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1912 · PDF PAGE 91

Book 4 (Part I)

…s duration of Dhyana. One can only say that, since it certainly occurred between such and such hours, it must have lasted less than that time. Thus we see, from Frater P. ’5 record, that it can certainly occur in less than an hour and five minutes.

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1954 · PDF PAGE 124

Magick Without Tears

9 The Secret Ch iefs Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Very glad I am, since at one time I was obliged to be starkly stem about impertinent curiosity, to note that your wish to be informed about the Secret Chiefs of the A:. A :. is justified; it is most certainly of the first importance that you and I should be quite clear in our minds about Those under whose jurisdiction and tutelage we both work. You justly remind me that one of my earliest slogans was "Mystery is the enemy of Truth"; how then is it that I acquiesce…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 196

The Winged Beetle

…im, in a tragic whisper.] Something has happened—something is going to happen. CARR. And something has not happened—I knew it was a long time since we missed a week. By the way, have you heard the terrible news about Queen Anne ? Dead, poor soul ! Never mind, silly, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. EUPHEMIA. I think you’re the greatest brute in the world—and I love you. CARR. How reciprocal of you ! EUPHEMIA. Sweet ! CARR. On my honour, I haven’t a single chocolate on me. Have a cigar ? [Busines…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 66

Book 4 (Part II)

…will aid the vigilance of the sleepy Chela, and, while tempering the Wind to that shorn lamb, will carefully harden him, and at the same time gladden his ears with holy discourse. But if such a person is in- accessible, let him choose any one with whom he has constant inter- course, explain the circumstances, and ask him to act. The person should if possible be trustworthy; and let the Chela remember that if he should be ordered to jump over a cliff it is very much better to do it than to give up the practice. And it is of the very greatest imp…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 513

Magick Without Tears

…ose males who were too timid to risk the jump. I swallowed a last glass of champagne, and then je filai a l:Anglais. Summary: a pleasant time was had by all. Note for political economists: the woman took 10,000 francs (at about 125 to the £; she took three weeks in hospital and three weeks' holiday between the shows. She was, or had been, the mistress of a Minister with 'Peuple' ideas, though he was an aristocrat of very old vintage; and he helped her to have her daughters brought up in one of the most exclusive convents in France.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 7

Berashith

…and pitiful plaints against the logical results of the Advaitist School. But on his basal hypothesis of an infinite God; infinite space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Mr. Mansel is found in the impossible position of one who will neither give up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion ; he supposes there must be something. wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its own inferiority to faith. As Deussen “ well p…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 80

The Star in the West

…ve , her duty to her motherhood ; very different indeed was the love of Ratoum . But anon . Another picture of maternal affection , this time more musical , we find in “ The Spring after, ” of “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " : No smallest cloud between me and my bride Came like a little mist ; one tender fear, Too sweet to speak of, closed the dying year 1 The Mother's Tragedy , vol. i, p. 157. ? Ibid . vol. i, p. 161.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 24

John St. John

…s knot of mourners. Could the scene have been recorded in a brain-cell adjoining that which records the Visuddhi- idea? Or did I at that time unconsciously think of my throat for some other reason? Bother! These things are all dog-faced demons ! Το work ! Work: Meditation and Mantra. No good. Went off into a reverie about a castle and men-at—arms. This had all the qualities of a true dream, yet I was not in any other sense asleep. I soon will be, though. It seems foolish to persist.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 51

John St. John

…ightly condemned as mere volup- tuaries. The only way to do so would be to inflict some torture whose severity one could not gauge at the time: e.g., one might dip oneself in petroleum and set light to it, as the young lady mystic did—I suppose in Brittany l—the other day. It’s not the act that hurts, but the consequences; so, although one knows only roughly what will happen, one can force oneself to the act. This, then, is a possible form of self-martyrdom. Similarly, mutilations; though it is perhaps just to observe that all these people are m…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 105

Ambergris

… have seen the eternal Gods Sit, star-wed, in old Egypt by the Nile ; The same calm pose, the inscrutable, wan smile On every lip alike. Time hath not had his will to strike At them ; they abide, they pass through all. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, we know ; let, then, the writing go ! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love.

