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Page 139 of 2251919 · PDF PAGE 53
…read our Sacred Book, the Book of the Law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understand its perfection. For there are many matters in this Book, and the Glad Tidings are now here, now there, scattered throughout the Book as the Stars are scattered through the field of Night. Rejoice with me, all ye people! At the very head of the Book stands the great charter of our godhead: “Every man and every woman is a star.” We are all free, all independent, all shining glori- ously, each one a radiant world. Is not that good tidings? Th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 416
… “Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes? “Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all mankind? For as the sacred River’s roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the heart of him “who in the stream would enter,” thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.” Here is another absurdity. What is the sense of asking a man at his initial step if he has complied with all the rules? If the disciple were in the condition mentioned, he would be alre…
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…es of placentas, which fell still-born from the press, gave up the unequal contest and had himself buggered to death in the principal Harman of Constantin- ople. The Pope signalized his approbation of my ser- vices by appointing me to a fat bishopric, with the run of all the choir-boys in the district. But I had my work cut out in other ways, for Leila was still with me, and you know from your own experience that she has but to grip once your father-confessor with her amazing man-trap, and it is not so easy to withdraw. It fell on this wise. Th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 102
…self, forced through these days into the one channel of Will towards Adonai, went on struggling on its own account. Later, the conscious man took heart and strove, though not so fiercely as before. He passed through the Lightnings of Ajna, whose two petals now spread out like wings above his head, and the awful Corona of the Interior Sun with its flashing fires appeared, and declared itself to be his Self. This he rejected; and the Formless Ocean of
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
… dews and winds of molten loveliness, Fine flakes of arrowy light, the dawns first deed, Metallic showers and smoke self-glittering For man an on. Wild the pennons spring Of streaming flame ! Then, surging from the tide, Grew the desirable, the golden one, Separate from the sun. Now fire and air no more exult, exceed, Are balanced in the sphere. The waters wide
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
…nown, and the unknow- able Supreme Soul into the unknown, and then, from the knowable through the known to the knower, get back to the Atman and Equilibrium—Zero. All knowledge he asserts to be Maya, and only by para- doxes is the Truth revealed. Only he who knows it not knows it, Who knows it, he knows it not; Unknown is it by the wise, But by the ignorant known.* These dark nights of Scepticism descend upon all systems just as they descend upon all individuals, at no stated times, but as a reaction after much hard work; and usually they are f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
…nown, and the unknow- able Supreme Soul into the unknown, and then, from the knowable through the known to the knower, get back to the Atman and Equilibrium—Zero. All knowledge he asserts to be Maya, and only by para- doxes is the Truth revealed. Only he who knows it not knows it, Who knows it, he knows it not; Unknown is it by the wise, But by the ignorant known.* These dark nights of Scepticism descend upon all systems just as they descend upon all individuals, at no stated times, but as a reaction after much hard work; and usually they are f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 404
…it. This was particularly decent of him because it was in direct contradiction with his financial interest. But he was an all-round good man. So I cut him out so far as the masse shot was concerned 371
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
…y Jesus Wept " is a satiric farce, “ Rosa Mundi " a great love anthem , almost we might say a Wagnerian opera in rime, and comparable in many respects in its continuous though irregular symphony to the “ Lycidas " of Milton . Yet , nevertheless , “ Why Jesus Wept " is the more characteristic of the two , and certainly the most iconoclastic of any . In “ Orpheus , " Books I and II , we find a poetic regularity almost strictly adhered to , not so , how ever , in Book III , and in “ The Argonauts .” But it is not till we get to “ Rodin in Rime ” t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 320
THE EQUINOX I at this time contemplated the performance; but all he answered was: ‘Go on!’ “«Shall I succeed?’ I asked. “No man can tell another that!’ he answered with a smile. “*Ts anything wanting in that book that is necessary to success?’ I asked. “*Nol’ he answered. “Then I took my leave of him, and after witnessing a strange fight, returned.” No. 15. This vision was undertaken to obtain rest. It took place in the actual temple built by P., and, as was generally the case, it was commenced by the “ Lesser Banishing Ritual.” “ Slowly the ac…
1909 · PDF PAGE 320
