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Page 53 of 841944 · PDF PAGE 43
…ving things having power in themselves. It may be that, even to‐day, there are houses in darkest Shropshire where anyone who put another book on the top of the Family Bible would be told never to darken those doors again. Auto‐ matic action is everywhere ascribed to inanimate objects; for instance, Horseshoes on doors. There is an entire class of such superstitions. The problem of how any given superstition arose has not always been satisfactorily solved. One can (ignorantly) derive the Sitting‐down‐ Thirteen‐at‐Table nonsense from the legend o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…s and statues in Ancient Greece. The Bible has consecrated the names of Judith and Ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the Holy Book is that of Samson, blind and chained, pulling down the columns of the temple, as he cried: “Let me die with the Philistines!” And yet, do you think that, if Jesus, before dying, had gone to Rome to plunge his dagger in the heart of Tiberius, He would have saved the world, as He did, in forgiving His executioners, and in dying for even Tiberius? E2 51
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…s and statues in Ancient Greece. The Bible has consecrated the names of Judith and Ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the Holy Book is that of Samson, blind and chained, pulling down the columns of the temple, as he cried: “Let me die with the Philistines!” And yet, do you think that, if Jesus, before dying, had gone to Rome to plunge his dagger in the heart of Tiberius, He would have saved the world, as He did, in forgiving His executioners, and in dying for even Tiberius? E2 51
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…u ?’ He answered slowly ‘Bin ich ?’ ” 387. The Fish.58—Because of cquj, whi ch means Fish, And very aptly symbolises Christ. — Ring and Book (The Pope), ll. 89, 90. 395. Dharma.59—Consult the Tripitaka. 409. I cannot trace the chain.60—“How vain, indeed, are human calculations !”— The Auto- biography of a Flea, p. 136. 412. Table-thing.61—“Ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear.”— The Ring and the Book, i. 17. “This pebble-thing, o’ the boy-thing.” —CALVERLY, The Cock and the Bull. 442. Caird.62—See his “Hegel.” 446. Says Huxley.63—See …
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
EXPLANATION OF CERTAIN NAMES USED IN THIS BOOK LEMEGETON.' Eheie. Kether. Almighty God, whose dwelling is in the highest Heavens : Haioth. The great King of Heaven, and of all the powers therein : Methratton. And of all the holy hosts of Angels and Archangels: Reschith. Hear the prayers of Thy servant who putteth his trust in Thee : Hagalgalim. Let thy Holy Angels be commanded to assist me at this time and at all times. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Hadonat. Command Thy Holy Angels above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
…uch thing as time. This is what you should have seen, and what you will see one day, if you cling to the highest in you." He drew a note-book of white vellum from his pocket, and began to read. "The whirlwind of the Eagle and the Lion! The Tree upon the Mountain that is Zion! The marriage of the Starbeam and the Clod! The mystic Sabbath of the Saints of God! Bestride the Broomstick that is God-in-man! Spur the rough Goat whose secret name is Pan! Before that Rod Heaven knows itself unjust; Beneath those hoofs the stars are puffs of dust. Rise u…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…he Earth. He thrones the PRIESTESS upon the altar. The DEACON and the children followy they in ranky behind him. The PRIESTESS takes the Book of the Rawy résumés her seaty and holds it open on her breast with her two handsy making a descending triangle with thumbs and forefingers. The PRIEST gives the lance to the DEACON to hold; and takes the ever from the childy and sprinkles the PRIESTESS, making five crossesy foreheady shouldersy and thighs. The thumb of the PRIEST is always between his index and — 349 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 305
… mortal things, without the knowledge of its source, increases vibration and creates dissatisfaction (‘mortal things’ is good]).” In his book, ‘‘ Sri Brahma Dhara,” which contains some of the most astonishing balderdash ever put in print, may be found his philosophy. This is a stewed-up hash of Yoga, Vedanta, and outrageous verbosity. ‘‘ Love,” he writes, “is the force of the magician Maya, and is the cause of all disorder” (it seems to be so even in his exalted position). ‘This force of love—in the state of circumgyration in the extended world…
1910 · PDF PAGE 305
… mortal things, without the knowledge of its source, increases vibration and creates dissatisfaction (‘mortal things’ is good]).” In his book, ‘‘ Sri Brahma Dhara,” which contains some of the most astonishing balderdash ever put in print, may be found his philosophy. This is a stewed-up hash of Yoga, Vedanta, and outrageous verbosity. ‘‘ Love,” he writes, “is the force of the magician Maya, and is the cause of all disorder” (it seems to be so even in his exalted position). ‘This force of love—in the state of circumgyration in the extended world…
1913 · PDF PAGE 453
… said the Professor of Transcendental Magic, after having traced two words in the Hebrew language in the beginning and at the end of the book. ‘ Here are two words which the spirits of darkness will never counterfeit. Go in peace, sleep well, and no longer evoke spirits.” The workman withdrew. A week later, he returned to seek the Man of Science. 155
