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Page 74 of 1141954 · PDF PAGE 489
…tion becomes normal in official circles; and is excused. I refer you to Mr. J. H. Thomas.) One evil leads to another; the seven devils always take possession of a house that is swept and garnished to the point at which people find it uncomfortable. But is not all this beside the point, you ask? No. It was needful to indicate this cumulative progression to social shipwreck, because, to-day an obvious peril of the most menacing. In 1904 no ordinary sane person foresaw anything of the sort. But special knowledge alters things, and it is certain th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 518
…tions of the cranium at, or shortly after, birth, so as to prevent them closing and giving the brain a chance to grow. I suspect, by the way, that something of the sort is done in China and Burma; but the object is merely to produce megalocephalic idiots as a valuable addition to the financial resources of the family. I thought that modern physiology, with its great recent advances in knowledge of the specialized functions of the brain , might quite possibly succeed in producing genius. You would not surprise me if you told me that something of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
166 The Law is for All Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! Commentary: Stanza 3 suggests the Rosicrucian Benediction: May thy Mind be open unto the Higher! May thy Heart be the Centre of Light! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted …
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
14 There has always been something suggesting the oriental --- Chinese or ancient Egyptian --- in Alick's personal appearance. As his mother at school had been called "the little Chinese girl", so his daughter, Lola Zaza, has the Mongolian physiognomy even more pronounced. His thought follows this indication. He has never been able to sympathize with any European religion or philosophy; and of Jewish or Mohammedan thought he has assimilated only the mysticism of the Cabbalists and the Sufis. Even Hindu psychology, thoroughly as he studied it, n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
…the plateau and was returning home to die! I expressed my sympathy and offered help. Oh, no, not at all! He had carried his sack all the way to Srinagar; but finding on arrival that the price of his produce had gone down by a fraction of a penny a pound, he refused to sell and was bringing the stuff back. The sack itself looked fabulous, so I got out the "butcher's terror" and found that it weighed four hundred and ten pounds. The whole business struck me as extraordinarily sublime. I dashed to old boy five rupees. This made him wild with happi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…ne's spontaneity was not destroyed by anticipations of all sorts of difficulty in finding a friend of any desired type, obstacles in the way of consummating the impulse, and unpleasantness in the aftermath. The problem of sex, which has reduced Anglo-Saxon nations to hysteria and insanity, has been {205} solved in Mexico by the co-operation of climate and cordiality. Even Catholicism has lost most of its malignancy in Mexico. Clergy and laity unite, spiritually and somatically, with gay ardour. The Virgin is here actually the fille-mčre which t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 135
…by invoking the forces of Chokmah and Thoth, but omitted stating purpose of Operation in so many words. Yet with three projections (each way) I obtained a shadowy grayness somewhat human in shape. But found difficulty where least expected —in transferring consciousness to Simulacrum. God-form Thoth, 16m. Result fair. Akasa-Ak4sa, During the meditation the following Vision was seen. All things around me were surrounded by silver flashes or streaks. But about the human corpse which I saw before me there were fewer, and they moved more slowly. Abo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 135
…by invoking the forces of Chokmah and Thoth, but omitted stating purpose of Operation in so many words. Yet with three projections (each way) I obtained a shadowy grayness somewhat human in shape. But found difficulty where least expected —in transferring consciousness to Simulacrum. God-form Thoth, 16m. Result fair. Akasa-Ak4sa, During the meditation the following Vision was seen. All things around me were surrounded by silver flashes or streaks. But about the human corpse which I saw before me there were fewer, and they moved more slowly. Abo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
…that of cocaine; and the romance and adventure of our lives formed an exhilarating setting for those superb jewels. “Every day, in every way, I get better and better.” M. Coué’s now famous formula is the precise intel- lectual expression of the curve of the cocaine honey- moon. Normal life is like an aeroplane before she rises. There is a series of little bumps; all one can say is that one is getting along more or less. Then she begins to rise clear of earth. There are no more obstacles to the flight. But there are still mental obstacles; a fen…
1922 · PDF PAGE 173
