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Page 76 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 19
THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK This man performs great magic; very strong medicine. He does really find gold on the midden and skeletons in pretty girls. In Abiegnus the Sacred Mountain of the Rosicrucians the Postulant finds but a coffin in the central shrine; yet that coffin contains Christian Rosencreutz who is dead and is alive for evermore and hath the keys of Hell and of Death. Ay! your Tiphereth man, child of Mercy and Justice, looks deeper than the skin! But he seems a ridiculous object enough both to the Malkuth man and to the Kether ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…CXCVII.—TZhe High History of Good Sir Pala- medes the Savacen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast. A poetic account of the Great Work, and enumeration of many obstacles. Liser CCXLII.—4 x4 / An exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. x D 49
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…CXCVII.—TZhe High History of Good Sir Pala- medes the Savacen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast. A poetic account of the Great Work, and enumeration of many obstacles. Liser CCXLII.—4 x4 / An exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. x D 49
1919 · PDF PAGE 42
…XCVII. Tue Hicu History or Goon Sir Para- MEDES the Saracen Knight and of his following of the Quest- ing Beast. A poetic account of the Great Work, and enu- meration of many obstacles. Liser CCXLIT. Awa! An exposition in poetic lan- guage of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. Lizer CCCXXXV. Apnonis. This gives an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. Liser XVI. Lrper Turris VEL Domus Der. An…
1928 · PDF PAGE 113
…dreadful anguish; I must inform his parents. My feet refused to take to their door. At last I summoned up sufficient courage, but, to my great astonishment, the mother showed no emotion; not one tear oozed from the corner of her eye. I attributed this strangeness to the horror itself which she must be suffering; and I remembered the well-known apophthegm,
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
…irty Aethyrs and a model of ail visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept. The account of the Master of the Temple should in particular be taken as authentic. Equinox V, Spécial Supplément. Liber CDLXXIV. Os Abysmi vel Da’ath. An instruction in a purely intellectual method of entering the Abyss. Equinox VII, p. 77. Liber D. Sepher Sephiroth. A dictionary of Hebrew words arranged according to their 22…
1954 · PDF PAGE 378
…surmise, the injunction to "buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without haggling" is another way of putting the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price; a much better way. For the Pearl-buyer did think of equating the values, which is precisely what one must not do. That Egg is incommensurable with money. (Further, the saying teaches one to insist on perfection; the hen must not have one tinge of aught but black in any feather.) To begin, Economy does not mean thrift or cheeseparing. It means: the law of the house. In practice , one may say "manag…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
The Virgin “ T O be a singer of sweet songs , " is the great ideal Crowley has enshrined before him ; for varied as his powers are , entwined with satire , philosophy and mysticism , as a singer of lyrics and love -songs Aleister Crowley remains unsurpassed , unrivalled , among the host of present-day poets . His thoughts are as subtle , his imagination as gorgeous , his melodies as charming as those of Shelley himself ; soft as a summer breeze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic…
1912 · PDF PAGE 41
…ons without a thorough knowledge of the subject. Such knowledgehas not yet been published. However, one may safely assert that since the great men previously mentioned did not do this, it will not be necessary for their followers. Let us then choose a suitable position, and consider what happens. There is a sort of happy medium between rigidity and limpness; the muscles are not to be strained; and yet they are not allowed to be altogether slack. It is difficult to find a good descriptive word. Braced is perhaps the best. A sense of physical alert…
1912 · PDF PAGE 63
… A rather poor; yet a certain clarity of vision ofa white one like him of the 25th. April 28. A poor; bodily health imperfect still, yet great ח ;: 29, clarity of vision in the matter of the four quarters. Α.'. The same thing happens every time: the me- chanical part is kept easily, but I {all instantly into a dull reverie or even slumber. This has nothing pleasant or alluring; is curiously impersonal and bewildering. 30. A exactly the same as yesterday. Will repeat. (It has struck me—in connection with reading B1ake~that Aiwass, etc., “Force a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 89
