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…him. If he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God Himself that a Voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 112
…tched out naked to the knife, My whole soul twitching with the stress Of the expected yet surprising strife, A martyrdom of blessedness. Though Death came, I could kiss him into life ; Though Life came, I Could kiss him into death, and yet nor live nor die! XXX Yet I that am the babe, the sire, the dam, Am also none of these at all;
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
… So for the matter of time and space. All time is filled; all space is filled; the phenomenon is infinite and eternal. This is true even though its singleness makes the duration of the phenomenon but one minimum cogitabile. In short, it is experienced in some other kind of time, some other kind of space. There is nothing irrational about this. Non-Euclidean geometries, for example, are possible, and may be true. It is only necessary to a theory of the universe that it should be true to itself within itself; for there is no other thing outside b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH word which we call a thought, seem to stand at a definite dis- tance in space behind the thought, the thought being farther from the perceiving soul. Looking at each glyph, one perceives, too, that itself is made up of other glyphs yet nearer to the Self, these glyphs, however, being formless and nameless; they are not truly perceived, but one is somehow aware of them. Unfortunately, the tendency to fall into effect (6) makes it very difficult to concentrate on the analysis of these ideas, so that one is hurried on to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 259
…e Dadouchos, symbolic of the ending and judging of the world by fire. But also the Circumambulation commences with the Paths w and 9, as though bringing into action the solar fire; whilst the reverse commences by those of ) and ¥ as though bringing the watery reflux into action. This is the Order of the Circumambulation; first cometh Anubis, the watcher of the Gods ; next Themis, the Goddess of the Hall of Truth ; then Horus ; then the remaining members in order of precedence ; and lastly, the Goddesses of the Scales of the Balance, as though a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…mer until the commencement of the autumn the diaries are silent except for one entry, “ met a certain Mr. B. an alchemist of note} which though of no parti- cular importance in itself, was destined to lead to another meeting which changed the whole course of P.’s progress, and accelerated his step towards that Temple, the black earth from the foundations of which he had been, until the present, casting up in chaotic heaps around him. Knorr von Rosenroth’s immense storehouse of Qabalistic learning seems to have kept P. fully employed until the a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 127
THE DREAM CIRCEAN “The room, though exquisitely decorated, was entirely bare of furniture, unless one could dignify by that name a heap of dirty straw in one corner, by which stood a flattish wooden bowl, half full of what looked like a crust of bread mashed into pulp with water. “ Half turned away from me stood the owner of the harsh voice and soul abominable. It wasa woman of perhaps sixty years of age, the head of an angel—so regular were the features, so silver-white the hair—set upon the deformed body of a dwarf. Hairy hands and twisted ar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
THE EQUINOX being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia.* Let him sink (when no longer can he strive, though his tongue be bitten through with the effort and the blood gush from his nostrils) into the blackness of unconsciousness; and then on coming to himself, let him write down soberly and accurately a record of all that hath occurred: yea, a record of all that hath occurred. EXPLICIT * This in case of failure. The results of success are so many and wonderful that no effort is here made to describe them. Theyare classifie…
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
…emoirs, this sturdy and valiant record of a very noble life, How surely and steadily has Mrs, Besant moved, urged by the one un- selfish thought, high-minded love for humanity, from her Eden through the hell of revolt to the Paradise that so few earn! And she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. Priceless and unenvied reward of suffering ! True it is, that the chosen of the Masters must leave all. The lightest breeze can stir the Feather of our Lady Maat; there must be no breath of passion or of thought, if we would …
1909 · PDF PAGE 296
