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Page 164 of 1971938 · PDF PAGE 18
…e transcended by Truth. So each thing that is hath its root in Necessity; were the least of these lost, the whole Work should be marred. LIFE wells in the Heart of the Master; Death is but the Systole of that marvelous pulse. Faint are the phantoms of Illusion; these, seized on by that vivid stream, thrill and throb with the glow of his reality; he leaves no possible form inane or inert; in him do all partake the sacrament of birth to Truth. LIBERTY leaps in the Heart of the Master; for every man and every woman is a star. Each follows, free an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 31
…e the foggiest idea of what moves or motivates an initiate whose illumination has imposed an entirely new point of view on the world and life in general. The whole of letter 79 on "Progress" should be read in this connection. It is also interesting to compare some of the weird historical facts quoted in letter 48 and others regarding Adolf Hitler, Soror I.W.E., and The Book of the Law, with some of the fairy stories and fantasies spun in a relatively recent book entitled The Dawn of Magic (some editions have entitled it The Morning of the Magic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 270
…nts are barren unless they be regarded as the means rather than the end of spiritual progress; allowed to infiltrate every detail of the life, not only of the spirit, but of the senses. The Tao can never be known until it interprets the most trivial actions of every day routine. It is a fatal mistake to discriminate between the spiritual importance of meditation and playing golf. To do so is to create an internal conflict. "Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing, for thereby there cometh hurt." He who k…
1954 · PDF PAGE 456
…ome Air, cleanse ye and kindle the pure instruments, that Spirit may indwell, inform, inspire the whole, the One Continuous Sacrament of Life! We have considered this Morality from quite a number of
1922 · PDF PAGE 181
…rick, but that isn’t a delusion at all. I’ve seen more meanness and treachery since the night I met Cockie than I knew in the rest of my life. We seem to have got into a bad set somehow. And D.D.F. M
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…ssed to suprême power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, f reer life, with a broader outlook, on the worid. This is no small service rendered to humanity. And when we remember further that in another direction magic has paved the way for science, we are forced to admit that if the black art has done much evil, it has also been the source of much goodj that if it is the child of error, it has yet been the mother of freedom and truth.” Ibid. XIV
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
… wedge, and it is difficult to say whether it may not be driven home so far as to split asunder the Tree 01 Knowledge, if not the Tree of Life Another line of argument is the historical. We do not here refer to the alleged forgery of the Qabalah by Rabbi Moses ben Leon—was it not ?—but to the general position of the ethnologist that the Jews were an entirely barbarous race, incapable 01 any spiritual pursuit. That they were polytheists is clear from the very first verse of Genesis; that Adonai Melekh is identical with "Moloch" is known to every H…
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
… wedge, and it is difficult to say whether it may not be driven home so far as to split asunder the Tree 01 Knowledge, if not the Tree of Life Another line of argument is the historical. We do not here refer to the alleged forgery of the Qabalah by Rabbi Moses ben Leon—was it not ?—but to the general position of the ethnologist that the Jews were an entirely barbarous race, incapable 01 any spiritual pursuit. That they were polytheists is clear from the very first verse of Genesis; that Adonai Melekh is identical with "Moloch" is known to every H…
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
…t Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age of 21 in the Lodge of Integrity, No. 189, Manchester, on the 25th day of October, 1854, and after an interval of three months was duly Passed and Raised. The year after saw him occupying the Senior Warden’s Chair of the Lodge of Fidelity, No. 6231‘, and in 1857 he was elected Master of this Lodge. He still retained his membership of his Mother Lodge and served as Secretary in …
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
…ther Parts of his Will. And because the People are oft-times unlearned, not understanding Pleasure, let them be instructed in the Art of Life: to prepare Food pal atable and wholesome, each to his own Taste, to make Clothes according to Fancy, with Variety of Individuality, and to practice the manifold Crafts of Love. These Things being first secured, thou mayst afterward lead them into the Heav ens of Poesy and Tale, of Music, Painting, and Sculpture, and into the Lore of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all Knowledge. Thence let …
