FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
2,070 matching pages
Page 100 of 1041929 · PDF PAGE 423
…k is called "The Gate of Light". It explains how those who have attained initiation, taking pity upon the darkness and minuteness of the earth, send forth a messenger to men. The message follows. It is an appeal to those who, being developed beyond the average of their fellows, see fit to take up the Great Work. This Work is then described in general terms with a few hints of its conditions. LIBER XI is a paraphrase of the instructions given in The Book of the Law for invoking Nuit. LIBER XVI, called "The Tower; or the House of God", describes …
1929 · PDF PAGE 286
…hat he might facilitate the arrangements for the visit of the Prince of Wales. The conversation of Europeans in these parts {467} of the earth is inexpressibly morbid; they seem obsessed by the ever present probability of death. The official tried to conceal his panic by loudly asserting a medical theory of his own, that plague, cholera, dysentery and typhoid (the four princes of the blood royal in the palace of King Death) were merely varieties of malarial fever. I said scornfully, "Next time you get cholera, I hope they'll give you quinine." …
1929 · PDF PAGE 490
490 The wine to comfort all earth's infinite ills; ....The cordial of man's heart, whose dour distress ....Heals only in immaculate silence According as he knows, and love, and wills. {771} Ay! Thought is grown a geyser-gush of flame Since those two hours this morning when you came, ....When, like a comet swirling to its sun, You strangled me in your Astarte's tress, And wove me into serpent silences. ....Upon your body's loom, Hilarion! My outward journey ended at San Diego. Near the city is Point Loma where lived Katherine Tingley, who with W…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
… reappearance of some of the inmates of the house whom he could not imagine as having been lost eternally. The lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose". Earthly life was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for e…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
… Athena rescued his heart and carried it to his father, Zeus. His mother was Demeter; he is thus the fruit of the marriage of Heaven and Earth. This identifies him as the Vau of Tetragrammaton, but the legends of his “death” refer to initiation, which accords with the doctrine of the Devourer. In this card, however, the traditional form is much more clearly expressive of Bacchus Diphues, who represents a more superficial form of worship; the ecstasy characteristic of the god is more magical than mystical. The latter demands the name Iacchus, wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…man has always perceived it. 5S. But she has gone too far, placing the importance of that dividing middle above all into other things in earth or heaven. We hold the balance fair and firm. M. (glad). How blessed is this day, Scepticus ! S. (Concedine the point, and catching the glow). Let us make a night of it! M. (Enjoying his triumph). We will. Do not forget twilight !. S. (2 holy rapture). cus, into Three ! M, (Ditto, only more so). Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. S. (fn the trance called Nerodha-Sama- patti). …
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…innocent. : And it came ‘to -pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R ‘Abu, who had been his friend: for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him: even to him the Mighty One! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and Jehjaour scorned not his art. ‘Roll on in time, thou ball!’ he cried. ‘Move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of my will! Taph! Tath! A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…purposes. Thus, where shall we put Isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? As the type of motherhood? Asthe moon? As the great goddess Earth? As Nature? As the Cosmic Egg from which all Nature sprang? For as time and place have changed, so she 1s all of these ! What of Jehovah, that testy senior of early Genesis, that lawgiver of Leviticus, that war-god of Joshua, that Phallus of the depopulated slaves of the Egyptians, that jealous King-God of the times of the Kings, that more spiritual conception of the Captivity, only invented when all tem…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”’ 3 The banyan tree puts forth branches which droop to the earth and take root. A single tree may thus spread over many acres.
