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33 bring home these things, don’t you know ? But we think what we think, don’t you know ? While your admiring friends openly boast of you as a dam clever bugger, by God ! He had half the boys in London, and when they started to black- mail him, he turned right round like that (gesture) before you could say “ knife ”, by God ! and didn’t they get beans, by God ! But could I fight an English election ? How would my chiefs in the army look at it, when it came to the actual point of choosing one of two men for promotion ? What price that fat tutor-…
1919 · PDF PAGE 114
…ow Love is the enkindling in ecstacy of Two that will to become One. It is thus an Universal formula of High Magick. For see now how all things, being in sorrow caused by dividuality, must of necessity will Oneness as their medi- cine. Here also is Nature monitor to them that seek Wisdom at her breast: for in the uniting of elements of opposite polari- ties is there a glory of heat, of light, and of electricity. Thus also in mankind do we behold the spiritual fruit of poetry and all genius, arising from the seed of what is but an ani- mal gestu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 115
…ur- selves in rapture with each and every thing that is, and that by utmost passion and lust of Union. To this end take chiefly all such things as are naturally repulsive. For what is pleasant is assimilated easily and without ecstacy: it is in the transfiguration of the loathsome and abhorred into The Beloved that the Self is shaken to the root in Love. Thus in human love also we see that mediocrities among men mate with null women: but History teacheth us that the supreme masters of the world seek ever the vilest and most horrible creatures f…
1922 · PDF PAGE 185
…n the whole character of my consciousness. | I am writing this in the mood of the recording angel. I am living in eternity, and temporal things have become tedious and stupid symbols. My words are veils of my truth. But I experience quite definite delight in this diary. King Lamus is always at the root of my brain. He is Jupiter and I have sprung from his thought ; Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom ! The most tremendous events of life are unworthy trifles. The sublimity of my conceptions sweeps onward from nowhere to nowhere. Behind my articulate anth…
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
…ppo. MHaving realised the woe and transitoriness and soullessness of all life, there rises in the mind this Right Aspi- ration. When all things suffer, we at least will not increase their burden, so we aspire to become pitiful and loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though we aspire to renounce the pleasures of sense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accomplishment of o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
…ll. King Lamus was always saying that as long as one has any emotion about any thing, love or fear or any- thing else, one can’t observe things correctly. That’s why a doctor won't attend his own family, and I can see coldly and clearly like a drowning man that when- ever the idea of H. comes into my mind, I begin to think hysterically and come to the most idiotic con- clusions; and heroin has twined itself about my life so closely that everything is connected with it one way or another. My mind is obsessed by the thought of the drug. Sometimes…
1910 · PDF PAGE 169
…from fear, he gets absorption, O My Beloved! 28. When the mind of the Yogi is exceedingly engaged in this sound, he forgets all external things, and is absorbed in this sound.t H. P. Blavatsky in ‘‘ The Voice of the Silence” classifies these sounds under seven distinct heads. The first is like the nightingale’s sweet voice chanting a song of parting to its mate. The second comes as the sound of a silver cymbal of the Dhy4nis, awakening the twinkling stars. * “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 93. + Chiefly by the Yoga of Nada-Laya, a Dhyana. t “Shiva …
1910 · PDF PAGE 169
…from fear, he gets absorption, O My Beloved! 28. When the mind of the Yogi is exceedingly engaged in this sound, he forgets all external things, and is absorbed in this sound.t H. P. Blavatsky in ‘‘ The Voice of the Silence” classifies these sounds under seven distinct heads. The first is like the nightingale’s sweet voice chanting a song of parting to its mate. The second comes as the sound of a silver cymbal of the Dhy4nis, awakening the twinkling stars. * “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 93. + Chiefly by the Yoga of Nada-Laya, a Dhyana. t “Shiva …
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
…ey shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair ab…
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…te, he does not reprove; he sends out pardon, intelligence and love. The true Christian is a stranger to the sectarian spirit; he is all things to all men, and looks on all men as the children of a common father, who means to save them all. The whole cult has for him only a sense of sweetness and of 1 Actual priests. Levi’s ideal priest, of whom ‘bad’ is an impossible epithet, is not to be looked for in the Church. He is in that ‘Church’ which is also Ark, Rose, Font, Altar, Cup, and the rest. He is that Word of Truth which is ‘established’ by …
