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Page 59 of 871930 · PDF PAGE 84
…bconscious self, the hidden Life of his physical life. The Adept réalisés every breath, everv word of his Angel as charged with Creative fire. Tiphereth is the Sun, and the Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soûl of the Adept. Here is summed the entire process of bringing the conditioned Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their Inmate, and thus to partake of its own conscious- ness of the Light. “Grâce” has here its pro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 12
…standing so that my sacrifice , and even the wood and stone of the altar , and the water which floweth about it, may be licked up by the fire of the great Coronation .
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…arms she flung Around him , and with amorous lips and tongue Tortured his palate with extreme desire , And like a Mænad maddened ; equal fire Leapt in his veins ; locked close for love they lie , The heart's dumb word exprest without a sigh In the strong magic of a lover's kiss .' These superb lines , like those of Swinburne , are in reality a series of brilliant lyrical illustrations depict ing the story in measures of divine song . More we find in this same poem , and in others also ; the follow ing fine sonnet entitled “ The Summit of the Am…
1944 · PDF PAGE 25
… has four Court cards, not three. It also explains why there are four suits. The four suits are named as follows: “Wands”, attributed to Fire; “Cups”, to Water; “Swords”, to Air; and “Disks” (“Coins”, or “Pantacles”), to Earth. The student will notice this interplay and counter‐ change of the number 4. It is also important for him to notice that even in the tenfold ar‐ rangement, the number 4 takes its part. The Tree of Life can be divided into four planes: the number I corresponds to Fire; numbers 2 and 3, to Water; numbers 4 to 9, to Air; and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…d a beating. Well, at the age of eighty-eight he found himself the One-horse Wire For the Iehannum Maiden Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the mom was dewy wet An hog for the Muezzin upstood, and chanted from the Minaret. “ There is no God! no God! (he sware) Mohammed was a charlatan! Sleep is more excellent than prayer! and pork is pleasant in the pan !” The elders kne…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…nomena of Yoga. (We omit consideration of the other senses; the subject requires a volume.) These are referred to the Sun, the Moon, and Fire; and their appearance marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…nomena of Yoga. (We omit consideration of the other senses; the subject requires a volume.) These are referred to the Sun, the Moon, and Fire; and their appearance marks the attainment of Dhyana. They are dazzling, and accompanied with such in- tense though passionless bliss that they partake of the nature of Vedana and may under certain conditions even rise to touch Safifia. Of the auditory are sounds heard like bells, elephants, thunder, trumpets, sea-shells, “the sweet-souled Vina,” and so on; they are of less importance and are much more co…
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
…ntment, and in the rosy twilight touch with a flame the pastilles of musk and ambergris. Then you lie upon the leopard's skin before the fire of sandalwood and read, and read. And you shall know strange devils; even, it may be, strange gods. 1911 e.v.
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…| A Air, Smell 4B]. 2957!) 1 Sxva3 | Thahebyobeaatan | .(W) J5YD yg | V water, Taste |... | 23 Sxesip | Ohooohatan . . |. (S) DYN wp | A Fire, Sight 7). 9/7] 81 Sy | Thahaaotahe ©. . (N) MBY nu | W Earth, Tough |... 1." | 82 bis @® spirit, Hearing) . .w. . | 31 bis LXVIII. LXVII LXVI. LXV. The Demon The Parts of Spelling of Tetragrammaton Secret Num- Kings. the in the Four Worlds. spondi vA ponding. Oriens . Quack NTIV NA TW. . 45. 11 Ariton . - N'A oN . 63. 23 Paimon mnow ms Fy! . 72. $1 Amaimon . -mnyranr ww... . 52. $2 bis $1 bis LXXIII. LXX…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…at which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…at which I know better than I know anything else in the world, that which so transcends and excels all other experience that I am all on fire to proclaim it. Yet I fail utterly. I have given my life to the study of the English language; I am supposed by my flatterers to have some little facility of expression, especially, one may agree, in conveying the extremes of thought of all kinds. II F 81
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…uch of his best : Your breath , that burns upon me , wraps me round With whirling passion , pierces through my veins With its unhallowed fire , constrains , compels , Drags out the corpse of twenty years ago From the untrusty coffin of my mind , To poison , to corrupt , to strike you there Blind with its horror ." Many other pieces are almost equally grand , the last speech of Tannhäuser to Heinrich is truly magnificent : » 2 | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . 2 The Mother's Tragedy , vol . i, p . 160 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