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES those books which contain the secrets of the Qabalah, and finally by the reasoned explanation of all the mysteries by the means of the keys of qabalistic magic. In all symbolisms, in fact, we find ideas of antagonism and of harmony producinga trinitarian notion in the concep- tion of divinity, following which the mythological personifica- tion of the four cardinal points of heaven completes the sacred septenary, the base of all dogmas and of all rites. In order to convince oneself of it, it is sufficient to read again a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 453
… said the Professor of Transcendental Magic, after having traced two words in the Hebrew language in the beginning and at the end of the book. ‘ Here are two words which the spirits of darkness will never counterfeit. Go in peace, sleep well, and no longer evoke spirits.” The workman withdrew. A week later, he returned to seek the Man of Science. 155
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES those books which contain the secrets of the Qabalah, and finally by the reasoned explanation of all the mysteries by the means of the keys of qabalistic magic. In all symbolisms, in fact, we find ideas of antagonism and of harmony producinga trinitarian notion in the concep- tion of divinity, following which the mythological personifica- tion of the four cardinal points of heaven completes the sacred septenary, the base of all dogmas and of all rites. In order to convince oneself of it, it is sufficient to read again a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 289
…his humble submissiveness as a Christian, and then not only remarks that the Bible and the Qur’dn are different translations of the same book, but treats the Incar- nation as an allegory, it is evident that a good deal of submission will be required. When he agrees with St. Augustine that a thing is not just because God wills it, but God wills it because it is just, he sees perfectly well that he is reducing God to a poetic image reflected from his own moral vii
1913 · PDF PAGE 289
…his humble submissiveness as a Christian, and then not only remarks that the Bible and the Qur’dn are different translations of the same book, but treats the Incar- nation as an allegory, it is evident that a good deal of submission will be required. When he agrees with St. Augustine that a thing is not just because God wills it, but God wills it because it is just, he sees perfectly well that he is reducing God to a poetic image reflected from his own moral vii
1919 · PDF PAGE 331
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE the Universe as it is conceived by Those who know it; anda regular investigation of that book, and the companion vol- umes ordered in the Curriculum of the A..A.., fortified by steady persistence in practical personal exploration, will enable this Voice of the Silence to become a serious guide in some of the subtler obscurities which weigh upon the Eye- lids of the Seeker. 2. He who would hear the voice of Nada, the “Soundless Sound,” and comprehend it, he has to learn the nature of Dhéarané (concentrated thought). The …
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
ASCENSION DAY 147 110 115 120 125 135 140 Ho! Iadopt the number. Look At the quaint wrapper of this book ! * I will deserve it ifI can: It is the number of a Man. So since in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands -Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives ! # I fight no ghosts. “But why revile ” (You urge me) ‘“‘in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere) * to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul?” Pe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
…jail ; and further , in this case , burnt and destroyed countless thousands of innocent and erudite persons on the authority of a divine book she had rendered obscene by her whorish thumbmarks ; nevertheless , in spite of her Lodges and her logic , the greatest of her sons and daughters , as we have already seen , were mystics and magicians pure and simple ; this no doubt accounts for the comparative safety and dignity with which the early fathers travelled in the East , and the greatest of her ceremonies were entirely of a magical nature . I d…
1919 · PDF PAGE 397
…. Again all this about the ‘sake of others’ and ‘suffering fellow-men,’ is the kind of sentimental balderdash that assures one that this book was intended to reach the English and not the Tibetan public. The sense of separateness from others has been weeded out from the consciousness long, long ago. The Buddha who accomplishes the greater Renunciation is a Saviour of the World—it is the dogginess of a dog that makes it doggy. It is not the virtue of a dog to be doggy. A dog does not be- come doggy by the renunciation of non-dogginess. It is qui…
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
…rringdon Road, or whether it was the Far‐ ringdon Road to which they went; but there is no doubt whatever that one of them bought an old book, either from an obscure bookseller, or off a barrow, or found it in a library. This hap‐ pened about 1884 or 1885. There is no dispute that in this book were some loose papers; that these papers turned out to be written in cipher; that these cipher manuscripts contained the material for the foundation of a secret society purporting to confer initiation by means of rit‐ ual; and that among these manuscript…