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Page 51 of 711929 · PDF PAGE 115
… applied to the service of one's true will.) I suppose I have to thank Stevenson for the idea, which was this. As a member of the Second Order, I wore a certain jewelled ornament of gold upon my heart. I arranged that when I had it on, I was to permit no thought, word or action, save such as pertained directly to my magical aspirations. When I took it off I was, on the contrary, to permit no such things; I was to be utterly uninitiate. It was like Jekyll and Hyde, but with the two personalities balanced and complete in themselves. I found this …
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…to this planet to drug myself into my grave before my powers have had a chance to ripen. I’ve thought it necessary to keep off heroin in order to give myself a show. But I’m left flat. Life becomes more tedious every day, and the one way of escape is barred by flaming swords.” “ Bxactly,” he replied. ‘“ You’ve only discovered one thing that you don’t will; you have still to find the one thing that you do will. And yet there are quite a number of clues in this manuscript of yours. I note you say that your squad commander, who didn’t become that …
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
…tudent if he is approaching this subject for the first time. The method is one that he started to use shortly after joining the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn when taken under the wing of Allan Bennett who had become his guru. Wherever he went, he took special notice of any person, object or event with a view to placing it on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Slowly, in this way, he became adept in using the Tree as a referent for all phenomena whatsoever, and the so-called stereotyped attributions of color, planet, Tarot
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…QUINOX It is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to Brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of God, the net with which the fish of Prana is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the Atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of Brahman.* At the end of the “Shiva Sanhita” there are some twenty verses dealing with th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…QUINOX It is the best support, the bow off which the soul as the arrow flies to Brahman, the arrow which is shot from the body as bow in order to pierce the darkness, the upper fuel with which the body as the lower fuel is kindled by the fire of the vision of God, the net with which the fish of Prana is drawn out, and sacrificed in the fire of the Atman, the ship on which a man voyages over the ether of the heart, the chariot which bears him to the world of Brahman.* At the end of the “Shiva Sanhita” there are some twenty verses dealing with th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 26
…es, particu- larly the Japanese, have made a definite science starting from this fact. For example, they clap their hands four times “in order to drive away evil spirits.” That is, of course, only a figure of speech. What they really do is this: the physical gesture startles the mind out of its lethargy, so that the idea which has been troubling it is replaced by a new one. They have various dodges for securing a new one and making sure that the new one shall be pleasant. More of this later. What happened is that at this moment my mind was seiz…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
…h that be, which are entirely out of keeping with his character.” I took a pencil, and wrote at once against the cross in column two “In order to make the most of Sister Athena’s illuminating discourse.” She laughed merrily. “You see, it’s Adam and Eve all over again! You're trying to shift the blame on to me. By the way, I see your body is nervous at this moment. If you don’t want to take heroin, as you don’t, else you wouldn’t have let yourself get as shaky as you are, you'd better take a white tablet. It won’t put you to sleep, as you've had…
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…capitulating, in the following words, the events of the last four years: In the year 1899 I came to C . . . House, and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operation of Abramelin the Mage. I had studied Ceremonial Magic, and had obtained very remarkable success. My Gods were those of Egypt, interpreted on lines closely akin to those of Greece, In Philosophy I was a Realist of the Qabalistic School. In 1900 I left England for Mexico, and later the Far East, Ceylon, India, Burma, Baltistan, Egypt and France. It is idle here…
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…capitulating, in the following words, the events of the last four years: In the year 1899 I came to C . . . House, and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operation of Abramelin the Mage. I had studied Ceremonial Magic, and had obtained very remarkable success. My Gods were those of Egypt, interpreted on lines closely akin to those of Greece, In Philosophy I was a Realist of the Qabalistic School. In 1900 I left England for Mexico, and later the Far East, Ceylon, India, Burma, Baltistan, Egypt and France. It is idle here…
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
The Glitter on the Snow 87 air of a Worshipful Master calling the Lodge to order, “TI said to myself when I met you last night, ‘it’s better to be born lucky than rich, and there’s a man who was born lucky.’ ” It was perfectly true. I had never been able to do anything of my own abilities, and after all I had tumbled into a reasonably good fortune. ‘ You’ve got the touch, Pen,’ he said, with animation. “* Any time you're out of a job, I'll give you ten thousand a year as a mascot.” Lou and I were both intensely excited. We could hardly find the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 376
