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…with the Pilgrims. It is here admitted that there are many ways of reaching the same end. In order to assist a pupil, the Teacher should know all these ways by actual experience. He should know them in detail. There is a great deal of pious gassing about most Teachers—it is very easy to say “Be good and you will be happy,” and I am afraid that even this book itself has been taken as little better by the majority of its ad- mirers. What the pupil wants is not vague generalisa- tions on virtue, not analyses of Nirvana and explorations in Hindu me…
1919 · PDF PAGE 145
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE By finding the Point from which these three become equal, and there remaining, by this means only, can the Law be Known. If ye know this, ye know All. If ye know not this, ye know less than All. Seek ever for the Absolute, and be content with Nothing less. By the end of September the immediate results of this first Illumination seem to have worn off, and we find Frater V.1.O. striving desperately to estimate the value of what had happened to him. He was certainly in a mental muddle, as the following entry shows, yet at th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 195
STEPPING OUT OF THE OLD AON INTO THE NEW Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. As all of you should know, we have entered a New Zon. A Higher Truth has been given to the World. 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 wha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 401
…EN PORTALS —to Arthur Edward Waite, immediately occur to the mind. What does not occur to the mind is the names of people now living who know their subject from experience. The late Swami Vivekananda did know his. Sabapaty Swami did so. Shri Parananda Swami did so, and of course above all these stands Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya. Outside these, one can think of no one, except the very reticent Rudolf Steiner, who betrays practical acquaintance with the Path. The way to discover whether a Teacher knows anything about it or not is to do the work yours…
1919 · PDF PAGE 381
…y represent an attempt to run away from reality, a dispersion of energy and a corruption of moral strength. His business is, firstly, to know himself; secondly, to order and control himself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and Prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of human- ity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept. He is not to fly away too far. Some remarks on this course are given in the note to the next verse. The student is also advised to take note o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 427
… universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fiction. The only reason that can be given for assuming the Soul of Nature to be pure, calm, kind, and all the other tea-party virtues, is Lucus a non lucendo. To put it in some kind of logical form, the Mani- fested is not the Unmanifested; therefore the Manifested is that which the Unmanifested is not. Nature, as we know it, is s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 108
…reated and self-supported, each the sole centre of the Universe. Now as by Light ye beheld, by Love ye feel. There is an ecstacy of pure Knowledge, and another of pure Love. And this Love is the force that uniteth things diverse, for the con- templation in Light of their Oneness. Know that the Uni- verse is not at rest, but in extreme motion whose sum is Rest. And this understanding that Stability is Change, and Change Stability, that Being is Becoming, and Becoming Being, is the Key to the Golden Palace of this Law. Lastly, by Liberty is the p…
1919 · PDF PAGE 339
…hed trances in which ‘time’ is no more will understand better than others how this may be. 20. Bestride the Bird of Life if thou wouldst know. The word “know” is specially used here in a technical sense. Avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the following verses from the “Great Law,” Liber LXV. II. 17-25. Also the Holy One came upon me, and I beheld a white swan floating in the blue. Between its wings I sate, and the zons fled away. Then the swan flew…
1919 · PDF PAGE 163
… least thing, to the best of mine under- standing and ability . . . And it began to dawn upon me that I had failed, but where and how, I know not. I have been dazzled with no illusionary success, I have overcome the fear of failure, and now, even as a tired warrior, I will go back into the world—and STRIVE. The Next day. Chaos. Reason is quite inadequate to solve the problem. Here followeth a certain’ passage from Ezekiel. “Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, n…
1919 · PDF PAGE 139
…upposed to choose for himself those practices which please him best, and to experiment there- with for himself. Since however he did not know this at the time, he cannot be blamed for doing his best along the lines laid down by his Neophyte.’ In any case he might have done far worse than to strive to carry out these few simple rules which are as follows: THE RULES, 1. Ever be moderate and follow the middle path; rather be the tortoise than the hare; do not rush wildly into anything; but do not abandon what you have taken up, without much foreth…
1919 · PDF PAGE 252
