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Page 84 of 2251961 · PDF PAGE 82
…dartha, or the Buddha, was a Magus of our Holy Order. And His Word was ANATTA; for the Root of His whole Doctrine was that there is no Atman, or Soul, as Men ill translate it, meaning a Substance incapable of Change. Thus, He, like Lao-Tze, based all upon a Movement, instead of a fixed Point. And His Way of Truth was Analysis, made possible by great Intention of the Mind toward itself, and that well fortified by certain tempered Rigour of Life. And He most thoroughly explored and Mapped out the Fastnesses of the Mind, and gave the Keys of its F…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…ntly into the mind. First and foremost is the wonderfully suggestive work, misnamed fiction, of our greatest novelist, H. G. Wells. This man, the John Bunyan of modern scientific thought, has repeatedly attacked the problem, or at least indicated the lines on which a successful research might be prosecuted, in many of his wonderful tales. He has (I say it not to rob you of the honour of your discoveries, but in compliment, and I can imagine none higher) put his finger on the very spot whence all research must begin : the illusionary nature of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…and its Logos as a child does its mother and father. He has my respect and affection as no other of my Brethren: for he represents to me mankind incarnate at its weakest (and therefore strongest) and noblest (and therefore most "common"). He is, in a word, that "Man" of whom I am, being 666 )the number of a man) and whom I love and serve. An illuminating incident: he cannot spell, but under inspiration writes as none has ever done save one --- John Bunyan! conterminous with that of the word, and my dynamical formula with that of its utterance. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…nt. Re-Embodiment Universal in Nature. The Mystery of Sleep. ‘Where you Travel when you Sleep. Prayer in all ages. The Church of Silent emand, “The Essays of Prentice Mulford embody a peculiar philosophy, and represent a peculiar hase of insight into the mystery which surrounds man. The essays were the work, as the insight was the gift, of a man who owed nothing to books, perhaps not much to what is ordin- arily meant by observation, and everything or nearly everything to reflection nourished by contact with nature.”"—Z. A. Waite, in the Introd…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…nt. Re-Embodiment Universal in Nature. The Mystery of Sleep. ‘Where you Travel when you Sleep. Prayer in all ages. The Church of Silent emand, “The Essays of Prentice Mulford embody a peculiar philosophy, and represent a peculiar hase of insight into the mystery which surrounds man. The essays were the work, as the insight was the gift, of a man who owed nothing to books, perhaps not much to what is ordin- arily meant by observation, and everything or nearly everything to reflection nourished by contact with nature.”"—Z. A. Waite, in the Introd…
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
…ens: Chee, that didst create the Might and the Dap. Chee, that didst create the Darkness and the Light. Chou art Dsorronophris: Tabom no man hath seen at anp time. Chou art Jabas: Chou art Japos: Chou hast distinguished between the just and the Gnjust. Chou didst make the female and gale. Chou didst produce the Seed and the fruit. Chou Didst form gen to love one another, and to hate one another. Jam gposheh Chp JProphet, unto TAibom Chou didst commit Chp Wpsteries, the Ceremonies of Jsbrael: Chou didst produce the moist and the Ory, and that wh…
1961 · PDF PAGE 75
…it of thy Fellows; But remember always that to find a new Way up a Precipice removeth not the Precipice. For where thou, o Angel and yet Man, hast trod delicately albeit without Fear, Fools will rush in to their Destruction. c
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…culties and memo- ries arise at times, and are regarded as frag- mentary and absurd, even as the remembrance of a dream is to the waking man. Can we not conceive then of a ‘‘dreamless ” life, of 1 Mahasatipa¢¢hana (Sec. VIII.) does admit this perhaps. Yet its very object is to correct consciousness on the lines indicated by reason. which our dreams are the vague and dis- turbed transition to normal consciousness ? The physiological evidence goes literally for nothing. Even were it proved that the recipio-motor apparatus of a ‘‘ dreamless ” slee…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…s the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; and the operations in the Universe of their triune energy. It is thus the formula of a Manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternâtes with a Pralaya, during which création is latent. Analysed Qabalistically, the Word is found to possess similar properties. A is the négative, and also the unity which concentrâtes it into a positive form. A is the Holy Spirit who begets God in flesh upon the Virgin, according to the formula familial* to students of “The Golden Bough”. A is also th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 113
