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Page 34 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 273
…ust as no number of lines is enough to produce the smallest plane, as a cube is capable of containing an infinite number of squares, so, far from there being no room for heaven, there is absolutely nothing but room! Yet of course the nature of that space is forever incomprehensible, nay inconceivable, by any being of a lower dimension . Only when we have succeeded in uniting our Conscious (three-dimensional) with our Unconscious (four-dimensional) Self can we expect even a symbolic conception of how things go on "in them furrin parts." Speculat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 403
…a digression. As I indicated above, what you want to know is to be found in the official instruction on the subject in The Equinox . Now far be it from me to cast any doubt on any official instruction, but I cannot help saying that in this particular instance it does not give very full details, and I think you would be well advised to investigate the whole subject afresh, basing your enquiry on the general principles of the science. All systems of divinations which have any claim to be reasonable are based upon a map of the universe, or at leas…
1909 · PDF PAGE 31
…he dark sphere. But that is clearly a fatigue-effect from having worked so hard. Oh Lord, how long? The Mantra still ripples on. I am so far from the Path that I have a real good mind to get Maryt to let me perform the Black Mass on her 31 midnight. I would 29
1909 · PDF PAGE 119
…; the Chittam is moving slowly. The waiters all hurry him—what a contrast to last night l Proofs read through again. John St. John feels far from well. A stroll down the Boul’ Mich’ and avisit to M—’s studio improve matters a good deal. The cure continued. No worry about the Work, but an effort to put it altogether out of the mind. A cafe creme, forty minutes at the Academic Marcelle —a gruelling bout without the gloves—and J St. Jr is at the Luxembourg to look at the pretty pictures. The proof of the pudding, observes the most mystic of discou…
1912 · PDF PAGE 42
…sition would be easier to master than the one he has selected. Once you begin to change about you are lost. Perhaps the reward is not so far distant: it will happen one day that the pain is suddenly forgotten, the fact of the presence of the body is forgotten, and one will realize that during the whole of one’s previous life the body was always on the borderland of con-
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
… ; Better to pass where sand and sulphur burn , And days are hazed with heat , and nights are dim With some malarial poison . Better lie Far and forgotten on some desert isle Where I may watch the silent ships go by , And let them share my burden for awhile . Let me pass out beyond the city gate Where I may wander by the water still , And see the faint few stars immaculate Watch their own beauty in its depth , and chill Their own desire within its icy stream . Let me move on with vacant eyes , as one Lost in the labyrinth of some ill dream , Mo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 116
…een to organize the isolated adepts of the White School of Magick, and this movement was totally unconnected with religion, except in so far as it lent its influence to the reformers of the Christian church. Its appeal was not at all to the people. It merely offered to open up relations with, and communicate certain practical secrets of wisdom to, isolated men of science throughout Europe. This movement is generally known by the name of Rosicrucianism. The word arouses all sorts of regrettable correspondences; but the adepts of the Society have…
1913 · PDF PAGE 86
…iculty with our thoughts. The grossness and stupidity oi simple wipressio7is cloud the water; emotions trouble it; perceptions are still far from the perfect purity of truth; they cause re- ^ " If ye confound the space -marks, saying: They are one, or saying: They are many . . . then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit. . . . This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister." These are the words of NUIT, Our Lady of the Stars, of whom Binah is but the troubled reflection.
