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.
2,274 matching pages
Page 44 of 1141909 · PDF PAGE 50
…dlow or even of my great master Baudelaire. The few on whom I have been able to test the drug have in large measure confirmed, and in no way contradicted, my results. In the first place, I make an absolute distinction between three effects of hashish, which may be, and I think probably are—so distinct they appear—due to three separate substances. Possibly a simple stimulus-curve may account for it, but I do not think so. 1. The volatile aromatic effect (a). This, the first evanescent symptom, gives the “ thrill” described by Ludlow, as of a new…
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
…f what Abramelin the Mage calls the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, another (and less metaphysically pretentious) way of speaking of the ‘ Higher Self” or “Genius.” It is indeed but a low aspect, for in truth the phenomenon pertains to Vififianam. Yet in simpler souls this peculiar Grace condescends—may one say ?—to this level, just as a father may join in the games of his child, thus gaining its sympathy and confidence as a basis for a higher union. xV “The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle guiders which glitter wi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…dlow or even of my great master Baudelaire. The few on whom I have been able to test the drug have in large measure confirmed, and in no way contradicted, my results. In the first place, I make an absolute distinction between three effects of hashish, which may be, and I think probably are—so distinct they appear—due to three separate substances. Possibly a simple stimulus-curve may account for it, but I do not think so. 1. The volatile aromatic effect (a). This, the first evanescent symptom, gives the “ thrill” described by Ludlow, as of a new…
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
…f what Abramelin the Mage calls the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, another (and less metaphysically pretentious) way of speaking of the ‘ Higher Self” or “Genius.” It is indeed but a low aspect, for in truth the phenomenon pertains to Vififianam. Yet in simpler souls this peculiar Grace condescends—may one say ?—to this level, just as a father may join in the games of his child, thus gaining its sympathy and confidence as a basis for a higher union. xV “The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle guiders which glitter wi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 189
…an do, of course ; anything I can do. OSSORY. Thank you, my dear lad. Anything you can do, of courseI will let you know at once. By the way, you havent asked her yet, I suppose ? DELHOMME. Not yet, sir. I am rather diffident : I do not care to precipitate affairs. OSSORY. Well, I am really very anxious to see her future assured. And you know our proverb, The early bird catches the worm. [Points to him, and over his shoulder to her.] Theres our scientific friend, eh ? DELHOMME. Oh, Im not afraid of him. A farceur, no more, though somet…
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
… She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 120
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
… She dropped three napoleons on the plate, and disdaining to wait for the change, took Edgar’s arm in hers‘ They hailed a fiacre. "By the way, I don’t know your name," he began, as they clattered down the Boul’ Mich’. 120
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…ettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in “Magic” an escape from reality. I myself was first consciously drawn to the subject in this way. And it has repelled only too many scientific and practicai minds, such as I most designed to influence. But is for MAGICK ALL. I hâve written this book to help the Banker, the Pugilist, the Biologist, the Poet, the Navvy, the Grocer, the Factory Girl, the Mathematician, the Stenographer, the Golfer, the Wife, the Consul — and ail the rest — to fulfil themselves perfectly, each in his or her own proper fun…
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
11.30. 11.55. 12.17. JOHN ST. JOHN This is of course (nearly enough) another way of expressing the Hindu Meditation whose method is to kill all thoughts as they arise in the mind. The difference is that I am aiming at a target, while they are preventing arrows from striking one. In my aspiration to know Adonai, I resemble their Yogis who concentrate on their “ personal Lord "; but at the same time it must be remembered that I am not going to be content with what would content them. In other words, I am going to de ne " the Knowledge and Convers…
1910 · PDF PAGE 335
…l percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. This, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown and ugly stems glow such a tender sap and noiseless fervour of exqui- site perfume. At intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakings and indescribable tremors: noises that are really the wastings and settlings of decaying bone and fl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 335
