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Page 104 of 1301954 · PDF PAGE 189
…he Pantacle or Coin, as is more usual. Once again, exquisite child of our Father the Archer of Light and of seaborn Aphrodite, your well-known acumen has "nicked the ninety and nine and one over" as Browning says when he (he too!) alludes to the Tarot. As you will have gathered from the above, a Talisman is a much more restricted idea; it is no more than one of the objects in his Pantacle, one of the arrows in the quiver of his Lamen. As, then, you would expect, it is very little trouble to design. All that you need is to "make considerations" …
1922 · PDF PAGE 277
…sly into a chair, and began to look feebly about me for the heroin to buck me up. I must have gone off into a sort of swoon; for I don’t know how it happened, but the fresh, cold air was blowing on my face. Our things had been packed as if by magic, and had been taken out to the motor. The bill had been paid. As I set foot in the car, I heard the landlady asking what she should do if the lady and gentleman came back. I gave the address of my new rooms. As I stumbled into the seat the clear incisive tones of Lala rang across. , “ You'd better te…
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
…hat it is intended to do. I may also mention briefly one line of analysis. 1 [Lat., “all things go forth into mystery,” and “the highest knowledge is to know nothing.”] I ask “What is (e.g.) a tree?” The dictionary defines this simple idea by means of many complex ideas; obviously one gets in deeper with every stroke one takes. The same applies to any “Why” that may be posed. The one existing mystery disappears as a consequence of innumerable antecedents, each equally mysterious. To ask questions is thus evidently worse than a waste of time, so…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
… gave answers unto those who did offer Sacrifices unto him, and did worship the Image as their God, etc. OBSERVATIONS. First, thou shalt know and observe the Moon’s Age for thy working. The best days be when the Moon Luna is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 days old, as Solomon saith; and no other days be profitable. The Seals of the 72 Kings are to be made in Metals. The Chief Kings’ in Sol (Gold); Marquises’ in Luna (Silver); Dukes’ in Venus (Copper); Prelacies’ in Jupiter (Tin); Knights’ in Saturn (Lead); Presidents’ in Mercury (Mercury); Earls’ in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 358
…ter. He wanted us to travel to an appropriate place. On this point I was not wholly satisfied with the result of my cross-examination. I know now that I was much to blame throughout. I was not honest either with him, myself or Virakam. I allowed
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…t be ignored . Besides, being new and incomprehensible to the great Us, it may be dangerous, and must be suppressed. In all literature I know no pages so terrifying as those in Louis Marlow's Mr. Amberthwaite, which describe his dream. I wish I could quote it, with Sinai as the orchestra; never mind, read it again. And we are on the way-far on the way-to That! Now, obviously, the robot education, robot textbooks
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…eir words and deeds, is only a garbage-heap. 1 [Matthew 18:13, paraphrase.] 2 [Luke 17:21, paraphrase.] Remember, also, that, unless you know what your true Will is, you may be devoting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. Remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the Will so that speech and action may be rightly directed to express the Will appropriately to the occasion. Remember that every word and deed whi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
…ner of the eyes which had gripped me so strangely an hour earlier, the fact of the recognition simply put me off the recognition—I don’t know if I’m making myself clear. I mean that the plain fact refused to come to the surface. My mind seethed with questions. Where had I seen her before? And here’s another funny thing. I don’t believe that I should have ever recognised her by sight. What put me on the track was the grip of her hand, though I had never touched it in my life before. Now don’t think that I’m going off the deep end about this. Don…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
…ld appeal to our old relations, and I would look about slyly to see if I couldn’t find some and steal it. And I didn’t mean to let Peter know. On the top of everything else was the torture of shame. I had always been proud of my pride. A subtle serenity made my brain swim when I got into the street. It delighted me to be alone—to have got rid of Peter. I felt him as a restraining influence, and I had shaken him off. I despised myself for having loved him. I wanted to go to the devil my own way. I found Basil in, and alone. What luck! That hatef…
1922 · PDF PAGE 336
322 The Diary of a Drug Fiend “Yes, I see that all right,”’ said Lou, “ and I know Basil too well to make that kind of fool of myself. But I’m still a little worried about this horrid efficiency of yours. Whatever am I to do with myself? Don’t you understand that it was really boredom or the dread of it that drove me to heroin to pass away the time ? ” “ That’s just it,”’ said Athena very seriously. ‘ This is all kinds of a place for driving a fellow to drink. And that’s why the Big Lion insists on our going through the mill. But it takes us a …
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
