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Page 30 of 791944 · PDF PAGE 53
… man, who was innocent, who was ultimately a madman, who destroyed his wife and children. It is a cognate symbol. Harpocrates is (in one sense) the symbol of the Dawn on the Nile, and of the physio‐ logical phenomenon which accompanies the act of waking. One sees, at the other end of the octave of thought, the connection of this symbol with the succession to the royal power de‐ scribed above. The symbol of Harpocrates itself tends to be purely philosophical. He is also the mystical absorption of the work of creation; the Hé final of Tetragramma…
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…ater gift to give him—and I have a gift that he has always had and I have never lost. THE CHILD. Are you an enchantress? You do not talk sense LAYLAH. You are the child of an enchanter. THE CHILD. My father burns enchanters alive when he catches them. LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a great concourse with- out. The men are returning. They ride slowly, as in peace. 93
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…ater gift to give him—and I have a gift that he has always had and I have never lost. THE CHILD. Are you an enchantress? You do not talk sense LAYLAH. You are the child of an enchanter. THE CHILD. My father burns enchanters alive when he catches them. LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a great concourse with- out. The men are returning. They ride slowly, as in peace. 93
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…HP TON IIENTE KAI EN THI STHAHI ü ASTHP TON ES ESTHXE. Repeat the Cross Qabalistic, as above, and end as thou didst begin. I. The secret sense of these words is to be sought in the numération thereof. — 327
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…ty would other wise have besmirched with her foul saliva . In “ Mes saline we however have , as the poet says “ leprous entanglements of sense " ; here is a magnificent pas sage heated with passion and not a little lust : Breast to great breast and thigh to thigh , We look , and strain , and laugh , and die . I see the head hovering above To swoop for cruelty or love ; I feel the swollen veins below The knotted throat , the ebb and flow Of blood , not milk , in breasts of fire ; Of deaths , not fluctuants , of desire ; Of molten lava that abide…
1907 · PDF PAGE 262
…od slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ; they speak of the crown only , which proves the existence of the King , and they say that this crown is Heaven .” If so of Kether , how much more so of the Ain So…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…a microscopist were to stand for Parliament on the platform “ Votes for Microbes” —never noted possible sources of error, fallen foul of sense and science, dropped into oblivion and deserved contempt. I want to combine the methods, to check the old empirical mysticism by the precision of modern science. Hashish at least gives proof of a new order of conscious- ness, and (it seems to me) it is this Avimdéd facie case that mystics have always needed to make out, and never have made out. But to-day I claim the hashish-phenomena as mental phenomena…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…a microscopist were to stand for Parliament on the platform “ Votes for Microbes” —never noted possible sources of error, fallen foul of sense and science, dropped into oblivion and deserved contempt. I want to combine the methods, to check the old empirical mysticism by the precision of modern science. Hashish at least gives proof of a new order of conscious- ness, and (it seems to me) it is this Avimdéd facie case that mystics have always needed to make out, and never have made out. But to-day I claim the hashish-phenomena as mental phenomena…
1911 · PDF PAGE 150
… suddenly into thy mortal frame, thou hadst fallen into madness or death. For the vision is not such that any may endure it. But now thy sense is dull, and the shew-stone but a stone. Therefore awake, and give secretly and apart the sign of the Mother, and call four times upon the name of CHAOS, that is the four-fold word that is equal to her seven-fold word. And then shalt thou purify thyself, and return into the World. So I did that which was commanded me, and returned. BISKRA. December 17, 1909. 9.30-11.30 a.m. THE Cry OF THE 2ND AETHYR, WHI…
1954 · PDF PAGE 527
…is is as it should be.) In Magick, on the contrary, one passes through the veil of the exterior world (which, as in Yoga, but in another sense, becomes 'unreal' by comparison as one passes beyond,) one creates a subtle body (instrument is a better term) called the Body of Light; this one develops and controls; it gains new powers as one progresses, usually by means of what is called 'initiation'; finally, one carries on almost one's whole life in this Body of Light, and achieves in its own way the mastery of the Universe. The first step in Yoga…
1919 · PDF PAGE 408