…common ground on which all may meet. I fear that I have exhausted your patience with this letter, and I beg you to excuse me. But as you know, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh . . . you are perfectly right to retort that it need not speak so much! I add no more, but our glad greeting to all men: Love is the law, love under will. Iam, dear sir, Yours in the Bonds of the Order, J. B. MASON. 238
1919 · PDF PAGE 162
…y 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 this seems to be a condition of calm observation without any desire to criticise anything. I suppose, as a matter of fact, it is a state of equilibrium. I think I have it. It is the empty shrine await- i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 82
… and I have journeyed unto Thee, and it availed me not. 60. I waited patiently, and Thou wast with me from the beginning. 61. This now I know, O my beloved, and we are stretched at our ease among the vines. 62. But these thy prophets; they must cry aloud and scourge themselves; they must cross trackless wastes and unfathomed oceans; to await Thee is the end, not the be- ginning. 63. Let darkness cover up the writing! Let the scribe depart among his ways. 64. But thou and I are stretched at our ease among the vines; what is he? 65. O Thou belove…
1919 · PDF PAGE 311
… only word for it. I do not mean that nowadays any particular horrors are perpetratedin the grim recesses of these giant fanes. I do not know that at any time they were the scenes of great cruelty or other abominations, though certainly they present the completest mise-en-scéne for such excesses. What I do know is that, from the corner-stone to the coping of the highest gopura, they are the product of gloomy, perverted, morbidly overwrought imaginations, revelling in the most extravagant features of the most monstrous of all mythologies.” This …
1919 · PDF PAGE 169
…rk. But the Progress is not bad for all that. However, I don’t quite like the complacent feeling. Nothing replaces hard work. Somebody I know (or don’t know) does more actual grind than he ever did. 24 full dress Magick ceremonies in the first 5 weeks of 1914, and about 2 hours every morning writing up the records. And in this please include 2 bad goes of influenza and bronchitis! O.M.) July 9, 7.20-7.24 A.M. Dragon. Rather bad. Tried to do practice outside in the rain, there being no room in the tent. Note:—Man, wife and baby together with all…
1919 · PDF PAGE 107
…s Law unto everyone that holdeth himself holy. It is I, not another, that willeth your whole Freedom, and the arising within you of full Knowledge and Power. Behold! the Kingdom of God is within you, even as the Sun standeth eternal in the heavens, equal at midnight and at noon. He riseth not: he setteth not: it is but the shadow of the earth which concealeth him, or the clouds upon her face. Let me then declare unto you this Mystery of the Law, as it hath been made known unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also…
1919 · PDF PAGE 360
…ately described in “Science and Buddhism.” [See Crowley, Collected Works.] 84. And of these modes of Truth: Hast thou not passed through knowledge of all mis- ery—truth the first? 85. Hast thou not conquered the Maras’ King at Tsi, the portal of assembling—truth the second? 86. Hast thou not sin at the third gate destroyed, and truth the third attained? 87. Hast thou not entered Tau, the “Path” that leads to knowledge—the fourth truth? The reference to the “Maras’ King” confuses the second truth with the third. [See “Science and Buddhism.”] The…
1919 · PDF PAGE 156
THE EQUINOX know little or nothing of Ceremonial Magick, except from reading; my results have not been accompanied by visions. What results I have obtained have been in the nature of becoming the thing itself, not seeing it. However, to pass on: Is the idea of coming back to help others (see Sun. Apr. 16) only a form of the Dweller on the Threshold and caused through fear of annihilation or madness? Or is it a concession to my own weakness, a pandering to my ‘self’ because I am really nowhere near ready to hurl myself into the Gulf, instead of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 399
…gesis, in the absence of original information, was to take existing commentators and disagree with them, her standard being what the un- known originals ought, in her opinion, to have said. This method saves much of the labour of research, and with a little luck it ought to be possible to discover subsequently much justification in the originals as they become known. Madame Blavatsky was justified in employing this method because she really did know the subject better than either commentator or original. She merely used Oriental lore as an Ostr…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…seduce a soldier. Apparently in consequence of the appearance of the Bishop, the soldier “saw his chance and ran away,” but from what we know of Bishops it seems probable that he was trying to escape from the Episcopal rather than the feminine menace. We hope that in Mr. Wilkinson’s next novel he will try to give us the brighter side of the picture. The eternal death which the bourgeoisie calls life is not the only feature of experience. St. Paul has prophesied of the future of the church, “Many members in one body,” and it is also written, “I …