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Page 139 of 1971912 · PDF PAGE 176
…. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m thinkingadrop 'ud do ye good now, Jack. A week and more ye’ve not …
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
…. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m thinkingadrop 'ud do ye good now, Jack. A week and more ye’ve not …
1929 · PDF PAGE 176
the price may be his liberty. Ultimately, he may lose life itself in some last desperate effort to retrieve all at a blow. When I was young and had less experience, I had many a fight with sorcerers; and it was always the end of the fight when Mr. Sorcerer broke the law. He was no longer fighting me, but the consolidated will of humanity; and he had no time to attack me when he was busy building breakwaters. "And that reminds me. We have a young friend at bay — with the worst pack of devils in the world at him. I wonder if I have done wrong to …
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
…inest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling gaze precedes the daybreak! Thou fallest to rise again; thou tastest of death to under- stand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 353
…quests of progress, such is the end to- wards which the whole movement of the world is pushing us. Progress is movement, and movement is life. To deny progress is to affirm nothingness, and to deify death. Progress is the only reply that reason can give to the objections which the existence of evil raises. 1 Written about the time of the Crimean War, this indicates Levi’s attempt to use Imperialism as his magical weapon, just as Allan Bennett tried to use Buddhism. All these second-hand swords break, as Wagner saw when he wrote Siegfried, and i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
…inest when the sun sets, and thy sparkling gaze precedes the daybreak! Thou fallest to rise again; thou tastest of death to under- stand life better! For the ancient glories of the world, thou art the evening star; for truth renascent, the lovely star of dawn. Liberty is not licence, for licence is tyranny. Liberty is the guardian of duty, because it reclaims right. Lucifer, of whom the dark ages have made the genius of 1 Right—‘droit —a word much in evidence at the time, with no true English equivalent, save in such phrases as ‘the right to wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 353
…quests of progress, such is the end to- wards which the whole movement of the world is pushing us. Progress is movement, and movement is life. To deny progress is to affirm nothingness, and to deify death. Progress is the only reply that reason can give to the objections which the existence of evil raises. 1 Written about the time of the Crimean War, this indicates Levi’s attempt to use Imperialism as his magical weapon, just as Allan Bennett tried to use Buddhism. All these second-hand swords break, as Wagner saw when he wrote Siegfried, and i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…ollowing on the story of Abraham s being commanded to sacrifice his firstborn son, with the idea of the substitution of animal for human life. The annual ceremony of the two goats carries out this in perpetuity. And we see again the domination of this idea in the romance of Esther, where Haman and Mordecai are the two goats or gods; and ultimately in the présentation of the rite of Purim in Palestine, where Jésus and Barabbas happened to be the Goats in that particular year of which we hear so much, without agreement on the date. This subject m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…dian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also that value: EIAE TA EUH might be the phrase here intended: its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX.III. 75. 2. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both …
1954 · PDF PAGE 431
…e list of well-attested cases of bodies dug up after months of burial which have been found not merely flourishing with all the lines of life, but gorged with fresh blood. I cannot help feeling that all the superior-person explanations-which explain nothing-about collective hysteria and superstition and wish fulfilment and the rest of the current tomfool jargon, are just about as hard to believe as the original straightforward stories. It is egomaniac vanity that prompts disbelief in phenomena merely because they lie outside the infinitesimally…
1906 · PDF PAGE 209
…to that loftier and wider work of the human imagination, the appreciation of the Brixton chapel. G. K. CHESTERTON. 778, 797. The rest of life, for self-control, lor liberation of the soul.8 Who said Rats? Thanks for your advice, Tony Veller, but it came in vain. As the ex-monk* (that shook the bookstall) wrote in confidence to the publisher : ‘* Existence is mis'ry. I’ th’ month Tisri * Joseph McCabe, who became a Rationalist writer. The allusion is to Crowley’s marriage and subsequent return to the East. At th’ fu’ o’ th’ moon I were shot wi’ …
