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Page 187 of 2251910 · PDF PAGE 148
…y, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, and he dared not use Nibbana as such, though in truth the Beginning is just as incompre- hensible with or without an Atman. But, in spite of his having denied the latter, he had to acc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 131
…first time what life was really like. ‘Well, I call that a perfectly straight, decent, sensible programme. It’s the duty of every Englishman to learn as much of foreign affairs as he can without inter- fering with his business. That sort of knowledge will always come in useful in case of another European War. It was knowing that sort of thing that had put Feccles where he was in the Secret Service, the trusted confident of those mysterious intelligences that watch over the welfare of our beloved country. Thank you, that will conclude the evenin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 349
…y comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly." I mistook "Comment" for "Commentary-a word-by-word exposition of every verse (and much of it I loathed with all my heart!) including the Qabalistic interpretation, a task obviously endless. What then about AL, III: 40? This problem…
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…edom—contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every man. 32. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is other than a Right Interpretation of th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…face again ! [She spits at him and goes. Sir Percy (Aadf rises and falls back). Oh! oh! It is impossible. Lord Mar- quis, you are a good man. Tell me, it isa hideous dream. GLENSTRAE. No dream, my boy. You are the hundredth she has treated after this fashion. But cheer up now. There! There! Women are all the same. Eh, Maud? LADY GI.ENSTRAE. Who calls? What do you want? Leave me alone ! GLENSTRAE, Ah, nothing! Nothing, my dear. LADY GLENSTRAE. Pull down the blinds. GLENSTRAE. Certainly, certainly, my dear, I will ring. [Aings.
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…ohammed. Bones. You are obstinate about the necessity of scorning the objective results of illumination. But let us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, brother, this is fulsome. Bones. Ass! . . . He lives (it is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts pe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…adhi, the uniting of the Bride and the Lamb which is Heaven, the uniting of the Magus and the God which is Evocation, the uniting of the Man and his Holy Guardian Angel which is the seal upon the work of the Adeptus Minor, is symbolized by the geometrical unity of the circle and the square, the arithmetical unity of the 5 and the 6, and (for more universality of comprehension) the uniting of the Lingam and the Yoni, the Cross and the Rose, For as in earth-life the sexual ecstasy is the loss of self in the Beloved, the creation of a third consci…
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…adhi, the uniting of the Bride and the Lamb which is Heaven, the uniting of the Magus and the God which is Evocation, the uniting of the Man and his Holy Guardian Angel which is the seal upon the work of the Adeptus Minor, is symbolized by the geometrical unity of the circle and the square, the arithmetical unity of the 5 and the 6, and (for more universality of comprehension) the uniting of the Lingam and the Yoni, the Cross and the Rose, For as in earth-life the sexual ecstasy is the loss of self in the Beloved, the creation of a third consci…
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
…s mother stood for. So he became the Beast. And since Revelation counted the number of the Beast and found it to be 666, the number of a Man, he turned all his Qabalistic and philosophical skill in later years toward finding this number in any meaningful word or motto that came his way. Still later, after he had received Liber Legis and was forced, as it were, to obey its precepts, then it was that he began to sign all communications with that significant number. Several of the letters describe a method for studying the Qabalah which deserves m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX It is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to Brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of God, the net with which the fish of Prana is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the Atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of Brahman.* At the end of the “Shiva Sanhita” there are some twenty verses dealing wi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
THE EQUINOX It is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to Brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of God, the net with which the fish of Prana is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the Atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of Brahman.* At the end of the “Shiva Sanhita” there are some twenty verses dealing wi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 105
…-bye as if I were starting on a three years’ expedition to the South Pole. Then I caught up my hat, gloves, and cane, and found my young man at the door. The drink and the air of Paris had given him a sense of his own dignity. Instead of waiting humbly for me to get into the car, he was sitting there already; and though his greeting was still solemnly deferential, there was a little more of the ambassador about it. He had repressed the original impulse to touch his hat. I myself felt a curious sense of enjoyment of my own importance. At the sam…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
…ere taking from the very person with whom you were taking it openly. Another point is that privation always upsets the mental balance. A man who lacks food or money finds very queer thoughts come into his mind, and does things, not necessarily connected with his necessity, obsessing though that be, which are entirely out of keeping with his character.” I took a pencil, and wrote at once against the cross in column two “In order to make the most of Sister Athena’s illuminating discourse.” She laughed merrily. “You see, it’s Adam and Eve all over…
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A. The Rationalists have created man in their own image, as dull simpletons. They assume that the marvellous powers of applied mathematics shown in the Great Pyramid had no worthier aim than the perpetuation of a superstitious imbecility. Here is Leggy James translating the Chinese classics, Passage I. is of ‘so supreme an excellence that it compels even his respect. What does he do ? He flies in the face of the text and the tradition, assert…
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A. The Rationalists have created man in their own image, as dull simpletons. They assume that the marvellous powers of applied mathematics shown in the Great Pyramid had no worthier aim than the perpetuation of a superstitious imbecility. Here is Leggy James translating the Chinese classics, Passage I. is of ‘so supreme an excellence that it compels even his respect. What does he do ? He flies in the face of the text and the tradition, assert…
1922 · PDF PAGE 224
210 The Diary of a Drug Fiend always will be. How was it that she could speak of another woman who loved him without jealousy, and, as things were, without envy? It was true, perhaps, after all, that he had some huge hypnotic power, and held them helpless, filed away like so many letters. But Maisie was bubbling over with energy and joy; it was absurd to think of her as vampirised, as a victim. I asked her about it point-blank. “‘ My dear Lou,” she laughed, ‘‘ don’t be too utterly gaga! My Will is to sing, and Lala’s is to help him in his work—…
1922 · PDF PAGE 376
…us interests. It was this as much as anything else that had helped me to recover from the obsession of drugs. I had been kept back from emancipa- tion by my reaction against the atmosphere, in general, and my latent jealousy of Basil, in particular. Lou, not having been troubled by either of these, had slid out of her habit as insidiously, if I may use the word, as she had slid into it. But the culminating joy of my heart was the com- pleteness of the solution of all my problems. There was no possibility of a relapse, because the cause of my do…
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
…ing Cyril's magick to naught, that exorcist would be destroyed by the recoil of his own exorcism. The laws of force take no account of human prejudices about "good" or "evil"; if one is run over by a railway engine, it matters nothing, physically, whether one is trying to commit suicide or to save a child. The difference in the result lies wholly on a superior plane. It is one mark of the short-sightedness of the sorcerer that he is content with his own sorceries; and if he should think that he can escape the operation of that superior law whic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…rce to avail the childish heart that swells With aught that is. The golden prime is past— Aye! but a nobler gain is ours at last Who see man weary, but within our span The perfect promise of the overman. FAUNESSE. THE veil o’ th’ mist of the quiet wood is lifted to the seer’s gaze; He burns athwart the murky maze beyond into beatitude. A solemn rapture holds the faun: an holy joy sucks up the secr Within its rose-revolving sphere, the orient oval of the dawn. Light’s graven old cartouche is sealed upon the forest: groves are gray With filtered …
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
…Chariot of Life. He is Harpocrates, the Dwarf- Soul, the Spermatozoon of all Life, as one may phrase it. The Sun, etc., are the external manifestations or Vestures of this Soul, as a Man is the Garment of an actual Spermatozoon, the Tree sprung of that Seed, with power to multiply and to perpetuate that particular Nature, though without necessary consciousness of what is happening. In a deeper sense, the word “Death” is meaningless apart from the presentation of the Universe as conditioned by “Time.” But what is the meaning of Time? There is gr…