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Page 38 of 711910 · PDF PAGE 222
…d golden were his wide-flashing wings! Terrible in his might, he bowed low before the Great White Spirit, and proceeded to carry out the order. For five and twenty years he toiled at the so easy task; then, flinging down his weapons in a rage, he returned before the face of his Master and, trembling with passion, cast him- self down in wrath and despair. “Pah!” said the Great White Spirit with a smile; “I might have known better than to employ a low material creature like yourself. Send Graphiel to Me!” The angry Bartzabel, foaming with horrid …
1913 · PDF PAGE 291
…most mind, if he is to reconcile the “contra- dictions” which leave Waite petulant and bewildered. It is the sad privilege of the higher order of mind to be able to see both sides of every question, and to appreciate the fact that both are equally tenable. Such contradictions can, of course, only be reconciled on a higher plane, and this method of harmonizing contradictions is, therefore, the best key to the higher planes. It seems unnecessary to add anything to these few remarks. This is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or …
1913 · PDF PAGE 291
…most mind, if he is to reconcile the “contra- dictions” which leave Waite petulant and bewildered. It is the sad privilege of the higher order of mind to be able to see both sides of every question, and to appreciate the fact that both are equally tenable. Such contradictions can, of course, only be reconciled on a higher plane, and this method of harmonizing contradictions is, therefore, the best key to the higher planes. It seems unnecessary to add anything to these few remarks. This is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or …
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…d this is the more striking pheno- menon as it is so rare to find true moral greatness associated with poetical genius. We write thus in order to direct his attention to a little book published some years ago in Paris, but reprinted in an expur- gated form in England; a book of so abominable a character that I am sure it is only necessary to direct his lordship’s attention to it to raise a very considerable turmoil. We quote one or two passages > “ Their (men’s) eyes for beauty are but sightless holes, Spurned in the dust, Uranian passion lies.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
JOHN ST. JOHN true Path; even as a tree must shoot downwards its roots into the Earth in order that it may flower, and bring forth fruit in its season. So also now I know that even in my months of absorption in worldly pleasure and business, I am not really there, but stand behind, preparing the Event. Imagine me, therefore, if you will, in Paris on the last day of September. How surprised was I—though, had I thought, I should have remembered that it was so—to find all my necessary magical apparatus to my hand! Months before, for quite other rea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 315
…nd the Word of man reveals God. Man is the God of the world, and God is the man of heaven. Before saying ‘God wills,” man has willed. In order to understand and honour Almighty God, man must first be free. Had he obeyed and abstained from the fruit of the tree of knowledge through fear, man would have been innocent and 2 Christianity has fallen, and so Christ has already become the ‘devil’ to such thinkers as Nietzsche and Crowley.—O. M. c 17
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…tize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witnesses, persons who are artists, doctors, priests, all men above re- proach, have been communicated to us; we have questioned ey…
1913 · PDF PAGE 315
…nd the Word of man reveals God. Man is the God of the world, and God is the man of heaven. Before saying ‘God wills,” man has willed. In order to understand and honour Almighty God, man must first be free. Had he obeyed and abstained from the fruit of the tree of knowledge through fear, man would have been innocent and 2 Christianity has fallen, and so Christ has already become the ‘devil’ to such thinkers as Nietzsche and Crowley.—O. M. c 17
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
…tize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witnesses, persons who are artists, doctors, priests, all men above re- proach, have been communicated to us; we have questioned ey…
1954 · PDF PAGE 128
…intended to win through, to cover a general retreat, or to gain time by deliberate sacrifice. Only the Commander in Chief knows what the order means, or why he issues it; and even he does not know the issue, or whether it will display and justify his military skill and judgment. ·
