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…perfect and can never be overcome, 1 in another s ense as sociates are pos sible and desirable. One third of humanity are Buddhists; add men of Science and we form an absolute majority ; among Buddhists a very large proportion have deliberately gone out from social life of any kind to tread t hese paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to com e? Others are working, failing, struggling, crowned here and there with rare garlands of success. Success for ourse lves, success for othe rs; is it not Compassion th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…tly inherited from my father. His integrity was absolute. He lived entirely by his theological convictions. Christ might return at any moment. "Even as the lightning lighteneth out of the East and lighteneth even unto the West, so is the coming of the Son of Man." He would have to give an account of "every idle word". It was a horrifying thought to him that he might be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
…ons and of its descriptions of the state of being, at that time wholly beyond my imagination to conceive, make it a most astonishing document. LIBER X. This book 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 conditi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 69
… work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awaited the voice of some great one. And now the silence is not broken. Jerhaps men were not ready for those final chords. Perhaps to hear them would be to pass where he has passed!) But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end ! Would God he could come back only for an hour to put the keystone to his palace that he built of running brooks and trees and buds and the sound of the sea, and all the lights of heaven to …
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…dists. 548. The heathen.68—“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” 580. Satan and Judas.69—At the moment of passing the final proofs I am informed that the character of Judas has been rehabilitated by Mr. Stead (and rightly: is Mr. Abington* paid with a rope ? ) and the defence of Satan undertaken by a young society lady authoress —a Miss C orelli—who represents him as an Angel of Light, i.e. one who has been intro- duced to the Prince of Wales. But surely there is some one w ho is the object of universal re…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
viii INTRODUCTION Religion is that made by Blavatzky. But though she had an immense genius for acquiring facts, she had none whatever for sorting and selecting the essentials. Grant Allen made a very slipshod experiment in this line; so have some of the polemical rationalists; but the only man worthy of our notice is Frazer of the Golden Bough. Here, again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. This: That when a Japanese thinks of Hachiman, and a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
… upward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. And ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. ‘‘ Look,” said Death, ‘‘my sickle hath a cross-handle. See how they grow like flowers!” ‘‘Give me salt!” quoth our Father, And with sulphur (that the Goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground. ‘I see we shall have ado together,” says Death, ‘Aye!’ and with that he lops off Death’s cross-handle. Now Death was wroth indeed, for he saw that our Father had wit of his designs …
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…e organ of reproduction with any voluntary act. I made conjectures dictated by purely intellectual considerations, and carried out experiments based on their results; but they were absolutely ill-directed. I never guessed what organ was in question. The discovery was delayed for years. My revolt must have manifested itself by actions which were technically not blameworthy. I cannot accuse myself of any overt crime. The battle between myself and the school was conducted on the magical plane, so to speak. It was as if I had made wax figures of th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…herefore, will I set down the exact truth of all that happened. In the year of the Great Passing Over were signs and wonders seen of all men, O m y Brethren, as it is written, and well known unto this day. And the first sign was of dancing: for every woman that was under the moon began to dance and was mad, so that headlong and hot-mouthed she flung herself down, desirous. Whence the second sign, that of musical inventions ; for in that year, and of Ros ewomen, came A and U and M,1 the mighty musicians ! And the third sign likewise, namely , of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
tial doctrine of the Qabalah; and the thing most difficult to understand about the later de‐ based Old Testament tradition,1 is that it represents Tetragrammaton as masculine, in spite of the two feminine components. Zeus became too popular, and, in consequence, too many leg‐ ends gathered around him; but the important fact for this present purpose is that Zeus was peculiarly the Lord of Air.2 Men who sought the origin of Nature in the earliest days tried to find this origin in one of the Elements. (The history of philosophy describes the contr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…dequate time even to learning the merest formalities. (g) The complete lack of understanding which is now practically universal has made men inquire why in God's name they should cherish such pretentious pedantries? A few anecdotes will illustrate the situation for the average non- mason. 