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Page 154 of 2031913 · PDF PAGE 527
…e demons tempt us, it is by the voluntary complicity of our passions, and it is not permitted to them to make head against the empire of God, and by stupid and useless mani- festations to disturb the eternal order of Nature. The diabolical signatures and characters, which are produced without the knowledge of the medium, are evidently not proofs of a tacit or formal pact between these degenerates and intelligences of the abyss. These signs have served from the beginning to express astral vertigo, and remain in a state of mirage in the reflectio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
… he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
i CHAPTER XIII r * Of the Banishings: And of the Purifications. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better corne first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The wand is not a wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of îtself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it. T-hat is a mere logical commonplace: in Magick one must go much farther than this. One finds one’s analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It…
1954 · PDF PAGE 547
…272 Drugs, 473, 474, 476 Dualism, Dualists, 54, 55 Dumas, 447 Duns Scotus, 104 Duran ty, Walter, 180 Dweller of the Threshold, 274 Dying God, II , 54 Ecclesiastes, 76 Eckenstein , Oscar, 231 Ecstasy , 21 Eden (and the Fall), 295 Egyptian Theogony, 23; School, 80 Eight Lectures on Yoga, 2, 17, 138, 175, 306, 315, 420, 493,503 Eight Limbs of Yoga, 17 Einstein , Albert, 86
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…r of fear) in his noblest artistic attire, as the foolish king in the Bassara of the Maenads! How often have I seen Dionysus --- or some god --- discover the cheat and give him over to those high priests of dialectic, D--- and L---, to be ravaged and stripped amid the gleeful shrieks of the wit- intoxicated crowd! But once the victim was upon the altar, once he rose from his chair, then what a silence fell! Frozen with the icy contempt of the assembly, the wretch would slink down the room with a sacred grin on his face, and not until he had fac…
1899 · PDF PAGE 92
…s the idea of existence, the Divine Name connected with this Sephira being j}°;T&, Eheieh, Existence. Below this world of Atziluth or of God is that of Briah or Thrones ; to this world belong the Archangels; still lower that of Yetzirah or Formation; to this world ten orders of angels are attributed; . and lastly, the world of Assiah, or of action (the material world). The further development of these facts, their connection with the numerical system, the parts of the soul, and many other interesting details may be studied in the seventy-two vo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
… creative Deity, And say : The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“New Birth” you’ll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary sphere And flies in the direction “x.” (There lies the fourth dimension.) Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations, But leave me with the Flaming Star,75 Jeheshua (See thou Zohar !)76 And thus our formidable Pigeon-77 Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking n…
1909 · PDF PAGE 371
… I told him, and instantly he grew pale and staggered. But after a moment he looked furiously at me, and resumed his former manner. “ By God !” he said, “I cannot believe you. How you have found out my secret and learned by heart the things which one ought to see in my box, but which one does not, I ignore. But you cannot possibly have seen them.” I swore that I was no impostor. But he refused to listen to me, and called his two men. They came, and began verifying the measure he had taken of me. “ Too long,” said he, when it was completed. ‘“ Y…
1909 · PDF PAGE 371
… I told him, and instantly he grew pale and staggered. But after a moment he looked furiously at me, and resumed his former manner. “ By God !” he said, “I cannot believe you. How you have found out my secret and learned by heart the things which one ought to see in my box, but which one does not, I ignore. But you cannot possibly have seen them.” I swore that I was no impostor. But he refused to listen to me, and called his two men. They came, and began verifying the measure he had taken of me. “ Too long,” said he, when it was completed. ‘“ Y…
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…g, sauntered off with his mistress, arm-in-arm. Neither of them gave their victim another thought. Out of the wood they went, and (thank God 1) out of the story. But Placide leant upon his axe and stared after them. In his brain one thought only remained, which Theophraste might have formulated logically as “ Some men do not chop wood.” And in his heart and eye was a dull animal lust. Two strangers had come to his soul's Inn. There being only one room, he put them to bed together, in this form or some- thing like it: “ Chop—chop—chop—chop; I’m …
1912 · PDF PAGE 127
…g, sauntered off with his mistress, arm-in-arm. Neither of them gave their victim another thought. Out of the wood they went, and (thank God 1) out of the story. But Placide leant upon his axe and stared after them. In his brain one thought only remained, which Theophraste might have formulated logically as “ Some men do not chop wood.” And in his heart and eye was a dull animal lust. Two strangers had come to his soul's Inn. There being only one room, he put them to bed together, in this form or some- thing like it: “ Chop—chop—chop—chop; I’m …
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
…the Saviour the veil of the Temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, the miracle of charity, the power of God in man, divine humanity, and human divinity, the highest and most sublime of Arcana, the last word of all initiations. But the Saviour knew that at first men would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense of what I…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
…the Saviour the veil of the Temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, the miracle of charity, the power of God in man, divine humanity, and human divinity, the highest and most sublime of Arcana, the last word of all initiations. But the Saviour knew that at first men would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense of what I…
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
…d for a long while to smash Germany and steal her goods. We have taken a first-class opportunity, and we shall never regret it. We thank God that we are not as other men. There are no stained glass windows bright enough for us. Our haloes are top heavy. We have quite forgotten that the Belgian is the most cruel, mean, and cowardly cur in Europe, that we have demonstrated till all are blue against him as assassin, torturer, mutilator, and cannibal. We have dined in our thousands to acclaim his disgrace. We heard of nothing but "Red Rubber;" of n…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
… are found to oppose it root and branch, and they from constituencies which the act will hardly touch, while the Lords — our bulwark, oh God ! and what a fortress is that whose semi-lunes are Lord Townshend and Lord Tanker- ville ! — pass the bill with scarce a protest. We are to be taxed beyond endurance, our defences neglected, our edu- cation left to sink or swim as it may, that our whole state may be clogged with its own excrement ! It is no idle boast of the vermin socialists that their system is Christianity, and no other is genuine. And …
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
…eing shall instantly obey the will of the student, when he uses the appropriate figure. In obstinate cases, the forrn of the appropriate God may be assumed. 386 -
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
VI PREFACE. than the minister of God and the mouthpiece of the Holy Ghost ; just as on the other hand it was only natural that the orders from the Hall should come his way, and leave the first-best butcher lamenting, and the second-best bewil- dered. So that in my time the sect (though it is only fair to point out that they refused to be described as a sect, since what they had done was not to form a new sect, but to “ come out of sect ”, — this they maintained in spite of the fact that they were far more exclusive than any other religious body…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
…here is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright ; but ¥ is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein : because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60…
1913 · PDF PAGE 384
… earth, for their. pretended sacraments are no longer anything but allegorical mummeries; they no longer give grace; they no longer make God seen and touched; they are no longer, in a word, the signs of the almighty power of faith, but the compelled witnesses of the eternal impotence of doubt. It is, then, against faith itself that the Reformation pro- tested! Protestants were right only in their protest against the inconsiderate and persecuting zeal which wished to force consciences. They claimed the right to doubt, the right to have less reli…
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
…ind, for there remains to them not even the resource of allowing themselves to be led... .” “Sir, I know all that as well as you do. But God cannot be divided against Himself. He cannot allow good faith to be deceived, and the Church itself could hardly decide that 141