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Page 106 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 57
…h an expérience (and the records of the A.’. A.*, contain dozens cf similar cases) alfords proof as absolute as any proof can be in this world of Illusion that the correspondences in Liber 777 really represent facts in Nature. It suggests itself that this “straightforward” System of magick was perhaps never really employed at ail. One might maintain that the invocations which hâve corne down to us are but the ruins of the Temple of Magick. The exorcisms might hâve been committed to writing for the purpose of memorising them, while it was forbid…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
… the way Intuition shall shove her. Spirit and Truth in my darkness I seek. Little by little they bubble and leak; Such as I have to the world I discover. Words—are they weak ones at best ? They shall speak ! 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Apology of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valuable fact for use of lovers. Invocation. Imperfect scholastic at- tainements of author reme- died by his great spiritual insight. His intention.
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…ng fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so doth the fire of wisdom reduce all actions to ashes. Verily there is nothing so pure in this world as wisdom; he that is perfected in Yoga finds it in the Atman in due season.* KARMA YOGA. Union through Work. Very closely allied to Gnana Yoga is Karma Yoga, Yoga through work, which may seem only a means towards the former. But this is not so, for not only must the aspirant commune with the Atman through the knowledge or wisdom he attains, but also through the work which aids him to attain it. A good e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…ng fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so doth the fire of wisdom reduce all actions to ashes. Verily there is nothing so pure in this world as wisdom; he that is perfected in Yoga finds it in the Atman in due season.* KARMA YOGA. Union through Work. Very closely allied to Gnana Yoga is Karma Yoga, Yoga through work, which may seem only a means towards the former. But this is not so, for not only must the aspirant commune with the Atman through the knowledge or wisdom he attains, but also through the work which aids him to attain it. A good e…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
… together, and are troubled and confounded. Wherefore come thou, O Spirit N., forthwith, and without delay, from any or all parts of the world wherever thou mayest be, and make rational answers unto all things that I shall demand of thee. Come thou peaceably, visibly, and affably, now, and without delay, manifesting that which I shall desire. For thou art conjured by the name of the Livine and TRuE Gop, HELioreEn, where- fore fulfil thou my commands, and persist thou therein unto the end, and according unto mine interest, visibly and affably sp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…Tiphereth the means, also Aleph is the Fool, Kether, Mem the Hanged Man, Tiphereth ; and Tau the Sign of the Cross and the Virgin of the World. May be read by Tarot (McGregor Mathers) Fools hang Virgins! What about wise men? Hush, baby dear! Wait tillyou’re an Arahat on Ararat, and then you’ll know all about it, you beetle-headed little bitch! Nothing like early and clear in struction, Mrs. Bones. Train up a child and a moustache—why don't you get Cecil some Pommade Hongroise? I attribute Pommade Hongroise to Gemini; and it is called the Waxen …
1996 · PDF PAGE 178
…uer, as often enough it does; but the Beauty engendered is usually stunted or wried, assuming a tragic or cynic mask. The history of the world is full of such stories; it is, one may almost say, the chief motive of Romance. Men and women have to face actual ruin, as well as the prob ability of scandal and disgust, or consent to love within limits which concern not love in the least. The chance of spontaneity is therefore a small one; and, should it occur and be seized, the law yers hasten to hide under the bridal bed, while the Families, glui…
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
…NNHAUSER (aside). This is my punishment ! This faith, this hope, this love—to me—to me! ELIZABETH. Yet, once my word went forth into the world, Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men—might hear, might come ! The kind, grave face of you—that light out- shone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me cf our old baby-love, And—marriages are made in heaven, you know! Besides—Our Lady showed me in a dream How you would come. TANNHAUSER. And now? So sure are you The loving word you spoke an hour ago Came from the heart—who c…
1909 · PDF PAGE 253
… “Genius.” Abramelin calls it “ Holy Guardian Angel,” vide Preface. § The Sephirotic Scheme, it will be remembered, is divided into four worlds: Atziloth; Briah; Yetzirah and Assiah. Each world contains ten Sephiroth, and each of these Sephira again ten, making the total number four hundred. || “Paroketh ” is the Veil which separates Hod and Netzach from Tiphereth ; and as we shall see later on, in the Portal Ritual, the First Order from the Second Order. 245