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1928 · PDF PAGE 111

Little Poems in Prose

…ace attracted me at the first glance more than did that of anyone else. He had posed more than once for me, and I have turned him at one time into a little gipsy, at another into an angel, at an- other into a Cupid; I have made him carry the stroller’s violin, the Crown of Thorns and the Nails of Christ’s Passion, and the torch of Eros. I took finally so lively a pleasure in all the droll ways of the gutter snipe that one day I asked his parents—poor folk enough—to give him to me altogether, promising to clothe him well, to give him some money,…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 57

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…rosses over the Paten, the Cup and Himself. He strikes his breast. AU repeat this action.) Hear ye ail, saints of the true church of old time now essentially présent, that of ye we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye we claim bénédiction in the name of IAQ. (He mahes three crosses on Paten and Cup together. He uncovers the Cup, genuflectSy tahes the Cup in his left hand and the Host in his right. With the host he makes the five crosses on the Cup b) + i +3 +2 +5 +4 (He elevates the Host and the Cup.) (The Bell strikes.) Anos, An…

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1944 · PDF PAGE 110

The Book of Thoth

… but the number 4 lends it‐ self, not only to this rigid extension, the hard facts of nature, but also to the transcendence of space and time by a continuously self‐compensating change. The letter Tau is attributed to Saturn, the outermost and slowest of the seven sacred planets; because of these dull, heavy qualities, the element of earth was thrust upon the sym‐ bol. The original three elements, Fire, Air, Water, sufficed for primitive thought; Earth and

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1944 · PDF PAGE 248

The Book of Thoth

… that the divination has gone astray. 4. Count and pair as before. (Note that one cannot tell at what part of the divination the present time occurs. Usu‐ ally Op. I seems to indicate the past history of the question; but not always so. Experience will teach. Sometimes a new current of high help may show the moment of consultation. I may add that in material matters this method is extremely valuable. I have been able to work out the most complex problems in minute detail. O. M.).

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1954 · PDF PAGE 253

Magick Without Tears

…a Yogi Ever Be Worried? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. That question I have been expecting for a very long time! And what you expect is to see my middle stump break the wicket-keeper's nose, with the balls smartly fielded by Third Man and Short Leg! I admit that it looks like a strong case. Here (you put it in your more elegant prose) we have a Yogi, nay more, a Paramahamsa, a Bodhisattva of the best; yea, further, we have a Master of the Temple-and is not his Motto Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici? and yet we find him…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 163

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…o the above. Even as the bright coilsof the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. Iam: before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head: In me all skies and seas are shaken and cloven : All life and light and love about me shed Begotten in me, in my moving moven, Are as my tears: all worlds that ever swam As dew of kisses on my lips: I am. But thou, chief lover, in whose golden heart The melody and music lifts its pean, Wh…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 132

The Star in the West

… sunny realms of the higher self ; nor did he rest , but entranced in the immensity of hope , rushing on , whirling through the abyss of time and space , he ultimately lost self in the rapture of Nirvana . Again , in others so subtle is the psycho logy of sense that this hysterical clinging to the Chaste often reacts , hurling its unfortunate aspirant into the arms of Lubentina . The lust after God and the lust after man are near akin . A woman crossed in love and debarred from enjoying the sweet em braces of her lover , will embrace in his ste…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 107

Ambergris

…h Thy renown ! Approve my riddle ! This Thou canst not do. 17. O living Rose ! O dowered with subtle dew Of love, the tiny eternities of time, Caught between flying seconds, are well filled With these futilities of fragrant rime ; In Love’s retort distilled, In sunrays of fierce loathing purified, In moonrays of pure longing tried, And gathered after many moons of labour Into the compass of a single day, And wrought into continuous tune, One laughter with one languor for its neighbour, One thought of winter with one word of June, Muddled and mi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ack to Europe, found himself in London, where his first experience caused him to waver between eagerness and self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adven- ture which I related. A young widow horse-whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his salvation. IX THE HERMIT HE went to seek it in the wilderness. A cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. It proved very comfortable—and lonely. He pursued his education, often t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 45

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ack to Europe, found himself in London, where his first experience caused him to waver between eagerness and self-consciousness. At that time, he met with the adven- ture which I related. A young widow horse-whipped him. Lionel was still very far from his salvation. IX THE HERMIT HE went to seek it in the wilderness. A cottage green as a lizard, surrounded by flowers and trees, well furnished, well kept by a couple of servants, male and female, such was the chosen retreat. It proved very comfortable—and lonely. He pursued his education, often t…

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