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Page 170 of 1971911 · PDF PAGE 310
…age. Special care has been taken to eliminate the errors and mistakes with which the American edition abounds. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of Ursura N. GestEFELD. Price 3s. 6d. net. Corents.—Preface. Part I—How we Master our Fate. The Inventor and the Invention. The Ascension of Ideas. Living by Insight or by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. ‘The Origin of Evil. What is within the Ht Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. ‘The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought World, The Language of Suggestion,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…s that he has forgotten his pyjamas. At most, it may revolutionise his ideas of the business, like an old bachelor with settled plans of life who meets a girl once too often. Any really first-class Astral Vision, even on low planes, should therefore both instruct the Seer, and préparé him for Initiation. Those failing to pass this test are to be classed as “practice”. One ïast observation seems fit. We mnst not assert tiie “reality” or “objeclivity ’ of an Astral Being on no better evidence than the subjective sensation of its independent exist…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…at nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“‘ I pant for life: some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature.! Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send intime" (IL. 245-249). And in that last supreme hour of agony he claims Regan as his wife, as if by accident; it is not the passionate assertion of a thing doubt- ful, but the natural reference to a thing well known and indisputable. And in the mom…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
… Best gift of the giver, Thou surely art One ! As the moon on the river, Whose star-blossoms run, Kiss, tremble, and shiver, O mother, O life, O desire, my soul is a bird in thy bowers,! And roll into ultimate space, and are lost to man’s vision for ever.
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
… Divine nature which can be ‘ ae ‘The Altar Symbol DiacraM 12. obtained by their aid. The two construed in the ‘The Flaming Sword, mean: LIFE IN LIGHT.” 1° = 10° Ritual. “This grade is especially referred to the Element Earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the Great Watch-tower on the Terrestrial Tablet of the North. . . .” . You will observe that the Hermetic Cross, whichis also called Fylfat, . . is5 formed of seventeen squares taken from a square of twenty-five lesser squares. 263
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
… Divine nature which can be ‘ ae ‘The Altar Symbol DiacraM 12. obtained by their aid. The two construed in the ‘The Flaming Sword, mean: LIFE IN LIGHT.” 1° = 10° Ritual. “This grade is especially referred to the Element Earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the Great Watch-tower on the Terrestrial Tablet of the North. . . .” . You will observe that the Hermetic Cross, whichis also called Fylfat, . . is5 formed of seventeen squares taken from a square of twenty-five lesser squares. 263
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 331 matters, and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice, and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple: I wanted to see the man with whom she is living, who has not yet returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her; and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible God.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
…under ! Light of the levin ! I worship and wonder, O maker of Heaven! The night falls asunder; The darkness is riven ! Light, O eternal! Life, O diurnal ! Love, O withdrawn! Heart of my May, spring Far to Thy dawn ! God of the dayspring ! Sun on the lawn!
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
…s where cattle drink ; And, when they kiss, most discontentments shrink ! Even as the stars together sing (we hear) So sings the married life, a tuneful sphere. Hushand is he, and she is very dear. How truly beautiful it is to see Old age in perfect unanimity, Affections smooth, and buzzing like a bee. The sun sets, in conjunction with the moon. Death comes at last, a pleasure and a boon, And they arrive in heaven very soon. [ /mmense, Spontaneous, uncontrollable applause sweeps like a whirlwind through the court. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL (breaking …
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… of Nu. I raise a flashing flame with the lightnings of mine eye: ever rushing on in the splendour of the daily glorified Ra — giving my life to the treaders of Earth ! ” This thought gives the relation of God and Man from the divine point of view. The magician is only recalled to himself at the conclusion of the — 18 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…t be any other? "When are you likely to be in?" he was asking. She could imagine the faint hateful smile, as if she had known it all her life." Never!" she answered, [18]
1996 · PDF PAGE 15
…riumphantly from the evils of its past. A veritable “New Order” will be set up, bringing with it a general realization of what the “Good Life” means, and operating with a veritably “revolutionizing” effect beyond the most sanguine dreams of any one of those very heterogeneous groups of modern revolutionaries and reformers. This may not happen soon; the sceptic will say that, if it ever happens, it will be in the far future. 1 [Wilkinson refers to Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX (London: O.T.O., 1938; 2nd rev. ed. Pasadena: Church of Thelema …
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
…ildernesses, Mark the dead hours of night, No sleep so sweet as this is, Whose pulse of purple blisses Beats calm and cool and light. No life so fair with roses, No day so swift to close is ; No cushion so reposes Fair love so sweet and slight. MORS JANUA AMORIS. ‘* None but the dead can know the worth of love."—KELLY. IN the night my passion fancies That an incense vapour whirls, That a cloud of perfume trances With its dreamy vapour-curls All my soul, with whom their dances The one girl of morta! girls, The one girl whose wanton glances Softe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
…ouched you, Mrs.C. Forsooth, I do not lie there, For you are only not the thing you aren’t Through being neither. And since some fall in Life’s tremendous storm, And you are on your feet, Were it not better with a bosom warm And accents sweet ) To help to raise (and no man will upbraid you) Your sisters fallen far? ’Tis vain! God’s worst omission—Heart— has made you The thing you are ! THE LITTLE HALF-SOVEREIGN.! RED is the angry sunset, Murk is the even grey, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…command. This applies especially to the work of extending the Law in the world, wherein his proof is his own success, the witness of his Life to the Law that hath given him light in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to the Law that hath freed him by working its will to free ail men; and he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his fellows into freedom. By thus ordering his disposition, he will fit himself in the best possible manner for the task of understanding and mastering the divers t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… remain Seated, too strong to quell, exalted over pain ? -Aloof from time and chance, Fate, will and circumstance, Canst Thou not wither Life with one in- dignant glance? Thy name we know not; Thine Is the unbuilded shrine. We doubt us if Thou be among the powers divine ! MINOS. Bound by strict line and law, Fearful with might and awe, We hold the powerless power For many an agéd hour. We move not from our place. We ask nor give not grace, Nor change our lordly looks before a sup- pliant’s face. AL ACUS. Stern in all justice, we Assent aloud to…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
… as if to make oath that his every thought, Word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty — symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It 238 —
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…reat nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“I pant for life : some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature. 1 Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle ; for my w rit Is on the life Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send in time.” (ll. 245-249). And in that last supreme hour of agony he claims Regan as his wife, as if by accident ; it is not the passionate assertion of a thing doubt- ful, but the natural reference to a thing well known and indisputable. And in the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 164
…eritance. Among mankind she would be a stranger, a being without conscious race-experience, liable to every error that a partial view of life can make. Ill indeed for such a one who is without the wardenship of high initiates! It was for Cyril Grey to keep her unspotted from the world, to utilize those powers which she wielded in pre-eminence from her inheritance in the white sphere of Levanah! When Sister Clara came to summon Iliel, she found her still in swoon. They carried her to her room. At noon she recovered consciousness. Cyril Grey was …
1930 · PDF PAGE 134
…, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand, as an harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the glacier, and water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and…