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Page 39 of 761910 · PDF PAGE 222
…mour ever forged in heaven or hell. Winged was he with the wings of gold that are the Wind itself; his sword of green fire flamed in his right hand, and in his left he held the blue feather of Justice, unstirred by the wind of his flight, or the upheaval of the universe. But after fiveand sixty centuries of toil, though illumined with intelligence almost divine, he had to confess himself defeated. 204
1910 · PDF PAGE 222
…mour ever forged in heaven or hell. Winged was he with the wings of gold that are the Wind itself; his sword of green fire flamed in his right hand, and in his left he held the blue feather of Justice, unstirred by the wind of his flight, or the upheaval of the universe. But after fiveand sixty centuries of toil, though illumined with intelligence almost divine, he had to confess himself defeated. 204
1919 · PDF PAGE 385
…nce of atrophy. Madame Blavatsky herself smoked like a volcano, drank like a fish, swore like a trooper, loved like a Cleopatra. She was right. Read the Taoist instructions to this effect. 52. If Sun thou canst not be, then be the humble planet. Aye, if thou art debarred from flaming like the noonday Sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, O Neophyte, a humbler course. There are a great many people who not only are without marked capacity, but are obviously without any capacity at all, for attainment even on a very modest…
1954 · PDF PAGE 412
…ance, but to teach the mind to think down to the roots of the local customs. You learn also the great lesson of Thelema, that nothing is right or wrong in itself; as we say "Circumstances alter cases." One trains oneself to adapt one's life to the impinging facts: to "cut one's coat according to one's cloth." It leads one to the understanding of that great Principle of Compromise which has kept England's head above water through the tempests of a chiliad. Remember that the slightest sign of inelasticity means that the rubber has already "perish…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
500 505 510 520 530 ASCENSION DAY 157 On just belief or unbelief ; And an involuntary act Make difference infinite in fact Between the right and left-hand thief ? Belief is not an act of will !” I think, Sir, that I have you still, Free will. Even allowing (much indeed !) gctbert That any will at all is freed, penest And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, 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 !…
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
…ng from the point which is attributed to the pianet you are dealing with. (See “777” col.lxxxiii). Thus to invoke Jupiter begin from the right hand point of the iower triangle, dextro- rotary and complété 5 then trace the upper triangle from its left hand point and complété. Trace the astrological sigil of the pianet in the centre of your hexagram. For the Zodiac use the hexagram of the pianet which rules the sign you require (“777”, col. xxxviii) but draw the astrological sigil of the sign, instead of that of the pianet. For Caput and Cauda Dr…
1954 · PDF PAGE 128
…ything ever go wrong?" There are several lines of reply; coalescing, they suffice: 1. What is "wrong"? Since four wars is Their idea of "right," you may well ask by what standard you may judge events. 2. Their Work is creative; They operate on the dull mass of unrealized possibilities. Thus they meet, firstly, the opposition of Inertia; secondly, the recoil, the reaction, the rebound. 3. Things theoretically feasible are practically impossible when (a) desirable though their accomplishment may be, it is not the one feat essential to the particu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 123
… should never swerve from compassion. But do thou behold the brilliance of Love, that casteth forth seven stars upon thine head from her right hand, and crowneth thee with a crown of seven roses. Behold! She is seated upon the throne of turquoise and lapis lazuli, and she is like a flawless emerald, and upon the pillars that support the canopy 121
1913 · PDF PAGE 548
…gic that has lost its way, one ends by finding that they are not as mad as one thought at first. Thence to believing that they alone are right there is but one step. One likes them, one approves of them, one is as mad as they are. The affections are free and may be based on reason, but sympathies are of fatalism, and very frequently unreasonable. They depend on the more or less balanced attractions of the magnetic light, and act on men in the same way as upon animals. One will stupidly take pleasure in the society of a person in whom is nothing…
1913 · PDF PAGE 548
…gic that has lost its way, one ends by finding that they are not as mad as one thought at first. Thence to believing that they alone are right there is but one step. One likes them, one approves of them, one is as mad as they are. The affections are free and may be based on reason, but sympathies are of fatalism, and very frequently unreasonable. They depend on the more or less balanced attractions of the magnetic light, and act on men in the same way as upon animals. One will stupidly take pleasure in the society of a person in whom is nothing…
1919 · PDF PAGE 390
…anxious one, no warrior volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and the dead, not one recruit can ever be refused the right to enter on the Path that leads toward the field of Battle. For either he shall win, or he shall fail. It is most important that the Master should not reject any pupil. As it is written in Liber Legis, “He must teach, but he may make severe the ordeals.” Compare also the 13th Ethyr, in Liber 418, where it is shown that Nemo has no means of deciding which of his flowers is the really im- portant one, alth…
