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Page 157 of 1731944 · PDF PAGE 176
…erial form. They form a link between the small cards and the Princesses, who rule the Heavens around the North Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Ele‐ ments rule, going Eastward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Thus, roughly, Aces‐Princesses Wands cover Asia, Cups the Pacific Ocean, Swords the Americas, Disks Europe and Africa. To make this relationship clear, one may go a little into the symbol of the pentagram, or Shield of David. It represents Spirit ruling the four elements, and is thus a symbol of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 605
…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for hose rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written; “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions. R2
1913 · PDF PAGE 605
…on breast and back. A conical black cap embroidered with the Sigils of Saturn should be worn. The Magister Templi robe is fitted for the great Meditations, for the supernal rites of Luna, and for hose rites of Babylon and the Graal. But this robe should be worn by no man, because of that which is written; “Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine.” Any of these robes may be worn by a person of whatever grade on appropriate occasions. R2
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…irth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His mercies murmur in the skies. His Name is mighty in us to the end. In Him wecry : Move, answer, and descend ! Apply yourselves to us; arise! Forwhy? We are the Wisdom of your God most high } They rise at mine appointed 1 This Fragment is a paraphrase of one of the elemental invocations given in Dr. Dee's famous record of magical working.—A. C,
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
…trayed into sparing a kindly thought for the Teacher! It is quite clear that there is something wrong about this. Fortunately, Time, the great healer, is on the job as usual; Time takes no week-ends off; Time does not stop to admire himself; Time keeps right on.[3] Before very long, you forget all about the pleasantness of things, and it would not be at all polite to give you any idea of what you are going to think of the Teacher. 14. Perhaps the first thing you notice is that, although you have started in what is apparently the most comfortabl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 255
…conscious existence. (8) Needs no comment. Pride, humility, is a form of delusion. (9) Is like unto it, but on the moral plane. (10) The great enemy. Theists alone have found the infamous audacity to extol the merits of this badge of servitude. We see, then, that in this classification a scientist will concur. We need not discuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. Buddhism may not be com- plete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate. like
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
… should still be full of mettle To go up Popocatapetl. As song then chills or aches or burns, The metre shall slew round by turns. 1 The great task of Western occultism is to ‘ pronounce the name”’ of Jehovah ; if this be correctly done, the universe (z.e. of sense) is annihilated, and the true universe, of spirit, is made present to the consciousness. 2 To stop or silence ; to spoil the plans of. 3 The four lines above are in the metre of Tennyson’s poem ‘‘In Memoriam.” Its lack of manliness prompts Crowley's satire. 4 Mountains in Mexico clim…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
… bind myself anew: By the Sword of Vengeance: By the Powers of the elements: By the Cross of Suffering: That I will devote myself to the Great Work: the obtaining of Communion with my own Higher and Divine Genius (called the Guardian Angel) by means of the prescribed course; and that I will use my Power so obtained unto the Redemption of the Universe. So help me the Lord of the Universe and mine own Higher Soul! This idea is further expanded in the obligation which I took in respect of the Operation. The influence of my initiation into the Seco…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…success, to deal with higher entities. Your ambition grows, like every other organism, by what it feeds on. You are very soon led to the Great Work itself; you are led to aspire to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and this ambition in turn arouses automatically further difficulties the conquest of which confers new powers. In the Book of the Thirty Aethyrs, commonly called The Vision and the Voice, it becomes progressively difficult to penetrate each
1939 · PDF PAGE 31
… The point is that by sitting still, in the plain literal sense of the words, the body does ultimately respond to the adjuration of that great Mahatma, Harry Lauder, 'Stop your ticklin', Jock!' 8. When we approach the details of Asana, we are immediately confronted with the refuse-heap of Hindu pedantry. We constantly approach the traditional spiritual attitude of the late Queen Victoria. The only types of Asana which offer even the most transient interest are those of which I am not going to speak at all, because they have nothing whatever to …
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
