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Page 74 of 951996 · PDF PAGE 148
…nsformed. Nor need one fret about the harmony and proportion of one’s various faculties; the fit will survive, and the perfection of the whole will be understood as soon as the parts have found them selves, and settled down after fighting the matter out in the bal anced stability which represents their right reaction to each other, and to their environment. It is thus policy for an Aspirant to initi ation to analyze himself with indefatigable energy, shrewd skill, and accurate subtlety; but then to content himself with observing the interpla…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
… the object which he strikes. Thus the use of the bell, or of the hands, means that the Magician wishes to impress the atmosphère of the whole circle with what has been or is about to be done. He wishes to formulate his will in Sound, and radiate it in every direction ; moreover, to influence that which lives by breath in the sense of his purpose, and to summon it to bear witness to his Word. The hands are used as symbols of his executive power, the bell to represent his consciousness exalted into music. To strike with the wand is to utter the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…n, and Earth, and Hell, and all things in them contained; and by their power and virtue; and by the name PRimMEuMATON who commandeth the whole host of Heaven; that thou mayest cause, enforce, and compel the Spirit N. to come unto me here before this Circle in a fair and comely shape, without harm unto me or unto any other creature, to answer truly and faithfully unto all my requests ; so that I may accomplish my will and desire in knowing or obtaining any matter or thing which by office thou knowest is proper for him to perform or accomplish, t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…nethermost fire ! In silence I wait For his voice to roll, For the coming of Fate, The strength of my soul. My words create One glorious whole From the fragments divided that seem past a man’s or a god’s control. I, seeing the life Of the flowers renew, The victorious strife Of the spring run through, The child’s birth rife With loftier dew— I know the deep truth in myself; see acacia in cypress and yew.
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…e to reconcile these two apparently opposing faculties. Indeed, there is no surer sign of all-round success than this ability to put the whole of one’s powers at the service of any type of task. With regard to the mind, again, it would seem that concentra¬ tion on the question makes more difficult the necessary detachment from it. Once again, the diviner stands in need of a considérable degree of attainment in the practices of méditation. He must hâve succeeded in destroying the tendency of the ego to interfère with the ohject of thought. He mu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
…s represented by a lamp, and this in the Tarot refers to the Twenty‐ two Trumps. The interplay of the symbols should be noticed, for the whole of the planetary, zodiacal, and elemental symbols are themselves all contained in the rays of the Lamp. Note that this and the following diagrams represent new discoveries by the Master Therion: com‐ pletion of the Tradition. DIAGRAM 8. THE SPHINX This diagram represents the four Kerubs who are about the throne of the Almighty; they show the central zodiacal signs of the four Elements, Leo, Scorpio, Aqua…
1996 · PDF PAGE 119
…th the physical and mental structure whose truth we are trying to test. Indeed, we can assume an “unreasonable” axiom, and translate the whole of our knowledge into its terms, without fear of stum bling over any obstacle. Reason is no more than a set of rules developed by the race; it takes no account of anything beyond sensory impressions and their reactions to various parts of our being. There is no possible escape from the vicious circle that we can register only the behaviour of our own instrument. We con clude from the fact that it behav…
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…N A YOGI BE WORRIED? 221 buy a box of matches. To "snap out of it" and recover my normal serenity requires only a minute effort, and the whole of my magical energy is earmarked for the Great Work. I have none left to make that effort . Of course, if the worry is enough to interfere with that Work, I must detail a corporal's fIle to abate the nuisance. The other way may be called the Taoist aspect. First, however, let me explain the point of view of the Master of the Temple, as it is so similar. You should remember from your reading what happens…
1996 · PDF PAGE 103
…w familiar figures of itself, and recognize that all “actual” forms are imperfect; but such people are apt to turn with disgust from the whole procedure, and to long for the “eternal” state. This state is however incapable of realization, as we know; and the Soul understanding this, can find no good but in “Cessa tion” of all things, its creations no more than its own tendencies to create. It therefore sighs for nibbana.
