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Page 34 of 871909 · PDF PAGE 23
… one or two remarks, In my walk I dis- covered that my mantra Hua allahu, etc., really belongs to the Visuddhi Cakkram; so I allowed the thought to concentrate itself there. [The Visuddhi-Cakkram: the “nerve centre,” in Hindu mystic physiology, opposite the larynx.——ED.] Also, since others are to read this, one must mention that almost from the beginning of this Working of Magick Art the changed aspect of the world whose culmination is the keeping of the oath “ I will inter- pret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul ” wa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 96
…h this idea, to have a Citron presse; thence to my Secret Restaurant, and dine, always learning the Ritual. I will leave off the mantra, though it is nearly as much part of me as my head by now; and instead repeat over and over again the words of the Ritual so that I can do it in the end with perfect fluency and comprehension. And this time may Adonai build the House! Instead I met Dr. R , who kindly offered to teach me how to obtain astral visions! (P.S.—The tone of this entry wrongs me. I sat patiently and reverently, like a Mela with his gum,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
Ι3 discover that no position is comfortable, though we never noticed it before in all our lives! This difficulty has been solved by a practice called Arcana, which will be described later on. Memories of the events of the day will bother us ; we must arrange our day so that it is absolutely uneventful. Our minds will recall to us our hopes and fears, our loves and hates, our ambitions, our envies, and many other emotions. All these must be cut off. We must have absolutely no interest in life but that of quieting our minds. This is the object of …
1996 · PDF PAGE 211
…e easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thy self convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger 8c trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire 8c blood; worship me with swords 8c with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…ressé at the Dome, some little chatter with M—e, Β e, H s, and others. In fact, I’m a lazy unconcentrated hound. I started Mantra again, though ; of course it goes quite easily. Undressed, and the mantra going, and the Will toward Adonai less unapparent. To—day I began ill, full of spiritual pride—look at the records of my early hours! One might have thought me a great master of magic 10fti1y condescending to explain a few elementary truths suited to the capacity of his disciples. The fact is that I am a toad, ugly and venomous, and HI do wear …
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
…— what a washerwoman lost to mankind ! was the French nation’s epitaph upon her — drove the last nail into the coffin of art in England. Though ’twas needless cruelty : whom have we had of the first rank in England since Eli- zabeth but the Revolutionaries ? Blake, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Swinburne, Swift, Butler, Milton, every one exiled, starved, bullied, driven insane ; except Milton, whose supreme hypocrisy saved him, as it damned the nation for ever. Anyhow, bad as it was, Victoria made it worse, and, under a queen with a high-ne…
1954 · PDF PAGE 382
…r of money. As the poet says: "O.k. oke; I'm yer bloke." F. Marion Crawford, a Victorian novelist, now (I think deservedly) obsolescent, though I saw one of his books last week on the shelves of a tuppenny shark-library,' wrote a tale Mr. Isaacs based on the life of one Mr. Jacobs, the Indian Rothschild of two generations ago, financing princes, little wars-everything. One night in Bombay the burden of his wealth broke his nerve; he stood at the window of his hotel, and flung masses of money to the mob. Soon after came a stranger, and said to h…
1909 · PDF PAGE 94
…m, and the tomb of his Pyramid be unsealed. It is impossible in a few words to explain thoroughly this eclectic system; for each act and thought of the ritual demands an expert teacher, and even a good pupil might study for years before mastering the method. By which time he might not impossibly have discovered one of his own. Howbeit, I must do my best; and if by that best I can help “‘ the least of these little ones,” so much the better. XIx “The Intelligible subsisteth beyond Mind.”—ZOROASTER. Nevodha-samapatti—It must be very satisfactory, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 94
…m, and the tomb of his Pyramid be unsealed. It is impossible in a few words to explain thoroughly this eclectic system; for each act and thought of the ritual demands an expert teacher, and even a good pupil might study for years before mastering the method. By which time he might not impossibly have discovered one of his own. Howbeit, I must do my best; and if by that best I can help “‘ the least of these little ones,” so much the better. XIx “The Intelligible subsisteth beyond Mind.”—ZOROASTER. Nevodha-samapatti—It must be very satisfactory, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
…n as a particular dealing of God with my soul." In Liber CLXXV many practical devices for attaining this one- pointedness are given, and though the subject of that book is devotion to a particular Deity, its instructions may be easily generalized to suit the development of any form of will. This will is then the active form of understanding. The Master of
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
PENTECOST 173 360 386 370 375 385 Of thought! How ends the brave B.D., Sammarising Ontology? “‘ This talk of ‘Real’ is a wraith. Our minds are lost in war of word ; 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; …
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…ED AN aged sorcerer there dwelt within the town of Marrakesh The fangs of Hell in life who felt twitching his soul out through the flesh. Though not originally had his moral ruin was complete: His pious parents said he had the devil’s claw-marks on his feet.
