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Page 36 of 761907 · PDF PAGE 64
… are one. If I cancel out a and —a, the result is the same as if I cancel roooa and -- ioooa. I am only concerned to cancel. Bowley. All right, my gay Io=I—in Kether it’s all very well. In the Ruach one must do as the Ruach does. [MRS. BONES, without, sereaming, “My spoons! My silver spoons! Where are my spoons?” Bones. Then what becomes of our Great Work? Bowley. Ignore the fool and his silly questions is as good a formula as yours. But hushl Who comes here? Enter the MYSTERIOUS MATHERS, but, failing to borrow the necessary properties, is unab…
1913 · PDF PAGE 433
…per without order or alignment. The first was the symbol which the Egyptian initiates usually placed in the hand of Typhon. A tau with upright double lines opened in the form of a compass; an ankh (or crux ansata) having at the top a circular ring; below the ring, a double horizontal line; beneath the double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a V upside down. The second character represented a Grand Hierophant’s cross, with the three hierarchical cross-bars. This symbol, which dates from the remotest antiquity, is still the attribute of o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 433
…per without order or alignment. The first was the symbol which the Egyptian initiates usually placed in the hand of Typhon. A tau with upright double lines opened in the form of a compass; an ankh (or crux ansata) having at the top a circular ring; below the ring, a double horizontal line; beneath the double horizontal line, two oblique lines, like a V upside down. The second character represented a Grand Hierophant’s cross, with the three hierarchical cross-bars. This symbol, which dates from the remotest antiquity, is still the attribute of o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 346
…le it completely discharges the energy of the Adept, leaving him weaker than an attack of Malaria would do; but if the practice has been right, this soon passes off, and the experience has this advantage, that one is far less troubled with minor phenomena than before. It is just possible that this is referred to in the Apocalypse XVI, XVII, XVIII. 41. When the six are slain and at the Master’s feet are laid, then is the pupil merged into the ONE, as becomes that One and lives therein. The note tells that this refers to the six principles, so th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 127
…t Tiphereth within. I. o. The Unicom is speech. Man, rule thy Speech! How else shalt thou master the Son, and answer the Magician at the right hand gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. 2. (a) Avoid using some common Word, such as “and” or “the” or “but”; use a paraphrase. (b) Avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as “t”, or “s”, or “m”; use a paraphrase. (c) Avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first per- son; use a paraphrase. Of thine own ingenium devise others. I. (i.e. the matter …
1906 · PDF PAGE 188
…h perfect courtesy approaching, Bowed deeply, and at once began: “ Fear nothing, Mary! Allis well! Lam the angel Gabriel,” She bared her right breast ; (query why ?) The angel Gabriel let fly * Concerning conception of a virgin. 720 745
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
… retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the God Harpocrates.f 5. It isa sign that the student is performing this correctly when a single “Vibration” entirely exhausts his physical strength. It should cause him to grow hot all over, or to perspire violently, and it should so weaken him that he will find it difficult to remain standing. 6. It is a sign of success, though…
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
… retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the God Harpocrates.f 5. It isa sign that the student is performing this correctly when a single “Vibration” entirely exhausts his physical strength. It should cause him to grow hot all over, or to perspire violently, and it should so weaken him that he will find it difficult to remain standing. 6. It is a sign of success, though…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
…ring the edges from a " petit bleu." “I am paying the penalty,” he read. " Lunch with me at Lavenue’s at one to—morrow. Bring a girl." “ Right,” said he. “ But I wonder what she means.” And he strolled out to the Döme to find good-hearted Ninon, “ la grande hystérique " of the Quarter, half—mad and wholly amorous, half gamine and half great lady, satiated and un- satisfied indeed, but innocent withal. La Dame de Mont- parno they called her; she dominated her surroundings without effort. Yet none could analyse or explain the fascination to which a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
…ring the edges from a " petit bleu." “I am paying the penalty,” he read. " Lunch with me at Lavenue’s at one to—morrow. Bring a girl." “ Right,” said he. “ But I wonder what she means.” And he strolled out to the Döme to find good-hearted Ninon, “ la grande hystérique " of the Quarter, half—mad and wholly amorous, half gamine and half great lady, satiated and un- satisfied indeed, but innocent withal. La Dame de Mont- parno they called her; she dominated her surroundings without effort. Yet none could analyse or explain the fascination to which a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 366
