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Page 25 of 801912 · PDF PAGE 18
…l religions have agreed: for, if so, it seems possible that it may be worthy of really thorough consideration. It is certainly not to be found in dogma. Even so simple an idea as that of a supreme and eternal being is denied by a third of the human race. Legends of miracle are perhaps universal, but these, in the absence of demonstrative proof, are repugnant to common sense. But what of the origin of religions? How is it that unproved assertion has so frequently compelled the assent of all classes of man- kind? Is not this a miracle? There is, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 61
…hich is un- known to you and above these, while firmly based upon their equilibrium, giveth life. 2. In all systems of religion is to be found a system of Initiation, which may be defined as the process by which a man comes to learn that unknown Crown. 3. Though none can communicate either the knowledge or the power to achieve this, which we may call the Great Work, it is yet possible for initiates to guide others. 4. Every man must overcome his own obstacles, expose his own illusions. Yet others may assist him to do both, and they may enable h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 25
…y one first got the idea that it was a weakness and a nuisance. Perhaps it was because in the more natural practice of “devotion,” people found that their thoughts interfered. In any case calm and self-controlare to be preferred to restlessness. Darwin in his study presents a marked contrast with a monkey in a cage. Generallyspeaking, the larger and stronger and more highly developed any animal is, the less does it move about, and such movements as it does make are slow and purposeful. Compare the ceaseless activity of bacteria with the reasoned…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
… THE HOUSES; AND OF THE FRIENDSHIP AND ENMITY OF THE RULERS IN ASPECTS, ETC, By Essential Dignity is meant the strength of a figure when found in a particular House. A figure is therefore strongest in what is called its House; very strong in its Exaltation; strong in its Triplicity ; very weak in its Fall ; weakest of all in its Detriment. A figure is in its Fall when in a House opposite to that of its Exaltation; in its Detriment when opposite to its own House. The following list shows the Essential Dignities; that is to say, they follow the D…
1912 · PDF PAGE 64
… to look, so with practice the thoughts will become more numerous and more insistent. As soon as the body was accurately observed it was found to be terribly restless and painful; now that we ob- serve the mind it is seen to be more restless and painful still. (See 0722137627” opposite.) A similar curve might be plotted for the real and apparent painful- ness of Asana. Conscious of this fact, we begin to try to control it: “Not quite so many thoughts, please!” “Don’t think quite so fast, please!” “No more of that kind of thought, please!” It is…
1912 · PDF PAGE 9
…owley. . "The Sword of Song,” by A. Crowley. I I. 12. ”Time,” by A. Crowley. “ Eleusis,” by A, Crowley. [These four last items are to be found in his Collected Works] ”The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-melin the Mage.” The Tao Teh King and the Writings 01 Kwany Tzu) (Sacred Books of the East, Vols. XXXIX, XL. An examination in these books will be made. The Student is expected to show a thorough acquaintance with them, but not necessarily to understand them in any deeper sense. On passing the examination he may be admitted to the grade 01 Pro…
1912 · PDF PAGE 9
…owley. . "The Sword of Song,” by A. Crowley. I I. 12. ”Time,” by A. Crowley. “ Eleusis,” by A, Crowley. [These four last items are to be found in his Collected Works] ”The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-melin the Mage.” The Tao Teh King and the Writings 01 Kwany Tzu) (Sacred Books of the East, Vols. XXXIX, XL. An examination in these books will be made. The Student is expected to show a thorough acquaintance with them, but not necessarily to understand them in any deeper sense. On passing the examination he may be admitted to the grade 01 Pro…
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
…, Atlantis , Tir - nam - Og , Call it what name you will — where one escapes The ugliness and sordidness of life . In mathematics I have found a land Which jealousy and meanness cannot reach ; A land of ample sweep and vast expanse ; Lifeless and cold indeed , but beautiful With the calm beauty of the Buddhist 's heaven ." And then he spoke of strength , Of the keen sense of power in Rodin 's work Which furnished half the greatness of his art . And of the strength the mathematician had ; How with those subtle arms dx , dy He reached the hidden …
1954 · PDF PAGE 288
… of the "divine" intoxication of love, song, eloquence, or whatever else enthusiastic might possess him. Men seized by the afflatus were found to be capable of extraordinary exploits; hence the condition was admired and envied by the average clod. Also, imitated by the average crook!) For all that, I am going for once to yield to popular clamour, and use words in their popular sense. That seems to me, roughly this: Prediction is a forecast based on reason, prophecy one which claims the warrant of "magical" powers. You agree? Then we can get on.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 29