…isonous toad That darts an angry red from out its eye,) By sword and spear, by maze and mystery, By Zeus’ high house, and by his godhead great, By his own soul, no ardour to abate Until he freed Archais. Like a star Rebellious, thrust beyond the morning’s bar, Erect, sublime, he swore so fierce an oath That the sea flashed with blasphemy, and loath Black thunder broke from out the shudder- ing deep. Ife swore again, and from its century’s sleep Earthquake arose, and rocked and raved and roared. He swore the third time. Lord Curbed their black w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…her left hand she pours golden waters over her head, which are lost in her long hair. Her attitude suggests the Swastika. Above flames a great star of seven rays. Ling 29.—Below, a path leads between two towers, arded by jackals, from the sea, wherein a Scara- Becus marcheth landwards. Lint 30.—Below is a wall, in front of which, in a fairy ring, two children wantonly and shamelessly embrace. Ling 31.—An angel blowing a trumpet, adorned with a golden banner bearing a white cross. Below a fair youth rises from a sarcophagus in the attitude of th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…hat flamed upon my bosom, the keen thorns Pierced me and slew! My spirit was with- drawn Into Her godhead, and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above, beyond the Tomb of Time, Blending the darkness into the profound Chasms of matter—so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space, 1 Revelations xii. I, Limitless fields of Time. I knew in me That I must fall into the ground and die ; Dwell in the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 225
…ance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion isa great Mysterium of our art. Whence a light hidden ina Cross. Now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the Sword, and the Pyramid being builded in its just proportion, was that Light fixed even in the Vault of the Caverns. With one stroke he rent asunder the Veil; with one stroke he closed the same. And entering the Sarcophagus of that Royal Tomb he laid him down to sleep. Four guarded him,…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…perior being to the Yogi or the Magician. He can reply as St. Paul replied to the centurion who boasted of his Roman citizenship 'With a great sum obtained I this freedom'; and Paul, fingering the Old School Tie, sneered: 'But I was free born.' 18. It is not for us here to enquire as to how it should happen that certain human beings possess from birth this right of intimacy with the highest reality, but Blavatsky was of this same opinion that the natural gift marks the acquisition of the rank in the spiritual hierarchy to which the student of M…
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
…tand the canon of reason. He has only one idea, which is, that the Bible (authorized translation) is literally true in every detail. His great explanation of everything that seems a little pecu- liar is that it is the result of sin. He claims, however, that sin was caused by the devil, who was created by God, and that God foreknew and permitted all this, in order to inflict torture upon nearly everybody except Mr. Bishop. He would however deny furiously that the God who willingly and knowingly created the devil, was in any way responsible for h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…t And greeted her with tears; for now at last The fountains of her sorrow, vague and vast, Burst from the strong inexorable chain Of too great passion, and a mortal pain Beyond belief, and so in sudden waves Tears welled impatient from their crystal caves. (Men say those barren pinnacles are set Since then with jewels ; the white violet Was born of those pure tears; the snowdrop grew Where wakening hope her agonyshot through, And where the Queen of Love had touched her tears, The new-born lily evermore appears.) So Cypris comforts her with tend…
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is relative, all truth is falsehood. In one sense Mercury is the great enemy; Mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 14. The last of the seven sacred planets is the Moon. The Moon represents the totality of the female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of Venus, for the Moon corresponds to the Sun much as Venus does to Mars. She is more purely passive than Venus, and although Venus is so universal the Moon is …
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…e torment of the light of day. Swings the swift sword in paths of vivid blue ; Rings the sharp summons in the halls of fear ; Flames the great lamen?!; as a fiery dew Falls the keen chanted music ; fierce and true Beams the bright diamond of the crowning sphere. 1A plate bearing the Names of God appro- priate to the work in hand, with other symbols of power, worn by the exorciser upon his breast.
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…. (There approacheth an aged man, riding upon an ass, with a led ass, and a Nubian servant.) The Adept. In the name of God, the One, the Great, Merciful and compassionate, Acclaim the perfect period Of ordeal past! The Neophjte. There is no God! a. Kise! in the name of obscure Fate, Ruthless and uncompassionate. NV. Of endless life, of toil and woe I am the burned and branded foe. I came this torture to endure That I might make my freedom sure. ij «df. No soul is free.