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Page 58 of 781904 · PDF PAGE 45
…aled the Vessel, he by Divine Power did chase them all into a deep Lake or Hole in Babylon. And they of Babylon, wondering to see such a thing, they did then go wholly into the Lake, to break the Vessel open, expecting to find great store of Treasure therein. But when they had broken it open, out flew the Chief Spirits immediately, with their Legions following them; and they were all restored to their former places except BELIAL, who entered into a certain Image, and thence gave answers unto those who did offer Sacrifices unto him, and did wors…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
be immediately linked with one’s peculiar tendencies to imagine one thing rather than another. 1 Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for your idiosyncrasy. Suppose, then, that when you explore some previous incarnation, you remember that you died by a poison administered in a wine of that character, your aversion is explained by the proverb, aA burnt. child dreads the fire.” It may …
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
…of Union or Samadhi: — Ail Samadhi is defined as the ecstatic union of subject and object in consciousness, with the resuit that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. It would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of méditation. For example, the Samadhi 401 —
1899 · PDF PAGE 251
…ems and Ballads’; it contains a riot of words without much thought at the back of them. We seem, for example, to have heard this sort of thing a good many times before : ‘The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy that was white on the morrow Made music of viols at ease. The thoughts of the Highest would borrow The roar of the seas.’ And yet, despite a good deal of bombast about ‘lust being one with love,’ and the like, Mr. Crowley has many poetical qualities, and a good deal of promise. His muse is windy, and boyish i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
…s a little shy with strangers. As we shook hands, I heard her saying in her curious voice, high-pitched and yet muted, as if she had something wrong with her throat :— “Want you to meet Miss——” I didn’t get the name; I can never hear strange words. As it turned out, before forty-eight hours had passed, I discovered that it was Laleham—and then again that it wasn’t. But I anticipate—don’t try to throw me out of my stride. All in good time. In the meanwhile I found I was expected to address her as Lou. ‘“ Unlimited Lou” was her nickname among the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…n, cannot pray to God to cause them, for the Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves* But, as a Mystic, he knows that ail things are phantoms of One Thing, and that they may be withdrawn therein to reissue in other attire. He knows that ail things are in himself, and that he is All-One with the Ail. There is therefore no theoretical difficulty about converting the illusion of a clear sky into that of a tempest. On the other hand, he is aware, as a Magiciany that illusions are governed by the laws of their nature. He knows that tw…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…, she would always replace her by looking upon the sea, or upon still water, for these have much in common with the lunar influence. Something — she never knew what — drew her eyes from the moon to the water. She was so placed that the reflexion appeared in the basin, at the very edge of the marble, where the water flowed over into the little rivulets that coursed the terrace. There was a tremulous movement, almost like a timid kiss, as the water touched the edge. And, to the eye of Iliel, it seemed as if the trembling of the moon's image were …
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…spheric pressure which prevented his blood from boiling away. Tliere is notiiing in the universe wliicli does not influence every otlier thing in one way or another. There is no reason in Nature why the apparently chance combinations of half-a-dozen sticks oï tortoise-shell should not be so linked both with the human mind and with the entire structure of the Universe that the observation of their fall should not enable us to rneasure ail things in heaven and earth. With one piece of curved glass we hâve discovered uncounted galaxies of suns; wi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…ameters enriched with many rimec both internai and external very useful. “The Wizard Way” (Equinox 1,1) gives a good idea of the sort of thing. So does the Evocation of Bartzabel in Equinox I, IX. There are many extant invocations throughout his works, in many kinds of métré, of many kinds of being, and for many kinds of purposes. (See Appendix). Other methods of incantation are on record as efficacious. For instance Frater I. A., when a child, was told that he could invoke the devil by repeating the “Lord’s Prayer” backwards. He went into the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…tween it and enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if you like, try to work out a progress of Osiris through Amennti on the Tree of Life, but I doubt whether you will get any satisfactory result. It seems to me that you should confine yourself very closely to the actual work in front of you. At the present moment, of course, this includes a great deal o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 181
