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Page 46 of 711913 · PDF PAGE 391
…ave never believed, for example, that a virgin could become a mother, without ceasing to be a virgin, in the physical, natural, positive order of things, in spite of all the laws of Nature; you do not affirm that a piece of bread is not only a God, but a real human body with its bones and its veins, its organs, its blood; such, in short, that you make of your children who eat this bread a little race of cannibals. FAITH. There is not a single Christian who would not be revolted by what you have just said. That sufficiently proves that they do n…
1922 · PDF PAGE 372
…ngers’ House, Sir Peter| The duties are simple ; if any wanderer should ask our hospitality, it is for you-to extend it on behalf of the Order.” We knew one wanderer who would come, and we would make him welcome. - “A bright torch and a casement ope at Night To let the warm Love in.” “ But before you go across, you will do well to jom
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…cation of the Moon. Then she clothed her in a specially prepared and consecrated garment. It was not of the same pattern as those of the Order; it was a loose vestment of pale blue covered with silver tissue; and the secret sigils of the moon were woven cunningly upon its hem. It was frail, but of great volume; and the effect was that the wearer seemed to be wrapped in a mist of moonlight.
1919 · PDF PAGE 405
…ana, he will not become an Arhat, and it is therefore necessary for him to remain at that summit as long as possible, in fact always, in order that bye and bye—it might be after many incarnations of perfection—these two might coincide. This perfection he regarded not as that of spiritual experience, but as the attainment of Sila, and by Sila he meant the strict observance of all the rules laid down by the Buddha for the Bhikkhu. He continued that the Buddha had apparently attached far more importance to virtue than to any degree of spiritual at…
1922 · PDF PAGE 112
98 The Diary of a Drug Fiend us of the Pigmies, who lived, if you call it living, in a system of order. | . , It is monstrous and ridiculous to open and close by convention. We had to go to some place where such things didn’t annoy us... . An excessively irritating incident spoilt our lunch at the Cascade. We had made a marvellous impression when we came in. We had floated in like butterflies settling on lilies. A buzz went round the tables. Lou’s beauty intoxicated everybody. Her jewellery dazzled the crowd. I thought of an assembly of Greeks …
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…days Stevenson had spent with them, honour his ashes by emulating the morality of Long John Silver. They were prepared for the breakfast order; but Cyril's requirement, a long-distance call to Paris, struck them as unseasonable and calculated to disturb the balance of the Republic. They asked themselves if the Dreyfus case were come again. However, Cyril got his call, and Simon Iff his information, before seven o'clock. Long before Douglas, who had waited until midnight for the news of his triumph, had recovered from the sleep following its cel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
… grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear con- science, a five-year old grave to keep in order To the memory of my beloved relict, as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore Bugg had forgotten all about England, and what she is, and how he had made her. Or if the good work was going on, it was subcon- scious. He was standing by the gilded statue o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 21
…Oedipus complex at some length, replete with innumerable case histories and paradigms, then Philip Wylie extended it with great power in order to reach the general public. But the most bitter and violent of all the attacks on mother love that I am familiar with has emanated from Crowley. His letter 53 has to be read slowly and closely to be fully appreciated. It is far more deadly and vitriolic than anything Freud ever wrote, and much more to the point than Wylie's work. No doubt it is predicated on the bad relationship he had with his own moth…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
520 Golden Dawn, Order of The, (G :. D:.), 380, 427, 453 Golden Hawk, 191 Good and Evil, 54 Gordian Knot, 203 Grant, Gregor, 357 Great Work, 1,2,5,7,21,129, 133, 136, 140, 143, 221, 222, 225, 287, 297, 311, 318, 334, 336, 351, 376, 391, 394, 429, 440, 444, 471,483,492,503 Great Work "a tea party", 7 Greene, Grahame, 294 Guernica, 305 Gunas,12 Guru, 22, 287, 393 Hadit, 247, 249, 297 Haeckel, Ernst, 55, 199 Hammurabi, 53 Hanuman, 24, 466 Hardy, Thomas, 451 Harpocrates, 145, 153 Haseltine, Philip, 156 Hatha Yoga, 187,310 Hathor, 281 Hawk, Golden, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 47
