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Page 72 of 921929 · PDF PAGE 37
…my material with more discretion. My mother designed me, of course, to follow in my father's footsteps as am evangelist, but as I had to take a profession she decided she would like me to be a doctor, of the ground that "doctors have so many opportunities". (Scil. for bringing souls to Jesus. She did not see anything funny in this remark!) So I began to learn a little about medicine and produced the following effusion: A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES In the hospital bed she lay ..........Rotting away! Cursing by night and cursing by day, ..........Rot…
1904 · PDF PAGE 31
… many Trumpets sounding. He knoweth all things hidden, and can discover Treasure, and tell all things Past, Present, and to Come. He can take a Body either Human or Aérial, and answereth truly of all Earthly things both Secret and * In some of the older Codices this word is left out, in others it is indistinct, but appears to be ‘‘horse,” so I have put the word horse within brackets above.-—TrRans. [The Quartos have ‘‘ass,”—ED.| 17
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…he quality of resistance to the passage of the electric current. If we could diminish that resistance to zero, lightning would no longer take notice of him.
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…er, since Brother Cyril asks it, the Way of the Tao shall be trodden so far as this is possible: What would Brother Cyril do?" "I should take the Magic Sword, make the appropriate symbols, and invoke the Names Divine appurtenant thereto: the Thing, shrivelled and blasted, would go back to those that sent it, screaming in agony, cursing at the gods, ready to turn even on its employers, that they might wail with it in torment." "One of the best numbers on the programme," said Simon Iff. "Now see the other way!" "Yes: if your way is better than th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon. 1 This whole matter is prophesied in the Book of the Law itself ; let the student take note, and enter the ranks of the Host of the Sun. II There is another sacrifice with regard to which the Adepts hâve always maintained the most profound secrecy. It is the suprême mystery of practical Magick. Its name is the Formula of the Rosy Cross. In this case the victim is always — in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coïncide with the utterance of the most sublime and se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…f," retorted the mystic, "and you'll have to do it one day: But be reassured! Everybody has to go through your stage — and unless I'm mistaken, you are about to go through it in a particularly acute form." "I've tried the Tao," said Cyril, half regretful, "but I can't manage it." The old man laughed. "You're like the old man in the storm who realized that he would be warmer elsewhere. So he decided to diminish the amount of himself by removing his clothes, and only found it colder. It gets worse and worse till the moment when you vanish utterly…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…ouglas with so clean a record of work accomplished. He never gave the Turk another thought. But Akbar Pasha had had an idea. Balloch had taken a ticket for Dijon — he would take one, too. And he would go — he would retrieve his error of yesterday. He was not in the least afraid of that cub Grey, when Simon Iff was not there to back him. It would go hard, but he should get a drop of Lisa's blood — if he had to bribe the wagon-lit man. Then — who knows? — there might even be a chance to kill Grey. He waited till the last moment before he boarded …
1935 · PDF PAGE 8
…Magical Word, which transforms the planet on which he lives by the installation of new officers to preside over its initiation. This can take place only at an “Equinox of the Gods” at the end of an “Aeon”; that is, when the secret formula which expresses the Law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development. (Thus “Suckling” is the formula of an infant: when teeth appear it marks a new “Aeon”, whose “Word” is “Eating”). A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at inter- vals of some centuries; accounts of hi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…nfecting us, rotting our very bones with poisonous drunkenness. And so his cutting irony—drink no intoxicating drinks! When I go to take Pansil, * it is in no spirit of servile morality; it is w ith keen sorrow gnawing at my heart. These five causes of sorrow are indeed the heads of the serpent of Desire. Four at least of them snap their fans on me in and by virtue of my very act of receiving the commands, and of promising to obey them; if there is a little difficulty about the fifth, it is an omission easily rectified—and I think we shoul…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
…Shass). He is a Great Marquis and appeareth in the Form of a Stock-Dove, speaking with a voice hoarse, but yet subtle. Huis Office is to take away the Sight, Hearing, or Understanding of any Man or Woman at the command of the Exorcist; and to steal money out of the houses of Kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. If commanded he will fetch Horses at the request of the Exorcist, or any other thing. But he must first be commanded into a Triangle, A, or else he will deceive him, and tell him many Lies. He can discover all things that are Hid…
1906 · PDF PAGE 84
