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1913 · PDF PAGE 92

The Book of Lies

KE@AAH OA KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL For mind and body alike there is no purgative like Pranayama, no purgative like Prana- yama. For mind, for body, for mind and body alike— alike!—there is, there is, there is no purga- tive, no purgative like Pranayama—Prana- yama !—Pranayama! yea, for mind and body alike there is no purgative, no purgative, no purgative (for mind and body alike!) no like Pranayama, like Pranayama, like Prana — Prana — Prana — Prana — Pranayama! — Pranayama ! AMEN.

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1930 · PDF PAGE 26

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

… what is shewn you, and you are probably shewn things perfectly pointless and irrelevant. The proper metnod is as followsi — Devciop the body oi Liglil until îî is jiisl ns real to y ou as your otlier body. teacli it îo travel to any desired Symbol, and enable it te perform ail neeessary Rites and Invocations. In sbort, edncate it. Ultimately, the relation of that body with your own must be exceedingly intimâtes but before this harmonizing takes place, you should begin by a careful différentiation. The first thing to do, therefore, is to get th…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 24

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…e Magician becomes tonscious of that part of himself which he calls the immortal Osins j and that Part does not “die”. Now this interior body of the Magician, of which we spoke at the begmning of this chapter, does exist, and can exert certain powers which his natural body cannot do. It can, for example, pass tirough matter , and it can move freelv in every direction * ni ough space. But this is because “matter”, in the sense in which we commonly use the word, is on another plane 2. Now this fine body perceives a uni verse which we do not ordin…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 204

Liber Aleph

…y not: this is the Truth. First in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, individual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuith. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of he Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhabiteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And his Tabernacle is Subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse reacting to every Stimulus or Impression. If then the mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath no Power to decompose it wholly, but a d…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 124

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

…private instruction. II The essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the Magical Being or Body of Light. This process will be discussed at some length in Chapter XVIII. We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anyy/here and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own element. Therefore, although he may be able to penetrate the utmost rec…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 71

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

… possible your own figure standing in front of you. Transfer your consciousness to that figure, so that you look down upon your physical body in the chair. (This is usually the one difficulty.) Feeling perfectly at home in your imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. Stop. Look around you. Probably the eyes of your ‘“‘astral” body will be closed. It is sometimes difficult to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of co…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 71

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

… possible your own figure standing in front of you. Transfer your consciousness to that figure, so that you look down upon your physical body in the chair. (This is usually the one difficulty.) Feeling perfectly at home in your imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. Stop. Look around you. Probably the eyes of your ‘“‘astral” body will be closed. It is sometimes difficult to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of co…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 28

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…able examples of repeated losses from this cause. The emotional type of religionist also suffers in this way. Dévotion projects the fine body, which is seized and vampirized by the démon masquerading as “Christ” or “Mary”, or whoever may be the object of worship. Complété absence of ail power to concentrate thought, to follow an argument, to formulate a Will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve thus lost parts of their soûls. They wander from one new cuit to another even…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 107

Gargoyles

…e, I draw the following inferences :—Death, if I am right, is in the first place the separation from one another of two things, soul and body; nothing else. And after they are separated they retain their several natures, as in life; the body keeps the same habit, and the results of treatment or accident are distinctly visible in it: for example, he who by nature or training or both was a tall man while he was alive, will remain as he was, after he is dead; and the fat will remain fat; and soon; and the dead man who in life had a fancy to have f…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 46

Liber Aleph

LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 34 Ah De Libertate Corporis (Of Liberty of the Body) HERE shall be no Property in Human Flesh. Every Man and every Woman hath Right Indefeasable to give the Body for the Enjoyment of any other. The Exercise of this Right shall not be punished either by Law or by Custom; there shall be no Penalty either by Loss or Curtailment of Liberty, of Rights, of Wealth, or of Social Esteem; but this Freedom shall be respected of all, seeing that it is the Right of the Bodily Will. For this same Reason thou shalt cause full Restriction a…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX which will teach him how to control his mind. Little by little, as the body comes under control, does the mind assert its sway over the body; and little by little, as the mind asserts its sway, does it come gradually, little by little under the rule of the Atman, until ultimately the Atman, Augoeides, Higher Self or Adonai fills the Space which was once occupied solely by the body and mind of the aspirant. Therefore through the death of the body as it were is the resurrection of the Higher Self accomplished, and the pinnacles of tha…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 90

