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…h an accent of mildness which belied the purple of his face. In short, the meeting at Oban had split. Mr. Cameron had withdrawn from the Lord's supper!!! It was therefore absolutely necessary for both of them to assure themselves that the bedridden mother was of their way of thinking, or neither could hold the morning meeting; though I suppose either could preach the gospel --- morosa voluptas! Unhappily, that excellent lady was a hard case. She was quite deaf and {77} very nearly blind; while mentally she had never been remarkable for anything…
1929 · PDF PAGE 484
…fortune, or in the tenth with rapid rise of fortunes followed by a sudden crash as in the case of Napoleon, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe and several private cases in my own collection. The labour required for this research would be enormous, but the bulk of it would be done by ordinary clerks. And as for the preliminary difficulty of collecting material, any great newspaper could carry out the scheme easily enough. It would of course be necessary to publish an explanation of the proposal with a questionnaire covering the princi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
… an eager acolyte, Poured the high wine, unveiled the mystic feast ... Roast lamb and an excellent Chablis which had been sent to him by Lord Northcliffe --- thus does the poet transfigure conceptions apparently commonplace. I was much touched by Henley's kindness in inviting me. I have never lost {344} the childlike humility which characterized all truly great men. Modesty is its parody. I had to wait some little while before he came down. When he did so, he was obviously suffering severe physical distress. Like Marcel Schwob himself, he was a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…veries; but {705} 1. The ignorance of masons is quite boundless. In the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine Degree, for example, we read, "Lord God of Sabbath". No one knows the difference between HB:Taw HB:Bet HB:Shin and HB:Taw HB:Aleph HB:Bet HB:Tzaddi ! I am always ready to communicate them to inquiring Brothers. When I have done so, my arguments have been found cogent and convincing.) I supposed myself to have reached the summit of success when I restored the Secret Word of the Royal Arch. In this case, tradition had preserved the Word almos…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…- templated some operation of a similar charac- ter to that of Abramelin. Operation . . . the period of the Six Moons being expired, the Lord granted unto me His grace... ‘fa solitary life, which is the source of all good . once thou shalt have obtained the sacred science and magic the love for retirement will come to thee of its own.accord, and thou wilt voluntarily shun the commerce and conversa- tion of men, &c,” ‘‘a good death in His holy Kingdom.” the Father of Lights,’? suggests an actual phrase perhaps used as an exclamation at the Note …
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…wk; having a spiral force”. It is interesting to notice that this oracle appears to anticipate the present Aeon, that of the hawk‐headed Lord, and also of the mathe‐ matical conception of the shape of the Universe as calculated by Einstein and his school. It is only in the lower cup that the forms of energy issuing forth show rectilinear characteristics. In this may be discovered the doctrine which asserts that the blindness of humanity to all the beauty and wonder of the Universe is due to this illusion of straightness. It is significant that …
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
… Awake to wound, awake to heal By wounding, thou resistless sword ! Raise the prone priestcrafts that appeal In agony to their prostrate Lord! Raise the duped herd—they have suffered long Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! My strength this agony of the age Win through; my music charm the old Sorrow of years: my warfare wage By iron to an age of gold :— The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! * The name of Siegfried’s sword. INTRODUCTION TO “ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST” NOT a word to introduce my introduction! Let me inst…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…eek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. The author claims to be a messenger of the Lord of the Universe and therefore to speak with absolute authority. Secondly, it claims to be the statement of transcendental truth, and to have overcome the difficulty of expressing such truth in human language by what really amounts to the invention of a new method of communicating thought, not merely a new language, but a new type of language; a literal and numerical cipher involving the Greek and Hebrew C…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
INDEX OF FIRST LINES 245 O Self Divine! O Living Lord of Me, ii. 20 O sleep of lazy love, be near, ii. 115 O tearless sorrow of long years, li. 82 O the deep wells and springs of tears! iii. 63 O the gloom of these distasteful tomes, li. 25 O there is edged the waning moon, iii. 36 O the time of dule and teen, i. 87 O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, ii. 15 O triple form of darkness! Sombre splendour ! iil, 177 Our hair deep laden with the scent of earth, iil, I41 Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, i. 84 Out of the seething cauldron…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…unnecessary trouble. On the other hand, it is impossible to make positive progress by means of institutions which lead to one becoming a lord chancellor, an archbishop, an admiral, or some other flower of futility. I had got from Cambridge what I wanted: the intellectual and moral freedom, the spirit of initiative and self-reliance; but perhaps, above all, the indefinable tone of the university. The difference between Cambridge and Oxford is that the former makes you the equal of anybody alive; the latter leaves you in the invidious position of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 41
