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… best act of piety.” “Judge not ; speak hardly at all ; love and act.” Another prophet came and said: “ Protest against bad doctrines by good works, but do not separate yourselves. “ Rebuild all the altars, purify all the temples, and hold yourselves in readiness for the visit of the Spirit. “Let every one pray in his own fashion, and hold com- munion with his own ; but do not condemn others. “A religious practice is never contemptible, for it is the sign of a great and holy thought. “To pray together is to communicate in the same hope, the sam…
1954 · PDF PAGE 200
…the most precise instructions in every detail are given in Book 4, Part II. (But I haven't so much as seen a copy for years!) There is a good deal scattered about in Part III (Magick, which you have) especially about the four elemental weapons. But if circumstances deny you for the moment the means of carrying out this Edification as the Ideal would have it, you can certainly do your best to create a fairly satisfactory-above all, workable-substitute. I was often reduced to such expedients when wandering in strange lands, camping on glaciers, a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 458
…unclean. It is stuffy and flabby. You write of a matter about which you cannot possibly have information, and what you say is not even a good guess: it is simply contrary to fact. It shows also that you have failed to grasp the nature of the O.T.O. Its main raison d'etre, apart from social and political plans, is the teaching and use of a secret method of achieving certain results. This secret is a scientific secret ; it is guarded against betrayal or abuse by a very simple automatic arrangement . Its guardians cannot be "dying" any more than e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 532
…of this series of Letters an account, as clear and as succinct as the gods enable me to do, of what they may expect to have to do to get good marks from Grandfather. Of course I shall not be able to avoid altogether reference to the various official documents , but I will make these as short and as few as I can. First of all then , my system can be divided into two parts. Apparently diametrically opposed, but at the end converging, the one helping the other until the final method of progress partakes equally of both elements. For convenience I …
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
…ing even to formulate carefully the Elemental Hosts, or to marshal them about the circle) I yet, by the favour of IAO, obtained a really good effect, losing all sense of personality and being exalted in the Pillar. Peace and ecstasy enfolded me, It is well. But as I was ill last night, and as the morning has broken chill and damp, I will go to the Cafe du Dome
1909 · PDF PAGE 15
…tainted as your water,” replied the now infuriated householder. So off they went to the Judge. The Judge heard the case carefully. ‘‘ My good friends!” said he, “ you've neither of you got a leg to stand on; for in all you say there is not one grain of proof.—The case is dismissed.” 7
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
…th of the Lion, And my thought in the Place of the gathering of the Waters. I am the Established one in Daath! In me is the Knowledge of Good and of Evil! In me is the Knowledge of the Light Supernal! And my face is turned downward unto Malkuth. 332
1909 · PDF PAGE 15
…tainted as your water,” replied the now infuriated householder. So off they went to the Judge. The Judge heard the case carefully. ‘‘ My good friends!” said he, “ you've neither of you got a leg to stand on; for in all you say there is not one grain of proof.—The case is dismissed.” 7
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
…th of the Lion, And my thought in the Place of the gathering of the Waters. I am the Established one in Daath! In me is the Knowledge of Good and of Evil! In me is the Knowledge of the Light Supernal! And my face is turned downward unto Malkuth. 332
1912 · PDF PAGE 320
SEFHER SEPHIROTH Wheat?הטה Good?הבוט Notariqon of “Tetr Elohim?איאי Tet. Achad.” Unity '?רה 1r 23 Parted, removed, separated?ההז 10y?הררה A thread?טוה Life?היה ii; The Number of the ‘Elders’ 24 in the Apocalypse He whom I love "mm: He who loves me?`בהךא A Mercurial GOD, His?הגמוא essence is m, 8 Substance; a body?ה`װ A pauper?ךר Angel of a C.?הטבח Abundance W A water—pot, a large earthen-?רב ware vessel 5“ $25 To break?אבר The Beast NW'I ]ehewid, GOD of Geburah?דוהי of Binah Let there be ᾽Π᾿ Will be separated m' Thus?הב The Numbers of the Sephi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 320
SEFHER SEPHIROTH Wheat?הטה Good?הבוט Notariqon of “Tetr Elohim?איאי Tet. Achad.” Unity '?רה 1r 23 Parted, removed, separated?ההז 10y?הררה A thread?טוה Life?היה ii; The Number of the ‘Elders’ 24 in the Apocalypse He whom I love "mm: He who loves me?`בהךא A Mercurial GOD, His?הגמוא essence is m, 8 Substance; a body?ה`װ A pauper?ךר Angel of a C.?הטבח Abundance W A water—pot, a large earthen-?רב ware vessel 5“ $25 To break?אבר The Beast NW'I ]ehewid, GOD of Geburah?דוהי of Binah Let there be ᾽Π᾿ Will be separated m' Thus?הב The Numbers of the Sephi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
