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Page 195 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 41
…t work out a geometry — our own plane geometry, in fact — and it would perhaps get some extraordinary poetic conception of a Creator who manifested in his universe such marvellous and beautiful relations. It would get all sorts of fantastic theories of this Creator's power; what it would never get — until it produced a James Hinton — would be the idea that all this diversity was caused by seeing, disjointedly, different aspects of one single simple thing "I purposely took the easiest case. Suppose that instead of a cone we used an irregular bod…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…al instance in recent times; the blood of a Christian being required for some purpose, a young cock was procured and baptized into the Roman Catholic Church by a man who, being the son of an ordained Priest, was magicaliy an incarnation of the Being of that Priest, and was therefore congenitally possessed of the powers thereto appurtenant. This cock, “Peter Paul,” was consequently a baptized Christian for ail magical purposes. Order was then taken to imprison the bird; which done, the Magicians assuming respectively the characters of Herod, Her…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…e clamour of his own confusions. The “infinity” nonsense was born of his own inability to think clearly beyond his limits, just as a Bushman, confronted by numbers above five, can only call them “many”. The truth told by the Angel, immensely as it extends the horizon of the Adept, is perfectly definite and précisé. It does not deal in ambiguities and abstractions. It possesses form, and con¬ fesses law, in exactly the same way and degree as any other body of truth. It is to the truth of the material and intellectual spheres of man very much wha…
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…ot and the fire that is not quenched”;1 that is, “the secret serpent coiled about to spring” and “the flame that burns in every heart of man”— Hadit. In other words, we take up arms against falsehood; we cannot help it if that falsehood forces the King it has imprisoned to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of his oppressor, and to fear Truth as once Jehovah did the Serpent. 1 [Mark 9:44, paraphrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.] 2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has it. [This issue announ…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…rping at a question of mere verbal accuracy. [BONES, camcz'ence-smillm, protest: fiebly] Truth and falsehood in the British “ I’m a plain man, sir, and I like a plain answer to a plain question " sense are, on the lowest grounds, but details of Morality: Morality is but a branch of that Tree of Knowledge; and yet so far may the Adept fall from his Samadhic consciousness that he is found with atavistic ardour recalling his father’s last instructions ere he left home for school—“ and, Talbot, mind you always tell the truth, what ever comes of it I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…hang; but the other? It was Abdul Bey. "Come forward and shake hands," cried Simon Iff. "I have not been inactive, Cyril," added the old man. "I have had my eye on our young friend for a long time. I put my hand on him at the right moment. I showed him that spying was a dog's [334] game, with a dog's death at the end of it. He has renounced his errors, and he is now a Probationer of our Holy Order." The young men greeted each other, the Turk stammering out an appeal for pardon, the other laughing off his embarrassment. "But you are ill, Cyril!"…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
the correct order of events, as they are arranged in Nature ; and in no case is it safe for a man to neglect to master any single detail, however dreary and distasteful it may seem. It often does so, indeedj that only insists on the necessity of dealing with it. The dislike and contempt for it bear witness to a weakness and incom- pleteness in the nature which disowns it ; that particular gap in one’s defences may admit the enemy at the very turning-point of some battle. Worse, one were shamed for ever if one?s inferior should happen to ask for…
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
…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! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burn ing in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt …
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
TANNHAUSER 249 Great lord, true knight, and honest gentle- man, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace, In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet’s tourney. HERALD. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. LANDGRAVE. Ha! He is not here! WOLFRAM. Our sturdy lover will not be consoled For losing, as he phrases it, his friend. LANDGRAVE. Well, we forgive him the more readily Because of the occasion. One al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…e subject of Magick is an example of Mythopoeia in that particular form called Disease of Lan- miage. Thoth, God of Magick, was merely a man who invented writing, as his monuments déclaré clearly enough. “Gramarye”, Magick, is.only the Greek “Gramma”. So also the old name of a Magical Ritual, “Grimoire”, is merely a Grammar. It appeared marvellous to the vulgar that men should be able to communicate at a distance, and they began to attribute other powers, merely invented, to the people who were able to Write. The Wand is then nothing but the pe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…l of small-talk — she had made up her mind. Or, more accurately, she had become conscious of herself. She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused. He was engaged…
