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Page 76 of 1121954 · PDF PAGE 20
… this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand. The novelist Philip Wylie, many years ago earned a reputation for himself by the writing of a book entitled A Generation of Vipers in which he excoriated mothers and motherhood. This was one of many books denouncing so-called mother love, laying down the propositio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…sential parts, and on Eckenstein pointing out the uselessness of making observations of this kind, the reply was, "Yes, I know, but it's good enough for the Royal Geographical Society." Anything of this sort roused Eckenstein to a pitch of indescribably violent rage. I could not have had a better teacher in matters of conscience. He taught me thoroughness and accuracy in every department of the game. It illustrate one point. I had considered myself a very good glissader, and as compared with the other people whom I met on the mountain side, eve…
1910 · PDF PAGE 318
…l, and your two other senses are all right. What you miss, it’s the colour of things. I cannot explain it to you, and it would do you no good if I did. Your compensation is that you do not see that which is ugly, ugly like old Ivan Semenovich, and also that you hear and’ feel and smell with more accuracy than we do. Of course, it is nice to see as well, and I will pray Christ for you, especially if you can give mea few coppers with which to buy tapers. You must have plenty of them; people seem to give you very freely.” Thus the tiresome brute, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 318
…l, and your two other senses are all right. What you miss, it’s the colour of things. I cannot explain it to you, and it would do you no good if I did. Your compensation is that you do not see that which is ugly, ugly like old Ivan Semenovich, and also that you hear and’ feel and smell with more accuracy than we do. Of course, it is nice to see as well, and I will pray Christ for you, especially if you can give mea few coppers with which to buy tapers. You must have plenty of them; people seem to give you very freely.” Thus the tiresome brute, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 74
…an immense distance from reality. A concealed chain of interpretation linked the truth with the obvious commonplace fact that this was a good time to go across to Montmartre and make a night of it. We dressed to go out with, I imagine, the very sort of feeling as a newly made bishop would have the first time he puts on his vestments. But none of this would have been intelligible to, or suspected by, anybody who had seen us. We laughed and sang and interchanged gay nothings while we dressed. When we went downstairs, we felt like gods descending …
1922 · PDF PAGE 285
… ; and yet he was a comparatively poor man. Of course, the explanation was perfectly simple. He really understood and really appreciated good tobacco, and preferred to indulge in cigars disproportion- ately. It was the man’s own business what he smoked; and yet he had managed to get himself an absolutely bad name in London on that one trait alone. People felt that it was monstrous for him to dine on a mutton
1954 · PDF PAGE 526
… writers; these latter are very practical and technical, but one really needs to be a Hindu to make much use of them. The former is very good indeed, if you remember to switch off when he slides into sloppiness, which luckily is not often. To study Magick: Book 4. Parts II, III (Magick in Theory and Practice) and IV (The Equinox of the Gods). Add The Book of Thoth and there you are: Being furnished with complete armour and armed. he is similar to the Goddess. Of other writers, you have The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, and any…
1954 · PDF PAGE 16
PREFACE xv Leadbeater (though his name is more than hinted at), a follower who is not and never was a member of a lodge in good standing working under a Grand Lodge of Free and A c c e pte d Masons. The Sanctuary must be purged . ... He is not even a free man, but the hired tool of a woman. ... This woman-pollution to that pure word/-comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S. . .. This is the secret object of the attempt to hold the election of S. G.M. G. without due notice, to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 308
…minating! One can't use the word as an ordinary noun . Skeat doesn't even label it as such. One can hardly say: Mr. Blenkinsop's self is good, or rheumatic, or gone for a walk. It makes nonsense . Yet Philosophy has picked out this hapless Tetragrammaton, and made endless mud pies with it! When one says: "I fell and hurt myself," it's only a conventional abbreviation. One means "my nose," or "my elbow," as the case may be! No, I can't conscientiously admit it as a noun. More accurately: "my body fell, and I am suffering from the injury thereby …
