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Page 171 of 1971954 · PDF PAGE 127
…erred. Then there have been messages conveyed by natural objects, animate or inanimate. 2 Needless to say, the outstanding example in my life is the whole Plan of Campaign concerning The Book of the Law. But is Aiwaz a man (presumably a Persian or Assyrian) and a "Secret Chief," or is He an 'angel' in the sense that Gabriel is an angel? Is Ab-ul-Diz an Adept who can project himself into the aura of some woman with whom I happen to be living, although she has no previous experience of the kind, or any interest in such matters at all? Or is He a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 100
…these names, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. say !1 Tell us what they THESEUS. Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS. You speak more wisely when you float away Into pure dream, and talk of mystic things That no man born of woman understands, And therefore does not dare to contradict. JASON. He who speaks much and bitterly at last Lays himself open to retort. I thin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…This really cannot go on. I must beg you, sir, to allow me to go from your house. I came here by an ill chance enough—though it saved my life in sooth. ALAIN. And secured you a splendid marriage. DENYS. [sede.] Never, never again will I mix my drinks. [ALAIN szrveys DENYS from head to foot, emitting satisfied chuckles at on his hat with a flourish, DENys. Sir, if you are in your wits, I find you insolent: if not, I will not stand here parleying with a madman. ALAIN. I must apologise, no doubt, but the cir- cumstances are peculiar. Is it your cu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 34
…st asunder Not without bloodshed : Past the rule of might and the rule of lying, I'ree from gold’s illusion, and free to cherish Joys of life diviner than war and passion— Falsest of phantoms. Only now true love, like a sun of molten Glory, surging up from a sea of liquid Silver, golden, exquisite, overflowing, Soars into starland, Sphere on sphere unite in the chant of wonder; Star to star must add to the glowing chorus ; Sun and moon must mingle and speed the echo Flaming through heaven. Night and day divide, and the music strengthens, Gather…
1996 · PDF PAGE 149
…nature, and its issue in disaster, are proof of imprudence. Perhaps the other road would not have taken me to Cairo, to the climax of my life, to my true Will fulfilled in =44 Aiwaz and made Word in this Book. Perhaps it is lingering “lust of result” that whispers hideous lies to daunt me, that urges these plausible arguments to accuse me. It may be that my present extremity is the very condition required for the fulfilment of my Work.1 Who shall say what is power, what impotence? Who shall 1 An. xxi, © in ® [June-July 1925 e.v.]. It is now evi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 206
…sting, all is fusion in the spirits shadow-veil, Till the KnowledgeeLotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them, As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 206
…sting, all is fusion in the spirits shadow-veil, Till the KnowledgeeLotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them, As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 153
…t shall be MYSELF made from the highest ideals, the essence of my pains, refined and purified, freed from dross by the living fire? This life of Service must be lived till I am ‘selfless’ in all that I knew as myself; but all the time will not my ‘child’ be growing within me, composed of finer materials? And by complete union there- with . . . I cannot formulate any more now. This entry indicates a recognition of the “formulation of the negative in the ego” which shall eventually destroy it. Is it not written in Liber LXV “As an acid eats into …
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…range and subtle character ; and we overcome them by an energy and cunning of an order entirely alien to that which serves us in earthly life. In that Light, symbols are not conventions but realities, yet (on the contrary) the beings whom we encounter are only symbols of the realities of our own nature. Our operations in that Light are really the adventures of our own personified thoughts. The universe is a projection of ourse!ves; an image as unreal as that of our faces in a mirror, yet, like that face, the necessary form of expression thereof…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
upon her. She had lived a lifetime in that period; and in a sense she had most surely died and been reborn. She felt like a little child. She wanted to climb on to everybody's knee, and be hugged! She had regained at a single [100] stroke the infant's faith in human nature; she looked at the universe as simply as a great artist does. (For in him too lives and rejoices the Eternal Babe). But her greatest surprise was in her physical health and energy. She had passed through a fierce and furious day, a night of infernal torture; yet she was unacc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