1909 · PDF PAGE 253
… “Genius.” Abramelin calls it “ Holy Guardian Angel,” vide Preface. § The Sephirotic Scheme, it will be remembered, is divided into four worlds: Atziloth; Briah; Yetzirah and Assiah. Each world contains ten Sephiroth, and each of these Sephira again ten, making the total number four hundred. || “Paroketh ” is the Veil which separates Hod and Netzach from Tiphereth ; and as we shall see later on, in the Portal Ritual, the First Order from the Second Order. 245
1922 · PDF PAGE 162
…e a really good time like we used to last month. I am sure love would come back if we did, and love's the only thing that counts in this world or the next. I feel that it’s only round the corner; but a miss is as good as a mile. It makes it somehow worse to be so near and yet so far.... A very funny thing has just struck me. There's
1954 · PDF PAGE 481
…; fix this idea, get rid of its solidity. Commonly, the first tests of the young Aspirant refer to cash-"that's God's sole solid in this world." The proper magical attitude is very hard to describe. (I'm not talking of that black hen's egg any mbre; that is simple.) Very sorry to have to say it, but it is not unlike that of the spendthrift. Money must circulate, or it loses its true value. A banker in New York once told me that the dollar circulated nine times as fast as the English equivalent, so that people seemed to themselves to be nine tim…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…he effect of the discovery was hypnotic. From being nothing in the room, he became everything. Even Lavinia King, who had wearied of the world at thirty, and was now forty-three, saw that here was something new to her. She looked at that impassive face. The jaw was square, the planes of the face curiously fiat. The mouth was small, a poppy-petal of vermilion, intensely sensuous. The nose was small and rounded, but fine, and the life of the face seemed concentrated in the nostrils. The eyes were tiny and oblique, with strange brows of defiance. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…, and the silent voices whispered “Welcome brother.” Then all was calm and Peace as before. The little ripple flowed on to let the whole world know, then, having delivered its message, all was still. Amen. Whatever the nature of this Illumination, probably a state of Dhyana, it left a very marked result on the consciousness of Frater V.1.O., and gave him the necessary energy to con- tinue his Work through many a dark and dismal period. He himself could not gauge its value at all at the time. He was alone in Vancouver and out of touch with the O…
1930 · PDF PAGE 98
… of even the pride which rises from having resisted the temptations. But so many and so subtle are the wiles of Choronzon that the whole world could not contain their énumération. The answer to one and ail is the persistence in the literal fulfil- ment of the routine. Beware, then, last, of that devil who shall whisper in thine ear that the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life, and answer : Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Yet shalt thou also beware of dis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…or internai conditions. Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. As our record extends into the past, the evidence of its truth is cumulative. Every incarnation that we remember must increase
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
…. THE SIXTEENTH DAY. ‘« My chastity’s the jewel of our house Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i’ th’ world For me to lose.”’ All's Well. THERE was no secret cave of the wood’s womb Where we might kiss all day without a start Of fear that meant to stay and must depart, Nor any corner where the sea’s perfume
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…rayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, IIence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts? Dread air dispa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…own to the glamour Of dream ; and fear Beats like a hammer. Ilere ! it is here! Lost are my friends ; The elements shrink Where the life-world ends On the icy brink Of the sunless river ; Inds, and for ever ! I pass to the portals Of death in my flight. I sound at the gates. I call the immortals Of death and of night. I call on the Fates By the summons of light. The gates are rended; The rocks divide ; My soul hath descended Abreast of the tide. I, single and splendid, Death have defied ! I pass by the terrible gates and the guardians dragon-ey…
1899 · PDF PAGE 249
… introspective and subjective and more objective and dramatic, to seek less to express directly his own thoughts than to present man and world in the light of his thoughts. This Spenserian stanza is not unworthy of the author of ‘ Adonais’: ‘So I press on, fresh strength from day to day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high, So I depart upon the desert way, So I strive ever toward the copper sky, With lips burnt black, and blind in either eye. 3