FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
3,449 matching pages
Page 23 of 1731904 · PDF PAGE 36
…nd his Seal is this, to be made and worn as a Lamen, etc. (36.) Sroxas, or Stotos.—The Thirty-sixth Spirit is Stolas, or Stolos. He is a Great and Powerful Prince, appearing in the Shape of a Mighty Raven at first before the Exorcist; but after he taketh the image of a Man. He teacheth the Art of Astronomy, and the Virtues of Herbs and Precious Stones. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, which is, etc. (37-) PHenEx.—The Thirty-seventh Spirit is Phenex (or Pheynix). He is a Great Marquis, and appeareth like the Bird Phoenix…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
… I find, Are but a mode of my own mind.) As far as normal reasoning goes, I must admit my concepts close Exactly where my worthy friend, Great Mansel, says they ought to end. But here’s the whole thing in a word : Olympus in a nutshell ! I Have a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true ! In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosohers agree ; Claim that the truth must so i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
THE LOOKING -GLASS 37 that a comic song would to a great oratorio . Why Jesus Wept " is a satiric farce, “ Rosa Mundi " a great love anthem , almost we might say a Wagnerian opera in rime, and comparable in many respects in its continuous though irregular symphony to the “ Lycidas " of Milton . Yet , nevertheless , “ Why Jesus Wept " is the more characteristic of the two , and certainly the most iconoclastic of any . In “ Orpheus , " Books I and II , we find a poetic regularity almost strictly adhered to , not so , how ever , in Book III , and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…r, whoever you may be, I feel your power and truth.’ “*T am Eliphaz Levi Zahed—men call me the Abbé Constant,’ returned the other. “©The great magician?’ “«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But magic somewhere there must be, and Eliphaz Levi was the most…
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…r, whoever you may be, I feel your power and truth.’ “*T am Eliphaz Levi Zahed—men call me the Abbé Constant,’ returned the other. “©The great magician?’ “«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But magic somewhere there must be, and Eliphaz Levi was the most…
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…y case. In short, like the hashish-drunkard in full blast, I am overwhelmed by the multitude of my own magical Images. I have become the great Magician—Mayan, the Maker of Illusion——the Lord of the Brethren of the Left—hand Path. I don’t “wear my iniquity as an aureole, deathless in Spiritual Evil," as Mr. Waite thinks; but it’s nearly as bad as that. There seems only one reply to this great question of the Hunchback (I like to symbolise the spirit of Questioning by “ב-"?? little crooked thing that asks questions) and that is to keep on affirmin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
…t one little spring. I am still one—pointed, at least in the lower sense that I have no desire or ambition but this of accomplishing the Great Work. Barren is this soul of mine, in these 3% years of drought (the 3% coils of the Kundalini are implied by this) and this Ekagrata is the little cloud like an hand (Yod, the Lingam of great Shiva). And, though I catch up my robe and run before the chariot of the King into Jezreel, it may be 9}
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…ce’s brother) whispered as he kissed her: “ Hush, tell nobody ever, that is Satan, and he is the Saviour of the World.” I We were a very great company, and I can’t tell you of all the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face out wards in a great circle ever closing in on the Devil on the throne. But whenever I saw a toad or a hat, or some horrid insect, my Fairy Prince always whispered: “It is the Saviour of the world,” and I saw that it was so. We did all the most beautiful wicked things you can imagine, and yet…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX himself from the communion of the tyrant who wished to impose faith by the sword. It is by charity that so great a crowd of saints have forced the world to accept them as expiation for the crimes com- mitted in the name of religion itself, and the scandals of the profaned sanctuary. It is by charity that St. Vincent de Paul and Fénelon compelled the admiration of even the most impious centuries, and quelled in advance the laughter of the children of Voltaire before the imposing dignity of their virtues. and a worse persecution was t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX himself from the communion of the tyrant who wished to impose faith by the sword. It is by charity that so great a crowd of saints have forced the world to accept them as expiation for the crimes com- mitted in the name of religion itself, and the scandals of the profaned sanctuary. It is by charity that St. Vincent de Paul and Fénelon compelled the admiration of even the most impious centuries, and quelled in advance the laughter of the children of Voltaire before the imposing dignity of their virtues. and a worse persecution was t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…le of the uninitiate, the Kether, the Atman, the First Cause, the God of the unenlightened, could he ever hope to draw man- kind to that great illimitable LVX, from which he had * The world of unrest and transiency, of birth and death. + The Great Attainment of Buddhism. Our terminology now degenerates into the disgusting vulgarity of the Pali dialect. } The Mahay4na Buddhists’ Boundless Light. Compared;with the canonical Nibbana it bears a very similar relation to it as the Ain Soph Aur, the Illimit- able Light, does to the Ain, the negatively…
