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Page 215 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 198
… tea to meet Mrs. M. After introduction, she left the room to make tea --- the White Magick and the Black were left face to face. On the mantelpiece stood a bronze head of Balzac, and P., taking it down, seated himself in a chair by the fire and looked at it. Presently a strange dreamy feeling seemed to come over him, and something velvet-soft and soothing and withal lecherous moved across {335} his hand. Suddenly looking up he saw that Mrs. M. had noiselessly quitted her seat and was bending over him; her hair was scattered in a mass of curls …
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
… light would gather round it ‘in the.coal:of.the evening, or in the misty glamour: of dawn, and turn.forth in. love and pity towards all mankind—nay, to the smallest grain of dust tossed on. the utmost storms of the Sahara! ‘¢ Blessed and more blessed! For one day came a holy Bhikkhu from the land of the “Peacock,? and would take up his abode in the hollow of their very tree. And little Perdu’ R Abu used to keep the mosquitoes away with the gossamer of his wings, so that the good man might be at peace. ‘‘Now the British Government abodein that …
1944 · PDF PAGE 56
…In the worship of Bacchus there was a representative of the god, and he was chosen for his quality as a young and virile, but effeminate man. In the course of the centuries, the wor‐ ship naturally became degraded; other ideas joined themselves to the original form; and, partly because of the orgiastic character of the ritual, the idea of the Fool took definite shape. Hence, he came to be represented with a Fool’s cap, evidently phallic, and clad in motley, which again recalls the coat of many colours worn by Jesus, and by Joseph. This symbolis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…d through funeral fling1. When Mr. Raven, stung to the quick, had shaken his fist at the major and yelled, "Brother, you're a sinful old man!" Mrs. Cameron "had always known there was something", and invented a ruined governess. But --- oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the major's retort, "Brother, have you no sin?" --- spoken with an accent of mildness which belied the purple of his face. In short, the meeting at Oban had split. Mr. Cameron had withdrawn from the Lord's supper!!! It was therefore absolutely necessary f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…cluding the oldest Greek religion in its best aspects. them, interesting and perhaps important in themselves, do not mean much to the layman. It will be well, nevertheless, to indicate some of the major phenomena. One soon obtains new conception of one's own mind. Till one has practised, one has no idea of the actual contents. The fact is that the uninitiate is aware only of the solutions of his mental equations; he is not conscious of the rough working. Further, he does not feel the actual impression made by each individual impact upon the min…
1929 · PDF PAGE 335
…ence of women. He held out a long while against the insidious pressure of his wife. It was perhaps only through the treachery of another man that mischief was finally made between us. But nothing can destroy the past, and the long years of our intimate friendship were indeed fertile. We saw each other nearly every day and worked together in perfect harmony. In "The Temple of Solomon the King" Fuller's style was already much improved, though the story of my life might have been set forth more simply. Though his tendency to burst out into ecstati…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
… the market. This is the card of “putting something away for a rainy day”. Its attribution is Sol in Virgo; it is the card of the husbandman; he can do little more than sow the seed, sit back, and wait for the harvest. There is nothing noble about this aspect of the card; like all the Eights, it represents an element of calculation, and gambling is securely profitable if one has adjusted the cagnotte properly. There is yet another point which complicates this card. The Eight of Disks represents the geomantic figure Populus, which is an easy‐goi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
… Shaker, or a camp-meeting homunculus, or a Chatauqua gurl, or a Kes- wick week lunatic, or an Evan Roberts revivalist, or even a common maniac, than a smug Evangelical banker’s clerk with a greasy wife and three gifted children—to be bank clerks after him ! Better be a flagellant, or one who dances as David danced before the Lord, than a bishop who is universally respected, even by the boys he used to baste when he was headmaster of a great English public school ! That is, if religion is your aim: if you are spiritually minded: if you interpre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 484
…k to emulate these efforts and meet with disappointment, let me warn him of two common factors of failure: 1. People of unfamiliar races manifest the astrological appearance of their ethnological branch and this masks that due to their nativity. Experience enables one to penetrate the superficial indication. 2. The skill required to judge this matter develops with surprising speed as soon as a certain point has been reached. It is best to proceed systematically by asking oneself, first of all, to what element the examinee belongs. It is then si…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
