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Page 150 of 1731910 · PDF PAGE 498
…d Towers of Ireland—Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans—The Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediaeval Monuments—The Great Pyramid—Connexion between the Templars and Gnosticism—Astro-Theosophical System of the Rosicrucians—Robt. Flud« the Holy Greale—The Round Table— Alchemy—The Outline of the Kabbalah, etc., ete. THE KABBALAH UNVEILED, containing the following Books of the Zohar: (1) The Book of Concealed Mystery; (2) The Greater Holy Assembly, Sy ‘The Lesser Holy Assembly. Translated into English from the Latin Version of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 498
…d Towers of Ireland—Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans—The Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediaeval Monuments—The Great Pyramid—Connexion between the Templars and Gnosticism—Astro-Theosophical System of the Rosicrucians—Robt. Flud« the Holy Greale—The Round Table— Alchemy—The Outline of the Kabbalah, etc., ete. THE KABBALAH UNVEILED, containing the following Books of the Zohar: (1) The Book of Concealed Mystery; (2) The Greater Holy Assembly, Sy ‘The Lesser Holy Assembly. Translated into English from the Latin Version of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…uare, for example, however you turned it. And so our soul has to look about for some mind which will fit one of his sections. There is a great deal of latitude, no doubt; for the mind grows, and is at first very plastic. But there must be some sort of relation. If I am a wandering soul, and wish to communicate with the soul now manifesting a section of itself as Professor of
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…a sign of success by all the necromancers; and as Vesquit made the final gesture, Arthwait turned his page, and Abdul struck home with a great knife to the brute's heart. Now, as the blood stained their grave-clothes, the hearts of the three sorcerers beat heavily. A foul sweat broke out upon them. The sudden change — psychological or magical? — from the turgid drone of Arthwait to the grimness of that silence in which the howls of the agonizing cats rose hideous, struck them with a deadly fear. Or was it that they realized for the
1929 · PDF PAGE 175
…ich were supporting the body quite well enough without their stupid interference, are debilitated and frittered away. I pray daily for a great war, that may root out the coward fear of death and poverty in the minds of these degenerate wretches. Death should be, as it used to be in the middle ages, even, and yet more in pagan times, the fit reward and climax of a life well spent in risking it for noble causes; and poverty should be a holy and blessed state, worthy of the highest minds and the happiest, and of them alone. "To return to our sheep…
1944 · PDF PAGE 120
…w, hear this: it was given unto me in my Visions of the Aethyrs, when I was in the Wilderness of Sahara, by Tolga, upon the Brink of the Great Eastern Erg, that above the Abyss, Contradiction is Unity, and that nothing could be true save by Virtue of the Contradiction that is contained in itself. Behold, therefore, in this Method thou shalt come presently to Ideas of this Order that include in themselves their own Contradiction, and have no Antithesis. Here then is thy Lever of Antinomy broken in thine Hand; yet, being in true Balance, thou may…
1919 · PDF PAGE 168
THE EQUINOX Apr. 13, 11.21-11.36 P.M. Dragon. A certain bliss arose at the thought that I was but a little child of the Great Father. Joy. Joy. (Yes: too emotional. O.M.) Apr. 19, 7.07 A.M. to 7.20 A.M. Not anything very definite. There is a certain quality of bliss about these practices which is peculiar to concentration but other- wise indescribable. (This is bad. You do things well, and work hard; but your point of view is all wrong. I feel a sort of sentimentality injuring your scientific attitude. O.M.) April 20, 2.40-3.10 P.M. Having left…
1906 · PDF PAGE 218
…ld at the Three Keys in Nags-Head Court, Gracechurch St. IT is fitting that I, Ambrose, called I. A. O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,! the Star Suaconch ? being” in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug? to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark …
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
…nd her Old Lady. "Yes," he said, "it was best to have her on the watch outside — on the Astral Plane — to keep you from getting into too great mischief. But you can never come to any real harm so long as you keep your vow and stay inside the circle. That's the one important point." She was quite satisfied in her upper conscious self, which was usually her better self, because of its rationality, and its advantage of surface training, which saved her from obeying her impulses on every occasion. She was glad, she was proud, of her partnership wit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…Dum-Dum bullet will not penetrate as does your nickel tip; and you cannot afford to use the former unless the power of penetration is so great as to reach the soft spots before the bullet expands and stops. This mechanical principle is perfectly applicable in magick. Therefore, when there is need to resist a magical attack, your best method will be to divide your antagonist's forces. Douglas had already lost a pawn in the game, Akbar Pasha having gone to his destruction through setting up an idea of his own, apart from, and
1929 · PDF PAGE 32