examples of the mistakes of the diviners as evicience tîiat their ait is fatuous. Every one knows that the simplest Chemical experi- ments often go wrong. Every one knows the eccentricities of fountain pensj but nobody outside Evangelical circles makes fun of the Cavendish experiment, or asserts that, if fountain pens undoubtedly work now and then, their doing so is mer ely coincidence. The fact of the case is that the laws of nature are incomparably more subtle than even science suspects. The phenomena of every plane are intimately interwoven.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…uth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less than the whole body of his knowledge, implied in the theory of his définition of himself, and confirmed by every single expérience. Fie could receive impressi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 419
…ng you of the way in which unlike ideas acquire close kinship as one advanced on the path . Let us get on to your white rages! Well I do know them though I call them black-no, I shall not quarrel about the colour. To me they come almost every day. When I see the maid dust my mantelpiece-which I pay her to do-I want not merely to slay her in the extremity of torment; I want to abolish her, to annihilate her-and the mantelpiece too and everything on it! I can hardly keep from roaring at her to get out and never darken my door again. This is not b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 355
… because when I come to the point of actual writing, my pen runs away with me. So I wanted to get back to the tall timber, but I did not know where to go. My course was determined by the necessities of Neuburg's initiation. He had joined me in Paris and I proceeded to instruct him without losing a moment. He had taken an honours degree in medieval and modern languages, and he could not order his dinner. I remember his asking for red cabbage by he name of "rouge ko-bazhe" --- which is the nearest I can get to it phonetically. He had been warned …
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
… VOL, I. ELEAZAR, What sayest thou, O wisest of our race, Ahinoam, the aged priest of God, Who weighest out the stars with balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? ANWINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. perchance ! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. Sing to him CHoRrus, What say ye, brethren? him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean? Shall we sing to AHINOAM. They verily think I speak, not mocking them. CHORUS, Who shall uncover such a to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 128
… tender breath Of sun and moon and stars that sing To gladden Death. I see your cheek grow pale and cold, Then flush above. ) Kiss me; I know that I behold The birth of Love. PENELOPE. ULYssES ’scaped the sorceries of that queen That turned to swine his goodly com- pany, And came with sails broad-burgeoning and clean Over the ripples of his native sea. Yet for the shores his eyes had lately seen, He kept a half-regretful memory ; And thought, when all the flower-strewn ways were green, ‘* Better love Circe than Penelope !” Yes. A govod woman’s …
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…he power to execute the Will is but blind force unless the Will be enlightened. At every stage of a Magical Operation it is necessary to know what one is doing, and to be sure that one is acting wisely. Acute sensitiveness is always associated with genius; the power to perceive the universe accurately, to analyse, coordinate, and judge impressions is the foundation of ail great Work. An army is but a blundering brute unless its intelligence department Works as it should. The Magician obtains the transcendental knowledge necessary to an intellig…
1922 · PDF PAGE 192
…turned. Just when I needed him most! I’m frightened of myself. I’m stark staring sober. I went to the glass to take my hat off. I didn’t know who I was. There is no flesh on my face. My complexion’s entirely gone. My hair is lustreless and dry, and it’s coming out in handfuls. I think I must be ill. I’ve a good mind to send for a doctor. But I daren’t. It has been a frightful shock! ... I must pull myself together and write it up. —_—- It was about five o’clock when I got to Mount Street. If Mabel wasn’t in, I could wait. A strange man answered…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…the process is mechanical; success is therefore assured, bar a stroke of apoplexy. But, even suppose we are safe from deceit, how can we know that the question has really been put to another mind, understood rightly, and answered from knowledge ? It is obviously possible to check one’s operations by clairvoyance, but this is rather like buying a safe to keep a brick in. Expérience is the only teacher. One acquires what one may almost calî a new sense. One feels in one’s self whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It r…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…d respect their master, and to take pride in being trusted by him. It îs sometimes better to act on the advice of a spirit even when one knows it to be wrong, though in such a case one must take the proper précautions against an undesirable resuit. The reason for this is that spirits of this type are very sensitive. They suffer agonies of remorse on realising that they hâve injured their Master5 for he is their God; they know themselves to be part of him, their aim is to attain to absorption in him. They understand therefore that his interests …