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Page 141 of 1971911 · PDF PAGE 85
… face have they beheld my Father. Thus are they made worthy to become partakers of the Mystery of this holy vessel, for the blood is the life. So sitteth she from age to age, and the righteous are never weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is truth. (This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the intoxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compassion. I understand by ‘Co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
…od or evil, I know nothing about it; but his atmosphere hurts me; near him I should feel myself, as it were, without force, even without life.” After which explanation, Mr. Home hastened to salute and withdraw. This terror of miracle-mongers in the presence of the veritable initiates of science, is not a new fact in the annals of occultism. You may read in Philostratus the history of the Lamia who trembles on hearing the approach of Apollonius of Tyana. Our admirable story-teller Alexander Dumas dramatized this magical anecdote in the magnifice…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
…od or evil, I know nothing about it; but his atmosphere hurts me; near him I should feel myself, as it were, without force, even without life.” After which explanation, Mr. Home hastened to salute and withdraw. This terror of miracle-mongers in the presence of the veritable initiates of science, is not a new fact in the annals of occultism. You may read in Philostratus the history of the Lamia who trembles on hearing the approach of Apollonius of Tyana. Our admirable story-teller Alexander Dumas dramatized this magical anecdote in the magnifice…
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…o interweave my three lives. My ordinary career becomes a welter of strange adventures, some of the most uncanny kind; yet the spiritual life is all-important and {469} absolutely simple. The one is linked to the other only by the fact that my adventures appear as if they were so many obstacles deliberately put in the way of my performing the Operation of the Sacred Magick of Abra-Melin the Mage. I shall deal first with the life of the senses. {470} 55 It is probably a rare incident for any young man to meet, in the flesh, the ideal of his boyh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…allows like a woman big with child. How she gasps and stares about her! How she shivers! Are the hosts Of her lovers there to haunt her, life’s lupanar thick with ghosts? How her teeth are clenched with horror! How her lips are curled and wried As she staggers to the palace weary and unsatisfied! Surely I have done the utmost! (all the demon in her wails) Is it spirit that disdains me? Is it only flesh that fails? Did Danae win to slumber at the thrust of grievous gold? Did the Bull bring Pasiphae to the palace of the cold? Could the sea avail t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
… the water; “ Samana,” and you begin to flash with light; the “ elements ” fire, air, earth, and water, and you can do whatever in natural life they prevent you from doing. For instance, by conquering earth, one could take a short cut to Australia; or by conquering water, one can live at the bottom of the Ganges. They say there is a holy man at Benares who does this, coming up only once a year to comfort and in- struct his disciples. But nobody need believe this unless he wants to; and you are even advised to conquer that desire should it arise. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…exhibited. Now it may be asked, “ What has become of the blood of the Adept which was put into the cup of BABALON, for that blood is his life?” In this supreme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy far-off thing.” By so much does this exceed that. In this supreme marriage of Infinite with Infinite comes the key to the Grade of Ipsissimus, which Grade is shadowed forth—but oh, how dimly !—in the 1st Aéthyr. It will be noticed by those who understand this…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…s, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, this time quite frankly and really absurd. They then sacrificed both their reason and their life to their belief? Oh, for heretics, it is evident that the devil was responsible. Poor folk, who took the devil for God, and God for the devil! Why have 204
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…exhibited. Now it may be asked, “ What has become of the blood of the Adept which was put into the cup of BABALON, for that blood is his life?” In this supreme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy far-off thing.” By so much does this exceed that. In this supreme marriage of Infinite with Infinite comes the key to the Grade of Ipsissimus, which Grade is shadowed forth—but oh, how dimly !—in the 1st Aéthyr. It will be noticed by those who understand this…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…s, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, this time quite frankly and really absurd. They then sacrificed both their reason and their life to their belief? Oh, for heretics, it is evident that the devil was responsible. Poor folk, who took the devil for God, and God for the devil! Why have 204
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… had died when he was a boy; his mother had brought him up as a strict Catholic. He suffered acutely from spasmodic asthma. His cycle of life was to take opium for about a month, when the effect wore off, so that he had to inject morphine. After a month of this he had to switch to cocaine, which he took till he began to "see things" and was then reduced to chloroform. I have seen him in bed for a week, only recovering consciousness sufficiently to reach for the bottle and sponge. Asthma being a sthenic disease, he was then too weak to have it a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
THE VIRGIN 71 eternal symbol of love and life , and the purest of human joys, " and which act being attributed to supernatural powers came under the authority of religion , and fell into the hands of an interested priesthood , giving them an immense power over women , and through women over men ; an influence that has been exercised in every land , and every age , by these spiritual leaders : an influence by which they have in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…perfections — vice and virtue — in one great monistic unity . He that would be wise must know all things , all things that his transient life can enable him to grasp . In the age which produced Rabelais and Boccaccio , vice was flagrantly open , and the lust which the early Christians had first opposed and secondly absorbed , slowly burnt within the society of their days , till it burst out in the lecherous flames
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…ixt the misty blue of the heavens , and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep . Before the name of That which is beyond life and death , beyond matter and energy , beyond the human and the mortal ; he stands , holding before us as a stan dard , the homologue of the Labarum of old , “ In
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…d have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce and politics, to say nothing of the grosser knaveries of the liberal professions. But I have no doubts. Let the investigator study his own brain on the lines I have laid down, possibly in the first place with the aid of hashish or some better physical expedient, to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 291
…an. Tetragrammaton Elo- him placed four letters of the Holy Name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the Tree rar of Life might not be involved in the Fall of Adam.” ‘The Hierophant then explains the symbolism of the Temple, and says: «I now congratulate you on C) having passed through the cere- aos mony of the 4° = 7° of Philosophus Oo @) and in the recognition there- ©) of, I confer upon you. the mystic title of «PHAROS ILLUMI. NANS’ which signifies—the Illuminating Tower of Light, and I give you the symbol of yy (Ash), wh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…d have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce and politics, to say nothing of the grosser knaveries of the liberal professions. But I have no doubts. Let the investigator study his own brain on the lines I have laid down, possibly in the first place with the aid of hashish or some better physical expedient, to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 291
…an. Tetragrammaton Elo- him placed four letters of the Holy Name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the Tree rar of Life might not be involved in the Fall of Adam.” ‘The Hierophant then explains the symbolism of the Temple, and says: «I now congratulate you on C) having passed through the cere- aos mony of the 4° = 7° of Philosophus Oo @) and in the recognition there- ©) of, I confer upon you. the mystic title of «PHAROS ILLUMI. NANS’ which signifies—the Illuminating Tower of Light, and I give you the symbol of yy (Ash), wh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 530
…pon the water. A shocking disaster resulted: almost all that multitude was drowned, and the hallucination was only extinguished with the life of the greater number of those unhappy visionaries. Human thought creates what it imagines ; the phantoms of superstition project their deformities on the astral light, and live upon the same terrors which give them birth. That black giant which reaches its wings from east to west to hide the light from the world, that monster who devours souls, that frightful divinity of ignorance and fear—in a word, the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
…admit that such writers as MM. de Mirville and Gougenet Desmousseaux make themselves not a little his accomplices ! The laws of physical life are inexorable, and in his animal nature man is born a slave to fatality; it is by dint of strug- gles against his instincts that he may win moral freedom. Two different existences are then possible for us upon the earth ; one fatal, the other free. The fatal being is the toy or instrument of a force which he does not direct. Now, when the instruments of fatality meet and collide, the stronger breaks or c…