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Page 146 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 418
… The force of repulsion being equal to that of attraction, at the very moment of expiring, one often attaches oneself again violently to life. Often also, by the same law of equilibrium, one passes from sleep to death through complaisance for sleep. A shallop sways upon the shores of the lake. The child enters the water, which, shining with a thousand reflec- tions, dances around him and calls him; the chain which retains the boat stretches and seems to wish to break itself; then a marvellous bird shoots out from the bank, and skims, singing, u…
1913 · PDF PAGE 418
… The force of repulsion being equal to that of attraction, at the very moment of expiring, one often attaches oneself again violently to life. Often also, by the same law of equilibrium, one passes from sleep to death through complaisance for sleep. A shallop sways upon the shores of the lake. The child enters the water, which, shining with a thousand reflec- tions, dances around him and calls him; the chain which retains the boat stretches and seems to wish to break itself; then a marvellous bird shoots out from the bank, and skims, singing, u…
1954 · PDF PAGE 548
INDEX Elementals, 240, 361 Elemental Tablets (Watch Towers), 321, 322 Elephant, 240 Elias, 296 Elixir of Life, 77 Elizabethan period, 485 Elohim, 14 Eloi, eloi, lama sabacthani, 121 Empire State Building, 256 Empress (Tarot Card), 250 Encyclopaedists, 68 End (justifies the means), 309, 312 Endor, Witch of, 180 Energized Enthusiasm, 137 England, General Election, 461 Enochian Tablets, see Elemental Equinox, The, general, why begun, 457 -of the Gods, reporter's story quoted, 315 Erdmann, 181 Ethics of Thelema, 292, 294, 305,317,422 Ethyl Oxide, 3…
1996 · PDF PAGE 134
…e, but that is only a matter of convenience. 66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. Commentary: The first part of this text appears to be a digression in the nature of a prophecy. The word “Come!” is a summons to reenter the full Trance. Its essence is declared in the last six words. Notice that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 526
…ed to witness. The brilliance of the story is striking evidence of the fierceness of my reaction against the conditions of the backwoods life of the United States. One of the chief reasons for the inexpressible intensity of my feeling is doubtless that the nameless tortures which I saw inflicted as a mere matter of routine upon women and children as such broke open the sepulchre in which I had long since buried my own sufferings at the hands of Evangelicalism and released these fetid, noxious and malignant spectres once more to prey upon my min…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…hich are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. On this basis, that of the Qabalistic ‘Tree of Life,’ as a certain arrangement of the Sephiroth and 22 remaining Paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables. "The Gabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of Egyptian and Hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals, The information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…hich are again subdivided into 3 mother letters, 7 double letters, and 12 simple letters. On this basis, that of the Qabalistic ‘Tree of Life,’ as a certain arrangement of the Sephiroth and 22 remaining Paths connecting them is termed, the author has constructed no less than 183 tables. "The Gabalistic information is very full, and there are tables of Egyptian and Hindu deities, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals, The information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
…ved. He will never dare, thought I; and, after all, he does not look such a cold- blooded murderer. His eyes indicate some sort of inner life and his tone and voice are gentle at times. It is a joke, a mystification. . . . It must be. Thus I tried to deceive myself, and I must admit that I utterly failed. Looking, then, around my prison, I began to feel a very peculiar sort of numbness coming over me. It was almost like intoxication, and I am not in the least ashamed to say that I know what intoxication is. Iwas drowsy; my head seemed to weigh …
1909 · PDF PAGE 372
…ved. He will never dare, thought I; and, after all, he does not look such a cold- blooded murderer. His eyes indicate some sort of inner life and his tone and voice are gentle at times. It is a joke, a mystification. . . . It must be. Thus I tried to deceive myself, and I must admit that I utterly failed. Looking, then, around my prison, I began to feel a very peculiar sort of numbness coming over me. It was almost like intoxication, and I am not in the least ashamed to say that I know what intoxication is. Iwas drowsy; my head seemed to weigh …
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…they cast lots for it, yet shall they not rend it, for it is woven from the top throughout. For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, the rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom. The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten: sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immor- tality.* Yea! the Treasure of Immortality. In his own words let us…
