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Page 47 of 1121913 · PDF PAGE 168
…dignified. Lead is added under an auspicious Saturn : and so for the quicksilver, copper, and iron, when Mercury, Venus, and Mars are of good augury. The sound of this Bell is indescribably commanding, solemn, and majestic. Without even the minutest jar, its single notes tinkle fainter and fainter into silence. At the sound of this Bell the Universe ceases for an indivisible moment of time, and attends to the Will of the Magician. Let him not interrupt the sound of this Bell. Let this be that which is written. Liber VII, v, 31 : "There is a sol…
1913 · PDF PAGE 343
… MYSTERIES Whoever is not without reproach is the accomplice of all evil; and whoever is not absolutely perverse, may participate in all good. For this reason an agony is always an humanitarian expiation, and every head that falls upon the scaffold may be honoured and praised as the head of a martyr. For this reason also, the noblest and the holiest of martyrs could inquire of his own conscience, find himself deserving of the penalty that he was about to undergo, and say, saluting the sword that was ready to strike him, “Let justice be done!” P…
1913 · PDF PAGE 343
… MYSTERIES Whoever is not without reproach is the accomplice of all evil; and whoever is not absolutely perverse, may participate in all good. For this reason an agony is always an humanitarian expiation, and every head that falls upon the scaffold may be honoured and praised as the head of a martyr. For this reason also, the noblest and the holiest of martyrs could inquire of his own conscience, find himself deserving of the penalty that he was about to undergo, and say, saluting the sword that was ready to strike him, “Let justice be done!” P…
1944 · PDF PAGE 251
… Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof Love, beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, completion, good fortune, graciousness, elegance, luxury, idleness, dissipation debauchery, friendship, gentleness, delight. IV Pour water on thyself thus shalt thou be a Fountain to the Universe. Find thou thyself in every Star. Achieve thou every possibility. War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition, originality, overweening confidence and mega‐ lomania, quarrelsomeness, energy, vigour, stubbornness, impracticability, r…
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
…f more spiritual types. He is slow to anger, but, if driven, becomes implacable. It is not very practicable to dis‐ tinguish between the good and evil dignities in this card; one can merely say that, in case of his being ill‐dignified, both the quality and quantity of his characteristics are somewhat de‐ graded. The reaction of others to him will depend almost entirely upon their own tempera‐ ments. In the Yî King, the airy part of Earth is represented by the 53rd hexagram, Kien. The commentary concerns the flight of wild geese, “gradually appr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 140
…before the sun. Indeed the Magician may despair when he comes to make the Pantacle! Everyone has the material, one man 's pretty well as good as his brothers; but for that Pantacle to be in any way fashioned to a willed end, or even to an intelligible end, or even to a known end: "Hoc opus, Hie labor est." It is indeed the toil of ascending from Avernus, and escaping to the upper air. In order to do it, it is most necessary to understand our tendencies, and to will the development of one, the destruction of another. And though all elements in t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 130
…don's The Princess, a magnificent story-don't miss it!) and Wartime Scotch as sold in most British pubs in 1944, era vulgari. One pretty good plan is to take a masterpiece, pick out a page at random, translate it into French or German or whatever language you like best, walk around your chair three times (so as to forget the English) and then translate it back again. You will gather a useful impression of the value of the masterpiece by noticing the kind of difficulty that arises in the work of translation; more, by observing the effect produce…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…d me, sir? [ALAIN s¢277 smiles.) Wad it been freely offered to me, I should have been proud to accept her hand, for I perceive she is as good as she is beautiful [ALAIN stzll smiles], but as things are—er—TI have the honour, Messire, of refusing [ALAIN smiles more and more|—I—er—er-— [ALAIN’S saizle becomes positively insupportable, BLANCHE smiles through her tears in gratitude and zs secretly tickled at hts confusion. DENYS gets annoyed, and swings away on his heel with an expression of disgust. ALAIN. I am afraid, Monsieur de Beaulieu, that y…
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…gement . Hegel held : “ that a thing can only arise through its opposite ," and this idea was also held by the Qabalists . Deity created good and evil ; and both are absolutely necessary to the ex istence of each other . Further , the Qabalist does not even recognize their independence as two opposing powers , but as one under the one Supreme Deity ; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness , and the internal spiritual higher world of Goodness
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…mber like a young al- mond tree in blossom ! for both are dropped off. Beware, if thou ridest in the bazaar, that thou dost not hurt the good Qazi, the just one, the in- corruptible one, the wise one, the merciful to the afflictions of the poor,4 by stepping upon his nose or his member ! Beware ! sayeth El Qahar the seer. 1. Dirham — a coin, equivalent according to Darmstetter to about 13s. 6d of our money. But the word is used very loosely to imply a piece of money, so that 100 dirhams here probably stands for a shilling or less.
