly improper. But Dionysus said to Lou, “I'll dive you a bid tiss.” She caught up the astonishing brat, and returned his salute with interest. When she put him down, he gave each of us one of his hands while Hermes led the way
1954 · PDF PAGE 292
…fits anybody who discovers it or claims to have done so. Not one little bit! For when the time came, and the Key was found, the finder's name in the Order was-and had been from the moment of his admission as a Probationer-A chad , the Hebrew word for "One." And he came "after him" in the precise technical sense, that he was in fact the next person to undertake the Adventure of the Abyss. I hope you are not getting the idea that my Prophetic ambit is limited to these high-falutin' metaphysical masterpieces of Runic Lore. In case you do, I now pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 163
…d is no more. He will remain in the darkness of the City of the Pyramids under the Night of Pan, sitting silent through 106 seasons, the name of every one of which is Death, ever seeking to make his understanding perfect, until the time comes for him to seek that yet more fearful ordeal which must evidently } be involved in the attainment of the Grade of Magus. That such a time should arrive in this present life would probably seem to him unthinkable. One would imagine that the Magus must be born, not made. It would seem that no human body ungl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 163
…d is no more. He will remain in the darkness of the City of the Pyramids under the Night of Pan, sitting silent through 106 seasons, the name of every one of which is Death, ever seeking to make his understanding perfect, until the time comes for him to seek that yet more fearful ordeal which must evidently } be involved in the attainment of the Grade of Magus. That such a time should arrive in this present life would probably seem to him unthinkable. One would imagine that the Magus must be born, not made. It would seem that no human body ungl…