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Page 160 of 1971996 · PDF PAGE 55
…rs, which only in rare cases are other than simple, pure, and refined. More, sex itself ceases to play Principal Boy in the Pantomime of Life. Other interests resume their proper proportions. We may now inquire why the Book is at pains to admit as to love “when” and “where” we will. Few people, surely, have been seriously worried by restrictions of time and place. One can only think of lovers who live with fearsome families or in inhospitable lodgings, on a rainy night, buffeted from one police-bullied hotel to another. Perhaps this permission …
1996 · PDF PAGE 202
…Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity.
1922 · PDF PAGE 82
…ter,” he said, “‘ you can’t take H. like you can C., and when you mix your drinks there’s the devil to pay. It’s like everything else in life; you’ve got to find out your limit. It’s very dangerous to move about when you're working H. or M., and it’s almost certain disaster to eat.” I must admit I felt an awful fool. After all, I had studied medicine pretty seriously; and this was the second time that a layman had read me the Riot Act. But Lou nodded cheerfully enough. The brandy had brought back the colour in her cheeks. “ Yes,’’ she said, ‘‘ …
1954 · PDF PAGE 508
…. Consider the Athanasian Creed itself! This dilemma, consciously or sub-consciously, is well rooted in the minds of everybody who takes Life, in anyone of its forms , seriously. He feels the touch of the rapier, however shrewdly or cautiously wielded. The salute itself is more than enough ; he feels already the thrust to his vitals. To every man and woman that has not seen Sex as it is, faced it, mastered it- you will find elsewhere in these letters sufficient on this matter-it is his secret guilt. Imagine, then, how at any reference however r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…quented by my Uncle Tom on Streatham Common, prepared, so to speak, to wallow in it. It was one of the most bitter disappointments of my life! I could not detect anything which satisfied my ideas of damnation. For a year or two after my father's death my mother did not seem to settle down; and during the holidays we either stayed with Bishop or wandered in hotels and hydros. I think she was afraid of bringing me up {58} in London; but when my uncle moved to Streatham she compromised by taking a house in Polwarth Road. I hated it, because there …
1929 · PDF PAGE 362
…ng satisfied with the unknown city which I had chosen as my goal with no reason beyond my personal whim. This I made our march symbolize life. There were other analogies. We had to endure every kind of hardship heartily and to take our fun where we found it without being dainty. We learnt to enjoy every incident, to find something to love in every strange face, to admire even the dreariest wilderness of sunburnt scrub. We knew that nothing really mattered so long as we got to Madrid. The world went on very well without us and its fortunes were …
1912 · PDF PAGE 360
…; also— rZ\g A—B A—H A—D R-A 8="J5, Love, and 207 ="), Light; 8 x 207 = 18, which is equivalent to m, Living; further, 297 = 23 x9 = rn, Life: hence, Licht ; Liebe : Leben. Again, 418 = AN +N, =21 + 397, qv. DF and 678=6+74+8=21. 2x +2x5+4=32. The Five different letters represent Amoun : Thoth: Isis: Horus : Osiris. They (A+B+R+H + D) add to 212 (q.v.). Finally, & is the Crown, 9 the Wand, the Cup, 14 the Sword, 5 the R.C. See Equinox, V and VII, for further details. from we get TAIQ Serpent: the letter Teth my Sodom and Gomorrah F/9) + DID 420…
1912 · PDF PAGE 360
…; also— rZ\g A—B A—H A—D R-A 8="J5, Love, and 207 ="), Light; 8 x 207 = 18, which is equivalent to m, Living; further, 297 = 23 x9 = rn, Life: hence, Licht ; Liebe : Leben. Again, 418 = AN +N, =21 + 397, qv. DF and 678=6+74+8=21. 2x +2x5+4=32. The Five different letters represent Amoun : Thoth: Isis: Horus : Osiris. They (A+B+R+H + D) add to 212 (q.v.). Finally, & is the Crown, 9 the Wand, the Cup, 14 the Sword, 5 the R.C. See Equinox, V and VII, for further details. from we get TAIQ Serpent: the letter Teth my Sodom and Gomorrah F/9) + DID 420…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…n, I.A.O., and Abrahadabra. An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line drawn on the Tree of Life (Coptic attributions) in a certain manner.1 2 With ail such words it is of the utmost importance that they should never be spoken until the suprême moment, and even then they should burst from the magician almost despite himself — so great should be his réluctance 3 to utter them. In fact, they should be the utterance of the God in him at the first onset of the divine possession. So uttered, they cannot f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
… that the White School of Magick can justify its past, redeem its present, and assure its future, by guaranteeing to every human being a life of Liberty and of Love. Such, then, are the words of Gerard Aumont. I should not like to endorse every phrase; but the whole exposition is so masterly in its terse, tense vigour, and so unrivalled by any other document at my disposal, that I thought it best to let you have it in its own original form, with only those few alterations which lapse of time has made necessary. Love is the law, love under will.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 396