…f Philosophus and Adeptus Minor, between the First and the Second Order. But before we close this chapter, it will be necessary, briefly though it may be, to trace out the effect these six rituals and the mass of occult knowledge which appertains to them, had upon P., and further might be expected to have on the ordinary seeker in the mysteries of Truth. To even the most casual student it must be apparent, once he has finished reading these rituals, that though they contain much that is scholarly and erudite, besides much that is essential and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…Earth, in their appropriate positions on the sides. The base only is wholly black ; whilst the summit will be of a brilliant whiteness although invisible to the material eye, “The symbols upon the altar represent the forces and manifestations of the Divine Light concentrated in the white triangle of the Three Supernals. Wherefore upon this sacred and sublime symbol is the obligation of the Neophyte taken as calling therein to witness the operations of the Divine Light. The red cross of Tiphereth representing 5°=6° is placed above the white tria…
1909 · PDF PAGE 209
…the decrees of this king be just and wise as he was just and wise before he was made king. The life and work of the mystic will reflect (though dimly) the supreme guiding force of the mystic, the highest trance to which he has attained. YOGA AND MAGIC I. Yoga is the art of uniting the mind to a single idea. It has four methods. Gnana-Yoga. Union by Knowledge. Raja-Yoga. Union by Will. Bhakta-Yoga. Union by Love. Hatha-Yoga. Union by Courage. add Mantra-Yoga. Union through Speech. Karma-Yoga. Union through Work. These are united by the supreme m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 401
… AND PRISM: THE TENNYSON CENTENARY Tue judicious may possibly wonder why one should dig so deep into the tumulus of oblivion to: rescue (though but for execration) the bones of so very dead a dog as Alfred Tennyson. But the truth is not so near the surface. He can hardly be called dead who never lived; and a trodden worm writhes longer than a felled ox. So therefore Tennyson succumbed to contempt, not to hatred; men twitched their robes away from the contamination of the unclean thing—there was no fight, no bloodshed. Now therefore the smirking…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
… and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student therefore beware lest in t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 190
…t is glory, Life, Light, Sun. Thus read: “ Of the Dawning of Life and Light.” x is by shape the Svastika, symbolically Aleph, the Ox, as though showing the fearful force of the Spiritual “Whirling Motions” upon the Material Plane, as a terrible and destructive Power. This is also shown by the Foolish Man, as the Material Tarotic emblem of that which in its proper and higher manifestation is the Spiritual Ether. Therefore we read: “ Begun ave the Whirling Motions.” w signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the Hieroglyph. It is that Ruach…
1909 · PDF PAGE 239
…ars he voyaged over the face of the globe in quest of the mystic knowledge of all nations, it will be necessary here to recount, briefly though it may be, the circumstances which led up to his entering into communi- cation with the Order of A.°. A.°. Born of an ancient family, but a few days after the fifty- sixth Equinox before the Equinox of the Gods, he was reared and educated in the faith of Christ as taught by one of the strictest sects of the many factions of the Christian Church, and scarcely had he learnt to lisp the simplest syllables …
1909 · PDF PAGE 191
…escription of the “Caduceus” (see p. 269) the Air Symbol vibrating between them. [Also », ny, is a Mercurial sign, and Thoth is Mercury, though on a Higher Plane. The Hermit, with his Lamp and Wand, is Hermes, who guides the souls of the dead, in the Greek Ritual of o = o.—P.] + The Name Dw, the Spirit of God, second Deity-Name in the Law, the Trigrammaton, or Threefold Name, by which the Universe came forth. 181
1909 · PDF PAGE 79
…e points. ZOROASTER, ” Vedana.—Pertaining to Sensation we may first notice in the beginner’s concentrating mind the class of distracting thoughts which refer to the emotions. The taking of pleasure in, or the endurance of pain from, the meditation itself is in particular to be dreaded. Of mystic phenomena we may notice the immense class of devotional apparitions. Vishnu, Christ, Jehovah and other deities appear in response to long-continued and passionate love. See ‘‘ Bhagavad Gita,” chap. xi., the visions of many Catholic saints, Teresa, Gertr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 187
…entral Will : and this two- lettered word is nx. On either side of this is the pair of figures 35—53, balanced one against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning life of the Mothers—n and n, vitalised by the SON (3) as the Vice-Gerent of His Father. These balanced figures together make 16, whereof the Key is 7; the total number of letters in the third Symbol. Then we have left at either end 4 and 6 = 10,* the perfection of the * Vide Sepher Yetzirah for this division of the Holy Sephiroth into a Hexad and a Tetrad. II M 177
1909 · PDF PAGE 370
…a better use of their faculties.” certain.” No name of author was to be seen. In the fourth compartment was a little framed picture, and though I examined it very closely I was not able at first to realise what the subject of the picture was. From a shallow little boat a gigantic snake was seen to emerge, fiercely staring, and on the opposite corner wasa round black spot. As, when a child throws a stone in a river, the waves extend farther and farther, shunning the bruises which the child has inflicted.upon them, in a like manner waves of a gre…