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Page 12 of 711913 · PDF PAGE 433
… descrip- tion of them. They were traced forcibly, and the pencil had almost cut the paper. They had been dashed on to the paper without order or alignment. The first was the symbol which the Egyptian initiates usually placed in the hand of Typhon. A tau with upright double lines opened in the form of a compass; an ankh (or crux ansata) having at the top a circular ring; below the ring, a double horizontal line; beneath the double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a V upside down. The second character represented a Grand Hierophant’s cro…
1913 · PDF PAGE 433
… descrip- tion of them. They were traced forcibly, and the pencil had almost cut the paper. They had been dashed on to the paper without order or alignment. The first was the symbol which the Egyptian initiates usually placed in the hand of Typhon. A tau with upright double lines opened in the form of a compass; an ankh (or crux ansata) having at the top a circular ring; below the ring, a double horizontal line; beneath the double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a V upside down. The second character represented a Grand Hierophant’s cro…
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
…l be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will suffer, but they will …
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
…l be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will suffer, but they will …
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
…ttract the notice of such was to equilibrate the symbols. The temple must be builded before the God can indwell it. 22. Therefore by the order of D.D.S. did P. prepare all things by his arcane science and wisdom, choosing only those symbols which were common to all systems, and rigorously rejecting all names and words which might be supposed to imply any religious or metaphysical theory. To do this utterly was found impossible, since all lan- guage has a history, and the use (for example) of the word “spirit” implies the Scholastic Philosophy a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 3
…in adepts, after careful examination and collation. It is printed for the information of scholars and the instruction of seekers. By the order of the A .*. A.-. certain formulz have been introduced into it, and omissions made, to baffle any one who may seek to prostitute it to idle curiosity or to fraud. Its practical use and the method of avoiding these pitfalls will be shown to approved students by special authority from V.V.V.V.V. or his delegates.]
1935 · PDF PAGE 12
…ongestion, especially in the lower grades where the need is great- est, and the conditions most confused; but it is never relaxed in the Order of the R. C. or of the S. S.: save only in One Case. There is also a rule that the Members of the A-.A.. shall not know each other officially, save only each Member his superior who introduced him and his inferior whom he has himself introduced. This rule has been relaxed, and a “Grand Neophyte” appointed to superintend all Members of the Order of the G. D. The real object of the rule was to prevent Memb…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…mb of ruins: “Here ends the parricide century! The century which murdered its God and its Christ!” In war, one has the right to kill, in order not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden to kill the tiger …
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…mn of beauty? Poetry is pure as the Sun: it spreads its veil of light over the errors of humanity. Woe to him who would lift the veil in order to perceive things ugly! The Council of Trent decided that it was permissible for wise and prudent persons to read the books of the ancients, even those which were obscene, on account of the beauty of the form. A statue of Nero or of Heliogabalus made like a masterpiece of Phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work ?—and would not he deserve the execration of the whole worl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…mb of ruins: “Here ends the parricide century! The century which murdered its God and its Christ!” In war, one has the right to kill, in order not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden to kill the tiger …
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…mn of beauty? Poetry is pure as the Sun: it spreads its veil of light over the errors of humanity. Woe to him who would lift the veil in order to perceive things ugly! The Council of Trent decided that it was permissible for wise and prudent persons to read the books of the ancients, even those which were obscene, on account of the beauty of the form. A statue of Nero or of Heliogabalus made like a masterpiece of Phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work ?—and would not he deserve the execration of the whole worl…
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
…tablishes a new incarnation of deity; as in the legends of Leda, Semele, Miriam, Pasiphae, and others. He must set up this ideal for the orders which he rules, so that they may possess a not too abstract rallying point suited to their unde- veloped states. to. The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main theme of the instructions of the A..A.. It is characterised by the Attain- ment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. (See the Equinox, The Temple of Solomon the King; The Vision and the Voice 8th Aethyr; also Liber Samekh, et…
1913 · PDF PAGE 409
… MYSTERIES the one by the other; that absolute rest is nowhere in uni- versal living matter, but that the fixed attracts the volatile in order to fix it; while the volatile attacks the fixed in order to volatilize it. That the supposed rest of particles apparently fixed, is nothing but a more desperate struggle and a greater tension of their fluidic forces, which by neutralizing each other make themselves immobile. It is thus that, as Hermes says, that which is above is like that which is below; the same force which expands steam, contracts and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 409
… MYSTERIES the one by the other; that absolute rest is nowhere in uni- versal living matter, but that the fixed attracts the volatile in order to fix it; while the volatile attacks the fixed in order to volatilize it. That the supposed rest of particles apparently fixed, is nothing but a more desperate struggle and a greater tension of their fluidic forces, which by neutralizing each other make themselves immobile. It is thus that, as Hermes says, that which is above is like that which is below; the same force which expands steam, contracts and…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…e item must alter the whole course of events. Consider then, why thus, and not thus. “ Explore the River of the Soul, whence, or in what order you have come: so that although you have becomea servant to the body, you may again rise to the Order from which you descended, joining works to sacred reason.” Why was I born in England, not in Wales? Why were my parents just who they were and not others? Why did I take to climbing, not to cricket? 76
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…e item must alter the whole course of events. Consider then, why thus, and not thus. “ Explore the River of the Soul, whence, or in what order you have come: so that although you have becomea servant to the body, you may again rise to the Order from which you descended, joining works to sacred reason.” Why was I born in England, not in Wales? Why were my parents just who they were and not others? Why did I take to climbing, not to cricket? 76
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
444 consecrate himself to the particular Great Work which he came to earth in order to perform. In the VII°, which is tripartite, he is first taught the principle of equilibrium as extended to all possible moral ideas; secondly, to all possible intellectual ideas; and lastly, he is shown how, basing all his actions on this impregnable rock of justice, he may so direct his life as to undertake his Great Work with the fullest responsibility and in absolute freedom from all possibility of interferences. In the VIII°, the secret is once more manife…
1929 · PDF PAGE 578
…standing of the subject which was almost enough to satisfy the requirements of the Grade 8° = 3ř. I admitted him as a probationer in the Order on the day of the solstice, and he took the name A V D. I advised him to repress any ambitions to pass quickly to higher Grades and to concentrate on thoroughness. With admirable good sense, he agreed. As evidence of his amazing genius for Magick, let me mention that I showed him a thesis which had been sent me by a member of the Order in support of his application for admission to the Grade 7° = 4ř, the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 147
…in adepts, after careful examination and collation. It is printed for the information of scholars and the instruction of seekers. By the order of the A .*. A.-. certain formulz have been introduced into it, and omissions made, to baffle any one who may seek to prostitute it to idle curiosity or to fraud. Its practical use and the method of avoiding these pitfalls will be shown to approved students by special authority from V.V.V.V.V. or his delegates.]
1909 · PDF PAGE 147
…in adepts, after careful examination and collation. It is printed for the information of scholars and the instruction of seekers. By the order of the A .*. A.-. certain formulz have been introduced into it, and omissions made, to baffle any one who may seek to prostitute it to idle curiosity or to fraud. Its practical use and the method of avoiding these pitfalls will be shown to approved students by special authority from V.V.V.V.V. or his delegates.]