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Page 86 of 1071930 · PDF PAGE 46
…rdly repeat that in both these operations detachment from one’s personal partialities is as necessary as it was in the first part of the work. In setting up the figure, bias would beget a Freudian phantasm to replace the image of truth which the figure ought to be; and it is not too much to say that the entire subconscious machinery of the body and mind lends itself with horrid willingness to this ape- like antic of treason. But now that the figure stands for judgment, the same bias Vvouid tend to form its phantasm of wish-fulfilment in a diffe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…from 1868 to 1875. In addition, he received many civil decorations from foreign countries as a testimony of appreciation for his notable work. It would fill pages to give a detailed list, but these are a few of those best known in this country: Constantinian Order of St. George, granted 1874 by H.H. Demetrius Rho- dacanakis, Hereditary Grand Master and Prince of Rhodes, descendant of the Emperors Constantine and the Paleologi, actual heir of the Byzantine Empire. — Star of Merit of H.H. Sir Sourindro Mohun Tajore, Rajah of Calcutta, granted Apri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
…you may try discreetly to tamper with the Mussulman section of the French troops, the Africans. But be careful — there is more important work to your hand, no less than the destruction of the French armies in the field. Now let us see what you can do. I am going to send you to my little garden hermitage, where I occasionally appear in the character of a great ascetic; there is an old lady there, devoted to me. Have your best man there to play Yogi. In the garden — here's the plan — is the terminal of a wire. There's another in that house where …
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
…ed and deformed, being of subtler and more sensitive matter. So infinitely varied are the possibilities of creation that each adept must work out each problem for him self as best he can. There are magical methods of making a link between the force generated and the matter on which it is desired to act; but these are, for the most part, best communicated by
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…founded 7e Equinox as one means to that end. They wish to discover suitable pupils for special training. Such pupils must be prepared to work on strictly scientific lines. Prejudice and dogma must be laid aside. The Brothers of the A.°. A.*. do not ask for faith : They insist on each pupil making his own experiments critically, and that he should never believe or assert that which he does not himself certainly know. The Brothers do not attach Themselves to any external system, though They are in essential harmony with all living systems, by rea…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
…omes tremendously important to a man that he should become conscious of his true inmost Will, of his essential nature. This is the Great Work whose attainment consti tutes adeptship, provided that the consciousness recognizes that its own dependence on circumstance makes it no more than a troubled image in foul water of the sun which is that Silent Self. If such a man wants to develop his powers, he must use this tremen dous talisman to create in his own image. Although this talisman has such miraculous might, it is also intensely sensitive. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…knocks will refer to the Sephira or other idea Qabalistically cognate with that number. Thus, 7 knocks will intimate Venus, 11 the Great Work, 17 the Trinity of Fathers, and 19 the Féminine Principle in its most general sense. Analyzing the matter a little further, we remark firstly that a battery of too many knocks is confusing, as well as liable to over- weight the other parts of the ritual. In practice, 11 is about the limit. It is usually not difficult to arrange to cover ail necessary ground with that number. Secondly, each is so extensive…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…on. It will be obvions that this is somewhat awkward for the diviner who is also a magician, for as a magician he has been constantly at work to keep ail his forces uncler his own control,, and to prevent the slighest interférence with them by any alien Will. It is, in fact, commonly the case, or so says the expérience of The Master Therion, that the most promising Magicians are the most déplorable diviners, and vice versa. It is only when the aspirant approaches perfection that he becomes able to reconcile these two apparently opposing faculti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…son cloth extra, gilt tops, 35. 6d. net and 4s. 6d. net per volume, The “New Thought Library” has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first ten volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By CHARLES Goprrry LeLanb. Third and enlarged Edition, containing the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…son cloth extra, gilt tops, 35. 6d. net and 4s. 6d. net per volume, The “New Thought Library” has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first ten volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By CHARLES Goprrry LeLanb. Third and enlarged Edition, containing the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…shows the usual human hieroglyph between a caduceus and a crescent. Figure 170 is from the site of ancient Carthage. It is very rough in workmanship, and the designs are mere scratchings on the stone. The ensemble has the effect of an evil Sigil. Figure 171 is also from Carthage and the various symbols appear to have become compressed into and synthesised in the form of a peculiarly evil-looking caduceus. Figure 172 is from the decoration of a sepulchral urn found at Olden- burgh in Germany. It is remarkable as showing the same hieroglyphic hum…
