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Page 54 of 841911 · PDF PAGE 1
…man of purest white, an efflorescence. It is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell of desolation. So also is this book. The intricacy of faery pattern which the witch weaves is the flowered marble. We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba and AaBCcAaBCcAaBC and bAbAcBcBAcCDaADA, more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra. The limpidity of thought and expression alike is the aquamarine of the pool: "Like foam-flowers falling from the breasts of Sleep their Lotus-kiss is," languid as Sappho writhing to the breeze…
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
THE EQUINOX have made the same observation on a book of St. Martin entitled 4 Natural Picture of the Relations which exist between God, Man and the Universe. The tradition of this secret has, then, never been interrupted from the first ages of the Qabalah to our own times. The table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communica…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…f Amphion built Thebes the Mysterious, because harmony is truth. The whole of Nature is harmony. But the Gospel is not a lyre: it is the book of the eternal principles which should and will regulate all the lyres and all the living harmonies of the universe. R2 243
1913 · PDF PAGE 492
THE EQUINOX have made the same observation on a book of St. Martin entitled 4 Natural Picture of the Relations which exist between God, Man and the Universe. The tradition of this secret has, then, never been interrupted from the first ages of the Qabalah to our own times. The table-turners, and those who make the spirits speak with alphabetical charts, are, then, a good many centuries behind the times; they do not know that there exists an oracular instrument whose words are always clear and always accurate, by means of which one can communica…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…f Amphion built Thebes the Mysterious, because harmony is truth. The whole of Nature is harmony. But the Gospel is not a lyre: it is the book of the eternal principles which should and will regulate all the lyres and all the living harmonies of the universe. R2 243
1954 · PDF PAGE 311
…t insidious fiends, the sense of guilt, of shame-in a word, the 'inferiority complex' or something very like it." The whole tenor of The Book of the Law is to this effect. The very test of worth is that one should be aware of it and not afraid to sock the next man on the jaw if he disputes it! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 P.S. But what do I mean when I say "myself' in normal speech? I mean Tiphareth, the human self as determining the identity of the Supreme Triad plus as much Ruach as I have succeeded in organising as exte…
1954 · PDF PAGE 492
THE A:. A:. 459 makes the Masters responsible for the agony of the planet. I refer you to The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent, Cp.I: 33-40. 33. Let us take our delight in the multitude of men! Let u-s shape unto ourselves a boat of Mother-ofpearl from them, that we may ride upon the river of Amrit! 34. Thou seest yon petal of Amaranth, blown by the wind from the low sweet brows of Hathor? 35. (The magister saw it and rejoiced in the beauty of it.) Listen! 36. (From a certain world came an infinite wail.) That falling petal seemed to the l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…l N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to believe that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…l N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to believe that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they play with me!—I am honestly and soberly trying to set down that which I know, that which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…o Augoeides (z'. e. the Holy Guardian Angel). Resolve to accomplish a Great Retirement on lines closely resembling Abra-melin. The ‘note-book and stop-watch method’ is too much like criticism Doubt whether I should actually do Op. or confine myself to Augoeides. Latter easy to prepare, of course." And so on, making a plan. Now, how did this come about? Not from the meditation on the Reason, which ended once for all in the Destruction of that Reason, but by the " Sammasati ” meditations on his Kamma. Baffled again and again, the {all with his hors…
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…o Augoeides (z'. e. the Holy Guardian Angel). Resolve to accomplish a Great Retirement on lines closely resembling Abra-melin. The ‘note-book and stop-watch method’ is too much like criticism Doubt whether I should actually do Op. or confine myself to Augoeides. Latter easy to prepare, of course." And so on, making a plan. Now, how did this come about? Not from the meditation on the Reason, which ended once for all in the Destruction of that Reason, but by the " Sammasati ” meditations on his Kamma. Baffled again and again, the {all with his hors…
1913 · PDF PAGE 571
…e great secret of that venerable and terrible Order, always misunderstood, often calumniated, and always sovereign. Read attentively the book entitled, The Exercises of St. Ignatius, and note with what magical power that man of genius operates the realization of faith. He orders his disciples to see, to touch, to smell, to taste invisible things. He wishes that the senses should be exalted during prayer to the point of voluntary hallucination. T 273
1913 · PDF PAGE 571
…e great secret of that venerable and terrible Order, always misunderstood, often calumniated, and always sovereign. Read attentively the book entitled, The Exercises of St. Ignatius, and note with what magical power that man of genius operates the realization of faith. He orders his disciples to see, to touch, to smell, to taste invisible things. He wishes that the senses should be exalted during prayer to the point of voluntary hallucination. T 273
1961 · PDF PAGE 194
… from Heaven to Heaven, by the Expansion of thine Idea, and its Exaltation, of Concentration as thou understandest by thy Studies in The Book of the Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith and Hadith that is the Core of every Star. And this last Going upon thy Ladder is easy, if thou be truly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fetters of Thought hat thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation of Truth of Competence to Dra…
1913 · PDF PAGE 449
…on of the natural forces alone. The ancient hierophants, as our learned and witty friend Desbarolles is about to explain in an admirable book which is at present in the press, had given a complete résumé of magical science in the human hand. The forefinger, for them, represented Jupiter; the middle finger, Saturn; the ring- finger, Apollo or the Sun. Among the Egyptians, the middle finger was Ops, the forefinger Osiris, and the little finger Horus; the thumb represented the generative force, and the little finger, cunning. A hand, showing only …
1913 · PDF PAGE 460
…k-out for the grimozve of Honorius, and that he had come to learn from the Professor of Occult Science how to ob- tain that little black book, now-a-days almost impossible to find. “T would gladly give a hundred francs for a copy of that grimoire,”said he. “The work in itself is valueless,” said Eliphas. “It isa pretended constitution of Honorius II, which you will find perhaps quoted by some erudite collector of apocryphal con- stitutions; you can find it in the library.” “T will do so, for I pass almost all my time in Paris in the public libr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 449
…on of the natural forces alone. The ancient hierophants, as our learned and witty friend Desbarolles is about to explain in an admirable book which is at present in the press, had given a complete résumé of magical science in the human hand. The forefinger, for them, represented Jupiter; the middle finger, Saturn; the ring- finger, Apollo or the Sun. Among the Egyptians, the middle finger was Ops, the forefinger Osiris, and the little finger Horus; the thumb represented the generative force, and the little finger, cunning. A hand, showing only …
1913 · PDF PAGE 460
…k-out for the grimozve of Honorius, and that he had come to learn from the Professor of Occult Science how to ob- tain that little black book, now-a-days almost impossible to find. “T would gladly give a hundred francs for a copy of that grimoire,”said he. “The work in itself is valueless,” said Eliphas. “It isa pretended constitution of Honorius II, which you will find perhaps quoted by some erudite collector of apocryphal con- stitutions; you can find it in the library.” “T will do so, for I pass almost all my time in Paris in the public libr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
6 The bawds of the stews be all turnčd out: But I think they inhabit all England throughout. (I cannot find the modern book which quotes this as a footnote and have not been able to trace the original volume.) The Crowleys, are, however, of Celtic origin; the name O'Crowley is common in south-west Ireland, and the Breton family of de Quérouaille --- which gave England a Duchess of Portsmouth --- or de Kerval is of the same stock. Legend will have it that the then head of the family came to England with the Earl of Richmond and helped to make hi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 291
…, the best key to the higher planes. It seems unnecessary to add anything to these few remarks. This is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or two passages Levi’s extraordinarily keen sense of humour leads him to indulge in a little harmless bombast. We may instance his remarks on the Grimoire of Honorius. We have said that this is the masterpiece of Levi. He reaches an exaltation of both thought and language which is equal to that of any other writer known to us. Once it is understood that it is purely a thesis for the Grade o…