…g third letter. (This letter is too long and personal to pub— lish in full; but it contains these words: “ How long have you been in the Great Order, and why did I not know? Is the invisibility of the A A to lower grades so complete?") In spite of his illness he managed to do some most formidable work during this December. There is, however, nothing further in the diary of interest to our present purpose. 47
1912 · PDF PAGE 63
… A rather poor; yet a certain clarity of vision ofa white one like him of the 25th. April 28. A poor; bodily health imperfect still, yet great ח ;: 29, clarity of vision in the matter of the four quarters. Α.'. The same thing happens every time: the me- chanical part is kept easily, but I {all instantly into a dull reverie or even slumber. This has nothing pleasant or alluring; is curiously impersonal and bewildering. 30. A exactly the same as yesterday. Will repeat. (It has struck me—in connection with reading B1ake~that Aiwass, etc., “Force a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 89
…g third letter. (This letter is too long and personal to pub— lish in full; but it contains these words: “ How long have you been in the Great Order, and why did I not know? Is the invisibility of the A A to lower grades so complete?") In spite of his illness he managed to do some most formidable work during this December. There is, however, nothing further in the diary of interest to our present purpose. 47
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
…an who practised for forty years to walk across the Ganges; and, having succeeded, was reproached by his Holy Guru, who said: "You are a great fool. All your neighbours have been crossing every day on a raft for two pice." This occurs to most, perhaps to all, of us in our careers. We spend infinite pains to learn something, to achieve something, which when gained does not seem worth even the utterance of the wish. But this is a wrong view to take. The discipHne necessary in order to learn Latin will stand us in good stead when we wish to do som…
1913 · PDF PAGE 74
62 exalted; nor can Their force, the force of Their great oaths, avail against the weakest oath of the most trivial of beginners. The attempt to interfere with the Magical Will of another person would be wicked, if it were not absurd. One may attempt to build up a Will when before nothing existed but a chaos of whims; but once organization has taken place it is sacred. As Blake says: "Everything that lives is holy"; and hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. It does not matter very much to the creator what it is that he creates…
1913 · PDF PAGE 319
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The great week of creation has been imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. Every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of God! Sublime dream which explains the mysteries of India, and justifies all symbolisms! The lofty conception of the man-God corresponds to the creation of Adam, and Christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. We wait for the worship of the brid…
1913 · PDF PAGE 535
…ights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV Great intellects whose wills are badly balanced are like comets which are aborted suns. Axiom XVI To do nothing is as fatal as to do evil, but it is more cowardly. The most unpardonable of mortal sins is inertia. 1 Meaning again the special “light” spoken of previously—TRANs, 237
1913 · PDF PAGE 319
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The great week of creation has been imitated by human genius, divining the forms of nature. Every day has furnished a new revelation, every new king of the world has been for a day the image and the incarnation of God! Sublime dream which explains the mysteries of India, and justifies all symbolisms! The lofty conception of the man-God corresponds to the creation of Adam, and Christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. We wait for the worship of the brid…
1913 · PDF PAGE 535
…ights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV Great intellects whose wills are badly balanced are like comets which are aborted suns. Axiom XVI To do nothing is as fatal as to do evil, but it is more cowardly. The most unpardonable of mortal sins is inertia. 1 Meaning again the special “light” spoken of previously—TRANs, 237
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…ve. The degradation of humanity has gone so far that marriage with a Canadian seems almost normal and natural. There is no mistaking the great advance made by Mr. Wilkinson upon his pre- vious novel, The Buffoon. In that work, there was, indeed, power and wit. But it was on the whole a pleasant book. There was plenty of comic relief—e.g., Powys’ duodenum. In A Chaste Man the author moves stately and terrible from peak to peak of tragedy. The book reminds us a little of James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, in this respect. With infinite ar…