…t Basil could take a dose of heroin or cocaine, could indulge in hashish, ether, or opium as simply and usefully as the ordinary man can order a cup of strong black coffee when he happens to want to work late at night. He had become completely master of himself, because he had ceased to oppose himself to the current of spiritual will-power of which he was the vehicle. He had no fear or fascina- tion with regard to any of these drugs. He knew that these two qualities were aspects of a single reaction; that of emotion to ignorance. He could use c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 338
… little more deeply (and I hope more clearly) into this Ethics, with our minds undismayed by any human emotion. Aiwass is of a different Order of Being from ourselves. Consider a gold-refiner. "Analysis shows 20 percent of copper in this sample; I'll heat it in a current of oxygen; that will oxidize the copper. Shake it up with sulphuric acid; then we wash away the copper sulphate, and that's that." He does not consider how the copper feels about it; indeed, he doesn't believe that the copper knows about it at all. Yes, yes, of course; I know t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 499
… of time and space. But it is at least equally plausible to suggest that these Gods are different individuals, although of the identical Order of Being, characteristics and function. Very much as if one took Drake, Frobisher, Raleigh, Hood, Blake, Rodney and Nelson, as seen through the mists of history, tradition, legend and plain mythopoeia. Add a few names not English, and our position is closely parallel. Personally, I incline to the latter hypothesis; but it would be hard to say why, unless that it is because I feel that to identify them co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…- diluvian beast. How long I mentally watched the figure I cannot say, but after a period it became obscure and difficult to see, and in order to prevent it vanishing it had to be willed to stay. After a further time the Plesiosaurus (?) above the figure became a vast shadowy form including the figure itself. The experiment being at an end D.A. put the following question to P. “How do you judge of distance of secondary replicas of me?” P. answered: “ By size only.” D.A. comments on the above were as follows: 1, That the test partially failed. 2…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…- diluvian beast. How long I mentally watched the figure I cannot say, but after a period it became obscure and difficult to see, and in order to prevent it vanishing it had to be willed to stay. After a further time the Plesiosaurus (?) above the figure became a vast shadowy form including the figure itself. The experiment being at an end D.A. put the following question to P. “How do you judge of distance of secondary replicas of me?” P. answered: “ By size only.” D.A. comments on the above were as follows: 1, That the test partially failed. 2…
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
…hing of this sort was when I was in Pacific waters, mostly at Honolulu or in Nippon. I was practicing Astral Projection. A Sister of the Order who lived in Hong Kong helped me. I was to visit her, and the token of perfect success was to be that I should knock a vase off the mantel-piece. We appointed certain days and hours-with some awkwardness, as my time-distance from her was constantly growing shorter-for me to pay my visit. We got some remarkable results; our records of the interview used to tally with surprising accuracy; but the vase rema…
1922 · PDF PAGE 370
… we found out this morning what your will was, I came down here to get the place ready for you to do it. I’m going to keep this place in order for you and assist you as best I can in your work, just as I danced for you, and went to McCall for you, in the days when you were blind. I was blind too about your will, but I always followed my instinct to do what you needed me for, even when we were poisoned and insane.” She spoke in low, calm tones, but she was trembling like a leaf. I didn’t know what to answer. The great- ness of her attitude abash…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…poke no language but his own, except a little Swiss.) From this time I shall communicate in a cipher of the direct additive nu- merical order, and the key shall be his name. It was only my incomparably strong constitution which enabled me to add the task of deciphering his conversation to that imposed by Government. To memorise perfectly a cipher communication of half-an- hour is no mean feat of mnemonics, especially when the deciphered message is itself couched in the obscurest symbolism. The spy must have thought his reason in danger if he…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
… joined handsy knuckles closedy thumb in position as aforesaid. He rises and draws the veil over the whole alta-r. Ail rise and stand to order. The PRIEST takes the lance from the DEACON and holds it as beforey as Osiris or Ththah. He circumambulates the Temple three timeSy f ollowed by the DEACON and the children as before. (Thesey when not using their handsy keep their arms crossed upon their breasts.) At the last circumambulation they leave him and go to the place between the font and the small altary where they kneel in adorationy their han…
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
…up a sort of sorites-a is b, therefore a is not b; therefore not a is not b; and all these contrary statements are equally false, but in order to realise this fact they must themselves be announced by the mind as ecstatic discoveries of truth. The result of all this naturally is that the mind very rapidly