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power 101 either good or evil to its possessors, It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power 101 either good or evil to its possessors, It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power for either good or evil to its possessors. It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation. The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
THE EQUINOX the profane, for it gives immense power for either good or evil to its possessors. It is recorded in symbol, parable and allegory, requiring a Key for its interpretation. The symbols of Freemasonry were originally derived from the more ancient mysteries, as all who have travelled the burning sands know. The ritual and ceremonies, signs and passwords have been preserved with great fidelity; but the Real Key has been long lost to the crowds who have been initiated, advanced and raised in Masonry. The KEY to this knowledge can, however…
1924 · PDF PAGE 7
…eated by your editors abominable lies is glaringly shown by the fact that Mr. Crowleys publishers, despite their complete sympathy and good will, feel unable, for the time being, to proceed with the publication of the work. They state that the book trade and the big libraries, in England and abroad, will boycott the book, from the start, unless the specific lies, here denounced, are first destroyed, once for all. The whole event illustrates the absolute neces- sity for that right of reply which the law of France provides. In no other way can …
1928 · PDF PAGE 105
…horror of boredom and with the immortal desire to feel themselves alive. My host and myself were already by the time we sat down old and good friends. We ate, we drank outrageously every sort of ex- traordinary wine, and, a thing no less strange, it seemed to me after several hours that I was no more drunk than he was; nevertheless, gambling, that super-human pleasure, had in- terrupted at different intervals our frequent li- bations, and I must tell you that I played and lost my soul in a rubber with heroic careless- ness and lightness. The so…
1939 · PDF PAGE 61
…ring my retirement in Kandy, I had been trying to concentrate by slanting my eyes towards the tip of my nose. This, by the way, is not a good practice; one is liable to strain the eyes. But what happened was that I woke up in the night; my hand touched a nose; I immediately concluded that some one was in the room. Not at all; I only thought so because my nose had passed away from the region of my observation by the practice of concentrating upon it. 12. The same sort of thing occurs with adequate concentration on any object. It is connected, cu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 139
…so on. But at least it is useful and important to know that things can be done at a pinch in a great city and a small room. The lunch is good ; the kidneys were well cooked; the tarte aux {raises was excellent; the Burgundy came straight from the Vat of Bacchus. The Coffee and Cognac are beyond all praise; the cigar is the best Cabana I ever smoked. Ι37
1928 · PDF PAGE 112
…airly long time abroad. What were not my horror and amazement when, returning to my house, the first object which caught my sight was my good little friend, my lifes merry companion, hanging from the panel of the wardrobe! He feet almost touched the floor; a chair which he had doubt- less kicked away was overturned beside him; his head was convulsively crooked over one shoulder; his blood-suffused face, and his eyes, wide open, with affrightening fixity, made me think at the first moment that he was alive. To take him down was not so easy a ta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 228
… in the day Douglas left for Soissons. He was attached to the French army as chief of a corps of signallers — thanks, once again, to the good offices of Becasseux. His plans were perfect: they had been cut and dried for over fifteen years. [321]