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Page 159 of 2031909 · PDF PAGE 366
…h enclosed the shrine in which they were kept had been stolen from me, and my foes were expecting my surrender. Happily an angel sent by God ordered me to come out every twenty-one days, and promised me that I should find here the cover which I needed. I have it now, and mean to keep it.” “But what are you talking about?” said I. “I am a man; here is my house; and I don’t know anything about your cover. You are mistaking me for some unknown person or object, sir; pray let me go.” “Let you go! Abandon once more the cover which shall keep my thou…
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 …
1909 · PDF PAGE 366
…h enclosed the shrine in which they were kept had been stolen from me, and my foes were expecting my surrender. Happily an angel sent by God ordered me to come out every twenty-one days, and promised me that I should find here the cover which I needed. I have it now, and mean to keep it.” “But what are you talking about?” said I. “I am a man; here is my house; and I don’t know anything about your cover. You are mistaking me for some unknown person or object, sir; pray let me go.” “Let you go! Abandon once more the cover which shall keep my thou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
…phereth). Buddha position. 5m. Hopeless; I was nearly asleep. 19th. Winged-Globe. gm. Five breaks. H.P.K. on Lotus, 9m. Five breaks. The God was not very clear. RR. et A.C. 8m. Bad. Position 1. 13m. Middling. Thoth. ? Hopelessly sleepy. Attempted meditation on solar spectrum as a band. By working * A draft had been sent only payable in Hong-Kong on personal application, He was consequently afraid lest by staying too long in Japan he should become “stranded.” + Harpocrates. 120
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
…phereth). Buddha position. 5m. Hopeless; I was nearly asleep. 19th. Winged-Globe. gm. Five breaks. H.P.K. on Lotus, 9m. Five breaks. The God was not very clear. RR. et A.C. 8m. Bad. Position 1. 13m. Middling. Thoth. ? Hopelessly sleepy. Attempted meditation on solar spectrum as a band. By working * A draft had been sent only payable in Hong-Kong on personal application, He was consequently afraid lest by staying too long in Japan he should become “stranded.” + Harpocrates. 120
1911 · PDF PAGE 44
…t the hand is spinning the wheel merely for pleasure, it would be better to say amusement. A voice comes: For he is a jocund and a ruddy god, and his laughter is the vibration of all that exists, and the earth- quakes of the soul. One is conscious of the whirring of the wheel thrilling one, like an electric discharge passing through one. 42
1913 · PDF PAGE 503
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES they not been undeceived by making them recognize the true God by the charity, the knowledge, the justice, and above all, by the mercy of his ministers? The necromancers who cause the devil to appear after a fatiguing and almost impossible series of the most revolting evocations, are only children by the side of that St. Anthony of the legend who drew them from hell by thousands, and dragged them everywhere after him, like Orpheus, who attracted to him oaks, rocks and the most savage animals. Callot alone, initiated by …
1913 · PDF PAGE 503
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES they not been undeceived by making them recognize the true God by the charity, the knowledge, the justice, and above all, by the mercy of his ministers? The necromancers who cause the devil to appear after a fatiguing and almost impossible series of the most revolting evocations, are only children by the side of that St. Anthony of the legend who drew them from hell by thousands, and dragged them everywhere after him, like Orpheus, who attracted to him oaks, rocks and the most savage animals. Callot alone, initiated by …
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
…t the most spiritual are at heart the most passionate . Passion and Re ligion are the divine Dioscuri , children of Nemesis . Man , when God became too intangible , too mag nificent to approach , conceived a mediator . Jahveh , surrounded by howling beasts and moulting angels , fenced in by thunder and lightning , was quite cut off from the simple minds of the Suburra , so Christ in those purlieus was manufactured ; but He in His turn grew exaltedly dim , magnified as the mist of ages crept around Him , and when romantic love was born , man bei…
1911 · PDF PAGE 16
…ughing is laborious and age is weariness. Thou shalt be vexed by dispersion. But now, if the sun arise, fold thou thine arms; then shall God smite thee into a pillar of salt. Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child’s games with symbols thou shalt never understand. Thou hast the signs; thou hast the words; but there are many things that are not in my power, who am but …
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
…strong delusion, that they should believe alie. And again it is written: The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And again it is written that God tempteth man. But thou hadst the word and the sign, and thou hadst authority from thy superior, and licence. And thou hast done well in that thou didst not dare, and in that thou dost dare. For daring is not presumption. And he said moreover: Thou dost well to keep silence, for I perceive how many questions arise in thy mind; yet already thou knowest that the answering, as the asking, must be vain. For NEM…
