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Page 99 of 1291909 · PDF PAGE 269
…KHABS AM PEKHT!” “KONX OM PAX!” “LIGHT IN EXTENSION!” The Hierophant then finally closes the ceremony by saying : ‘May what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the Quint- essence ; the Stone of the Philosophers ; the True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness, and the Summum Bonum.” All then disrobe and disperse. Undoubtedly the passing through the Ritual of the Neophyte had an important influence on P.’s mind, and on his Spiritual Progress; for, shortly after its celebration, we find him experiencing some very extraordinary visio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 269
…KHABS AM PEKHT!” “KONX OM PAX!” “LIGHT IN EXTENSION!” The Hierophant then finally closes the ceremony by saying : ‘May what we have this day partaken of, sustain us in our search for the Quint- essence ; the Stone of the Philosophers ; the True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness, and the Summum Bonum.” All then disrobe and disperse. Undoubtedly the passing through the Ritual of the Neophyte had an important influence on P.’s mind, and on his Spiritual Progress; for, shortly after its celebration, we find him experiencing some very extraordinary visio…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…nd it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians, or the mechanical contrivances which seem to-day so fine, and which our children will disdain as clumsy” (R. B, Cunninghame Graham in his preface to “ The Canon”). * Form here is synonymous with the Hindu Mayda; it is also the chief power of the Buddhist devil, Mara, and even of that mighty devil, Choronzon. IV D 49
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…iscovered it is kept secret, and the more secretly it is kept and the more it is hoarded the richer becomes the discoverer, and then one day will come wherein he will be able to pay his own ransom, and this is the only ransom that is acceptable unto God. + Possibly the restraint of Brahmacharya produced the Siddhis, and that further restraint in its turn produced an accumulation of these occult powers, the benefit accruing from which is again placed to the credit of the bodily powers. 195
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…nd it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians, or the mechanical contrivances which seem to-day so fine, and which our children will disdain as clumsy” (R. B, Cunninghame Graham in his preface to “ The Canon”). * Form here is synonymous with the Hindu Mayda; it is also the chief power of the Buddhist devil, Mara, and even of that mighty devil, Choronzon. IV D 49
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…iscovered it is kept secret, and the more secretly it is kept and the more it is hoarded the richer becomes the discoverer, and then one day will come wherein he will be able to pay his own ransom, and this is the only ransom that is acceptable unto God. + Possibly the restraint of Brahmacharya produced the Siddhis, and that further restraint in its turn produced an accumulation of these occult powers, the benefit accruing from which is again placed to the credit of the bodily powers. 195
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
… so dreadfully easy; and the danger of becoming a pedant-"Deuce take all your pedants! say I." Don't "dry-rot at ease 'till the Judgment Day." No, I will NOT recommend a book. It should not hurt you too much to browse on condensed hay (or thistles) such as articles in Encyclopedias . Take Roget's Thesaurus or Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary (and the like) to read yourself to sleep on. But don 't stultify yourself by taking up such study too seriously. You only make yourself ridiculous by trying to do at 50 what you ought to have done at IS…
1929 · PDF PAGE 261
…ry. The valley was gorgeously wild, it glowed with rich bright grass and masses of marvellous flowers. There was an admirable track. The day was fine and I had views of both Little and Big Kabru (21,290 and 24,015 feet respectively) but Kangchenjunga itself was hidden in clouds. I have rarely enjoyed a mountain walk so thoroughly and my heart was uplifted by the excellence of our prospects. {431} It sang within me. I was already at fourteen or fifteen thousand feet, less than a fortnight our from the base, in perfect physical condition, not an …
1929 · PDF PAGE 583
…y of backstairs intrigue and foul strokes, whenever they felt sure that I could not defend myself or hit back was still the order of the day. The commissary of Police was staggered by the smiling calm with which I received this stab in the back. I did not even protest or ask for the reason of the outrage. I courteously requested a week's grace to arrange my affairs, which he, with equal politeness, granted. He tried one dirty police trick. These people seemed unable to help themselves. He tried to persuade me that the order included the whole c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…ority, and not as the scribes.” Why he allows Mathers to go about saying that he is a Jesuit and a poisoner will be revealed at the Last Day. Perhaps, like us, he can’t catch him. Or perhaps it is that he is contented to be a great novelist—as he is, bar the weakness