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Page 48 of 1121954 · PDF PAGE 367
…bers or weak neighbours: it is the mob spirit crushing genius, or overwhelming opposition by brute arithmetic. Of course, one must be of good family to do anything much that is worth doing; but what is one to say when the question of the Great Work is posed? Bless you, the whole strength of the family is based on the fact that it cares for the family only: therefore its magical formula thus concentrated is of necessity hostile to so exclusively individual an aim as Initiation . Its sentiments are reciprocated. In every Magical, or similar syste…
1912 · PDF PAGE 91
…f Jesus Christ within Your slimy cells. I know you, Pilate ! GOVERNOR. So you mean Mischief, I gather, Mistress Mary Magdalene ! ABBESS. Good people, can you bear him to insult me ? Hear What horrors I can utter ! GOVERNOR. Horrors, never fear !
1912 · PDF PAGE 96
…t last ! MONICA. The hour I waited for ! MORTADELLO. Its omen overcast with crimson clouds of war ! MONICA. Ah ! thats for Venice folk, good sentimental fools ! We know that lifes a joke. MORTADELLO. You play with plaguy tools ! I know you, who you arewanton and murderess. MONICA. Oh, if you knew how far the truth was from your guess ! MORTADELLO. Assassin, hypocriteyour sham stigmata bleed ! MONICA. O man of little wit, O bat of little breed ! They are the very scarsit was mine own surprise. Theres more beneath the stars than meets a cri…
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
…you purr with self-satisfaction. How clever you have been! How nicely the posture suits all conditions! You absolutely melt with maudlin good feeling. I have known pupils who have actually been betrayed into sparing a kindly thought for the Teacher! It is quite clear that there is something wrong about this. Fortunately, Time, the great healer, is on the job as usual; Time takes no week-ends off; Time does not stop to admire himself; Time keeps right on.[3] Before very long, you forget all about the pleasantness of things, and it would not be a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…” she smiled back. “And perhaps if we had our wish, we should both be disappointed. Now I am going home to write letters, and if you are good you shall lunch with me to-morrow.” I35
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…” she smiled back. “And perhaps if we had our wish, we should both be disappointed. Now I am going home to write letters, and if you are good you shall lunch with me to-morrow.” I35
1912 · PDF PAGE 30
…come independent of the will, and thus enabled to act freely of its own accord. This is the same phenomenon referred to above as being a good sign. Finally something happens Whose nature may form the subject of a further discussion later on. For the moment let it suffice to say that this consciousness of the Ego and the non-Ego, the seer and the thing seen, the knovver and the thing known, is blotted out. There is usually an intense light, an intense sound, and a feeling of such overwhelming bliss that the resources of language have been ex- hau…
1912 · PDF PAGE 75
… break, which is a sort of aberration of the control itself. You think, “ How well I am doing it! ” or perhaps that it would be rather a good idea if you were on a desert
1912 · PDF PAGE 54
…ewell, prin- cess. I thank your kindly aid. [He goes off, R. ALL. Farewell ! Well follow Mortadello blind to heaven or hell. And heres good luck to the Princess, by sword and spur ! Our guardian angel in distressall health to her ! [They follow MORTADELLO, cheering. MONICA. It was well done. He sees what menace lies beneath The smiles that run like sunlight on my shining teeth ! ALESSANDRO. The hour draws near. The tigress springs ; I feel her breath Black hour of fear, whose leaden wings beat, beat like death. MONICA. Ah ! is my breath so h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 183
…a sound, [THEY begin to lack 715841?/ן%;? CLARK. [Asiae fo Sergeant] He's been a bit excited-like these last few days—and the ale's main good. Don't seem to notice him! SERGEANT. [Asla’e !0 CLARK] Right, very right, neigh- bour Clark. [JACK starts to sing, mam! remember the words, sings anything—very ”401%-?!ששthe Male about, (mocks z'! at last an flaoe with ever-increasing a'z'n. The OTHERS go an Mailing and laughing. JACK at last exhausts himself. HE assumes his flu/live 25/?ששחמו mannen-they take no notice, but laugh even leader. JACK observe…
1912 · PDF PAGE 183
…a sound, [THEY begin to lack 715841?/ן%;? CLARK. [Asiae fo Sergeant] He's been a bit excited-like these last few days—and the ale's main good. Don't seem to notice him! SERGEANT. [Asla’e !0 CLARK] Right, very right, neigh- bour Clark. [JACK starts to sing, mam! remember the words, sings anything—very ”401%-?!ששthe Male about, (mocks z'! at last an flaoe with ever-increasing a'z'n. The OTHERS go an Mailing and laughing. JACK at last exhausts himself. HE assumes his flu/live 25/?ששחמו mannen-they take no notice, but laugh even leader. JACK observe…
1928 · PDF PAGE 37
…tears from her the prey whose torn guts remain for an in- stant clinging to the teeth of the savage brute. I mean of the woman. Come, a good whack to quiet her! for she darts eyes terrible with greed on the food that he has snatched away. Great God! the stick is not a fools bauble; did you not hear the flesh smack, despite the hide? And now too, her eyes jump out of her head; she howls more naturally than before. In her rage she sparkles all over, as when one beats hot iron.
