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Page 58 of 831922 · PDF PAGE 319
…g with the most cruel fatigue. And yet its waves surged vainly against the silent and immovable rock of our sublime felicity. It did not find expression. We were far too weary. And yet we were aware in some deepest part of our consciousness, laid bare for the first time by the remorseless stripping off of all its upper layers, that it existed. It always had existed “before the beginning of years,”’ and always would exist. It had nothing to do with conditions of time and space. It was an ineffable union, in infinity, of our individualities. I mu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
…we relax a little, come down to earth, and look at what the far-famed morality of the Holy Man was, and is, in actual practice. You will find this useful to crush Toshophist and Anthroposophagist cockroaches as well as the ordinary Christian Scolex when they assail you. In the lands of Hinduism and (to a less extent) of Islam, the Sultan, the Dewan, the Maharajah, the Emir, or whatsoever they call "the Grand Pandjandrum Himself, with the little round button on top," it is almost a 100 percent rule that the button works loose and is lost! Even i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 338
…the Law: “Success is your proof?’’ And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was giving such airy expres- sion. : We watched her intently. The heroin had calmed and intensified our thought, which was intensely stimulated by her explanation. We had no wish to interrupt. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 289
…ff, before shouting for Alama to come back and extricate my horse. I felt it essential to show myself imperturbable. The men returned to find me quietly sitting and smoking. They had considerable difficulty in find a way round for the pony. The day's adventures were not yet over. Just before getting to camp I was kicked on the thigh by a mule. I shall explain later the extreme importance of this day in my career. There was quite a series of small accidents during these days. Salama had started it by falling off his mule. Then came my turn. The …
1929 · PDF PAGE 436
…ne for six weeks, at the end of which time she melted away to hide her shame in Wales, where she supposed sensibly enough that she would find {692} sympathetic society in thieves and traitors after her own heart. I understand in fact that she is still there. During the whole period up to the outbreak of the war, my work gradually increased and consolidated. I must mention the visit of my representative in South Africa, Frater Semper Paratus. This brother possessed the most remarkable magical faculties, within a certain limited scope. It was nat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…cteristics of the signs and planets is, moreover, of the very greatest assistance in the use of the Book 777. Unable as the Editor is to find space within the restricted pages of THE Equinox for astrological matters, we are glad to think that the subject has a specialised organ in competent hands. ETHEL Ramsay. CONTEMPORARY PsycHOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. The wise Professor reconstructs duali…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…cteristics of the signs and planets is, moreover, of the very greatest assistance in the use of the Book 777. Unable as the Editor is to find space within the restricted pages of THE Equinox for astrological matters, we are glad to think that the subject has a specialised organ in competent hands. ETHEL Ramsay. CONTEMPORARY PsycHOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. The wise Professor reconstructs duali…
1922 · PDF PAGE 357
…- tion ; for the girl was mysteriously familiar. It seemed as if I had seen her in a dream or something like that. I was very annoyed to find an arm familiarly slipped through mine, while a voice said in my ear :— “We may as well walk over to the refectory for lunch. You haven’t answered my question about how you came to take up flying.” “When you asked me, I wasn’t at all clear in my D.D.F. Zz
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
REINCARNATION 297 case; we do not trouble to find "authority"; we put our shirts on Experience. Now as to (1) what is evidence for me is hearsay for you; so forget it! But there is a clear method of obtaining these memories for yourself. See Liber Thisharb (Magick, pp. 415-422); and go to it!! As to (2) it seems to me fairly obvious. The doctrine of Karma is plain common sense; and although a terrestrial set of causes might conceivably have their effects in other spheres of action, as of course they do, it seems less trouble for them to remain …
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…hen it was a matter of the sense of touch, it was far otherwise; I got it good and hearty-but that is not the su bject of this letter. I find all this excessively tedious; I resent having to write about it at all; I wonder whether I am breaking some beastly
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
…e taken in its widest sense as meaning that which brings out the soul. Climate, soil, and race change conditions; each man or woman must find and choose the fit intoxicant. Thus hashish in one or other of its forms seems to suit the Moslem, to go with dry heat; opium is right for the Mongol; whiskey for the dour temperament and damp cold climate of the Scot. Sex-expression, too, depends on climate and so on, so that we must interpret the Law to suit a Socrates, a Jesus, and a Burton, or a Marie Antoinette and a de Lamballe, as well as our own D…
1996 · PDF PAGE 128
…s thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value! 55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve…
1919 · PDF PAGE 164
…r One. Amen. SEcTION V. JANUARY IST, 1913, TO DECEMBER 3IST, I913 We must now pass on to Fra V.1.0.’s diary for the year 1913 E.V. I can find no written records of the period be- tween October 13th, 1912, when he finished the Retirement, and March 2nd, 1913, when he again began to keep a regular summary of his work. On that date he writes: During the last few days some important events have taken place. First however I must mention that I have heard nothing from Frater P.A. since the retirement except a P.C. to say that he had received my recor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…apons and furniture of the Temple. To consider in a more particular mammer this question of the Nature of Ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of Life and Death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of Nature. He has perhaps a tendency to perceive the ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expres…
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
…e of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga. It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian Jungles, provided that your health wil…
1996 · PDF PAGE 117
…ledged to partake of their partiality. We make ourselves items of the interaction of our own illusions. In the following verses we shall find the practical application of this theorem. 29. May Because be accursed for ever! Commentary: Distrust any explanation whatever. Disraeli said: Never ask anyone to dinner who has to be explained. All explanations are intended to cover up lies, injustices, or shames. The Truth is radiantly simple. 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. Commentary: There is no “reas…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…of thing as it should be done, without embarrassment , false shame, with your whole heart in your words-do it simply, to sum up-you will find yourself way up on the road to that royal republic which is the ideal of human society . Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. Let me insist that "pity" is nearly always an impostor. It is the psychic consolation for fear, the "pitiful man" really is a pitiful man! He has transferred his own fear of what may happen to himself to another; for he is such a coward that he dare not fac…
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack (2.e. into lunatic asylums) I doubt not we shall find our Bruno. But it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. Let us, however, turn away from the aspect of criticism which an accidental controversy has thus caused me to notice, and so to anticipate the obvious line of attack which the more frivolous type of critic will employ, and return to our proper business, the summary of our own position with regard to B…
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
… escape is barred by flaming swords.” “ Bxactly,” he replied. ‘“ You’ve only discovered one thing that you don’t will; you have still to find the one thing that you do will. And yet there are quite a number of clues in this manuscript of yours. I note you say that your squad commander, who didn’t become that without some power of dealing with men, told you that you were not a great flyer. How was it exactly that you came to take up flying?” That simple question induced a very surprising reaction. There was no reason why it should produce ’ the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
… His mother, in moments of exasperation no doubt, would call him a "beast." With his knowledge of the Bible, it did not take him long to find out about the Beast of the Book of Revelation, the Beast who was anti-Christ, the Beast whose number was 666. He ultimately identified himself with that Beast, without question aided and abetted by his mother. When the time came to revolt and to turn against the religion of his family, with all the venom and brilliance that he, and only he, could muster, there could be no alternative but that he had to al…