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Page 79 of 811913 · PDF PAGE 610
…from the list which Frater Perdurabo calls “ Pro and Con Tents”: ‘The Sabbath of the Goat, e Hintoc,” (a note explains that this means ‘ Holy Illuminated Man of God”), “ Corn Beef Hash,” Trouble with Twins,” Skidoo,” Haggai-H. ‘ «Blind Pig” (a note explains thay = PG = Pig without an nd Pig). Many’of the other titles are no less prom Here, however, is the chapter called “Skidoo.” ing. “SKIDOO.” “Wide is the world fand cold.’ “What man is at ease in his Ton?”—“ Get out’ n tiate.""—"' Get out.” —" But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…from the list which Frater Perdurabo calls “ Pro and Con Tents”: ‘The Sabbath of the Goat, e Hintoc,” (a note explains that this means ‘ Holy Illuminated Man of God”), “ Corn Beef Hash,” Trouble with Twins,” Skidoo,” Haggai-H. ‘ «Blind Pig” (a note explains thay = PG = Pig without an nd Pig). Many’of the other titles are no less prom Here, however, is the chapter called “Skidoo.” ing. “SKIDOO.” “Wide is the world fand cold.’ “What man is at ease in his Ton?”—“ Get out’ n tiate.""—"' Get out.” —" But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
…bject -- waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life—and this constant recollection ‘and keeping in mind of holy things, is the Seventh Stage, Sammasati. And by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the Eight High Trances to the very threshold of Nirvana, he at last, in the Trance called Nirodha Samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the Deathless Shore of Nirvana, by the power of Sammasamadhi, Right Concentration. Such a one has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of li…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
… for the sect is characterized by refusal to compromise; it insists on the literal interpretation of the Bible as the exact words of the Holy Ghost5. He married (in 1874, one may assume) Emily Bertha Bishop, of a Devon and Somerset family. Her father had died and her brother Tom Bond Bishop had come to London to work in the Civil Service. The important points about the woman are that her schoolmates called her "the little {35} 1. "the younger" (1834-87). 2. It has been remarked a strange coincidence that one small county should have given Engla…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…is the message? What shall I teach men? And like lightning from heaven fell upon him these words: "THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSATION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL." So again we read (in the diary) on February 11th: "Made many resolutions of a G. R. (Great Retirement). In dream flew to me an angel, bearing an ankh, to comfort me." We may now transcribe the diary. We find the great mind, the complex man, purged through and through of thought, stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one single aspiration, as simple as the love of a child f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…th lays of Buddhist bard, Maiden with ways and bays of mirth, And music—is the saying hard? Shall ‘‘ Cryptic Coptic ” block the birth Of holy ecstasy? Forbid, Ye Gods, forbid! Posed block, you fail Of bulging heart by drooping lid. Can you not serve as finger-nail?
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
13 1. That is, for those not initiated into the Magical Tradition and the Holy Cabbala --- the Children's table from which Freud and Weininger ate of a few crumbs that fell. 2. It should be added that the apparently masochistic stigmata disappeared entirely at puberty; their relics are observable only when he is depressed physically. That is, they are wholly symptoms of physiological malaise. 3 When Alick was about six years old his father moved from Leamington to Redhill, Surrey. There was some reason connected with a gravel soil and country l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
… Scipio, and a Julian, nothing would have occurred; but there was only the last, and he too late. No doubt Maximus, his teacher, was too holy an Adept to mingle in the affairs of the world; one indeed, verhaps; about to pass over to a higher sphere of aclion: such speculation is idle and im- pertinent; but the world was ruined, as never before since the fabled destruction of Atlantis, andI trust that I shall take my readers with me when I affirm so proud a belief in the might of the heart whose in- tegrity is unassailable, clean of all crime, t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…king that merely to touch in brevity The topics I dwell on were unlawful— Or worse, that I trench with undue levity On the bounds of the holy and the awful— I praise the heart and pity the head of him, And refer myself to Thee, instead of him, Who head and heart alike discernest, Looking below light speech we utter Where frothy spume and frequent splutter Prove that the soul’s depths boil in earnest !”’ But.I have after all little fear that I am seriously wrong. That I show to my critics the open door of the above city of refuge may be taken as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 340
…undings and from all internal interference. I should thus be either invisible to the sentinels, or, if observed by them, recognized as a holy man whose religious exercises it would be an outrage to disturb. I need hardly say that the thing must be done properly. To attempt to fake anything of the sort would be a fatal error. The psychic sensitiveness of the Arab would detect it at once; he would suspect a bad motive, put one down as a blasphemer and cut one down with unhesitating cheerfulness. And serve one right! In this way I passed the senti…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
