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Page 47 of 731912 · PDF PAGE 48
…he London Temple was dis— persed, and its chief, his occupation gone, left to the more diverting pastime of trying to dodge the Criminal Law Amendment Act. With autumn we find Fra. Ρ. still less occupied with magic; he spent the winter skating at St. Moritz, where his only occult exploit seems to have been parson-baiting, and though he returned to Scotland in the spring, it was only for a few days. For on April 27, 1905, one of the old comrades of his journeys in Central Asia sought him out, and proposed a new Expedition. Fra. P. gleefully acce…
1919 · PDF PAGE 447
…g here to note the view taken by Him who has actually attained the Grade of Magus. He says: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It may be those three perfections of my Sambhogakaya Robe, but the fact is that one has reached a stage when the Path becomes almost meaningless. The illusion of Sorrow has been exposed so ruthlessly that one 125
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…ling” until the jijipabe bianu enapo it mariebe obolera Das tarianu idalugame living breath of the voice of the Lord is according to the law which shall be given pujo-ilasa. unto thee. DOo-emetajisa ananael Solomonis iebe ivaunicda! By the seal of the secret wisdom of Solomon thou art called! * Knights—pu-imé. Prelates—tabaame. Earls—nazodapesad. Kings—roré. Dukes— oheloka. Presidents—balazodareji. Marquises—geraa. 64
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…thing. But in me arose a peace profounder than Himalayan snows cooped in their crystalline ravines. I saw the ultimation of the one wise law. I stood in the King’s Chamber, by the tomb of slain Osiris, in the Pyramid and looked down the Great Gallery, deep, deep into the hollow of earth ; grand gloom burned royally therein ; I was well hid in the shadow ; here I realized myself to be in that sepulchral sleep wherein were mirrored all these things of mystery. So the long passage steeply sliding ever up to my feet where I stood in the emptiness ;…
1919 · PDF PAGE 271
…sts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—se- cret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 257
1954 · PDF PAGE 556
…69, 482 Tests, magical, 448 , 449 Tetragrammaton, 24, 63, 129, 309,350 Thai Yang, 61; Thai Yin, 61 Thebes , 271 Theism, 62 527 Thelema , Law of, 88, 89, 254, 309 , 4)9 Theognis , 446 Theoricus , 427 Theurgy,80 Thomas, J.H., 456 Thomas, James, 173, 451 Thor, Hammer of, 392 Thora, 147 Thoth, 23, 408 , 431,466 Three Baskets of the Dhamma, 385 Tibet, 147,308 Tiger, 221, 222 Tiphareth , 106, 130, 169, 278, 297,310,318 Titanic, 161 Titian, 351 Tohu Bohu, 184 Tom Jones , 265-266 Tories, 461 Totalitarianism, 344 Trance, 57 Trance of Wonder, 199 Transit…
1996 · PDF PAGE 186
…ons to our thought, as well as supports. In the same way, rails help a train to run easily, but confine it to a definite direction. The “laws” of Nature and Thought, Mathematics, Logic, and so on, are “girders” of this sort. Our race-inherited conceptions of space prevented men, until quite recent years, from conceiving a non-Euclidean geometry, or the existence of a fourth Dimension. The initiate soon becomes aware of the untruth of many of these limiting laws of his mind; he has to identify Being with not- Being, to perceive Matter as continu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
…e case of the aspirant to meditation, this stage is even more terrible than the last. He has, to use our previous figures, suspended the law of gravitation ; the stream is still, and the Sun of the soul is faithfully reflected in its brilliance; the mighty engine is stopped. But—there it is! We have got rid of motion, but matter remains. (Again must I apologise for taking so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
…e case of the aspirant to meditation, this stage is even more terrible than the last. He has, to use our previous figures, suspended the law of gravitation ; the stream is still, and the Sun of the soul is faithfully reflected in its brilliance; the mighty engine is stopped. But—there it is! We have got rid of motion, but matter remains. (Again must I apologise for taking so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…long time since this doctrine, or, rather, this antidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return …
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…long time since this doctrine, or, rather, this antidoctrine, began to work upon the world, to plunge it into universal anarchy. But the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return …
