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Page 89 of 1731911 · PDF PAGE 29
…drink of a delicious wine-the wine of Iacchus ; they shall reach ever to the heavenly kiss of the Beautiful God. 33. I reveal unto you a great mystery. Ye stand between the abyss of height and the abyss of depth. 34. In either awaits you a Companion; and that Com- panion is Yourself. 35. Ye can have no other Companion. 36. Many have arisen, being wise. They have said “ Seek out the glittering Image in the place ever golden, and unite yourselves with It.” 2x
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…ve in the darkness of the womb of Her by whom came evil. I pierce the Mystery of his breast, and therein is a jewel. It is a sapphire as great as an ostrich egg, and thereon is graven this sigil: But there is also much writing on the stone, very minute characters carved. I cannot read them. He points with his flail to the sapphire, which is now outside him and bigger than himself; and he cries: Hail! warden of the Gates of Eternity who knowest not thy right hand from thy left; for in the aeon of my Father is a god with clasped hands wherein he …
1919 · PDF PAGE 80
…er shall have had his reward. The laughter of the mockers shall be a ripple in the hair of the Beloved One. 37. Behold! the Abyss of the Great Deep. Therein is a mighty dolphin, lashing his sides with the force of the waves. 38. There is also an harper of gold, playing infinite tunes. 39. Then the dolphin delighted therein, and put off his body, and became a bird. 40. The harper also laid aside his harp, and played in- finite tunes upon the Pan-pipe. 41. Then the bird desired exceedingly this bliss, and laying down its wings became a faun of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 234
…ect freedom and security afforded by the Law allows the characters of all Brethren to expand to the very limits of their nature, and the great joy and gladness with which they are constantly overflowing make them the best of companions. “They shall rejoice, our chosen; who 220
1961 · PDF PAGE 198
…s Docendi (Of Prudence in the Art of Teaching) EVERTHELESS, this one Affliction shall touch nigh all that come to thee, and that is this great Pox of Sin, that is our Bane inherited of the Æon of Slain Gods. Look then first of all, when any Postulant boweth before thee, whether there be not Conflict and Restriction in his Mind, and in his Will. If he deem Good and Evil to be absolute, instead of as relative to the Health of this Body, or the Weal of the Society of which he is a Member, or what not, as it may be, instruct him. Or, if he will say…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…ther. ‘‘ He that came before thee.” ‘‘ Who am 1?” ‘‘ He that cometh after me.’’ With that worshipped our Father, and took a present of a great jewel from him, and went his ways. And he was bitterly a-cold, for that was the great Water he had passed. But our Father’s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. Wherefore. he was comforted. Now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. ‘‘ Woman,” he bade sternly, ‘‘be st…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some devotees on to the true Path of the Wise, unpromising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, and of c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 43 The Chairman. All those below the grade of Lords of the Absence of Paths in the Abyss of the Great Gulf Fixed will kindly leave the Court. I will myself set the example. [Exeunt Bonus and BOWLEY :011'. Bowie]. Your method of keeping silence is a good one. Dialogue is the best form, after all. But hush! who comes? Enter the YONLY YEATS, with druid apple-blossom in his hair, and the druid casting-net qf the stars in one hand. Doe: his turn and exit. Boner. To continue—True! And saying “ true,” let us discuss “tr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
… . To mask the truth , to worship , to forget ; These three are one .“ The moral character of a nation is its true capital , and the two great laws of existence are The 2 Ibid . 414 . 1 Beverland , 238 . 3 Oracles , vol . ii, p . 5. 4 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 208 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…r mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ he cried, pointing to the great statue of St. Michael trampling Satan, 121
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…r mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ he cried, pointing to the great statue of St. Michael trampling Satan, 121
1911 · PDF PAGE 102
