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Page 157 of 2031912 · PDF PAGE 124
… painter that he was only known as a theorist in the cafe which supplied his creme de menthe. There he would hold forth interininably on God and man. Blessed with such means as a mediocre father's devotion to cutlery and an only son had supplied, it was his habit on occasion to descend into the country. Picture him, if you please, as very short and moderately fat, middle-aged at thirty- t\\‘o, clad in a bourgeois suit and an artist's tie, a red handker— chief under a black felt hat upon a bushy head garnished with a little beard and moustache, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 124
… painter that he was only known as a theorist in the cafe which supplied his creme de menthe. There he would hold forth interininably on God and man. Blessed with such means as a mediocre father's devotion to cutlery and an only son had supplied, it was his habit on occasion to descend into the country. Picture him, if you please, as very short and moderately fat, middle-aged at thirty- t\\‘o, clad in a bourgeois suit and an artist's tie, a red handker— chief under a black felt hat upon a bushy head garnished with a little beard and moustache, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 271
…core of every star. Iam Life, and the giver of Life; yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. Iam alone; there is no God where I am. The DEAcON and all rise to their feet, with the Hail- ing sign. Tue Deacon. But ye, O my people, rise up and awake. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
No! thought he, perhaps I lack their faith. Perhaps if I could really persuade myself of God and ChristPerhaps if I could deceive myself, could make believe Such a thought is to surrender one's honesty, to ab- dicate one's reason. It marked the final futile struggle of his will. The demon caught and crunched him, and the noisy delirium began anew. My flesh and blood rebelled. Taken with a deathly vomit, I rushed from the room, and resolutely, for a whole hour, diverted my sensorium from thought. I had always found that the slightest …
1930 · PDF PAGE 123
…sion and Falsehood to enslave the soûl. Yet therein is the Mystery of Rédemption. 2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: the World that is God is none other than He. 3. How then shall He end His Speech with Silence ? For He is Speech. 4. He is the First and the Last. How shall He cease to number Himself ? 5. By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a Magister. The one uttereth clearly, and the other Under- standeth; yet the Word is falsehood, and the LJnderstanding darkness. And this saying is of Ail Truth. 6. Nevertheless it is …
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…g or a man to suck you saves labour of any sort and time. But I want you to swim in a perfect ocean of fuck as you read and please God if we ever meet what ho ! Ive a belly-full of boiling emo- tion-emulsion to shoot up your Two-penny-tube, your Penny-Pipe, or into your mouth, or to splash all over your bubbies, your dear fat butter-pats, your rosy-buttoned titties, or wherever you like. And when I cant spunk any more, Ill suck you off till your back aches and your eyes are blue all round, and your gallimaufry is as sore as my gully-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
…n , and worth keeping when freely held , without bond or writ . This freedom we find in the very first sonnet : Against the fiat of that God discrowned , Unseated by Man's Justice , and replaced By Law most bountiful and maiden - faced And Mother - minded : passing the low bound Of Man's poor law we leapt at last and found Passion ; and passing the dim halls disgraced Found higher love and larger and more chaste , A calm sphinx waiting in secluded ground .' The first day of meeting he gazes on her , and wonders whether Fate had found at last a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
THE EQUINOX up into God. One may doubt whether the drug alone ever does this. It is perhaps only the destined adept who, momen- tarily freed by the dissolving action of the drug from the chain of the four lower Skandhas, obtains this knowledge which is his by right, totally inept as he may be to do so by any ordinary methods. In the case of the aspirant to meditation, this stage is even more terrible than the last. He has, to use our previous figures, suspended the law of gravitation ; the stream is still, and the Sun of the soul is faithfully …
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
THE EQUINOX up into God. One may doubt whether the drug alone ever does this. It is perhaps only the destined adept who, momen- tarily freed by the dissolving action of the drug from the chain of the four lower Skandhas, obtains this knowledge which is his by right, totally inept as he may be to do so by any ordinary methods. In the case of the aspirant to meditation, this stage is even more terrible than the last. He has, to use our previous figures, suspended the law of gravitation ; the stream is still, and the Sun of the soul is faithfully …
1910 · PDF PAGE 266
