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…ractices he performed during this period, but we may mention, for the sake of completeness, a few fragments recorded during the last few days of the Retirement. October 9, 9.6 P.M. (This was the 9th day of Section C, and the 39th day of the complete Operation.) The ‘state’ is getting more and more difficult to describe, in fact I don’t know what to make of it. I might almost say I feel ‘normal’; and yet there is a subtle difference. There is (I think) an entire absence of fear, worry, disgust, joy, sorrow, pain, or any of the old states, and th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 195
… This truth is waiting in readiness for all those who will consciously accept it, but it has to be realised before it is understood, and day by day those who have accepted this Law, and are trying to live it, realize more and more of its Beauty and Perfection. The new teaching appears strange at first; and the mind is unable to grasp more than a fragment of what it really means. Only when we are living the Law can that fragment expand into the infinite conception of the whole. I want you to share with me one little fragment of this great Truth …
1919 · PDF PAGE 150
…nd deceive myself. . at 7.10 P.M. to Mrs. R. (loud) . at 9.00 P.M. Office. . at 10.30 P.M. to wife. . at 11.30 P.M. to wife. 8 Total for day. This was a very bad day; and I had so much hoped to get through one clear day without a break! Never mind, better results next experiment. Saturday, Jan. 14, 6.30 P.M. Results very poor again. 1. during morning. I. at 1.45 P.M. to wife. I. at 3.00 P.M. to wife. Tora, Saturday evening, Jan. 7.. Sunday Monday . Tuesday . Wednesday ... Thursday . Friday .. Sat. till 4 P.M... Blwawvnoaanond Total for week....…
1919 · PDF PAGE 85
… no more, I beheld Thee. 33. Come thou, O beloved One, O Lord God of the Uni- verse, O Vast One, O Minute One! I am Thy beloved. 34. All day I sing of Thy delight; all night I delight in Thy song. 35. There is no other day or night than this. 36. Thou art beyond the day and the night; I am Thyself, O my Maker, my Master, my Mate! 37. Lam like the little red dog that sitteth upon the knees of the Unknown. 38. Thou hast brought me into great delight. Thou hast given me of Thy flesh to eat and of Thy blood for an offering of intoxication. 79
1919 · PDF PAGE 149
…ost control a bit. (Note the time when talking to my brother is doubtful, but have included it.) I think I should here note that on Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday I was quite aware of my task practi- cally all the time; even when I made mistakes, they were in almost every case caused through trying too hard. Probably, having got over a difficult bit of con- versation successfully, I was seduced into the error. Tuesday and to-day have been rather different. I have lapsed a little in vigilance, but attained a certain sub- conscious wariness.…
1919 · PDF PAGE 91
…rpent Apep, but I love Thee! 26. My God! Let Thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that I have kept against the Day of Vengeance of Hoor-Ra. Let Kheph-Ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of Day and Night howl in the wilder- ness of Time! let the Towers of the Universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Him- self as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body. 27. I am like a love-sick courtesan of Corinth. I have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. To…
1919 · PDF PAGE 206
… And having uttered my thanksgiving Thus for the sacrament of living, Tlit my pipe, and made my way To break fast, and the labour of the day.
1919 · PDF PAGE 163
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE However, on The DAY, the 12th of October, when he came actually to use his Invocation (prepared and illumi- nated during his retirement) expecting the Result might occur, he writes as follows: At precisely 6.50. I entered the Temple, lit the incense and robed. All being in order I knelt in prayer and at 7 P.M. I arose and performed the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, then, taking the ritual in my left hand and raising the wand in my right, I slowly and clearly read the Oath and the Invocation. Afterwards, I was impress…
1919 · PDF PAGE 328
… deal to uproot some of the tares in the mind of the tyro aforesaid, which Madame Blavatsky was apparently content to let grow until the day of judgment. But that day is come since she wrote this Book; the New Zon is here, and its Word is Do what thou wilt. It is certainly time to give the order: “Chautauqua est delenda.” Love is the law, love under will.