…it was not long before he found a lean one for his neighbour : To divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire, a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !? The primary object of existence is to keep alive , and all heavens , hells , paradises , gehennas , valhallas , nirvanas , and other abodes of the dead , have never for long exercised such a superabundance of power as to crush and extinguish the flaming desire for ex istence . The fools having devised God with jam for the good in heaven , were …
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
…ho am Soul and Body, Good and Evil, Sorrow and Joy, Change and Equilibrium; who in the temple of Adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire side in my study—Mr. X, one with each and all. Thus it came about that the study of Buddhism caused Frater P. to abandon the tinsel of the Vedanta as well as its own cherished baubles, and induced him, more than ever, to rely on Work and Work alone and not on philosophizing, moralizing and rationalizing. The more rational he became, the less he reasoned outwardly; and the more he became endowed with the S…
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
…ho am Soul and Body, Good and Evil, Sorrow and Joy, Change and Equilibrium; who in the temple of Adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire side in my study—Mr. X, one with each and all. Thus it came about that the study of Buddhism caused Frater P. to abandon the tinsel of the Vedanta as well as its own cherished baubles, and induced him, more than ever, to rely on Work and Work alone and not on philosophizing, moralizing and rationalizing. The more rational he became, the less he reasoned outwardly; and the more he became endowed with the S…
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
…m. Now then art thou approached unto an august Arcanum; verily thou art come unto the ancient Marvel, the winged light, the Fountains of Fire, the Mystery of the Wedge. But it is not I that can reveal it, for I have never been per- mitted to behold it, who am but the watcher upon the threshold of the Aethyr. My message is spoken, and my mission is accomplished. And I withdraw myself, covering my face with my wings, before the presence of the Angel of the Aethyr. So the Angel departed with bowed head, folding his wings across. And there is a lit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 455
…ed the funereal rites, I was seated in the circle on the interior threshold of my door, and the victim had just been consumed in a great fire of alder and cypress wood. . All of a sudden, quite close to me... . I dreamt or rather I felt it pass... I heard in my ear a heartrending wail . . . one would have said that it wept; and since that moment, I think that I am hearing it always.” Eliphas had risen ; he looked fixedly upon his interlocutor. Had he before him a dangerous madman, capable of renew- ing the atrocities of the seigneur of Retz? An…
1913 · PDF PAGE 512
… accidents of purely physical reminiscences. In dreams, we have the consciousness of the universal life; we mingle ourselves with water, fire, air, and earth; we fly like birds; we climb like squirrels ; we crawl like serpents ; we are intoxicated with astral light; we plunge into the common reservoir, as happens in a more complete manner in death; but then (and it is thus that Paracelsus explains the mysteries of the other life) the wicked, that is to say, those who have allowed themselves to be dominated by the instincts of the brute to the p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 455
…ed the funereal rites, I was seated in the circle on the interior threshold of my door, and the victim had just been consumed in a great fire of alder and cypress wood. . All of a sudden, quite close to me... . I dreamt or rather I felt it pass... I heard in my ear a heartrending wail . . . one would have said that it wept; and since that moment, I think that I am hearing it always.” Eliphas had risen ; he looked fixedly upon his interlocutor. Had he before him a dangerous madman, capable of renew- ing the atrocities of the seigneur of Retz? An…
1913 · PDF PAGE 512
… accidents of purely physical reminiscences. In dreams, we have the consciousness of the universal life; we mingle ourselves with water, fire, air, and earth; we fly like birds; we climb like squirrels ; we crawl like serpents ; we are intoxicated with astral light; we plunge into the common reservoir, as happens in a more complete manner in death; but then (and it is thus that Paracelsus explains the mysteries of the other life) the wicked, that is to say, those who have allowed themselves to be dominated by the instincts of the brute to the p…