…at the initiate cannot be polluted by any particular environment. He accepts and enjoys everything that is proper to his nature. Thus, a man’s sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites Hadit with Nuit sacramen tally when he satisfies his instinct of physical love. Of course, this is only one partial projection; to govern, to fight, and so on, must fulfil other needs. We must not imagine that any form of activity is ipso facto incapable of supplying the elements of an Eucharist; suum cuique) Observe, however, the constant f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…is ever the child; the wholesome atti tude of the clean simple mind, free from all complications alien to Love, assures it. Just as a woman’s body is deformed and diseased by the corset demanded by Jaganath Fashion, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless as that of the man-milliner, though they call him God, and his freakish Fiat pass for Everlasting Law. The English Bible sanctions the polygamy and concubinage of Abraham, Solomon and others, the incest of Lot, the wholesale rape…
1898 · PDF PAGE 16
…breath, Better brave the horrid powers, Nor avoid the foreign death, Humbling all our pride before God’s most holy throne, abasing Every man’s strong soul, and facing All the heathen Ammon bore On the angry shore, Trusting to the mercy rare Of Jehovah, than to bare Hearts and bosoms to a friend
1899 · PDF PAGE 240
…ardour glows On Liberty. Men shall sing merrily at work as those Who fear no more to die— Ay! and who fear no more at last to live Since man can love and worship and forgive. Then on these heights of Caucasus A fire shall dwell, Pure as the dawn, and odorous Of bud and bell; A flower of fire, a flame from Heaven to us. All triumph to foretell, A glory of unspeakable delight, A flower.like lightning, adamant and white. There needs no more or sun or sea Or any light ;
1899 · PDF PAGE 71
…light, As from broad sunshine to the fall of night, As from strong action to endurance strong, As from desire to the power to long, From man to woman with a strange swift motion, Like tide and ebb upon a summer ocean. Thus he went forth a girl ; his steps he presses Through sickly wastes and burning wildernesses To the lascivious shade of Idas deep recesses
1901 · PDF PAGE 71
…The king was silent. Tense the high-strung air Must save itself by trembling—if it dare. Then a long shudder ran across the space ; Each man ashamed to see his fellow’s face, Each troubled and confused. He did not spare Our fear—he spake not yet a little space. After a while he took the word again : “ Go thou then moonwards on the great salt plain ; So to a pillar. Adamant, alone, It stands. Around it see them overthrown, King, earl, and knight. There lie the questing slain, A thousand years forgotten—bone by bone. T
1912 · PDF PAGE 112
…n-kissed heights! The snows that crown The quartz ravines! The clouds that veil The awful slopes! Dear God! look down And see this petty man move on, Relentless as Thine own renown, Careless of praise or orison, Simply determined. Wilt Thou launch (This knight's presumptuous head upon) The devastating avalanche? He knows too much, and cares too little! His wound is more than Death can staunch. He can avoid, though by one tittle, Thy surest shaft! And now the knight, Breasting the crags, may laugh and whittle Away the demon-club whose might Thre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 536
…ven than a pleasure, a happiness.” Axiom XXI A chain of iron is easier to break than a chain of flowers. Axiom XXII Before saying that a man is happy or unhappy, find out what the direction of his will has made of him: Tiberius died every day at Capri, while Jesus proved his immortality and even his divinity on Calvary and upon the Cross. 238
1913 · PDF PAGE 536
…ven than a pleasure, a happiness.” Axiom XXI A chain of iron is easier to break than a chain of flowers. Axiom XXII Before saying that a man is happy or unhappy, find out what the direction of his will has made of him: Tiberius died every day at Capri, while Jesus proved his immortality and even his divinity on Calvary and upon the Cross. 238
1928 · PDF PAGE 51
…ward round, obsessed by this sight, I sought to analyse my sudden sad- ness; and I said to myself: I have just seen the image of the old man of letters who has survived the generation which he so brilliantly amused; of the old poet, without friends, with- out family, without children, degraded by his misery and by public ingratitude, into whose booth the forgetful world will no longer come.
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
pointée! out, it is but a preliminary. For the normal man to-day, however, it represents considérable attainment; and there is a much earlier formula whose investigation will occupy Chapter VI. The Master Therion, in the Seventeenth year of the Aeon, has reconstructed the Word I A O to satisfy the new conditions of Magick imposed by progress. The Word of the Law being Thelema, whose number is 93, this number should be the canon of a corresponding Mass. Accordingly, he Has expanded I A O by treating the O as an Ayin, and then adding Vau as prefi…