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Page 158 of 2031919 · PDF PAGE 102
…between them. Yet ina little while a serpent struck him that he died. 55. But an Ibis that meditated upon the bank of Nile the beautiful god listened and heard. And he laid aside his Ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying Peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the Exalted One. 56. And behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an 96
1954 · PDF PAGE 398
…singly often, is not at all what it is possible to discover by any ordinary means. For instance , one might ask oneself "Do I believe in God?" and, after a vast number of affirmative answers of constantly increasing depth and subtlety , discover with a shock that "at the bottom of the bottle" one believed nothing of the sort! Or vice versa. On one occasion the following experiment was carried out . A certain Adept was to make use of the Sacred Vapour , and when the time seemed ripe, to answer such questions as should be put to him by his Scribe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 202
…d with your incestuous kiss ! MEG-ERA. Hither ! ALECTO, O hither ! HADES. Steams a newer shape Of threefold terror. TISIPHONE. Shall the god escape The monstrous wedlock? ALECTO Let him. turn again His horrid passion to the Nysian plain ! MEGAERA. Echidna !
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…in the azure Ionian deep ! Ere ripens the sun , ere the spring -wind hardens Your fruits once again ye shall have me to keep. The sleep -god laments, and the love -goddess pardons , When love at the last sinks unweary to sleep .? 1 Orpheus, vol. iii, p . 168 . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 146 , 147 . s Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 182-187 . Ibid . vol . iii, p . 200 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 145 . 4 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 177 . 6 Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 194-199 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…RESPONDENCES XL.* XXXIX.* XXXVIII* Precious Stones. Plants, Real and Imaginary. Animals, Real and Imaginary. oO Diamond Almond in Flower God . 1 Star Ruby, Turquoise . Amaranth . Man . 2 Star Sapphire, Pearl . Cypress, Opium Poppy . Woman . 3 Amethyst and Sapphire Olive, Shamrock . Unicorn . 4 Ruby. Oak, Nux Vomica, Nettle . Basilisk . 5 Topaz, Yellow Diamond Acacia, Bay, Laurel, Vine . Pheenix, Lion, Child. 6 Emerald. Rose . Tynx . 7 Opal, especially Fire Opal . | Moly, Anhalonium Lewinii Hermaphrodite, Jackal. 8 Quartz (Banyan), Mandrake, Dam…
1911 · PDF PAGE 85
…on thou didst wxder- stand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night! This is that which is written, ““O my God, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many.” For she is 83
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
…thy saviour. So there- fore didst thou shriek in the Black Sabbath when thou didst kiss the hairy buttocks of the goat, when the gnarled god tore thee asunder, when the icy cataract of death swept thee away. Shriek, therefore, shriek aloud; mingle the roar of the 139
1916 · PDF PAGE 11
…erything at one time or another has been the subject of violent praise and violent blame. If any one asks me for the meaning of the word God, I must first know whether the word is being used by the Pope or Mr. G. W. Foote or Herbert Spencer or Billy Sunday. If you ask me for the meaning of the word soul, I am equally at a loss. To the Buddhist it is a figment of the imagination of certain Hindu philosophers. The Qabalists use it as almost synonymous with body. Every metaphysician that ever lived has used this word in a different sense, and …
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…for long periods. 2. You must wear no garments that interfère with the posture in any of these experiments. 3. The first position : (The God). Sit in a chair ; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. 4. The second position : (The Dragon). Kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. 5. The third position: (The Ibis). Stand, hold left ankle with right hand, free forefinger on lips. 6. The fourth position: (The Thunderbolt). Sit5 left heel pressing up anus, right foo…
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
… opposites in a We have dismissed infinity as the figment of a morbid ‘mathematic: but in any case the same disproof applies to it as to'God.
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
…en I was young, they said : “Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make the rest of Scripture mean, You can’t evade John iii. 16.” * “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” 340 345 350 355 360 365 370 375 Former com- pared to Keru- bim; as it is written, Running and Returning. Shri Parananda applauds Yogi. Gerald jeers at Jesus. John iii. 16.* Its importance. Its implied meaning.
