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Page 120 of 1731929 · PDF PAGE 41
…bed that on my way to the summit of Scafell. It was a terrifically hot day over Lingmell and down into the valley to climb the screes of Great Gable. My attention was attracted by the Great Napes Needle and I climbed that. Thence I took the easiest way --- the Needle ridge, or a gully, I forget which --- to the summit of the mountain. I had become almost insane from heat, thirst and exhaustion; I could not longer walk, but crawled on hands and knees down to Sty Head Tarn, whose waters revived me to some extent. I struggled on homewards and reac…
1910 · PDF PAGE 274
…ts massive hardness spoke a language which it is impossible to embody in words, but any one who has watched the relentless sweep of some great engine crank, and realised its capacity for murder, will catch a glimpse, even in the memory, of the thrill which seemed to say, “ This iron is a tearless fiend,” of the unutterable meaning I saw in those colossal beams and buttresses. I suffered from the vision of that iron as from the presence of a giant assassin. But my senses opened slowly to the perception of still worse presences. By my side there …
1910 · PDF PAGE 274
…ts massive hardness spoke a language which it is impossible to embody in words, but any one who has watched the relentless sweep of some great engine crank, and realised its capacity for murder, will catch a glimpse, even in the memory, of the thrill which seemed to say, “ This iron is a tearless fiend,” of the unutterable meaning I saw in those colossal beams and buttresses. I suffered from the vision of that iron as from the presence of a giant assassin. But my senses opened slowly to the perception of still worse presences. By my side there …
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
… and I heard the voice of the master. After that I was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. Then I took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that I had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. So with a heart both heavy and light I abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. Then came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. In the ti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
… and I heard the voice of the master. After that I was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. Then I took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that I had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. So with a heart both heavy and light I abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. Then came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. In the ti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…cannot pierce. And on his forehead, and on his heart, and in his hand, is the secret sigil of the Beast. And of all this the glory is so great that all the spiritual senses fail, and their reflections in the body fail. It is very strange. In my heart is rapture, holy and in- effable, absolutely beyond emotion; beyond even that bliss 167
1919 · PDF PAGE 161
…Purity Section. October 1st to October 12th Proper Retirement, and on October 12th Invocation of Holy Guar- dian Angel. All this meant a great deal of work and trouble, and much new experience gained, but was on the whole a failure, though a Step on the Path. During this retirement he cut a Wand, as a Symbol not of his will but of the Will of Adonai in him. It would be hardly right to say that this Magical Retirement produced no results, though it may not have produced the One Desired Result. By the time a man has made 671 entries in his Magica…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…formula, recognizing the Sun as the Son (Star), as the pre-existent manifested Unit from which ail springs and to which ail returns. The Great Work is to make the initial FF of Assiah (the world of material illusion) into the final FIF of Atziluth,2 the world of pure reality. Spelling the Name in full, FF -f- IFD -f- ALP -f- OIN -f- FI -j~ 309 = Sh T = XX -f- XI = 31 the secret Key of the Law. F is the manifested Star. I is the secret Life. Serpent — Light . Lamp — Love . Wand — Liberty . Wings — Silence . Cloak These symbols are ail shewn in t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 305
…of the men but to rely on him to punish any misconduct when they returned to Yunnanfu. It seemed as if they knew of this compact and the Great God Wilkinson seemed very far off to them. I could feel instinctively that the respect, akin to godly fear, which I had previously inspired was less powerful as an inhibition. We slept on the fourteenth at a seerai, dirty and entirely comfortless. I paid the host more than liberally; but he was insolent and I had no means of abating the nuisance. This emboldened my own coolies to be mutinous; and in the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…ere also a devout Christian. He foresaw trou- ble. It came pretty quickly. Two days afterwards Clayton had to quit his lovers room in a great hurry, as heavy footsteps trod the passage. The Captain was in his dressing-gown and proved quite Arcadian beneath. He was in bed in a jiffy, and discovered heat and moisture to an extent unwar- ranted by the climate. I thought you would never come, love, sighed the charming middy, with re- sourceful tact, so Ive been whiling away the time. Im here now, said his lover, and applied his lips to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 107
… him Kings—then such persons are unsuitable. MEDEA. Unless these words were well repented of I might transform ye into—--— CHORUS. Stay, great queen ! MEDEA. Well for your respite comes this messenger.
