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Page 94 of 1731944 · PDF PAGE 166
…ity of Earth regarded as the producer of Life. He rules from the 21st degree of Leo to the 20th de‐ gree of Virgo, and is thus concerned greatly with agriculture. This warrior is short and sturdy in type. He is clothed in great solidity of plate armour; but his helmet, which is crested with the head of a stag, is thrown back, for at the moment his function is entirely con‐ fined to the production of food. For this reason he is armed with a flail. The disk which he bears, more‐ over, is very solid; it represents nutrition. These characteristics …
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…ns in the trigrams of Fo-hi and the hexagrams of King Wu. In the last year be abolished the Yang and the Yin, and became united with the great Tao. All this was very satisfactory to Kwaw. But even his iron frame had become somewhat impaired by the unvarying diet of tinned pro visions; and it was perhaps only by virtue of this talisman
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…his hunger slake By plunging in the waters , though he knew His drowning body drowned her image too. " There he , or now she , meets the great god wander ing through the green trees and the cool groves , as Jahveh was wont once to do . Amidst those shades of Ida , where Paris adjudged the prize of beauty , over looking the blue Hellespont , the greatest sacrifice , and thereby the purest that love can make , was to be demanded , and freely given -- the sacrifice of a woman's honour to save her lover ; in fact to become a prosti tute in body , a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX Listen, we pray you, with attention: for once only does the Great Order knock at any one door. Whosoever knows any member of that Order as such, can never know another, until he too has attained to mas- tery. Here, therefore, we pause, that you may thoroughly search yourself, and consider if you are yet fitted to take an irrevocable step. For the reading of that which follows is Recorded. THE HISTORY LECTION 7. Some years ago a number of cipher MSS. were dis- covered and deciphered by certain students. They at- tracted much attentio…
1919 · PDF PAGE 355
…ough its heart and drunk its life sap. The English is here ambiguous and obscure, but the meaning is that it is important to achieve the Great Work while you have youth and energy. 69. The golden tree puts forth its jewel-buds before its trunk is withered by the storm. Repeats this in clearer language. 70. The Pupil must regain THE CHILD-STATE HE HAS LOST ere the first sound can fall upon his ear. 33
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…NCERNING DIVERS ORDERS OF BEING; AND OF THE STATE OF THE LADY ILIEL, AND HER DESIRES, AND OF THE SECOND VISION THAT SHE HAD IN WAKING. A GREAT peace brooded on the Villa. Daily sun gathered the strength; and the west wind told the flowers that a little bird had whispered to him that the spring was coming. The results of the magical invocations began to peep through the veil of matter, like early crocuses. The atmosphere of house and garden was languid and romantic, so that a stranger could not have failed to feel it; yet with this was a timid y…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…but all future hope, was annihilated. It was during my convalescence that the most re- markable incident of my life took place. I was in great pain one afternoon, and wished to see the doctor. The nurse went to the study to tele- phone for him. Nurse! I said, as she returned, don't lie to me. He's not gone to Royston; he's got cancer, and is too upset to come. Whatever next? said the nurse. It's right he cant come, and I was going to tell you he had gone to Roys- ton; but I never heard nothing about no cancer.