… Dreadful, like death; withdrawn and epicene At the mad crisis of the eventful thing. O that such tender fondness like a flower’s Should take such nameless infamy! That we Should pluck such bitter bloom, rooted in fear, 1 On the westward voyage across the Pacific a day is ‘lost’ on the 180th degree. Salt with the scurf of some diseaséd sea, Foul with the curse of God: that we are here, Hating the night’s: inexorable hours. THE THIRTY-SECOND DAY. ‘* Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance.” Cymbeline, How sweet the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
… he answered. "Yesterday I saw the end of the game — for one!" He told her in a few words of the horror on the roadside. "Go!" he said, "take that girl, Douglas's last victim, for your maid. Go to America; find the Child of the Moon. There may, or there may not be, other tasks for us to do; I know not — time will show." "I will, I will," she cried, "I will go now, quickly. Kiss me first!" Once again the tears gathered in the magician's [333] eyes; he understood, more deeply than he had ever done, the Sorrow of the Universe. He saw how utterly i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…ti-Yoga yet written. Union through devotion is Bhakti- Yoga, and union with Isvara or the Higher Self is the highest form this union can take—“ man will be seen no more as man, but only as God; the animal will be seen no more as an animal, but as God; even the tiger will no more be seen a tiger, but as a manifestation of God”... “love knows no bargaining ... love knows no reward . .. love knows no fear . . . love knows no rival ...” for “there are no men in this world but that One Man, and that is He, the Beloved.” In this excellent series can …
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…ti-Yoga yet written. Union through devotion is Bhakti- Yoga, and union with Isvara or the Higher Self is the highest form this union can take—“ man will be seen no more as man, but only as God; the animal will be seen no more as an animal, but as God; even the tiger will no more be seen a tiger, but as a manifestation of God”... “love knows no bargaining ... love knows no reward . .. love knows no fear . . . love knows no rival ...” for “there are no men in this world but that One Man, and that is He, the Beloved.” In this excellent series can …
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
… It is nonsense to do so. The only analogy is that of a noble thinker and his stupid, dishonest, and immoral secretary. The dictation is taken down correctly, and given to the world. The last person to be enlightened by it is the secretary [25] himself! So, I take it, is the case with all genius; only in many cases the man is in more or less conscious harmony with his genius, and strives eternally to make himself a worthier instrument for his master's touch. The clever man, so-called, the man of talent, shuts out his genius by setting up his co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
Electricity at Oxford, it is useless for me to take the mind of a Hottentot. (Cyril sighed a doubt.) "I'm going to digress for a moment. Look at the finished product, the soul 'incarnated,' as we may call it. There are three forces at work upon it; the soul itself, the heredity and the environment. A clever soul will therefore be careful to choose the embryo which seems most likely to be fairly free in the two latter respects. It will look for a healthy stock, for parents who will, and can, give the child every chance [106] in life. You must re…
1996 · PDF PAGE 80
…attributes consciousness to trees and rocks. Example No. 2. While at Montauk I had put my sleeping bag to dry in the sun. When I went to take it in, I remarked, laughingly, “Your bedtime, Master Bag,” as if it were a small boy and I its nurse. This was entirely frivolous, but the
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
… sort of thing goes on for ever.” 1 Dinner, XIII. I was a humorous youth enough On earth; I laughed when things were rough. Therefore, I take it, now in Hades The funny side of things—and ladies— Engages my attention. Well! You know enough of life in Hell. I was an altruist, my brothers ! My life one long kind thought for others : For me six maidens wear the willow :— Poisoning is a peccadillo. Hence I’m disposed to give advice Simple, if possibly not nice ; Shun life! an awkward task and deep. But if you cannot, then—shun sleep ! (Suppose I th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
…, which signifies that you are still far from the goal which has been reached by the complete Initiates.” Shortly after this the Closing takes place, and the prayer of the spirits of the Earth is rehearsed, and the licence to depart pronounced, and in the name of ADONAI HA ARETZ, the Hierophant declares the Temple closed. By the end of January 1899, P. was sufficiently advanced to be admitted to the grade of Theoricus. It was about this time also that he met Mr. D., a certain brother of the G.*.D.-*. known as Fra. I. A. This meeting, as we Shal…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
…, which signifies that you are still far from the goal which has been reached by the complete Initiates.” Shortly after this the Closing takes place, and the prayer of the spirits of the Earth is rehearsed, and the licence to depart pronounced, and in the name of ADONAI HA ARETZ, the Hierophant declares the Temple closed. By the end of January 1899, P. was sufficiently advanced to be admitted to the grade of Theoricus. It was about this time also that he met Mr. D., a certain brother of the G.*.D.-*. known as Fra. I. A. This meeting, as we Shal…