…l percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. This, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown and ugly stems glow such a tender sap and noiseless fervour of exqui- site perfume. At intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakings and indescribable tremors: noises that are really the wastings and settlings of decaying bone and fl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
way the intelligence of the ini is called into play, so that he who well uses the knowledge of the lower grades may be selected for invitation to the higher, where all things are declared openly. 2° They become partakers of the current of Universal Life in Liberty, Beauty, Harmony, and Love which flames within the heart of the O.T.0., and the Light of that august fraternity insen- sibly illuminates them ever more and more as they approach its central Sun, 3° They mect those persons most complemental to their own natures, and find unexpected hel…
1903 · PDF PAGE 9
…nuous ‘and attentive study of these quaint points of distinction may give us an. jtion, or diteet mind-apperception of what we want, one way or the
1910 · PDF PAGE 233
MR. TODD ossory. Thank you, my dear lad. Anything you can do, of course—I will let you know at once. By the way, you haven’t asked her yet, I suppose? DELHOMME. Not yet, sir. I am rather diffident: I do not care to precipitate affairs. ossory. Well, I am really very anxious to see her future assured. And you know our proverb, “The early bird catches the worm.” [Potnts to him, and over his shoulder to her.] There's our scientific friend, eh? DELHOMME. Oh, I’m not afraid of him. A /arceur, no more, though sometimes a pleasant one. ossory. Tu fen …
1910 · PDF PAGE 233
MR. TODD ossory. Thank you, my dear lad. Anything you can do, of course—I will let you know at once. By the way, you haven’t asked her yet, I suppose? DELHOMME. Not yet, sir. I am rather diffident: I do not care to precipitate affairs. ossory. Well, I am really very anxious to see her future assured. And you know our proverb, “The early bird catches the worm.” [Potnts to him, and over his shoulder to her.] There's our scientific friend, eh? DELHOMME. Oh, I’m not afraid of him. A /arceur, no more, though sometimes a pleasant one. ossory. Tu fen …
1961 · PDF PAGE 107
…ou mayst read Thyself with all thine History and all hy Possibility. Also as to thine Eagle, is not this chosen by Nature Herself by Her Way of Attraction, without which harmony Æsthetic and Magnetic thy Lion is silent, and inert, even as Achilles before his Rage in his Tent. Now also herefore I charge thee, o my Son, to partake constantly of his Sacrament for it is proper to all Virtue, and as thou dost learn to us it in Perfection, thou wilt surpass all other Modes of Magick. Yea, in good Sooth, no Herb or Potion is like unto this, supreme in…
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…atyeka-Buddha attains the Supreme Reward for himself alone; a Dhamma—Buddha renounces it and returns to hell (earth) to teach others the Way—Eu] I now take a few minutes “off" to make ”considera- tions." I firmly believe that the minutest dose of the Elixir would operate as a “ detonator.” I seem to be perfectly ready for illumination, if only because I am so perfectly dark. Yet my power to create magical images is still with me. ' I 1.40— Hanged Man posture. Will invoke Adonai once more 12.0. by pure thought Got into a very curious state indeed…
1910 · PDF PAGE 41
XXXVI PREFACE. formal or informal pledged to the guardianship of mankind. With this postulate the way is clear. In the prologue we find innocence : Pagan love, Pagan music, Pagan mysticism, and we find the Sabbatarians pretty sick about it, like the fox that lost his tail. We next find Alexander, one of the guardians, anxious about humanity. He is not squeamish about a little blood, his own or another’s, and he discovers the plot. Next we find the dove achieving his foul purpose, not on a pure laughing Pagan girl, but on a furtive lecherous gir…
1912 · PDF PAGE 102
…ng if the meditation is directed to an object which in itself is apparently unimportant. One does not want the mind to be excited in any way, even by adoration. See the three meditative methods in Liber HHH (Equinox VI).1 At the same time, one would not like to deny positively that it is very much easier to take some idea towards which the mind would naturally flow. The Hindus assert that the nature of the object determines the Samadhi; that is, the nature of those lower Samadhis which confer so— called “magic powers.” For example, there are the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 454
THE EQUINOX the grades. The Path would indeed be a Treadmill if one always remained in this Salvation Army mood. 99. Thou shalt attain the seventh step and cross the gate of final Knowledge, but only to wed woe—if thou would’ st be Tathagata, follow upon thy predecessor's steps, remain unselfish till the endless end. Thou art enlightened—choose thy way. The anti-climax is now complete. Knowledge is by no means the last step. Knowledge has been finished with even by the Master of the Temple, and all this question of wedding woe, remaining unself…