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
… Percy murmur words of love to Molly , she hisses : Ah ! if there were a devil to buy souls, Or if I had not sold mine ! Quick bargain , God ! Hell catch the jade ! Blister her fat red cheeks ! Rot her snub nose ! Poison devour her guts ! Wither her fresh clean face with old grey scabs, And venomous ulcers gnaw the baby breasts ! ? Most charitable ! But such is the Kingdom of Society . “ Angela ” is a lovely name (so thinks inexperienced Percy ) , and correspondingly the owner must have a lovely nature ; and when he has discovered what an abyss…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
… way , twined round the Tree of Knowledge he has offered us fruit, and we have eaten of it with face smiling or awry ; we have become as gods knowing good and evil , and having become gods with much striving against adversity, may some day become men ; for -to become a god is but to become as the image created in the brain of man , but to become a man is to become a progenitor of gods ; and then perchance we may realize the sublimity of the Great Mother hood , whose children are as one , a flaming crown of glory twined and interwoven with roses…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
…is inadequate to solve the Great Problem ; for ultimately all systems based on a Rational foundation arrive at an inscrutable mystery— “ God ,” “ A Something ,” “ An å priori ,” beyond which they cannot pene trate . Where Agnosticism and Scientific Buddhism end , Crow leyanity begins . By Qabalistically tackling the question , it proposes a Future to all Rational Philosophies , thereby becom ing a mystical theurgy , whereby the difficulties set in motion by the conceptions of “ Infinite ” and “ Eternal " are overcome by the annihilation of Time…
1911 · PDF PAGE 90
…ow in all that host there is no motion. Yet they are not resting upon their arms, but tense and vigilant. And between them and me is the God Shu, whom before I did not see, because his force filleth the whole Aethyr. And indeed he is not visible in his form. Nor does he come to the seer through any of the senses; he is understood, rather than expressed. I perceive that all this army is defended by fortresses, nine mighty towers of iron upon the frontier of the Aethyr. Each tower is filled with warriors in silver armour. It is impossible to desc…
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
…lence, however, is Atmadarshana, which for some, and those not the least instructed, is the first real Samadhi; for even the visions of “ God ” and of the “ Self” are tainted by form. In Atmadarshana the All is manifested as the One: it is the Universe freed from its conditions. Not only are all forms and ideas destroyed,but also those conceptions which are implicit in our ideas of those ideas.2 Each part of 1 Similarly Patanjali tells us that by making Samyama on the strength of an elephant or a tiger, the student acquires that strength. Conque…
1919 · PDF PAGE 93
… earth. 44. Praise to thee, O beautiful dark earth, thou art the mother of a million myriads of myriads of flowers. 45. Also I beheld my God, and the countenance of Him was a thousandfold brighter than the lightning. Yet in his heart I beheld the slow and dark One, the ancient one, the devourer of His children. 46. In the height and the abyss, O my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned for Thy delight. 47. Light cleaveth unto Light, and filth to filth; with pride one conte…
1954 · PDF PAGE 437
…lade A horrible Man and a beautiful maid. "Where are you going so meek and holy?" "I'm going to temple to worship Crowley. " "Crowley is God then? How did you know?" "Why. it's Captain Fuller that told us so. " "And how do you know that Fuller was right?" "I'm afraid you're a wicked man; good-night. " While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness. Sometimes, note well! they are even frank about it, and say plainly that there would be no merit in it if there were any reasonable basis for it! This position is at …
1906 · PDF PAGE 159
340 345 350 360 370 375 * ** For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” ASCENSION DAY 153 Samadhi-Dak,®! convenient To travel to Maha Meru,*” Or Gaurisankar’s * keen white wedge Spearing the splendid dome of blue, Or Chogo’s *4 mighty flying edge Shearing across the firmament,— But, first, to that exact event You Christians celebrate to-day. We stand where the disciples stood And see the Master float away Into that cloudlet heavenly-hued Receivin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 256
… of D between the place of Thmaist and that of the Evil Triad: and it is the place of the Lotus-throned Lord of Silence, even that Great God Harpocrates, the younger brother of Horus. OF ISIS AND NEPHTHYS The stations are the places of the Pillarsin Netzach and Hod respectively; wherefore these great goddesses are not otherwise shown in this grade, save in connection with the Premonstrator and Imperator. OF AROUERIST His secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the Hiero- phant as though representing him unto the …