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Page 18 of 841922 · PDF PAGE 318
…nd don’t get in my way, because I’m going to be a very busy man. In fact, it’s rather lucky that I’ve acquired the habit of starting for three years’ trips around the world at three minutes notice.” ‘It was half an hour before tea was ready. Lou and I sat on the sofa, shaken and sore by what we had
1922 · PDF PAGE 174
…iary of a Drug Fiend if one were not certain of being able to stop in an instant when the peril were perceived. We could descend perhaps three thousand feet in ten minutes where people without that training would have had to go down step by step on the rope, and perhaps found themselves benighted in a hurricane in consequence. “But the best of it was this: I was in command of a Himalayan expedition some years ago; and the coolies were afraid to traverse a snow slope which overhung a terrific cliff. I called on them to watch me, flung myself on …
1996 · PDF PAGE 46
…ption is to be found in my book bearing that title, Liber 888} 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other!
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
THE EQUINOX These last three are merely aids to general judgment. If the judge be good the figure is good, and vice-versa. The Reconciler= I + XV. To find the part of Fortune @ (ready money or cash belonging to Querent), add points of the figures I-XII, divide by 12, and remainder shows figure. Here 1+II+...+ XII = 74 points =6 x 12+2, .. @ falls with ;:; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and correc…
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
PENTECOST 25 Still you’re young yet, scarce forty—we’ll hope at three score You’ll be more of a singer, and less of a whore. Each to his trade ! live out your life ! Fondle your child, and buss your wife ! Trust not, fear not, street straight and strong ! Don’t worry, but just get along. I used to envy all my Balti coolies21 In an inverse kind of religious hysteria, Though every one a perfect fool is, To judge by philosophic criteria, My Lord Archbishop. The name of Winchester, Harrow, or Eton22 makes them not two inches stir. 125 They know not…
1905 · PDF PAGE 261
…and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The solid! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages say : Unite that to the-Sphinx, and all is done, Completion of the Magnum Opus. TANNHAUSER. No! Each new dimension lands me farther yet In the m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 79
… Israel died away. Amid the lowing cattle The Holy Mother lay , While at her breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine . Three magicians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean , The God of stars and seas , And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary 's maiden face . That star of resurrection Still stands above the night ; Its portent of perfection Shall bring us all to light ; And by the peace of Mary 's prayers Our rapture stands , exceeding theirs .
1944 · PDF PAGE 58
…rpents, a symbol which is echoed and fortified by the twin infants em‐ bracing on the middle spiral. Above them hangs the benediction of three flowers in one. Fawn‐ ing upon him is the tiger; and beneath his feet in the Nile with its lotus stems crouches the crocodile. Resuming all his many forms and many‐coloured images in the centre of the figure, the focus of the microcosm is the radiant sun. The whole picture is a glyph of the creative light.
1913 · PDF PAGE 198
F . W. Stokoe . *THREE SONGS TO FIDELIO . F you will meet me where the moon 1 Is quiet on the moorland reaches , Or in the shade of dappled glade Beneath the haunted beeches If you will wait, О faery boy , I will not linger. So wave your hand from Faery Land And beckon with your finger . “ Awake ! Awake! ” I hear you cry . And now your reedy pipes are shrill Far , far away , beyond the day , Beyond the Faery Hill . But wait , but wait , О faery boy , I come by height and hollow . For now I hear your music clear Cry : “ Follow ! Follow ! Follow …
1909 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX These last three are merely aids to general judgment. If the judge be good the figure is good, and vice-versa. The Reconciler= I + XV. To find the part of Fortune @ (ready money or cash belonging to Querent), add points of the figures I-XII, divide by 12, and remainder shows figure. Here 1+II+...+ XII = 74 points =6 x 12+2, .. @ falls with ;:; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and correc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX These last three are merely aids to general judgment. If the judge be good the figure is good, and vice-versa. The Reconciler= I + XV. To find the part of Fortune @ (ready money or cash belonging to Querent), add points of the figures I-XII, divide by 12, and remainder shows figure. Here 1+II+...+ XII = 74 points =6 x 12+2, .. @ falls with ;:; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and correc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…utiful as the Bandhuk flower. In the space between the two eyebrows is the seed of Shakti, brilliant as tens of millions of moons. These three seeds should be kept secret.t These three Mantras can only be learnt from a Guru, and are not given in the above book. By repeating them a various number of times certain results happen. Such as: after eighteen lacs, the body will rise from the ground and remain suspended in the air; after an hundred lacs, “the great yogi is absorbed in the Para-Brahman{ BHAKTA YOGA. Union by love. In Bhakta Yoga the asp…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…utiful as the Bandhuk flower. In the space between the two eyebrows is the seed of Shakti, brilliant as tens of millions of moons. These three seeds should be kept secret.t These three Mantras can only be learnt from a Guru, and are not given in the above book. By repeating them a various number of times certain results happen. Such as: after eighteen lacs, the body will rise from the ground and remain suspended in the air; after an hundred lacs, “the great yogi is absorbed in the Para-Brahman{ BHAKTA YOGA. Union by love. In Bhakta Yoga the asp…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
… Messiah if I am not caught up’ into the Seventh Heaven, and unconscious of material things? The world, the flesh, and the Devil. One in three and three in one. This evil trinity must be abolished. It knows that ; and that’s why it tries to interrupt me
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…im to his peace. My re-appearance restored harmony. The * The substance of his remarks, and subsequent adven- tures are detailed in my “ Three Screams at Mid- night.”—ED.
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
70 1902 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS “LISTEN to the Jataka!” said the Buddha. And all they gave ear. “Long ago, when King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares,1 it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weaver named Suraj Ju 2 and his wife Chandi. 3 And in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu. 4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
THE EQUINOX mind, being so full of other things, seems to refuse to compose itself. Nearly always I was too tired to do two (let alone three) meditations; and the weari- ness of the morrow was another hostile factor. Let me hope that my return here (Mexico City) will work wonders. Three days after this entry on a certain Wednesday evening we find a very extraordinary mental experiment recorded in P.’s diary. D. A. made to P. the following suggestion for a meditation practice. 1. Imagine that I am standing before you in my climbing clothes. 2, W…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
THE EQUINOX mind, being so full of other things, seems to refuse to compose itself. Nearly always I was too tired to do two (let alone three) meditations; and the weari- ness of the morrow was another hostile factor. Let me hope that my return here (Mexico City) will work wonders. Three days after this entry on a certain Wednesday evening we find a very extraordinary mental experiment recorded in P.’s diary. D. A. made to P. the following suggestion for a meditation practice. 1. Imagine that I am standing before you in my climbing clothes. 2, W…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
… brows Like to a Scythian how are bent. The king accepted him to bear His cup of wine, and was content. Let Al Qahar their praises sing: Three souls, one love, one element. Note.—This poem is very much taboo in Persia, as it is supposed to be little better than a pamphlet in favour of Christianity. The later work of Al Qahar, and especially his masterpiece, the Bagh-i-muattar, are, however, if not quite above suspicion, so full of positive piety of the Sufi sort that even the orthodox tolerate what the mystic and the ribald silently or noisily …
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…re- monial Magic, as practised to-day in the Secret Houses of Adepts. Rosa Mundi. 16s. Rosa Inferni. 16s, Rosa Coeli. 16s, Each of these three contain a lithograph from a water-colour of Auguste Rodin. Gargoyles. 35. 6d. This book contains Mr. Crowley’s finest lyrics. Konx om Pax. Ios. The most remarkable treatise on the mystic path ever written. ** Yours alsois the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion thatis to be.” “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret 124