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Page 136 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 441
441 As freemasonry has been "exposed" every few minutes for the last century or so, and as any layman can walk into a masonic shop and buy the complete Rituals for a few pence, the only omissions being of no importance to our present point, it would be imbecile to pretend that the nature of the ceremonies of Craft masonry is an any sense a "mystery". There is, therefore, no reason for refraining from the plain statement that, to anyone who understands the rudiments of symbolism, the Master's degree is identical with the Mass. This is in fact th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 125
…se isolation is eternally 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 r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…orm of marriage , and the only form that can exalt it over the prostitution of the monde and demi - monde ; for it matters little if a woman sell her body for a five pound note , or for a five million pound dot . The man who in his turn marries a woman for her wealth is as foul a male prostitute as ever shrieked his lewd obscenities in the street of Sodom , and down the by ways of Gibeah . Tannhäuser expresses the whole celebration of this union in two pregnant lines : That is true marriage , in my estimate . Aspire together to one Deity ? Yes …
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
… in a similar quandary which he calls “ God." Starting out on his quest by stating : “ Can any doctrine be true that necessarily leads a man into an absurdity ? " ; he promptly proceeds to travel along that road which he has warned others not to follow , and , having com pletely lost his way , and overloaded his thoughts with the darkness of night , finding it impossible to continue his journey , knocks at the creaky door of a miserable tavern , and regaling himself on the common wine of that strange country in which he has wandered , pro claim…
1909 · PDF PAGE 402
…s of mid-Victorian pragmatism, whose coarse-fibred affettuosé bargain with God as with a huckster. The British conception of the Noblest Man being that of a cheating tradesman, their God is fashioned in that image, and the ambition of them all is to cheat Him. So they avoid the sceptic’s sneers by an affectation of doubt, the fanatic’s thunders by an affectation of faith: between which two stools they fall to the ground. In the end they are more sceptic than the sceptic. Hear how they try to be pious | “ Leave thou thy sister, when she prays, H…
1909 · PDF PAGE 402
…s of mid-Victorian pragmatism, whose coarse-fibred affettuosé bargain with God as with a huckster. The British conception of the Noblest Man being that of a cheating tradesman, their God is fashioned in that image, and the ambition of them all is to cheat Him. So they avoid the sceptic’s sneers by an affectation of doubt, the fanatic’s thunders by an affectation of faith: between which two stools they fall to the ground. In the end they are more sceptic than the sceptic. Hear how they try to be pious | “ Leave thou thy sister, when she prays, H…
1913 · PDF PAGE 473
… whom we saw at Mme. A——’s, and who wanted to make magical evocations.” “Oh, well, my friend, you confirm me in my sad con- viction. The man we saw, we shall never see again; the hand which you examined has become a bloody hand. We have heard speak of him, as he told us we should ; that pale priest, do you know what was his name?” “Oh, my God!” said Desbarolles, changing colour, “I am afraid to know it!” “Well, you know it: it was the wretch Louis Verger!” Some weeks after what we have just recorded, Eliphas Levi was talking with a bookseller w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 476
… which he found in expressing his real thought in the presence of Eliphas Levi. One may also comment upon the apparition of the sinister man taking pleasure in the public grief, and uttering an indeed infernal word in the midst of the consternation of the crowd, an apparition only noticed by the ecstatic of La Salette, the too celebrated Mlle. de La Merliére, who has the air after all of a worthy individual, but very excitable, and perhaps capable of acting and speaking without knowing it herself, under the influence of a sort of ascetic sleep-…
1913 · PDF PAGE 473
… whom we saw at Mme. A——’s, and who wanted to make magical evocations.” “Oh, well, my friend, you confirm me in my sad con- viction. The man we saw, we shall never see again; the hand which you examined has become a bloody hand. We have heard speak of him, as he told us we should ; that pale priest, do you know what was his name?” “Oh, my God!” said Desbarolles, changing colour, “I am afraid to know it!” “Well, you know it: it was the wretch Louis Verger!” Some weeks after what we have just recorded, Eliphas Levi was talking with a bookseller w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 476
… which he found in expressing his real thought in the presence of Eliphas Levi. One may also comment upon the apparition of the sinister man taking pleasure in the public grief, and uttering an indeed infernal word in the midst of the consternation of the crowd, an apparition only noticed by the ecstatic of La Salette, the too celebrated Mlle. de La Merliére, who has the air after all of a worthy individual, but very excitable, and perhaps capable of acting and speaking without knowing it herself, under the influence of a sort of ascetic sleep-…
1919 · PDF PAGE 408
