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Page 108 of 1731919 · PDF PAGE 383
…s established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever. 45. Thou canst create this “day” thy chances for thy “to- morrow.” In the “Great Journey,” causes sown each hour bear each its harvest of effects, for rigid Justice rules the World. With mighty sweep of never-erring action, it brings to mortals lives of weal or woe, the Karmic progeny of all our former thoughts and deeds. 46. Take them as much as merit hath in store for thee, O thou of patient heart. Be of good cheer and rest content with fate. Such is thy Karma, the Karma of the cyc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…pieces of philosophy, as of prose. The object of this course of reading is to familiarize the student with ail that has been said by the Great Masters in every time and country. He should make a critical examination of themj not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he cannot do this except by virtue of his own spiritual expérience, but rather to discover the essential harmony in those varied Works. He should be on his guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He should familiarize himself thoroughly with the meth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…the principal ordeal of the neophyte he was so seriously damaged that he was never the same man again. During the next few years I saw a great deal of him and his spiritual adventures will serve both as a diversion and warning on many a page to come. Recognizing the possibilities of Neuburg, I decided to utilize them for the benefit of the Order, and of himself. The first task was to get rid, as far as possible, of his physical defects, which turned out to be very serious. One day during our walk through Spain, we came upon a waterfall, and, th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…t the year 1860 in a hunting shire of Eng- land. His parents were of that lesser class of county magnate which does not care to make any great show. They had enough self-respect to live the life of their choice. The boy, delicate in his youth, was not able to bear the roughness of public school for long, but he passed with honours through Oxford, respected for his piety and learn- ing by his professors and (I am ashamed to say) adored by a certain unsavoury coterie for the baby- ish beauty of his face, with its unfathomable eyes, its small and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
… what the sewer-rat thinks of the linnet's songs ? leave him in his dank drain , for we need him not , neither his opinions . There is a great lesson embodied in this poem . The lesson that Love is only worthy its hallowed name , when free ; that it is only worth having when freely given , and worth keeping when freely held , without bond or writ . This freedom we find in the very first sonnet : Against the fiat of that God discrowned , Unseated by Man's Justice , and replaced By Law most bountiful and maiden - faced And Mother - minded : passi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 317
…xperience with the im . pression , or the idea , of a horse and with one another , by the relations of contiguity and succession (a). No great attention to what passes in the mind is needful to prove that our trains of thought are neither to be arrested , nor even permanently controlled , by our desires or emotions . Never theless , they are largely influ enced by them . In the pres ence of a strong desire , or emotion , the stream of thought no longer flows on in a straight course , but seems , as it were , to eddy round the idea of that which…
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…or many months we studied and practised Ceremonial Magic, and ransacked the ancient books and MSS. of the reputed sages for a key to the great mysteries of life and death. Not even fiction was neglected, and it was from fiction that we gathered one tiny seed-fact, which (in all these years) has germinated to the present essay. Through the ages we found this one constant story. Stripped of its local and chronological accidents, it usually came to this—the writer would tell of a young man, a seeker after the Hidden Wisdom, who, in one circumstanc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…or many months we studied and practised Ceremonial Magic, and ransacked the ancient books and MSS. of the reputed sages for a key to the great mysteries of life and death. Not even fiction was neglected, and it was from fiction that we gathered one tiny seed-fact, which (in all these years) has germinated to the present essay. Through the ages we found this one constant story. Stripped of its local and chronological accidents, it usually came to this—the writer would tell of a young man, a seeker after the Hidden Wisdom, who, in one circumstanc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…whole content. And I am bidden to study the Holy Table very intently so as to be able to concentrate on it when it appears. I have grown greater, so that Iam as great as the Angel. And we are standing, as if crucified, face to face, our hands and lips and -reasts and knees and feet together, and her eyes pierce into my eyes like whirling shafts of steel, so that I fall backwards headlong through the Aethyr—and there is a sudden and tremendous shout, absolutely stunning, cold and brutal: Osiris was a black god!* And the Aethyr claps its hands, g…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…ntidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…ntidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank…
1919 · PDF PAGE 103
…rpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. As fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of Pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the Pyramid of the ceremony of the Death of Asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one Thought of Me thy delight Adonai. 59. And I answered and said: It is done even according unto Thy word. Anditwasdone. And they that read the book and debated thereon passed into the desolate land of Barren Words. And they that sealed up the book …
1907 · PDF PAGE 285
…large his experience , and modify his hitherto unduly narrow conceptions of the laws of nature. This is the method of true science , the great white magic of the Black Goddess : Gape wide , 0 hideous mouth , and suck This heart's blood , drain it down , expunge This sweetening life of mire and muck ! Squeeze out my passions as a sponge , Till nought is left of terrene wine But somewhat deathless and divine ! 2 Huxley continues : “ The day - fly has better grounds for calling a thunderstorm supernatural than has man , with his experience of an i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…k and forget all about them. Directly we commence to chatter, our preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine say…
1909 · PDF PAGE 240
…n; yet, though he was dragged back to the prison from which he had escaped, he had learnt his own strength, a new life had flowed like a great sea dancing with foam upon him, and had intoxi- cated him with the red wine of Freedom and Revolt—his gauntlet of youth had been cast down, henceforth he would battle for his manhood, ay! and for the manhood of the World! Then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed begun! Struggling to his feet, he tore from him the shroud of a corrupted faith as if it had been the rotten cerement of a mummy.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…k and forget all about them. Directly we commence to chatter, our preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine say…
1909 · PDF PAGE 240
…n; yet, though he was dragged back to the prison from which he had escaped, he had learnt his own strength, a new life had flowed like a great sea dancing with foam upon him, and had intoxi- cated him with the red wine of Freedom and Revolt—his gauntlet of youth had been cast down, henceforth he would battle for his manhood, ay! and for the manhood of the World! Then the trumpet-blast resounded; the battle had indeed begun! Struggling to his feet, he tore from him the shroud of a corrupted faith as if it had been the rotten cerement of a mummy.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…impressions, but remains as an undercurrent. After several days of this desultory Mahasatipatthana, he turned his mind once again to the Great Work and decided upon a fortnight’s strict magical retirement. Though his retirement culminated in no definite state of illumination, it is most interesting from a scientific point of view, as it has been very carefully kept and the “breaks” that occurred in the meditations have been most minutely classified. June 22nd. 10.20 p.m. Mahasatipatthana for half an hour. (1) Breathing gets deeper, rather sleep…
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…impressions, but remains as an undercurrent. After several days of this desultory Mahasatipatthana, he turned his mind once again to the Great Work and decided upon a fortnight’s strict magical retirement. Though his retirement culminated in no definite state of illumination, it is most interesting from a scientific point of view, as it has been very carefully kept and the “breaks” that occurred in the meditations have been most minutely classified. June 22nd. 10.20 p.m. Mahasatipatthana for half an hour. (1) Breathing gets deeper, rather sleep…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
… 37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the Great Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, he the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that p…