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…o be the mockery of God; in savagery oj love and death live thou and die! Thus shall His laughter be thrilled through with Ecstasy. Very good! Now where were we? in the 'blitz'? Oh, yes! No sense in scuffling or slinking or skulking: so one decide! to take no notice so far as practical action is concerned. So, the noise making work rather difficult, one lies down in Shavasana (the "Corpse-Position"-flat on the back, arm! by sides, everything relaxed) or the Templar (Sleep oj Siloam) position, which is that of the Hanged Man in Tarot. One then i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 193
…fines of Space! * And bx = xd, No, the Negative. + The nearest computation to four places of decimals is 3.1416 (3.14156). But 3.1415 is good enough for the benighted Hebrews.—P. In the sublime Computations of the Qabalah the Final Forms of letters have no increased numerical value. Mein is 40, whether final or not. The 183
1909 · PDF PAGE 193
…fines of Space! * And bx = xd, No, the Negative. + The nearest computation to four places of decimals is 3.1416 (3.14156). But 3.1415 is good enough for the benighted Hebrews.—P. In the sublime Computations of the Qabalah the Final Forms of letters have no increased numerical value. Mein is 40, whether final or not. The 183
1919 · PDF PAGE 405
… that Hindu Yogis, however emi- nent, are not Arhats.) He said that the rules laid down for Bhikkhus created the conditions necessary. A good Bhik- khu, with no spiritual experience, had at least some chance, whereas the bad Bhikkhu or Non-Bhikkhu, although every 83
1954 · PDF PAGE 291
…; it is in fact the Stele of 666; for it is the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu , my name in those past days. Oh no! said Something, that's not good enough! "Count well its name"-the Stele of Ankh-f-n-khonsu: a name is something to which it answers, quite different from a title. That solution is clever, but it just won't do, because that Stele never had a name! You lie! I shouted, as the full light broke through the mists of my mind; in these three thousand years it has once, if only once, had a name by invoking which you could bring it up before you;…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
520 Golden Dawn, Order of The, (G :. D:.), 380, 427, 453 Golden Hawk, 191 Good and Evil, 54 Gordian Knot, 203 Grant, Gregor, 357 Great Work, 1,2,5,7,21,129, 133, 136, 140, 143, 221, 222, 225, 287, 297, 311, 318, 334, 336, 351, 376, 391, 394, 429, 440, 444, 471,483,492,503 Great Work "a tea party", 7 Greene, Grahame, 294 Guernica, 305 Gunas,12 Guru, 22, 287, 393 Hadit, 247, 249, 297 Haeckel, Ernst, 55, 199 Hammurabi, 53 Hanuman, 24, 466 Hardy, Thomas, 451 Harpocrates, 145, 153 Haseltine, Philip, 156 Hatha Yoga, 187,310 Hathor, 281 Hawk, Golden, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 104
…1 a circumstance which gives room for a fractional am ount of freewill. If this be not so, it m atters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there. We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this be so, nothing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must ap- pear), then our reason is valid, and we should seek out the right path and pursue it. The question therefore need not trouble us at all. Here then we see the use of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 302
…poke of knowledge , life and bliss. He taught me this , he taught me that , He grew me mangoes in his hat . I brought him corn : he made good grist of it : And here , my Christian friend , 's the gist of it ! " In “ Science and Buddhism ” there is a vivid de scription of Pratyâhâra : The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance - box , and his eye on the spot of light of a galvano meter , charged with the duty of keeping the spot still , at least , that it should n…
1922 · PDF PAGE 58
… and walked all over everybody because they were too ignorant to realise the difficulties in their way. They were taught that if one had good blood in one’s veins, and a public school and university training to habituate one to being a lord of creation, and to the feeling that
1954 · PDF PAGE 87
… orthodox theology; so we have Ormuzd and Ahriman, the Devas and the Asuras, Osiris and Set, et cetera and da capo, personifications of "Good" and "Evil." The foes may be fairly matched; but more often the tale tells of a revolt in heaven. In this case, "Evil" is temporary; soon, especially with the financial help of the devout , the "devil" will be "cast into the Bottomless Pit" and "the Saints will reign with Christ in glory for ever and ever, Amen!" Often a "redeemer," a "dying God," is needed to secure victory to Omnipotence; and this is us…
1929 · PDF PAGE 370
370 It was part of my plan for The Equinox to prepare a final edition of the work of Dr. Dee an Sir Edward Kelly. I had a good many of the data and promised myself to complete them by studying the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford --- which, incidentally, I did in the autumn --- but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, I had the conveniences…