…e once opened leads the Narjol toward the realm of Sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation. 7. PRAGNYVA, the key to which makes of a man a God, creating him a Bodhisattva, son of the Dhydnis. Such to the Portals are the golden keys. (Subsection I.) Charity and love are here used in their technical sense, Agape. “Love is the law, love under will.” Both Agape and Thelema (will) add to 93, which identifies them qabalistically. This love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness. The majority of people of the Christian Science, Th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 501
…one could, with a great effort, deduce therefrom perfectly good reasons for an unswerving contemplation of one's umbilicus, or the performance of strange dances and the vibration of mysterious names. But what are you to say (you enquire) to the ordinary Bloke-on-the-Boulevard, to the man of the world who has acquired a shrewd knowledge of Nature, but finds no rational guide to the conduct of life. He observes many unsatisfactory elements in the way things go, and for his own sake would like to "remould them nearer to the heart's desire," to ref…
1961 · PDF PAGE 167
… of Attainment, the Passion of thy Light to dare all for its Fulfilling. It is then the Possession of this Quality which determineth thy Manhood; for without it thou art not im- pelled to Magick, and thy Will is but the Slave's Endurance and Patience under the Lash. For this Cause, the Bull being of Osiris, was it necessary for the Masters of the Aeons to incarnate me as more especially a lion, and my Word is first of all a Word of Enlightenment and of Emancipation of the Will, giving to every Man a Sprint within Himself to determine His Will, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 398
398 Man, unable to solve the Riddle of Existence, takes counsel of Saturn, extreme old age. Such answer as he can get is the one word "Despair". Is there more hope in the dignity and wisdom of Jupiter? No; for the noble senior lacks the vigour of Mars the warrior. Counsel is in vain without determination to carry it out. Mars, invoked, is indeed capable of victory: but he has already lost the controlled wisdom of age; in a moment of conquest he wastes the fruits of it, in the arms of luxury. {635} It is through this weakness that the perfected …
1905 · PDF PAGE 170
…f night, and blacker than all broken years—aye ! but it grew and held me in its grasp so that I felt its flesh, not clean sweet flesh of man but leprous white, and crawling with innumerable tears like worms, and pains like a sword- severed asp, twitching, and loathlier than all mesh of hates and lusts, defiling ; nor any voice it had, nor any motion, it was infinite in its own world of horror, irredeemably bad as everywhere sunlit, being this world, forget not ! being this world, this universe, the sum of all existence ; so that opposing fierce…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
… worked that out as a boy, his alleged character might have forced him to its own path. When I was in Marrakesh, they lynched a poor old man because their mosque had been defiled in some real or imaginary way (with which he had in any case nothing to do, having been paralyzed for years). The excuse was, on the soles of his feet the creases formed the word Allah, so that he always trod upon the name of God! They killed Burckhardt for that, by the way. A pure invention in both instances. I saw his feet, and they were just like anybody else’s, only…
1910 · PDF PAGE 42
…weakened by boyish exertions and the physical feeling of emptiness and marrowlessness, the consequences of his shyness and lack of sportsmanship. The first use he had to make of his freedom and of his fortune was to book a cabin on the first liner bound for New Zealand, where he was led to expect a total recovery. Il THE EMPRESS LiongEL lived on a large estate, rode, hunted, played games, was made love to; discovered the joys of Nature, the pleasures kept in reserve for man by Isis, and the superiority of the numbers two and three over the unit…
1910 · PDF PAGE 42
…weakened by boyish exertions and the physical feeling of emptiness and marrowlessness, the consequences of his shyness and lack of sportsmanship. The first use he had to make of his freedom and of his fortune was to book a cabin on the first liner bound for New Zealand, where he was led to expect a total recovery. Il THE EMPRESS LiongEL lived on a large estate, rode, hunted, played games, was made love to; discovered the joys of Nature, the pleasures kept in reserve for man by Isis, and the superiority of the numbers two and three over the unit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
… closed: her throat worked convulsively for a moment. Rolles too leaned back, pale with excitement. He drank the fresh air. Then, like a man shot, he lifted himself and fell forward, his head in the nest of her bosom. “ Please sit up and behave sensibly, Mr Rolles ! " was the next word that fell on his ears. “ We are crossing the Seine. Passion may not pass the gloomy river ; here stalks Vice, and the Englishman on its heels. The very coffee sent son Anglais." " Et les femmes," muttered Edgar. She slapped his hand half fiercely. “ It's Poster Ar…
1911 · PDF PAGE 232
…rallies PROBATIONERS.] So, all is over. I admit Futility the lord of will. Life was an episode for me, As for the meanest monad, knit To man by mightier bonds than skill Of subtle-souled psychology May sever, Aim in chaos? None. The soul rolls senseless as the sun, [All are driven back μῤto altar. BRO. CAPRICORNUS [emis]. “ There is no God.” MARS [leaps?ושand goes ta altar with uplifted sword]. I. Silence ! [a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the da…