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Page 57 of 781910 · PDF PAGE 131
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (8) Completion of Watch-towers and instruments.* (9) The making of simple talismans. During each day this programme of work was to be divided as follows: (1) In the Morning the w ofw Operation, and Assumption of a God-form. (2) Before Tiffin. An Astral projection practice. (3) After Tiffin. Rising on a plane, or Vision, or Adonai ha Aretz. (4) In the Evening. A magical ceremony of same sort, or any of above except astral projection.t On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the fast- nesses of the Nevado de Col…
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
… clear mind, and a passionate body: It is the voice ofa god, and not of a man. And now all that glory hath withdrawn itself; and the old King lies prostrate, abject. And the virgin that rode upon the bull cometh forth, led by all those Angels of the Holy Sevenfold Table, and they are dancing round her with garlands and sheaves of flowers, loose robes and hair dancing in the wind. And she smiles upon me 64
1913 · PDF PAGE 368
…ing upon the high- road; never do they stray from it, either to the right hand or the left, until they are entered into the court of the king’s palace. Thou art God, who by thy godhead sustainest all beings, and by thy unity dost bring home all creatures. Thou art God, and there is no difference between thy deity, thy unity, thy eternity, and thy existence; for all is one and the same mystery; although names vary, all returns to the same truth. Thou art the knower, and that intelligence which is the source of life emanates from thyself; and bes…
1913 · PDF PAGE 368
…ing upon the high- road; never do they stray from it, either to the right hand or the left, until they are entered into the court of the king’s palace. Thou art God, who by thy godhead sustainest all beings, and by thy unity dost bring home all creatures. Thou art God, and there is no difference between thy deity, thy unity, thy eternity, and thy existence; for all is one and the same mystery; although names vary, all returns to the same truth. Thou art the knower, and that intelligence which is the source of life emanates from thyself; and bes…
1919 · PDF PAGE 320
…n a book of criticism like this comes into my hand. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. There are plenty of brains in America, and plenty of educated brains, but it is extremely rare to find these two combined in one being. Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. Mr. Mencken narrowly escapes the cleverness which is the Hall-mark of the silver mind, but he does escape it. For the Lorp taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 112
…nees as he ventured to advise us in the choice of our lunch. It seemed to us the tribute of inferior emperors. And there was that fellow King Lamus five or six tables away |! The man with him was a Frenchman of obvious distinction, with a big red rosette and a trim aristocratic white moustache and beard. He was some minister or other. I couldn’t quite place him but I’d seen him often enough in the papers: somebody intimate with the president. He had been the principal object of interest before we came in. Our arrival pricked that bubble. Lamus …
1922 · PDF PAGE 225
Towards Madness arr I put myself out for King Lamus? “ Every step he treads is smeared with blood,” as Gretel once said. Yes, in some infernal way he had made me one of his victims. ‘‘ All right—you shall get enough magical diary to let you know that I’m out of your clutches— I’ll put down just those things which will tell you how I hate you—how I have outwitted you—and you shall read them when my Dead Soul has got a Dead Body to match it.” September 14 I expected Peter would be in; impatient to know if I'd wangled McCall. Instead, he turned up…
1954 · PDF PAGE 94
…ave on the solid bottom of the sea; M 4, the mutable air, with impenetrable space above, and finally F 4, the thin crust of the earth masking the interior energies of the planet. They go on to double these Kwa, thus reaching the sixty-four hexagrams of the Yi King, which is not only a Map, but a History of the Order of Nature. It is pure enthusiastic delight in the Harmony and Beauty of the System that has led me thus far afield; my one essential purpose is to show how the Universe was derived by these Wise Men from Nothing. When you have assim…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
…rmes Eimi, 15, 94 Hermit, 303 Herod,458 Herrick, 137 Hertz, 31, 35, 68 Heru-pa-kraath, 250 Hesinger, 470 Hexagram, Unicursal, 170; of Yi King, 61, 389 Hezekiah, 219 Hierophant, 250 Higher Manas, 195,275 INDEX Higher Self, 202, 275, 276, 282 Hilton, James P., 224 Himalayan Sheep, 400 Hindu, 16, 99, 150, 215, 235, 275, 386, 408, 419, 477, 493, 504; Orders, 6; Proverb about women, 353 Hismael, 182 Hitler, 109, 164, 354, 392, 438, 443, 458; mag. child of I.W.E., 303 Hitler Speaks, 304 Hod, 13 Hodos Camelionis, 92 Holy Ghost, 476 Holy Guardian Angel…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING then engage in contracting the yoni (the space between the lingam and anus). After which contemplate that the God of love resides in the Brahma-Yoni, and imagine that an union takes place between Shiva and Shakti. A full account of how to practise this Mudra is given in the “Shiva Sanhita”;* but it is both complicated and diffi- cult to carry out, and if attempted should most certainly be performed under the instruction of a Guru. 2. Maha Mudra. Pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING then engage in contracting the yoni (the space between the lingam and anus). After which contemplate that the God of love resides in the Brahma-Yoni, and imagine that an union takes place between Shiva and Shakti. A full account of how to practise this Mudra is given in the “Shiva Sanhita”;* but it is both complicated and diffi- cult to carry out, and if attempted should most certainly be performed under the instruction of a Guru. 2. Maha Mudra. Pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg…