…pped ; T held it to my ear: no, it was still going. I had travelled through all that immeasurable chain of dreams in thirty seconds. “My God!” Icried, “I am in eternity.” In the presence of that first sublime revelation of the soul’s own time, and her capacity for an infinite life, I stood trembling with breathless awe. Till I die, that moment of unveiling will stand in clear relief from all the rest of my existence. I hold it still in unimpaired remembrance as one of the unutterable sanctities of my being. The years of all my earthly life to c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 266
…pped ; T held it to my ear: no, it was still going. I had travelled through all that immeasurable chain of dreams in thirty seconds. “My God!” Icried, “I am in eternity.” In the presence of that first sublime revelation of the soul’s own time, and her capacity for an infinite life, I stood trembling with breathless awe. Till I die, that moment of unveiling will stand in clear relief from all the rest of my existence. I hold it still in unimpaired remembrance as one of the unutterable sanctities of my being. The years of all my earthly life to c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…when he wrote : So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time ; And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God ! THE WHY AND HOW OF ECSTASY “ There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign.” SO used some of us to sing in our childhood. And we used to think of this land as far away, farther even than death that in those days seemed so far. But I know this now : that land is not so far as my flesh is from my bones ! It is even Here and Now. If there is one cloud in this tranquil azure, it is this though…
1911 · PDF PAGE 147
…hael found Madonna in his mistress ; Rembrandt a queen of sombre passion and seduction in his wife. In one way or another we must get to God’s meaning through a medium that itself is meaningless.” " Just as through dejeuner we get to the dessert ! " laughed Ida, who had something more to say than her face showed. All through lunch she had allured the big black savage, until beneath her glances he was in agony. ΑΗ the primitive passions fought one another in his heart. He could have killed Rolles for the very nonchalance of his small-talk It hur…
1911 · PDF PAGE 147
…hael found Madonna in his mistress ; Rembrandt a queen of sombre passion and seduction in his wife. In one way or another we must get to God’s meaning through a medium that itself is meaningless.” " Just as through dejeuner we get to the dessert ! " laughed Ida, who had something more to say than her face showed. All through lunch she had allured the big black savage, until beneath her glances he was in agony. ΑΗ the primitive passions fought one another in his heart. He could have killed Rolles for the very nonchalance of his small-talk It hur…
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…ckwards headlong through the Aethyr—and there is a sudden and tremendous shout, absolutely stunning, cold and brutal: Osiris was a black god!* And the Aethyr claps its hands, greater than the peal of a thousand mighty thunders. I am back. Bou-SAapa. November 30, 1909. 10-11.45 p.m. Tue Cry OF THE 18TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZEN A voice comes before any vision: Accursed are they who enter herein if they have nails, for they shall be pierced there- with; or if they have thorns, for they shall be crowned withal; or if they have whips, for with wh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…of the necessity of the physical temple by expressing it in a series of seven mental operations. Other practices were the "assumption of God-forms"; by concentrated imagination of oneself in the symbolic shape of any God, one should be able to identify oneself with the idea which He represents. There there was meditation on simple symbols with the idea of penetrating to their
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…ner or later get back to the ever-rolling ocean ; and there shall we once again be wooed by the bright beams of the Sun, that relentless God who in his fierce embrace ever and again draws us up like some earthly concubine to his heavenly couch, only once more to be divorced by the malicious 226
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…ner or later get back to the ever-rolling ocean ; and there shall we once again be wooed by the bright beams of the Sun, that relentless God who in his fierce embrace ever and again draws us up like some earthly concubine to his heavenly couch, only once more to be divorced by the malicious 226
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…ing Malkuth ; he refuses to allow Malkuth to obsess his thought. He keeps on crying out that there is no difference between a goat and a God, in the hope of hypnotising himself (as it were) into that percep- tion of their identity, which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from Kether. 126
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…e power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sailin the Company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” — The New Age. **The light wherein he writes is the L.U.X. of that, which first mastering and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. Itis one…