…ary to their civil, moral, or religious obligations." So when any one wanted to break his vow he had no difficulty in discovering a very good reason for it. The vow lost all its force. When Buddha took his seat under the blessed Bo-Tree, he took an oath that none of the inhabitants of the 10,000 worlds should cause him to rise until he had attained; so that when even Mara the great Arch-Devil, with his three daughters the arch-temptresses appeared, he remained still. Now it is useless for the beginner to take so formidable a vow; he
1913 · PDF PAGE 338
… God’s hospital, and he wishes to serve in it. He does not think that he is better than any one else ; he says only, ‘So long as I am in good health, let me serve others; and whenI must fall and die, perhaps others will take my place and serve.” IX THE NUMBER NINE Tuis is the hermit of the Tarot; the number which refers to initiates and to prophets. The prophets are solitaries, for it is their fate that none should ever hear them. They see differently from others ; they forefeel misfortunes. So, people imprison them and kill them, or mock them,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 338
… God’s hospital, and he wishes to serve in it. He does not think that he is better than any one else ; he says only, ‘So long as I am in good health, let me serve others; and whenI must fall and die, perhaps others will take my place and serve.” IX THE NUMBER NINE Tuis is the hermit of the Tarot; the number which refers to initiates and to prophets. The prophets are solitaries, for it is their fate that none should ever hear them. They see differently from others ; they forefeel misfortunes. So, people imprison them and kill them, or mock them,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 52
…iberately go off to Geburah? Why not aspire direct by the Path of the Moon—Ray unto the Ineffable Crown? Modesty is misplaced here! Very good. Then how aspire? Who is it that standeth in the Moon-Ray? The Holy Guardian Angel. Aye! Ο my Lord Adonai, Thou art the Beginning and the End of the Path. For as Thou?התאthou art also 406 =?ותTau the material world, the Omega. And as He mn Thou art 12, the rays of the Ineffable Crown. (A disaster has occurred; viz., a sudden and violent attack of that which demands a tabloid of Pepsin, Bis- muth, and Char…
1913 · PDF PAGE 381
…amed. That is to say that dogma could only cease to be absurd in the eyes of reason to become, in the eyes of faith, science, reason and good sense in one, the most monstrous and the most impossible of all absurdities. Remain the objections of dissent. The Jews, our fathers in religion, reproach us with having attacked the unity of God, with having changed the immut- able and eternal law, with adoring the creature instead of the Creator. These heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly false notion of Christianity. Our God is the God of Mo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 381
…amed. That is to say that dogma could only cease to be absurd in the eyes of reason to become, in the eyes of faith, science, reason and good sense in one, the most monstrous and the most impossible of all absurdities. Remain the objections of dissent. The Jews, our fathers in religion, reproach us with having attacked the unity of God, with having changed the immut- able and eternal law, with adoring the creature instead of the Creator. These heavy reproaches are founded on their perfectly false notion of Christianity. Our God is the God of Mo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
…idnight and the rest go—as—you-please would be enough. I am well punished. This food, eaten in aYogin and ceremonial manner, is doing me good. I shall end, God willing, with coffee, cognac, and cigar. It is a fatal error to knock the body to pieces and leave the consciousness intact, as has been the case with me all day. It is true that some people find that if they hurt the body, they make the mind unstable. True ; they predispose it to hallu- cination. One should use strictly corporeal methods to tame the body; strictly mental methods to contr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
… what a world of ecstasy is this ! To be his, and he mine ! to beoh ! oh ! I can- not bear the joy of it. I want to sit down and have a good cry. [Sits, crying and laughing with the joy of it.]
1913 · PDF PAGE 350
…us and Nero. To protest against violence by violence, is to justify it, and to force it to reproduce itself. But to triumph over evil by good, over selfishness by self- abnegation, over ferocity by pardon, that is the secret of Christianity, and it is that of eternal victory. I have seen the place where the earth still bledfrom the murder of Abel, and on that place there ran a brook of tears. Under the guidance of the centuries, myriads of men moved on, letting fall their tears into the brook. And Eternity, crouching mournful, gazed upon the te…