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Page 108 of 1291910 · PDF PAGE 167
…this in the Saivite A’sanat I found the eyes, without conscious volition, are drawn up and behold the third eye. (Ajna Chakkra.) roth, A day of revelation of Arcana. Ten minutes A’sana and breathing exer- cise. Latter unexpectedly trying. Also practised Mental Muttering whilst in A’sana. Repeating “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum,” which takes, roughly, 86 seconds for 50 repetitions, ze. about 1,000 in half an hour. I practised this Mantra for thirty minutes: 10 minutes aloud; 10 minutes in silence; 10 minutes by hearing.t 11th. Recited the Mantra for…
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
…this in the Saivite A’sanat I found the eyes, without conscious volition, are drawn up and behold the third eye. (Ajna Chakkra.) roth, A day of revelation of Arcana. Ten minutes A’sana and breathing exer- cise. Latter unexpectedly trying. Also practised Mental Muttering whilst in A’sana. Repeating “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum,” which takes, roughly, 86 seconds for 50 repetitions, ze. about 1,000 in half an hour. I practised this Mantra for thirty minutes: 10 minutes aloud; 10 minutes in silence; 10 minutes by hearing.t 11th. Recited the Mantra for…
1996 · PDF PAGE 172
…th! We do not want Her as a slave; we want Her free and royal, whether Her love fight death in our arms by night, or Her loyalty ride by day beside us in the Charge of the Battle of Life. “Let the woman be girt with a sword before me”! ni:ll So sayeth this our Book of the Law. We respect Woman in the self of Her own nature; we do not arrogate the right to criticize her. We welcome her as our ally, come to our camp as her Will, free-flashing, sword-swinging, hath told Her, Welcome, thou Woman, we hail thee, star shouting to Star! Welcome to rout…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
… as the gâte of a new life, as among the twice-born. With the A.*. A.*, life and death are equally incidents in a career, very much like day and night in the history of a planet. But, to pursue the simile, we regard this planet from afar. A Brother of A.*. A.*, looks at (what another person would call) “him- self”, as one — or, rallier, sonie — among a group of phenomena. He is that “nothing” whose consciousness is in one sense the universe considered as a single phenomenon in time and space, and in another sense is the négation of that conscio…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…nse to recognize the universal application of those principles, was able to some extent to repair His original defects. But even to this day, despite the fact this His original inclination is much stronger towards Magick than towards mysticism, he is much less competent in Magick.1 A trace of this can be seen even in His method of combining the two divisions of our science, for in that method He makes concentration bear the Cross of the Work. This is possibly an error, probably a defect, certainly an impurity of thought, and the root of it is t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…the average “well-educated” Anglo-Saxon with the shrewd common sense of the normal illiterate peasant.) A large proportion of mankind to-day is composed of “soûls’ who are living the human life for the fîrst time. Note especially the incredible spread of congénital homosexuality and other sexual deficiencies in many forms. These are the people who hâve not understood, accepted, and used even the Formula of Osiris. Kin to them are the ‘once-born’ of William James, who are incapable of philosophy, magick, or even religion, but seek instinctively …
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
…nk of it in that way. "I should be obliged," continued Brother Onofrio, "if you could see your way to impose a rule of silence for seven days from sunset to-night. Excepting, of course, in the invocations. I will warn the boys; do you take up the matter with Iliel and the girls." " It shall be done." Brother Onofrio went off to the private room where he did his own particular magick. He saw that a serious inroad had been made; but his divination, on this occasion, failed to enlighten him. His favourite device was the Tarot, those mysterious car…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…hadowy or hinted Form is Adonai! 5.35 p.m. Three Pranayamas of 50. 25. 15. 5.40 p.m. Pranayama. Twenty minutes Io. 20. 30. 9.30 p.m. Holiday; which was fatal folly! The full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Truth,” in which we find the following; “After some eight hours’ discipline by Pranayama arose ‘The Golden Dawn.’ “While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…hadowy or hinted Form is Adonai! 5.35 p.m. Three Pranayamas of 50. 25. 15. 5.40 p.m. Pranayama. Twenty minutes Io. 20. 30. 9.30 p.m. Holiday; which was fatal folly! The full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Truth,” in which we find the following; “After some eight hours’ discipline by Pranayama arose ‘The Golden Dawn.’ “While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…nine." Woman changes; all depends upon the influence of the man; and she is now fertile, now barren, according to her phase. But on each day of her course she passes through a certain section of the Zodiac; and
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
