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A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY That the Querent’s loss in business has been principally owing to his own mismanagement; that he will have a long and hard struggle, but will meet with help from friends; that his obstacles will gradually give way; and that after much anxiety he will eventually recoup himself for his previous losses. II L 161
…ation of the Evil Sephiroth. To equally balance the action of the Sephiroth of the Ruach and those of the Nephesch, To prevent the Lower Will and Human Consciousness from falling into and usurping the place of the Automatic Consciousness. To render the King of the Body (the Lower Will) obedient and anxious to execute the commands of the Higher Will; so that he be neither a usurper of the faculties of the Higher, nor a Sensual Despot, but an initiated ruler and an anointed King, the Vice-Roy and representative of the Higher Will (because inspire…
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH You will get more from them than you will from some maudlin hysteric professional mountebank. All talk to the contrary is the merest froth; Mohammed was a great law- giver and a great fighter ; try your experiment with the sane, and not with the crazy! True, you will get hallucinations more easily with the unsound ; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than Vedana. Take my word for it! No! take my word for nothing: try all things ; hold fast that whic…
THE EQUINOX 8. Let him further employ such special invocations as will cause to appear the particular places he may wish to visit. g. Let him beware of the thousand subtle attacks and deceptions that he will experience, carefully testing the truth of all with whom he speaks. Thus a hostile being may appear clothed with glory; the appropriate pentagram will in such a case cause him to shrivel or decay. 10. Practice will make the student infinitely wary in these matters. 11. It is usually quite easy to return to the body, but should any difficult…
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH region of pure thought. In the case of the god Osiris, for example, he will no longer express his vision by the name Osiris or by the green face, by the white robes starred with the three active colours, by the crown and by the crook and scourge; nor will he chant wondrous hymns of the descent into Amennti, the death and resurrection of the God; but he will express all this by some pure symbol, such as the cross, the hexagram, or even the number 6. And those upon his plane will understand him. Here, too, we must class …
…k of quadrating the circle, of blinding darkness, of silent voices, &c. &c., those who have learned the alphabet of any magical language will understand ; and those who have not, if they wish to read any further with profit, had better do so, as it will help them to master the new magical language and doctrines we here offer them. The vision of the adept is so much truer than ordinary vision that when once it has been attained to its effect is never relinquished, for it changes the whole life. Blake would have as soon doubted the existence of h…
POSTCARDS TO PROBATIONERS III. So will 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 …
…ons arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the equilibrium of the Sphere …
…cix., ¢., Ci., cxvii., cxviii., cxxxvii., Cxxxviii., cxxxix., clxxv., clxxvi., clxxvii., clxxxii. When these are committed to memory, he will begin to understand the nature of these correspondences. (See Illus- trations : “ The Temple of Solomon the King,” in this number. Cross-references are given.) 2. If we take an example the use of the table will become clear. Let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some obscure science. In column xlv., line 12, you will find “ Knowledge of Sciences.” By now looking up line 12 in the other colum…
…y perceived as thoughts; in other words, in this respect, one possesses the direct consciousness of Berkeleyan idealism. The Ego and the Will are not involved; there is introspec- tion of an almost if not quite purely impersonal type; that, and nothing more. I am not to be understood as asserting that the results of this introspection are psychologically valid. 2. The toxic hallucinative effect (6). With a sufficiently large dose—for it is possible to get effect (2) only as a transient phenomenon—the images of thought pass more rapidly through …
…ious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all that he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness. Before entering upon any of these practices, the student should be in good health, and have attained a fair mastery of Asana, Pranayama, and Dharana. 5. There is little danger that any student, however idle or stupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even though it…
…at him who slew Babylon’s winged bulls and smote great numbers of the elves and fairies, when he is shorn of his hours and his years. We will shut him up in the Pyramid of Cheops, in the great chamber where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. We will kiss thy painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time. And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the House of Man. DuN…
…out to be published as soon as the MS. can be prepared. The reader who is at all familiar with the sublime compu- tations of the Qabalah will find no difficulty in appreciating this Essay to the full; but all will gain benefit from the study of the ratiocinative methods employed. These methods, indeed, are so fine and subtile that they readily sublime into the Intuitive. This study is truly a Royal Magistry, an easy and sure means of exalting the consciousness from Ruach to Neschamah. 166
…Triangle of the Three Supernals formulating in Darkness ; and now only is the Higher Soul able to formulate a link with him if the human will of the natural man be in reality consenting thereto, For the free will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the Higher Soul, or by the ceremony. But the Will consenting, the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched …
…at the outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endless slopes. “It is too high for me to climb,” the little man will say; “it is indeed very beautiful;…
…it to solve some simple little problem ; but it is sheer waste of time to ask it: “ If twenty-four sprats cost a shilling, and one sprat will make a meal for two children, how many children can you feed for twopence halfpenny ?” before it knows that one plus one equals two. Ifa child is never taught to add one to one it is possible that even when grown up, the man to his dying day will look upon the setter of the twopenny-halfpenny sprat question as an advanced mathematician, perhaps even as an “advanced occultist.” But when he has learnt the m…
…f his consciousness to that imagined figure; so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (It is some- times difficult to open the eyes.) 6. Probably he will see figures approaching him, or become conscious of a landscape. Let him speak to such figures, and insist upon being answered, using the proper pentagr…
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…ur 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 control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and sit down, coinciding with the physical body. Closely unite the two: the experi…
…shish-phenomena as mental phenomenaof thefirst importance; and I demand investigation. I assert—more or less ex cathedré—that meditation will revolutionise our conception of the universe, just as the microscope has done. Then my friend the physiologist remarks: “But if you disturb the observing faculty with drugs and a special mental training, your results will be invalid.” And I reply: “ But if you disturb the observing faculty with lenses and a special mental training, your results will be invalid.” 53