…stem. The tenth Sephira, which refers to Earth, is not shown on this figure. For this number represents the Nephesch, the animal soul of man, the crystallization of the mind, and the Daughter or Hé final of Tetragrammaton. In this edition very little attention has been paid to the immense, vast, overshadowing dogma of the Christian era. This has been variously represented as the doctrine of original sin, of the Fall, of the Atonement; part of this doctrine is given in the legends about the Lost Word, the Widow and the Widow’s son, the fallen, l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…teel core bullets, and a .577 Express, both double barrelled). As I stood, I realized for the first time the responsibility of the white man. I had to exhibit perfect aplomb. No sign of the bull! Presently, the trackers found the trail. My bullet having pierced his hoof, there was no blood. The only signs of his passage were bruised and broken twigs, and occasional footprints. We came up with him pretty soon. He was standing stock still, listening for his life, with his back turned to us. I was not thirty yards away and I aimed at the bull's ey…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…nes, P. . Chronicle. Edwards, Bryan History of the B ritish C olo- nies in the W. Indies. Elton, C . . . Or igins of English History. Erdmann . . . History of Philosophy, Vol. II. Froude . . . History of England. Fyffe, C. A. . . History of Modern Europe. Gardiner, S. R. . History of the C ivil War in England. Gibbon . . . Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Green, J.R. . . A History of the English People. Guizot . . . H istoire de la Civilisation. Hallam, H. . . State of Europe in the Middle Ages. Hugo, V. . . . Napoléon le Petit. Innes, Pro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 242
…he third chapter seemed to me gratuitously atrocious. My soul, infinitely sad at the universal sorrow, was passionately eager to raise humanity. And lo! the Magical Formula denounced pity as damnable, acclaimed war as admirable and in almost every other way was utterly repugnant to my ideas. I did not understand the fundamental principles of {403} the initiation of mankind; and (in my own case) I did not realize that Aiwass was not necessarily responsible for the character of his message any more than the newspaper for reporting an earthquake. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 252
…nt for my balaclava, heaving like the hump of a dying camel. The resulting wiggles would have driven Isidora Duncan to despair; the poor man was indeed acutely conscious that, anatomically, he had not been constructed with the main idea of escaping notice. However, after an hour and a half, we reached the top of the hill, three hundred feet above the house, without hearing that hideous scream-whistle of alarm by which (so I had been careful to explain) the haggis announces that he has detected the presence of an alien enemy. Breathlessly, we cr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
…ork with the fullest responsibility and in absolute freedom from all possibility of interferences. In the VIII°, the secret is once more manifested to him, more clearly than before; and he is instructed in how to train himself to use it by certain preliminary practices involving acquaintance with some of those subtler energies which have hitherto, for the most part, eluded the observation and control of profane science. In the IX°, which is never conferred upon anyone who has not already divined from previous indications the nature of the secre…
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…ociated by him with the idea of pain: much more so, then, God, Myst, You are bold enough now! Our philosophers think it not fitting that man should discuss the ways of the inscrutable, the eternal God. Scept. I have you tripping fairly at last! What do you mean by “ eternal”? You who have uprooted my ideas of time, answer me that? Myst. A woodcock to mine own springe, indeed. I am justly caught with mine own metaphysic. 1 The science of the Purpose of Things. Certain of : Scept. Throw metaphysic to the dogs! I'll none of it. I will resolve it t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 218
…e less drawn-out form of execution. "Well," he said, after scratching his head, "you can be expoased on a bnoorrrd along o' yer young 'ooman for a week." Not in vain had I been studying The Golden Bough, but I had no idea that these obscene forms of torture still lingered --- even in the Scottish Highlands. "Come, come," I said, "There must be a simpler and quicker way to get married than that." Surely, I said to myself, all that stuff about Gretna Green must have some basis in fact. He shook his head sorrowfully, a discomfortable which I check…
1929 · PDF PAGE 407
…t the conscious will but the true will. Success depends therefore, firstly, on making sure that one's powers are equal to any required demand; but, secondly, upon learning the kind of work for which they are really wanted. It is an excellent training, no doubt, to plug ahead perseveringly in the most discouraging conditions. Indeed the professional is better than the amateur mainly because he has had to struggle on day after day; but this is a question of early training. When one has come to the height of one's powers, one still has one's "days…
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts At the time of the French Renaissance of the eighteen‐fifties, a similar movement took place in England. Its interest centred in ancient religions, and their traditions of initiation and thaumaturgy. Learned societies, some secret or semi‐secret, were founded or revived. Among the members of one such group, the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Freemasonry, were three men: one, Dr. Wynn Westcott, a London coroner; a Dr. Woodford, and a Dr. Woodman. There is a lit‐ tle dispute as to which of these men went to the F…
1944 · PDF PAGE 25
… to represent the series Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, because the doctrine involved, which is extraordinarily complex and difficult, demands it. The Father is “Knight” because he is represented as riding on a horse. It may make it more clear to describe the two main systems, the Hebrew and the Pagan, as if they were (and had always been) con‐ crete and separate. The Hebrew system is straightforward and irreversible; it postulates Father and Mother from whose union issue Son and Daughter. There an end. It is only later philosophical speculatio…