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…they cast lots for it, yet shall they not rend it, for it is woven from the top throughout. For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, the rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom. The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten: sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immor- tality.* Yea! the Treasure of Immortality. In his own words let us…
1911 · PDF PAGE 41
…written in the Book of the Law, or something of that sort. This is a long speech; all that I can hear is: From me pour down the fires of life and increase continually upon the earth. From me flow down the rivers of water and oil and wine. From me cometh forth the wind that beareth the seed of trees and flowers and fruits and all herbs upon its bosom. From me cometh forth the earth in her unspeakable variety. Yea! all cometh from me, naught cometh to me. Therefore am I lonely and horrible upon this unprofitable throne. Only those who accept noth…
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
… was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon. And it was hidden for three hundred years, because it was wrested untimely from the Tree of Life by the hand of a desperate magician. For it was the Master of that Magician who overthrew the power of the Christian church; but the pupil rebelled against the master, for he foresaw that the New (z.e., the Protestant) would be worse than the Old. But he understood not the purpose of his Master, and that was, to prepare the way for the overthrowing of the Aeon. There is a writing upon the Urn of which I c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 370
…n is too weak to stand it, or perhaps because his doctor has forbidden him to do either for the next two years, the man who is afraid of life, afraid to do anything lest some result should follow, is acclaimed as the best and greatest of mankind. It is very amusing in England to watch the snobbishness, particularly of the middle classes, and their absurd aping of their betters, while the cream of the jest is that the morality to which the middle classes cling does not exist in good so- ciety. Those who have Master Souls refuse to be bound by an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 255
…ee about a settlement I’m making in case I ever get married.” , And then, not half an hour afterwards, he referred to an incident of our life in Capri. I am careful not to contradict him or alarm him about the state of his mind, but it’s very difficult to know what to do. There are so many things I forget myself. “How did we get down here?’ Then again, “Where is Alice ?’’ The name keeps on popping up, and yet I don’t know any one at all intimately or importantly with that name. I had forgotten this diary—I found it by accident and immediately b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 88
…surroundeth the universe wherein the Sephiroth are estab- lished, and therefore is the order of the Aethyrs not the order of the Tree of Life. And only in a few places do they coincide. * (I think the trouble with these people was, that they wanted to substitute the blood of someone else for their own blood, because they wanted to keep their personalities). 86
1922 · PDF PAGE 111
… were living minute by minute, second by second. A tick of the clock marked for us an interval of eternity. We were the heirs of eternal life. We had nothing to do with death. That was a pretty wise bird who said, “To-morrow never comes.” We were out of time and space. We were living according to the instruction | of our Saviour: “ Take no thought for the morrow.’ A great restlessness gripped us. Paris was perfectly impossible. We had to get to some place where time doesn’t count. The alternation of day and night doesn’t matter so much; but it’…
1954 · PDF PAGE 125
…resque-it is usually called "the Ophidian Vibrations," thus laying special stress upon its serpentine strength, subtlety, its control of life and death, and its power to insinuate itself into any desired set of circumstances. It is of this universally powerful weapon that the Secret Chiefs must be supposed to possess complete control. They can induce a girl to embroider a tapestry, or initiate a
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…ous question, and his revolution- ary masterpiece upon the relation between Com- parative Anatomy and Political Science. In his personal life he had similar breadth of experience. He was beloved of the thieves and prostitutes in an obscure drinking-cellar in Belleville, the most dangerous quarter of Paris, not as a comrade, but as a missionary. He was at home in the most ex- alted social circles, and it is a well-known fact that many persons of importance relied on his subtle intuition and keen vision to resolve political diffi- culties which b…
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
…tory ! I take your Christ, your God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation, For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteme the Nazarene. Where’s the wet towel ? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascension’s self rehearsed Christ’s Godhead by its miracle. Grand !—but the power is mine as well ! In India levitation counts No tithe of the immense amounts Of powers demanded by the wise From Chela ere the Chela rise To …