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Page 78 of 811904 · PDF PAGE 94
…, who are one. Once is a oneness : twice is the Name: thrice let us say not : by four is the S on : by five is the Sword : by six is the Holy Oil of the most Excellent B eard, and the leaves of the Book are by six : by seven is that great Amen.” Then our Father saw one hundred and four horses that drove an ivory car over a sea of pearl, and they received him therein and bade him be comforted. With that he awoke and saw that he would have all his desi re. In the m orning therefore he arose and went his way into the desert. There he clomb an high…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…there, it is not fitting that I, the poor fool who loved him, shall now dis- course. But it is most necessary that I should speak of his holy death and of his funeral and of the bruit thereof, for that is gone into diverse lands as a false and ly ing report, whereby much harm and ill-luck com e to the Brethren. In this place, therefore, will I set down the exact truth of all that happened. In the year of the Great Passing Over were signs and wonders seen of all men, O m y Brethren, as it is written, and well known unto this day. And the first s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
… father of Gautama Buddha was said to be an elephant with six tusks, appearing to his mother in a dream. There is also the legend of the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, impregnating the Vir‐ gin Mary. There is here a reference to the dove of Noah’s Ark, bringing glad tidings of the sal‐ vation of the world from the waters. (The dwellers in the Ark are the foetus, the waters the amniotic fluid.) Similar fables are to be found in every religion of the Aeon of Osiris: it is the typical formula of the Dying God. In this card, therefore, appears t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…en suddenly the crystal grew a blank; and thereby the foiled wizard knew that which threatened his power, his very life, was so high and holy that the evil spirit could perceive it not. ‘Avaunt?’ he shrieked, ‘false soul of darkness!’ And the crystal flashed up red, the swarthy red of hate in a man’s cheek, and darkened utterly. ‘Foaming at the mouth the wretched Jeh- jaour clutched at air and fell prone. Hil. ‘‘To what God should he appeal? own, Hanuman, was silent. Sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. So Jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 269
…is 4 ; that of contradiction, 4 is not mof-A ; and 1 This is the invariable invocation used. by the pious Hindu before any meditation or holy conference.
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…tailed account. The universe was created by God 4004 B.C. The Bible, authorized version, was literally true, having been dictated by the Holy Ghost himself to scribes incapable of even clerical errors. King James' translators enjoyed an equal immunity. It was considered unusual --- and therefore in doubtful taste --- to appeal to the original texts. All other versions were regarded as inferior; the Revised Version in particular savoured of heresy. John Nelson Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren, being a very famous biblical scholar, had…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…laws, all powers Divine, demanding that I, even I, be chosen to do such a work as he has done, at all costs to myself. And I record this holy aspiration in the presence of the Divine Light, that it may stand as my witness. In Saecula Saeculorum. Amen! A further complication had suddenly arisen. In Mathers' fatal letter to Mrs. Emery, he wrote that Sapiens Dominabitur Astris was not dead after all; but in Paris, working with him at that very moment. But when I arrived in Paris, Mathers had been rudely undeceived. The woman who claimed to be Sapi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…hers, are two, being four. And on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever! Nay, not for ever!), and therewith the Teacher made him a Master of the Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. For the Sword, said the Teacher, is but the Star unfurled.2 And our Father being cunning to place Aleph over Ta…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…n upon, the wheel; yet hast thou uncovered the nakedness of 1These are the Paths forming a Current 1‐2‐6‐8‐9‐10 on the Tree of Life. the Holy One, and the Queen of Heaven is in travail of child, and his name shall be called Vir, and Vis, and Virus, and Virtus, and Viridis, in one name that is all these, and above all these.1 * * * The following excerpt from Liber Aleph, the Book of Wisdom or Folly, may also help to eluci‐ date the meaning of this card. “Tahuti, or Thoth, confirmed the Word of Dionysus by continuing it; for He shewed how by the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…the Magnum Opus which is glyphed in the mystic aphorism ‘‘ Solve !” enables.an Adept of that standing to see nothing but pure symbol and holy counsel in the no grosser legends of the Greeks. This is not a matter of choice: reason forbids us to take the Swan-lover in its literal silliness and obscenity; but, on the other hand, the Bishops will not allow us to attach a pure interpretation to the precisely similar story of the Dove.