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Page 78 of 781906 · PDF PAGE 211
…mes of Shiva and of Devi! Christian in disguise! Thou shalt be reborn in the lowest Avitchi! Fast! Walk! Wake! these are the keys of the King- dom! Peace be with thy Beard! Aum!” This sort of talk did me good: I hope it may do as much for you. 63. With eyes wellfixed on my proboscis, 5— See Bhagavad-Gita, Atmasamyamyog. 67. Brahma-charya.'*—Right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. Baccy.“—A poisonous plant used by nicotomaniacs in their orgies and debauches. ‘“The filthy tobacco habit,” says ‘‘ Elijah the Restorer” o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…and I applied myself with characteristic vigour to its practice. As my father had been accustomed to drink wine, I could not see how drinking could be a sin. There was, therefore, no object in doing it. I never touched wine until I got to Trinity and I have never felt the smallest temptation to excess. My father had, however, not been a smoker, saying that if God had intended men to smoke He would have supplied a chimney at the top of the head2. I had no hesitation, therefore in making a great point of smoking. I had no thought of connecting th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 298
…to keep the fire from spreading seemed to dance in front of the flickering flames gigantically. It was a sort of opium dream of hell. Talking of opium, I purchased the necessary apparatus and began to learn to smoke. I have already described the fiasco with laudanum in Kandy, and somewhere in Burma I had made an equally futile experiment with powered opium, taking thirty grains or so with no greater profit than making myself suddenly and painlessly sick. I found smoking the drug equally unavailing. I smoked twenty- five pipes in five hours with…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
… Shiva and of Devi ! Christian in disguise ! Thou shalt be reborn in the low est Avitch ! Fast ! Walk ! Wake ! these are the keys of the King- dom ! Peace be with thy Beard ! Aum !” This sort of talk did me much good : I hope it may do as much for you. 63. With eyes well fixed on my proboscis.15— See Bhagavad-Gita, Atmasamyamyog. 67. Brahma-charya.16—Right conduct, and in particular, chastity in the highest sense. 72. Baccy.17—A poisonous plant used by nicotomanics in their orgies and debauches. “The filthy tobacco habit,” says “Elijah the Rest…
1929 · PDF PAGE 540
…nmost conviction of each one of us that he is the centre of the cosmos. Previous prophets have invariably tried to dodge this truth as making all social systems impossible. Now, for the first time, we can build practically every variety of social structure on this fact. All laws, customs and co-operative efforts can be constructed by the application of this principle for the conditions of environment. And all such structures will be stable, being free from the flaw which has been the bane of all previous systems. The theocracies of antiquity br…
1929 · PDF PAGE 472
…of Thoth, the god of wisdom; and, whether or no he was a Polish Jew, Germany had possessed sufficient intelligence to profit by the thwackings that he gave her. Yes, I was almost convinced that the German directorate had decided to allow British hypocrisy and stupidity to win their battles for them by making themselves absurd and obscene in the eyes of all sensible people. One day, I think early in 1915. I was seated on the top of what the American purists calls a stage, and we a bus. This vehicle was proceeding (or attempting to proceed) up Fi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…lema pursue a policy exactly contrary. We resist temptations through the moral strength and the enlightening experience which comes of making a series of systematic experiments with divers iniquities. A Few trials soon teach us that wrongdoing does not pay. We find also that as soon as the arbitrary penalties of misconduct, which society adds to the automatic reaction, are removed, and we do all in our power to mitigate the evil effects, the sting of the serpent loses its virus. It is an old saying that one sin provokes another. This is only tr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 245
…to the prescription given in chapter III, verses 23-9. We had resumed Magical work, in a desultory way, on finding that Mathers was attacking us. He succeeded in killing most of the dogs. (At this time I kept a pack of bloodhounds and went man- hunting over the moors.) The servants too were constantly being made ill, one in one way, and one in another. We therefore employed the appropriate talismans from The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin against him, evoking Beelzebub and his forty-nine servitors. Rose had suddenly acquired the power o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
… me one of the best stories he ever wrote, "The Magic Glasses". Fuller had contributed a gargantuan preface to The Temple of Solomon the King (the title of the story of my magical career), a series of sublimely eloquent rhapsodies descriptive of the various possible attitudes towards existence. There were three important instructions in Magick; the best poem of its kind that I had so far written, "The Wizard Way"; "At the Fork of the Roads", a true and fascinating story of one of my early magical experiences; The Soldier and the Hunchback ! and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 498
… 1,000 volumes, sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. A few selected items below. THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING: (Clavicula Salomonis), translated and edited from Ancient MSS. in the British Museum, by S. Lippett MacGrecor Matuers, author of “The Kabbalah Unveiled,” “The Tarot,” etc. With plates. Crown 4to, cloth. 215. net. ‘he Key of Solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for Talismanic and Ceremonial Magic, as well as for performing various Evocations; and it is therefore invaluable to any student wh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 498
… 1,000 volumes, sent post free on receipt of name and address, and all future issues. A few selected items below. THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING: (Clavicula Salomonis), translated and edited from Ancient MSS. in the British Museum, by S. Lippett MacGrecor Matuers, author of “The Kabbalah Unveiled,” “The Tarot,” etc. With plates. Crown 4to, cloth. 215. net. ‘he Key of Solomon gives full, clear, and concise instructions for Talismanic and Ceremonial Magic, as well as for performing various Evocations; and it is therefore invaluable to any student wh…
1911 · PDF PAGE 308
…lled; (¢) Composite Rituals; (d) The Rituals of Black Magic ; (e) The descending Hierarchy of Spirits; (7) The Léscer Key of Solomon the King ;(g) The Mystery of the Sanctum Regnum; (2) The Rite of Lucie tuge.: (é) The Method of Honorius, etc.y etc., etc. ‘The main objects of the work’ are? (1) ‘To determine the connection, if any, between the literature of CEREMONIAL Masic anv THe SecreT TravitioN IN CuxistiAN Tistss; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least, as the texts are concerned…
1911 · PDF PAGE 308
…lled; (¢) Composite Rituals; (d) The Rituals of Black Magic ; (e) The descending Hierarchy of Spirits; (7) The Léscer Key of Solomon the King ;(g) The Mystery of the Sanctum Regnum; (2) The Rite of Lucie tuge.: (é) The Method of Honorius, etc.y etc., etc. ‘The main objects of the work’ are? (1) ‘To determine the connection, if any, between the literature of CEREMONIAL Masic anv THe SecreT TravitioN IN CuxistiAN Tistss; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least, as the texts are concerned…
1912 · PDF PAGE 423
…lled; (¢) Composite Rituals; (4) The Rivals of Black Magic: («) The descending Hierarchy of Spirits ; (/) ‘The Lesser Key of Solomon the King’ (¢) The Mystery of the Sanctum Regnum; (i) The Rite of @) The Method of Honorius, etc., etc., ete. “objects of the work are: (x) To determine the connection, if any, between the literature of CERRMONIAL Macic ann tH Secret Trapition IN Curistian Tintes; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least as the texts are concerned. The work is issued in cro…
1912 · PDF PAGE 423
…lled; (¢) Composite Rituals; (4) The Rivals of Black Magic: («) The descending Hierarchy of Spirits ; (/) ‘The Lesser Key of Solomon the King’ (¢) The Mystery of the Sanctum Regnum; (i) The Rite of @) The Method of Honorius, etc., etc., ete. “objects of the work are: (x) To determine the connection, if any, between the literature of CERRMONIAL Macic ann tH Secret Trapition IN Curistian Tintes; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least as the texts are concerned. The work is issued in cro…