1913 · PDF PAGE 485
…f life. Here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. The idol has replaced God, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship of the golden calf. The mystery of the necessary and successive reactions of the two principles on each other is indicated subsequently by the allegory of Cain and Abel. Force avenges itself by oppression for the seduction of weakness; martyred weakness expiates and intercedes for force when it is condemned for its crime to branding remor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 485
…f life. Here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. The idol has replaced God, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship of the golden calf. The mystery of the necessary and successive reactions of the two principles on each other is indicated subsequently by the allegory of Cain and Abel. Force avenges itself by oppression for the seduction of weakness; martyred weakness expiates and intercedes for force when it is condemned for its crime to branding remor…
1919 · PDF PAGE 336
… by the cries of distress, thy Soul with- draws like the shy turtle within the carapace of SELF- HOOD, learn, O Disciple, of her Silent “God” thy Soul is an unworthy shrine. This verse deals with an obstacle at a more advanced stage. It is again a warning not to shut one’s self up in one’s own universe. It is not by the exclusion of the Non-Ego that saintship is attained, but by its inclusion. Love is the law, love under will. 14
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…ith sense, ii, 180 But thou, O Lord, O Apollo, ii. 35 But to-night the lamp must be wasted, il. 36 But why revile, ii, 147 By palm and pagoda enchaunted, il. 121 By Wisdom framed from ancient days, ii. 97 CALL down that star whose tender eyes, i. 171 Can you believe the deadly will’s decree, i. 254 Chaldean fools, who prayed to stars and fires, lil, 19 Clear, deep, and blue, the sky, i. 49 Cloistral seclusion of the galleried pines, ili, 119 Clytie, beyond all praise, i. 120 Coiled in the hollow of the rock they kiss, iii. 122 Come back, come b…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…! So far at least. I must concede Christ did attain in every deed ; Yet, being an illiterate man, Not his to balance or to scan, To call God stupid or unjust ! He took the universe on trust : He reconciled the world below With that above ; rolled eloquence Steel-tired58 o’er reason’s “why?” and “whence?” Discarded all proportion just And thundered in our ears “I know,” And bellowed in our brains “ye must.” 675 680 685 690 695 700 705 710 Fifty years of Europe worth a cycle of Cathay. Method of Christ. The poet a Chris- tian. With reserva- tions…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
…in the sun , and set between the moon and the twelve stars of heaven . So another league will be accom plished toward that city which is God . We have already seen in “ The Mother's Tragedy " and “ The Fatal Force ,” that the love of the mother , though it could not cause the shadow to travel back wards one degree on the face of the dial , it at least clothed in a white garment of chastity, not only the amorous music -hall artiste , but even the incestuous queen of Egypt . And though “ Jezebel " did not love as they loved , her power of loving …
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…nted , Time and Space annihilated , and the divine “ I ” set free from the sordid rags of the world , to be clothed in the brilliancy of God .' This added “ impulse " , which in the homogeneous protoplasm causes fission , is as mystical to - day as that added " something " which will cause the mind of one man to admire a Wagnerian opera , and another a drawing by Beardsley . No sound is in the air , vibrations only pass . No sound is in the brain , molecular changes only result . Where then is sound ? It is a creation in the mind by the divine …
1907 · PDF PAGE 291
…hat light which moved on the face of the waters , before sun or moon or stars were created . We rank the great adepts with the madmen of God , whose miracles are mere imitations , whose powers are mere preten sions , and whose illumination is mere reflection ; but what is it then these great beings imitate , pretend to , or reflect ? Here lies the dark question which no denial can disprove , no assertion comprehend , and which work alone through the alembic of our hearts can reveal and accomplish . THE ADEPTS It is this something , this light w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 299
…ther side , she will behold the wonder and beauty she has woven , in the place of the loose threads and knots of the reverse .” That day God will be manifested . The secret theurgy of the ages is neither science , nor ethics , philosophy , nor religion ; for it is the science , the ethics , the philosophy , the religion of all times , and when manifest in the heart of the adept , the full blaze of a divine glory will descend , life will be van quished , and the soul set free . To attain to this freedom is the end of life ; in this respect both …