1. A certain rite in England derives its authority from a document which is as notoriously a forgery as Pigott ever penned. The heads of this gang wished to break, in the most shameless and rascally manner, an agreement made some years previously with John Yar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…een shown above that The Book of the Law does demonstrate the prime position of religion in the only possible way. The only possible argument, on the other side, is that the communication cannot have been made by a discarnate intelligence, because there are none such. That indeed constitutes the supreme importance of The Book of the Law. But there is no a priori reason for doubting the existence of such beings. We have long been acquainted with many discarnate forces. Especially in the last few years science has been chiefly occupied with the r…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…ess, as one might expect from its attribution to Mer‐ cury and Sagittarius. This is an etherealization of the idea of fire; all gross elements have dis‐ appeared. (Let there be a short digression with regard to the signs of the Zodiac. In the case of each element, the Cardinal sign represents the swift, impulsive onrush of the idea. In the Kerubic sign, the element has come to its full balance of power; and in the other signs the force is fading away. Thus, Aries represents the rush of fire, Lightning; Leo, its power, the Sun; and Sagittarius, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…not prove the actual existence of any such oxy moron.1 The truth is that you’re a very spiritual sort of being and a prey to longevity . Men’s lives are so short that yours seems eternal in com parison. But —why, youre a nice one to talk ! You’ll be dead in a week from now.’ “ ‘I quite appreciate the force of your remarks !’ said the s eeming cowherd; ‘that about the Characteristics is very clever; and curiously enough, my perception of this had always jus t preceded m y death for the las t six goes.’ “ ‘Well, so long, old chap,’ said G autama…
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
…f! Myst. Yet in those great ecstasies of love, poetry, and their like; the Ego is altogether abased, absorbed in the belovéd: the pheno- menon is utterly objective. Scept. ‘To be abased is to be exalted. But we are again at metaphysics. The Ego and the Non-Ego are convertible terms. We are agreed that one of the two is a myth; but we might argue for months and aeons as to which of the two it is. Myst. Here Hindu practice bears out Western speculation, whether we take the shadowy idealism of Berkeley, or the self- refuted! Monism of Haeckel. All…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…rhouse, the abode of Mr. H. E. Atkins, since seven times amateur champion of England and still a formidable figure in the Masters' Tournament. It may here be noted that the injudicious youth tried to trap Atkins with a new move invented by himself. It consists of playing K R B Sq, instead of Castles, in the Muzio Gambit, the idea being to allow White to play P Q 4 in reply to Q B 3. In 1885 Alick was removed from St. Leonards to a school kept by a Plymouth Brother, an ex- clergyman named H. d'Arcy Champney, M.A. It is a little difficult to expl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…hear the "rolling of the head", but when I put in a billiard table, the old gentleman preferred it to the corridor and confined his amusements to the gunroom. Even before that, he had always stopped at the Pylon of the corridor which marked off from the rest of the house the wing which was consecrated to Abra-Melin. I have never discovered any explanation of these noises. We used to listen at the door of the gun room, and the bead would roll merrily up and down the table with untiring energy. The moment we opened the door the noise would stop; …
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…pward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, 4 who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. And ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. “Look,” said Death, “my sickle hath a cross-handle. See how they grow like flowers !” “Give me salt !” quoth our Father. And with sulphur (that the Goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground. “I see we shall have ado together,” say s Death. “Aye!” and with that he lops off Death’s cross-handle. Now Death was wroth indeed, for he saw that our Father had wit of his designs (…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…oth conceive of a previous and eternally existing God, though the Qabalists hedge by describing this latent Deity as ‘‘ Not.” Later com- mentators, notably the illustrious? Mac- Gregor-Mathers, have explained this Not as ‘‘negatively-existing.”’ Profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom I am proud to have been permitted to call my master, Iam bound to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, and nothing else. In fact, I really claim to have re-discovered the long-lost and centr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
437 refused the water, so he dismounted to find out the reason. The taste told him at once that he had discovered an immensely rich deposit of alkali. His geomancy had not misled him; he had found mineral wealth. He proceeded to exploit his discovery and would have become a millionaire in short order had he not met with the opposition of Burnner, Mond & Co. On the other hand, his clairvoyance was hopelessly bad, so that he could not pass the examination for the Grade of Zelator of A.'. A.'. though in other points entitled to a much higher degre…