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Page 39 of 831916 · PDF PAGE 9
…ind is just as necessary as clearness of vision. When the man can be influenced by considerations of his own welfare, when hope and fear find any place in his mind, he is no longer to be trusted. The only man who can fulfil this condition is the prophet. (It must be remembered that the functions of poet and prophet were originally identical. The distinction between them is the artificial one of form. The states of mind are identical.) A true prophet lives only by virtue of his inner vision. He is responsible to what he calls God, and to nothing…
1913 · PDF PAGE 113
… connection is a truer one/ In any case there is undoubtedly a connection between the respiratory and mental functions. The Student will find this out by practising Pranayama. By this exercise some thoughts are barred, and those which do come into the mind come more slowly than before, so that the mind has time to perceive their falsity and to destroy them. On the blade of the Magick Sword is etched the name AGLA, a Notariqon formed from the initials of the sentence Ateh Gibor Leolahm Adonai, " To Thee be the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord." An…
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
…nd finally by the reasoned explanation of all the mysteries by the means of the keys of qabalistic magic. In all symbolisms, in fact, we find ideas of antagonism and of harmony producinga trinitarian notion in the concep- tion of divinity, following which the mythological personifica- tion of the four cardinal points of heaven completes the sacred septenary, the base of all dogmas and of all rites. In order to convince oneself of it, it is sufficient to read again and meditate upon the learned work of Dupuis, who would be a great qabalist if he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
…nd finally by the reasoned explanation of all the mysteries by the means of the keys of qabalistic magic. In all symbolisms, in fact, we find ideas of antagonism and of harmony producinga trinitarian notion in the concep- tion of divinity, following which the mythological personifica- tion of the four cardinal points of heaven completes the sacred septenary, the base of all dogmas and of all rites. In order to convince oneself of it, it is sufficient to read again and meditate upon the learned work of Dupuis, who would be a great qabalist if he…
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things ! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed : I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading.) “But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed As a mere mirage in the mind, Up jumps free will.” But all I’m pleading Is against pain and hell. Freewill Then can damn man ? No fearful mill, Grinding catastrophe, is speeding Outside—some whence, some whither ? And67 I think we easier understand Where Schelling (to the Buddha leading) Calls real not-self. In any case The…
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
…ation read : Space is the synthesis of all experiences of co - existence . Time is the synthesis of all experiences of sequence .' So we find that taking the above as general de finitions , they may with equal accuracy be applied to either the Ego or the race ; in the former case , Space and Time vanishing with the extinction of the indi vidual ; in the latter with that of the race . So also if space be defined as “ the potentiality of all co existences ,” then in the destruction of all existences Space will also cease to be . But if Space be d…
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
… in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands -Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives ! # I fight no ghosts. “But why revile ” (You urge me) ‘“‘in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere) * to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul?” Perhaps you know How mystic doctrines melt the snow Of any faith : redeem it to A fountain of reviving dew. So I with Christ : but few receive The Qabalistic Balm,*® believe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…hose of Swinburne , are in reality a series of brilliant lyrical illustrations depict ing the story in measures of divine song . More we find in this same poem , and in others also ; the follow ing fine sonnet entitled “ The Summit of the Amorous Mountain ," is distinctly Swinburnian ; I give it in its entirety : To love you , Love , is all my happiness ; To kill you with my kisses ; to devour Your whole ripe beauty in the perfect hour That mingles us in one supreme caress ; To drink the purple of your thighs ; to press Your beating bosom like …
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
… in lust and pain - creation's ban . The horrible beginning of the human .” In Tannhäuser , which is an intensely psychologic drama , we find the Knight speaking thus to Venus : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 178 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 198. ( Also Tale of Archais .)
1907 · PDF PAGE 208
…r , or Hume , for you my readers , if you with sufficient patience pursue what I will now call Crowleyanity ' to its ultimate end , will find that William Shakespeare of Avon was not the only man in this fair world who doubted not that by any other name a rose would smell as sweet . Let us now take an infinite series A , B, A , B, A , B . The question asked is : which is first , A or B ? And the answer depends entirely upon the direction of | Not only the lever of Archimedes , but also the fulcrum he could not discover .
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
…which the early fathers travelled in the East , and the greatest of her ceremonies were entirely of a magical nature . I defy any one to find any essential difference between the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ig natius and the practices of Raja Yoga ; space here does not permit me to draw parallels , though I have collected a considerable number . And as with Igna tius , so with other true saints of the Church , and so also with the countless magical ceremonies which have tinted the atmosphere of the West : they are all one . 1 This term must not …
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…n of the mind. (b) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confrontcd by things (ideas or beings) too glorious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of ail that he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion and the prey of madness. Before entering upon any of these practices the student must be in good health, and hâve attained a fair mastery of Asana, Pranayama and Dharana. 5. There is lit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…esire the hidden corridor of knowledge ; the spell falls hissing as a snake . The picture of their meeting is beautiful indeed . Thus we find Archais : 1 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 41 . Ibid . vol . iii, p. 41 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…g into service , saying : “ And so you shall , my dear, so you shall . Come and live with my wife as her companion , and we will try and find your lover for you . No doubt the arts of this - er --designing female will soon lose their power —there , there , no thanks , I beg ! I never could bear to see a pretty wench cry —there , there ! ” 3 We have now thoroughly grasped the quality of the male element , and the two together , the harlot and the lecher , produce the social code and seven - eighths of the social woes . “ Must I , must I ? Oh , s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
… of the world, its sorrows and joys. Its third Mukti, release, and unity with the Atman. In the fourth discourse of the Bhagavad-Gita we find Gnana Yoga praised as follows: 69
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…t still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by means of his will should seize hold of it before it can escape him, endow it with an objectivity, after which he should destr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
… of the world, its sorrows and joys. Its third Mukti, release, and unity with the Atman. In the fourth discourse of the Bhagavad-Gita we find Gnana Yoga praised as follows: 69
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…t still and let the mind run on, until it is realized what the mind is doing, when it will be understood how to control it. Then it will find that the thoughts which at first bubbled up, one over the other, become less and less numerous; but in their place will spring up the thoughts which are normally sub-conscious. As these arise the Will of the aspirant should strangle them; thus, if a picture is seen, the aspirant by means of his will should seize hold of it before it can escape him, endow it with an objectivity, after which he should destr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
… heart of the hell of desolation. So also is this book. The intricacy of faery pattern which the witch weaves is the flowered marble. We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba and AaBCcAaBCcAaBC and bAbAcBcBAcCDaADA, more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra. The limpidity of thought and expression alike is the aquamarine of the pool: "Like foam-flowers falling from the breasts of Sleep their Lotus-kiss is," languid as Sappho writhing to the breeze of Leucadia, under a rain of roseleaves. The hot angry famine and pestilence of the so…
1919 · PDF PAGE 34
…ndation of the highest practical Qabalah. Lrper VI. Liper O Vet Manus Et Sacitt#. The in- structions given in this book are too loose to find place in the Class D publications. Instructions given for elementary study of the Qabalah, Assumption of God forms, Vibration of Divine Names, the 28