1907 · PDF PAGE 295
288 THE STAR IN THE WEST sophers , and men of science , who are sooner or later recognized as great men ; in the second the adepts as adepts appear , but seem as fools and knaves ; and in the third , that of Slime , vanish altogether , and are invisible . ' Then the chain starts again . Thus Crowley writes : Decadence marks the period when the adepts , nearing their earthly perfection, become true adepts , not mere men of genius. They disappear , harvested by heaven : and per fect darkness ( apparent death ) ensues until the youthful forerunner…
1919 · PDF PAGE 250
…nder? You reply that this can only be by gener- osity, by divine charity of the high toward the low, of the rich toward the poor, of the great toward the small? You are a thousand times right; you have understood the secret of the O.T.O. That such qualities can flourish in an extended commu- nity may surprise so eminent and so profound a student of humanity as yourself; yet examples abound of practices the most unnatural and repugnant to mankind which have con- tinued through centuries. I need not remind you of Jaga- nath and of the priests of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 86
…is clothed with derision, Sows. and he shall not reap. His life is a watch or a vision, Between a sleep and a sleep.” The thought of the great Victorian seemed to chill him. He. threw off his depression, lighting a cigarette and taking a strong pull at his brandy. “‘ Haidée,”’ he said, with assumed lightness, ‘‘ lives in open sin with a person named Baruch de Espinosa. I think it’s Schopenhauer who calls him ‘Der Gott- betrunkene Mann.’ ” “ The God-intoxicated man,”’ murmured Lou faintly, shooting a sleepy glance at Haidée from beneath her heav…
1954 · PDF PAGE 212
…helpful, especially if it had been consecrated and re-consecrated through the centuries by devout veneration. This, incidentally, is the great advantage that one may often obtain when invoking Gods; their images, constantly revered, nourished by continual sacrifice, serve as a receptacle for the Prana driven into them by thousands or millions of worshippers. In fact , such idols are often already consecrated talismans; and their possession and daily use is at least two-thirds of the battle. Apollonius was indeed as refractory a subject as Levi …
1954 · PDF PAGE 265
…ting forth either a more or less distorted and degraded variation of some Christian conception, or utterly puerile absurdities . Even so great a man as Max Muller, in his introduction to the Upanishads, seems only half inclined to admit that the apparent triviality and folly of many passages in these so-called sacred writings might owe their appearance to our ignorance of the historical
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
….F., by the order of the Secret Chief of the Rosicrucian Order... The G. H. Fra., having succumbed unhappily to the assaults of the Four Great Princes (acting notably under Martial influences), it seemed expedient that the work should be brought to its conclusion by another hand. ‘The investigations of a com- petent Skryer into the house of our unhappy Fra., confirmed this divination; neither our Fra. nor his Hermetic Mul. were there seen; but only the terrible shapes of the evil Adepts S.V.A.? and 1 Mr. A. E. Waite writes (“Real History of the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 48
…al wills; then, if thy will be God’s will, Thou art That. There is but one other word to explain. Elsewhere it is written—surely for our great comfort—‘Love is the law, love under will.” 42
1919 · PDF PAGE 339
…t of the fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the following verses from the “Great Law,” Liber LXV. II. 17-25. Also the Holy One came upon me, and I beheld a white swan floating in the blue. Between its wings I sate, and the zons fled away. Then the swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. A little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: Who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane? Behold, these many zons have passed; whence cam…
1911 · PDF PAGE 312
To be obtained of THE EQUINOX, 3 Great James St., W.C. Crown 8v0, Scarlet Buckram, pp. 64 PRICE 10s. net Less than 100 copies remain. The price will shortly be raised to one guinea net A.*.A.*. PUBLICATION IN CLASS B 777 “THUS book contains in concise tabulated form a. comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.-. D .*. and R.R. et A. C.__ It…