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Page 194 of 2251996 · PDF PAGE 68
Chapter I * Verse 52 69 One must fortify one’s body to the utmost, and protect it from every disaster, so that the substance of the talisman may be as per fect as possible. One must calm the mind, increasing its knowl edge, organizing its powers, resolving its tangles, so that it may truly apprehend the Silent Self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the Will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the Lordship of the thought which expresses the act. The Will must …
1996 · PDF PAGE 292
Works Cited 291 35 The Bible. Crowley notes that “The Hebrew and Greek Originals are of Qabalistic value. It contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites.” 36 Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. London, c. 1790- 93; facs. ed., London and New York: Oxford up, 1975. In Blake’s Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London and New York: Oxford up, 1974). Crowley noted that “the Writings of William O’Neill (Blake) [are] invaluable to all students.” 37 Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
… preliminary considération of the word which it replaces and from which it was developed: the word AUM. The word AUM is the sacred Hindu mantra which was the suprême hieroglyph of Truth, a compendium of the Sacred Knowledge. Many volumes hâve been written with regard to it j but, for our présent purpose, it will be necessary only to explain how it came to serve for the représentation of the principal philosophical tenets of the Rishis. of classifying observed facts. One is reminded of the Democracy, who, on being informed by the Minister of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 170
…n the table. [239] "It is from the private stock of the Duke of Argyll," returned Douglas. "And you, Mr. Butcher? I knew a Count Butcher many years ago. You are a relation?" Mr. Butcher had only the vaguest notion as to his ancestry. His mother had broken down under cross-examination. "Search me!" he replied, biting the end off his cigar, and spitting it out. "We Rosicrucians are out for the Hundred Years Club Dope, and the Long Green Stone; we should worry. We're short on ancestors in Illinois." "But these matters are important in magic," urge…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
… It is quite useless (except as a temporary expédient) to set up one class of ideas against another as being "more real”. The advance of man towaids God is not necessarily an advance towards truth. Ail philosophical Systems hâve crumbled. But each class of ideas possesses true relations within itself. It is possible, with Berkeley, 1 to deny the existence of water and of wood; but, for ail that, wood fioats on water. The Magician becomes identical with the imrnor- tal Osins, yet the Magician dies. In this dilemma the facts must be restated. One…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…ractise smelling assafoetida until one likes it ; but not arsine or hydrocyanic acid. Again, one might hâve a liaison with an ugly old woman until one beheld and loved the star which she is; it would be too dangerous to overcome the distaste for dishonesty by forcing oneself to pick pockets. Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they should be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less seifish by applying it to what it loathes; but thef…
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…hidden from me. Then was I shewn the Mystery of the Words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum of Love. So, when the time was ripe, appeared the Brethren of the Formula of Osiris, whose word is I A O; so that men worshipped Man, thinking him subject to Death, and his victory dependent upon Resurrection. Even so conceived they of the Sun as slain and reborn with every day, and every…
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…ousness, and thus create the illusion which the aspirant calls Sorrow, and the uninitiate, Evil. The sexual act, even to the grossest of mankind, is the agent which dissipates the fog of self for one ecstatic moment. It is the instinctive feeling that the physical spasm is symbolic of that mir acle of the Mass, by which the material wafer, composed of the passive elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the sub stance of the Body of God, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. It is this that has cau…
1899 · PDF PAGE 249
…, and never see the sun Lap all the mist with orange and red gold, row some lank windmill into iron shade, And stir the chill canal with manifold Lays of clear morning ; never grow afraid When he dips down beyond the far flat land, Know never more the day and night apart, . Know not where frost has laid his iron hand, Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ © We should like to give other…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…ivide Not the heart of thee now? Art thou cased in strong iron to mock the spells that all others avow? Art thou muffled or hidden In adamant brass? Is my music forbidden In Orcus to pass? Have I cursed thee and chidden? My flesh being grass, I curse not as yet, but command thee; the names that avail I amass. No sound ? no whisper? No answer to me? From dawn-star to Hesper I call upon thee! In the hour of vesper I change the key ! I cry on Apollo to aid, I lift up my lyre on the sea. Thou reaper of fear, Accurst of mankind, I charge thee to hea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…hin three months he has nearly doubled the revenue and halved the taxes. Your lordship has spent millions of yen; but