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Page 89 of 1081930 · PDF PAGE 37
nothing until brought into relation with other things. The first step is to distinguish one thought from another; this is the condi¬ tion of recognizing it. To define it, we must perceive its orientation to ali our other ideas. The extent of our knowledge of any one thing varies therefore with the number of ideas with which we can compare it. Every new fact not only adds itself to our universe, but increases the value of what we already possess. In AL this “The” or “God” arranges for “Countenance to behold countenance”, by establishing itself a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…ers little, but it is independent of all considerations of the man's attainment; it is an universal rule based on a particular theory of things in general. Thus, "benevolence and righteousness" are not "virtues"; they are only symptoms of the world-disease, in that they should be needed. The same applies to all conditions, and to all modes of seeking to modify them. There is only one proper reaction to event; that is, to adjust oneself with perfect elasticity to whatever happens. That tiger across the paddy-field looks hungry . There are severa…
1996 · PDF PAGE 103
…his state is however incapable of realization, as we know; and the Soul understanding this, can find no good but in “Cessa tion” of all things, its creations no more than its own tendencies to create. It therefore sighs for nibbana.
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused. He was engaged' to dine with a [17] Miss Badger in Cheyne Walk; possibly he might telephone later, if he got away early. She begged him to excuse himself; he answered — serious for the first t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… true for any save Him, even as no two artists can make identical pictures of the same subject. More, even in fundamentals, though these things be Truth for ail Mankind, as we carelessly say, any one particular Magician may be the one man for whom they are false. May not the flag that seems red to ten thousand seem green to some one other? Then, every man and every woman being a Star, that which is green to him is verily green 3 if he consent to the crowd and call it red, hath he not broken the Staff of Truth that he leaneth upon? Each and ever…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…which was immediately above him. He might hâve called this “God”, or “The Higher Self”, or “The Augoeides”, or “Adi-Buddha”, or 61 other things —but He had discovered that these w'ere ali one, yet that each one represented some theory of the Universe which would ultimately be shattered by criticism — for He had already passed through the realm of Reason, and knew that every statement contained an absurdity. He therefore said: “Let me déclaré this Work under this title: 'The obtaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian AngeP …
1996 · PDF PAGE 89
…ohydrate.” For each of these four terms describes a sensory impression on ourselves; and we define our impressions only in terms of such things as sugar. Thus “sweet” means “the quality ascribed by our taste to honey, sugar, etc.”; “white” is “what champaks, zinc oxide, sugar, etc., report to our eyesight”; and so on. The proposition is ultimately an iden tity, for all our attempts to evade the issue by creating complica tions. “Knowledge” is therefore not a “thing-in-itself”; it is rightly denied a place upon the Tree of Life; it pertains to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…ng done an outrageously foolish thing and got off scot free. When one sees life in perspective, it is an immense relief to discover that things like bankruptcy, wedlock, and the gallows made no particular différence. They were only accidents such as might happen to anybody; they had no real bearing on the point at issue. One consequently remembers having one’s ears cropped as a lucky escape, while the casual jest of a drunken skeinsmate in an all-night café stings one with the shame of the parvenu to whom a poli te stranger has unsuspectingly m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…these three dimensions. These points and lines and surfaces have all a minute extension in some other dimension, or they would be merely things in our imagination. The surface of water, for instance, is merely the boundary
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…lness. There is no need to knock the girl down, unless she refuses to do what you want, and she will always comply if you say a few nice things to her.2 You can always use the body inhabited by an elemental, such as an eagle, hare, wolf, or any convenient animal, by making a very simple compact. You take over the res- ponsibility for the animal, thus building it up into your own magical hierarchy. This represents a tremendous gain to the animal. 3 It competely fulfils its ambition by an alliance of this extremely intimate sort with a Star. The …
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
… man _ not unto the nore-mo-lape, tol-toregi, q-tofajilo poresa adoianu cadsago, Dorebesa terror of the sons of men the creatures or all things on the face of the earth. Obey na-e-el, marebe koredazodiz00a, Dorebesa jijipabe, oborela Das gobus. my power like reasoning creatures ; obey the living breath, the law which I speak. 61