…ete. These considerations apply to the cards taken from the Tarot. What is the meaning of the Five of Wands? This card is subject to the Lord of Fire, because it is a Wand, and to the Se‐ phira Geburah because it is a Five. It is also subject to the sign Leo, and to the planet Saturn, because this planet and sign determine the nature of the card. This is no more than saying that a Dry Martini has got some juniper in it, and some alcohol, and some white wine and herbs, and a bit of lemon peel, and some ice. It is a harmonious composition of vari…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…e boy, having overheard some gossip among superstitious servants, he had gone into the back garden and invoked the devil by reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards. Something happened which frightened him. Having now rejected Catholicism, he took up Magick and at once attained extraordinary success. He used to carry a "lustre" --- a long glass prism with a neck and a pointed knob such as adorned old- fashioned chandeliers. He used this as a wand. One day, a party of theosophists were chatting sceptically about the power of the "blasting rod". Alla…
1929 · PDF PAGE 282
… over the stone. I said: "How does this doctrine differ from that of shir Parananda, who said that Samadhi depended on 'the grace of the Lord Shiva'?" He smiled grimly and said that Shri Parananda's doctrine was not Buddhism! In any case, I resented those views. I clung passionately to my belief that a man's progress depended upon personal prowess. No doubt this is philosophically absurd, but I still maintain that it is practical good sense. The conversation, nevertheless, turned to considerations of what my Kamma had in store for me. "This mig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
… (you say) broad-minded folk, ii. 156 But, surely, (let me corner you!), ii. 180 But then you argue, and with sense, ii, 180 But thou, O Lord, O Apollo, ii. 35 But to-night the lamp must be wasted, il. 36 But why revile, ii, 147 By palm and pagoda enchaunted, il. 121 By Wisdom framed from ancient days, ii. 97 CALL down that star whose tender eyes, i. 171 Can you believe the deadly will’s decree, i. 254 Chaldean fools, who prayed to stars and fires, lil, 19 Clear, deep, and blue, the sky, i. 49 Cloistral seclusion of the galleried pines, ili, 11…
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
…ined on any reasonable terms. Reason is an im‐ passe, reason is damnation; only madness, divine madness, offers an issue. The law of the Lord Chancellor will not serve; the law‐giver may be an epileptic camel‐driver like Moham‐ med, a megalomaniac provincial upstart like Napoleon, or even an exile, three‐parts learned, one‐part crazy, an attic‐dweller in Soho, like Karl Marx. There is only one thing in common among such persons; they are all mad, that is’ inspired. Nearly all primitive people possess this tradition, at least in a diluted form. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
… attainment of Samadhi, it may under such circumstances reach it. It will require a very advanced student to use this type of faith. The Lord's Prayer and the minor exaltation are the certainties for this event.—A, C. most general unbelief. Where are the witches and the fairies and the angels, and the visions of divine St. John? You are annoyed at my mention of angels and witches; because you know yourselves to be sceptics, and that I have any amount of ‘‘scriptural warrant” to throw at your heads, if I deigned; you are all embar- rassed when M…
1929 · PDF PAGE 476
…he full confidence of the conspirators whom I had identified and deal with them as somebody whose name I forget dealt with Cataline; and Lord Mount Eagle or whoever it was, with Guy Faux. But nobody in British Intelligence had sufficient of that quality to notice me. I have always been unduly optimistic about England. I know such a lot of people who are far from being fools. But war seems to deaden perception. Men who are in ordinary times quite acute become ready to assume that anyone who is waving a Union Jack and singing "Britannia Rules the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
… abolish them by philosophical skepticism before he is allowed to undertake the practices which lead to Dhyana. Samadhi, "Union with the Lord", is the general term for the final trance, or rather, series of trances. It differs from Dhyana in this way: Dhyana is partial, Samadhi is universal. In the first Samadhi, the universe is perceived as a unity. In the second that unity is annihilated. There are, however, may other Samadhis, and in any case the quality of the trance will depend upon the extent of the universe which enters into it. One must…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
…le in the voice of the Master; by the word that is seven, and one in seven; and by the great and terrible word 210, I beseech thee, O my Lord, to grant me the vision of thy Glory.’ And all the rays of the wheel stream out at me, and I am blasted and blinded with the light. I am caught up into the wheel. I am one with the wheel. I am greater than the wheel. In the midst of a myriad lightnings I stand, and I behold his face. (I am thrown violently back on to the earth every second, so that I cannot quite concentrate.) “All one gets is a liquid fl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…ere was also an objection to the liturgy, on numerous grounds. It seems incredible, but is true, that the Plymouth Brethren regarded the Lord's Prayer as a "vain repetition, as do the heathen". It was forbidden to use it! Jesus had indeed given this prayer as an example of how to pray; but everyone was expected to make up his own supplications ex tempore.