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
…ance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an illiterate man, tius Pilate as a Not his to balance or to scan, Surrey Magis- . : trate, To call God stupid or unjust ! He took th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…ide had the remark been Abel’s. Bowley. Our old friendship— Bones. All very well—you know I should never have made such a remark in real life and it’s dam bad form to give it me in a dialogue where I can’t help myself, but have to say exactly what you like. Bowley. Oh, come! I've given you all the best speeches. The Lord hath given—look out! Bones. I trust to your honour. Where were we? Anyway, I tell you this: it 's a ripping good formula as such. Bowley. Now we come down to the Black Magician and his circle again; all right, I am with you. I …
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
JOHN ST. JOHN 8.40. Adonai. It is near the night of the Full Moon ; in my life the Full Moon hath ever been of great augury. But to—night I am too poor in spirit to hope. Lol I was travelling on the paths of Lamed and of Mem, of Justice and the Hanged Man, and I fell into both the pitfalls thereof. Instead of the Great Balance firmly held, I found only Libra, the house of Venus and of the exaltation of Saturn ; and these evil planets, smiling and frowning, overcame me. And so for the sublime Path of Mem ; instead of that symbol of the Adept, his…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…le solution! In any case, we are wasting our time—we are as ridiculous with our Arahats as Herod the Tetrarch with his peacocks! We pose Life with the question Why? and the first answer is: To obtain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. To attach meaning to this statement we must obtain that Knowledge and Conversation : and when we have done that, we may proceed to the next Question. Itis no good asking it now. 131
1913 · PDF PAGE 508
…who wilt fall at my feet, for I bid thee in the name of intelligence and eternal reason,” he would not have consigned his holy and noble life to the most frightful of all tortures. The Satan of the mountain was indeed cruelly avenged! The ancients called practical magic the sacerdotal and royal art, and one remembers that the magi were the masters of primitive civilization, because they were the masters of all the science of their time. To know is to be able when one dares to will. The first science of the practical qabalist, or the magus, is t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 508
…who wilt fall at my feet, for I bid thee in the name of intelligence and eternal reason,” he would not have consigned his holy and noble life to the most frightful of all tortures. The Satan of the mountain was indeed cruelly avenged! The ancients called practical magic the sacerdotal and royal art, and one remembers that the magi were the masters of primitive civilization, because they were the masters of all the science of their time. To know is to be able when one dares to will. The first science of the practical qabalist, or the magus, is t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…nvalidable to ail students. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable text-book of old Systems of initiation. Tliree Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of sub¬ jective idealism. Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academie Scepticism. First Principles, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnos- ticism. Prolegomena, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. The Canon. The best text-book of Applied Qabalah. The Fourth Di…
1954 · PDF PAGE 556
…hu, 184 Tom Jones , 265-266 Tories, 461 Totalitarianism, 344 Trance, 57 Trance of Wonder, 199 Transits, 160 Transmutations , 191 Tree of Life, 19, 49 , 105,128 , 395 Treves, Sir Frederic, 442, 444 Trimurti , 275 Trinc, 176 Tripitika , 74, 385 Trismegistus, Hermes, 211 Trotsky, Leon , 336, 337 True Will, 8, 130, 133, 153, 154, 228 , 254 , 309, 344, 361 , 391 , 393 , 415, 423, 444, 461 , 467 , 474 Trusts, 461 Truth , of All Truth, 211, 212, 213,437 Tsar, 181 Twain , Mark, 444 Tyndall , 31 Typhon, 113 U.B., 103 Udgitha , 275
1996 · PDF PAGE 186
Chapter III A Verses 61 — 67 187 Such Life and Mind may therefore be utterly different to any thing we know of; the “girders” of their souls in other spheres may be other than ours. The above argument is a case of a “girder”; we are bound mentally by our race-experience of the environment in which our own lives flourish. A pioneer choosing a camp must look for wood, water, perhaps shelter, perhaps game. In another planet he might not need any of these. The “girders” which determine the “form” of our souls are therefore limitations to our thoug…