} So far am JI, indeed, from attacking Christian symbolism as such, that I am quite prepared to admit that it is, alt…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… to shine before men that they may glorify my Father which is in Heaven. Furthermore, I most solemnly promise and swear: to acquire this Holy Science in the manner prescribed in the Book of Abra-Melin, without omitting the least imaginable thing of its contents; not to gloss or comment in any way on that which may be or may not be, not to use this Sacred Science to offend the Great God, not to work ill unto my neighbour: to communicate it to no living person, unless by long practice and conversation I shall know him thoroughly, well examining w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…uch violence should be used against oneself in order to attain that passive state? And, of course, to shut out all rivals? Help me, thou Holy One, even in this; for all my strength is weak as water, and I am but a dog. Help me. O self-glittering one! {528} 1. I am almost sure, on reflection, that it was on the return from Kangchenjunga. draw nigh to me in sleep and in waking, and let me ever be as a wise virgin and expect thy coming with a lamp of oil of holiness and beauty! Hail, beautiful and strong one! I desire thy kisses more than life or …
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…en suddenly the crystal grew a blank; and thereby the foiled wizard knew that which threatened his power, his very life, was so high and holy that the evil spirit could perceive it not. ‘Avaunt !’ he shrieked, ‘false soul of darkness !’ And the crystal flashed up red, the swarthy red of hate in a man’s cheek, and darkened utterly. “Foaming at the fouth the wretched J eh- jaour clutched at air and fell prone. III. “To what God should he appeal? His own, Hanuman, was silent. Sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. So Jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
…f. Alhamdolillah ! For there are four letters in Allah g\Jt. A for Ab--Father, L for Lovos—double, for he is both God and man, and H for Holy Ghost. S. The language of your Notariqon is tripartite too! On point (1) though, ’twas but by a slip. I fell: I was not pushed. Can you controvert my second defence? M. It isnot a defence at all. It is a trick to lure me away from the question. I admit that there is such a line, and that it does not exist—but might it not xegatively subsist, in the Ain, as it were? Further, whether it is or is not a conce…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
… a canoe, chiefly in the reach under the wier by Boulter's Lock. .............Choose tenderly A place for thine Academy. Let there be an holy wood Of embowered solitude By the still, the rainless river, {608}
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…g whatever to the name of Jesus --- which they profess to adore more intelligently than the mob because it represents the descent of the Holy Spirit into the midst of that tremendous name of God which only occurs in {704} their ritual because of its power to annihilate the universe if pronounced correctly1. The intelligence of the average mason may be gauged by the following quotation from the R.A.M. degree. The twentieth century! --- and such stuff is solemnly offered as instruction to grown men! Some have doubted whether the Ark was capable o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
…s, are two, being four. And on the sixt h day (for the seven day s were past) he rose and came into his ancient tem ple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever ! Nay, not for ever !), and therewith the Teacher m ade him a master of Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. F or the S word, s aid the Teacher, is but the S tar unfurled. 2 And our Father being cunning to place Ale ph ov…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
…es nor any disgrace can drive you out before the end.” ‘*the season of Easter. . . . Then first on the following day... I commenced this Holy
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…t will come to thee of its own.accord, and thou wilt voluntarily shun the commerce and conversa- tion of men, &c,” ‘‘a good death in His holy Kingdom.” the Father of Lights,’? suggests an actual phrase perhaps used as an exclamation at the Note the extreme | moment of a Vision to express, however feebly, anxiety which he displays. What lesser matter its nature, rather than the phrase of a reasoner could so have stirred the placid and angelic exercising his reason. soul of Berkeley? On what he urges upon his brother? less urgent, grounds would h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 451
…, pathetic. The event has more than justified my vision. I have no detailed knowledge of politics;, but, just as my essay, "The Heart of Holy Russia", told the inmost truth without even superficial knowledge of the facts which were its symptoms, so I possess an immediate intuition of the of the state of a