…rmination to make him wholly and for ever hers. Another story of Monet-Knott's had frightened her terribly. He had once put himself to a great deal of trouble to obtain a walking-stick to his liking. Ultimately he had found it, with such joy that he had called his friends and neighbours together, and bidden them to a lunch at the Carlton. Alter the meal, he had walked down Pall Mall with two of his guests — and discovered that he had forgotten the walking-stick. "Careless of me!" had been his only remark; and nothing would persuade him to stir …
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
…ed thinking of it; but however that may be, there is no doubt that at this moment he was ruthlessly pursuing his hate of Cyril Grey. For great operations — the "set pieces" of his diabolical pyrotechnics — the sorcerer had a place set apart and prepared. This was an old wine-cellar in a street between the Seine and the Boulevard St. Germain. The entrance was comparatively reputable, being a house of cheap prostitution which Douglas and Balloch — screened behind a woman — owned between them. Below this house was a cellar where the apaches of Par…
1906 · PDF PAGE 68
…ns our health and builds it up Into her body ; takes our breath, And we—we dream not it is death! Arm unto arm and eye to eye, Breast to great breast and thigh to thigh, We look, and strain, and laugh, and die. I see the head hovering above To swoop for cruelty or love ;
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
…ture, 7s adiscovered seated, C. The scene represents a lonely hill-top covered with stones. A little coarse grass grows in places. Three great menhirs stand up, C. Moonlight, RuPpHaA. The rune of the breath. The saga of death. The secret of earth. The beginning of birth. The speech of woe. Ho! Ho! I scent the prey. I sniff the air. The dawn of day Makes Maurya May The Goddess rare. The light of the stars Be hers ; go, go, Ye silent folk, Harness your cars ! Brace the yoke ! It is time to Know. Ho! Ho! Desolate deeds ! She bleeds, she bleeds. Th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…umber and put it on the mantelpiece." And this was the test. The medium was to be taken from Whewell‘s Court (where we were) over to the Great Court 01 Trinity—well out of all hearing. I was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody 01 being a confederate. He was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction. The medium was then (at a given time) to return, and tell the card. Now it happened that in the course 01 general argument about {air- ness, which 1 encouraged to enable myse…
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…umber and put it on the mantelpiece." And this was the test. The medium was to be taken from Whewell‘s Court (where we were) over to the Great Court 01 Trinity—well out of all hearing. I was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody 01 being a confederate. He was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction. The medium was then (at a given time) to return, and tell the card. Now it happened that in the course 01 general argument about {air- ness, which 1 encouraged to enable myse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…bid craving --- which it never satisfies after the first flush of intoxication. Now the furnaces of the British Aluminium company cost a great deal to light. It was, therefore, impossible to extinguish them every Saturday evening. The people of the neighbourhood learnt this fact with unfeigned horror. Such wickedness was inconceivable! But besides that, it was sheer madness. Did not these people in Glasgow understand the God did not permit such things to happen with impunity? So on the first Saturday night the people betook themselves to points…
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…n be said to be the nineteenth- century Kant. He succeeded Berkeley and Hume, just as Spencer succeeded Hegel and Fichte ; but, like the great transfigured realist, only ultimately and unconsciously to be overthrown by the very questions he fondly imagined he had explained away. Nevertheless he answered these questions so astutely that it has taken the whole of the nineteenth century to explain what he meant! This Major Kelly indirectly, if not directly, points out by attempting to rectify the Transcendental A®sthetics Analytic and Dialectic by…
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…n be said to be the nineteenth- century Kant. He succeeded Berkeley and Hume, just as Spencer succeeded Hegel and Fichte ; but, like the great transfigured realist, only ultimately and unconsciously to be overthrown by the very questions he fondly imagined he had explained away. Nevertheless he answered these questions so astutely that it has taken the whole of the nineteenth century to explain what he meant! This Major Kelly indirectly, if not directly, points out by attempting to rectify the Transcendental A®sthetics Analytic and Dialectic by…
1929 · PDF PAGE 209
"Say, great one, you `n' I gotta have another peek at that sperrit writing. Seems t' me that was a fool's game down there." She jerked her head towards the river. "And I don't say but what you done right about Balloch." Douglas glanced at her sharply in his most dangerous mood. How much did she know of a certain recent manoeuvre? But she went on quite placidly. "Now, look `e here. We gotta get these guys. An' we gotta get them where they live. You been hitting at their strong point. Now I tell you something. That girl she live five years with L…