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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 24
…ier qualifi- cation. By meditation I do not mean merely “thinking about” anything, however profoundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. Now true magical ceremonial is entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes. By act, word, and thought, both in quantity and quality, the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated. Every fumigation, purification, banishing, …
1903 · PDF PAGE 9
…gories of colour, crystallisation, hardness, and so on; but are they not really so even in that of existence? The third example is to my mind the best. 2 sine 60° and V3 are unreal and therefore never conceivable, at least to the present constitution of our human intelligences. Worked out, neither has meaning; unworked, both have meaning, and that a different meaning in one case and the other. We have thus two terms, both unreal, both incon: ceivable, yet both representing intelligible and diverse ideas to our minds (and this is the point!) tho…
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…ch material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Absolute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. Yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on the path with the hideous idea of aggrandizing his own personality to the utmost. But his method is so near to the true one that this tendency is soon corrected, as it were automatically. (The mathematical analogue of …
1903 · PDF PAGE 11
…position; I persist in my enquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the past ceases to intrude its problems upon my mind. Here you are! Three shies a penny! Change all bad arguments! ] ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE Qanatistic Zino. ‘When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what kind of0 do we mean? By 0 in the ordinary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.”
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
…to borrow a term from electrical science. Of course, there are bad and invalid processes, which tend rather to disperse or to excite the mind-stuff than to control it; these we must discard. But there is a true magical ceremonial, the central Arcanum alike of Eastern and Western practical transcendentalism. Needless to observe, ifI knew it, I should not disclose it. I therefore definitely affirm ‘the validity of the Qabalistic tradition in its practical part as well as in those exalted regions of thought through which we have so recently, and s…