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Page 80 of 1731912 · PDF PAGE 8
…rmation, assistance, further inter- pretation, etc, are requested to communicate with THE CHANCELLOR OF THE Α.“. A.". c/o ΤΗΕ ΕρυΙΝοΧ, 3 Great James Street, W.C. Telephone : CITY 8987, or to call at that address by appointment. A representative will be there to meet them. THE Chancellor of the A A considers it desirable to make a brief statement of the financial position, as the time has now arrived to make an effort to spread the knowledge to the ends of the earth. The expenses of the propaganda are roughly estimated as follows— Maintenance of …
1912 · PDF PAGE 326
…K. pn p-339] δ᾽"הלל ?ש A door post?החומ A beating, striking?הכמ [Vide κυ. Lex. p. 563]?ןהב The Mystic Number of the Qliphoth, and of the Great Work‘ Σ (ι- 1 !( Food, victuals?הלכא The Lord thycop (is a con-?ןיהלא suming Fire). [Deut. iv. 24] A ship A trial, an experiment ה`גא ]והב Awheel. [Called "Cognomen?לגלג Schechinae"] A City of Edom?הנהת ΒΖ 65 66
1912 · PDF PAGE 8
…rmation, assistance, further inter- pretation, etc, are requested to communicate with THE CHANCELLOR OF THE Α.“. A.". c/o ΤΗΕ ΕρυΙΝοΧ, 3 Great James Street, W.C. Telephone : CITY 8987, or to call at that address by appointment. A representative will be there to meet them. THE Chancellor of the A A considers it desirable to make a brief statement of the financial position, as the time has now arrived to make an effort to spread the knowledge to the ends of the earth. The expenses of the propaganda are roughly estimated as follows— Maintenance of …
1912 · PDF PAGE 326
…K. pn p-339] δ᾽"הלל ?ש A door post?החומ A beating, striking?הכמ [Vide κυ. Lex. p. 563]?ןהב The Mystic Number of the Qliphoth, and of the Great Work‘ Σ (ι- 1 !( Food, victuals?הלכא The Lord thycop (is a con-?ןיהלא suming Fire). [Deut. iv. 24] A ship A trial, an experiment ה`גא ]והב Awheel. [Called "Cognomen?לגלג Schechinae"] A City of Edom?הנהת ΒΖ 65 66
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…99} returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her, and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible god. Consider now: The Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the body of our Lady Nuith. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No. VII. Jane Chéron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, then, I was in her apartment. I had attained none of my objectives in calling on her and wa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
… in her grand and noble prayer , “ The Choir Invisible .” May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the sweet presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world . In the song of Orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 300
…ath ” : “ To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty , in solemnity and horror ; in emotions , to be brief , so great that man had no place therein . But there are moods , in which the heights are attained indirectly , and through man's struggle with the elemental powers ." 2 Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest , Dissolve the desperate lust of life By infinite agony and zest . Thus , O my Kali ,I divine The golden secret of thy shrine ! The strife to attain to this golden secret we have already see…
1909 · PDF PAGE 101
…very well ”—and thou hast written “ I ! " Oswine, John St. John! When wilt thou learn that the least stirring of thy smug content is the great Fall from the Plath ?[ It will be best to get up and do some kind of work; for the beast would sleep. John St John has arisen, after doing 20 breath- cycles, reciting internally the ritual, 70 per cent. of which he now knows by heart. To the Dome—a cafe-croissant. Some proofs to cor- rect during the meal. Having walked over to the studio reciting the Ritual (925—9.55 approximately), John St. John got int…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…nated many sources of error, and that my observations may possess a more absolute value in psychology than those of Ludlow or even of my great master Baudelaire. The few on whom I have been able to test the drug have in large measure confirmed, and in no way contradicted, my results. In the first place, I make an absolute distinction between three effects of hashish, which may be, and I think probably are—so distinct they appear—due to three separate substances. Possibly a simple stimulus-curve may account for it, but I do not think so. 1. The …
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…nated many sources of error, and that my observations may possess a more absolute value in psychology than those of Ludlow or even of my great master Baudelaire. The few on whom I have been able to test the drug have in large measure confirmed, and in no way contradicted, my results. In the first place, I make an absolute distinction between three effects of hashish, which may be, and I think probably are—so distinct they appear—due to three separate substances. Possibly a simple stimulus-curve may account for it, but I do not think so. 1. The …
