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Page 50 of 811930 · PDF PAGE 70
…o will. 1 He préparés the circle by the usual formulæ of Banishing and Consécration, etc. He recites Section A as a rehearsal before His Holy Guardian Angel of the attributes of that Angel. Each phrase must be realized with full concentration of force, so as to make Samadhi as perfectly as possible upon the truth proclaimed. Line i He identifies his Angel with the Ain Soph, and the Kether thereof; one formulation of Hadit in the boundless Body of Nuith. Lines 2, 3, 4 He asserts that His Angel has created (for the purpose of self-realisation thr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
… and back, like a biograph out of order, and there’s no sort of connection between one and the other. Hullo, what’s that? Why, there’s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. He’ll tell m e what it all means.’ Poor silly old Lord of the Universe ! Had he carried his memory back one more step he’d have known all about Jehjaour and the con- spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had only one more birth; and might well have put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of æons which would elapse before lunch in rejoicing over his imminent annihilation. “ ‘Vener…
1911 · PDF PAGE 168
…p.m. THE CRY OF THE IST AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED LIL First, let praise and worship and honour and glory and great thank be given unto the Holy One, who hath permitted us to come thus far, who hath revealed unto us the ineffable mysteries, that they might be disclosed before men. And we humbly beseech His infinite goodness that he will be pleased to manifest unto us even the Mystery of the First Aethyr. (Here followeth the Call of the Aethyr.) The veil of the Aethyr is like the veil of night, dark azure, full of countless stars. And because the v…
1913 · PDF PAGE 164
… man is the next step, and Frater P. has concentrated His message into this one phrase, “ATTAIN TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSATION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL.” All beyond that is useless till that has been done. Here, then, the task of the writers of this book. 7he Temple of Solomon the King, may end. The progress of a man has been described in detail with the documents reproduced verbatim. It is of no concern to any man, least of all to him, whether that account of his attainment is accepted. What is urgent for each man is that the message shou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 333
…before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. Christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. He has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is extinguished. He comes to recall Israel to life, and if he cannot galvanize Israel, slain by the Pharisees, into life, he will resurrect the world given over to the dead worship of idols. Christ is the right to do one’s dut…
1913 · PDF PAGE 164
… man is the next step, and Frater P. has concentrated His message into this one phrase, “ATTAIN TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSATION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL.” All beyond that is useless till that has been done. Here, then, the task of the writers of this book. 7he Temple of Solomon the King, may end. The progress of a man has been described in detail with the documents reproduced verbatim. It is of no concern to any man, least of all to him, whether that account of his attainment is accepted. What is urgent for each man is that the message shou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 333
…before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. Christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. He has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is extinguished. He comes to recall Israel to life, and if he cannot galvanize Israel, slain by the Pharisees, into life, he will resurrect the world given over to the dead worship of idols. Christ is the right to do one’s dut…
1919 · PDF PAGE 367
… facts which they present to you. The last paragraph gives too succinct a statement of the facts. The attainment of the knowledge of the Holy Guar- dian Angel is only the “next step.” It does not imply Bud- dhahood by any means. 14. Shun praise, O Devotee. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thy SELF is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not. Pride is an expansion of the Ego, and the Ego must be destroyed. Pride is its protective sheath, and hence excep- 45
1943 · PDF PAGE 2
…vel, The rapturous Bacchanal rite! The rocks and trees are yours, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet's horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! I lift the mask of matter; I open the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth—Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood, Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood I bring you laughter and tears…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…ms , that it sprang from the true abhorrence of the vile , cannot be denied ; that 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 237 . 2 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 173 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…h. There was a certain Darwesh whose turban a thief stole. But when they said to him, “ See ! he hath taken the road to Damascus !" that holy man answered, as he went quietly to the cemetery, “I will await him here ! " So, therefore, there is one place, O thou thief of my heart’s love, Adonai, to which Thou must come at last ; and that place is the tomb in which lie buried all my thoughts and emotions, all that which is “ I, and Me, and Mine.” There will I lay myself and await thee, even as our Father Christian Rosenkreutz that laid himself in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 179
… the Great Waters to her Will. Now in the Vetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth (ze, a House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of ¥ is the Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic Power. (/Vote.— Woden, the Scandinavian Mercury, was the All-Father, as it is written in the Ritual of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal 169
1909 · PDF PAGE 179
… the Great Waters to her Will. Now in the Vetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth (ze, a House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of ¥ is the Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic Power. (/Vote.— Woden, the Scandinavian Mercury, was the All-Father, as it is written in the Ritual of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal 169
1906 · PDF PAGE 175
… 210 216 220 225 Why, in a word, I seek to gain A different knowledge. Why retain The husk of flesh, yet seek to merit The influx of the Holy Spirit? And, swift as caddies pat and cap a tee, Gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- Roic guerdon of Srotapatti ? With calm and philosophic mind, Our logical No fears, no hopes, devotions blind cna ioe a To hamper, soberly we'll state demonstrating The problem, and investigate erudition of In purely scientific mood poet. The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those …
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…ssors shared the predilections and privileges of Jesuit confessors) the inhalation is the enlightenment of the soul ; the exhalation the holy influence shed by the Sufi upon his fellow man — and so on. Mahbub was perfectly willing to explain every phrase in the book along these lines ; reasonable people will agree that a single sample is enough. But see the note 1 on XXXVIIIth Ghazal. 4. Aristu — Aristotle. Most sensible men will heartily agree with these sentiments. El Qahar is more than mystic and sodomite ; he is a practical person. But perh…
1919 · PDF PAGE 78
…eth me, that beareth me. 16. O serpent woman of the stars! I, even I, have fash- ioned Thee from a pale image of fine gold. 17. Also the Holy One came upon me, and I beheld a white swan floating in the blue. 18. Between its wings I sate, and the zons fled away. 19. Then the swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. 20. A little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: 21. Who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane? Behold, these many zons have passed; whence camest thou? Whither wilt thou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…ical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Suprême and Complété Ritual is there- fore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; 1 or* in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. 2 Ail other magical Rituals are particular cases of this general principle, and the only excuse for doing them is that it sometimes occurs that one particular portion of the microcosm is so weak that its imperfection of impurity would vitiate the Macrocosm of which it is the image, Eidolon, or Reflexion. For example, God is above sex; and…
1904 · PDF PAGE 28
…CENSION DAY 21 That worthy Yankee millionaire, And wealthy nephews, young and fair, The pleasing Crawfords ! Lost ! Lost ! Lost !78 “The Holy Spirit, friend ! beware !” Ah ! ten days yet to Pentecost ! Come that, I promise you—but stay ! At present ’tis Ascension Day ! At least your faith should be content. I quarrel not with this event. The supernatural element ? I deny nothing—at the term It is just Nothing I affirm. The fool (with whom is wisdom, deem The Scriptures—rightly !) in his heart Saith (silent, to himself, apart) This secret : “\yh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS IOI What’s “Labbaik”? asked Denzil. The pious “ Adsum " of the Pilgrim when he reaches the holy ground of Mecca. So you may imagine the horror of the Muslim on hearing it float cheerfully up from Hell! Talking of Black Magic, said the big man, the belief in it is probably as strong as ever. I myself am inclined to laugh: “Who believes in Black Magic proves himself to be bewitchedl” I had a horrible case of it once—I shudder yet! I could imagine the time when my poor friend’s disease was epidemic; when the panic madn…
1913 · PDF PAGE 482
…ong the Hebrews. The Logos, or the Word, being according to the initiates of that science the complete revelation, the principles of the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; the ALEPH s and the MEM pn, according to others, the SCHIN w. There are seven double…