…n the act.—A. C. § A catch word for the stomach, from J. M. Barrie's play ‘‘ Little Mary.” THE FIRST PRECEPT. This forbids the taking of life in any form.* What we have to note is the impossi- bility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either Buddha was a fool, or his com- mand was rhetorical, like those of Yahweh to Job, or of Tannhauser to himself— “Go! seek the stars and count them and explore! Go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea!” Let us consider what the words can mean. The ‘‘ Taking of Life’’ can only mean the re- ductio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…Sir Percy |” You, sir, what makes your honour here ! Sir Percy? Who then dares to face him? CARRUTHERS. Let go my bridle, girl, I save a life. MOLLY. You hunt Sir Percy Percivale ! CARRUTHERS. To save him. MOLLY. God save all honest men from knaves like you ! Stay, though, you are his friend? CARRUTHERS. His guardian. MOLLY. And I his promised wife. CARRUTHERS. Mad girl, be off ! MOLLY. Ay, strike me, coward ! CARRUTHERS (after thinking a moment), Then, come here, behind me! Quick, if you love him ! MOLLY. I will see him safe. What is this dang…
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
…d exit, ALAIN reaches to a tome on the table.) Now, Flaccus, let us spend this night together as we have spent so many. The crisis of my life—my brother’s trust, God rest his soul! [evosses himself and mutters silently in prayer|—shall not find Alain de Malétroit unready or disturbed. SCENE CLOSES. SCENE II.! A narrow dirty street in Paris, fifteenth century. Night pitch black. Passers-by with lanterns. First PASSER-BY stumbles into SECOND. SECOND PASSER-BY. Zounds, man! have a care with thy goings. FIRST PASSER-BY. Stand, or I strike. Who but …
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of thé Nile or the Euphrates, connectée! the South with life-withering heat? and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. Even in the legend of Hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. Capricornus is moreover the sign which the Sun enters when he reaches his extreme Southern déclination at the Winter Solstice, the season of the death of végétation, for the folk of the Northern hemisphere. This gave them a second cause for cursing the South. A third; th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…tense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not overbold ; quite powerless to destroy Her life’s long peace, the ten-year-walléd city. Why be too cruel, check such baby joy? She said “I think the poem very pretty.” RED POPPY.? I HAVE no heart to sing. What offering may I bring, Alice, to thee? My great love's lifted wing Weakens, unwearying, And droops with me, Seeing the sun-kindled hair Close in the face more fair, The sweet soul shining there For God to see. Surely some angel shed Flowers for th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…ON THE KING Hiereus: “The Sphinx of Egypt spake and said: ‘I am the synthesis of the Elemental Forces: I am also the symbol of man: I am Life: and I am Death: I am the Child of the Night of Time.’” Hierophant : «The priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘Thou canst nN not pass the gate of the Eastern Heaven : except thou canst tell me my name.’” Tablet Kerux, for Zelator: “Thou art Nu: oes P The Goddess of the Firmament of Air, Thou love art Harmakhis, Lord of the Eastern Sun.” das Martecty Hierophant : “ In what sign and symbol CH for…
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…ON THE KING Hiereus: “The Sphinx of Egypt spake and said: ‘I am the synthesis of the Elemental Forces: I am also the symbol of man: I am Life: and I am Death: I am the Child of the Night of Time.’” Hierophant : «The priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘Thou canst nN not pass the gate of the Eastern Heaven : except thou canst tell me my name.’” Tablet Kerux, for Zelator: “Thou art Nu: oes P The Goddess of the Firmament of Air, Thou love art Harmakhis, Lord of the Eastern Sun.” das Martecty Hierophant : “ In what sign and symbol CH for…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…ewd common sense of the normal illiterate peasant.) A large proportion of mankind to-day is composed of “soûls’ who are living the human life for the fîrst time. Note especially the incredible spread of congénital homosexuality and other sexual deficiencies in many forms. These are the people who hâve not understood, accepted, and used even the Formula of Osiris. Kin to them are the ‘once-born’ of William James, who are incapable of philosophy, magick, or even religion, but seek instinctively a refuge from the horror of contemplating Nature, wh…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…ind of work, concentration on which will unfit them for other tasks by depriving them of the elasticity which is the proper condition of life. 1 In Magick and méditation this principle applies with tremend- ous force. It is quite useless to teach people how to perform magical operations, when it may be that such operations, when thev hâve learned to do them, are not in accordance with their wills. What must be done is to drill the Aspirant in the hard routine of the éléments of the Royal Art. So far as mysticism is concerned, the technique is e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 57
58 The Law is for All common even of men in a far higher station of life and with a much better education. Since childhood he had suffered con tinually from an incurable form of Psoriasis. This kept him in a state of almost constant irritation, spoilt his sleep, and made him lament that he was “a leper.” In fact, the scales of the eruption were so plentiful that his sheets had to be cleaned every morning with a dustpan and brush! He could only obtain relief (before trying to sleep) by being rubbed with oil of wintergreen, which filled his whol…