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Page 15 of 821911 · PDF PAGE 100
…re, but that to keep silence he should never learn. O thou that art so ready to speak, so slow to watch, thou art delivered over unto my power for this. And now one word was necessary unto me, and I could not speak it. I behold the beauty of the earth in * Originally, for “Understanding” was written “Power.” Choronzon was always using some word that did not represent his thought, because there is no proper link between his thought and speech. Note that he never seems able to distinguish between the Frater and the Scribe, and addresses first one…
1901 · PDF PAGE 94
…s. By the potent starry speeches; By the spells of mystic kings; By the magic passion teaches; By the strange and sacred things By whose power the master reaches To the stubborn fiery springs; By the mystery of the beaches , Where the siren Sibyl sings; I will hold her, live and bleeding; Clasp her to me, pale and pleading;
1954 · PDF PAGE 139
…expect! Until you have practiced this method, all day and every day, for quite a long while, you cannot tell how amazingly your mnemonic power increases by virtue thereof . But be careful always to range the new ideas as they come along in their right order of importance. It is not unlike the system of keys used in big establishments, such as hotels. First, a set of keys, each of which opens one door, and one door only. Then, a set which opens all the doors on one floor only . And so on, until the one responsible who has one unique key which op…
1903 · PDF PAGE 53
…y in the word eleven. I took my lover’s image pale and clear, Fixed in my mind ; I saw her standing near, Wooed her, conjured her by the power of heaven, Of my own mind, the Genii of the Seven, To come and live with me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd ? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be boug…
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
CONTENTS Complains of the antithesis of desire and power—'‘ Let the far music of oblivious years” . . Laments—‘‘ How can one hour dissolve a year’s delight” Tells of his wooing— ‘‘ / child-like medttative mood” Eurydice’s song—‘‘ O shape half seen of love, and lost” Continues the tale of his wooing—"* Such teene my falling bt snapped” Invokes Aphrodite—‘‘ Danghter of Glory, child” Continues the tale of his wooing —" I cage the lavish ore and sate” Eurydice’s song—" Who art thou, love, m what sweet name I quicken” . Continues the tale of his woo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 465
SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Touched the extreme, the giant goal! Yea! all things in that hour transcended, All power in his sublime control, All felt, all thought, all comprehended— “ How is it, then, the quest ” (he saith) “Ts not—at last |!—achieved and ended? Why taste I not the Bounteous Breath, Receive the Goodly Gift of Grace? Now, kind king-eagle (by God’s death !), Restore me to mine ancient place! I am advantaged nothing then!” Then swooped he from the Byss of Space, And set the knight amid the fen. “God!” quoth Sir Palamede, “th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 465
SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Touched the extreme, the giant goal! Yea! all things in that hour transcended, All power in his sublime control, All felt, all thought, all comprehended— “ How is it, then, the quest ” (he saith) “Ts not—at last |!—achieved and ended? Why taste I not the Bounteous Breath, Receive the Goodly Gift of Grace? Now, kind king-eagle (by God’s death !), Restore me to mine ancient place! I am advantaged nothing then!” Then swooped he from the Byss of Space, And set the knight amid the fen. “God!” quoth Sir Palamede, “th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…SCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT 66᾿ 67, 68. 69. 7o. 71. 72, THE TWENTY—TWO KEYS OF THE BOOK 9. The Hermit. The Magus of the Voice of Power, the Prophet of the Eternal 10. The Wheel The Lord of the of Fate . Forces of Life 8. Justice. . The Daughterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…SCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT 66᾿ 67, 68. 69. 7o. 71. 72, THE TWENTY—TWO KEYS OF THE BOOK 9. The Hermit. The Magus of the Voice of Power, the Prophet of the Eternal 10. The Wheel The Lord of the of Fate . Forces of Life 8. Justice. . The Daughterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 216
…trod Beneath them, that thine own life in its doom Fall, in its resurrection to arise; Stoop, that its holier hope may cleave the skies. Power, power, and power! O single sacrifice On thine own altar: let thy savour steam Up, through the domes of broken Paradise ; Up, by Euphrates’? unimagined stream ; Up, by strange river and mysterious lawn To some impossible diadem of dawn ! 1 Cf. Fichte. 2 Or Phrath, the Fourth River of the Mystic Eden, flowing from ‘Tiphereth to Yesod. VOL. 1. So the mere orderly ruling of events Shall change and blossom t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 249
