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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING power of assimilating oneself with an atom). (2) Mahima (the power of expanding oneself into space). (3) Laghima (the power of reducing gravitation). (4) Garima (the power of increasing gravitation). (5) Prapti (the power of instantaneous travelling). (6) Prakamya (the power of instantaneous realiza- tion). (7) Isatva (the power of creating). (8) Vasitva (the power of commanding and of being obeyed).* The Préna. We now come to the next great series of exercises, namely those which control the Prana (breath); and i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
… my labours in the Great Work, seeing that he, who sleepeth never, shall fall by the wayside, and also remembering the twofold sign: the Power of Horus: and the Power of Hoor-pa-Kraat.* Now, the year being yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake. And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise ofa skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge. Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…cure. Found it difficult to follow clearly the second-hand of a watch. One cycle of 4 minutes of 10. 20. 30. * A Mantra, Shi= Peace, Va= Power. It means “Thy peace by power increasing In me by power to peace.” + The four characteristic results of Pranayama are (1) perspiration; (2) rigidity; (3) jumping about like a frog; (4) levitation. P. never experienced this last result. But it is possible that, if there was an actual loss of weight, that this was at least a step towards it. 158
1910 · PDF PAGE 294
276 THE EQUINOX Half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe This passion ineluctable, this power Slave to its single end, to storm the tower That holdeth thee, who art Authentic Truth. O golden hawk! O lidless eye! Behold How the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold! Still I will strive! That by the striving broken I may exhaust this me! That thou mayst sweep Swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep— And the unutterable word be spoken. ALEISTER CROWLEY,
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
…toa considerable extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll up the murk and mist from beclouded truths till they stood distinctly seen in the splendour of their own harmonious beauty as an intuition. One thing related of Pythagoras and his friends has seemed very striking tome. There isa legend that, as he was passing over a river, its waters called up to him in the presence of his followers, “ Hail! Pythagoras.” Fr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 214
…te, By the might of the right Of the night of our fate. Though I fall, though I faint, Though I char, though I choke, By the hour of our power I invoke, I invoke! By the mystical union Of fairy and faun, Unspoken, unbroken— The dusk to the dawn!— A secret communion Unmeasured, unsung, The listless, resistless, Tumultuous tongue!— O virgin in armour, Thine arrows unsling, In the brilliant resilient First rays of the spring! No Godhead could charm her, But manhood awoke— O fiery Valkyrie, I invoke, I invoke! ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
…gic,” p. 195. || Imagine the objective world to be represented by a sheet of paper covered with letters and the names of things, and our power of concentration to be a magnifying glass: that power is of no use, should we wish to burn that paper, until the rays of light are focussed. By moving the glass or paper with our hand 105
1910 · PDF PAGE 191
…E KING No longer was she the middle aged woman, worn with strange lusts; but a young woman of bewitching beauty. At once recognizing the power of her sorcery, and knowing that if he even so much as contemplated her Gorgon head all the power of his magic would be petrified, and that he would become but a puppet in her hands, but a toy to be played with and when broken cast aside, he quietly rose as if nothing unusual had occurred; and replacing the bust on the mantel- piece turned towards her and commenced with her a magical conversation; that i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 465
SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Touched the extreme, the giant goal! Yea! all things in that hour transcended, All power in his sublime control, All felt, all thought, all comprehended— “ How is it, then, the quest ” (he saith) “Ts not—at last |!—achieved and ended? Why taste I not the Bounteous Breath, Receive the Goodly Gift of Grace? Now, kind king-eagle (by God’s death !), Restore me to mine ancient place! I am advantaged nothing then!” Then swooped he from the Byss of Space, And set the knight amid the fen. “God!” quoth Sir Palamede, “th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…Effect is eternal, how is it then that Cause A produces effect B, and Cause B effect C, and Cause A+B +C effect X. Where originates this power of production? It is said there is no change, the medium remaining alike through- out. But we say there is a change—a change of form,* and not only a change, but a distinct birth and a distinct death of form. What creates this form? Sense perception. What will destroy this form, and reveal to us that which lies behind it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians…
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…MON THE KING Adept, when once the Siddhis were attained, by a self-control (a still higher concentration) refused to expend these occult powers,* by degrees he accumulated within himself a terrific force; charged like a Leyden jar, instantaneously could he transmute this power into whatever he willed; but the act brought with it a recoil, and caused an exhaustion and a void which nullified the powers gained. Ultimately he proved that it was rather by the restraint of these occult (mental) powers than that of the bodily ones that Ojas is produce…
1910 · PDF PAGE 165
…Solar Aspect or to the Manipura Chakkra, The sixth and seventh stages—Right Effort and Right Thought, are stages of “definitely directed power” closely related to Geburah and Chesed—Mars and Jupiter. And then finally comes the eighth stage—Right Meditation, again a summary of the three stages below it, which may be compared as the Three Supernals or the Sahasdra Chakkra. [Compare with the essay “ Science and Buddhism ” in the “ Sword of Song” by A. Crowley, and the writings of Ananda Metteya. Here are then three men who have worked both several…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…he Source of your Strength. About Economising our Forces. The Law of Marriage. Marriage and Resurrection. Your Two Memories. The Drawing Power of Mind. Consider the Lilies. Cultivate Repose. Look Forward. The Necessity of Riches. Love Thyself. What is Justice? How Thoughts are born. Positive and Negative Thought. The Art of Forgetting. The Attraction of Aspiration. God’s Commands are Man’s Demands. “This further selection has been prepared in consequence of the great popularity attained by the, first series of Prentice Mulford’s Essays, publish…
1910 · PDF PAGE 495
…s poems; he has the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse.” The Morning Post, May 21, 1908. “There is a certain given power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream’ and ‘ The Recall, and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste.” The Daily Telegraph, May 29, 1908. “Here is a poet of promise.”The Dazly Chronicle, May 13, 1908. “It is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.”—The Morning Leader, July…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
…lished position in the popular favour. The first eight volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By Cuartes Goprrey Lexanp. Third and enlarged edition, containing the Celebrated Correspondence between Kant and Hufeland, and an additional Chapter on Paracelsus and his Teaching. ConrENTS.—Preface. Introduction, How to Awaken Attention and Create Interest as pre- paratory to Developing the Will. Faculties and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 344
…t not so the strength of the spell Which holds both our beings in bondage, a bondage so fell That even the angels above cannot alter its power; It lives in the memory yet of one passionate hour, When from the dark bosom of Hell sprang a fair felon flower. ETHEL ARCHER. 326
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…d? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
1910 · PDF PAGE 160
…rrived at in three suc- cessive steps. (1) The Aspirant contemplates the ills of life; (2) he meditates upon them; (3) by strenuous will power he commences to strip the mind of the Cause of Sorrow, namely Change. During this stage a series of humiliations must be under- gone, and, not onlymust the Nephesch be conquered, but also the lower states of the Ruach, until the illumination of the Second Noble Truth of the Eightfold Path shatter the step of Right Views which the Aspirant is standing upon just as the fire of God consumed the Elemental Py…
1910 · PDF PAGE 225
…dred and twenty-five myriads of myriads of myriads of kotis of crores of lakhs of asankhayas of maha- kalpas did he work with his divine power—and yet that little crack was in nowise filled, but rather widened ! The god returned. ‘‘O Great White Spirit!” he whispered —and the Universe shook with fear at the voice of him— “Thou, and Thou alone, art worthy to fill this little crack that Thou hast left.” Then the Great White Spirit arose and formulated Himself as the Pillar of Infinitude, even as the Mahalingam of Great Shiva the Destroyer, who op…
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
…ate? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled …