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Page 53 of 1061944 · PDF PAGE 108
…ry to depart completely from the tradition of the cards, in order to carry on that tradition. The old card was called The Angel: or, The Last Judgment. It represented an Angel or Messenger blowing a trumpet, attached to which was a flag, bearing the symbol of the Aeon of Osiris. Below him the graves were opening, the dead rising up. There were three of them. The central one had his hands raised with right angles at the elbows and shoulders, so as to form the letter Shin, which refers to Fire. The card therefore represented the destruction of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 195
…y reach us from the other parts of the solar system; for we can in fact point to perfectly analogous phenomena in the discoveries of the last hundred years or so. But that is no more than a postulate. 2. The objections to Astrology as such, indicated by what I have already pointed out, and several others, would suffice to place me among the most arrogant disbelievers in the whole study, were it not for what follows. 3. The facts with regard to the Ascendant are so patent, so undeniable, and so inexplicable without the postulate in (1), that I a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 109
… again. This racing of the Chittam is simply shocking. John St. John must stop it somehow. Hours and hours seem to have passed since the last entry. !!! He is in such a deuce of a hurry that (in a lucid moment) he finds himself trying to eat bread, radish, beef and potato at a mouthful. Worse, the beast is pleased and excited at the novelty of the sensation, and takes delight in recording it. Beast! Beast! !! 1! After myriads of aeons. He has drunk only about one third of his half-bottle of light white wine ; yet he’s like a hashish-drunkard, on…
1910 · PDF PAGE 55
THE HERMIT Witu the seventh stage in the Mystical Progress of Frater P. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-point. During the last two years he had grown strong in the Magic of the West. After having studied a host of mystical systems he had entered the Order of the Golden Dawn, and it had beena nursery tohim. In it he had learnt to play with the elements and the elemental forces; but now having arrived at years of adolescence, he put away childish things, and stepped out into the world to teach himself what no school could teach him,—th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 55
THE HERMIT Witu the seventh stage in the Mystical Progress of Frater P. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-point. During the last two years he had grown strong in the Magic of the West. After having studied a host of mystical systems he had entered the Order of the Golden Dawn, and it had beena nursery tohim. In it he had learnt to play with the elements and the elemental forces; but now having arrived at years of adolescence, he put away childish things, and stepped out into the world to teach himself what no school could teach him,—th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…sed. This punishment, which I believe criminal authorities would consider severe on a poisoner, went on for a term and a half. I was, at last, threatened with expulsion for my refusal to “ confess ”, and so dreadful a picture of the horrors of expulsion did they paint me — the guilty wretch, shunned by his fellows, slinks on through life to a dishonoured grave, etc. — that I actually chose to endure my torture, and to thank my oppressor. Physically, I broke down. The strain and the misery affected my kidneys ; and I had to leave school altogeth…
1919 · PDF PAGE 367
…particular dealing of God with your Soul.” “Mistrust thy senses”: Avoid superficial judgment of the 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 destro…
1919 · PDF PAGE 395
…we are in no wise bound to accept such teachings blindly, however great our personal reverence for the teacher. 84. But it is said: “The last shall be the greatest.” Sam- yak Sambuddha, the Teacher of Perfection, gave up his SELF for the salvation of the World, by stopping at the threshold of Nirvina—the pure state. Here is further metaphysical difficulty. One kind of noth- 73
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
…ope by now you have got fairly familiar with the process of sticking everything that turns up on its correct branch of the Tree. In your last letter you thank me for having made clear to you the initiated teaching with regard to the Universe; and you now very rightly enquire "this being so, where do we come in?" You hold up to me one of the oldest axioms of the Qabalah. "That which is above is like that which is below," and you ask me for details. What, you enquire, is the constitution of Man? With what parts of the Great System is the Little S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 248
…the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing a straw, who was at. the soirée of the Carlton Club last Monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cow- elephant desiring her bull in the jungles of Ceylon. Meditation is not within the reach of every one; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the West at least) have the opportunity. In any case what the Easterns call ‘‘ one- pointedness ” is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true me…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…from the learner is the device of a selfish charlatan. That which can be taught shall be taught, that that which cannot be taught may at last be learnt. ° 3. As a weary but victorious warrior delights to recall his battles—Forsitan haec olim meminisse juvabit—we would linger for a moment upon the difficulties of our task. The question of sacred alphabets has been abandoned as hopeless. As one who should probe the nature of woman, the deeper he goes the rottener it gets; so that at last it is seen that there is no sound bottom. All is arbitrary …
1903 · PDF PAGE 23
…the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing. a straw, who was at the soirée of the Carlton Club last Monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cow-elephant desiring her bull in the jungles of Geylon.