is to-day a richer man than when your excellency went to sleep." “I will go and see this Kwaw,” said the Daimio. The servants then admitted that the Mikado in person had been waiting at the palace door for over three months, for the very purpose of begging permission to conduct him thither, but that he had been unwilling to disturb the sleep of the Godfather of his country. Impossible to describe the affecting scene when these t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…ed and thirteenth time, "and that means a death in the family. Then there's a letter about a journey; and there's something about a dark man connected with a large building. He is very tall, and I think there's a journey coming to you — something about a letter. Yes; nine and three's twelve, and one's thirteen; you'll certainly have thirteen presents." "I've only had twelve," complained Lisa, who was tired, bored, and peevish. "Oh, forget it! "snapped Lavinia King from the window, "you've got an hour to go, anyhow!" "I see something about a lar…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
… considered as possessed of an “Astral shape”, sensible to our subtle perceptions. This “astral shape” is to its material basis as our human character is to our physical appearance. We may imagine this astral shape: e.g. we may “see” a jar of opium as a soft seductive woman with a cruel smile, just as we see in the face of a cunning and dishonest man the features of some animal, such as a fox. 1. See Poincaré’s essay on the Nature of Space, as an idea invented by ourselves to measure the resuit of, and explain, our muscular movements. 248 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…tied up, labelled, and put away. It is now necessary to unpack it, and rearrange its contents. At least, the annoyance is like that of a man who has locked and strapped his bag for a journey, and then finds that he has forgotten his pyjamas. At most, it may revolutionise his ideas of the business, like an old bachelor with settled plans of life who meets a girl once too often. Any really first-class Astral Vision, even on low planes, should therefore both instruct the Seer, and préparé him for Initiation. Those failing to pass this test are to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…ice, is killed by his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would note that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author's design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. develops the plot and is little germane to our matter, save that we catch a glimpse of the unspeakably vile Cordelia, with no pity for her father’s serious condi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…n the shadow of light, Eternally young, A magical sight, Wandering among Day, twilight, and night, As a bride in her chamber that dreams many visions of varied delight. O how shall my lyre Divide thee, dispart Thy water and fire, Thy soul and thy heart, Thy hills that spring higher, Thy flowers that upstart, How quire thee, my limitless love, with a lewd and a limited art? A fortress, a sphere, An arrow of flame ; Let thy children appear At the sound of thy name! In my silence uprear The sweet guerdon of shame ! Be they choral to hymn thee, O m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
…SOLOMON THE KING Hegemon: And the great Angel Metatron (Angel of Good) answered and said: Iam the Angel of the Presence Divine. The Wise man gazeth upon the Material Universe and he beholdeth therein the luminous Image of the Creator. Not as yet canst thou bear the dazzling radiance of that Light! Return, for thou canst not pass by! Hierophant: Let the Neophyte now advance by the Straight and Narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left. Hiereus and Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte) : Iam come from betwee…
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
…SOLOMON THE KING Hegemon: And the great Angel Metatron (Angel of Good) answered and said: Iam the Angel of the Presence Divine. The Wise man gazeth upon the Material Universe and he beholdeth therein the luminous Image of the Creator. Not as yet canst thou bear the dazzling radiance of that Light! Return, for thou canst not pass by! Hierophant: Let the Neophyte now advance by the Straight and Narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left. Hiereus and Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte) : Iam come from betwee…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…y be likened to a charged leyden-jar, the nerve-paths radiating from it thrill betimes with its discharges, carrying its meaning through man’s body, and, through the A®ther, even to the infinitude of space. When it is functioning normally, its total discharge is prevented, so that never at any time can more than a fraction of its stored up energy be dissipated. ... And then Death comes; and in the moment of its coming, all that locked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.* Ananda Metteya then in a lengthy and lucid explanation …
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…y be likened to a charged leyden-jar, the nerve-paths radiating from it thrill betimes with its discharges, carrying its meaning through man’s body, and, through the A®ther, even to the infinitude of space. When it is functioning normally, its total discharge is prevented, so that never at any time can more than a fraction of its stored up energy be dissipated. ... And then Death comes; and in the moment of its coming, all that locked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.* Ananda Metteya then in a lengthy and lucid explanation …