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Page 98 of 1731910 · PDF PAGE 26
…d of the Masters to the World) must move with that world and follow it into its corruption, redeeming the same. The simple humanity, the great guffawing indecency, of Shakespeare is well enough for the pagan society of Eliza- beth. The splendid savage Jehovah is sane enough and grand enough for nomadic Israel. But since then the World is Christianized, and there is a need for the bitter- ness of Shelley and Byron, the intense “ justification by sin ” doctrine of Swinburne. Perhaps we are wrong to have thought of Swinburne as having recanted ; i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
THE RITE OF SATURN And now at last authentic word I bring, Witnessed by every dead and living thing ; Good tidings of great joy for you, {or all : There is no God ; no Fiend with names divine Made us and tortures us ; if we must pine, It is to satiate no Being’s gall. It was the dark delusion ofa dream, That living Person conscious and supreme, Whom we must curse for cursing us with life; Whom we must curse because the life He gave Could not be buried in the quiet grave, Could not he killed by poison or by knife. This little life is all we must…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
THE RITE OF SATURN And now at last authentic word I bring, Witnessed by every dead and living thing ; Good tidings of great joy for you, {or all : There is no God ; no Fiend with names divine Made us and tortures us ; if we must pine, It is to satiate no Being’s gall. It was the dark delusion ofa dream, That living Person conscious and supreme, Whom we must curse for cursing us with life; Whom we must curse because the life He gave Could not be buried in the quiet grave, Could not he killed by poison or by knife. This little life is all we must…
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
…re he who hideth himself is like unto the light; but thou openest thyself; thou art like unto the darkness that bindeth the belly of the great goddess.* OLAHO VIRUDEN MAHORELA ZODIREDA! ON PIREDA EXENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELU- CORSAPAX. And the voice of the aeon cried: Return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles in the throat of the mighty dragon of eld. Thou canst not pass by me, except thou have the mystery of the word of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
…ighting with Astaroth. I jumped up, and a voice said in my ear: ‘Arise and go to the help of thy Master; he is in danger.’ I got up in a great hurry. But where must I run? What danger threatened you? Was it at your own house, or elsewhere? The voice said nothing about that. I decided to wait for sunrise; and immediately day dawned, I ran, and here I am.” “Thanks, friend,” said the magus, holding out his hand ; “ Astaroth is a stupid joker; all that happened last night was a little blood to the head. Now, I am perfectly well. Be assured, then, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 472
…s not he, then,” thought Eliphas. ‘However, I still keep in my ear and in my memory the word which would now be explained for me by this great crime: ‘ You will soon learn something. Before a little, you will hear speak of me.’” The trial took place with all the frightful vicissitudes with which every one is familiar, and the accused was condemned to death. The next day, Eliphas read in a legal newspaper the account of this unheard-of scene in the annals of justice, but a cloud passed over his eyes when he came to the description of the accused…
1913 · PDF PAGE 573
…Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended to be over eighty. Ninon de !l’Enclos, in her very old age, was still a young, beautiful and seductive woman. She died without having grown old. Desbarrolles, the celebrated palmist, has been for a long while for everybody a man of thirty-five years. His birth certificate would speak very differently if he dared to show it, but no one would believe it. Cagliostro always appeare…
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
…ighting with Astaroth. I jumped up, and a voice said in my ear: ‘Arise and go to the help of thy Master; he is in danger.’ I got up in a great hurry. But where must I run? What danger threatened you? Was it at your own house, or elsewhere? The voice said nothing about that. I decided to wait for sunrise; and immediately day dawned, I ran, and here I am.” “Thanks, friend,” said the magus, holding out his hand ; “ Astaroth is a stupid joker; all that happened last night was a little blood to the head. Now, I am perfectly well. Be assured, then, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 472
…s not he, then,” thought Eliphas. ‘However, I still keep in my ear and in my memory the word which would now be explained for me by this great crime: ‘ You will soon learn something. Before a little, you will hear speak of me.’” The trial took place with all the frightful vicissitudes with which every one is familiar, and the accused was condemned to death. The next day, Eliphas read in a legal newspaper the account of this unheard-of scene in the annals of justice, but a cloud passed over his eyes when he came to the description of the accused…
1913 · PDF PAGE 573
…Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended to be over eighty. Ninon de !l’Enclos, in her very old age, was still a young, beautiful and seductive woman. She died without having grown old. Desbarrolles, the celebrated palmist, has been for a long while for everybody a man of thirty-five years. His birth certificate would speak very differently if he dared to show it, but no one would believe it. Cagliostro always appeare…
1919 · PDF PAGE 84