1909 · PDF PAGE 116
…me (7.35) take the position of the Hanged Man and invoke Adonai. Probably sleep returned shortly. Not a good night, though dreamless, so far as memory serves. The rain comes wearily down, not chasing the dryness, but soddening the streets. The rain of autumn, not the rain of spring! So is it in this soul, Lord Adonai. The thought of Thee is heavy and uneasy, flabby and loose, like an old fat woman stupid-drunk in her slum; which was as a young maiden in a field of lilies, arrow-straight, sun- strong, moon-pure, a form all litheness and eagerness,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…ings lose poetic flow Soon after thirty years or so : Professionising modern men Thenceforth admire what pleased them then (I am writing far from books and quote the author of Ionica from treacherous memory ). In the hey - day of the Elizabethan drama in the year that gave birth to Hamlet , middle - aged men were no less positive than they are to - day concerning poetry , that the worst and worst Times still succeed the former . But if our eyes refuse to acknowledge the brilliance of the flame , they must at least recognise the ardour and numbe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 115
108 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC THE DREAMING. DEATH! My beauty in thy deep pure love Anchors its homage far above All lights of heaven. The stars awake ; The very stars bend down to take From its fresh fragrance for the sake Of their own cloud-compelling peace. On earth there lies a silver fleece Of new-fallen snow, secure from sun, In alleys, leafy every one This year already with the spring, The breeze blows freshly, thrushes sing, And all the woods are burgeoning With quick new buds ; across the snow The scent of violets to and fro Wafts…
1899 · PDF PAGE 213
…ire with the frosty crown Of thousand-twinkling stars, whose hoary crests Burn where light touches them, with diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pierces the marrow, since it is the word Of the Almighty, and cuts through the air That may not stay its fury, with a cold Nipping and chill, it is not in the wind ; Nor though the thunder broke, or flashed the fire From all the circle of eternity, Were that the reason ; for thou shudderest To hear the Voice of Love; it is no voice That men …
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
…e commencement of his introduction to “ The Prin ciples of Human Knowledge ,” states : “ Upon the whole ,I am inclined to think that the far greater part , if not all , of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers , and blocked up the way to know ledge , are entirely owing to ourselves that we have first raised a dust , and then complained we cannot see ." 2 And naturally to expect , Berkeley himself , though an Adept of a very high order , starting up wards through the clear atmosphere of the sky , clutched the very fire from …
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
…, others have completely failed in such simple matters as coherence. Many of the writers are empirics, still more mere scribes, while by far the largest class of all is composed of stupid charlatans. We shall consider a simple form of magick, harmonized from many systems old and new, describing the various weapons of the Magician and the furniture of his temple. We shall explain to what each really corresponds, and discuss the construction and the use of everything. The Magician works in a Temple; the Universe, which is (be it remembered!) cont…
1904 · PDF PAGE 29
22 P E N T E C O S T TO-DAY thrice halves the lunar week Since you, indignant, heard me speak Indignant. Then I seemed to be So far from Christianity ! Now, other celebrations fit The time, another song shall flit Responsive to another tune. September’s shadow falls on June, But dull November’s darkest day Is lighted by the sun of May. Here’s now I got a better learning. It’s a long lane that has no turning ! Mad as a woman-hunted Urning, The lie-chased alethephilist :* Sorcery’s maw gulps the beginner : In Pain’s mill neophytes are grist : Dis…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…versui— and through 7°=4° ; so perhaps—-if one could only dare to hope it !—to the 8°=3° attainment Certainly what little I have done so far pertains no higher than Minor adeptship, though I have used higher formula: in the course of my working. My Prana is acting in a feverish manner ; a mixture of fatigue and energy. This is not good: it probably comes from bolting that big lunch, and may mean that I must sleep to recover equilibrium. I will, however, use the Pentagram ritual on my Anahata Cakkram [the heart; a nerve—centre in Hindu mystical …
1909 · PDF PAGE 96
…added this section for the sake of completeness ; but it is all hearsay. I am too blind to see the necessity of the section at all; I am far from convinced that the Vififianam phenomena do not represent finality; so stupendous are they that even to one who is accustomed to them it must always be difficult to imagine a state not merely beyond them but out of their dimension. Yet? ... Perhaps that which I now urge is indeed the Great Illusion. . . . At least, having adopted the Buddhist Skandhas as the basis of my classification, I was bound in m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 96
…added this section for the sake of completeness ; but it is all hearsay. I am too blind to see the necessity of the section at all; I am far from convinced that the Vififianam phenomena do not represent finality; so stupendous are they that even to one who is accustomed to them it must always be difficult to imagine a state not merely beyond them but out of their dimension. Yet? ... Perhaps that which I now urge is indeed the Great Illusion. . . . At least, having adopted the Buddhist Skandhas as the basis of my classification, I was bound in m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
…ord of God Most High?" The Magus thinks: "How shall I use this slug?" And in this course he must persist. Though many things useless, so far as he can see, are sent to him, one day he will find the one thing he needs, while his Understanding will appreciate the fact that none of those other things were useless. So with these early practices of renunciation it will now be clearly understood that they were but of temporary use. They were only of value as training. The adept will laugh over his early absurdities —the disproportions will have been …
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…. Ep.) er 1g “the following, as I see ladies waiting at the booksellers’. S.C. HL “Any ladies” waiting at the booksellers’ “are probably far beyond any serupules of that sort.” Mr, Justice Mutton.) fe some hesitation” in. pri Pwvon Passes, By Rownier Beowstxe, “1 would call your lordship's fal letters of” of this obs cention very particularly to the revolting poem.” Separately: t shudder and vomit at * the loathsome and abominable ereature who has the eff wwe been buried without giving posterity examine him"! Together: how every Fi “Faugh! Ugh!…