…hisattva, son of the Dhydnis. Such to the Portals are the golden keys. (Subsection I.) Charity and love are here used in their technical sense, Agape. “Love is the law, love under will.” Both Agape and Thelema (will) add to 93, which identifies them qabalistically. This love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness. The majority of people of the Christian Science, Theosophical, New Thought type, think that a lot of flabby thoughts, sending out streams of love in the Six Quarters, and so on, will help them. It won’t. Love is a pur…
1954 · PDF PAGE 501
… :. A:. professes a sound solution of the problem of conduct and would like to know if its programme can be justified in terms of Common Sense. As luck would have it, only a few weeks ago I was asked to 468
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
…rd ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I-do not feel myself inclined, The Advaitist In spite of my irreverent mind, position. So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams; For the first word in India here From Koromandl to Kashmir Says the same thing these Germans said : “Ekam Advaita!” one, not two! Thus East and West from A to Z…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…ote-book, and stop-watch. The Yogi is usually in practice just as vague a dreamer as the mystic] They keep one always balanced by common sense. One might go off on lines of pleasing illusion for years, until one was lost on the ”Astral Plane.” All this, observe, is very meaningless, very vague at the best. What is the Astral Plane? Is there such a thing? How do its phantoms differ from those of absinthe, reverie, and love, and so on? We may admit their unsubstantiality without denying their power; the phantoms of absinthe and love are potent en…
1919 · PDF PAGE 351
…sitory, the evanescent and the perishable. The words “desire nothing” should be interpreted posi- tively as well as negatively. The main sense of the rest of the verse is to advise the Disciple to work, and not to com- plain. 57. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance. Although the object of the Disciple is to transcend Law, he must work through Law to attain this end. It may be remarked that this treatise—and this comment for the most part—is written for disciples of certain grad…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
… the Charioteer of Our Lady Babalon, whose Cup or Graal he bears. Now this is an important formula. It is the First of the Formulæ, in a sense, for it is the formula of Renunciation. 1 2 It is also the Last ! This Cup is said to be full of the Blood of the Saints ; that is, every “sainC’ or magician must give the last drop of his life’s blood to tliat cup. It is the original price paid for magick power. And if by magick power we mean the true power, the assimilation of ail force with the Ultimate Light, the true Bridai of the Rosy Cross, then i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…, for it will no longer be so necessary. The Circle of the Magician will hâve been perfected by his habit of Magical work. In the truest sense of that Word, he will never step outside the Circle during his whole life. But the consécration, being the application of a positive force, can always be raised to a doser approximation to perfection. Complété success in banishing is soon attained; but there can be no completeness in the advance to holiness. I. The general conception is that the three active éléments co-operate to affect earth; but earth…
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…reliminary to the jumping about like a frog —1 had omitted this, as one is so obviously thefgerm of the other. The Hindus seem to lack a sense of proportion. When the Yogi, by turning his tongue back for one half— minute, has conquered old age, disease and death; then instead of having a good time he patiently (and rather pathetically, I think !) devotes his youthful
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
… some schoolboy poet repeatedly wrote, his rimes as poor as Edwin Arnold, his metre as erratic and as good as Francis Thompson, his good sense and frank indecency a match for Browning! “Can’t be helped; must be done— So...” Nay! ’tis a bad, bad rime. And only after the scourge that smites shall come the rod that consoles, if I may borrow a somewhat daring simile from Abdullah Haji of Shiraz and the twenty-third Psalm. Well, I would much prefer to spend my life at the rod ; it is wearisome and loathsome to be constantly flogging the tough hide o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 154
…ackl Trunks, portmanteaux, bags, boxes, and for the Lord’s sake pack some brains! Take the girl to Jericho or Johannesburg, and get some sense, and triplets, if you can! “ ”Twiddle so—Being! Twiddle st)—Form! Balance them, cheatinggrocerl Nation of shopkeepers] Twiddlel Twiddlel Twiddlel Isn’t the Balance in the Babe? Teach her to understand children !" The Brother paused to re-light his pipe, thrusting the bowl into the glowing carbon of the grate. “To understand children? It is hard. But we love children, sir." “And what the devil is the diff…