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Page 81 of 1731911 · 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…
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…Adepts "who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes and their possessions — could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the Alchemist." The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all ' Liber LXI, the book given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.-. A...
1913 · PDF PAGE 443
…nviable position, that of a country vicar, and your charming vicarage, in order to share the troubled existence of a sectary.” “ Say ofa great prophet !” “Sir, I believe perfectly in your good faith. But you will permit me to examine a little the mission and the character of your prophet.” “Yes, sir; examination, full light, the microscope of science, that is all we ask. Come to London, sir, and you will see! The miracles are permanently established there.” “Would you be so kind, sir, as to give me, first of all, some exact and conscientious de…
1913 · PDF PAGE 443
…nviable position, that of a country vicar, and your charming vicarage, in order to share the troubled existence of a sectary.” “ Say ofa great prophet !” “Sir, I believe perfectly in your good faith. But you will permit me to examine a little the mission and the character of your prophet.” “Yes, sir; examination, full light, the microscope of science, that is all we ask. Come to London, sir, and you will see! The miracles are permanently established there.” “Would you be so kind, sir, as to give me, first of all, some exact and conscientious de…
1954 · PDF PAGE 319
…look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torment-and so you should be!- and persuaded me to take you as my pupil. What have you done with that year? First, suppose we put down what you agreed to do: The essential preliminaries of the work of the A :. A :. -you are to be heartily congratulated upon your swift perception that the principles …
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…ind. If someone gives me £200,000 pounds I automatically fail to notice it. It is a normal circumstance of life. Test me! 9. There are a great many other injunctions, all of which have to be examined independently in order to find whether they apply to Yoga in general, and to the particular advantage of any given student. We are to exclude especially all those considerations based on fantastic theories of the universe, or on the accidents of race or climate. For instance, in the time of the late Maharajah of Kashmir, mahsir fishing was forbidde…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
… Buddha of hurling his Arahats (and himself) from Samma Samadhi to annihilation. Pray observe in the first place that my solution of the Great Problem permits the co-existence of an indefi-
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…ching for the stone of the wise , has but to follow , guided by the sure and certain hope that if he so will , it will guide him to that great and glorious transfiguration he so ardently desires . روا TIME Kant , as we have seen , places both Time and Space in the realm of the à priori ; a realm utterly devastated by Crowley's scepticism . Spencer in answering the questions , What is Space ? What is Time ? replied , “ Space is the abstract of all relations of co - existence . Time is the abstract of all relations of sequence .” These definition…
1909 · PDF PAGE 62
12.5. 12.15. 12.35. 12.45. 60 THE EQUINOX Holy Illuminated Man of God our Greatly Honoured Prater, O.M., Adeptus Exemptus 7°=4° Brother-Elect of the Most Secret and Sublime Order A A He does with great difficulty (and no interior perform— ance) just four breath-cycles. Somebody once remarked that it had taken a hundred million years to produce me ; I may add that I hope it will be another hundred million before God makes such another cur. Have performed the Equilibrating Ritual of the Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain; with the Holy Anointing O…
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
… must be practised until mastery of the image is attained, and an identity with it and with the God experienced. It is a matter for very great regret that no simple and certain test of success in this practice exists. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let him act thus: 4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched. (See Illustration.) (6) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the God desired entering with th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
… must be practised until mastery of the image is attained, and an identity with it and with the God experienced. It is a matter for very great regret that no simple and certain test of success in this practice exists. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let him act thus: 4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched. (See Illustration.) (6) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the God desired entering with th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 166
…e, and upon the smooth white skin of woman, and in the constancy of the waterfall, and in the emptiness of deserts and marshes, and upon great cliffs that look seaward; and in many strange places, where men seek me not. And many thousand times he beholdeth me not. And at the lastI smite myself into him as a vision smiteth into a stone, and whom I call must follow. Now I perceive myself standing in a Druid circle, in an immense open plain. A whole series of beautiful visions of deserts and sunsets and islands in the sea, green beyond imagination…
1912 · PDF PAGE 342
…y]?רחבא A lion?ירא Strong?ךובנ A flash; lightning?הראה 26 A girdle?רגה A flood; Jeor?ראי “Fear,” the fear of theארי ?הוהי (ie, wonderment) Great Voice?רובד Night Demon of 1“ Dec. VS?רואה Splendour; to enlighten?רהז To spread out ; harlot ; golden?הרז Το enclose; secret chamber?ךרה Strong, powerful, mighty?ריבא Calx?ךוג [I-RQ 234 (?)]?רדרה Slaughter?הגרה Loaded?רװ To be strange; a stranger?רךז רסה האלע לאדThe Supernal? Mercy of GOD Nubes Magnaןנע ?לחנ A girdle?ךװא Angel of 15‘ Dec,ךח ?'זי Whiteness?ךןה Came down?ךרו Air; Spirit; wind; Mind?הןך Emi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 342
…y]?רחבא A lion?ירא Strong?ךובנ A flash; lightning?הראה 26 A girdle?רגה A flood; Jeor?ראי “Fear,” the fear of theארי ?הוהי (ie, wonderment) Great Voice?רובד Night Demon of 1“ Dec. VS?רואה Splendour; to enlighten?רהז To spread out ; harlot ; golden?הרז Το enclose; secret chamber?ךרה Strong, powerful, mighty?ריבא Calx?ךוג [I-RQ 234 (?)]?רדרה Slaughter?הגרה Loaded?רװ To be strange; a stranger?רךז רסה האלע לאדThe Supernal? Mercy of GOD Nubes Magnaןנע ?לחנ A girdle?ךװא Angel of 15‘ Dec,ךח ?'זי Whiteness?ךןה Came down?ךרו Air; Spirit; wind; Mind?הןך Emi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
… is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of Islam the mysteries of Paradise, and the secrets of beauty! Invite them to the festival of the new alliance! There, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
… is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of Islam the mysteries of Paradise, and the secrets of beauty! Invite them to the festival of the new alliance! There, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54
1919 · PDF PAGE 432
…gh, Lanoo, the wall that shall hedge in the Holy Isle, the dam that will protect thy mind from pride and satisfaction at thoughts of the great feat achieved. Here again is one of those unfortunate passages which enable the superficial to imagine that the task of the Adept IIo
1906 · PDF PAGE 227
…d a dream, and in that mirific dream it seemed unto him that the walls of all -things slid into and across each other, so that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- lasting, saith Adhou Bin Aram, the Arab. O Elmen Zata, our Sophic Pilaster! Further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. Further, he beheld a cavern full of most ancient bones of men, and therein a lion with a voice of a…
1902 · PDF PAGE 14
…e have always, or nearly always, been on the earth those whom Councillor von Eckartshausen, the Svdmi Vivekdnanda and their like, call " great spiritual giants" (can there be any etymological link between "yogi" and " ogre " ?) and that such persons, themselves per- ceiving Truth, have tried to " diminish the message to the dog " for the benefit of less exalted minds, and hidden that Truth (which, unveiled, would but blind men with its glory) in a mass of symbology often perverted or grotesque, yet to the proper man transparent ; a " bait of fa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 272
…canst be At any moment in Eternity . Sit in the centre, and thou seest at once What is , what was ; all here and all in heaven . I am as great as God , and he as small as I ; He cannot me surpass , or I beneath him lie . Self is surpassed by self - annihilation ; The nearer nothing , so much more divine . Who is as though he were not - ne'er had been That man , oh joy ! is made God absolute .