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…physical to the spiritual plane, even as the words Ruh, Ruach, Pneuma, Spiritus, Geist, Ghost, and indeed words of almost ail languages, hâve been raised from their physical meaning of wind, breath, or movement, to the spiritual plane. (RV is the old root meaning Yoni and hence Wheel (Fr. roue, Lat. rota, wheel) and the corresponding Semitic root means “to go”. Similarly spirit is connected with “spiral”. — Ed.) 17- Let the Zelator attach no crédit to any statements that may hâve been made throughout the course of this instruction, and reflect …
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AL — Two. L is “Justice”, the Kteis fulfilled by the Phallus, “Naught and Two” because the plus and the minus hâve United in “love under will.” A is “the Fool”, Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpo- crates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, the wander- ing Ghost, but with “possibilités”. He is the Naught that the Two hâve made by “love under will”. LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught…
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ideasj they hâve not, and never can hâve, any real meaning. If a man in delirium tremens fell into the Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as “truth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…irreparably. E.g., 011e ought to practise smelling assafoetida until one likes it ; but not arsine or hydrocyanic acid. Again, one might hâve a liaison with an ugly old woman until one beheld and loved the star which she is; it would be too dangerous to overcome the distaste for dishonesty by forcing oneself to pick pockets. Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they should be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less seifish by applyi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…ure in cruelty. There is no principle, even a false one, to give cohérence to the clamour of ethical propositions. Yet the very men that hâve smashed Moloch, and strewn the earth with shapeless rubble, grow pale when they so much as whisper among themelves, “While Moloch ruled ail men were bound by the one law, and by the oracles of them that, knowing the fraud, feared not, but were his priests and wardens of his mystery. What now ? How can any of us, though wise and strong as never was known, prevail on men to act in concert, now that each pra…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
be noted that persons of powerful imagination, will, and intelligence hâve no need of these material symbols. There hâve been certain saints who are capable of love for an idea as such without it being otherwise than degraded by idolising it, to use this Word in its true sense. Thus one may be impassioned of beauty, without even the need of so small a concrétion of it as “The beauty of Apollo”, the “beauty of roses”, the “beauty of Attis”. Such persons are rare 5 it may be doubted whether Plato himself attained to any vision of absolute beauty …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…se of Reading. 1. The object of most of the foregoing practices will not at first be clear to you; but at least (who will deny it?) they hâve trained you in détermination, accuracy, introspection, and many other qualities which are valuable to ail men in their ordinary avocations, so that in no case will your time hâve been wasted. 2. That you may gain some insight into the nature of the Great Work which lies beyond these elementary trifles, however, we should mention that an intelligent person may gather more than a hint of its nature from the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…The time and place of ail experiments must be noted; also the State of the weather, and generally ail conditions which might conceivably hâve any resuit upon the experiment either as adju¬ vants to or causes of the resuit, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error. 4. The A.-. A.*, will not take official notice of any experi¬ ments which are not thus properly recorded. 5. It is not necessary at this stage for us to déclaré fully the ultimate end of our researchesj nor indeed would it be understood by those who hâve not become proficient in th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…VI. I. 1. This book is very easy to misunderstand; readers are asked to use the most minute critical care in the study of it, even as we hâve done in the préparation. 2. In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Spirits and Conjurations ; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophie validity to any of them. 3. The adv…
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…. 13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory. And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men hâve likened unto the roaring of a Lion. 14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into the divine form of Osiris upon his throne. 15. Then shalt thou repeat audibly the cry of triumph of the god re-arisen, as it shall hâve been given unto thee by thy Superior. 16. And this being accomplished, thou mayest enter again into the Vision, that thereby shall be perfected in Thee. 17. Af…