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…le of the uninitiate, the Kether, the Atman, the First Cause, the God of the unenlightened, could he ever hope to draw man- kind to that great illimitable LVX, from which he had * The world of unrest and transiency, of birth and death. + The Great Attainment of Buddhism. Our terminology now degenerates into the disgusting vulgarity of the Pali dialect. } The Mahay4na Buddhists’ Boundless Light. Compared;with the canonical Nibbana it bears a very similar relation to it as the Ain Soph Aur, the Illimit- able Light, does to the Ain, the negatively…
1906 · PDF PAGE 10
emotions, to be brief, so great that man had no place therein. But there are moods, in which the heights are attained indirectly, and through man’s struggle with the elemental powers. In these poems you shall hear the laughter of the gods and of the devils; understand their terrors and ecstasies; live in their heavens and hells. But I not only heard and understood and lived; I sounded and imposed and begat: you must also do both, or the universe will still be a mystery to you as to the others.
1910 · PDF PAGE 219
209 LE GOUT DE LINFINI I adore Thee as I do the Vault of Night, (O Vase of Sadness ! Silence of great might !) And love Thee more that Thou escapest me Dazzling my dreams, ironic subtlety That still adds league to leagueleagues limitless That keep the azure abyss from my caress ! I grip Gods throat, I grapple Him to terms So, to a corpse, a choir of coffin-worms ! Ah beast ! I love thee, cruel and uncontrolled, Even to that ice that burns when fire is cold.
1910 · PDF PAGE 135
82 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. GOVINDA The sweat is on thy forehead like bright stars Amid the milk of the great galaxy. CHAU Thy body gapes like a valley of deodars Between two snowy hills in Tartary. ALEXANDER Ho ! Ho ! a million rats Herald the brat’s First yelp. A vast company of rats issue from her, and rush squeaking into the darkness. MIRIAM God be mine help ! Adrammelek exacts a death For every dance with Astoreth. GOVINDA Cling to the ass-god, quean ! Now while his loud obscene
1935 · PDF PAGE 2
…n led to join pseudo- occult orders which have used the Publications of the A A as text books etc., but that have no connection with The Great White Brotherhood known as A A Address all communications to W. T. Smith, Box 6574, Station C, Los Angeles, California
1919 · PDF PAGE 332
…ciple of Activity, and soon. To the advanced Student a simple ordinary thought, which seems little or nothing to the beginner, becomes a great and terrible fountain of iniquity, and the higher he goes, up toa certain point, the point of definitive victory, the more that is the case. The beginner can think, ‘it is ten o’clock,’ and dismiss the thought. To the mind of the adept this sentence will awaken all its possible correspondences, all the reflec- tions he has ever made on time, as also accidental sympa- thetics like Mr. Whistler’s essay; an…
1899 · PDF PAGE 2
“‘Let my Lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphear The spirit of Plato, to unfold What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; _ And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true content With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr'd Pall come sweeping by.” Il Penseroso.
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…ramid, therefore, four ordeals are required 01 him. So, bound and blinded, he stumbles forward, and passes through the wrath of the Four Great Princes of the Evil of the World, whose Terror is about him on every side, Yet since he has followed the voice of the Officer who has prepared him, in this part 01 the Ritual no longer merely Nature, the great Mother, but Neschamah (his aspiration) and the representative of Adonai, he may pass through all. Yea, in spite of the menace 01 the Hiereus, whose function is now that of his fear and of his courag…
1910 · PDF PAGE 55
…canum that pupil and master are one! He had become a 6°=5), and it now rested with him, and him alone, to climb yet another ridge of the Great Mountain and become a 7°=4°, an Exempt Adept in the Second Order, Master over the Ruach and King over the Seven Worlds. By destroying those who had usurped control of the Order of the Golden Dawn, he not only broke a link with the darken- ing past, but forged so mighty an one with the gleaming future, that soon he was destined to weld it to the all encirc- ling chain of the Great Brotherhood. The Golden …