1922 · PDF PAGE 49
… I A O!” We swooned into a deep, deep trance. Lamus interrupted us. “You mustn’t think me inhospitable,” he said. “ She’s come round all right ; but I ought to drive her home. Make yourselves at home while I’m away, or let me take you where you want to go.” Another interruption occurred. The bell rang. Lamus sprang to the door. A tall old man was standing on the steps. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” said Lamus. “ Love is the law, love under will,” replied the other. It was like a challenge and countersign. “T’ve got to talk …
1922 · PDF PAGE 149
…our courier ?”’ called out Lou. “It’s for him to explain everything.” The manager became violently solemn. “Your Ladyship is undoubtedly right,” he broke out. But the conventional words did not conceal the fact that his mental attitude was that of a man who has suddenly fallen through a trap-door into a cellar full of something spiky. ‘‘ There’s some mistake here,” he went on. ‘ Let me see.” He called to the girl at the desk in Italian. She fished about in a drawer and produced a telegram. He handed it over to me. It was addressed to Laroche. “…
1961 · PDF PAGE 181
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 169 #m De Formula Feminæ (Of the Formula of Woman) OW this is the right Power and Property of a Woman, to arrange and to adjust all Things that exist in their proper Sphere, but not to create or to transcend. Therefore in all practical Matters is she of Might and of Wit to produce an Effect consonant with her Mood. And her Symbol is Water, that seeketh the Level, whether for Wrath, eating away the Mountains (yet even in this making smooth the Plains) or for Love, in Fecundity of Earth. But it is the Fire of Man that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 308
…should have turned out so as to insult our reason. I could only apologize, shrug my shoulders and say, "Well, they insist that it is all right for you." A few days later, the mystery was cleared up. The return mail left for Peking one half-hour after its arrival, and the junior clerk, in his haste, had accidentally slipped the parcel into the mail bag, so that it went safely to the bank in Peking. The Tarot had vindicated itself in the most striking way. The junior clerk was responsible for the disappearance, yet he did not suffer in consequenc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
161 persuaded me, however, to fire a couple more cartridges myself, which I did, right down the beast's throat. The second shot, however, very nearly led to a catastrophe, as the boat was not at all steady and the recoil of the heavy express sent me an awful cropper backwards on to the gunwale of the boat. Luckily no harm came of it. I was now more anxious than ever to get hold of the beast or to pin him with the boathook, thought his struggles were gradually ceasing, but nothing we could do was any good; little by little he slid off the shallo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 260
… 4 40 Prince of Jerusalem ............. 5.0. oO. Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an inde- feasible right to these degrees. Beyond this, admission is only granted by invitation from the governing body concerned. Knight of the East and of the West 5.0 . wee TIO V° Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix. (Knight of the PelicanandEagle) 15.0. 260... 330. 5 50 Member of the Senate of Knight Hermetic Philosophers, Knights of the Red Eagle ..... ....... 10.0 . wee 220. VI° Illustrious Knight (Templar) of the Order of Kado…
1922 · PDF PAGE 325
…le like that. It’s one of the rules,” he explained to Lou, “ not to interfere with people. Big Lion says that every one would get on all right if only he were left alone.” He seemed to think the statement required explana- tion. ‘“‘ Cypris is reading Gibbon to us this week ; and she shows us how all the trouble came from people meddling with other people’s business.” I shouted with laughter. “Gibbon?” I cried, “What next, I wonder? ” “Well, one must know Roman history,” explained Hermes, in the tone of a head master addressing an educational co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…enominated as “ The devilish circle of the fiery ring ,” which , as their love grew , “ Became one moment like a little thing .” If I am right , the heart of this poem bleeds gener ous indignation against the marriage bond . We read : It was no wonder when the second day Showed me a city on the desert way , Whose brazen gates were open , where within I saw a statue for a sign of sin , And saw the people come to it and pray , Before its mouth set open for a gin.3 Before this statue he is brought ; her bronze and chilly loins are girded with the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…urney, not by any hallucination of the physical eye, that this illusion is produced. In writing my notes on one occasion I found that my right arm (which of course is not in the line of vision at all, normally) was many thousands of miles in extent. It was strange and difficult to control such colossal sweeps through space to the fine work of the pen. Yet my handwriting was no worse than usual—I admit this says little! Itwas the time that it apparently took to get one word written that caused the illusion of extravagant size, itself therefore a…