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…Solomon, Abramelin, and other sages of repute. When a man has evoked and mastered such forces as Taphtatharath, Belial, Amaimon, and the great powers of the elements, then he may safely be per- ‘mitted to begin to try to stop thinking. For, needless to say, the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker’s thought.! In yet one other way is magic a capital training ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the eidola, and it is possible in this manner very largely to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…ader of men, who swayed thousands by his eloquence. He sincerely wished to follow in those mighty footsteps and so strove to imitate the great man as best he might. Accordingly, he aimed at being the most devoted follower of Jesus in the school. He was not hypocritical in any sense. All this strikes one as absolutely natural; what is extraordinary is the sequel. A letter dating from his early school life at Cambridge: Dear Papa & Mama, For my holiday work prize I have got a splendid knife, 2 blades, a saw, a screwdriver, a thing to pull out tho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 205
…ociety for the Propagation of Religious Truth... Stevenson, R. L. Thornton, Ethel- red, Rev. . Waite, A. E. Wolseley, Ld. History of the Great Re- bellion. Chronicle. History of the British Colo- « nies in the W. Indies. Origins of English History. History of Philosophy. Vol. Il. History of England. History of Modern Europe. History of the Civil War in England. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A History of the English People. Histoire de la Civilisation. State of Europe in the Middle Ages. Napoléon le Petit. Scotland inthe Middle Ages. His…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…cts every God to do his duty,’ he excitedly lunographed to Swarga.? But Ganesha was already on his way. ‘©The elephant-headed God was in great spirits. ‘ Never say die!’ he cried genially, on beholding the downcast appearance of his fellow-conspirator. ‘This’ll break the slate. There is no change in the Arupa- Brahma-Loka!’2 ‘Rupe me no rupes!’ howled the necromancer. ‘Get up, fool!’ roared the God. ‘I have got Perdu’ R Abu elected Maha Brahma.’ ‘Oh Lord, have you really?’ said the wizard, looking a little 1 The world of black magic. 2 Heaven. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…t your faith should be content, ii. 163 At noon she sailed for home, ii, 84 At Paris upon Dead Man's Day. iii. 102 ‘* At the hour of the great Initiation” ii. 231 Aum! I unfold the tinted robe, ili. 66 Aum! Let us meditate aright, ii. 177 Aum! Let us meditate aright, ii. 184 Ay! I would murder not my brother only, il, 104 Ay! Let him rise and answer, li. 159 Ay! The hour was at hand, ii. 231 Ay! There’salaw! For this recede, ili. 14 BEFORE the altar of Famine and Desire, i. 181 Before the darkness, earlier than being, i. 105 Behold a virgin to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…e would pass the house after dark. Folk got into the habit of going round through Strath Errick, a detour of several miles. There were a great many definite legends; but I made rather a point of refraining from making a collection. I was completely committed to rationalism and the occurrence of miracles was a nuisance. I should have like to deny the reality of the whole Abra-Melin business, but the phenomena were just as patent as the stones of the house. I lived the life of the ordinary Scottish laird in a dull mechanical way and drifted into …
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 231 XII. ‘*At the hour of the great Initiation,” continued the Buddha, in the midst of the Five Hundred Thousand Arahats, ‘‘the wicked Jehjaour had joined himself with Mara to prevent the discovery of the truth. And in Mara’s fall he fell. At that moment all the currents of his continued and concen- trated Hate recoiled upon him and he fell into the Abyss of Being. And in the Halls of Birth he was cast out into the Lowest Hell—he became a clergyman of the Church of England, further than he had ever been before from Tru…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…uide2: and beheld (after some lesser things) our Master as he sat by the Well with the Woman of Samaria. Now the five husbands were five great religions which had defiled the purity of the Virgin of the World: and "he whom thou now hast" was materialism (or modern thought). Other scenes also I saw in His Life: and behold I also was crucified! Now did I go backwards ion time even unto Berashith, the Beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. First the Abyss of the Water: on which I, even I, brooded amid other {192} 1. This incident w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…s", beginning with that of Fire. The {693} question arose: "Why does the instruction tell us to rise vertically in the astral body for a great distance before penetrating the symbol under examination?" I said, "It seems to me a mere superstition connected with the idea that heaven is above and hell beneath one." To clear up this point, we decided to enter the Watch Tower directly, without rising. Our visions, occupying three successive days, showed no abnormal features. But --- and here one cannot help feeling that Semper Paratus's faculty of m…
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…utho- rity of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology) that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical in- terpretation. ‘his mighty ‘ two-handed engine at the door’ of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically, or, as it is otherwise said, ‘ poeti- cally’ or ‘in a spiritual sense,’ the plainest words mean whatever a pious in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
