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Page 44 of 711929 · PDF PAGE 368
…ng to hide. So much for Neuburg's capacities in Magick. In mysticism he was fatally handicapped by his congenital dislike of discipline, order, punctuality and every moral quality that goes with science. I started him on Yoga about this time. One incident is instructive. His daily hour for practising Asana arrived one day when we were crossing to Europe on the steamer. He refused to do his work; he could not bear to attract the attention of the other people on board and appear ridiculous. (Neuburg! Ridiculous! O all ye gods and little fishes!) …
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
Strand, the one an unfortunate of the lowest order, the other a loafer and parasite upon the ghouls that traffic in human flesh and shame. Thus we see evil reproducing itself, spreading like an incurable cancer throughout society from one germ ofinfidelity and unhallowed lust. I may perhaps be blamed for publishing, even in this limited measure, such filthy and blas- phemous orgies of human speech (save the mark) but I am firmly resolved (and I believe that I have the blessing of God on my work) toawake my fellow-workers in the great vineyard t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 283
…eful consideration of one's known characteristics and environment. "Explore the rivers of the soul," says Zoroaster, "whence and in what order thou has come." I saw that if I was to be intelligible to myself, I must do so, and this resolution resulted in the critical events which made the months of November, December, January and February the most important period of my life so far as my personal attitude to myself and the universe was concerned. His life as a bikkhu had not been too good for my guru. The abstinence from food after sunset is ba…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…lised, Unchanging and Uncaused:—That is the end of Sorrow.* Gotama therefore had to hedge. Unquestionably the Soul- idea must go, but in order to account for the Universal law of Causation Karma must remain, and further, surreptitiously perform all the old duties the individual Atman had carried out. He had abandoned the animism of a low civilization, it is true, but he could not, for a want of the exemption from morality itself, abandon the fetish of a slightly higher civiliza- tion, namely ethics. He saw that though mankind was tired of being…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…lised, Unchanging and Uncaused:—That is the end of Sorrow.* Gotama therefore had to hedge. Unquestionably the Soul- idea must go, but in order to account for the Universal law of Causation Karma must remain, and further, surreptitiously perform all the old duties the individual Atman had carried out. He had abandoned the animism of a low civilization, it is true, but he could not, for a want of the exemption from morality itself, abandon the fetish of a slightly higher civiliza- tion, namely ethics. He saw that though mankind was tired of being…
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…Berridge repay the ser Maries. - By perjuring himself to Mr. Crowley's disadvantage. ScoKPI0,K.C, ‘Thank you, Nowasto this" Rosierucian” Order Let meread to you from the Obligation of a Neophyte= “All these swear to keep under the no Tess pe ofr submitting myself toa deadly in motion by the Greatly Honoured Chiefs of the Secor by which I should fall skin or paralysed, as if bl Lightning Flash.” Is that correct? Maries. Yes. ‘8 ood turn,
1909 · PDF PAGE 341
…, which ever since the previous autumn had engaged his attention. In the month of May he had met D. D.C. F.7° = 4°, official head of the Order of the Golden Dawn. But he was still bent on carrying out the Operation of Abramelin, and journeyed to and fro all over the country endeavouring to discover a suitable dwelling for the necessary Retirément. Thus it came about that in 333
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
…to say that nothing had been done to it to spoil it. I had two hundred natives hanged, and as many burned alive, for form’s sake, and in order to show their fellow black men that my justice was impartial; but apart from this unim- portant little fact nothing followed the recovery of the mighty box. I had undertaken the difficult task of civilising the negroes ; and as it would be quite impossible for me to lose for an instant the sight and thought of my personal mission, I was not a little perplexed at the duality it presented at first. But I s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 341
…, which ever since the previous autumn had engaged his attention. In the month of May he had met D. D.C. F.7° = 4°, official head of the Order of the Golden Dawn. But he was still bent on carrying out the Operation of Abramelin, and journeyed to and fro all over the country endeavouring to discover a suitable dwelling for the necessary Retirément. Thus it came about that in 333
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