1907 · PDF PAGE 280
THE NEW WINE 273 AGNOSTICISM Ex Oriente Lux . As old as the Vedas is the idea of Agnosticism , though in name it is not yet forty years of age . Everywhere we look we find the 'Ayvborq Oeq of Paul , midst the Greeks , the Egyptians , the Hebrews , the Chaldeans , the Aryans , and the Chinese , and its light is focussed in the greatest of the great : Socrates and Plato , Malebranche and Descartes , Locke and Spinoza , Hume and Berkeley , Swedenborg and Kant , Hegel and Comte , Tyndall , Spencer , and Huxley . Declining the mimetic , seeking the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…wn of thy desirous lips In the swart masses of my hair ; bend close, And shroud all earth in masterless eclipse, While my hearts murmur though thy being flows, To carry up the prayer, as incense teems Skyward, to those immeasurable streams ! Breathe the creative Sigh upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul : Cry, as the chaind Eagle of the South, A house of death, and make my spirit whole ! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come ! come away ! but not your mighty sounds ! O wind of all the world ! O silent river…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
…osed upon itself That matter should move mind - Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter ? And the proof Extant , implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain . These twain be one .? 3 In these five lines we find a clinching of the whole argument . " These twain be one .” No more than this did Berkeley ever arrive at : " But , though it were possible that solid , figured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we …
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…own these things stops the mantra. This may be (partly) because I always say under my breath each word as I write it. [P.S.-But I do so, though less possibly, as I read] As I am really awake, I may as well do a little Prana- yama. How little I know of magic and the conditions of success! My 17 cycles of breath were not absolutely easy; yet I did them. After a big dinner!!! The sweating was quite suppressed, in spite of the heat of the night and the exercise ; and the first symptoms of the Bhuchari-Siddhi—the “jumping about like a frog" ——were we…
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
…of all the jasmine in Iran, Ha- bib, just as thy podex has the essence of all its roses. But it is too much like the bosom of a wom- an. Though thy buttocks are like nargis, they are no longer firm. This is because thou lingerest in bawdy talk in taverns, drinking forbidden liquors ; because thou dalliest all day with that camel-backed monocular from Nubia. He serveth thee without remission from the Wolf’s Tail2 to the Evening Star, O thou eaten up with beastliness ! and for this thou forgettest the manly games of youth. When I first had thee, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 179
…nce only and very loud/y. jACK drags MARTIN to the floor, and ;50115 the heavy mattress over him, pressing it down with hideous langhter, though all the time he listens, as if to hear the beating of MARTIN’S heart. HE puts his ear to the mattress. At last, with a laugh of satisfaction, he removes the mattress and examines the eor‘ose, ear to heart] JACK. Dead. Stone dead. Stone dead. Stone dead. [HE 10025 around—1n France, MARTIN will have disaf— fearedfrom under the bedding by a mm door and left Ι37
1912 · PDF PAGE 179
…nce only and very loud/y. jACK drags MARTIN to the floor, and ;50115 the heavy mattress over him, pressing it down with hideous langhter, though all the time he listens, as if to hear the beating of MARTIN’S heart. HE puts his ear to the mattress. At last, with a laugh of satisfaction, he removes the mattress and examines the eor‘ose, ear to heart] JACK. Dead. Stone dead. Stone dead. Stone dead. [HE 10025 around—1n France, MARTIN will have disaf— fearedfrom under the bedding by a mm door and left Ι37
1922 · PDF PAGE 242
… mantelpiece and leant against it with his arms stretched out. He cried in a hoarse, dry voice :— “Thirst! Not the thirst of the throat, Though that be the wildest and worst Of physical pangs that smote Alone to the heart of Christ, _Wringing the one wild cry ‘I thirst’ from His agony, While the soldiers drank and diced.” He thought he was Jesus on the Cross instead of the Dragon, as he really is. It makes me very nervous. about him. : When he had finished reciting, his strength suddenly failed him, and.he collapsed. The clatter of the fire- ir…