…nge; the Heart that Thou dost encircle is an Universal Heart. 21. I, and Me, and Mine were sitting with lutes in the market-place of the great city, the city of the violets and the roses. 22. The night fell, and the music of the lutes was stilled. 23. The tempest arose, and the music of the lutes was stilled. 24. The hour passed, and the music of the lutes was stilled. 25. But Thou art Eternity and Space; Thou art Matter and Motion; and Thou art the negation of all these things. 26. For there is no Symbol of Thee. 78
1919 · PDF PAGE 363
…ary ‘Book of the Golden Pre- cepts’ must be studied without ever losing sight of this fact. 3. Quoth the Teacher: The Paths are two; the great Perfections three; six are the Virtues that transform the body into the Tree of Know- ledge. The “Tree of Knowledge” is of course another euphe- mism, the “Dragon Tree” representing the uniting of the straight and the curved. A further description of the Tree under which Gautama sat and attained emancipation is unfit for this elementary comment. Aum Mani Padmen Hum. 41
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…erity the menial servility of modern society , as scathing as a Beverland , as cynical as a Carlyle , and as satirical as a Butler . Its great theme is the contest “ of age and sense with flatulence and youth .” We have already shaken hands with Percy , Molly , and Lady Baird ( Angela ) ; we have still to be introduced to Lord Glenstrae . The first two form the flatulent element , the latter two the constipated substance of this drama . Angela , the female quantity ; Glenstrae the male : both are outwardly highly moral ; both are ready to lay t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
THE NEW WINE 221 wilderness of doubt , he also left the great riddle un answered , to leap voiceless midst the desert wind , and to dance songless 'mongst his bleached and rattling bones . Further on we shall see how Crowley , setting out with both chart and compass , like a second Edipus wrested the secret from the age -worn lips of the Sphinx ; for as he himself says : Eternal mockery is the real ; Eternal falsehood , the ideal .' However , Hume arrives at a negative result of ex traordinary worth . He took Newton's second law of motion ,' i.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…sters than that of the bewildered crowd. More important and certain than the mere characteristics of mystic trances in themselves is the great and vital diagnostic that the result of a true trance is to inspire the Yogi with power to do first-rate work in his own department. People who produce maudlin and hysterical gush, inane sentimentality, who are faddists, fools, drivellers, dodderers— these I refuse to accept as mystics. The true phenomena of mysticism can only occur in a high-class brain and a healthy brain; and their action on that brai…
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…sters than that of the bewildered crowd. More important and certain than the mere characteristics of mystic trances in themselves is the great and vital diagnostic that the result of a true trance is to inspire the Yogi with power to do first-rate work in his own department. People who produce maudlin and hysterical gush, inane sentimentality, who are faddists, fools, drivellers, dodderers— these I refuse to accept as mystics. The true phenomena of mysticism can only occur in a high-class brain and a healthy brain; and their action on that brai…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…Magicians as may hâve found their way to the Sources of Strength. In ail cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the One Great Work. He who would reach Intelligences of the type under discussion may expect extreme difficulty. The paths are guarded; there is a lion in the way. Technical expertness will not serve here; it is necessary to satisfy the Warders of one’s right to enter the presence of the Master. Particular pledges may be demanded, ordeals imposed, and initiations conferred. These are most serious matters; the Body of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…I shall try a little longer in the Position of the Hanged Man, although sleep is again attacking me. I am weary, yet content, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing no man can be positive about from the nature of things—it must have happened so quietly that I never knew. Certainly I should not have thought that I had gone on for 25 minutes, as I did. But I do indeed ask for a Knowledge and Conversa- tion of the Holy Guardian Angel which is not left so much to be inferred from the good results in my life…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…ve of truth assumed for the benefit of my biographer I All these strange things suffered and enjoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. One cannot express the horror of this thought; it is The thought that murders the soul—and there is no answer to it. So universal is it that it is impossible to prove the contrary. So one must play the man, and master it and kill it utterly, burying it in that putrid hell from which it sprang. Luckily I have dealt with it before, Once when I lived at Paddington J—s and F—r were with me talking, and,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…e fond of telling us what things are.) It is useless to label the whole lot as insane: nor are they unimportant. In my view, most of the great men of the world have known them; themselves attributed their greatness to these experiences, and I really do not see why admittedly lesser men should contradict them. I hope to argue this point at greater length when I am better documented ; but at the very least, these states are of the most extraordinary interest. Even as insanities, they would demand the strictest investiga- tion from the light they …