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Page 13 of 711913 · PDF PAGE 513
…analogies, and, attributing all the phenomena of physical life to the universal agent, teaches that one must act upon the astral body in order to react upon the material visible body; it teaches also that the essence of the astral light is a double movement of attraction and repulsion; just as human bodies attract and repel one another, they can also absorb themselves, extend one into another, and make exchanges; the ideas or imaginations of one can influence the form of the other, and subsequently react upon the exterior body. Thus are produce…
1913 · PDF PAGE 513
…analogies, and, attributing all the phenomena of physical life to the universal agent, teaches that one must act upon the astral body in order to react upon the material visible body; it teaches also that the essence of the astral light is a double movement of attraction and repulsion; just as human bodies attract and repel one another, they can also absorb themselves, extend one into another, and make exchanges; the ideas or imaginations of one can influence the form of the other, and subsequently react upon the exterior body. Thus are produce…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…e Sphinx . “ To command the elements , we must have overcome their hurricanes , their lightnings , their abysses , their tempests . “ In order to DARE we must KNOW ; in order to WILL we must DARE ; we must WILL to possess empire , and to reign we must BE SILENT .” — E. LÉVI , The Ritual of Transcendent Magic , pp . 30 , 190 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 94 . 2
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…HE EQUINOX its horizons. To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…HE EQUINOX its horizons. To know all is an impossible dream; but woe unto him who dares not to learn all, and who does not know that, in order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of a…
1928 · PDF PAGE 165
…dge who dost pardon, Thou who art full of Motives and of Causes, Thou who hast (it may be) placed within my soul the love of hor- ror in order to turn my heart to Thee, like the cure which follows the knife; Oh Lord, have pity, have pity upon the mad men and women that we are! Oh Creator, is it possible that monsters should exist in the eyes of Him alone who knoweth why they exist, how they have made themselves, and how they would have made themselves, and could not?
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
… of the Middle Pillar. The Hierophant then says to the Candidate: ‘Child of Earth! wherefore hast thou come to request admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeking for the light of Occult Knowledge, and I believe that in this Order the Know- ledge of that Light may be obtained.” Whereupon the Hierophant asks the Candidate whether he is willing “in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to keep inviolate the secrets and mysteries of our Order?” To wh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
… of the Middle Pillar. The Hierophant then says to the Candidate: ‘Child of Earth! wherefore hast thou come to request admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeking for the light of Occult Knowledge, and I believe that in this Order the Know- ledge of that Light may be obtained.” Whereupon the Hierophant asks the Candidate whether he is willing “in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to keep inviolate the secrets and mysteries of our Order?” To wh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…he gate of every occult sanctuary being slammed in his face. The future saint! obtained admission (it is true) to the pseudo-Rosicrucian order of Mathers, but on that order passing, as it did for a week or so, into the control of an honest man, that honest man’s first act was to expel the aforesaid Waite with ignominy. Thus excluded, the future saint1 could find no better device than to proclaim himself its head. With- 1 As will presently appear, he became such. (Gloria Crowleiae! 215
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…he gate of every occult sanctuary being slammed in his face. The future saint! obtained admission (it is true) to the pseudo-Rosicrucian order of Mathers, but on that order passing, as it did for a week or so, into the control of an honest man, that honest man’s first act was to expel the aforesaid Waite with ignominy. Thus excluded, the future saint1 could find no better device than to proclaim himself its head. With- 1 As will presently appear, he became such. (Gloria Crowleiae! 215
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…. It is a mixture of brutalizing practices and revolting crimes, so constituted as to kill for evermore judgment and conscience.? But in order to communicate with the phantom of abso- lute evil, to realize that phantom to the point of seeing and touching it, is it not necessary to be without conscience and without judgment? There is doubtless the secret of this incredible perversity, of this murderous fury, of this unwholesome hate against all order, all ministry, all hierarchy, of this fury, above all, against the dogma which sanctifies peace,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 570
…lly stronger and fiercer than lions. Jules Gérard, the intrepid hunter of the African lion, would be devoured if he were afraid. But, in order not to be afraid of a lion, one must make one’s self stronger and more savage than the animal itself by an effort of imagination and of will. One must say to one’s self: It is 1 who am the lion, and in my presence this animal is only a dog who ought to tremble before me. Fourier imagined anti-lions; Jules Gérard has realized that chimera of the phalansterian? dreamer. But, one will say, in order not to f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…. It is a mixture of brutalizing practices and revolting crimes, so constituted as to kill for evermore judgment and conscience.? But in order to communicate with the phantom of abso- lute evil, to realize that phantom to the point of seeing and touching it, is it not necessary to be without conscience and without judgment? There is doubtless the secret of this incredible perversity, of this murderous fury, of this unwholesome hate against all order, all ministry, all hierarchy, of this fury, above all, against the dogma which sanctifies peace,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 570
…lly stronger and fiercer than lions. Jules Gérard, the intrepid hunter of the African lion, would be devoured if he were afraid. But, in order not to be afraid of a lion, one must make one’s self stronger and more savage than the animal itself by an effort of imagination and of will. One must say to one’s self: It is 1 who am the lion, and in my presence this animal is only a dog who ought to tremble before me. Fourier imagined anti-lions; Jules Gérard has realized that chimera of the phalansterian? dreamer. But, one will say, in order not to f…
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…leships useless and too expensive, and that they have found something cheaper and more deadly. So the Curia kept a weapon in reserve, in order to be sure of having a nice jolly pogrom whenever they gave the word. And what was the word to be ? Nice quiet peasant folk, or genial hard-working hunters and fighters, are not easy to arouse to indis- criminate slaughter without reason. In order to get them going, there are only two things which you can play ongreed and fear. The motive behind the Crusades was the story of the fabulous wealth of the E…
1935 · PDF PAGE 13
…r an absolute prohibition to accept money or other material reward, directly or indirectly, in respect of any service connected with the Order, for personal profit or advantage. The penalty is immediate expulsion, with no possibility of reinstatement on any terms soever. But all members must of necessity work in accordance with the facts of Nature, just as an architect must allow of the Law of Gravitation, or a sailor reckon with currents. So must all Members of the A. A-. work by the Magical Formula of the Aeon. They must accept the Book of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…nds. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; mutual, so that he may decide whether we can indeed give that which he wishes, and so that we may know exactly what training is suitable for him. Also, because we are subtle of mind, many are offended. For we wished to test the world by …
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…nds. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to him the History of the Order and explain the task of the Probationer. For we give to each inquirer a year’s study; mutual, so that he may decide whether we can indeed give that which he wishes, and so that we may know exactly what training is suitable for him. Also, because we are subtle of mind, many are offended. For we wished to test the world by …
1919 · PDF PAGE 256
…ust volunteer for this service at the conclusion of that ceremony; and therefore they give up their own pros- pect of advancement in the Order for one year, that they may serve their fellows. This is then the first lesson in our great principle, the attainment of honour through renunciation, “The degree of Knights of the East and West is but a bridge between the first and second series; but it is important, for in that grade a new pledge-form must be signed, and the new Knight vowed to devote his life to the Establish- ment of the Law of Thelem…
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…s this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come, love, to the long years of love with me! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The body-guardians of the Golden Fleece!