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Page 14 of 1071905 · PDF PAGE 61
…. blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew, This message of good hope, good trust, good fate And good estate : ‘* Work on, hope ever, let your faith be built Of gold ungilt ; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; Your faith wax firmer than a ship at sleep On the grey deep, Anchored in some most certain anchorage From ocean’s rage ; Your patience stand when mountains shake and quail Before the gale Of God's great tribulation, Thou canst endure! And work, work ever, sleep not, gird thy head Wi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
…a Throne! In man-carved stone the endless coil Arise untopped, the Tower of Toil ! Deem not that prayer or sacrifice Will ever cause the work to end! Serene, sufficient, let it rise Alone ; it doth not ask a friend, Nor shall it bend a fatuous knee To a fantastic deity. What crest or chrism were so good To work as Art, the crown upon Work’s brow? Thy will with love endued Lift up this loftier Parthenon| Thine art the consecrative oil To hallow us the Tower of Toil ! LA BELLE HEAULMIERE. AGE and despair, poverty and distress Bend down the head t…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
… universe. Closely connected with this question is that of the will of God. People argue that an Infinite intelligence must have been at work on this cosmos. I reply No! ‘There is no intelligence at work worthy of the name. The Laws of Nature may be generalized in one—the Law of Inertia. Everything moves in the direction determined by the path of least resistance; species arise, develop, and die as their collective inertia determines; to this Law there is no exception but the doubtful one of Freewill; the Law of Destiny itself is formally and r…
1954 · PDF PAGE 328
…God. P.P.P.S. An amusing coincidence. Just as I was polishing up this letter the lady whom I had just engaged to help me with some of my work irritated me to the point when my screams became so heartrending that the village will never sleep again as smoothly as its wont. They split the welkin in several places; and although invisible menders were immediately put on the job it is generally felt that it will never more be its own original wholeness. And why? Just because of her anxiety to please! She asked me if she might do something; I said "Ye…
1961 · PDF PAGE 122
…umeration did I make in my Mind forthwith, and it is Four Hundred and Eighteen, like unto the Word of the Æon. So by this I knew that my Work was well wrought in Truth. Thus then also was it with this my Lady; for after many Questions I obtained from the wizard Amalantrah that Name Olun, that is One Hundred and Fifty and Six even as that of our Lady BABALON; and then, being inspired, I wrote down Her Earth-name in Greek, MARIE, which is also that this Name (as I have learned) is in the Phnician Tongue, whôlon; which by Interpretation is That w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 401
…ner, who betrays practical acquaintance with the Path. The way to discover whether a Teacher knows anything about it or not is to do the work yourself, and see if your understanding of him improves, or whether he fobs you off in your hour of need with remarks on Virtue. 3. Which wilt thou choose, O thou of dauntless heart? The Samtan of “Eye Doctrine,’ fourfold Dhyana, or thread thy way through Péramités, six in number, noble gates of virtue leading to Bodhi and to Pragny4G, seventh step of Wisdom? It must not be supposed that the Paths here in…
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
TO THOSE PERSONS WHOSE UNBENDING UPRIGHTNESS, PENETRATION, RETENTIVENESS, CAPACITY FOR HARD WORK, OVERFLOWING ABILITY, AND INSIDE KNOWLEDGE HAVE SO MUCH ENLARGED THE FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF MY PHILOSOPHY I DEDICATE THIS BOOK IN MEMORY OF THE MANY HAPPY HOURS THAT WE HAVE SPENT TOGETHER IN THE SCENTED GARDEN “ ALAIN LUTIY ” TO THE MEMORY OF MY COLLEAGUE “ ALAIN LUTIY ” TRUE FRIEND, POLISHED SCHOLAR, GOOD SPORTSMAN, GALLANT SOLDIER, AND CIVIL GALLANT, I WHO HAVE DONE SO LITTLE TO COMPLETE HIS LABOURS DEDICATE MY SHARE THEREIN ON THIS OCCASION OF OFF…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
96 KONX OM PAX Yet still the dying craftsman strove to work his lust and pain within The glittering avatar of sin that seemed to mock him as he wove. At last his visage pale and grim lights with the laughter of the Pit. The Devil comes and praises it, and lays a wreath of fire on him. “ Well hast thou wrought, O Florentine! Thy work hath gathered in its spell The Daughters of the Lords of Hell, the Goddess-goats, the Women swine! “ These shall adore it age by age; to these shall it give lust and force, Absolve their spirits of remorse, and make …
1913 · PDF PAGE 6
… compiled “Notes on the Temple and Hospital, and the Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester ”--—the Provincial Grand Conclave appreciated this work and complimented the author. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Notes on Με Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; Με Gnosis and Secret Sclzools of Με Middle Ages, Modern Rosicracianism; and Με various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egyptian Ritual of the Book of Dead…