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
184 THE STAR IN THE WEST The essential soul of dung That lived and stung ; That spoke : no word that living head may hear ! Last , a dark woman pressed The world unto her breast , Soothed and caressed With evil words and kisses of the mouth of Sin .? On we must press , undaunted , against all odds and numbers , as in the spiritual journey towards the Supreme of “ The Ultimate Voyage , ” struggling with the cold wet horrors of life : with my sword Trenchant , that tore their scaly essences Like Lucian's sailor writhing in the clutch Of those wit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 128
…ic form. This work may be regarded as the culmina- tion of the Author’s powers in lyrical and dramatic work : he has apparently said the last word possible on the subject of Regeneration. The Cambridge Review prefers ‘‘the vigour of Mr. Crowley’s ‘ Tannhauser’ to the Attic monotone of the Master (Swinburne).” This rare pamphlet is almost exhausted. As most people know, Berashith is the first word of the book of Genesis, and the essay contains a complete solu- tion of the Problem of Creation, which has baffled all brains less astute and profound…
1919 · PDF PAGE 365
…ings that you have to do before you take your first step, most of them being things which more nearly re- semble the difficulties of the last step. But by learning to distinguish the “real from the false” is only meant a sort of elementary discernment between things that are worth hav- ing and those that are not worth having, and, of course, the perception will alter with advance in knowledge. By “Head- learning” is meant the contents of the Ruach (mind) or Manas. Chiah is sub-consciousness in its best sense, that subliminal which is sublime. T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…ght, iii, 174 As I sit in the sound, ili. 154 As some lone mountebank of the stage, li. 52 -As the tides invisible of ocean, iii. 131 At last I met a maniac, ii. 165 At last we arrive at the end, ii. 194 At least your faith should be content, ii. 163 At noon she sailed for home, ii, 84 At Paris upon Dead Man's Day. iii. 102 ‘* At the hour of the great Initiation” ii. 231 Aum! I unfold the tinted robe, ili. 66 Aum! Let us meditate aright, ii. 177 Aum! Let us meditate aright, ii. 184 Ay! I would murder not my brother only, il, 104 Ay! Let him ris…
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…etery, “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 the Pastas in the Vault of the Mountain of the Caverns, Abiegnus, on whose portal did he cause to be written the words, “ Post Lux Crucis Annos Patebo." So Thou wilt enter in (as did Fr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 51
…e dose—for it is possible to get effect (2) only as a transient phenomenon—the images of thought pass more rapidly through the brain, at last vertiginously fast. They are no longer recognised as thoughts, but ima- gined as exterior. The Will and the Ego become alarmed, and may be attacked and overwhelmed. This constitutes the main horror of the drug; it is to be combated by a highly— may I say magically >—trained will. I trust my readers will concede that the practice of ceremonial magic and meditation, all occult theories apart, do lead the mi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 51
…e dose—for it is possible to get effect (2) only as a transient phenomenon—the images of thought pass more rapidly through the brain, at last vertiginously fast. They are no longer recognised as thoughts, but ima- gined as exterior. The Will and the Ego become alarmed, and may be attacked and overwhelmed. This constitutes the main horror of the drug; it is to be combated by a highly— may I say magically >—trained will. I trust my readers will concede that the practice of ceremonial magic and meditation, all occult theories apart, do lead the mi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…nd as in this Book the word "failure"' is thus made of little account, so also must the word "success " never be employed, for it is the last word that may be wTitten therein, and it is followed by a full stop. This full stop may never be written anywhere else; for the wTiting of the Book goes on eternally; there is no way of closing the record until the goal of all has been attained. Let every page of this Book be filled with song—for it is a Book of incantation !