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…annot leave these bitter leas, iii. 65 Amata’s path is Earnestness, ii. 46 Amat janua limen! (Closes book.| Now, my friend, iil. 72 Amid earth’s motley, Gaia’s cap and bells, i. 250 Amid the drowsy dream, ii, 61 A miner laboured in a mine, ili. 90 I., I0., IIT. Among the lilies of the sacred stream, i. 38 And death in kissing. How I have despised, i. 230 ‘And now (I'll quote you Scripture anyhow), li, 176 And though you claim Salvation sure, li. 159 And thus to-day that ‘‘ Christ ascends,” ii. 162 And who is then the moon? Bend close, lil. 13 A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…hend my explanation that I was a Man, returning in time to behold the Beginning of Things.) So I returned; having difficulty to find the earth. But I called on S.R.M.D. and V.N.R., who were glad to see me; and returned into the body: to waste the night in gibing at a foolish medico. My actions continually testify that I naturally possessed what is after all the most essential asset for a Magician, in singular perfection. It came natural to me to despise and reject utterly, without a second's hesitation or regret, anything soever that stood in t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by dull bars of slate-blue cloud, arose the Dawn of Dawns. In splendour not of earth and its mean sun, blood-red, rayless, adamant, it rose, it rose! Carried out of myself, I asked not "Who is the witness?" absorbed utterly in contemplation of so stupendous and so marvellous a fact. For there was no doubt, no change, no wavering; infinitely more real than aught physical is the Golden Dawn of this Eternal Sun! But ere the Orb of Glory rose clear of its banks of blackness --- alas my soul!…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…s the floor of that Sea unutterable. Elim he followed; ‘‘for I wit well,” thought the Adept, “that he goeth not back to the gruss sun of earth. And if the sun hath become a beetle, may the beetle transform into a bird.” Wherewith he came to land. Night shone by lamp of waning moon upon a misty land- scape. Two paths led him to two towers; and jackals howled on either. Now the jackal he knew; and the tower he knew not yet. Not two would he conquer—-that were easy: to victory over one did he aspire. Made he therefore toward the moon. Rough was th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…d started a school for the sons of Brethren at 51 Bateman Street, Cambridge. May God bite into the bones of men the pain of that hell on earth (I have prayed often) that by them it may be sowed with salt, accursed for ever! May the maiden that passes it be barren and the pregnant woman that beholdeth it abort! May the birds of the air refuse to fly over it! May it stand as a curse, as a fear, as an hate, among men! May the wicked dwell therein! May the light of the sun be withheld therefrom and the light of the moon not lighten it! May it becom…
1944 · PDF PAGE 32
…ons; but he would have also in him the Airy quality of Mobility. The Watery part would be shown by his power to create Im‐ ages; and the Earthy part, his immense Stability. Similarly, of a Serpent, they would call his power of Death fiery; his Swiftness, airy; his undulatory motion, Watery; and his habit of life, Earthy. These descriptions are obviously quite inadequate; they have to be filled up by attrib‐ uting planetary qualities and zodiacal qualities to all objects. Thus, the Bull in the Zodiac is an Earthy sign, and this is the central si…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
…over therein the Supernal Triad in a form linked to his own mind by its position in the Solar system. The tenth Sephira, which refers to Earth, is not shown on this figure. For this number represents the Nephesch, the animal soul of man, the crystallization of the mind, and the Daughter or Hé final of Tetragrammaton. In this edition very little attention has been paid to the immense, vast, overshadowing dogma of the Christian era. This has been variously represented as the doctrine of original sin, of the Fall, of the Atonement; part of this do…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…the innocent. And it came to pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R Abu, who had been his friend : for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him : even to him the Mighty One ! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and Jehj aour scorned not his art. ‘Roll on in time, thou ball!’ he cried. ‘Move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of m y will! Taph ! Ta…
1944 · PDF PAGE 26
…much the same way as the number 2 partakes of the na‐ ture of the number 1; and the letter Tau represents both Saturn and the element of Earth. In these difficulties there is a doctrine. But one cannot dismiss these twenty‐two letters thus casually. The stone that the builders rejected becomes the head of the corner. These twenty‐two cards acquire a personal‐
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
… have no possible effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the metre of x Memoriam: ‘‘ No force on earth, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
444 consecrate himself to the particular Great Work which he came to earth in order to perform. In the VII°, which is tripartite, he is first taught the principle of equilibrium as extended to all possible moral ideas; secondly, to all possible intellectual ideas; and lastly, he is shown how, basing all his actions on this impregnable rock of justice, he may so direct his life as to undertake his Great Work with the fullest responsibility and in absolute freedom from all possibility of interferences. In the VIII°, the secret is once more manife…