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
…d open my arms (as it were) but am not satisfied; and so I turn and direct it towards that formless vision of Adonai within. Maybe, some day a spark will fire it and it will break loose; & then? (This sounds very good indeed. O.M.) Aug. 27. The most perfect peace I have experienced for a long time. Sep. 1. This is the last day of the six months. Nov. 9. Nearly two months since I made an entry. Will write down a few of the events that I remember during that time. Have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. Have occupied …
1919 · PDF PAGE 442
… Paths and the Portals at the end of them. Apparently one does not reach the seventh Gate till the end of the treatise. “A Master of the Day” is said to refer to the Manvantara, but it is also an obvious phrase where day is equivalent to Sun. 75. He standeth now like a white pillar to the west, upon whose face the rising Sun of thought eternal poureth forth its first most glorious waves. His mind, like a becalmed and boundless ocean, spreadeth out in shoreless space. He holdeth life and death in his strong hand. It is interesting to notice that…
1919 · PDF PAGE 383
…an Ureus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever. 45. Thou canst create this “day” thy chances for thy “to- morrow.” In the “Great Journey,” causes sown each hour bear each its harvest of effects, for rigid Justice rules the World. With mighty sweep of never-erring action, it brings to mortals lives of weal or woe, the Karmic progeny of all our former thoughts and deeds. 46. Take them as much as merit hath in store for thee, O thou of patient heart. Be of good cheer and rest content wit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 170
…l from its shackles. All seems so good to-night; this simple life, the tent by the sea, the night air, the happy tired feeling after the day’s work, the presence of my two dear ones, and all the dear ones of which I am a part, the presence of Adonai within and without. It is good to have lived for this. (This is dreadful! You must not mistake ‘feeling good’ for a mystic state. O.M.) Aug. 9, 9.59 to 10.26 P.M. During this meditation a certain magical under- standing arose whereby it was easy to interpret any common object into a symbol of the Wo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 67
LIBER CAVSZ Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli and such others whose ex- istence may one day be divulged unto you. Beware lest you interpret them either in the Light or in the darkness, for only in L.V.X. may they be understood. 31. Also He conferred upon D.D.S., O.M., and another, the Authority of the Triad, who in turn have delegated it unto others, and they yet again, so that the Body of Initiates may be perfect, even from the Crown unto the Kingdom and beyond. 32. For Perfection abideth not in the Pinnacles, or in the Foundations, but in the o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 58
…f the earth! Put beneath your feet all fears, all qualms, all hesitancies! Lift yourselves up! Come forth, free and joyous, by night and day, to do your will; for “There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Lift yourselves up! Walk forth with us in Light and Life and Love and Liberty, taking our pleasure as Kings and Queens in Heaven and on Earth. The sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight. “The word of Sin is Restriction,” or as it has been otherwise said on this text: That is Sin, to hold thine holy spirit in! Go on, go…
1919 · PDF PAGE 205
…hrilled through elm and chestnut, lit The grass, made diamonds of it, And bade the weir’s long smile of spray Leap with laughter for the day. The birds woke over all the weald; The sullen peasants slouched afield; The lilies swayed before the breeze That murmured matins in the trees; The trout leapt in the shingly shallows. Soared skyward the great sun, that hallows The pagan shrines of labour and light As the moon consecrates the night. Labour is corn and love is wine, And both are blesséd in the shrine; Nor is he for priest designed Who parta…
1919 · PDF PAGE 140
…ncense and turning to the East repeat some simple orison such as: “May the light of Adonai arise within me, may it guide me through this day and be as a lamp to lighten my darkness.” Then make a general confession, as shortly as possible, of your last day’s work and enter it in your diary, after which sit down in a comfortable position and do the following. With your hands upon your knees and your head straight, take in a breath in measured time inwards and concentrate the whole of your thought on that breath as it flows into your lungs, cuttin…
1919 · PDF PAGE 9
MAY MORN The artist represents the dawn of the day following the Witches’ rout. The witch is hanged, and the satyr joyfully looks out from behind the tree; in the background all is Spring, and the nymph dances joyfully to the piping of the shepherd. The picture is symbolical of the New on. From the blasted stump of dogma, the poison oak of ‘original sin’, is hanged the hag with dyed and bloody hair, Christianity, the glyph thus commemorating ‘sa vie horizontale et sa mort verticale.’ The satyr, a portrait of Frater D. D. S., one of the Teachers…
1919 · PDF PAGE 158
…and gives instruction for obtaining, no doubt, a very much fuller result, only I shall have to work with a big W. June 12, 1911. On Saturday night, in bed I attempted “thinking backwards” and successfully managed two days, with no breaks in the first day, and practi- cally none for the day before, except a few little incidents during office hours in the morning. When I came to thoughts on waking of Saturday morning and got to the “blank” I experienced some mental visions and ‘telephone-cross voices,’ but cannot say if they were connected with a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 272
THE EQUINOX A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of utter- most delight. The PRIEST mounts the third step. Tue Priest. Thou that art One, our Lord in the Universe the Sun, our Lord in ourselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance enlightening the worlds is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before Thee—By the Sign of Light * appear Th…