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Page 77 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 66
…of his desire! 15. Ye shall be sad thereof. 16. Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all. 17. Fear not at all; fear neither men, nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 26
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…tions of the eternal dogma, so justly stigmatized by the pitiless genius of Voltaire! Voltaire and Napoleon died Catholics.1_ And do you know what the Catholicism of the future must be? It will be the dogma of the Gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of Voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the world, by the genius of the Christian Napoleon. Those who will not march will be dragged or trampled by events. Immense calamities may again hang over the world. The armies of the Apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. T…
1913 · PDF PAGE 493
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES they did not know how to employ it properly, and used it solely for fortune-telling. The game of chess, attributed to Palamedes, has no other origin than the Tarot, and one finds there the same combina- tions and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. In old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manceuvring the hieroglyphic characters acr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 579
…acres of his quarter. The good man consoled himself in the vein of Galileo, and answered them: “You may laugh as much as you like. All I know is, that the death certificate was signed and the burial licence made out; eighteen hours later they were going to bury me, and here I am.” CHAPTER III THE GRAND ARCANUM OF DEATH WE often become sad in thinking that the most beautiful life must finish, and the approach of the terrible Unknown that one calls death disgusts us with all the joys of existence. Why be born, if one must live so little? Why brin…
1916 · PDF PAGE 10
…kely not be understood. The word naked is not in the vocabulary of the fashionable dressmaker; besides which, the word is improper. We know that there are no such things! So that even if a dawning perception of the meaning of the prophet strikes the more enlightened minds, it is often put aside with a sort of horror; although that word has been awaited with yearning and anxiety. Now it must be confessed that this objection does to some extent apply to the writings which we have under consideration. Mr. Stuarts style is as difficult as Wagner…
1919 · PDF PAGE 331
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE the Universe as it is conceived by Those who know it; anda regular investigation of that book, and the companion vol- umes ordered in the Curriculum of the A..A.., fortified by steady persistence in practical personal exploration, will enable this Voice of the Silence to become a serious guide in some of the subtler obscurities which weigh upon the Eye- lids of the Seeker. 2. He who would hear the voice of Nada, the “Soundless Sound,” and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dhéarané (concentrated thought). The …
1907 · PDF PAGE 258
…ful doctrines of the older and simpler Qabalah . The Qabalah guides us to a divine theurgy . Ac cording to the Zohar it is impossible to know God , herein the Qabalah is Agnostic , it forbids the repre sentation of God , herein it is Rational . The Ain Soph is the “ All-pervading ,” the “ Non Ens ” dwelling in the “ Non Est , " it is inscrutable to man's mind ; this vast Pleroma , Corona Summa , The All , is formless , and is symbolized by a circle , it is Nothing. As the Ain Soph is the closed eye of the Unknown Darkness , so is Macroprosopus …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
E<r<7£ai àôàvaToç OeSç, 7.u^pozoçy oux tzi 0\>rjz6ç Pythagoras. “Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its Works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature j they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 166
…hing with the dissatisfaction that springs from insecurity. Men can adapt themselves to pretty well any conditions, but when they do not know from one day to another whether some fundamental principle may not be abolished in the interests of progress, they no longer know where they are. They tend to adopt the principles of the man who flits from one place to another, grabbing portable property and dodging creditors and policemen. Civilization has become a hysterical scramble for momentary material advantage. Thrift is senseless when one is thre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…d, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of knowledge— books, manuscripts, papyri—yet all these were lifeless; the currents of living water flowed not through them. Should one say that the master withheld initiation, or that the pupil failed to obtain it? “But at least time abated the monomania—for I know now that my whole adventure was but a very vivid dream, an insanity of adolescence. At this moment I would not like to say at what point exactly in th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…d, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of knowledge— books, manuscripts, papyri—yet all these were lifeless; the currents of living water flowed not through them. Should one say that the master withheld initiation, or that the pupil failed to obtain it? “But at least time abated the monomania—for I know now that my whole adventure was but a very vivid dream, an insanity of adolescence. At this moment I would not like to say at what point exactly in th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…clod is more interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was ever a pang to her, and yielding was only less terrible than denial? “On my small insistent beat have lain heads that were heavy with great dreams: men of action and men of fancy who loved her and were loved, it may be,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…clod is more interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was ever a pang to her, and yielding was only less terrible than denial? “On my small insistent beat have lain heads that were heavy with great dreams: men of action and men of fancy who loved her and were loved, it may be,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
…he pastilles of musk and ambergris. Then you lie upon the leopard's skin before the fire of sandalwood and read, and read. And you shall know strange devils; even, it may be, strange gods. 1911 e.v.
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
…e-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communicate with the seven genii of the planets, and make to speak at will the seventy-two wheels of Assiah, of Yetzirah, and of Briah. For that purpose it is sufficient to understand the system of universal analogies, such as Swedenborg has set it forth in the hieroglyphic key of the arcan…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
…no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence. One must still one’s dislikes, study duty, and begin by practising it as though one loved it. You are an unbeliever, and you wish to make yourself a Christian ? Perform the exercises of a Christian, pray regularly, using the Christian formule; approach the sacraments as if you had faith, and faith will come. That is the secret of the Jesuits, contained in the Spirit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
…e-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communicate with the seven genii of the planets, and make to speak at will the seventy-two wheels of Assiah, of Yetzirah, and of Briah. For that purpose it is sufficient to understand the system of universal analogies, such as Swedenborg has set it forth in the hieroglyphic key of the arcan…
1913 · PDF PAGE 575
…no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to keep silence. One must still one’s dislikes, study duty, and begin by practising it as though one loved it. You are an unbeliever, and you wish to make yourself a Christian ? Perform the exercises of a Christian, pray regularly, using the Christian formule; approach the sacraments as if you had faith, and faith will come. That is the secret of the Jesuits, contained in the Spirit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…, and admit them to possess inconceivable though not infinite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence every where, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of way s. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their tran…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
THE NEW WINE 241 with the Absolute . ” ] The two disputants , Scepticus and Mysticus , set out by agreeing that the unknow able is unreal , and as the latter says with Berkeley , a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by ") 2 us. ” When Scepticus asks Mysticus , • How old are you ? ” and receives the answer , “ I am but an ulti mate truth , six world -truths , fourteen grand general izations , eighty generalizations , sixty -two dilemmas , and the usual odd million impressions , " he is receiving a much more correct and scientific ans…