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Page 44 of 801913 · PDF PAGE 139
…se he had climbed mountains he desired ski; because he had climbed mountains he had gone to Cumberland in the winter previous, and there found the disciple K. M. W., whose request for the ski had brought him to the loft. Here, too, was the reason of his life-tragedy, for without that he would not have gone to Cumberland at that time or gone to his house in Scotland that summer. There was no further escape. He must take up the terrible Karma, which he had evaded, in spite of the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon him by the Masters, for fi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 139
…se he had climbed mountains he desired ski; because he had climbed mountains he had gone to Cumberland in the winter previous, and there found the disciple K. M. W., whose request for the ski had brought him to the loft. Here, too, was the reason of his life-tragedy, for without that he would not have gone to Cumberland at that time or gone to his house in Scotland that summer. There was no further escape. He must take up the terrible Karma, which he had evaded, in spite of the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon him by the Masters, for fi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 21
…of and die; and he shall be burnt utterly with fire, and the ashes thereof shall calcine the children of flame, that even in hell may be found an overflowing lamentation. And now on the breast of the Angel is a golden egg between the blackness of the wings, and that egg grows and grows all over the aethyr. And it breaks, and within there is a golden eagle. And he cries: Woe! woe! woe! Yea, woe unto the world! For there is no sin, and there is no salvation. My plumes are 19
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…al Memory so-called, and the means is described with accuracy and clearness in certain of our Holy Books. But for nearly all men this is found to bea practice of exceeding difficulty. Let then the aspirant follow the impulse of his own Will in the decision to choose this or no. 114
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
…s only ill two days,” the man said. ‘ The doctors called it septic pneumonia.” I suppose I thanked him, and went away automati- cally. I found myself at home without knowing how I got here. Something told me that the real cause of her death was heroin, though, as a matter of fact, septic pheumonia can happen to any one at any moment. I’ve known two or three people go off like that. As my Uncle John used to say, conscience makes cowards of us all. King Lamus was always saying that as long as one has any emotion about any thing, love or fear or a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…ing excitement , the excitement being the power it has in elevating the soul . And here we think , were Poe still living , he would have found no small part of his ideal realized . By soul we naturally do not mean a haloed fowl strumming dithy rambs on a harp , or the mere döppelganger of the living ; but that inner power of good and evil which lies latent in self , controlled by that intuitive con sciousness within us , and manifested in our appetites and desires ; this intangible soul aspiring upwards is called Virtue , sinking downwards Vice…
1909 · PDF PAGE 308
… to awakenment as awakenment is to a dream; and a perfectly clear co-ordinate vision is so nearly perfect a Reality that words cannot be found in which to translate it, yet it must not be forgotten that its truth ceases on the return of the seer to the Material plane. The Seer is therefore the only judge of his visions, for they belong to a world in which he is absolute King, and to 300
1909 · PDF PAGE 308
… to awakenment as awakenment is to a dream; and a perfectly clear co-ordinate vision is so nearly perfect a Reality that words cannot be found in which to translate it, yet it must not be forgotten that its truth ceases on the return of the seer to the Material plane. The Seer is therefore the only judge of his visions, for they belong to a world in which he is absolute King, and to 300
1910 · PDF PAGE 188
…e months in the northern and little frequented districts of Baltistan, and to seek that great solemnity and solitude which is only to be found amongst the greatest mountains of earth. With the Dhydna Visions and Trance we arrive at another turning point in Frater P.’s magical ascent. For several years he had worked by the aid of Western methods, and with them he had laid a mighty and unshakable foundation upon which 172
1910 · PDF PAGE 188
…e months in the northern and little frequented districts of Baltistan, and to seek that great solemnity and solitude which is only to be found amongst the greatest mountains of earth. With the Dhydna Visions and Trance we arrive at another turning point in Frater P.’s magical ascent. For several years he had worked by the aid of Western methods, and with them he had laid a mighty and unshakable foundation upon which 172
1913 · PDF PAGE 134
…ties, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. The information concerning the tarot and geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. The author appears to be acquainted with Chinese, Arabic, and other classic texts. Here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his Hebrew does credit alike to him and his printer. . . . Much that has been jealously and foolishly kept secret in the past is here.”—Occult Review. Collected Works. (Travellers’ edition) India paper. Extra Crown 8vo,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 315