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…g the difficulties of gravitation, and some others, gives us an idea of how it is that there is only a definite fixed number of kinds of things, from which all others are combined. "And now we can get down to business. Brother Cyril, who obliged with the cube, will be so good as to produce a wooden cone — and a basin of water." Brother Cyril complied. "I want you to realize," went on the old man, "that all the talk about the Progress of Science is cheap journalism. Most of the boasted progress is mere commercial adaptation of science, as who sh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
… understood as asserting that the Universe is pureîy subjective. On the contrary, the Magical Theory accepts the absolute reality of ail things in the most objective sense. But ail perceptions are neither the observer nor the observed; they are repré¬ sentations of the relation between them. We cannot affirm any quality in an object as being independent of our sensorium, or as being in itself that which it seems to us. Nor can we assume that what we coenize is more than a partial phantom of its cause. We cannot even déterminé the meaning of suc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 285
… with the kings that were? Do Ww nN » the Sons of the Night of Time endure for j ever? Not yet are they passed away. ob ES8 “ Before all things are the waters; and the Darkness and the Gates of the land Bopad |_| of Night. Barnet tose. “And the Chaos cried aloud for the wl | VV unity of Form, and the Face of the Eternal | temp. aa fe} arose, prereaw ey Wate” “ EEN, incense © And before the Glory of That Coun- Om Gen MeAY tenance the Night rolled back, and the ||Geay| WP | fete | | tome Mor Darkness hasted away. U “In the Waters beneath was that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 285
… with the kings that were? Do Ww nN » the Sons of the Night of Time endure for j ever? Not yet are they passed away. ob ES8 “ Before all things are the waters; and the Darkness and the Gates of the land Bopad |_| of Night. Barnet tose. “And the Chaos cried aloud for the wl | VV unity of Form, and the Face of the Eternal | temp. aa fe} arose, prereaw ey Wate” “ EEN, incense © And before the Glory of That Coun- Om Gen MeAY tenance the Night rolled back, and the ||Geay| WP | fete | | tome Mor Darkness hasted away. U “In the Waters beneath was that…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…ule of silence, and in protecting philosophy from the profane. Yet still she hopes that the mischief may not prove mortal, and begs that things may go on much as usual until that secret session décidé on some plan of action. It has always been fatal when somebody finds out too much too suddenly. If John Huss had cackled more like a hen, he might hâve survived Michaelmas, and been esteemed for his eggs. The last fifty years hâve laid the axe of analysis to the root of every axiomj they are triflers who content themselves with lopping the blossom…
1996 · PDF PAGE 25
… only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monism, but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of Himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presup pose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no objec tion to this theory to ask who made the elements—the elements are at least there; and God, when you look for him, is not there. Theism is obscurum per obscurius) A male star is built up from the centre outwards, a female star from the 1 [Lat., “Explaining the ob…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
… His Work, however obvious it may seem to the onlooker that His advantage lies in commanding stones to become bread, or otherwise making things easy for Himself. These considérations being thoroughly understood we may return to the question of making the Magical Link. In the case above cited Frater Perdurabo composed His talisman by invoking His Holy Guardian Angel according to the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage. That Angel wrote on the lamen the Word of the Aeon. The Book of the Law is this writing. To this lamen the Master Therion gave l…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…s. I LEARNT at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thoughts immense Like this I thought: plumes of my amorous quill I tickled her withal: then grave and still Waited secure: the silence grew intense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not overbold ; quite powerless to destroy Her life’s long peace, the ten-year-walléd city. Why be too cruel, check such baby joy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…aters, and in the all-presence of Fire: Heaven cannot speak their fulness, Earth cannot utter it. Yet hath the Creator bound them in all things. He hath mingled them through Water: He hath whirled them aloft in Fire: He hath sealed them in the Air of Heaven: He hath distributed them through the Planets: He hath assigned unto them the twelve constellations of the Zodiac.” He then explains that to the Thirty-second Path of the Sepher Yetzirah is attributed the seven Abodes of Assiah ; to the four Elements, the Kerubim, and the Qliphoth.* D1aGRaM …