…f half-a-dozen isolated and impo- tent stockholders. Whatever the O.T.O. findeth to do, it does with all its might; none dare oppose the power of a cor- poration thus centralised, thus ramified. To become a mem- ber of the O.T.O. is to hitch your wagon to a star. But if you are poor? If you have no property? The O.T.O. still helps you. There will always be unoccupied houses which you can tend rent-free; there is certainty of employment, if you desire it, from other members. If you keep a shop, you may be sure that O.T.O. members will be your cu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…Effect is eternal, how is it then that Cause A produces effect B, and Cause B effect C, and Cause A+B +C effect X. Where originates this power of production? It is said there is no change, the medium remaining alike through- out. But we say there is a change—a change of form,* and not only a change, but a distinct birth and a distinct death of form. What creates this form? Sense perception. What will destroy this form, and reveal to us that which lies behind it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians…
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…MON THE KING Adept, when once the Siddhis were attained, by a self-control (a still higher concentration) refused to expend these occult powers,* by degrees he accumulated within himself a terrific force; charged like a Leyden jar, instantaneously could he transmute this power into whatever he willed; but the act brought with it a recoil, and caused an exhaustion and a void which nullified the powers gained. Ultimately he proved that it was rather by the restraint of these occult (mental) powers than that of the bodily ones that Ojas is produce…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…Effect is eternal, how is it then that Cause A produces effect B, and Cause B effect C, and Cause A+B +C effect X. Where originates this power of production? It is said there is no change, the medium remaining alike through- out. But we say there is a change—a change of form,* and not only a change, but a distinct birth and a distinct death of form. What creates this form? Sense perception. What will destroy this form, and reveal to us that which lies behind it? times more curious than all the musings of the mystics, works of the Rosi- crucians…
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…MON THE KING Adept, when once the Siddhis were attained, by a self-control (a still higher concentration) refused to expend these occult powers,* by degrees he accumulated within himself a terrific force; charged like a Leyden jar, instantaneously could he transmute this power into whatever he willed; but the act brought with it a recoil, and caused an exhaustion and a void which nullified the powers gained. Ultimately he proved that it was rather by the restraint of these occult (mental) powers than that of the bodily ones that Ojas is produce…
1906 · PDF PAGE 119
…their leprous pallor battling Weakly with night. Lord, shall these dry bones live? O keep us in the hour Wherein the King-Ghost hath his power! III
1912 · PDF PAGE 247
…. Strong forces beyond the Querent‘s control. Society, meetings of many persons. Strength generally. Aces are always strong cards. Great power and force. Riches, success. Swiftness, rapidity, Unexpectedmeetings. Knights, in general, shew news. Authority, influence. Powerful friends. Meetings with the great. Rank and honour. New ideas or plans. Society of the young. Anxiety, responsibility. Buying and selling (commerce). Added responsibilities. Much correspondence. Much news. Much journeying. 205
1912 · PDF PAGE 247
…. Strong forces beyond the Querent‘s control. Society, meetings of many persons. Strength generally. Aces are always strong cards. Great power and force. Riches, success. Swiftness, rapidity, Unexpectedmeetings. Knights, in general, shew news. Authority, influence. Powerful friends. Meetings with the great. Rank and honour. New ideas or plans. Society of the young. Anxiety, responsibility. Buying and selling (commerce). Added responsibilities. Much correspondence. Much news. Much journeying. 205
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…etragrammaton Iehovah, I say, Obey! whose mighty sound being elonusabinu nazoda poilape, zoDonugonu cacla3odD holado, perejse exalted in power the pillars are divided, the winds of the firmament groan aloud; the fire je-ialaponu: caosaga 30Daca DO-jiz0Dajazoda, oD tofasilo Salamann burns not; the earth moves in earthquakes ; and all things of the house pe-ripesol, od caosaji, oD faoresita oresa cabisa ta jizodajazoda, od of heaven and earth and the dwelling-place of darkness are as_ earthquakes, and cabisa Do-mire, od ovankabo Do-korat3z0, IRii…
1909 · PDF PAGE 333
…s Daath, the head of the Old Serpent, the Knower of Good and of Evil. * The whole theory and practice of Raja Yoga is the awakening of a power named the Kundalini, which is coiled up in what is called the sacral plexus, and then forcing this awakened power up a canal called the Sushumna, which runs through the centre of the spinal column. “When the Kundalini is aroused, and enters the canal of the Sushumna, all the perceptions are in the mental space or Chittakasa. When it has reached that end of the canal which opens out into the brain, the ob…