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Page 28 of 801912 · PDF PAGE 32
18 enabled to persist through the usual persecution, and founded a religion to which even to—day one man in every eight belongs. The history of Christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. Jesus Christ was brought up on the fables of the “ Old Testament,” and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to “Jehovah,” although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
…it establishes in the sublimest manner the great religious truths! Magic, the most calumniated of all, because the vulgar obstinately confound magic with the superstitious sorcery whose abominable practices we have denounced! It is only by magic that one can reply to the enigmatical questions of the Sphinx of Thebes, and find the solution of those problems of religious history which are sealed in the sometimes scandalous obscurities which are to be found in the stories of the Bible. 198
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
…it establishes in the sublimest manner the great religious truths! Magic, the most calumniated of all, because the vulgar obstinately confound magic with the superstitious sorcery whose abominable practices we have denounced! It is only by magic that one can reply to the enigmatical questions of the Sphinx of Thebes, and find the solution of those problems of religious history which are sealed in the sometimes scandalous obscurities which are to be found in the stories of the Bible. 198
1902 · PDF PAGE 18
…ut ' I ' incorporate in All." Above all, pray understand that I do not pose as a teacher. I am but an asker of questions, such as may be found confronting those who have indeed freed their minds from the conventional commonplaces of the platitudinous, but have not yet dared to uproot the mass of their convictions, and to examine the whole question of religion from its most funda- mental source in the consciousness of mankind. Such persons may find the reasoning of Tannhauser useful, if only to brace them to a more courageous attempt to understa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
… Adonai ; and that I got to " neighbourhood—concentration” is shewn by the fact that I several times forgot altogether about Adonai, and found myself saying the silly old Mantram.
1909 · PDF PAGE 113
… one would pronounce for the mystic theory.) One should add a curious omen. On sitting down for the great struggle (11.14) John St. John found a nail upon the floor, at his feet. Now a nail is Vau in Hebrew, and the Tarot Trump corresponding to Van is the Hierophant or Initiator—whereby is Ο. Μ. greatly comforted. So poor a thing hath he become! Even as a little child groping feebly for the breast of its mother, so gropeth Thy little child after Thee, O Thou Self—Glittering One ! He hath read through Days VIII. and IX. . . . He is too tired to u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…custody of Dr. Wynn Westcott, was essential to the carrying on of these frauds. (8) I was unable to comply with these orders until I had found a person competent to edit the enormous mass of papers. I showed my hand to some extent, how- ever, in various references to the Order in my books. And now the task is accomplished. (9) My defence against the accusation of having revealed secrets entrusted to me is then threefold. (a) Secrets cannot be revealed, or even com- municated from one person to another. (4) One is not bound by an oath taken to a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…custody of Dr. Wynn Westcott, was essential to the carrying on of these frauds. (8) I was unable to comply with these orders until I had found a person competent to edit the enormous mass of papers. I showed my hand to some extent, how- ever, in various references to the Order in my books. And now the task is accomplished. (9) My defence against the accusation of having revealed secrets entrusted to me is then threefold. (a) Secrets cannot be revealed, or even com- municated from one person to another. (4) One is not bound by an oath taken to a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
…d all without a glimmer of self-satisfaction. When the Books are opened and the deeds of men are known, who dare say that there shall be found aught to surpass these marvellous months which Fra. P. set to the Operation of the Sacred Magic, the obtaining of the Know- ledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ? We return to the Diary—— Oct. 2. (Fra. Ρ. has now retired into the Adytum of God- nourished Silence to some purposel We tran- scribe this day‘s entry; it is probably most important to us. The rest of the year's entries are nearly a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
…d all without a glimmer of self-satisfaction. When the Books are opened and the deeds of men are known, who dare say that there shall be found aught to surpass these marvellous months which Fra. P. set to the Operation of the Sacred Magic, the obtaining of the Know- ledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ? We return to the Diary—— Oct. 2. (Fra. Ρ. has now retired into the Adytum of God- nourished Silence to some purposel We tran- scribe this day‘s entry; it is probably most important to us. The rest of the year's entries are nearly a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 320
… let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who begrudge that man should hope, and the Pharisees of all the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 320
… let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who begrudge that man should hope, and the Pharisees of all the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 121
…also, perhaps, of Adonis and Attis on the one hand, and those of Hermes on the other, at that period when initi‐ ates all over the world found it necessary, owing to the growth of the Roman Empire and the opening up of means of communication, to replace conflicting Polytheisms by a synthetic Faith.” “To continue the identification, compare Christ’s descent into hell with the function of Hermes as guide of the dead. Also Hermes leading up Eurydice, and Christ raising up Jairus’ daughter. Christ is said to have risen on the third day, because it …
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…ach to him the absence of an ego, for the brutes have had more sense than ever to imagine there was one. So the tusker was usually to be found, stil] as a rock, in some secluded place, meditating on the Three Characteristics) And when Ganesha appeared in all his glory, he found him to his disgust quite free from elephanto- morphism. In fact, he quietly asked the God to leave him alone. ‘* Now he was still quite a young elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Ba…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
… led into error. For the nature of no man is simple thorn or simple grape : in the incalculable tale of his ancestors must inevitably be found, not only both these types, but a host of others. Further, in the complex chemical nature of the cerebral secretions lies the profound possibility of extraordinary divergence from the normal. So many, so fickle, are the combinations which con- stitute Cerebrin, Lethicin, and the rest ; so subtly is the thought dependent upon changes proximate or remote in the composition of the organism, that we must exp…
1961 · PDF PAGE 156
… of a digested Love? Yet, o my Son, this Constancy is not of Necessity a Stagnation. Nay, behold the Body of our Lady Nuith, therein are found twin Suns, that revolve constantly about each other. So also it may be in Love, that two Souls, meeting, discover each in the other such Wealth and Richness of Light and Love, and in one Phase of Life (or Incarnation) or even in many, they exhaust not that Treasure. Or will I say that such are not in their degree and quality thrice fortunate. But to persist in Dulness, in Satiety, and in mutual Irritatio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…es ; for the power of love rules all , and the god once again becomes in carnated in the form of a divine man .” So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other's arms . Their lips are wed To drink the breezes from the fountain - head Of vers ' breath .3 Then all her senses leap to the melodious song of Zeus , a divine lyric ; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses : O lamp of love ! The hissing spray shall jet thee with desire And foaming fire , And fire from thee shall move Her spirit to devour , And f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 10
…ey were foolish enough to favour their followers financially. Thus Mr. Giblets — let us call him — the third-best butcher in the village found (on the one hand) that while at church he was nobody at all, and in the chapel and elder, in the little meeting in the Squire’s morning-room he was no less
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…ce Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Rite. Brother Crowley, however, attended in order to protest against the illegalities. He further found a person claiming admission whose status he knew to be doubtful. The proceedings therefore began and ended with the following Speech: Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite, Although I rise to protest against the illegality of the present Convocation, it is not in order to quibble over the letter of our Constitution that I have le…
1913 · PDF PAGE 27
…ce Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Rite. Brother Crowley, however, attended in order to protest against the illegalities. He further found a person claiming admission whose status he knew to be doubtful. The proceedings therefore began and ended with the following speech: Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite, Although I rise to protest against the illegality of the present Convocation, it is not in order to quibble over the letter of our Constitution that I have le…