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Page 172 of 1971930 · PDF PAGE 94
… of accurate transmission2 of the 1. The essence of this matter is that the Word A U IM, which expresses the course of Breath (spiritual life) from free utterance through controlled concentration to Silence, is transmuted by the création of the compound letter MTN to . replace M: that is, Silence is realised as passing into continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of “Love” under “Will” as shewn by MPN = 40 + 3 + 50 = 93 ArAIlH, 0EAHMA etc., and the whole word has the value of 100, Perfection Perfected, the Unity in completion, and équivale…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
… that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great mystic to get to the bottom of things without becoming defiled. I hope Mr. Watkins is a true Christian. V. BLN. THE PorcH. Vol. I, No. 3. ON THE GOOD, OR THE ONE. By PLOTINUS. We t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
… that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great mystic to get to the bottom of things without becoming defiled. I hope Mr. Watkins is a true Christian. V. BLN. THE PorcH. Vol. I, No. 3. ON THE GOOD, OR THE ONE. By PLOTINUS. We t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…h is Yod Hé, the Monogram of the Eternal, the Father one with the Mother, the Virgin Seed one with all-containing Space. He is therefore Life, and Love. But moreover his letter is Ayin, the Eye; he is Light, and his Zodiacal image is Capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is Liberty. (Note that the “Jéhovah” of the Hebrews is etymologically connected with these. The classical example of such antinomy, one which has led to such disastrous misunderstandings, is that between Nu and HAD,North and South, Jésus and John. The subject is too ab…
1954 · PDF PAGE 47
…nterrupted study, you may realize that you can never know it; as Confucius said about the Yi King: "If a few more years were added to my life, J would devote a hundred of them to the study of the Yi." If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: as I walked about , I made a point of attributing everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that doo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 101
…r mightiest in song, The dowered of Phoebus, great Oecager’s heir, Invokes that glory on the sacrifice That kindles all its slumber into life And vivid flame descending on the wheel And chariot of lightning, licking up | ‘The water of the loud-resounding sea Lustral, poured seven times upon the earth, And in one flash consuming wood and stone And the sweet savour of the sacrifice. ORPHEUS. But when the flame hath darted from the eye Of my divine existence, and hath left Nothing, where was the altar and the earth, The water and the incense and t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…he Mercurial “Virgin Word”, the Spermatozoon concealing its light under a cloke; and Mem is the amniotic fluid, the flood wherein is the Life-bearing Ark. See A. Crowley “The Ship”, Equinox I, X. 3. The letter Hé is the formula of Nuith, which makes possible the process described in the previous notes. But it is not permissible here to explain fully the exact matter or manner of this adjustment. I hâve preferred the exoteric attributions, which are sufficiently informative for the beginner. 25
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
…—let him break The golden image with the feet of clay !! Let him despise That earthen vessel which the potter marred 2 —and rise! XI. As life burns strong, the spirit’s flame grows dull ; The ruddy-cheeked sea-breezes shame its spark ; Wan rainy winds of autumn on the dark Leafless and purple moors, that rage and Tull With a damned soul’s despair, these leave their mark, Their brand of fire That burns the dross, that wings the heart to its desire. Vp de Daniel i. 2 Oriental symbol for the body. XII. No prostitution may be shunned by him Who wou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…een expanded into the four worlds corresponding to the four letters of the name nîPP > and each Sephira is supposed to contain a Tree of Life of its own. Thus we obtain four hundred Sephiroth instead of the original ten, and the Paths being capable of similar multiplications, or rather of subdivision, the number is still further extended. Of course this process might be indefinitely continued without destroying the original System. The Apologia for this System is that our purest eoncep- (i) It is not possible to give a full account of the twent…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
… work by the Magical Formula of the Aeon. They must accept the Book of the Law as the Word and the Letter of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life.9 They must acknow- ledge the Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as 1. This book is published in the Equinox Vol. III No. 2. 2. Liber 185 need not be quoted at length. It is needful only to say that the Aspirant is trained systematically and comprehensively in the various technical practices which form the basis of Our Work. One may become expert in any or ail of these without necessarily…
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…s hath Vanity to chaos hurled '{e mounts to wisdom’s palace, looks serene upon the sorrowing world. 1 Sanskrit, Amrita, the ‘' Elixir of Life” and food of the gods. 2 Sanskrit, Nirvana. See Childers’ Dictionary for etymological discussion, Pah The signification is too difficult a question to settle | ofthand in a note, Mighty is wisdom: as a man climbs high upon the hills ice-crowned, Surveys, aloof, the toiling folk far distant on the dusty ground. Among the sleepers vigilant, among the thoughtless eager-eyed The wise speeds on ; the racer so …
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…the crags themselves that I was happy. I demanded to be at grips with death in one way or another. The bourgeois ambition to get through life without unpleasantness seemed to me the lowest vileness and entirely in keeping with the moral attitude of the heavenly people in Paradise Lost. I was allowed to read Tennyson and Longfellow, but it is impossible to class them as poets. The emasculation of all the characters disgusted me beyond measure. Their very sins are suburban. {81} 1. The alleged antithesis between these two texts (I cannot perceive…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…being and form, when the consciousness-cloud was a mist Precurser of stupor and storm, when I and my shadow had kissed, And brought into life all the shapes that confused the clear space with their marks, Vain spectres whose vapour escapes, a whirlwind of ruinous sparks, No substance have any of these; I have dreamed them in sickness of lust, Delirium born of diseaseah, whence was the master, the must Imposed on the All?is it true, is it true, then, that something in me Is subject to fate? Are there two, are there two, after all, that can b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…more deeply than he had ever done, the Sorrow of the Universe. He saw how utterly incompatible are all our human ideals with the Laws of Life. He took her slowly and gently in his arms; and he kissed her. But Lisa did not respond; she understood that this was not the man whom she had loved: this was a man that she had never known, one whom she dared not love. A man set apart, an idea to adore! She knew herself unworthy, and she withdrew herself. "I go," she said, "to seek the Child. Hail and farewell!" "Hail and farewell!" The girl mounted unst…
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
…ot the word “too often profaned for us to profane it”; it burns inviolate in its sanctuary, being reborn immaculate with every breath of life. But by “Love” we mean a thing which the eye of the bourgeois hath not seen, nor his ear heard; neither hath his heart conceived it. We have
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…ng that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…ng that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
…. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, the weaker first, and after that the stronger. Zk—DE ADEPTIS R.C. ESCHATOLOGIA [193—An Eschatology of the R.C. Adepts] Consider now in this Light what shall come to the Adept, to him that hath aspired constantly and firmly to his Star, attun ing the Mind unto the Musick of its Will. In him, if his Mind be knit perfectly together in itsel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…y free in the two latter respects. It will look for a healthy stock, for parents who will, and can, give the child every chance [106] in life. You must remember that every soul is, from our point of view, a 'genius,' for its world is so incalculably greater than ours that one spark of its knowledge is enough to kindle a new epoch in mankind. "But heredity and environment usually manage to prevent any of this coming to light. No matter how full of whisky a flask may be, you will never make it drunk! "So we may perhaps conceive of some competitio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… love which grows by giving itself to the beloved, again and again, until its "I" is continuous with existence itself. "Whoso loveth his life shall lose it" is the corresponding scriptural phrase. So Douglas, who might at that moment have saved himself by resignation, was too blind to see the way — an acquired blindness resulting from repeated acts whose essence was the denial of the unity of himself with the rest of the universe. And so he [155] fought desperately against the assimilation of his "watcher." "It's mine, not yours!" he raged. To …