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Page 178 of 2031996 · PDF PAGE 109
…produced no conversions whatever, save among the lowest types of negro, who resemble the Anglo-Saxon in this possession of the “fear-of- God” and “Sin” psychopathies. Truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. Therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an ansesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. The craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. If you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as sa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 208
…appreciation of the Sporting Times /” Mr. Chesterton thinks it funny that I should call upon ‘‘Shu.” Has he forgotten that the Christian God may be most suitably invoked by the name ‘‘Yah"? I should be sorry if God were to mistake his religious enthusiasms for the derisive ribaldry of the London ‘‘gamin.” Similar remarks apply to ‘' EI” and other Hebrai-christian deities. This note is hardly intelligible without the review referred to. I therefore reprint the * Sacred Books. portion thereof which is germane to my matter from the Dazly News, Jun…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…the brightening Abysses of sea Reveal ye, the whitening Swords kindled of me. Come forth ! I invoke thee, O lightning, the flames of the Gods flung free ! THE LIGHTNING. The wand of Hermes, the caduceus wonder-working, Sweeps in mid-zether— Where we are lurking It finds us and gathers. By our mother the amber In her glorious chamber; By the flames that enwreathe her ; By the tombs of our fathers; Awake! let us fly, the compeller is nigh. Strike ! let us die! ORPHEUS., Ve powers volcanic, Cyclopean forces, Workers Titanic, I know your courses. B…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…On their own bad lives. Here whirls the grim wheel Where the dead soul strives Ever to climb To the iron nave, Find Space and Time, Or a God to save, Or a way o’er the wave. The Fate contrives That he never thrives. Revolving anon, The gleam is gone, And the shadowy smile
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…ng to go about the world in some such incognito. Now, then, conceive of this magical body as créative force, seeking manifestation; as a God, seeking incarnation. There are two ways by which this aim may be effected. The first method is to build up an appropriate body from its éléments. This is, generally speaking, a very hard thing to do, because the physical constitution of any material being with much power is, or at least should be, the outcome of âges of évolution. However, there is a lawful method of producing an homunculus which is taugh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
Chapter 1 A CHINESE GOD LONDON, in England, the capital city of the British Empire, is situated upon the banks of the Thames. It is not likely that these facts were unfamiliar to James Abbott McNeill Whistler, a Scottish gentleman born in America and resident in Paris but it is certain that he did not appreciate them. For he settled quietly down to discover a fact which no one had previously observed; namely, that it was very beautiful at night. The man was steeped in Highland fantasy, and he revealed London as Wrapt in a soft haze of mystic be…
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
THE GODS 465 Mohammed was in reality a "Master" or messenger of some such person , more or less as Aiwass describes himself as "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat ." (AL , I: 7) His name implies some such function ; for G.B.R. is Mercury between the Two Greater Lights, Sol and Luna . This seems to mean that he is something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel ; as he would appear to be from 777. (There now! That was my private fiend again- the Demon of Digression. Back to our Gods!) 777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the Good…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
… my tribute—a jolly good strong ’un— To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way32 God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for his pace, we bethought us Achilles could never catch up with that tortoise !” No flyer, but very “Who’s Griffiths ?”* No jackpot ! I straddle the blind, age ! At hymns I’m a moral ; In Sankey, your kettle may call me a black pot. Here’s diamond for coke, and pink pearl for pale coral. Though his…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
…ld Give me your lips and kiss me once! O wife, sighs ! Come back to life! Open your eyes ! Nay, let the wind but stir the silky hair, : (God’s lesser air, ‘I cannot leave you so, Eurydice. Not His full blossom of woman’s breath !) ! Come back to me! O wife, -Just in the triumph, in love’s utmost hour, Come back to life ! ) Life’s queenliest flower—