1907 · PDF PAGE 207
… ¢ Our lover and friend, Thy light hath long missed her : That hour hath an end. All zons to squander We chance at our will: We may woo, work or wander Through time to our fill, Hither or yonder By fountain or hill, Each day growing fonder, Each night growing still ! Bright Hermes behind me Caduceus-armed Guides: shall he blind me? My spirit be charmed? The song shall not swerve her, Its glory shall shed Respite, deserve her From gulfs of the dead. Ah me! let it nerve her These conduits to tread That lead to the fervour Of earth overhead ! Fire…
1913 · PDF PAGE 21
…from 1868 to 1875. In addition, he received many civil decorations from foreign countries as a testimony of appreciation for his notable work. It would fill pages to give a detailed list, but these are a few of those best known in this country : Constantinian Order of St. George, granted 1874 by H.H. Demetrius Rho- dacanakis, Hereditary Grand Master and Prince of Rhodes, descendant of the Emperors Constantine and the Paleologi, actual heir of the Byzantine Empire. Star of Merit of H.H. Sir Sourindro Mohun Tajore, Rajah of Calcutta, granted Apri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 21
…from 1868 to 1875. In addition, he received many civil decorations from foreign countries as a testimony of appreciation for his notable work. It would fill pages to give a detailed list, but these are a few of those best known in this country : Constantinian Order of St. George, granted 1874 by H.H. Demetrius Rho- dacanakis, Hereditary Grand Master and Prince of Rhodes, descendant of the Emperors Constantine and the Paleologi, actual heir of the Byzantine Empire. Star of Merit of H.H. Sir Sourindro Mohun Tajore, Rajah of Calcutta, granted Apri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
…orcery of the more secret sort to be accomplished. Douglas who, up to now, had confined himself to intense mental concentration upon the work, forcing himself to believe that the ceremonies
1996 · PDF PAGE 119
…behaviour of our own instrument. We con clude from the fact that it behaves at all, that there must be “a factor infinite & unknown” at work upon it. This being the case, we may be sure that our apparatus is inherently incapable of discovering the truth about anything, even in part. Let me illustrate. I see a drop of water. Distrusting my eyes, I put it under the microscope. Still in doubt, I photograph and enlarge the slide. I compare my results with those of others. I check them by cultivating the germs in water, and injecting them into paup…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
…not to set our lives at a pin’s fee. “Unhand me, gentlemen.... I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me!”1 Death is the End that crowns the Work. 1 [Hamlet i, 4.] Evolution works by variation. When an animal develops one part of itself beyond the others, it infringes the norm of its type. At first this effort is made at the expense of other efforts, and it seems as if, the general balance being upset, the Nature were in danger. (It must obviously appear so to the casual observer—who probably reproaches and persecutes the experimenter.) But when th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…would be nearly out of its mind, if it insisted on trying to refer all these absolutely different phenomena to a single cause! "It might work out a geometry — our own plane geometry, in fact — and it would perhaps get some extraordinary poetic conception of a Creator who manifested in his universe such marvellous and beautiful relations. It would get all sorts of fantastic theories of this Creator's power; what it would never get — until it produced a James Hinton — would be the idea that all this diversity was caused by seeing, disjointedly, d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…ill in a well-deveioped astral body is such that it can even produce a permanent change in the material upon whose Body of Light you are working, e.g. ; one can heal the sick bv restoring a healthy appearance to their astral forms. On the other hand, it is possible so to disintegrate the the Body of Light even of a strong man that he will fall dead. Such operations demand not only power, but judgment. Nothing can upset the sum total of destiny — everything must be paid for the uttermost farthing. For this reason a great many operations theoreti…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…il, they wouldn’t seem so to the authors! ” “But — pity the poor Gods!” “Bother the Gods! ” 2. A bodv of skilled Magicians accustomed to work in concert may be competent to conduct impromptu Orgia. To cite an actual instance in recent times; the blood of a Christian being required for some purpose, a young cock was procured and baptized into the Roman Catholic Church by a man who, being the son of an ordained Priest, was magicaliy an incarnation of the Being of that Priest, and was therefore congenitally possessed of the powers thereto appurten…