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…, Deo Duce Comite Ferro, Chevalier of the Order of St. Germain, ec, etc, by Mr. Q. Scorpio, one of His Majesty's ‘Counsel learned in the Law, Sconrio, KC. What is your name? Marans. The whole lo ScowP1o, KC. The name on your birth certificate Maviens, Mathers Scorpio, K.C. You wereeducated at Bedord Grammar School? Marueus. Yes. ScoxPt0, K.C. And became a lieutenant in a Hampshire volunteer regiment? Mateus, Yes. ‘conPlo, K.C, Yet in Paris you were engaged in Jacobite ‘conspiracies to overthrow the throne of England? Maruuns. I pretended to be …
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…low itself ; not as in Safifia, the accidents necessarily arising from that flow, as it were the rocks in the bed of the stream, but the law of gravitation itself, its necessary tendency to follow its own course. So that the good young Yogi finds himself thus awkwardly placed ; that having created a mighty engine and removed all conceivable impediments to its smooth working, he is now confronted by the inertia of all that majesty and might. Frankenstein | The mystic states of Sankhara are more awful and tremen- dous than any we have yet noticed…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…s manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols for the Unknown; once born, environment, circumstance, position, convention, education, all in their turn come forward to claim us and smother us in their bestial kisses. Yet like the streams and the gutters, the drains and the rivers, we all flow, roar, or trickle onwards to the same unknown sea from which we came. Sometimes Evolution flouts Ethics and we have floods, earthqua…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…low itself ; not as in Safifia, the accidents necessarily arising from that flow, as it were the rocks in the bed of the stream, but the law of gravitation itself, its necessary tendency to follow its own course. So that the good young Yogi finds himself thus awkwardly placed ; that having created a mighty engine and removed all conceivable impediments to its smooth working, he is now confronted by the inertia of all that majesty and might. Frankenstein | The mystic states of Sankhara are more awful and tremen- dous than any we have yet noticed…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…s manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols for the Unknown; once born, environment, circumstance, position, convention, education, all in their turn come forward to claim us and smother us in their bestial kisses. Yet like the streams and the gutters, the drains and the rivers, we all flow, roar, or trickle onwards to the same unknown sea from which we came. Sometimes Evolution flouts Ethics and we have floods, earthqua…
1910 · PDF PAGE 287
…ever reached was a drachm, and this was seldom necessary except in the most unimpres- sible states of the brain, since, according to the law of the hasheesh operation which I have stated to hold good in my experience, a much less bolus was ordinarily sufficient to pro- duce full effect at this time than when I commenced the indulgence. I now reduced my daily ration to ten or fifteen grains. The immediate result of even this modified resumption of the habit was a reinstatement into the glories of the former life. I came out of my clouds; tite ou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 287
…ever reached was a drachm, and this was seldom necessary except in the most unimpres- sible states of the brain, since, according to the law of the hasheesh operation which I have stated to hold good in my experience, a much less bolus was ordinarily sufficient to pro- duce full effect at this time than when I commenced the indulgence. I now reduced my daily ration to ten or fifteen grains. The immediate result of even this modified resumption of the habit was a reinstatement into the glories of the former life. I came out of my clouds; tite ou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 177
…ectly such phenomena as magnetism, electrical resistance, chemical affinity and the like. Let me direct you once more to The Book of the Law, Chapter 2: 70-72. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink , drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
… knower of Holiness; having practised Truth, he has become accomplished in the knowledge of Truth. He perceives the working of the inner Law of things, and is loving, wise, enlightened. And being loving, wise and * The two serpents and central rod of the Caduceus are in Yoga repre- sented by the Ida, Pingala and Sushumna. The wings closed, to the Ajna- lotus; open and displaying the solar disk, to the Sahasara Chakkra. 147