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…eign is corne ; Thy will is done. Here is the Bread; here is the Blood. Bring me through midnight to the Sun! Save me from Evil and from Good! That Thy one crown of ail the Ten Even now and here be mine. AMEN. He puts the first Cake on the Fire of the Thurible. I burn the Incense-cake, proclaim These adorations of Thy name. He makes them as in Fiber Le gis, and strikes again Eleven times upon the Bell. With the Burin he then makes upon his breast the proper sign. 329
1954 · PDF PAGE 34
…d in the minutest detail in The Equinox of the Gods. At that time most of The Book of the Law was completely unintelligible to me, and a good deal of it-especially the third chapter-extremely antipathetic. I fought against this book for years; but it proved irresistible. I do not think I am boasting unfairly when I say that my personal researches have been of the greatest value and importance to the study of the subject of Magick and
1909 · PDF PAGE 81
…nal details of all I have eaten and drunk. I. All food is a species of intoxicant; hence a fruitful source of error. Should I obtain any good result, Limight say “ You were starved " or “You were drunk." It is very easy to get visions of sorts by either process, and to delude oneself into the idea that one has attained, mistaking the Qliphoth for Kether. 2. In keeping the vow “I will interpret every phenomenon as aparticular dealing of God with my soul " the mere animal actions are the most resistant. One cannot see the nature of the phenomenon…
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…III.—TZhe Soldier and the Hunchback. An essay on the method of equilibrium on the intellectual plane. Liper CXCVII.—TZhe High History of Good Sir Pala- medes the Savacen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast. A poetic account of the Great Work, and enumeration of many obstacles. Liser CCXLII.—4 x4 / An exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. x D 49
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…III.—TZhe Soldier and the Hunchback. An essay on the method of equilibrium on the intellectual plane. Liper CXCVII.—TZhe High History of Good Sir Pala- medes the Savacen Knight and of his following of the Questing Beast. A poetic account of the Great Work, and enumeration of many obstacles. Liser CCXLII.—4 x4 / An exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. x D 49
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…e there is in Three, And I myself was at Trinity. The least we can do is to seek and see The virtues hid in the Number Three. If much be good, then better is more, As any logician will prove you; Its only a step from Three to Four; May the arguments lever move you! Its simply illogical not to explore The little bit on from Three to Four.
1961 · PDF PAGE 106
…s of thine own inner Being. Also, thou must work always for a definite End, never for Pleasure or for Relaxation, except thou wilt, as a good Knight is sworn to do. And thou being Hero and Magician art in Peril of abusing the fiery Agents only, not those of Earth, Air or Water; because these do really work with thee in Purity, making thee wholly what thou wouldst be, an Engine indefatigable, a Mind clear, calm, and concentrated, and a Heart fierce aglow. n
1961 · PDF PAGE 108
… the Sense of true Proportion. For verily this is a Way of Madness, Love, unless it be under Will. And the Cure of his Madness is not so good as its Prevention, so that thou shouldst be beforehand with these Children, shewing them the right Importance of Love, how it should be a sacred Rite, exalted above Personality, and a Fire to enlighten and serve Man, not to devour him. i