of his English and an occa- sional touch of Early Victorian prunes-and-prismism. He has every other qualification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…ority, and not as the scribes.” Why he allows Mathers to go about saying that he is a Jesuit and a poisoner will be revealed at the Last Day. Perhaps, like us, he can’t catch him. Or perhaps it is that he is contented to be a great novelist—as he is, bar the weakness of his English and an occa- sional touch of Early Victorian prunes-and-prismism. He has every other qualification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…ave been accepted with pious glee? Things went from bad to worse as I grew in moral power. Part of the time I was well enough to go to a day school in Streatham, where I learnt at long last the terrible secret which I had racked my brains to discover for nearly three years. Here was certainly a sin worth sinning and I applied myself with characteristic vigour to its practice. As my father had been accustomed to drink wine, I could not see how drinking could be a sin. There was, therefore, no object in doing it. I never touched wine until I got …
1929 · PDF PAGE 495
…s chair at Austin. He had read and admired some of my work, and sought me out in my cottage by Lake Pasquaney. We spent three delightful days without even stopping talking, bar odd snatches of sleep. In conversation, he was delightful, breezy and instructive. Our acquaintance had ripened into something like friendship. He behaved very strangely in this matter of The International. He professed the warmest friendship for me, spent sometime almost every day in my office chatting; we lunched and dined together quite often, but he never breathed on…
1922 · PDF PAGE 257
The Final Plunge 243 Peter has got more silent and morose every day, like the weather. He seems to have something on his mind. I wish he’d tell me what it is... . He brightened up at dinner. “‘ Let’s go to town to-morrow, Lou,’”’ he said. ‘“‘ We'll just take small bags. We needn’t be away more than two or three days. What we need is a few decent meals in a restaurant, and take in a show or two, and perhaps get a bunch down here to liven us up a bit. The birds are pretty good this year after all.” October 31 It only struck us when we got into th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 334
…ath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss.3 2. A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this meditation. But one day being thrown with his horse over a sheer cliff of forty feet, and escaping without a scratch or a bruise, he was reminded of his many narrow escapes from death . These proved to be the last factors in his problem which, thus completed, solved itself in a moment. (O.M. Chinese Frontier, 1905-6) 3. The above is quoted from Liber Thisharb; see Magick in Theory and Practice, pp.420-422.
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
…S VEL CARMINUM 135 Black heavens that hover, Light gathered in sheaves Blind air that obeys, Of tenderest fears I come to thee over ' As dayspring enweaves The mountainous ways My soul into spheres— As a bride to the bridegroom: I blush, but] I hear, and I nestle upon thee, O lyrist I come supreme, And bow to thee dumb. Light loves in a dream. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. O blacker than hell, Child of sweet rain, © bluer than heaven, O fathered of frost ! O green as the dell Bitterest pain Lit of sunlight at even ! The birth of thee cost. © strong as a sp…
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…ppy ; therefore they hate us ; therefore as they spat on Christ, forsaken of all but John, his sweet-voiced catamite, so does the cur to-day spit in the face of Oscar Wilde, as he goes from the judge to the prison.
1954 · PDF PAGE 149
…. And I ask him: Why does he tell me that? And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower shall bloom? And thou shalt give thy wisdom unto the world, and that shall be thy garden. And concerning time and death, thou hast naught to do with these things. For though a precious stone be hidden in the sand of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
146 make him feel as the inhabitants of Dayton, Tennessee, and some others do in a monkey-house. A similar situation exists in the southern states of America, where the pure whites are outnumbered by the negroes, and where a large population of mixed blood provides the logical link. In south Africa, again, we find the same situation; and the practical result is that the white man, feeling his footing insecure, dares not tolerate the native as he can in India, where the relations between the population and the conquering invader are understood b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 573
… Dartnell in her spiritual work increased her enthusiasm {905} at first, and I was still so young in experience that it surprised me one day, when she came into my room full of rubbishy rigmarole purporting to come from some angel. "Have you learnt nothing in all this time?" said I. It was all no good. The verbose pomposity and extravagant promises of the false meant more to her than the calm wisdom of the true. Having fallen on one plane the others were sympathetically affected. Next day she was hopelessly drunk, broke her evening appointment …