1922 · PDF PAGE 312
…ow tall she was. “‘ Cockie,” she said, “ I’ve come to the cross-roads.” She made a movement of swallowing, tried to go on, and failed. : King Lamus sat up in his chair. He had completely recovered himself; and was watching the scene with impersonal, professional interest. Lala bent over his chair, and whispered long and earnestly 1in his ear. He nodded. Again he cleared his throat, and then began to speak in a strained voice. | “T think the simplest way in the long run is for Lady Pendragon to tell Sir Peter, as she has already told us, exactly…
1922 · PDF PAGE 267
King Lamus Intervenes 253 “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” came his calm voice,J A sudden flush of hostility suffused my face. “We've been doing it,’’ I answered with a sort of surly anger, “‘and I suppose the great psychologist can see what’s come of it.” He shook his head very sadly ; and sat down without being invited on the chair opposite to us. “T’m afraid not,” he said. “I’ll explain what I mean on a more convenient occasion. I can see you want to get rid of me; but I know you won’t refuse to help a man out when he’s in …
1954 · PDF PAGE 365
…resence of my body." And there She was-in the last place in the world where one would have sought Her. Note, too, the accuracy of the Yi King Symbol =-= for = = is of course the Symbol of our Lady, and the God below Her in the Stele is == the Sun. All this is clear proof of the unspeakable power and wisdom of Those who have sent me to proclaim the Law. If these events be indeed the result of calculation and control on the part of the Secret Chiefs, it seems at first sight as if the people involved had been prepared to play their parts from the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The first veil against which we must warn the aspirant is the entanglement of language, of words and of names. The merest tyro will answer, “of course you need not explain to me that, ifI call a thing ‘A’ or ‘B,’ it makes no difference to that thing in itself.” And yet not only the tyro, but many of the astutest philosophers have fallen into this snare, and not only once but an hundred times; the reason being that they have not remained silent* about that which can only be “known” and not “believed in,” and that w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The first veil against which we must warn the aspirant is the entanglement of language, of words and of names. The merest tyro will answer, “of course you need not explain to me that, ifI call a thing ‘A’ or ‘B,’ it makes no difference to that thing in itself.” And yet not only the tyro, but many of the astutest philosophers have fallen into this snare, and not only once but an hundred times; the reason being that they have not remained silent* about that which can only be “known” and not “believed in,” and that w…
1935 · PDF PAGE 6
…beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees. But of these last three Grades see some further account in The Temple of Solomon the King, Equinox I to X and elsewhere. It should be stated that these Grades are not necessarily attained fully, and in strict consecution, or manifested wholly on all planes. The subject is very difficult, and entirely beyond the limits of this small treatise. We append a more detailed account. 3. The Order of the S. S. is composed of those who have crossed the Abyss; the implications of this expression may be s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 26
…pondent might not run away with the idea that he was preaching what he had not practiced. His occult biography The Temple of Solomon the King. serialized throughout all the ten numbers of The Equinox. gives ample evidence of his persistence and fidelity where the Great Work was concerned. Above all, notice the remarks at the beginning of letter 45. The ideas expressed there are in reality at the heart of his system of training and development. The chiding he administers to his correspondent is not nearly as severe as he had been known to give h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 277
244 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Teh King from which my translation is taken, and when the veil was nu more than a shimmering, scintillating gossamer, translucent to the ineffable glory that glows behind it. For in those weeks I was able to remember and record a really considerable number of past lives. (I half believe, and hope, that the relevant passages were copied into one of my Cefalu diaries; but who will struggle through those still extant on the chance?) "But what about the intervals?" you ask, Shabash! Rem acu tetigisti. It strikes me with imm…
1909 · PDF PAGE 305
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Before the birth of Copernicus the sun was universally considered to be a body moving round the earth; it was a FACT, and probably whilst it lasted the most universal fact the mind of man has ever accepted; but since that illuminated sage arose, it has been shown to be a simple fable, a child-like error, a puny optical illusion—so much for pseudo-scientific dogmatics. To a child who has never seen a monkey, monkey is out- side the circumference of its knowledge; but when once it has seen one it is mere foolishness…