… are several things that spring instantly into the mind. First and foremost is the wonderfully suggestive work, misnamed fiction, of our greatest novelist, H. G. Wells. This man, the John Bunyan of modern scientific thought, has repeatedly attacked the problem, or at least indicated the lines on which a successful research might be prosecuted, in many of his wonderful tales. He has (I say it not to rob you of the honour of your discoveries, but in compliment, and I can imagine none higher) put his finger on the very spot whence all research mus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…h was clearly won for me. He determined to avoid defeat by the simple process of refusing to make any further moves. I could have done a great deal with a brazier and a gimlet, but short of that there was no moving him; and his abstention prevented me from being proclaimed the winner. I published an analysis of the position, demonstrating that he was bound to lose and suggesting that he should either play it out or resign. But of course the result of my manoeuvres had simply been to drive him into blind fury and the situation was never settled.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
…olk brought him rice and onions and gramo- phones, it saw that it must not be. ‘‘And little Perdu’ R Abu heard them talk; and learnt the great secret of Imper- manence, and of Sorrow, and the mystery of Unsubstantiality. ‘And the Government evicted the Bhikkhu; and set guard, quite like the end of Genesis iii., and cut down the tree, and all the Nats perished. ‘‘Jehjaour heard and trembled. Perdu’ R Abu was only three years old. VIIL. ‘It really seemed as if fate was against him. Poor Jehjaour! In despair he cried to his partner, ‘O Ganesha, in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
… Dawn with Pranava. This, as I foresaw, retained the Dhyanic consciousness. The Disk grew golden; rose clear of all its clouds, flinging great fleecy cumuli of rose and gold, fiery with light, into the aethyr of space. Hollow it seemed and rayless as the Sun in Sagittarius, yet incomparably brighter: but rising clear of cloud, it began to revolve, to coruscate, to throw off streamers of jetted fire! (This from a hill-top I held, dark as of a dying world. Covered with black decayed wet peaty wood, a few pines stood stricken, {248} unutterably al…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…”"—Z. A. Waite, in the Introduction. Under the title “Your Forces and How to Use Them,” the Essays of Prentice Mulford have obtained the greatest popularity in America. THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING. A Further Selection from the Works of Prentice Mutrorp. Reprinted from the “White Cross Library.” With an Intro- duction by ARTHUR EpwarD Waite. ConTENTS.—Introduction. Force, and How to Get it. The Source of your Strength. About Economising our Forces. The Law of Marriage. Marriage and Resurrection. Your Two Memories. The Drawing Power of Mind. Consid…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…”"—Z. A. Waite, in the Introduction. Under the title “Your Forces and How to Use Them,” the Essays of Prentice Mulford have obtained the greatest popularity in America. THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING. A Further Selection from the Works of Prentice Mutrorp. Reprinted from the “White Cross Library.” With an Intro- duction by ARTHUR EpwarD Waite. ConTENTS.—Introduction. Force, and How to Get it. The Source of your Strength. About Economising our Forces. The Law of Marriage. Marriage and Resurrection. Your Two Memories. The Drawing Power of Mind. Consid…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…e whole, good.. The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . ‘The uninitiated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review. “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Equinox, and there is an in- troduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation.”—Times Literary Supplement. “Thereis a resemblance in much of Mis…
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…nd as the law of causa- tion seems suspended, and as their vividness is less than that of normal consciousness, and above all, as in the great majority of cases I can show a cause, dating from my waking hours, for the dream, I have four strong reasons (the first explanatory to some extent of my reasons for accepting the others) for concluding that the dream is fictitious. But what of the ‘‘ dreamless” state? To the dreamer his normal faculties and memo- ries arise at times, and are regarded as frag- mentary and absurd, even as the remembrance o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…incidence; I really wondered whether the most reasonable hypothesis is not that Aiwass, wanting to remind me that I was chosen to do the Great Work, picked out, on the one hand, Salama as the most unlikely prophet imaginable; on the other, the tale as one which I could not possibly dismiss as trivial. In fact, though I cannot remember making a record of the incident, and indeed probably took pains to avoid doing so as a rebuke to self-importance, it remains as vivid and distinct as almost anything else in my life. I can see the pass, I can almo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 408
…a little sleep until the mud dissolved and the roof became a sieve. The rest of the night was a shower-bath. In the morning there was no great sign of improvement. I had to kick the camel driver into action and chase the camels with my own fair feet. He had a million excuses for not going on, all on a level. "The camels would {650} catch cold" --- good from the man who had left them all night in the rain! "They would slip." "They would die." "They were too hungry." --- From the man who hadn't brought food for them! "They were tired" --- and so …