FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
1,672 matching pages
Page 40 of 841961 · PDF PAGE 47
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 35 Aq De Libertate Mentis (Of Liberty of the Mind) HERE shall be no Property in Human Thought. Let each think as he will concerning the Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this World or any other World. Look now, though I enkindle thee to Effort in thy Way, yet it is the Way of thy Will, and I say not even that thou dost well to hasten therein, for the whole Matter lieth in thy Will, and to force thyself against thy Nature would be an Obstacle to thy Passage. Bu…
1961 · PDF PAGE 51
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 39 Am De Fundamentis Civitatis (Of the Foundations of the State) AY not, o my Son, that in this Argument I have set Limits to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State which I purpose is fulfilling his own true Will by his eager Acquiescence in the Order necessary to the Welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. But see thou well to it that thou set high the Standard of Satisfaction, and that to everyone there be a surplus of Leisure and of Energy, so that, his Will of Self-Preservation being fulfilled by t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 65
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 53 Ba De Mysterio Prudentiæ (Of the Mystery of Prudence) EHOLD now Nature, how prodigal is She of her Forces! The evident Will of every Acorn is to be- come an Oak; yet nigh all fail of that Will. There- fore one Secret of Magick is conomy of thy Force; to do no Act unless secure of its Effect. And if every Act has an Effect on every Plane, how canst thou do this unless thou be connected with all Planes? For this Reason must thou know thoroughly not only thy Body and thy Mind, but thy Body of Light and all its subtl…
1961 · PDF PAGE 134
…w, if there be a Division conscious of itself, and hindered from its Way (whose Name is Love) unto its Dissolution. It is written in The Book of the Law that the Pain of Division is as nothing, and the Joy of Dissolution all. Now then here is an Art and Device of Magick that I will declare unto thee, albeit it is a Peril if thou be not fixed in that Truth and in that Beatific Vision whereof I have written in the three Chapters foregoing. And it is this, to create by Artifice a Conflict in thyself, that thou mayst take thy Pleasure in its Resolu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
Harold Monro . God is the Truth , and , if you doubt it, look Into the pages of His sacred book . John . I have read that through and through Henry . Read once again ! God makes His meaning absolutely plain . He demonstrates that , when the world began , He made a solemn covenant with man ; Tells how , and where the fatal tree was set In Eden ; furthermore, how woman ate; Yea , how Eve tempted Adam and he fell , Necessitating everlasting Hell . Praise be to Him whose wisdom could invent That final word to every argument ! Thou hast the Light - …
1961 · PDF PAGE 175
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 163 #z De Formula Recta Draconis (Of the Correct Formula of the Dragon) ERILY, o my Son, herein lieth the Danger and the Treason of thy Scorpion. For his Nature is against himself, being the deepest Ego, that is, a Being separate from the Universe; and his is the Root of the while Mystery of Evil. For he hath in him the Magick Power, which if he use not, he is self-poisoned, even as any Organ of the Body that refuseth its Function. So then his Cure is in his Ally the Lion, that feareth not the Crocodiles, nor hideth …
1929 · PDF PAGE 245
…ervants too were constantly being made ill, one in one way, and one in another. We therefore employed the appropriate talismans from The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin against him, evoking Beelzebub and his forty-nine servitors. Rose had suddenly acquired the power of clairvoyance. Her description of these servitors is printed in The Bagh-i-Muattar, pages 39, 40. (I may mention: Nimorup, a stunted dwarf with large head and ears. His lips are greeny bronze and slobbery. Nominon, a large red spongy jelly-fish with one greenish luminous sp…
1905 · PDF PAGE 191
…ic of mediæval magic, with over 150 sigils, etc., is annotated, translated, edited, printed, in the best possible manner. It is the only book of its kind in which rational criticism has been combined with unimpeachable scholarship and a profound knowledge of Ceremonial Magic, as practiced to-day in the Secret Houses of Adepts. The S.P.R.T hold the whole editions of all these books, and guarantee that no copy will ever be sold by them at any lower price than those now advertised. Also, A number of these volumes in rare states— Japanese and Real …
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
…hat cannot be verified in the usual manner; or where this is not easy, at least avoid anything like a dogmatic statement. In Their second book of practical instruction, Liber 0, occur these words: “By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philo- sophical validity to any of them.” Those golden words! In discussing Dhyana, then, let it be clearly understood that some- thing unexpected is about to be described. We shall consider its nature and estimate its value…
1909 · PDF PAGE 49
…ry on We should drink poison and awake in hell ; Or being but mortal, or nearly mortal, yield Exhausted spirit to the clamant flesh: The book of common love should be unsealed, And we be caught within the common mesh That catches common folk. O God ! bite hard! Smite down rebellious flesh with hideous pain ! Bite hard ! Smite hard! By bruises scarred and marred Love this exultant face! Again! Again! O Lola ! Lola! Lola! Kiss me, Kiss! Nay — nay ! Kiss not! I cannot bear the bliss.
