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Page 55 of 821910 · PDF PAGE 189
…e 11th of August 1903; when, by the chance (destined) meeting with Ouarda the Seer, he was eventually enabled to set in motion the great power he had gained, and by wrestling with the deity, as Jacob wrestled with the Angel by the ford of Jabbok, see God face to face and Live. For a space of nearly six months P. and D. A. journeyed amongst the vast mountains beyond Cashmir, and though during this period no record of his meditations has been pre- served, time was not idled away and exercises in meditation of a more exalted kind, on the vastness …
1910 · PDF PAGE 201
… faintest zephyr, on a still evening, will throw out of the perpendicular an ascending column of smoke. But presently, as the will gains power, the sense of hearing, little by little, as it comes under control, is held back from hearing the lesser sounds, then the greater, and at length all sounds. The vibrations of the will having re- pelled the sound vibrations of the air, and brought the sense of hearing into Equilibrium. Now the upward mounting fila- ment of smoke has become the ascending columns of a great volcano, there is a titanic blast…
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
…Iddhi as the Buddhists call it. An Act, which is explained by the fair courtesan Bindumati as follows. When King Asoka asked her by what power she had caused the waters of the Ganges to flow backwards. She answered: Whosoever, O King, gives me gold—be he a noble, or a brahman, or a tradesman, or a servant—I regard them all alike. When I see he is a noble I make no distinction in his favour, If I know him to be a slave I despise him * Dhammapada, v. I. 128
1910 · PDF PAGE 189
…e 11th of August 1903; when, by the chance (destined) meeting with Ouarda the Seer, he was eventually enabled to set in motion the great power he had gained, and by wrestling with the deity, as Jacob wrestled with the Angel by the ford of Jabbok, see God face to face and Live. For a space of nearly six months P. and D. A. journeyed amongst the vast mountains beyond Cashmir, and though during this period no record of his meditations has been pre- served, time was not idled away and exercises in meditation of a more exalted kind, on the vastness …
1910 · PDF PAGE 201
… faintest zephyr, on a still evening, will throw out of the perpendicular an ascending column of smoke. But presently, as the will gains power, the sense of hearing, little by little, as it comes under control, is held back from hearing the lesser sounds, then the greater, and at length all sounds. The vibrations of the will having re- pelled the sound vibrations of the air, and brought the sense of hearing into Equilibrium. Now the upward mounting fila- ment of smoke has become the ascending columns of a great volcano, there is a titanic blast…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…f acute insanity in my patients. Some hours before they occur she can predict them to a minute. On an early occasion my disbelief in her power led to the dangerous wounding of one of my attendants. (3) She combines a fixed determination of suicide (in the extraordinary manner described by her) with an intense fear of death. She smokes uninterruptedly, and I am obliged to allow her to fumigate her room at night with the same drug. (4) She is certainly only twenty-four years old, and any competent judge would with equal certainty declare her sixt…
1909 · PDF PAGE 301
…=7° Ritual represents a tower struck by a flash of lightning, symbolising the Tower of Babel struck by the wrath of Heaven, and also the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of Adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary Rituals of the 1°=10°, 2°=9°, 3°=8°, and 4°=7° grades. In many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion under the dazzling lash…
1909 · PDF PAGE 301
…=7° Ritual represents a tower struck by a flash of lightning, symbolising the Tower of Babel struck by the wrath of Heaven, and also the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of Adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary Rituals of the 1°=10°, 2°=9°, 3°=8°, and 4°=7° grades. In many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion under the dazzling lash…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
… the Silver Star? Oh, my Brothers (be began to speak aloud) give me wisdom as you have given me under- standing! Knowledge and grace and power? These are nothing and less than nothing. Is not this a precious thing that you have given into my charge? Am not I too young among you to bear so wonderful a burden? It is the first time that I have dared so far. The Abyssl The Razor- Edgel Frail bridge and sharp! Yet is it not a ray of the Evening Star, a ray of Venus, of the Love Supernal? . . Can I tell black from white? It seems I can—and then the ce…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