…n ! Self-damned, without a friend, thy eternal place Sweats through the painting of thy harlot’s face. At the hour of the eclipse, Wednesday, Dec. 28. BESIDE THE RIVER. RAIN, rain in May. The river sadly flows, A sullen silver crossed with sable bars, Damp, gleomy, shivering, while reluctant stars, Between swart masses of thick clouds that close, Drive with drooped plumes their wingéd cars Toward sleep, the scythe of woes. Woes, woes in Ere deepeneth The pink of roses to a purpler tint ; Ere ripening corn shafts back the sudden glint Spring. su…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
… rushed off without another word spoken; and Balloch and the Pasha went to the rendezvous appointed. They passed that night and the next day in alternate bouts of drink and sleep. About half-past eight on the following evening the telephone rang. Douglas had judged rightly; the lovers had arrived at the Gare de Lyon. Balloch and his pupil sprang to life — fresh and vigorous at the prick of the summons to action. It was easy to mark the tall figure of the magician, with the lovely girl upon his arm; at the barrier their distinction touched the h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
month, but hath in prayer and fasting desired of God to forgive him all his sins, etc. It is to be made on the day of Mars or Saturn (Tuesday or Saturday) at night at 12 o’clock, and written upon virgin parchment with the blood of a black cock that never trode hen. Note that on this night the moon must be increasing in light (ze. going from new to full) and in the Zodiacal Sign of Virgo. And when the seal is so made thou shalt perfume it with alum, raisins dried in the sun, dates, cedar, and lignum aloes. Also by this seal King Solomon did comm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
… hâve assumed that the “almighty power of God” was an infinité quantity in presence of which ail finites were equally insignifiant. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years” is their first law of Motion. “Faith can move mountains” they sav, and disdain to measure either the faith or the mountains. If you can kill a chicken by Magic, why not destroy an army with equal exertion? “With God ail things are possible.” This absurdity is an error of the same class as that mentioned above. The facts are wholly opposed. Two and two make four in the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…ne, as final proof, with not even the intervention of a Bertillon to excuse so palpable a folly, so egregious a crime. What father of to-day would disin- herit, would hunt down to death, a beloved son, on such evidence? Or are we to take it that the eclipse gave proof unshakable of a phenomenon so portentous ? In Scene ii. we have another taste of Kent’s gentlemanly demeanour ; let our conven- tionalist interpreters defend this unw arrantable bullying if they dare ! Another might be so gross, so cowardly ; but not our greatest poet ! A good por…
1905 · PDF PAGE 180
…thing in the world might change the constant season. © Madonna of the Golden Eyes! So glad were we Did a breath of wind disturb the lazy day? Did a soul of fear flit phantom-wise across? suddenly we clasped and clave as spirit unto clay ; Suddenly love swooped to us as swoops the albatross. O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! Did thy hushand’s venom breathe on the trembling scale ? Did that voice corrupting cry across the midnight air? What decided? Gabriel may spin the foolish tale. What decided? We were lovers —- who should care? O Madonna of the G…
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
…at eat into the heart with their corrupting fires ? Old Buddha gave command ; Jehovah spake ; Strange distant gods that are not dead to- day Added their voices ; ITeaven’s desart way Man wins not but by sorrow—let him break The golden image with the feet of clay !! Let him despise That earthen vessel which the potter marred 2 —and rise! XI. As life burns strong, the spirit’s flame grows dull ; The ruddy-cheeked sea-breezes shame its spark ; Wan rainy winds of autumn on the dark Leafless and purple moors, that rage and Tull With a damned soul’s …
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…ced the following effusion: A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES In the hospital bed she lay ..........Rotting away! Cursing by night and cursing by day, ..........Rotting away! The lupus is over her face and head, Filthy and foul and horrid and dread, And her shrieks they would almost wake the dead; ..........Rotting away! In her horrible grave she lay, ..........Rotting away! In the place of her face is a gory hole, {82}
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
of mine in the next few weeks; and I should like you to have a standard of comparison. Maybe you'll want to choose one day!" "I'm afraid I, too, like danger and excitement!" cried Lisa. "I'm afraid you do! However, since Brother Cyril asks it, the Way of the Tao shall be trodden so far as this is possible: What would Brother Cyril do?" "I should take the Magic Sword, make the appropriate symbols, and invoke the Names Divine appurtenant thereto: the Thing, shrivelled and blasted, would go back to those that sent it, screaming in agony, cursing a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…current; Brother Onofrio smiled hugely and proceeded to call upon the divine forces of Mars, before which even Bartzabel "trembles every day," and, thus having converted himself into a high-power engine of war, sat down to a Gargantuan banquet, eating the entire consignment himself. The result was that the unfortunate Arthwait was seized with violent and intractable colic, which kept him twisted in agony on his bed for forty-eight hours. Gates had taken no part in this performance; [160] he knew how dangerous it was, and how likely to recoil up…