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Page 138 of 1731929 · PDF PAGE 59
…se of the Universe. It will be seen that (after ail) the Climax is at the end. It is the second half of the formula which symbolises the Great Work which we are pledged to accomplish. The first step of this is the attainment of th^ Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, which constitutes the Adept of the Inner Order. The re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in Libe»* 418, which gives admission to the Inmost Order of the A.*. A.*. Of the last step we cannot speak. It will now be …
1938 · PDF PAGE 6
…ent than I. I hear a murmur on my left. I catch three words: The Zero Hour. They call me back to myself: I know now that I am one of a great armyan army baffled and broken, but yet in being. Sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority: Zero is Two. Somehow I am awarelike a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiatedthat the strange phrase declares a final Mystery of Truth, the word of the Plan of Battle, the Key of the Campaign. But in my mind its meaning is most utter darkness. Again the solemn stillness. Few w…
1938 · PDF PAGE 20
…ked upon him, he reversed his wrist, for the last grain of sand was fallen through. Then did my Instructor point with a little wand to a great chart not wholly filled, and there came the shadow of a man's hand, and drew the image of a Lion at the end of the writing. Above this parchment, which was partly furled, was a square tablet of white marble, on which, inlaid in gold, I read these characters about the Image of an Eye within a radiant Triangle.
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
…love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but li is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. Commentary: “Love is the law, love under will” is an inter pretation of the general law of Will. It is dealt with fully in the Book Aleph. I here insert a pertinent passage from that Book. [EX — De Harmonia Voluntatis et Parcarum 142—On the Harmon…
1906 · PDF PAGE 91
…shall lie within my finger- span? I know not which I wish: either I can; Not both, unless all meditation lies. I am not sure: if love as great as ours May not be God to part of us at least, Leaving the rest to find its heights and powers In other spheres; that, night’s enamoured priest5 This, on the lake the dewy lotus-flowers That lift their jewelled hearts toward the East. AFTER. Now, when the sun falls in the dismal sky And no light leaps beneath the plunging prow, I know the fulness of my sorrow now :-— That all my talk and laughter was a l…
1922 · PDF PAGE 298
… ‘“‘ Dear me,” thought I, for my dislike for the creature was instinctive, “ how are the mighty fallen!” Excuse a digression. There is a great deal of discussion about various pleasures—whether they are
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…soever as the heavens are high above the earth, that should reabsorb itself into that illimitable radiance of which it is a spark. 1 The great difficulty for the single Magician is so to perfect himself that these multifarious duties of the Ritual are adequately performed. At first he will find that the exaltation destroys memory and paralyses muscle. This is an essential difficulty of the magical process, and can only be overcome by practice and expérience.2 In order to aid concentration, and to increase the supply of Energy, it has been custo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 189
…oposed operation, decide which planet, sign, element or sub-element or what not you need to accomplish your miracle. As you know, a very great many desirable objects can be attained by the use of the talismans in The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King; also in Pietro Oi Abano and the dubious Fourth Book of Cornelius Agrippa. You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
…s himself as "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat ." (AL , I: 7) His name implies some such function ; for G.B.R. is Mercury between the Two Greater Lights, Sol and Luna . This seems to mean that he is something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel ; as he would appear to be from 777. (There now! That was my private fiend again- the Demon of Digression. Back to our Gods!) 777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the Good Lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more) , is our text-book …
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…hich is N 0 thing. Enough. Such is the foolish attempt of the boy O.M. to instruct the adults with whom he is thrown by the force of the Great Falsehood. Let him become as a little child! 1 Babel—correctly spelt bnn- = 36, 6 x 6. WW, Lion = 216 = 6 x 6x 6. And 3", Bear = 6. Six is Tiphereth, the symbol of the Ruach. 2 NE: 443 short by Unity of 4.44—the divine Tetragrammaton without Kether. the top point of the ' (for444 = 4X In which is n58 the type of letters). So that Goliath is all that which is not Kether—and must be destroyed.