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
…ey shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair ab…
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…te, he does not reprove; he sends out pardon, intelligence and love. The true Christian is a stranger to the sectarian spirit; he is all things to all men, and looks on all men as the children of a common father, who means to save them all. The whole cult has for him only a sense of sweetness and of 1 Actual priests. Levi’s ideal priest, of whom ‘bad’ is an impossible epithet, is not to be looked for in the Church. He is in that ‘Church’ which is also Ark, Rose, Font, Altar, Cup, and the rest. He is that Word of Truth which is ‘established’ by …
1906 · PDF PAGE 60
…fierce resistance to the all-law, stood loves and joys, delicate girls, and beautiful strong boys, and bearded men like gods, and golden things, and bright desires with wings, all beauties, and all truths of life poets have ever prized. .So showed the microscope, this agéd strife between all forms: but seen afar, seen well drawn in a focus, synthesised, the whole was sorrow and despair; agony biting through the fair; meanness, contemptibility, enthroned; all purposeless, all unatoned; all putrid of an hope, all vacant of a soul. I called upon i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
…till Fertile, and sterile love and righteousness. Eurydice, Eurydice ! SECOND MA:NAD. Drink wine ! ORPHEUS., Ay, mask the grisly head of things that are By drowning sense. Such horror as is hid In life no man dare look upon. Woe! Woe! AGAVE. Call then reproach upon these maiden rites ! ORPHEUS. Nay ! virtue is the devil’s name for vice, And all your righteousness is filthy rags Wherein ye strut, and hide the one base thought. To mask the truth, to worship, to forget ; These three are one. AGAVE. What art thou then? a man?
1910 · PDF PAGE 188
…ila; and then after three days’ sojourn there journeyed to Agra. “JT saw the Taj. A dream of beauty,” he writes, “ with appallingly evil things dwelling therein. I actually had to use H.P.K. formula! The building soon palls; the aura is apparent, and disgust succeeds. But the central hall is of strained aura, like a magic circle after the banishing.” At Agra P. met Astrologer and Geomancer Munshi Elihu Bux; who told him that by looking hard at a point on the wall constantly and without winking for many days he would be able to obtain an hypnoti…
1910 · PDF PAGE 188
…ila; and then after three days’ sojourn there journeyed to Agra. “JT saw the Taj. A dream of beauty,” he writes, “ with appallingly evil things dwelling therein. I actually had to use H.P.K. formula! The building soon palls; the aura is apparent, and disgust succeeds. But the central hall is of strained aura, like a magic circle after the banishing.” At Agra P. met Astrologer and Geomancer Munshi Elihu Bux; who told him that by looking hard at a point on the wall constantly and without winking for many days he would be able to obtain an hypnoti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 190
…petence and imbecility of his proceedings remain today as incomprehensible as they were then. (I accuse myself of having minimized these things. I should never have agreed to take him on my next expedition, but I liked the man personally so much that I instinctively made every allowance for him, and unquestionably he was suffering no less than the rest of us. I have a fatal weakness for believing the best about everybody. In the face of the plainest evidence, I cannot believe in the existence of dishonesty and malice, and I always try to build …
1954 · PDF PAGE 183
150 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 1. Immediate physical interruption: Asana should stop these. 2. Things that are "on your mind ." 3. Reverie, and "Wouldn't it help if I were to- ?" 4. Atmospherics-e.g. voices apparently from some alien source. 5. Aberrations of the control itself; and the result itself. (Remember the practice of some Hindu schools : "Not that, not that!" to whatever it is that presents itself as Tat Sat-reality, truth.) Need I remind you how urgent the wish to escape will assuredly become, how fantastic are the mind's devices and excus…
1911 · PDF PAGE 126
…e into the centre of the maze, a whirling dust of stars and great forgotten gods. It is the whirling Svastika which throws off all these things, for the Svastika is in aleph by its shape and number, and in beth by the position of the arms of the Magician, and in gimel because of the sign of the Mourning of Isis, and thus is the Crown defended by these three thunderbolts. Is not thrice seventeen fifty-one, that is, failure and pain? NowI am shut out again by this black Svastika with a corona of fire about it. And a voice cries: Cursed be he that…
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
…e- tween the teacher and the disciple; because a disciple who has no faith in his master cannot be taught or guided by him. There may be things which will appear strange, and for which no reasons can be given to the beginner; but when the disciple has attained a certain state 01 development all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development 01 the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and for…