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Page 80 of 1211911 · PDF PAGE 72
…ngled hues of sunset and of dawn; and the Cross is the Golden light of noon, and in the heart of the Rose there is the secret light that men call midnight. And a voice: ‘Glory to God and thanksgiving to God, and there is no God but God. And He is exalted; He is great; and in the Sevenfold Table is His Name writ openly, and in the Twelvefold Table is His Name concealed.’ And the Pyramid casts a shadow of itself into the sky, and the shadow spreads over the whole stone. And an angel clad in blue and scarlet, with golden wings and plumes of purple…
1913 · PDF PAGE 556
… of public expiation, and from the splinters of the broken sword of justice anarchy would forge its daggers. “Tf God did away with Hell, men would make another in order to defy Him,” said a good priest to us one day. He was right: and it is for that reason that Hell is so anxious to be done away with. Emancipation! is the cry of every vice. Emancipation of murder by the abolition of the pain of death; emancipation of prostitution and infanticide by the abolition of marriage; emancipation of idleness and rapine by the abolition of property. . . …
1913 · PDF PAGE 556
… of public expiation, and from the splinters of the broken sword of justice anarchy would forge its daggers. “Tf God did away with Hell, men would make another in order to defy Him,” said a good priest to us one day. He was right: and it is for that reason that Hell is so anxious to be done away with. Emancipation! is the cry of every vice. Emancipation of murder by the abolition of the pain of death; emancipation of prostitution and infanticide by the abolition of marriage; emancipation of idleness and rapine by the abolition of property. . . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 291
…vered that light which moved on the face of the waters , before sun or moon or stars were created . We rank the great adepts with the madmen of God , whose miracles are mere imitations , whose powers are mere preten sions , and whose illumination is mere reflection ; but what is it then these great beings imitate , pretend to , or reflect ? Here lies the dark question which no denial can disprove , no assertion comprehend , and which work alone through the alembic of our hearts can reveal and accomplish . THE ADEPTS It is this something , this …
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
… thing my concubine, and none shall touch them, save only I. And yet I am scorched, even while I shiver in the wind. He hateth me and tormenteth me. He would have stolen me from myself, but I shut myself up and mock at him, even while he plagueth me. From me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. Ah! Iwill reach up to the knees of the Most High, and tear his phallus with my teeth, and I will bray his testicles in a mortar, and make poison thereof, to slay the sons of men. (Here the Spirit simulated the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…ou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
THE EQUINOX must now incarnate itself ever more completely in that body, and in the bodies and minds of all men. He has made his darkness light; that light must illuminate the darkness of all. Having then received this last Initiation, this destruction of the opposition between One and the Many, he descended from the mountain, and awaited nightfall. The nature of the Initiation itself—its climax and comple- tion—can only be given in the sublime words of the Angel of the A&thyr itself. We therefore quote it in full— The Angel reappears. The blac…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…ou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
THE EQUINOX must now incarnate itself ever more completely in that body, and in the bodies and minds of all men. He has made his darkness light; that light must illuminate the darkness of all. Having then received this last Initiation, this destruction of the opposition between One and the Many, he descended from the mountain, and awaited nightfall. The nature of the Initiation itself—its climax and comple- tion—can only be given in the sublime words of the Angel of the A&thyr itself. We therefore quote it in full— The Angel reappears. The blac…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…st !—(he said), a lie of Hell’s, and all a partial course of the great circle of whirling dust (stirred by the iron rod of thought) that men call wisdom. So I looked deep in his beauty, and beheld its truth. The life of that fair youth was as a whiz of violent little whirls, helical coils of emptiness, grey curls of misty and impalpable stuff, torn, crooked, all ways and none at once, but ever pressed in idiot circles ; and one thing he lacked, now I looked from afar again, was rest. Thence I with- drew my sight, the eyeballs cracked with stain…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… middle orders trot their daughters round the London ball - rooms just as strumpets fall in to the cry of descendes , mesdemoiselles ! Women marry for title , clothing , shelter , and food ; men because they think 1 Jephthah , vol . i, pp . 70 , 71 . ? Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 42 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…ort-of-breath, bedizened magnates of commerce and finance are not life, but a disease. The monster hotel is not hospitality, but imprisonment. Civilisation is a madness ; and while there are men like Frédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have…
1909 · PDF PAGE 332
THE EQUINOX according to the powers of attainment, but in all cases these journeys would be of little use unless method were brought into the extraordinary chaos which they at first reveal. And, as in Geography, little information could be obtained of the configuration of the Earth’s surface unless explorers set out with a definite object in view, such as Columbus had when he set out on his great journey of discovery, and equipped with definite instruments; so in these Astral journeys, little or no spiritual information can be obtained unless t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…ort-of-breath, bedizened magnates of commerce and finance are not life, but a disease. The monster hotel is not hospitality, but imprisonment. Civilisation is a madness ; and while there are men like Frédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have…
1909 · PDF PAGE 332
THE EQUINOX according to the powers of attainment, but in all cases these journeys would be of little use unless method were brought into the extraordinary chaos which they at first reveal. And, as in Geography, little information could be obtained of the configuration of the Earth’s surface unless explorers set out with a definite object in view, such as Columbus had when he set out on his great journey of discovery, and equipped with definite instruments; so in these Astral journeys, little or no spiritual information can be obtained unless t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
… of sorcery, and imprisoned with their genie in the unutterable silence of the fathomless sea, have I dearly bought the right to come to men with the chart of my wanderings in my hands, and unfold to them the foundations of the fabric of Oriental story. The secret lies in the use of hasheesh. A very few words will suffice to tell what hasheesh is. In northern latitudes the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) grows almost entirely to fibre, becoming, in virtue of this quality, the great resource for mats and cordage. Under a southern sun this same plan…
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
… of sorcery, and imprisoned with their genie in the unutterable silence of the fathomless sea, have I dearly bought the right to come to men with the chart of my wanderings in my hands, and unfold to them the foundations of the fabric of Oriental story. The secret lies in the use of hasheesh. A very few words will suffice to tell what hasheesh is. In northern latitudes the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) grows almost entirely to fibre, becoming, in virtue of this quality, the great resource for mats and cordage. Under a southern sun this same plan…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…hardly to be distinguished from ordinary masturba- tion : so that the balance is strongly in favour of man. This explains why very few women are ex- clusively Sapphists, but many bimetallists ; and enables one to comprehend the hatred of woman for sodomy, and the toleration with which men re- gard Sapphism. 8. I cannot too strongly urge my readers to se- lect their lovers from their equals in rank and for- tune. It is the only safeguard against betrayal ; further, it fulfills the Greek ideal, and silences the voice of adverse criticism. A. L. S…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…annon than did Boccaccio to oppose his merry tales against a back ground of plague - swept Florence : for Boccaccio and Dryden , as greatmen , saw and trusted that man 's con cern in what literature can do for him is actually more vital and assuredly more permanent than his agitation , sharper for the moment , over any national crisis or public calamity . It takes (I say ) a great and a brave man to perceive this ; a very brave man indeed to maintain it when every neighbour he meets will accuse him for a fool and worse . Dryden chooses to be bo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 393
…s free, or the word loses its meaning. There is, however, a much deeper teaching in this matter. 80. That Secret Path leads the Arhan to mental woe un- speakable; woe for the living Dead, and helpless pity for the men of Karmic sorrow; the fruit of Karma Sages dare not still, Mental woe unspeakable—Rats! If we were to take all this au grand sérieux, we should have to class H. P. B. with Sacher-Masoch. She does not seem to have any idea of what an Arhan is, as soon as she plunges into one of these orgies of moral flagellation! Long before one be…