…rtion of their energy to the seer by spontaneous action without appreciable means. But here is where your question arises-what is their "life" like? In the visions, they never do anything but "go through the motions" appropriate to their nature and to the character of the vision. Are we to conclude that the whole set of impressions is no more than symbolic? Is it all a part of oneself , like a daydream, but a daydream intensified and made "real" because its crucial incidents turn out to be true, as must always occur during the testing of the ge…
1929 · PDF PAGE 309
… myself to a really first-class dinner. But all I could get was high-tea --- they had never heard the name of wine! Of all the loveless, lifeless lands that writhe beneath the wrath of God, commend me to Canada! (I understand that the eastern cities, having known French culture, are comparatively habitable. Not having been there I cannot say.) I hustled on to Baffalo to see Niagara. Here I first struck the American newspaper reporter in full bloom, in his native haunts. Before I had been half an hour in my Hotel I was tackled by a half a dozen …
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…e never hoped to hear. A philosopher may attain appréhension of tremendous truths, the solution of problems that had baffled him ail his life. Conformably with this doctrine, we read of illuminations experienced by simple-minded men, such as a workman who “saw God” and likened Him to “a quantity of little pears”. Again, we know that ecstasy, impinging upon unbalanced minds, inflames the idolised idea, and produces fanatical faith fierce even to frenzy, with intolérance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to effect the des…
1954 · PDF PAGE 110
…so much after all, in 3. This passage appears to be a direct hint at the Formula of the IXo O.T.O., and the preparation of the Elixir of life .
1954 · PDF PAGE 383
…travel , by which I do not mean globe-trotting; and privacy, less attainable every year as the Meddlesome Matties invade every corner of life. But this is by the way; the text , tenor and thesis of the illuminated and illuminating discourse is the above Epigram, which is not merely one of the extravagant absurdities for which I am justly infamous. It is the Pearl of Great Price. Observe that , formally it is a generalization of the principle of the old injunction "to buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without haggling." I want you to realize …
1954 · PDF PAGE 401
368 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS teaches, refers not so much to the Native as to the period of life. There is, however, a certain meagre harvest to be gained from my experience. I should like to tell you what happened to such a man. A resident of Johannesburg and singularly gifted with the power of getting physical results to take place as a result of Magical experiments, this man was as strongly attracted to Geomancy as I was repelled, and I do not know that it would be fair for me to claim that I had been of any special use to him, though he was alwa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…or the rest. Train them to doubt-and to dare! Then, somehow, as large a number of the most promising rebels should be selected to lead a life of luxury and leisure. Let every country, by dint of honouring its old traditions, be as different as possible from every other. Restore the "Grand Tour," or rather, the roving Englishman of the Nineteenth Century. Entrust them with the secrets of discipline, of authority, of power. Hardship and danger in full measure; and responsibility. A great deal of such material will be as disgustingly wasted as it …
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
…hee, O dew! The Come forth! ITinvoke thee, O rainbow ! thou maiden must hear and obey. maid of the myriad eyes ! THE DEw. | THE RaINBow. Life trembling on leaves, In multiple measure Sunrise shed in tears, The flowers of us fold Love's arrow that cleaves The scarlet and azure The veil of the years, And olive and gold,
1922 · PDF PAGE 232
… in the war. But I don’t think so at all. It says in a book that you have to get rid of every one if you're going to start the spiritual life. I expect my spiritual guide put it into their minds to go, but I’m very doubtful about Cockie. He’s not ready for any high development. Men are always revoltingly gross. Think how they are even about love. I must say this for Cockie, he’s all right about that. The very flower of purity—a perfect knight ! Yet we went through a period of a very evil character. No doubt we had to be purged of all our baser …
1954 · PDF PAGE 149
…ems of the stars, but only by the stars. And he says to me, quite disconnectedly: The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men. And I ask him: Why does he tell me that? And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what d…