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…ther memories as it should and does do, that the mind of the devotee may be obsessed, so that he déclaré his particular Deity to be sole God and Lord. This error has been the foundation of ail dogmatic religions, and so the cause of more misery than ail other errors combined. The Philosophus is peculiarly liable to this because from the nature of the Method he cannot remain sceptical; he must for the time believe in his particular Deity. But let him (1) consider that this belief is only a weapon in his hands, and (2) affirm sufficiently that hi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…o entered into a certain Image, and thence gave answers unto those who did offer Sacrifices unto him, and did worship the Image as their God, etc. OBSERVATIONS. First, thou shalt know and observe the Moon’s Age for thy working. The best days be when the Moon Luna is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 days old, as Solomon saith; and no other days be profitable. The Seals of the 72 Kings are to be made in Metals. The Chief Kings’ in Sol (Gold); Marquises’ in Luna (Silver); Dukes’ in Venus (Copper); Prelacies’ in Jupiter (Tin); Knights’ in Saturn (Lead); P…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…st to introduce myself as Alain de Malé- troit, Sire de Malétroit, and Warden of the Marches under his Majesty King Charles— DENYS. Whom God preserve ! [ Waves his broken sword. ALAIN, What excellent sentiments, and what an unfortunate omen—dear, dear me! And I have the honour to offer you the hand— I presume you already possess the heart—of the Lady Blanche de Malétroit. DENYS. You—what ? ALAIN, Tut! Tut! The marriage, if you please, will take place in an hour. DENYS. [ Aszde.] Oh, he is mad after all! [Aloud.] What nightmare is this? ALAIN. Y…
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
…terest in his fortunes, Books III and IV. Book III did rather cheer me. But of course one knew all along that the Eruption was to be the God from the Machine. A great pity; why not another city and a less hackneyed catastrophe? But it’s as well done as possible within these limits. The translation might have been better done in one or two places—Bother! here’s Hedonia coming for lunch. What a wormy worm Ombricius was! D. Carr. PETER THE CRUEL. By EDWARD STORER. John Lane. This admirable story of a little-known monarch dresses once more the Midd…
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
…terest in his fortunes, Books III and IV. Book III did rather cheer me. But of course one knew all along that the Eruption was to be the God from the Machine. A great pity; why not another city and a less hackneyed catastrophe? But it’s as well done as possible within these limits. The translation might have been better done in one or two places—Bother! here’s Hedonia coming for lunch. What a wormy worm Ombricius was! D. Carr. PETER THE CRUEL. By EDWARD STORER. John Lane. This admirable story of a little-known monarch dresses once more the Midd…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
… to supply a sufficient quantity of the proper kind of material. One cannot make bricks without straw. With regard to invocations of the Gods, such considérations do not apply. The Gods are beyond most material conditions. It is necessarv to hll the heart and mïnd with the proper basis for manuestauon. The higher the nature of the God, the more true tins is. The Holy Guardian Angel has always the necessary hasis. His manifestation dépends solely on the readiness oî tue Aspirant, and ail magical ceremonies used in that invocation are merely inte…
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
…ch a case the desire to perform constraint and cursing may be the sign of the assimilation of the spirit of the devotee with that of his God, and so an advance to the Union with Him. 40. Concerning the value of this particular form of Union or Samadhi: — Ail Samadhi is defined as the ecstatic union of subject and object in consciousness, with the resuit that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. It would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of méditation. For example, the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…when it's done, I need the absolute relaxation of leisured luxury. Then what of the Work itself? If the Idea be truly new and important, God help it! The whole class of men affected jump on it with one accord, if haply they may crush it in the germ. Read a little of the History of Medicine! Any man who shows a sign of independent thought is watched. is thwarted. He persists and is threatened and bullied. He persists; every engine of oppression is set in motion against him. Then, something snaps; either they succeed in killing him (Ross, who def…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…bs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. Commentary: We are not to regard ourselves as base beings, without whose sphere is Light or “God.” Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a “Dark Star,” and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by “puri fying” them. This “purification” is really “simplification”; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is per…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…to Nuit, who is here the inevitable result of the whole Work, that act is waste, and breeds conflict within you, so that “the kingdom of God which is within you”1 2 is torn by civil war. To the beginner I would offer this programme: 1. Furnish your mind as completely as possible with the knowledge of how to inspect and to control it. 2. Train your body to obey your mind, and not to distract its attention. 3. Control your mind to devote itself wholly to discover your true Will.
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolér¬ able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man, cannot pray to God to cause them, for the Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves* But, as a Mystic, he knows that ail things are phantoms of One Thing, and that they may be withdrawn therein to reissue in other attire. He knows that ail things are in himself, and that he is All-One with the Ail. There is therefore no theoretical difficulty about converting the illusion of a clear sky into that of a tempest. O…