182 The Law is for All tenable, they knocked the bottom out of their religion. There was nothing to fight for. So they degenerated into tame social Centres, so that Theosophy with its Black Brothers, Mrs. Eddy with her Mental Arsenic Experts,1 and the Evangelical Revivalists with their Hell Fire, made people’s flesh creep once more, and got both credit and cash. 1 [Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) founded Christian Science and was the author of Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures (1895).] The Book of the Law flings forth no theological f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…owise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. perchance ! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. Sing to him CHoRrus, What say ye, brethren? him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean? Shall we sing to AHINOAM. They verily think I speak, not mocking them. CHORUS, Who shall uncover such a tongue for wiles, And pluck his meaning from his subtle words? AHINOAM, Who shall speak plain enough for such as these To understand?) Or so debase his thought As meet their minds, and seem as wisdem’s self? CHOR…
1905 · PDF PAGE 128
A VALENTINE, ’98 121 Silent and slim and delicate The flower shall spring, Till there be born immaculate A fair new thing. Tall as the mother-lily, still By faint winds swayed ; Tender and pure, without a will— An English maid. No tree of poison, at whose feet All men lie dead ; No well of death, whose waters sweet Are tinged with red. No hideous impassioned queen For whom love dies; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their motherhood. She will remain…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
practice to exhaustion, as described in the instructions, but this is the proper thing to do whenever definitely practising, in order to acquire the power of Rising. But, having obtained this power, it is, of course, legitimate to rise to any particular plane that may be necessary for the purpose of exploration, as in the case of the visions recorded in Liber 418, where the method may be described as mixed. In such a case, it is not enough to invoke the place you wish to visit, because you may not be able to endure its pressure, or to breathe i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… explain and said that it had never been explained. So I formulated the ambition to become a shining light in Christianity by doing this thing that had never yet been done. This idea, by the way, is very characteristic. I am totally unable to take any interest in doing anything which has been done before. But tell me of an alleged impossibility; and health, wealth, life itself are nothing. I am out to do it. The apparent discrepancy in the gospel narrative aroused no doubt in my mind as to the literal truth of either of the texts. Indeed, my fa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 187
… I think the landlady—I can never remember the woman’s name, she reminds me of those dreadful days in Naples—told us that she stole some things from a shop and went to jail. It was a great nuisance, because I had to put my clothes on and call on Mabel. Luckily, she was in and had a whole lot of it. We must have been increasing the dose very fast :, but I can’t be sure, because we don’t keep track of it or of the days either. Counting things is so despicable. One feels so degraded. Surely that’s the difference between spirit and matter. It’s bes…
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
…n choosing Hebrew. You put it to him, "What is the word of the Law?" and he replies darkly: "The word of the Law is Thora." That means nothing to you; any one might know as much as that , Thora being the ordinary word for the Sacred Law of Israel, and you accordingly ask him to spell it to make sure you have heard aright; and he gives you the letters , perhaps by speaking them, perhaps by showing them: Teth, Resh, Ayin. You add these up and get 279. This again is divisible by the Saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been pr…
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
…ul to discuss strange faces if only to make it quite clear to your own mind why you decide on one as Virgo, another as Taurus. A strange thing happened once; I had explained all this to the girl that I happened to be living with: that is, I taught her the names of the signs; she knew no Astrology, not even the simple correspondences. After about a month, she was better at it than I was! ("Why strange?" you mutter rudely. "Quite right, my dear! I have always been a wretched reader of character . Bless my soul! there was a time when I had hopes o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
…cepted principle of business to endeavour to make tyranny international, to suppress all customs of historical interest, and indeed everything which lends variety or distraction to human society in the interest of making a market for standardized products. The moral excuse for these activities is miserably thin, for the element which it is most important to suppress is originality as such, even when the question concerns the very idea of craftsmanship in itself. The idea at the back of puritanism is the reduction of the mass of humanity to a de…
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
…t see a cur like this Cower at death. For Egypt’s honour, | then ! Give me that spear. [Aszée.] That royalty’s own hand Should send this thing to his long misery ! [Zaking a spear, he runs through the soldter. The KING OF SYRIA, attended, enters. KING OF SYRIA. Your armies beaten back before my faxe, Your weapons broken, I am come t tuke The crown from her pale brows that s:‘teth there. THE LEPER. The Queen is dead: Iam the King of Egypt. To-day I saved the house from its own shame By strange ways: I will strike one blow to save The land from i…