…to say that nothing had been done to it to spoil it. I had two hundred natives hanged, and as many burned alive, for form’s sake, and in order to show their fellow black men that my justice was impartial; but apart from this unim- portant little fact nothing followed the recovery of the mighty box. I had undertaken the difficult task of civilising the negroes ; and as it would be quite impossible for me to lose for an instant the sight and thought of my personal mission, I was not a little perplexed at the duality it presented at first. But I s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…rofessor von Buehle, whose marvellous mind may perhaps discover some es- cape from the destiny which menaces mankind. Every- thing is in order in these note-books; and I am free to die, for I can endure no more, and above all things I dread the onset of illness, and the possibility of natural or accidental death. NOTE I am glad to have the opportunity of publishing, in a journal so widely read by the profession, the MS. of the
1954 · PDF PAGE 459
…ity of maintaining the objective and sceptical standpoint. You are explicitly warned against reliance upon "authority," even that of the Order itself.) Consider my own assets, personal , social, educational, experiential and the rest; don't you see that all I had to do was to put out some brightly-coloured and mellifluous lie, and avoid treading on too many toes, to have had hundreds of thousands of idiots worshipping me? Please get a Konx Om Pax somehow , and read p. XII: and so on. It's only too easy to form a cult, To cry a crusade with "Deu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 539
…hey desire. They cannot understand "There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: ... ", and they outrage others in every way in order to obtain the outward show of affection. It is the most hideous error conceivable, yet nearly all men make it, and nine tenths of the misery caused by wrong sexual relations is due to this determination to enslave the soul of another. It seems impossible to make men see what to me is obvious; that the only love worth having or indeed worthy of the name is the spontaneous sympathy of a free soul. Social c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
…onai. § Equilibrium, Silence, Supreme Attainment, Zero. || As for women they are considered beyond the possibility of redemption, for in order of re-incarnation they are placed seven stages below a man, three below a camel, and one below a pig. Manu speaks of “the gliding of the soul through ten thousand millions of wombs.” And ifa man steal grain in the husk, he shall be born a rat; if honey, a great stinging gnat; if milk,a crow; if woven 190
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
…onai. § Equilibrium, Silence, Supreme Attainment, Zero. || As for women they are considered beyond the possibility of redemption, for in order of re-incarnation they are placed seven stages below a man, three below a camel, and one below a pig. Manu speaks of “the gliding of the soul through ten thousand millions of wombs.” And ifa man steal grain in the husk, he shall be born a rat; if honey, a great stinging gnat; if milk,a crow; if woven 190
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
… of the most luscious beauties that he can im- agine. He is however always kept to a certain ex- tent under the influence of hashish, in order to bewilder him slightly, and to cause him partially to doubt the reality of his present joy. In a week or so he is again drugged, dressed in his old rags, and abandoned in the same beggar’s haunt as be- fore. He wakes up utterly miserable, and consults the local Mullah as to his experience. “ My son ! ” replies the good man “ favoured of Heaven ! You have had a vision of the realms of Paradise.” He natu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 120
…, Tau. This fool is the fool of the Path of Aleph, and sayeth, which is Chokmah, in his heart, which is Tiphereth, that she existeth, in order first that the Wisdom may be joined with the Understanding; and he affirmeth her in Tiphereth that she may be fertile. It is impossible to describe how this vision changeth from glory unto glory, for at each glance the vision is changed. And this is because she transmitteth the Word to the Under- standing, and therefore hath she many forms, and each goddess of love is but a letter of the alphabet of love…
1919 · PDF PAGE 146
… the fixed aim of his Meditations; and any other experiments he en- tered upon, were, from that time onward, looked upon as necessary in order that he might fit himself to help others, rather than for his personal development. On January 7th, 1911, he received No. 4 of THE Equinox, 138
1919 · PDF PAGE 338
THE EQUINOX morously pretended that this Book is an ancient Tibetan writing.—Eb.] 19. Saith the Great Law: “In order to become the knower of ALL-SELF, thou hast first of SELF to be the knower.” To reach the knowledge of that SELF, thou hast to give up Self to Non-Self, Being to Non-Being, and then thou canst repose between the wings of the GREAT BIRD. Aye, sweet is rest between the wings of that which is not born, nor dies, but is the AUM throughout eternal Ages. The words “give up” may be explained as “yield” in its subtler or quasi-masochisti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 185
…ose colour also is as the Red Fire, and which is the head of the Fiery Triplicity in the Zodiac. So also in the Grade of Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn the Hierophant weareth a robe of flame-scarlet as symbolic of the Dawn. Note.—It may be objected to this enunciation of the colours that », the Father, is Fire; that 7, the Mother, is Water; that 1, the Son, is Air, and Yellow instead of Red. This also is true, but it relates to the governance of the Elemental King- doms, which are in the Astral Worlds, and whose monads are on the desc…