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
…d had no news to speak of, and this he attributed to his own failure to carry out his task in detail. In this he was no doubt right to a great extent, for unless any Pro- bationer does what he is instructed, he can expect no further help, which would only mean that the Master concurred in his laziness or weakness, March 6th., 1911. Up to this time, although he had done the exercises regularly no particular result had occurred, and we find this note: “I do not really look for any results now, or expect any, since control of ‘self’ is the object …
1922 · PDF PAGE 277
…e was sitting in a big lounge chair holding tight to the arms. Her face told the same tale as my own. We felt that we had come through a great illness by a miracle.. It struck me as dreadfully unfair that instead of being gently nursed back to health, a demand was to be made upon us for the exercise. of the utmost moral and physical strength and courage. D.D.F. S
1996 · PDF PAGE 110
Chapter II a Verse 22 111 great story of this in Zanoni.1 Glyndon, an uninitiate, takes an Elixir, and beholds not Adonai the glorious, but the Dweller on the Threshold; cast out from the Sanctuary, he becomes a vulgar drunkard. 1 [Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first Lord Lytton, Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale. See Works Cited.] 2 Varieties of Religious Experience [(1902), lecture 8; see Works Cited. See also Crowley, Book 4, Part III, ch. 5 (rev. ed., p. 161).] “this folly against self”; altruism is a direct assertion of dual ity, which is division, rest…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
…ieve together was worth more than to doubt separately; they constituted the hierarchy on the basis of obedience—rendered so noble and so great by the spirit of charity, that to serve in this manner is to reign; they formu- lated the faith of all and the hope of all, and they put this Creed in the keeping of the charity of all. Woe to the egoist who appropriates to himself a single word of this inheritance of the Word; he is a deicide, who wishes to dismember the body of the Lord. This Creed is the holy ark of charity; whoso touches it is strick…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
…ieve together was worth more than to doubt separately; they constituted the hierarchy on the basis of obedience—rendered so noble and so great by the spirit of charity, that to serve in this manner is to reign; they formu- lated the faith of all and the hope of all, and they put this Creed in the keeping of the charity of all. Woe to the egoist who appropriates to himself a single word of this inheritance of the Word; he is a deicide, who wishes to dismember the body of the Lord. This Creed is the holy ark of charity; whoso touches it is strick…
1954 · PDF PAGE 203
… . At all events, let the blade be straight , and the hilt a simple cross. (The 32 0 Masonic Sword is not too bad; Kenning or Spencer in Great Queen Street, W.C.2, stock them-or used to do.) The Disk. This ought to be of pure gold, with your own Pantacle , designed by yourself after prolonged study, graved thereupon . While getting ready for this any plain circle of gold will have to serve your turn. Quite flat , of course. If you want a good simple design to go on interim. try the Rosy Cross or the Unicursal Hexagram. So much for the Weapons! …
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…have their way. So, if it is new, is original, is worth one's while, it must be ignored . Besides, being new and incomprehensible to the great Us, it may be dangerous, and must be suppressed. In all literature I know no pages so terrifying as those in Louis Marlow's Mr. Amberthwaite, which describe his dream. I wish I could quote it, with Sinai as the orchestra; never mind, read it again. And we are on the way-far on the way-to That! Now, obviously, the robot education, robot textbooks
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
…low beneath the limes. Then the sombre village, crowned By the castellated ground, Where in cerements of sable, One square tower and one great gable Stood, the melancholy wraith Of a false and fallen faith. Over all, supine, enthralling, The young moon, her faint edge falling To the dead verge of her setting, Saintly swam, her silver fretting All the leaves with light. Afar Towards the Zenith stood a star, As of all worthiness and fitness The luminous eternal witness. I described how the silence stripped me of myself; how I came once more into …
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…°=4°, and there will be a Word in which the character of this operation is described, just as Abrahadabra describes the Operation of the Great Work. It may be stated without unfairness, as a rough general principie, that the farther from original equality are the two sides of the équation, the more difficult is the operation to perform. Thus, to take the case of the personal operation symbolized by the grades, it is harder to become a Néophyte, i° = io°, than to pass from that grade to Zelator, 2° = 90. Initiation is, therefore, progressively e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ad learnt no Latin. But these words were not only Latin, but the Latin of Horace; and they were exactly appropriate to the nature of the Great [192] Experiment, "Luna" she had heard, and "regina"; and she might have guessed "puellas" and even "siderum"; but that is one thing, and an accurate quotation from the Carmen Saeculare is another. Yet they stood in her mind as if she had always known them, perhaps even as if they were innate in her. She repeated aloud: "Siderum regina bicornis audi, Luna, puellas.