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
…en, A web of fairy ticken 1 To make a fairy rose: Pure as the seas that lave With phosphorescent wave The sombre architrave Of Castle No-man-knows. Pure as the dreams, undreamt (That men have in contempt, That wise men yearn to see), Of angel forms exempt Irom mockeries that tempt Who fly about the lea ; Proclaiming things unheard, Unknown to brightest bird, Things, whose unspoken word Ts utmost secrecy. 1 A closely woven fabric. So pure, so pale we lie, Like angels eye to eye, Like lovers lip to lip. So, the elect knight, I Keep vigil to the s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
… in Life’s tremendous storm, And you are on your feet, Were it not better with a bosom warm And accents sweet ) To help to raise (and no man will upbraid you) Your sisters fallen far? ’Tis vain! God’s worst omission—Heart— has made you The thing you are ! THE LITTLE HALF-SOVEREIGN.! RED is the angry sunset, Murk is the even grey, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lord, can an angel find Fifty, but fifty, righteous— Body—I say not Mind.” Sadly the angel turneth— ‘* Stay, ere thou fleest, stay ; Can…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
… in the garden, and the exposure of it to the sun. In the third, identity is attained by sympathy. It is very difficult for the ordinary man to lose himself completely in the subject of a play or of a novelj but for those who can do so, this method is unquestionably the best. Observe: each element in this cycle is of equal value. It is wrong to say triumphantly “Mors janua vitæ”, unless you add, with equal triumph, “Vita janua mortis”. To one who understands this chain of the Aeons from the point of view alike of the sorrowing Isis and of the t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…sarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with ail the energy, courage, and ability that he can command. This applies especially to the work of extending the Law in the world, wherein his proof is his own success, the witness of his Life to the Law that hath given him light in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to the Law that hath freed him by working its will to free ail men; and he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his fellows into freedom. By t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 166
…le grapes Fit to intoxicate my being! Yes! I would not give that sunny fruit of yours For twenty such frail flowers as Madeline. IT am a man—you mate me with a girl ! CORA. Stop! not a word! My blasphemy to hear, Yours to speak out—when you are told the truth ! ULRIC. What truth? sound. , The truth! hell If but it stand between us and our love ! This word hath first an ugly God curse it to His blackest
1905 · PDF PAGE 169
…uilt me up a house Of trust in you as being truth and love, Who are in truth all lies, all treachery ! You made me love you as an honest man! You watched this passion, this intolerable Desire, this flame of hell ; you fed it full, Sunned it and watered—O my brain will snap !— Only to blast it. Take your story back ;
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…Child of the earth and heaven, Our spirits thou hast riven With words we must admit, with power of song—whence given? Neither of God nor man, Thy song’s amazing span Hath caused strange joy among the woes Tartarean. RHADAMANTHUS. Never in the centuries Till godlike Heracles Burst the wild bonds, hath mortal found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer wrong. We know these words are just. not. Though thy song Were the sole …
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…ion. The sceptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols denies them any objective validity, since, in sO many contradictions, something must be false; while the mystic will rejoice equally that the self-same catholicity all-embracing -proves that very validity, since after all something must be true. Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…h the magician°listens to, or catches the reflection of, the god. The third part is air, the marriage of fire and water; the god and the man hâve become one; while the fourth part corresponds to earth, the condensa¬ tion 01 matenalization of those three highcr principles. With regard to the Hebrew formulae, it is doubtful whether inost magicians who use them hâve ever properly grasped the principles underlying the method of identity. No passage which împlies it occurs to mind, and the extant ntuais certainly give no hmt of such a conception, or…