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… him estimate his strength, and take a vow which is within it, but only just within it. Thus Milo began by carrying a new-born calf; and day by day as it grew into a bull, his strength was found sufficient. Again let it be said that Liber III is a most admirable method for the beginner,' and it will be best, even if he is very confident in his strength, to take the vow for very short periods, beginning with an hour and increasing daily by half-hours until the day is filled. Then let him rest awhile, and attempt a two-day practice; and so on unt…
1913 · PDF PAGE 139
127 "Oh what misery! birth incessantly!" as Buddha said. One goes on from day to day with a Httle of this and a little of that, a few kind thoughts and a few unkind thoughts; nothing really gets done. Body and mind are changed, changed beyond recall by nightfall. But what meafiing has any of this change? How few there are who can look back through the years and say that they have made advance in any definite direction? And in how few is tliat change, such as it is, a variable with intelligence and conscious volition! The dead weight of the orig…
1913 · PDF PAGE 27
… are placed outside the Circle to attract the hostile forces, to give them the first inkling of the Great Work, which they too must some day perform.
1913 · PDF PAGE 124
…a sort of mad syllogism. Nobody whom I respect does this. I respect So-and-so. Therefore, So-and-so did 7iot do this. The moralist of to-day is furious when one points to the fact that practically every great man in history was grossly and notoriously immoral. Enough of this painful subject ! As long as we try to fit facts to theories instead of adopting the scientific attitude of altering the theories (when necessary) to fit the facts, we shall remain mired in falsehood. The religious taunt the scientific man with this open-mindedness, with th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 101
89 Buddha said that if any man became an Arahat he must either take the vows of a Bhikkhu that very day, or die, and it is this saying of Buddha's that the unknown poet wished to commemorate. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief; Taffy came to my house And stole a leg of beef. I went to Taffy's house; Taffy was in bed. I took a carving knife, And cut off Taffy's head. Taffy is merely short for Taphtatharath, the Spirit of Mercury and the God of Welshmen or thieves. " My house " is of course equivalent to " my magick circle." Note that Beth, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 102
…st as you can ! Pat it and prick it and mark it with P ! Bake it in the oven for baby and me ! This rime is usually accompanied (even to-day in the nursery) with a ceremonial clapping of hands — the symbol of Samadhi. Compare what is said on this subject in our comment on the famous " Advent " passage in Thessalonians. The cake is of course the bread of the sacrament, and it would ill become Frater P. to comment upon the third line — though it may be
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…ll find that, however good his memory may be, ten thousand impressions enter his mind for every one that it is able to retain even for a day. And the excellence of a memory lies in the wisdom of its selection. The best memories so select and judge that practically
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…l instruments. The Hill of Golgotha is the circle, and the Cross the Tau. Christ had robe, crown, sceptre, etc. ; this thesis should one day be fully worked out. " See The Equinox, No. V, " The Vision and the Voice '': Xth Aethyr.
1913 · PDF PAGE 111
…. Every idea has been attacked by thinkers, and none has withstood attack. Hence civilization crumbles. No settled principles remain. To-day all constructive statesmanship is empiricism or opportunism. It has been doubted whether there is any real relation between Mother and Child, any real distinction between Male and Female. The human mind, in despair, seeing insanity imminent in the breaking ' It should be noted that this ambiguity in the word "destruction" has been the cause of much misunderstanding. Solve is destruction, but so is coagitla…
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…solutely natural. All religions have devised practices for this purpose. If you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself pray- ing in your heart. The whole question has been threshed out and organized
1913 · PDF PAGE 100
…her in a peanut shell; Then he kept her very well. This early authentic text of the Hinayana school of Buddhism is much esteemed even to-day by the more cultured and devoted followers of that school. The pumpkin is of course the symbol of resurrection, as is familiar to all students of the story of Jonah and the gourd. Peter is therefore the Arahat who has put an end to his series of resurrections. That he is called Peter is a reference to the symbolizing of Arahats as stones in the great wall of the guardians of mankind. His wife is of course …
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…s; and, having succeeded, was reproached by his Holy Guru, who said: "You are a great fool. All your neighbours have been crossing every day on a raft for two pice." This occurs to most, perhaps to all, of us in our careers. We spend infinite pains to learn something, to achieve something, which when gained does not seem worth even the utterance of the wish. But this is a wrong view to take. The discipHne necessary in order to learn Latin will stand us in good stead when we wish to do something quite different. At school our masters punished us…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…A business conducted on such lines would be in a terrible mess; and wc find in fact that man is in just such a mess. While he is working day and night at some unimportant detail of his affairs, some giant force may be advancing /d'^^ claudo to overtake him.
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
… "How shall I use this slug?" And in this course he must persist. Though many things useless, so far as he can see, are sent to him, one day he will find the one thing he needs, while his Understanding will appreciate the fact that none of those other things were useless. So with these early practices of renunciation it will now be clearly understood that they were but of temporary use. They were only of value as training. The adept will laugh over his early absurdities —the disproportions will have been harmonized; and the structure of his sou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 26
… of enemies^ slain by the Magician; they thus served as warnings to any hostile force of what might be expected if it caused trouble. To-day such candles are difficult to procure; and it is perhaps simpler to use beeswax. The honey has been taken by the Magician; nothing is left of the toil of all those hosts of bees but the mere shell, the fuel of light. This beeswax is also used in the construction of the Pantacle, and this letter, so that the seven names (see "Equinox VII") are spelt out. But this is a rather different symbolism. Of course i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 76
…) ‘ i i ean : : ‘ ; ( iy ad y v N iy mn pie ny)? k ry) GVA i eee, isi) aaa noie mi my ¥ yy } oe i ae " f An ; a | iV 3 iD Ate Ny me ’ vi Day, "i } } 1 7 NS ‘4 rei ha iy 10i LS e A ty ‘aWt Re ; 25 ve heey, Pai re wih PA es (k Cl al ve