…e and speech. No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental. Even so, the body and the mind must be very perfect before anything can be done, or the energy of the vision may send the body into spasms and the mind into insanity. This is why the first visions give Ananda, whic…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…s for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the Law, love under will. O. M. 7 = 4D A.\À.\ Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C.... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalù, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° np and the Moon in I4°)f . 244 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…irs count for anything, even in the grossest concerns of life. The facts of a murder are nothing in themselves; they are only adduced in order to prove felonious intent. Material welfare is only important as assisting men towards a consciousness of satisfaction. From the nature of things, therefore, life is a sacrament; in other words, all our acts are magical acts. Our spiritual consciousness acts through the will and its instruments upon material objects, in order to produce changes which will result in the establishment of the new conditions…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…n— Bones. Washington Irving, I think— Bowley. Some Yankee—the only oyster in the stew. Bones. Who told you, Supreme Magus of our Ancient Order! [with profound sarcasm] to go about saving people pain? Bowley. I give in. But really I tell you that you will never attain to the Brotherhood until you have genuinely conquered the Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as white and black, good and evil—— Bones. I sometimes doubt if any of these are opposites at all. Next time you run up to Kether, look do…
1944 · PDF PAGE 6
… Initiated Tradition of the Tarot; I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twenty‐two Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Ar‐ rangement; The Tarot and the Tree o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 173
… are all those facts which have determined you to choose this your Great Work. Then, the ambition, conscious, which arranges the general order and disposition of your life. Lastly, the practices themselves. And my belief is that the immense majority of failures have their neglect to brush up their drill to thank for it. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1922 · PDF PAGE 161
…couldn’t either of us eat it. I remember what Haidée said about the spiritual life. We were being prepared to take our places in the new order of Humanity. It’s perfectly right that one should have to undergo a certain amount of dis- comfort. You couldn’t expect anything else. It’s nature’s way. ... We picked ourselves up with five or six goes of heroin. It’s no use taking cocaine unless you're feeling pretty good already... . The supply is really awfully small. Confound this silly holiday habit. It really isn’t fair of Gretel to let us down li…
1954 · PDF PAGE 365
…sign which I demanded might have been given me in some other equally striking way. We are not obliged to make extravagant assumptions in order to maintain that the evidence of purpose is irresistibly strong. To dismiss this intricate concatenation of circumstances, culminating as they do in the showing forth of the exact sign which I had demanded, is simply to strain the theory of probabilities beyond the breaking point. Here then are two complicated episodes which go to prove that I am walking, not by faith but by sight, in my relations with t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
… paper to which we have all I am sure listened with remarkable pleasure. [Oh/ ehuek z't.'] Was I called upon, or were you? The Chairman. Order, if you please, greatly honoured Fratres. Mr. Bones has the floor. A Voiee. What will Mrs. Bones say to that? The Chairman. [Stemba] If I have any more unseemly interrup tions of this kind, I shall clear the Court. Mr. Bones. Thank you, sir. The very valuable paper to which I am sure—— [Tumull.
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
…iber LXV,” Cap. II, v. 24, and to the Tao Te Ching.1 This becomes particularly important in high grades. One is not to do Yoga, etc., in order to get samadhi, like a schoolboy or a shopkeeper; but for its own sake, like an artist. 1 [For “Liber LXV” with Crowley’s commentary, and his translation of the Tao Te Ching, see Works Cited.] 2 [These are definitions of “assuaged,” not “unassuaged.”] “unassuaged” means “its edge taken off by” or “dulled by.”1 2 The pure student does not think of the result of the examination. 45. The Perfect and the Per…
1929 · PDF PAGE 449
…ow how to use; though prepared to do so on the first person who spoke to them. At the Russian frontier, we plunged from civilization and order, headlong into confusion and anarchy. No one on the train could speak a word even of German. We were thrown out at Warsaw into a desolation which could hardly have been exceeded had we dropped on the moon. At last we found a loafer who spoke a little German, but no man knew or cared about the trains to Moscow. We ultimately drove to another station. A train was due to leave, but they would not find us ac…