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…ears since he had heard the legend of the Gospels at his mother's knee. “ But there is news!” he added gaily. “ I'm going to show you my great discovery. I’ve found out how to make 96
…ears since he had heard the legend of the Gospels at his mother's knee. “ But there is news!” he added gaily. “ I'm going to show you my great discovery. I’ve found out how to make 96
… akin in nature to the Sun, and she may be considered an externalisation of his influence towards beauty and harmony. Venus is Isis, the Great Mother; Venus is Nature herself; Venus is the sum of all possibilities. The Niyama corresponding to Venus is one of the most important, and one of the most difficult of attainment. I said the sum of all possibilities, and I will ask you to go back in your minds to what I said before about the definition of the Great Work itself, the aim of the Yogi to consummate the marriage of all that he is with all th…
…e smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpose toward The blood of enemies, in horrid gouts And hideous fountains leaping from great gashes, Rather than that belovéd blood that wells Fervent and red-rose-wise in loving breasts, And little veins of purple in the arms, Or cheeks that are already flushed with it, To crimson them with the intense delight Of eyes that meet and know the spirit dwells Beyond their profound depth in sympathy. Nay, my delight must find some dearest foe, And cleave his body with a lusty stroke That sets the blo…
…ntheon, to breakfast on coffeeand brioche 36 and a peach. I shall try and describe Ritual DCLXXI ; since its nature is important to this great ceremony of initiation. Those who understand a little about the Path of the Wise may receive some hint of the method of operation of the L.V.X. And I think that a description will help me to collect myself for the proper adaptation of this Ritual to the purpose of Self-initiation. Oh, how soft is the air, and how serene the sky, to one who has passed through the black rule of Apophis! How infinitely music…
…limb the swayed ladder of our various fate ; The steep rude stair that mocks the heros might, Casts off the wise, and crumbles with the great. Yet from the highest crown no blossom fell, Save one, to bring salvation unto Hell. O angel of my spiritual desire ! O luminous master of the silver feet ! O passionate rose of infinite white fire ! O cross of sacrifice made bitter-sweet ! O wide-wing, star-brow, veritable lord ! O mystic bearer of the flaming sword ! O brows half seen, O visionary star Seen in the fragrant breezes of the East ! O lover…
…im. Now cometh a song. So sweet is this song that no one could resist it. For in it is all the passionate ache of the moonlight, and the great hunger of the sea, and the terror of desolate places,—all things that lure men to the unattainable. 163
…, and even, if my memory serves me, turned away her eyes; I do not know, I do not remember. What bizarre things does not one find in a great city when one knows how to walk about and how to look! Life swarms with innocent monsters. Oh Lord my God, Thou Creator, Thou Master, Thou who hast made law and lib-
… OR FOLLY 43 Ap De Auro Rubeo (Of the Red Gold) WOULD have thee to consider, o my son, that Word of Publius Vergilius Maro, that was the greatest of all the Magicians of his time: in medio tutissimus ibis. Which Thing has also been said by many wise Men in other Lands; and the Holy Qabalah confirmeth the same, placing Tipheret, which is the Man, and the Beauty and Harmony of Things, and Gold in the Kingdom of the Metals, and the Sun among the Planets, in the Midst of the Tree of Life. For the Centre is the Point of Balance of all Vectors. So th…
…exclusive use of the Foreign Office. It would, perhaps, be more sensible to suppose that the heads of the Order have really attained the greatest heights of spiritual knowledge and freedom, and it is quite possible that the best term to describe their attitude would be either Pantheistic or Gnostic. 7. These considerations should be of the greatest use to us now that we come to discuss in more detail the results of the Yoga practices. There is, it is true, a general similarity between the ecstatic outbursts of the great mystics all over the wor…
…he dead. And in a word, whatever was the habit of the body during life would be distinguish- able after death, either perfectly, or in a great measure and for a certain time. And I should imagine that this is equally true of the soul, Callicles; when a man is stripped of the body, all the natural or acquired affections of the soul are laid open to view.—PLaTo, Gorgias. 99
…very bad form of uncontrolled thought. I was on the edge 01 sleep; it woke me. The fact is, all is over! I am done! I have tried for the Great Initiation and I have failed; I am swept away into strange hells. Lord Adonai! let the fires be informing; let them “ balance, assain, assoil." I suppose this rash attempt will end in Locomotor Ataxia or G. P. I.
… enable the student to acquire the direct consciousness of God. [A.°.A.°. Publication in Class B.] THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OR KEYS, WITH THE GREAT WATCH-TOWERS OF THE UNIVERSE and their explana- tion. A complete treatise, fully illustrated, upon the Spirits of the Elements, their names and offices, with the method of calling them forth and controlling them. From the MSS. of Dr. Dee and Sir Epwarp Ketty. THE CONTINUATION OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING. A full account of the reception of Fra. P. into the Rosicrucian Order, with illustrations; and …
… enable the student to acquire the direct consciousness of God. [A.°.A.°. Publication in Class B.] THE ELEMENTAL CALLS OR KEYS, WITH THE GREAT WATCH-TOWERS OF THE UNIVERSE and their explana- tion. A complete treatise, fully illustrated, upon the Spirits of the Elements, their names and offices, with the method of calling them forth and controlling them. From the MSS. of Dr. Dee and Sir Epwarp Ketty. THE CONTINUATION OF THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING. A full account of the reception of Fra. P. into the Rosicrucian Order, with illustrations; and …
THE EQUINOX —any question is the great question—does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted Sceptic is too prone to think! Well, shall we define Him as a loving Father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy Ark? What does it matter? All these images are of wood and stone, the wood and stone of our own stupid brains! The Fatherhood of God is but a human type; the idea of a human father con- joined with the idea of immensity. Two for One again! No combination of thoughts can be greater than the think- ing brain itself;…
… of knowledge totally un- connected with geology, the life-history of the animals of whom that chalk is the remains? This then is a very great difficulty for the Magician. He cannot possibly have all experience, and though he may console himself philo- sophically with the reflection that the Universe is conterminous with such experience as he has, he will find it grow at such a pace during the'early years of his life that he may almost be tempted to believe in the possibility of experiences beyond his own, and from a practical standpoint he wil…
…mistress. She was a princes bastard. Beautiful, it goes without saying; without that, why should I have taken her? But she spoilt that great quality by an unbecoming and deformed ambi- tion. She was a woman who always wished to play a mans part:You are not a man; Oh, if only I were a man!of us two it is I who am the man. Such were the insupportable refrains that came ever from that mouth from which surely only songs should have flown. Talking of a book, or a poem, or an opera, for which I happened to express my admiration, You think
…eman whose Christian names were Thomas Henryyou may possibly have heard of himhe was no less a personage than the Grand- father of the great Aldous Huxleyonce found himself threatened by a predicament similar to that in which I stand tonight. He had been asked to lecture a distinguished group of people. What bothered him was this : what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience ? He adopted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game ; and was told You must do one of two things. You may …
… is sure to overtrain." The Austrians were totally unable to understand the workings of the native mind, as appeared very soon. It was a great mistake to bring them. The sixth member of the party was a Swiss ex-Army doctor named Guillarmod, who looked and behaved like Tartarin de Tarascon. He knew as little of mountains as he did of medicine, and proved a great source of {279} weakness, though his delightful geniality helped both the psychology of the party and our relations with the natives. He was our comic relief and did much to make things …
…Solomon, Abramelin, and other sages of repute. When a man has evoked and mastered such forces as Taphtartarath, Belial, Amaimon, and the great powers of the elements, then he may safely be permitted to begin to try to stop thinking. For, needless to say, the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker’s thought.