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES towards the organs in order to disengage it, and a reaction, of mechanical nature, takes place, which with the movement of the body equilibrates the light of the medium. It is for that reason that it so dangerous to wake somnambulists suddenly, for the gorged medium may then withdraw itself suddenly towards the common reservoir, and abandon the organs altogether; these are then separated from the soul, and death is the result. The state of somnambulism, whether natural or artificial, is then extremely dangerous, because…
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES towards the organs in order to disengage it, and a reaction, of mechanical nature, takes place, which with the movement of the body equilibrates the light of the medium. It is for that reason that it so dangerous to wake somnambulists suddenly, for the gorged medium may then withdraw itself suddenly towards the common reservoir, and abandon the organs altogether; these are then separated from the soul, and death is the result. The state of somnambulism, whether natural or artificial, is then extremely dangerous, because…
1919 · PDF PAGE 435
…er of the Sun as he descends from the Zenith, or passes from the Summer Solstice to his doom, must be a voluntary absorption of Death in order to turn it into life. Never again must the Adept be deceived by his impressions, though there is that part of him which suffers. 59. For, as the diamond buried deep within the throbbing heart of earth can never mirror back the earthly lights, so are thy mind and Soul; plunged in Dhyéna-Marga, these must mirror nought of Maya's realm illusive. It is now evident that a most unfortunate metaphor has been ch…
1961 · PDF PAGE 181
… his Will convenient to His Environment, or antipathetic; but Woman disturbeth by Manipulation, adroit or sinister as her Mood may be of Order or of Disorder. For any Man to meddle in her Affair is Folly, for he comprehendeth not Quiet; so also for her to emulate him in his Office is Fatuity. Therefore in Magick though a Woman excel all men in every Quality that is profitable for her for Attainment, yet she is Naught in that Work, even as a Man without Hands in the Shop of a Carpenter; for She hath not the Organism that might make Use of this O…
1919 · PDF PAGE 260
…e Senate of Knight Hermetic Philosophers, Knights of the Red Eagle ..... ....... 10.0 . wee 220. VI° Illustrious Knight (Templar) of the Order of Kadosch, and Compan- ion of the Holy Graal ......... 26.0. 310... 550. 6 60 Grand Inquisitor Commander, Member of the Grand Tribunal.. 26.0. 36.0... 550. 7 70 55 Prince of the Royal Secret ....... 26.0. 39.0... o. 8 80 VII° Very Illustrious Sovereign Grand Inspector General ............. 510. 560... 10100. 11 Ir0 Member of the Supreme Grand Council 6.0... sees e esse eee VIII° Perfect Pontiff of the I…
1919 · PDF PAGE 403
…hat he will become Arhan after seven more incarnations.’ There is nothing in Buddhism about the voluntary undertaking of incarnations in order to help mankind. And of course the talk about “Nirvanic bliss” is misleading when one reflects that this quality of bliss or Ananda arising with the first 1 See Crowley’s “The Three Characteristics” in his “Sword of Song” for an amusing but illuminated story on this state. 81
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
…to attain Samadhi (which I had not yet ever done). She promised that I should do so. I agreed to carry out her instructions, avowedly in order to show her that nothing could happen if you broke all the rules. On some day before March 23rd, Ouarda identified the particular god with whom she was in communication from a stele in the Boulak Museum, which we had never visited. It is not the ordinary form of Horus but Ra-Hoor-Khuit1. I was no doubt very much struck by the coincidence that the exhibit, a quite obscure and undistinguished stele, bore t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 382
…. I had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. But I remember what I saw. “You must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe other men. They speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood.” “ All men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them ; but some men are—all Men-Covers are.” I was interrupted …
1909 · PDF PAGE 382
…. I had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. But I remember what I saw. “You must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe other men. They speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood.” “ All men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them ; but some men are—all Men-Covers are.” I was interrupted …
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…¬ position with Hé sanctifies that fire to the Yod of Tetragrammaton. Similarly we find Lamed for Earth, where we should expect Tau — in order to emphasize the influence of Venus, who rules Libra. ALHIMy therefore, represents rather the formula of Consécra¬ tion than that of a complété ceremony. It is the breath of bénédiction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. In consecrating a weapon, Aleph is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth out of the East even 1. “Gods” are the Forces of Na…