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…tinguish between the symbols of philosophical theory and those more elaborate symbols based upon them which are neces‐ sary in practical work. Saturn and Earth have certain qualities in common‐heaviness, coldness, dryness, im‐ mobility, dulness and the like. Yet Saturn appears in Binah in respect of its blackness in the Queen’s scale, which is the scale of Observed Nature; but always, as soon as the end of a proc‐ ess is reached, it returns automatically to the beginning. In Chemistry, it is the heaviest elements that are unable in terrestrial …
1961 · PDF PAGE 119
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 107 Dg De Operibus Stellæ Microcosmi, quorum sunt Quattuor Majores (Of Works of the Star of the Microcosm, of which there are Four Greater) MY Son, behold now the Virtue and Mystery of the Silver Star! For of these four Works not one leadeth to the Crown, because Tetragrammaton hath his Root only in Chokmah. So therefore the Formula of the Rosy Cross availeth no more in the Highest. Now then in the Pentagram are two Lines that invoke Spirit, though they lead not thereunto, and they are the Works of Hé with Hé, and of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 197
… you. If we were living together you would soon get to know me as the brute who grumbles at the cooking and wants to shut himself up and work[mimicking her voice] And I wouldnt mind so much if it were work, but all he does is to sit in a chair and smoke and stare at nothing and swear if any one comes in to ask him if my darling new old rose chiffon moiré Directoire corsets match my eau-de-Nil suede tussore appliqué garters. See ? EUPHEMIA. Buthush ! [She flies away to the other end of the room. The door opens. Enter THOMAS.
1913 · PDF PAGE 16
at Adyar and do the work of Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section. The plaintiff had at the time very great respect and veneration for the defendant, whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with— out receiving from her any remuneration whatever. The plaintiff accordingly took up his abode at Adyar along with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J. Nityananda, who are respectively aged 17…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
… to Write a careful record of the same for one year. Néophyte. — Has to acquire perfect control of the Astral Plane. Zelator. — His main work is to achieve complète success in Asana and Pranayama. He also begins to study the formula of the Rosy Cross. Practicus. — Is expected to complété his intellectual training, and in particular to study the Qabalah. Philosophus. — Is expected to complété his moral training. He is tested in Dévotion to the Order. Dominus Liminis. — Is expected to show mastery of Pratyahara and Dharana. Adeptus (without). — I…
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…he compiled “Notes on the Temple and Hospital, and the Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester ”—the Provincial Grand Conclave appreciated this work and complimented the author. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Wotes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; the Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages, Modern Rosicrucianism; and the various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egyptian Ritual of the Book of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…he compiled “Notes on the Temple and Hospital, and the Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester ”—the Provincial Grand Conclave appreciated this work and complimented the author. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Wotes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; the Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages, Modern Rosicrucianism; and the various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egyptian Ritual of the Book of …
1961 · PDF PAGE 201
…ed, but a Leaf Green; and His Heat gathereth the Clouds, and disperseth them also. So I then, though I were perfect in Magick, might not work in Metals as a Smith, or become rich by Commerce as a Merchant; for I have not in my Nature the Engines proper to these Capacities, and herefore it is not of my will to seek to exercise them. Here hen is my Case, that I can not because I will not, and it were Conflict, should I turn thither. But let every man become perfect in his own Work, not heeding the Rebuke of another, that some Way not his own is m…
1944 · PDF PAGE 239
…inds his rebirth. It is the holy Hexagram, the symbol of the uniting of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the accomplishment of the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. Sic sit vobis!
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
THE EQUINOX at Adyar and do the work of Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section. The plaintiff had at the time very great respect and veneration for the defendant, whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with- out receiving from her any remuneration whatever. The plaintiff accordingly took up his abode at Adyar along with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J. Nityananda, who are respecti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
THE EQUINOX at Adyar and do the work of Assistant Correspondence Secretary of the Esoteric Section. The plaintiff had at the time very great respect and veneration for the defendant, whom he regarded as his spiritual preceptress and whom he credited with more than human attributes, and he agreed to serve her as the Assistant Correspondence Secretary with- out receiving from her any remuneration whatever. The plaintiff accordingly took up his abode at Adyar along with his second and third sons, J. Krishnamurti and J. Nityananda, who are respecti…