…speculation, my Sammasati and analytical work has never led to so much as a hint of the existence of the Guardian Angel. He is not to be found by any exploration of oneself. It is true that the process of analysis leads finally to the realization of oneself as no more than a point of view indistinguishable in itself from any other point of view; but the Holy Guardian Angel is in precisely the same position. However close may be the identities in millions of ways, no complete identification is ever obtainable. But do remember this, above all els…
1912 · PDF PAGE 432
…ties, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. The information concerning the tarot and’geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. The author appears to be acquainted with Chinese, Arabic, and other classic texts. Here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his Hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. Among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found and marked a few misprints, but subsequently discovered each one of them in a printed table of errata, w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 432
…ties, as well as of colours, perfumes, plants, stones, and animals. The information concerning the tarot and’geomancy exceeds that to be found in some treatises devoted exclusively to those subjects. The author appears to be acquainted with Chinese, Arabic, and other classic texts. Here your reviewer is unable to follow him, but his Hebrew does credit alike to him and to his printer. Among several hundred words, mostly proper names, we found and marked a few misprints, but subsequently discovered each one of them in a printed table of errata, w…
1908 · PDF PAGE 2
…cular wall without much difficulty. At about the level of the top of the rock rib which divides the N. and S. branches of the glacier we found our way barred by an undercut ice cliff, which at its only assailable point rose some 14 (20) feet above the detached serrac on which we were standing. Standing on this serrac and leaning over the inter- vening crevasse the second man was able to sup- port the leader, who, standing on his shoulders, cut hand and footholds in the wall above. With some assistance from behind with an axe the lead- er arrive…
1929 · PDF PAGE 313
313 I began to remember that I was myself an initiate, that the Great Order had given me the Cabbala as my working hypothesis. I now found that this doctrine satisfied perfectly my science, my scepticism and my soul. It made no pretence to lay down the law about the universe. On the contrary, it declared positively the agnostic conclusion of Huxley. It declared reason incompetent to create a science from nothing and restricted it to its evident function of criticizing facts, so far as those facts were comprehensible by it. But the Cabbala did n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 415
…had been a probationer of A.'. A.'. his action would have been balanced at once. He had sold an official secret for money. He would have found within a few days that one of his own secrets had been betrayed, with disastrous consequence to himself. But furthermore, having switched on a current of disloyalty, so to speak, he would have found disloyalty damaging him again and again, until he had succeeded in destroying in himself the very possibility of ever again being disloyal. It would be superficial to regard this apparently exaggerated penalt…
1922 · PDF PAGE 200
…. We were obsessed by the certainty that we could never pull through. We said nothing at first. We were sunk in a solemn stupor. When it found voice at last, it was to whimper the surrender. The Unconditional Surrender of our integrity and our honour! We eked out our small allowance of H. with doses of strychnine to ward off the complete collapse of all our physical faculties, and we picked ourselves up a bit on the moral plane by means of champagne. In these moments of abdication we talked in fragile whispers, plans for getting supplies. We ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 413
…a series of violin solos. The current of creative ecstasy stopped as suddenly as it had begun and I went on from Eastbourne to London. I found everything in confusion. I did not realize that the esprit de corps which is the essence of such books as The Three Musketeers was as dead as duelling. The men who had clustered round me enthusiastically when I seemed successful had dispersed like the disciples when they found that the Pharisee meant business. They all knew perfectly well that the attacks on me were malicious nonsense, that Jones's fiasc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…g Swiss thieves, whelmed by the avalanche, the avalanche of elemental force, the avalanche of God ? Nay, I remember noth- ing ; I know I found myself naked in his naked arms, his giant member still throbbing and beating in my flooded bowels, and the world was aswim before mine eyes. I tell thee, man, that the first kiss of man to man is more than the most elaborately manipulated or- gasm that the most accomplished and most pas- sionate courtesan can devise. That is, it is not a physical,9 but a spiritual pleasure. I tell thee, as I walk the sun…