… Implacable, unshamed, without remorse, Would urge his further suit ; but so she strove That even the power of Zeus, made weak for love, Found its Jast limit, and, releasing her, Prayed for her grace, a raptured worshipper, Where but a moment earlier had he striven A sacrilegious robber. And all heaven Seemed open to his eyes as she looked down Into their love, half smiling, with a frown Coquetting with her forehead. Then a change, Angry and wonderful, began to range Over her cheeks ; she bitterly began : ‘“*T will not yield to thee—a mortal ma…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
… dead) I loosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I break the royal wand. Mortal, a plaything for a thousand fears, I found the earth; I found a lonely place To gaze for ever on the ocean’s face, Lamenting through the lamentable years ; Without a god, deprived of life and death, Sensible only to that sombre breath. Thus wait I on the spring-forgotten shore ; Looking with vain unweeping eyes, for aye Into the wedding of the sea and sky, (That do not wed, ay me !) for evermore Hopeless, forgetting even to aspire Unto that Wisdo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…e next few months, when, chancing to discuss the subject with some broken-down gambler or sporting-house tout --- I forget exactly --- I found that he would not "recognize" me! There was some trivial difference in one of the grips or some other totally meaningless formality. A measureless contempt for the whole mummery curled my lip. I squared the matter (as already related) by having myself initiated in Lodge Number 343 "Anglo- Saxon" in Paris. What that led to I have recounted elsewhere and now quote: I happened to know that the chaplain of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
…tisfied with what he had done — and to employ his powers to some better end. And, incidentally, since the divine Will is one, it will be found that
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…e, and can refuse nothing to the friend who writes to me. You have then seen my excellent disciple Desbarrolles ?” “Yes, sir, and I have found in him a very amiable and very learned man. I think both you and him worthy of the truth which has been lately revealed by astonishing miracles, and the positive revelations of the Archangel St. Michael.” “ Sir, you do us honour. Has then the good Desbarrolles astonished you by his science ?” “Oh, certainly he possesses in a very remarkable degree the secrets of cheiromancy; by merely inspecting my hand,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…e, and can refuse nothing to the friend who writes to me. You have then seen my excellent disciple Desbarrolles ?” “Yes, sir, and I have found in him a very amiable and very learned man. I think both you and him worthy of the truth which has been lately revealed by astonishing miracles, and the positive revelations of the Archangel St. Michael.” “ Sir, you do us honour. Has then the good Desbarrolles astonished you by his science ?” “Oh, certainly he possesses in a very remarkable degree the secrets of cheiromancy; by merely inspecting my hand,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…d this with the utmost minuteness of accuracy and obtained this figure. At my autopsy, said Dugues- clin, dramatically, this should be found engraved upon my heart. He drew a notebook from his pocket, and rapidly sketched the subjoined figure for the now interested Bevan. You will note that the figure has eight sides, and that twenty-seven crosses are disposed in groups of
1939 · PDF PAGE 59
…been devised to serve a dogmatic end. That was, however, necessary, and it was good magic too, at that, because the original will of the Founder was to produce a war engine as a counterblast to the Reformation. He was very wise to devise a plan, irrespective of its abstract merits as philosophy, which would most efficiently serve that single purpose. The only trouble has been that this purpose was not sufficiently cosmic in scope to resist internal forces. Having attained the higher planes by practice of these exercises, they found that the ori…
1907 · PDF PAGE 266
…umerable categories , that an incalculably vast system was produced . Merely by chance , chance in the truest sense of the term , we are found with gods , men , stars , plants , devils , colours , forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos : and with them , space and causality , the conditions limiting and involving them all .” Thus from the Hegelian abstraction of the non ens we have at last touched bottom , and have come down to the facts of real life . Empty space is the postulate of all metaphysics , but all absolute quantities finally mus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 167
… THE HOUSES; AND OF THE FRIENDSHIP AND ENMITY OF THE RULERS IN ASPECTS, ETC, By Essential Dignity is meant the strength of a figure when found in a particular House. A figure is therefore strongest in what is called its House; very strong in its Exaltation; strong in its Triplicity ; very weak in its Fall ; weakest of all in its Detriment. A figure is in its Fall when in a House opposite to that of its Exaltation; in its Detriment when opposite to its own House. The following list shows the Essential Dignities; that is to say, they follow the D…
1909 · PDF PAGE 167
… THE HOUSES; AND OF THE FRIENDSHIP AND ENMITY OF THE RULERS IN ASPECTS, ETC, By Essential Dignity is meant the strength of a figure when found in a particular House. A figure is therefore strongest in what is called its House; very strong in its Exaltation; strong in its Triplicity ; very weak in its Fall ; weakest of all in its Detriment. A figure is in its Fall when in a House opposite to that of its Exaltation; in its Detriment when opposite to its own House. The following list shows the Essential Dignities; that is to say, they follow the D…