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
… we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or shorter period, and comes back as the “ great medicine man”; but nobody ever knows exactly what happened to him. Making every possible deduction for fable and myth, we get this one coincidence. A nobody goes away, and comes back a somebody. This is not to be explained in any of the ordinary ways. There is not the smallest ground for the contention that these were from the start exceptional men. Mohammed would hardly have driven a camel until he was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…the Logos. In this are dissolved three other oils; oil of myrrh, oil of cinnamon, oil of galangal. The Myrrh is attributed to Binah, the Great Mother, who is both the understanding of the Magician and that sorrow and compassion which results from the contemplation of the Universe. The Cinnamon represents Tiphereth, the Sun — the Son, in whom Glory and Suffering are identical. The Galangal represents both Kether and Malkuth, the First and the Last, the One and the Many, since in this Oil they are One. These oils taken together represent therefor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 178
…ver or gold, because these were called the perfect metals; it is upon perfection that the im- perfect is burned. Upon this plate burns a great fire of charcoal, im- pregnated with nitre. This charcoal is (as chemists now begin to surmise) the ultimate protean element: absolutely black, because it absorbs all light; infusible by the apphcation of any known heat; the lightest of those elements w^hich occur in the solid state in nature; the essential constituent of all known forms of life. It has been treated wnth nitre, whose potassium has the vi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 478
…ample, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason, and cause to be seen with an astonishing vividness things which do not exist. A great part of the phenomena of Mr. Home belong to a natural influence similar to that of hashish. This is the reason why the medium refuses to operate except before a small number of persons chosen by him- self. The rest of these phenomena should be attributed to magnetic power. To see anything at Mr. Home's séawces is not a reassuring index of the health of him who sees. And even if his health should be in ot…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…s there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235
1913 · PDF PAGE 478
…ample, intoxicate without taking away the use of reason, and cause to be seen with an astonishing vividness things which do not exist. A great part of the phenomena of Mr. Home belong to a natural influence similar to that of hashish. This is the reason why the medium refuses to operate except before a small number of persons chosen by him- self. The rest of these phenomena should be attributed to magnetic power. To see anything at Mr. Home's séawces is not a reassuring index of the health of him who sees. And even if his health should be in ot…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…s there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235
1919 · PDF PAGE 24
… occult attainments are possible even to people who have no intellectual knowl- edge whatever. But this has been in the past a source of great iniquity, as it represents an overdevelopment of one organ of the Nature at the expense of others. It is the particular object of the A... A.”. to see to it that progress is orderly and thorough. It must further be stated that although certain books have been chosen for particular study, the student is not thereby absolved from the general study of all of them. For it is important to him to make from the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
… vain. . . . I got the reply, “ The Seventh Day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” So mote it be! T/æ Seven/ll Day. I began this great day with Eight breath—cycles; was stopped by the indigestion trouble in its other form. (P.S.—Evidently the introduction of the Cascara into my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous.) My breathing passages were none too clear, either ; I have evidently taken a chill. Now, O my Lord Adonai, thou Self-Glittering One, wilt Thou not manifest unto Thy chosen one? For see 73
1911 · PDF PAGE 138
…d. I see nothing but sand." His face {ell again. ”What is sand?” he asked. " Oh—just sand, you know. Leagues and leagues of sand; like a great bowl of sand." “ But what is sand ? " " Sand—oh! sand is God, I suppose." There was a patience and weariness in her voice, as of one who has suffered long and is at rest, or convalescent. “And who are you ? " She did not answer the question. “ Now I see sky,” she said. " Sky is God, too, I think." “ Then do you see God ? " "Oh no! Ithink I am God, somehow. It is all like it was before, long ago. I was on…