…he symbolism of male and female is carried on still further by the weapons of the King and Queen; he bears the Sacred Lance, and she the Holy Grail; their other hands are joined, as consenting to the Marriage. Their weapons are supported by twin children, whose positions are counterchanged; for the white child not only holds the Cup, but carries roses, while the black child, holding his father’s Lance, carries also the club, an equivalent symbol. At the bottom of the whole is the result of the Marriage in primitive and pantomorphic form; it is …
1904 · PDF PAGE 123
…ne object—waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life—and this constant recollection and keeping in mind of holy things, is the Seventh Stage, Sammasati. And by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the Eight High Trances to the very threshold of Nirvana, he at last, in the Trance called Nirodha Samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the Deathless Shore of Nirvana, by the power of Sammasamadhi, Right Concentration. Such a one has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of li…
1929 · PDF PAGE 207
…iness. I have never felt thus. To me the least of human beings, nay, less than they, have a place in my heart. "Everything that lives is holy." I can hardly bring myself to resent even the vilest and most offensive creatures. I have never been able to bear malice; I have never been able to understand how other people can do so. When I have been attacked, I have always looked at {349} 1. This amiable and worthy colonist occupied a studio on the Quai des Grands Augustins (now, I suppose, called Quai Maréchal Fous-le-Camp), most conveniently situa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…hapel but an elder, in the little meeting in the squire's morning-room he was no less than the minister of God and the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost; just as on the other hand it was only natural that the orders from the Hall should come his way and leave the first-best butcher lamenting and the second-best bewildered. So that in my time the sect (though it is only fair to point out that they refused to be described as a sect, since what they had done was not to form a new sect, but to "Come out of Sect" --- this they maintained in spite of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 367
…. I quote verbatim my Magical Record: I was putting on my bath-robe after weighing, and turning a sleeve inside out, when my masseur, an holy man positively trembling on the brink of Arahatship, cried to me that both sides of it were inside, and both outside. I replied humbly that I was seeking for a side that neither inside nor outside --- and then like a flash I saw that I had it! Oh Glory Ineffable of Realization! (Oh Right Thinking!) For either side is both inside and outside because I can use it as such, and it is neither inside nor outsid…
1929 · PDF PAGE 555
…cess. My own joy was boundless. I was inspired to prepare a perfected ritual for the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and presented him with a copy of the manuscript for use in his operation. I entitled it Liber Samekh. It is the most powerful and exalted of all my magical instructions. I think he was helped not a little, not only by the ritual itself, but by the feeling that I had sufficient care for him --- he suffered from humility --- to devote myself so passionately to making his path plain. One resu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 493
…eth corresponds to the grade of initiation on the Threshold of the Order of R. R. et A. C., and to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It therefore marks a critically important stage in initiation. Only one other is equally {777} cardinal: the grade of Master of the Temple, which is the Threshold of the Order of the A.'. A.'.. I have called the vision corresponding to this the "Vision of Wonder" which permeates one's daily life in a similar way. The difference is that penetrating beyond sensory perceptions, one is aware o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 322
… after all this, as I was yesterday. Is this a proof that all is Right Magick, or that little force was expended? Where am I, in fact? O Holy Exalted One, do Thou illuminate my mind! {524} 59 I left Shanghai on the twenty-first of April. On the twenty-second I was sick and stayed in bed all day. I did no regular invocation, but thought over the recent crisis. I dismissed the Shanghai experience as a morbid dream. Reading through the above record at this distance of time, after deliberately avoiding doing so for so long, I feel very uncertain ab…
1929 · PDF PAGE 424
… Plane. Having cleansed and renewed his mental faculties in this way, he resumes his aspiration to the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, with whose reappearance he perfects his Magical Powers so that he is ready to undertake the Work of annihilating the universe, which, being done, he becomes a full Master of the Temple. LIBER DLV. This is a paraphrase of the instructions given in The book of the Law for attaining Hadit. LIBER DCCCXXXI, The Book of Vesta. This book describes three main methods of reducing the multiplicity o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 385
… MAKHASHANAH." I immediately discredited him; because I knew that the word of the Aeon was, on the contrary, ABRAHADABRA. Inquiry by the Holy Cabbala then showed me that the two words had the same numerical value, 418. The apparent blunder was thus an absolute proof that the Angel was right. Had he told me that the word was ABRAHADABRA, I should have thought nothing of it, arguing that my imagination might have put the words in his mouth. Let me illustrate the strength of such proof by material analogy. Suppose I receive a telegram, signed Jobs…