THE EQUINOX I at this time contemplated the performance; but all he answered was: ‘Go on!’ “«Shall I succeed?’ I asked. “No man can tell another that!’ he answered with a smile. “*Ts anything wanting in that book that is necessary to success?’ I asked. “*Nol’ he answered. “Then I took my leave of him, and after witnessing a strange fight, returned.” No. 15. This vision was undertaken to obtain rest. It took place in the actual temple built by P., and, as was generally the case, it was commenced by the “ Lesser Banishing Ritual.” “ Slowly the ac…
1913 · PDF PAGE 553
… only did what they had to do. Girondins and Montagnards killed each other in the workings of fatality, and their violent deaths were so many necessary catastrophes; at that epoch there was but one great and legitimate execution, really sacred, really expia- tory: that of the King. The principle of royalty would have fallen if that too weak prince had escaped. But a transaction between order and disorder was impossible. One does not inherit from those whom one murders; one robs them; and the Revolution rehabilitated Louis XVI by assassinating h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 553
… only did what they had to do. Girondins and Montagnards killed each other in the workings of fatality, and their violent deaths were so many necessary catastrophes; at that epoch there was but one great and legitimate execution, really sacred, really expia- tory: that of the King. The principle of royalty would have fallen if that too weak prince had escaped. But a transaction between order and disorder was impossible. One does not inherit from those whom one murders; one robs them; and the Revolution rehabilitated Louis XVI by assassinating h…
1916 · PDF PAGE 1
…tactical problems, and in so doing this they lose sight of the principles of strategy. The real ruler or adviser of a nation should be a man entirely free from the expediencies of the passing day. The mischief wrought by failure to understand these facts is particularly obvious in finance. Politics, in some countries at least, is still looked after by men of broad general education; but finance is entirely in the hands of experts. Its terminology has been deliberately complicated; partly, no doubt, as in the case of law, with the idea of making…
1919 · PDF PAGE 64
…ooks and secret systems of initiation of all countries and ages. 18. Finally, there was given unto him a certain exalted grade whereby a man becomes master of knowledge and intelligence, and no more their slave. He perceived the inadequacy of science, philosophy, and religion; and ex- posed the self-contradictory nature of the thinking fac- ulty. 19. Returning to England, he laid his achievements humbly at the feet of a certain adept D.D.S., who wel- comed him brotherly and admitted his title to the grade which he had so hardly won. 20. Thereup…
1922 · PDF PAGE 47
…eliberately put a large dose on the back of my hand and sniffed it up. Before I had finished, the effect had occurred. I felt myself any man’s master. “Well, as a matter of fact,’’ I said superciliously, “ to-night’s the first time I ever took it, and it strikes me as pretty good stuff.” Lamus smiled enigmatically. ‘““ Ah, yes, what does the old poet say? Milton, is it ? ““Stab your demoniac smile to my brain, Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine.’ ”’ “How silly you are,’”’ cried Lou. ‘ Cocaine wasn’t invented in the time of Milton.” “Was that …
1961 · PDF PAGE 120
…h of that first Formula, not of the others. But of all these Things shalt thou thyself make Study with ardent Affection; for therein lie many Mysteries of practical Wisdom in our Magick Art. And this is the Wonder and Beauty of this Work, that for every Man is his own Palace. Yea, this is Life, that the Secrets of our Order are not fixed and dead, as are the Formulae of the Outer. Know that in the many thousand Times that I have performed the Ritual of the Pentagram or the Invocation of the Heart girt with a Serpent, or the Mass of he Phoenix, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…h from star to star ; Your hair as a comet's horrent , Ye shall see things as they are ! I lift the mask of matter ; I open the heart of man ; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth -Pan ! Your loves shall lap up slaughter , And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood . I bring ye laughter and tears , The kisses that foam and bleed , The joys of a million years , The flowers that bear no seed . My life is bitter and sterile , Its flame is a wandering star .
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…s preceded by an intellectual and moral rottenness , which took the shape of some negative creed or scepticism , teaching the maxim that man lives for the pleasure of living , and that the purpose of our life is merely to enjoy ourselves ." ? Even as early as the middle of the seventeenth century , Adrian Beverland in his Justinianæi de stolatae Virginitatis [ sic ] noticed this social collapse : “ dum puellas nostrates adeo 1 i Conventional Lies . Max Nordau . ? Fundamental Problems , p . vii .
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
… something - God ; the latter postulated an eternal creation ,” a something for ever something — Matter . “ The mere terrestrial -minded man Knows not the things of God , nor can Their subtle meaning understand ? ” say , although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions , God .? A sage ,I Then under the daedal wand of Newton and Berke ley , Science disclosed the fact that Matter is Hylo Zoic-a fact already supposed by Spinoza - that is , that within Matter itself lives an indwelling energy and power , and also that matter as body solely e…