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…i- gentlyj in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them. Anatomists and physiologists, grappling in the dark with death, hâve won hygiene, surgery, prophylaxis and the rest for mankind. Anthropologists, archaeologists, physicists and other men of science, risking thumbscrew, stake, infamy and ostracism, hâve torn the spider-snare of superstition to shreds and broken in pièces the monstrous idol of Morality, the murderous Moloch which has made mankind its méat throughout history. Each fragment of that coprolite is manifest as an …
1930 · PDF PAGE 117
or in what order you hâve corne ; so that although you hâve become a servant to the body, you may again rise to that Order (the A.*. A.*.) from which you descended, joining Works (Kamma) to the Sacred Reason (the Tao)”. io. The Resuit of the Second Method is to show the Adept to what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss and becomes Nemo, the return of the current causes him ato appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star” 1 In other words he should discover what may be the nature of his work. Thu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 118
…lex actions, then, will give a sériés which we may symbolically Write “opqrstu-hijklmn-abcdefg”. If these be split into detail, we shall hâve “stu-pqr-o-mn-kl-hij-fg- cde-ab” which is much nearer to the idéal “utsrqponmlkjihgfedcba”. 15. Capacities differ widely, but the Exempt Adept need hâve no reason to be discouraged if after a month’s continuous labour he find that now and again for a few seconds his brain really Works backwards. 16. The Exempt Adept should concentrate his efforts upon obtaining a perfect picture of five minutes backwards …
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…ssive waiting, even almost a repulsion, the repulsion not of distaste, but of a sublime modesty. As it is written, Liber LXV. ii. 59, “I hâve called unto thee, and I hâve journeyed with Thee, and it availed me not.” 60. “I waited patiently, and Thou wast with me from the beginning.” Then let him change back to the Active, until a véritable rhythm is established between the States, as it were the swinging of a pen- dulum. But let him reflect that a vast intelligence is required for this 3 for he must stand as it were almost without himself to wa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
… to the necessities of ail. And We bear witness that this which followeth is the Crux and Quintessence of the whole Method. First, if he hâve no Image, let him take anything soever, and consecrate it as an Image of his God. Likewise with his robes and instruments, his suffumigations and libations ; for his Robe hath he not a nightdress; for his instrument a walking stick ; for his suf- fumigation a burning match ; for his libation a glass of water ? But let him consecrate each thing that he useth to the service of that particular Deity, and not…
1930 · PDF PAGE 106
… place to place. After the first two or three occurrences of this expérience, Asana is not lost. The body appears (on another theory) to hâve lost its weight almost completely and to be moved by an unknown force. (d) As a development of this stage, the body rises into the air, and remains there for an appreciably long period, from a second to an hour or more. Let him further investigate any mental results w’hich may occur. 6. Third Practice. — In order both to économisé his time and to develop his powers, let the Zelator practise the deep full …
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…ned his grade, or even for any rrian who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second x, and that although his aspiration hâve been impure through vanity or any similar imperfections. 5. Let then the Adept who finds the resuit of these méditations unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, and live so that his Karma gains strength and direction suitable to the task at some future period. 1 2 6. Memory is essential to the individual consciousness; other- wise the mind were but a blank sheet on which shadows are cast. But we see …
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…l in Me; I am, apart from ail and lord of ail, and one with ail. I am a God, î very God of very God; I go upon my way to work my will; I hâve made matter and motion for my mirror; I hâve decreed for my delight that Nothingness should figure itself as twain, that I might dream a dance of names and natures, and enjoy the substance of simplicity by watching the wanderings of my shadows. I am not that which is not; I know not that which knows not; I love not that which loves not. For I am Love, whereby division dies in delight; I am Knowledge, wher…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…e the waters. This also thou shalt feel playing upon thy skin. It will disturb thy méditation twice or thrice, after which thou shouldst hâve conquered this distraction. But unless thou first feel it, that Breath hath not arisen. 3. Next, the night is riven by the lightning flash. This also 362
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…end to communicatey and none other should be presenty having signified their intention y a whole Cake of Tight and a whole goblet of wme hâve been prepared for each one. The DEACON marshals themthey advance one by one to the altar. The children take the Eléments and offer them. The PEOPLE communicate as — 360 —