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…f silky ferocity, and flung her from him violently on to the sofa. He was gone. She lay upon the cushions, and sobbed her heart out. The whole evening was a nightmare for her — and also for Lavinia King. The pianist, who had looked in with the idea of dinner, was thrown out with objurgations. Why had he brought that cad, that brute, that fool? Amy Brough was caught by her fat wrists, and sat down to the cards; but the first time that she said "large building," was bundled bodily out of the apartment. Finally, Lavinia was astounded to have Lisa …
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…eligion to another, the infinité swelling paean I.A.O. ! 2 1. See “The Book of Lies”, Liber 333, for several sermons to this effect. The whole theory of Death must be sought in Liber CXI Aleph. 2. This name. I. A. O. is qabalistically identical with that of The Beast and with His number 666, so that he who invokes the former invokes also the îatter. Also with AIWAZ and the Number 93. See Chapter V. 15
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
in the book it is defined, and accept Their Will1 as concentrating the Will of our Whole Order. They must accept the Crowned and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowledge that “The Word of the Law is 0EAHMA and that “Love is the Law, love under Will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. 2 He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in ac…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…not; I love not that which loves not. For I am Love, whereby division dies in delight; I am Knowledge, whereby ail parts, plunged in the whole, perish and pass into perfection; and I am that I am, the being wherein Being is lost in Nothing, nor deigns to be but by its Will to unfold its nature, its need to express its perfection in ail possibilités, each phase a partial phantasm, and yet inévitable and absolute. I am Omniscient, for naught exists for me unless I know it. I am Omnipotent, for naught occurs save by Necessity my soûl s expression …
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
other planes. Thirdly, he must exert his whole power and author- ity to govern the Members of lower Grades with balanced vigour and initiative in such a way as to allow no dispute or complainte he must employ to this end the formula called “The Beast conjoined with the Woman” which establishes a new incarnation of deity ; as in the legends of Leda, Semele, Miriam, Pasiphae, and others. He must set up this idéal for the orders which he rules, so that they may possess a not too abstract rallying-point suited to their unde- veloped States. 10. The…
1996 · PDF PAGE 101
… the weak and wry productions go back into the melting- pot, as is done with flawed steel castings. Death will purge, reincarnation make whole, these errors and abortions. Nature herself may be trusted to do this, if only we will leave her alone. But what of those who, physically fitted to live, are tainted with rottenness of soul, cancerous with the sin-complex? For the third time I answer: The Christians to the Lions!
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…on." "Dear me! And poor little Lisa has to do all that before she learns the reason of your leaving St. Jean de Luz?" "All that, and the whole story of the Homunculus!" "Whatever is that?" "After lunch." But as it turned out, it was a very long while before lunch. The bell of the studio rang brusquely. Cyril Grey went to the door; and once again Lisa had the impression of a duellist. No: it was a sentinel that stood there. Her vivid power of visualization put a spear in his hand. It was his own studio, but he announced his visitors as if he had…
1929 · PDF PAGE 164
…a void in the ranks of the Amazon armies of the Moon; and she saw them and their mist of blue, licked up in the swirl of the vortex. The whole of the invoked forces were sucked up into her as Malkah in her death-agony took possession of that basis of materialization. Heroic — and presumptuous; for of all the qualities that go to make humanity she had but one, and she would have to shift, for the rest, with orts of inheritance. Among mankind she would be a stranger, a being without conscious race-experience, liable to every error that a partial …
1954 · PDF PAGE 127
…there have been messages conveyed by natural objects, animate or inanimate. 2 Needless to say, the outstanding example in my life is the whole Plan of Campaign concerning The Book of the Law. But is Aiwaz a man (presumably a Persian or Assyrian) and a "Secret Chief," or is He an 'angel' in the sense that Gabriel is an angel? Is Ab-ul-Diz an Adept who can project himself into the aura of some woman with whom I happen to be living, although she has no previous experience of the kind, or any interest in such matters at all? Or is He a being whose …
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
… and in John St. John. They hâve taken the only proper course; to train aspirants to this attainment in the theory and prac¬ tice of the whole of Magick and Mysticism, so that each man may be expert in the handling of ail known weapons, and free to choose and to use those which his own expérience and instinct dictate as proper when he essays the Great Experiment. He is furthermore trained to the one habit essential to Member- ship of the A.'. A.'.; he must regard ail his attainments as primarily the property of those less advanced aspirants who…
1996 · PDF PAGE 60
… be misapplied. It is our first duty to ourselves to pre serve the treasure entrusted to us: “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”1 1 [Mark 8:36, paraphrase.]. The nature of man is individual. No two faces are identical, still less are two individuals. Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity, inasmuch as all cometh from the womb of Nuit—to it returneth all. The apprehension of this sublimity is the mark of divinity. Knowing this, all i…