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX which will teach him how to control his mind. Little by little, as the body comes under control, does the mind assert its sway over the body; and little by little, as the mind asserts its sway, does it come gradually, little by little under the rule of the Atman, until ultimately the Atman, Augoeides, Higher Self or Adonai fills the Space which was once occupied solely by the body and mind of the aspirant. Therefore through the death of the body as it were is the resurrection of the Higher Self accomplished, and the pinnacles of tha…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 201

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 179 SONNET FOR G. F. KELLY’S DRAWING OF AN HERM- APHRODITE. BODY pale and beautiful with sin ! O breasts with venom swollen by the snakes Of passion, whose cold slaver slimes and slakes The soul-consuming fevers that within Thy heart the fires of hell on earth begin ! O heart whose yearning after truth forsakes The law of love! O heart whose ocean breaks In sterile foam against some golden skin ! O thou whose body is one perfect prayer, One long regret, one agony of shame, Lost in the fragrance, speeding, subtle and rare, …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 75

Alice: An Adultery

…atched us at midnight : there my lover lay Child-breasted, maiden as the rose of day Dawning on snowy mountains : through deep night Her body gleamed self-luminously white With the sweet soul that sundered the quick clay, And all her being was a sense of May ;— Scent conquering colour, soul out-running sight. Not with the Lysian, nor Iacchian dew Of frenzy covered, but with warmer flakes Of Aphrodite shed upon our life, We clung still closer, till the soul ran through Body to body, twined like sunny snakes, Sinlessly knowing we were man and wif…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX I. Anandamayakos’a, Body of Bliss, is innermost. It is still an illusion. Atma, Buddhi and Manas at most par- ticipate. 2. Manomayakos’a. The illusionary thought-sheath includ- ing Manas, Buddhi, Chittam, and Ahankara in union with one or more of the Gnanendriyams. 3. Viiifianamaydkos’a. The consciousness sheath, which con- sists of Anthakdrana in union with an organ of action or of sense—Gnan- and Karm-endriyam. 4. Pranamayakos’a. Consists of the five airs. Here we drop below Anthakarana. 5. Annamaydkos’a. Body of Nourishment. The …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 98

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX I. Anandamayakos’a, Body of Bliss, is innermost. It is still an illusion. Atma, Buddhi and Manas at most par- ticipate. 2. Manomayakos’a. The illusionary thought-sheath includ- ing Manas, Buddhi, Chittam, and Ahankara in union with one or more of the Gnanendriyams. 3. Viiifianamaydkos’a. The consciousness sheath, which con- sists of Anthakdrana in union with an organ of action or of sense—Gnan- and Karm-endriyam. 4. Pranamayakos’a. Consists of the five airs. Here we drop below Anthakarana. 5. Annamaydkos’a. Body of Nourishment. The …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 49

The Book of Lies

KE®AAH AE VENUS OF MILO Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond Life and Death. Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diverse developments of One Organ, so also

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1996 · PDF PAGE 125

The Law is for All

126 The Law is for All the Mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath not Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the Dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE EQUINOX so the Karma, released from the body of the dead man, will circle round until it finds the body of a new-born child tuned or syntonized to its particular waves. Now we are not concerned here with stray children who like the receivers of a wireless telegraph pick up either good or evil messages; but it is an interesting fact to learn that at least certain orthodox Buddhists attribute so complex and con- siderable a power to the brain, that by the fact of leaving one body that body perishes, and of entering another that body revives. …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 154

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

THE EQUINOX so the Karma, released from the body of the dead man, will circle round until it finds the body of a new-born child tuned or syntonized to its particular waves. Now we are not concerned here with stray children who like the receivers of a wireless telegraph pick up either good or evil messages; but it is an interesting fact to learn that at least certain orthodox Buddhists attribute so complex and con- siderable a power to the brain, that by the fact of leaving one body that body perishes, and of entering another that body revives. …

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