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…, 90°, 96°, Patriarch Grand Administrator General. WM. HY. QUILLIAM, 33°, 90°, 96°, Patriarch Grand Keeper General of the Signedfi Golden Book. LEON ENGERs-KENNEDY, 33°, 90°, 95°, Patriarch Grand Secretary General. THEODOR REUss, 33°, 90°, 96°, Sovereign Grand Master General ad Vitam for the German Empire and Grand In- spector General. 9
1961 · PDF PAGE 57
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 45 Ar De Gradibus Æquis Scientiæ (Of Equal Steps to Knowledge) SAY in sooth, my son, that this Extension of thy Nature is not in Violation thereof; for it is the Nature of thy Nature to grow continually. Now there is no Part of Knowledge which is foreign to thee; yet Knowledge itself is of no avail unless it be assimilated and co- ordinated into Understanding. Grow therefore, easily and spontaneously, developing all Parts equally, lest thou become a Monster. And if one Thing tempt thee overmuch, correct it by Devotio…
1961 · PDF PAGE 143
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 131 Ea De Cursu Sapientis (Of the Course of Wisdom) HEREFORE consider this again in a Figure, that thy Mind is as the Marshal of an Army, to observe the Dispositions of the Enemy, and to order his own Forces rightly, according to that Information; but he hath no will, only Obedience to the Word of his King to outwit and to overcome the Opposite. Nor doth that King make War by his own Whim, if he be wise and true, but solely because of the Necessity of his Country, and its Nature, whereof he is but Executive Officer a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 328
THE EQUINOX God is He who gives life; Caesar can only give death. One must love God, and not fear Czsar; as it is written in the Holy Book, “ He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.” You wish to be good? Then be just. You wish to be just? Then be free. The vices which make man like the brute are the first enemies of his liberty. Consider the drunkard, and tell me if this unclean brute can be called free ! The miser curses the life of his father, and, like the crow, hungers for corpses. The goal of the ambitious man is—ruins; it is t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 517
…k that they see in these phenomena manifestations of the other world and facts of necromancy. We shall borrow our answer from the sacred book of the qabalists, and in this our doctrine is that of the rabbis who compiled the Zohar. AXIOM The spirit clothes itself to descend, and strips itself to rise. In fact : Why are created spirits clothed with bodies? It is that they must be limited in order to have a possible existence. Stripped of all body, and become consequently 219
1913 · PDF PAGE 568
THE EQUINOX We are going to state forthwith, in this last book, by what means the true initiates have made themselves the masters of life, how they have overcome sorrow and death; how they work upon themselves and others the transforma- tion of Proteus; how they exercise the divining power of Apollonius; how they make the gold of Raymond Lully and of Flamel; how in order to renew their youth they possess the secrets of Postel the Re-arisen, and those alleged to have been in the keeping of Cagliostro. In short, we are going to speak the last wor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 328
THE EQUINOX God is He who gives life; Caesar can only give death. One must love God, and not fear Czsar; as it is written in the Holy Book, “ He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.” You wish to be good? Then be just. You wish to be just? Then be free. The vices which make man like the brute are the first enemies of his liberty. Consider the drunkard, and tell me if this unclean brute can be called free ! The miser curses the life of his father, and, like the crow, hungers for corpses. The goal of the ambitious man is—ruins; it is t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 517
…k that they see in these phenomena manifestations of the other world and facts of necromancy. We shall borrow our answer from the sacred book of the qabalists, and in this our doctrine is that of the rabbis who compiled the Zohar. AXIOM The spirit clothes itself to descend, and strips itself to rise. In fact : Why are created spirits clothed with bodies? It is that they must be limited in order to have a possible existence. Stripped of all body, and become consequently 219
1913 · PDF PAGE 568
THE EQUINOX We are going to state forthwith, in this last book, by what means the true initiates have made themselves the masters of life, how they have overcome sorrow and death; how they work upon themselves and others the transforma- tion of Proteus; how they exercise the divining power of Apollonius; how they make the gold of Raymond Lully and of Flamel; how in order to renew their youth they possess the secrets of Postel the Re-arisen, and those alleged to have been in the keeping of Cagliostro. In short, we are going to speak the last wor…
1961 · PDF PAGE 186
…e Magick, and his Name is Baphomet, where- fore did I design him as an Atu of Thoth, the Fifteenth, and put his Image in the Front of my Book, the Ritual of High Magick, which was the second Part of my Thesis for the Grade of Major Adept, when I was clothed about with he Body called Alphonse Louis Constant. Now the Goat flieth not as doth the Eagle; but consider this also that it is the true Nature of Man to dwell upon the Earth, so that his Flights are oft but Phantasy; yea, the Eagle also is bound to his Eyrie, nor feedeth upon Air. Therefore…