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
… to the Order. Dominus Liminis. — Is expected to show mastery of Pratyahara and Dharana. Adeptus (without). — Is expected to perform the Great Work and to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Adeptus (within). — Is admitted to the practice of the formula of the Rosy Cross on entering the College of the Holy Ghost. Adeptus (Major). — Obtains a general mastery of practical Magick, though without compréhension. Adeptus (Exemptus). — Complétés in perfection ail these mat- ters. He then either (a) becomes a Brother of th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…unctions of Christianity. Where ignorant savages perform propitiatory rites, there and there only Christianity takes hold. But under the great systems of the civilised parts of the world, there is no trace of any such perversion in religious feeling. It is only the bloodthirsty and futile Jehovah who has achieved such monstrous births. Such upas-trees can only grow in the poisonous mire of fear and shame where thought has putrefied to Christianity. There is thus no antecedent improbability that Gilles de Rais (or any other person of that place …
1954 · PDF PAGE 467
…atures being no longer coloured and confused, they may be regulated and formulated in Simplicity by the Operation of Pure Reason, to thy great Comfort in the Work of our Transcendental Art, whereby the Many become One. Sequitur (2) Classica My son, neglect not in any wise the study of the Writings of Antiquity, and that in the original Language. For by this thou shalt discover the History of the Structure of thy Mind, that is, its Nature regarded as the last Term in a Sequence of Causes and Effects. For thy Mind hath been built of of these Elem…
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…ther. “He that came before thee.” “Who am I ?” “ He that com eth after m e.” W ith that wors hipped our F ather, and took a present of a great jewel fro m him, and went his way s. And he was bitterly a-cold, for that was th e great W ater he had passed. But our Father’s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. Wherefore he was comforted. Now cam e the sudden twittering of heart lest the firm ament 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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 237
…wley at once answers , “ All judgements are founded on experience . This primary fallacy of à priori validity is clearly the root of the great follies which follow . 1 + 1 = 2 cannot be doubted , but it is a definition , and means nothing , being arbitrary . But 2 + 2 = 4 is a synthetic conception .] Similarly under this synthetic heading , Kant tackles “ Mathematical judgements , illustrating his concep
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…ical apparatus. The mantra has slowed down to (at a guess) a quarter of its old pace. The rest in unison. This is because the feeling of great power, etc. etc., is the mere evidence of con- flict—the thunder of the guns. Now all is at peace; the power of the river, no more a torrent. The Concourse of the Forces has become the Harmony of the Forces; the word Tetragrammation is spoken and ended ; the holy letter Shin is descended into it. For the roaring God of Sinai we have the sleeping Babe of Bethlehem. A fulfilment, not a destroying, of the Law…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
…e content with little or with much; but only with the Ultimate Attainment. Apparently the method is just this; to store up—no matter how—great treasures of energy and purity, until they begin to do the work themselves (in the way that the Hindus call Sukshma). Just so the engineer—five feet six in his boots—and his men build the dam. The snows melt on the mountains, the river rises, and the land is irrigated, in a way that is quite independent of the physical strength of that Five foot Six of engineer. The engineer might even be swept away and d…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…s the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” the Bodhi Satva, the Buddha, the Christ. Thus is fulfilled again and again the great prophecy: Whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my- self. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm “Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing law; but onlya line of least resistance along which all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…s the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” the Bodhi Satva, the Buddha, the Christ. Thus is fulfilled again and again the great prophecy: Whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my- self. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm “Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing law; but onlya line of least resistance along which all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
…stic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school- boys, and the football field is a perfect prophylactic of swelled head. When the mystic meets an obstacle, he “ makes believe" about it. He says it is “only illusion.” He has the morphine-maniacs feeling of bien-étre, the delusions of the general paralytic. He loses the power of looking a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
…stic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school- boys, and the football field is a perfect prophylactic of swelled head. When the mystic meets an obstacle, he “ makes believe" about it. He says it is “only illusion.” He has the morphine-maniacs feeling of bien-étre, the delusions of the general paralytic. He loses the power of looking a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 95
THE VISION AND THE VOICE since he reverenceth the Person of the Seer as his Teacher, let the Seer bind him with a great Oath to do this. Now, then, the Seer being entered within the triangle, let him take the Victims and cut their throats, pouring the blood within the Triangle, and being most heedful that not one drop fall without the Triangle; or else Choronzon should be able to manifest in the universe. And when the sand hath sucked up the blood of the victims, let him recite the Call of the Aethyr apart secretly as aforesaid. Then will the V…
1913 · PDF PAGE 546
…-by who asked alms of him. It is as emphatic as the word which tradition associates with Cambronne, and perhaps the famous thief and the great general both really replied in the same manner. It was that same Cartouche who offered,.on another occasion, of his own accord and without it being asked of him, twenty thousand pounds to a bankrupt. One must act properly to one’s brothers. Mutual assistance is a law of nature. To aid those who are like ourselves is to aid ourselves. But above mutual 248