… had _ before tempted the Scribe. She prevailed not.) I am afraid of sunset, for Tum is more terrible than Ra, and Khephra the Beetle is greater than the Lion Mau. I am a-cold. (Here Choronzon wanted to leave the triangle to obtain wherewith to cover his nakedness. The Scribe refused the request, threatening the demon. After a while the latter continued:) Iam commanded, why I know not, by him that speaketh. Were it thou, thou little fool, I would tear thee limb from limb. I would bite off thine ears and nose before I began with thee. I would ta…
1913 · PDF PAGE 316
… falling free upon the earth, dragged God with him in his fall. And therefore, from this sublime fall, he rises again glorious, with the great convict of Calvary, and enters with Him into the kingdom of heaven. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to intelligence and love, both children of liberty. God has shown liberty to man in the image of a lovely woman, and in order to test his courage, He made the phantom of death pass between her and him. Man loved, and felt himself to be God; he gave for her what God had just bestowed upon him—eternal hope…
1913 · PDF PAGE 397
…cience, faith constructs its hypotheses at random, and can only blindly prejudge the causes of the effects of which she is ignorant. The great chain which reunites science and faith is analogy. Science is obliged to respect a belief whose hypotheses are analogous to demonstrated truths. Faith, which attributes everything to God, is obliged to admit science as being a natural revelation which, by the partial manifestation of the laws of eternal reason, gives a scale of proportion to all the aspirations and to all the excursions of the soul into …
1913 · PDF PAGE 553
…ed each other in the workings of fatality, and their violent deaths were so many necessary catastrophes; at that epoch there was but one great and legitimate execution, really sacred, really expia- tory: that of the King. The principle of royalty would have fallen if that too weak prince had escaped. But a transaction between order and disorder was impossible. One does not inherit from those whom one murders; one robs them; and the Revolution rehabilitated Louis XVI by assassinating him. After so many concessions, so many weaknesses, so many un…
1913 · PDF PAGE 316
… falling free upon the earth, dragged God with him in his fall. And therefore, from this sublime fall, he rises again glorious, with the great convict of Calvary, and enters with Him into the kingdom of heaven. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to intelligence and love, both children of liberty. God has shown liberty to man in the image of a lovely woman, and in order to test his courage, He made the phantom of death pass between her and him. Man loved, and felt himself to be God; he gave for her what God had just bestowed upon him—eternal hope…
1913 · PDF PAGE 397
…cience, faith constructs its hypotheses at random, and can only blindly prejudge the causes of the effects of which she is ignorant. The great chain which reunites science and faith is analogy. Science is obliged to respect a belief whose hypotheses are analogous to demonstrated truths. Faith, which attributes everything to God, is obliged to admit science as being a natural revelation which, by the partial manifestation of the laws of eternal reason, gives a scale of proportion to all the aspirations and to all the excursions of the soul into …
1913 · PDF PAGE 553
…ed each other in the workings of fatality, and their violent deaths were so many necessary catastrophes; at that epoch there was but one great and legitimate execution, really sacred, really expia- tory: that of the King. The principle of royalty would have fallen if that too weak prince had escaped. But a transaction between order and disorder was impossible. One does not inherit from those whom one murders; one robs them; and the Revolution rehabilitated Louis XVI by assassinating him. After so many concessions, so many weaknesses, so many un…
1916 · PDF PAGE 1
…the game. The rulers of a country make most of their mistakes because the knowledge of detail which is constantly thrust upon them is so great that it binds them to fundamental considerations. The emergencies of the moment lure them into bypaths in which they become lost. Those ancient governors who, despairing of their own judgment, consulted the oracles, were truly wise. England never made so serious a mistake as when she failed to utilize the brain of Carlyle. The tendency of all men who are immersed in affairs, whether public or private, is…
1919 · PDF PAGE 64
…e former one. 21. Without Authority they could not do this, exalted as their rank was among adepts. They resolved to prepare all things, great and small, against that day when such Authority should be received by them, since they knew not where to seek for higher adepts than themselves, but 58