…loved and lost than never to have loved at all,” so it is better to be a madman than an idiot. There is always a chance of putting wrong right. As, however, the disease of the age is intellectualism, this lesson is well to teach. Numerous sermons on this point will be found in many of the writings of Frater Perdurabo. 11. The seeds of Wisdom cannot sprout and grow in air- less space. To live and reap experience, the mind needs breadth and depth and points to draw it towards the Dia- mond Soul. Seek not those points in Maya's realm; but soar bey…
1961 · PDF PAGE 195
… Witness, nor a Boy nor a Stone hath Knowledge of the Sections of a Cone, and their Properties; but thou mayst teach these to the Boy by right Presentation, because he hath in his Nature those laws of Mind that are consonant with our Art Mathe- matical, and hath Need only of the Fledging (I may say his) so that he apply them consciously to the Work, when all being in Truth, that is, in the necessary Relations that rule our Illusion, he cometh in Course to Apprehension. t
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
… Doubt whether Meat is to be eaten (I choose this as a Reference), which Habit is proper to the Lion, as Grass to the Horse, so that his right Problem is solely thus, what is fitting to his own Nature. Or again, I suppose that he is in Vision, and an Angel, visiting him, imparteth a Truth contrary o his Prejudice, as it fell out in mine own Case, when I inhabited the Body of Sir Edward Kelly, or so do I in Part remember, as it seemeth dimly. This nevertheless is sure (or the learned Casaubon, publishing the Record of that Word with the Magician…
1919 · PDF PAGE 353
…ay be possible. It does not mean that you should set up neuroses and hysteria by suppressing your natural instincts, which are perfectly right on their own plane, and only wrong when they invade other planes, and set up alien tyrannies. 61. Kill thy desires, Lanoo, make thy vices impotent, ere the first step is taken on the solemn journey. By “desires” and “vices” are meant those things which you yourself think to be inimical to the work; for each man they will be quite different, and any attempt to lay down a general rule leads to worse than c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 254
… , as those in the Vedas , will give an almost endless antiquity to the ideas contained in their books . In one degree at least they are right, for the mysticism as contained in these systems of thought is as old as thought itself . The great system of the Qabalah is one of emana tion -- a type of spiritual monism , an attempted ex planation of the nature of the Deity , within the limitations of mind . Its correspondence with the Talmud is more of method than material . That it was of slow growth is very certain , that it is a conglomer ated ma…
1919 · PDF PAGE 92
…shells of Abaddon. 35. He enveloped me with his demon tentacles; yea, the eight fears took hold upon me. 36. But I was anointed with the right sweet oil of the Magister; I slipped from the embrace as a stone from the sling of a boy of the woodlands. 37. I was smooth and hard as ivory; the horror gat no hold. Then at the noise of the wind of Thy coming he was dissolved away, and the abyss of the great void was unfolded before me. 38. Across the waveless sea of eternity Thou didst ride with Thy captains and Thy hosts; with Thy chariots and horsem…
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…ble owing to the nature of the country, is a furious and dangerous quarry, but it gives one a peculiar satisfaction to out him, to stand Right in the wild way of the coming curse Rock-rooted fair with fierce and fastened lips, Clear eyes, and springing muscle and shortening limb --- With chin aslant indrawn to a tightening throat, Grave, and with gathered sinews like a god, and biff him Right in the hairiest hollow of his hide Under the last rib, sheer through bulk and bone Deep in --- and see
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…ND BISKRA. December 8, 1909. 7+10-9.10 p.m. THE CRY OF THE 7TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED DEO The stone is divided, the left half dark, the right half light, and at the bottom thereof is a certain blackness, of three divergent columns. And it seems as if the black and white halves were the halves of a door, and in the door is a little key-hole, in the shape of the Astrological symbol of Venus. And from the key-hole issue flames, blue and green and 116
1913 · PDF PAGE 573
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that is little more than the prolongation of old age, and one has the right to ask from the science which we profess other privileges and other secrets. To be a long time young, or even to become young again, that is what would appear desirable and precious to the majority of men. Is it possible? We shall examine the question. The famous Count of Saint-Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended …
1913 · PDF PAGE 573
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES that is little more than the prolongation of old age, and one has the right to ask from the science which we profess other privileges and other secrets. To be a long time young, or even to become young again, that is what would appear desirable and precious to the majority of men. Is it possible? We shall examine the question. The famous Count of Saint-Germain is dead, we do not doubt, but no one ever saw him grow old. He appeared always of the age of forty years, and at the time of his greatest celebrity, he pretended …