…e master of his own destiny.” “‘ Well, well,” admitted the Teacher with an exag- gerated sigh, “I expected to be beaten in argument. I always am. But I, too, am the master of mine. ‘If Power asks Why, then is Power weakness,’ as we readin the Book of the Law; and it’s not my destiny to give you any drugs this morning.” “ But you're interfering with my Will,” protested Cockie, almost vivaciously. “It would take too long to explain,” returned Lamus, “ why I think that remark unfair. But to quote the Book of the Law once more, ‘Enough of Because, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 334
…forms. We languidly marked our little crosses in the proper section. “‘ Excuse the interruption,” she said, “but the Magical Record is always the first consideration in the Abbey.” The heroin woke me completely. “‘ T see the point, I think. All your rules are intended to reduce the part of life that has to be run by rules, as much as possible.” ‘“‘ That’s it,” she nodded emphatically. | “ But I say,” said Lou, “ it’s all very well; but I don’t know whatever I’m to do with myself. The time must hang frightfully heavy on your hands.” “God forgive…
1954 · PDF PAGE 140
… a Cash Register. It receives impressions, calculates, states the result: that is A double L, ALL! Try never to qualify a thought in any way, to see it as it is in itself in relation to those other elements which are necessary to make it what it is. Above all, do not "mix the planes." A dagger may be sharp or blunt, straight or crooked; it is not "wicked-looking," or even "trusty," except in so far as the quality of its steel makes it so. A cliff is not "frowning" or "menacing." A snow-covered glacier is not "treacherous": to say so means only …
1954 · PDF PAGE 233
…ed by Sammasati , the layers are stripped off very much as happens in elementary meditation (Dharana) to the conscious mind. (There is a way of acquiring a great deal of strange and unsuspected knowledge of these matters by the use of Sulphuric Ether, [C2 Hs]2 0 , according to a special technique. I wrote a paper on it once, 16 pp. 4' 0 , and fearing that it might be lost had many copies made and distributed. Where is it? I must write you a letter one day.)
1954 · PDF PAGE 408
…hese points. It is absolutely pitiful to watch the vain struggle of the incompetent; they are so earnest, so sincere, so worthy in every way of every possible reward and yet they seem unable to advance a single step. There is another side to this matter which is really approximating to the criminal. There are any number of teachers and masters and bishops and goodness knows what
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
…transcendent negation of all speech it may by some natures be attained. Also by images and symbols have men striven to express it: but always in vain. Yet those that were ready to apprehend the nature of this Light have understood by sympathy: and so shall it be with you who read this little book, loving it. However, be it known unto you that the best of all instruction on this matter, and the Word best suited to the AZon of Horus, is written in the Book of the Law. Yet also the Book Ararita is right worthy in the Work of the Light, as Trigramm…
1919 · PDF PAGE 410
…you come out at the other end, and discover that the whole controversy was illusion. One does become blind; one does have to fight one’s way through the ocean of as- phalt. Hope and Faith areno more. All that can be done is to guard Love, the original source of your energy, by the mask of indifference. This image is a little misleading, per- haps. It must not be supposed that the indifference is a cloak; it must be a real indifference. Desire of any kind must really be conquered, for of course every desire is as it were a string on you to pull …
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…ugh all this is I, yet it is only an accident of me; I stand behind it all, im- mune, eternal. It must not be supposed that this in any way de- tracted from the intensity of the suffering. Rather it added to it. To be loathsome is less than to be linked to loathsomeness. To plunge into impurity is to become deadened to disgust. But to do so and yet to remain pureevery vileness adds a pang. Think of Madonna imprisoned in the body of a prostitute, and compelled to acknowledge This is I, while never losing her abhor- rence. Not only immured in…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…e Against a shadowy wilt? MINOs. Thy hope doth dwell, O slave, Where thy mother fashioned it, Oh heart of a fool, in thy breast. EACUS. Away, away to the skies! RHADAMANTHUS. That our dead may take their rest. MINOS. Arise to the air, arise ! cEACUS. Away to the mountain crest ! RHADAMANTHUS. Veil, veil from the awful eyes ! MINOS. Endure thy heart as it may, And steel thine heart, Thou shalt hear and know and obey As I say ‘‘ Depart” ; Lest the arrow find its way And the sternly-shapen dart. AL ACUS. A second our justice waits. RHADAMANTHUS. I…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…e who daves to will, will will to know, and knowing will keep silence; { for even to such as have entered the Supreme Order, there is no way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.§ The guardian of the Temple is Adonai, he alone holds the key of the Portal, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control his body, yet is it …
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…e who daves to will, will will to know, and knowing will keep silence; { for even to such as have entered the Supreme Order, there is no way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.§ The guardian of the Temple is Adonai, he alone holds the key of the Portal, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control his body, yet is it …