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
… any actual memories as such.1 II • « • * 1 * , . . Unless one has a groundwork of this sort to start with, one must get back to one’s life as best one can by the methods above indicated. 1. Long since writing the above, the publication of the biography of Eliphas Levi by M. Paul Chacornat has confirmed the hypothesis in innumerable striking ways. 53
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…y of the éléments. The doctrines of Evolution hâve brought the alchemical and monistic theory of matter into line with our conception of life ; the collapse of the wall between the animal and vegetable kingdoms has shaken that which divided them from the minerai. But even though the advanced chemist might admit the possibi- lity of transmuting lead into gold, he could not conceive of that I. See R. K. Duncan, “The New Knowledge”, for a popularisation of recent results. Aleister Crowley held this doctrine in his teens at a period when it was the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
…n ter into a great conflict. I need peace." Fortunately you save yourself by adding: "Real peace, that is living and not stagnant ." All life is conflict. Every breath that you draw represents a victory in the struggle of the whole Universe. You can't have peace without perfect mastery of circumstance; and I take it that this is what you mean by "living, not stagnant." But it is of the first consequence for you to summon up the resolution to stamp on this sea of swirling thoughts by an act of will; you must say: "Peace be still." The moment you…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
…hou sittest remote and alone, unprofane, with due silence endowed ! I call thee by Nature, My mother and friend ! By every creature ! By life and its end! By love, the true teacher, My chanting I send, Invoking thy stature immense, the terrible form of a fiend !
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…t Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age of 21 in the Lodge of Integrity, No. 189, Manchester, on the 25th day of October, 1854, and after an interval of three months was duly Passed and Raised. The year after saw him occupying the Senior Warden’s Chair of the Lodge of Fidelity, No. 623+, and in 1857 he was elected Master of this Lodge. He still retained his membership of his Mother Lodge and served as Secretary in 1…
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…t Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age of 21 in the Lodge of Integrity, No. 189, Manchester, on the 25th day of October, 1854, and after an interval of three months was duly Passed and Raised. The year after saw him occupying the Senior Warden’s Chair of the Lodge of Fidelity, No. 623+, and in 1857 he was elected Master of this Lodge. He still retained his membership of his Mother Lodge and served as Secretary in 1…
1922 · PDF PAGE 295
…ening ; but I couldn’t ‘ help comparing it with the same sort of thing in honey- moon days. The sparkle had gone out of the champagne of life.
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
…kept the tit-bit to the last. It is absolutely essential to begin a magical diary, and keep it up daily. You begin by an account of your life, going back even before your birth to your ancestry. In conformity with the practice which you may perhaps choose to adopt later, given in Liber Thisharb sub figura CMXIII, paragraphs 27-38, Magick, pp. 420-422, you must find an answer to the question: "How did I come to be in this place at this time, engaged in this particular work?" As you will see from the book, this will start you on the discovery of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 247
…. VENUS. Nay, I have loved thee! Fresh pleasure hourly filled the crystal cup. Shalt thou find wine so comely and so keen, So fresh with life to fill each aching vein With new electric fervour? Will she be My equal? She is mortal and a child. Her arms are frail and white. Her lily cheeks Could never take thy kiss. shock, Repel. I scorn to say her love were less Than mine: I tell thee that she could not love Thee even at all as thou wouldst understand. Thy love would TANNHAUSER. So certain art thou? Let me go to her, Try, and come back ! VENUS. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 331
… that the Consciousness in this Projection is not quite so strong as the consciousness when concentrated in the natural body in ordinary life. ‘The return taketh place by a reversal of this process; and, save to persons whose Nephesch and physical body are exceptionally strong and healthy, the whole operation of “ skrying” and travelling in the Spirit Vision is, of course, fatiguing. Also there is another mode of Astral Projection, which can be used by the more practised and advanced Adept. This consisteth in forming first a Sphere from his own…