… the Silver Star? Oh, my Brothers (be began to speak aloud) give me wisdom as you have given me under- standing! Knowledge and grace and power? These are nothing and less than nothing. Is not this a precious thing that you have given into my charge? Am not I too young among you to bear so wonderful a burden? It is the first time that I have dared so far. The Abyssl The Razor- Edgel Frail bridge and sharp! Yet is it not a ray of the Evening Star, a ray of Venus, of the Love Supernal? . . Can I tell black from white? It seems I can—and then the ce…
1996 · PDF PAGE 32
…habs is our one sole Truth. 10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known. Commentary: The nature of magical power is quite incom prehensible to the vulgar. The prophet Ezekiel besieging a tile in order to destroy Jerusalem,1 and the adventures of Hosea with Gomer,2 seem as absurd to the “practical” man as do the researches of any other scientific man until the Sunday News papers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which explains nothing. (Book 4, Part III, must be read in this connection.) 1 [Ezekiel 4…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
Power and Rule, as is shown in the following Invocations or Conjurations. And the Chief Kings may be bound from 9 till 12 o’clock at Noon, and from 3 till sunset; Marquises may be bound from 3 in the afternoon till 9 at Night, and from 9 at Night till Sunrise; Dukes may be bound from Sunrise till Noonday in Clear Weather; Prelates may be bound any hour of the Day; Knights may from Dawning of Day till Sunrise, or from 4 o'clock till Sunset; Presidents may be bound at any time, excepting Twilight, at Night, unless the King whom they are under be …
1919 · PDF PAGE 243
…et unnecessary mis- fortune. The upstart of to-day lacks this feeling; he must try constantly to prove his superiority by exhibiting his power; and harshness is his only weapon. In any society where each person has his allotted place, and that a place with its own special honour, mutual respect and self-respect 229
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ustrate to the student the methods employed in the construction of the hieroglyphics of Magick, and to arm him with a mantra of terrifie power by virtue whereof he may apprehend the Universe, and control in himself its Karmic conséquences. i. A method of exegesis in which i — io = 100, 2 — 20 — 200, etc. 2. I0“= 100. 3. rp = IOO (‘20 -f* 80). 3 = X = Notarigon). s] — = <ï>a)Ao; (by 49 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 212
…. 17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 19. That stele they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718. 20. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. 21…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…y reached its mental stage. Indeed, I cannot help noticing it. No doubt you have heard of me; Iam ¢he-man-whose-nose-sings-at-will, That power has been granted me ever since I felt a strong impulse to kill my 359
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…y reached its mental stage. Indeed, I cannot help noticing it. No doubt you have heard of me; Iam ¢he-man-whose-nose-sings-at-will, That power has been granted me ever since I felt a strong impulse to kill my 359
1910 · PDF PAGE 188
…told him that by looking hard at a point on the wall constantly and without winking for many days he would be able to obtain an hypnotic power even to Deadly and Hostile Current of Will. On the 16th P. left Agra and went to Delhi, and there on the 23rd he was joined by D. A., and these two with their companions on the following day journeyed to Rawal Pindi and from this city they set out together to travel for five months in the northern and little frequented districts of Baltistan, and to seek that great solemnity and solitude which is only to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 188
…told him that by looking hard at a point on the wall constantly and without winking for many days he would be able to obtain an hypnotic power even to Deadly and Hostile Current of Will. On the 16th P. left Agra and went to Delhi, and there on the 23rd he was joined by D. A., and these two with their companions on the following day journeyed to Rawal Pindi and from this city they set out together to travel for five months in the northern and little frequented districts of Baltistan, and to seek that great solemnity and solitude which is only to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 459
… a paradise of elbow room, liberty and prosperity. One aspect of this aspiration has a more general bearing. All Americans are eager for power, in one form or another. They therefore pursue with passionate ardour every path which promises knowledge as well as those which lead directly to mastery of environment. So powerful and so irrepressible is this enthusiasm that the most grotesque disillusionments fail to disgust them and no charlatanism so crude, no pretence so puerile, no humbug so outrageous as to deter them from running after the next …