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Page 59 of 911909 · PDF PAGE 284
…he Planets in Mercury. in gloom. Iam the recession of the torrent, the Storm veiled in Terror is my Name. Hail unto the mighty Powers of Nature and the chiefs of the whirling Storm.’” The Hegemon then says : “The priestess with the mask of Isis spake and said: ‘The traveller through the gates of Anubis is my Name. I am the water perfect, and limpid, and pure, ever flowing out towards the silver sea. Iam the ever- passing Present, which stands in the place of the Past ; Iam the fertilised land. Hail unto the dwellers of the wings of the Morning!…
1922 · PDF PAGE 374
… once told me that the text “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” ought to be translated ‘‘ The wonderment at the forces of nature is the beginning of wisdom.” He claims that every one who is interested in science is necessarily religious, and that those who despise it and detest it are the real blasphemers.
1954 · PDF PAGE 69
…, and to act not on accidental fluctuations but on considerations of essential importance . Such a banker will prove 6. Men of "criminal nature" are simply at issue with their true Wills. The murderer has the Will-to-Iive; and his will to murder is a false will at variance with his true Will, since he risks death at the hands of Society by obeying his criminal impulse.
1954 · PDF PAGE 261
… orbit. This is roughly the plan of the Taoist in his attitude to life. Having ascertained the Path which satisfies the equations of his Nature (as we say, "found his True Will") he continues "without lust of result," acting only when it happens to be necessary to adjust himself to any external stress that affects him, and so proceeds happily thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter. And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter. -assuming that his "True Will" is of that variety. Basil King Lamus asserts this in The Diary of a Drug Fi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 314
…judices, I had been fighting against my destiny. I had been building up a great dam. My occasional return to Magick had been more in the nature of occasional sprees than anything else, as a man consumed by an over- mastering passion for a woman and determined to trample her under foot, might seek relief in occasional flirtations. {513} A magical oath is the most irresistible of all moral forces. It is an affirmation of the true will; that is to say, it is a link between the conscious human and the unconscious divine nature of the man who takes …
1910 · PDF PAGE 21
…less suggest the story of the Cruci- fixion and Resurrection, simply because the actual phenomena which every man is bound to observe in Nature are essentially the same in every clime : so also is Mysticism One, because the phy- siological constitution of mankind is practically identical the wide world over. We have then the right to buy our pigs in the cheapest market, and the Bagh-i-muattar will cer- tainly give us more reward for our trouble than any other work, the only possible competitors being the Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavad Purana,3 and the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
…cchus, 115 lAO, 24,13 Ibsen, 444 Iddhl,394 Incarnations, past, 4, 6, 382 India. 17. 240 Indifference, 385 Indra, 465 Inertia (Formula of Nature), 343
1904 · PDF PAGE 117
… have been built upon the facts here stated, I have nothing to s ay in this place. The facts are not at the disposition of all; from the nature of the s ubject each man must be his own witness. I was once twitted by som e shallow-pated person with the fact that my position cannot be demon- strated in the laboratory , and that therefore (save the mark!) I m ust be a m ystic, an occultist, a theosophist, a mystery-monger, and what not. I am none of these. The above criticism applies to every psychologist that ever wrote, and to the man who makes …
1929 · PDF PAGE 510
…sfortunes. Indeed, I failed to realize consciously the sublimity of this girl until long afterwards. But today, I see clearly enough the nature of her mission; which ended as strangely as it began, at the close of the Chokmah day. She disappeared into the Ewigkeit without a word and all my efforts to trace her were fruitless. This day of repose and reward had prepared me for my next ordeal. At the beginning of the eighth day appeared a Monkey and an Owl. Once again I was confronted with the necessity of choosing between two ideas. The Monkey ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…e minute. But this second occasion quickened my spirit, always with the result of "loosening the girders of the soul", so that my animal nature stood rebuked and kept silence in the presence of the immanent divinity of the Holy Ghost; omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, yet blossoming in my soul as if the entire forces of the universe from all eternity were concentrated and made manifest in a single rose. The second event took place in October 1897. The occasion was an attack of illness. It was nothing very serious and I had long been accus…
1922 · PDF PAGE 128
…e had had a disappointment himself, he said, and it had put him off the business personally, but he was glad to say it hadn’t soured his nature, and he took a real pleasure in seeing people so ideally happy as we were. The only thing, he said, that made him a little un- easy and discontented was that he hadn’t got in touch with the people who ran the Gatto Fritto, which was an extremely exciting and dangerous kind of night club which indulged in pleasures of so esoteric a kind that no other place in Europe had anything to compare with it,
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…I sometimes think that I have never had any thoughts of my own; that I have always been read- ing the thoughts of another, or perhaps of Nature. I seem only to have been a woman in those first few months of marriage. VII The six months following held for me nothing out of the ordinary, save that six or seven times I had dreams, vivid and terrible. Arthur had no share in these; yet I knew, I cannot say how, that they were his dreams and not mine; or rather that they were in his subconscious waking self, for one occurred in the afternoon, when he…
1944 · PDF PAGE 6
… I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twenty‐two Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Ar‐ rangement; The Tarot and the Tree of Life; The Atu of Tahuti; The Rom…
1954 · PDF PAGE 502
… just those people who claimed to have studied the subject. What follows is a rough outline of my argument. I began by pointing out that Nature exercises many forms of Energy, which are not directly observable by the senses. In fact, the History of Science for the last hundred and fifty years or so has consisted principally of the discovery of such types, with their analysis, measurement and manipulation. There is every reason to suppose that many such remain to be discovered. But what has in no case been observed is any trace of will or of int…
1929 · PDF PAGE 382
…elf what the Aethyrs really were, by invoking them in turn by means of the nineteenth Key and, skrying in the spirit vision, judge their nature by what I saw and heard. I investigated the first two Keys on November 14th and 17th, 1900. "The Vision and the Voice" was mysterious and terrific in character. What I saw was not beyond my previous experience, but what I heard was as unintelligible to me as Blake to a Baptist. I was encouraged by the evident importance of these results, but I found that I could no more force myself to go on to the twen…
1919 · PDF PAGE 396
… becomes a Master. Nor do they teach because they are such Nice Kind People. Masters are like Dogs, which ‘bark and bite, for ’tis their nature to.’ We want no credit, no thanks; we are sick of you; only, we have to goon. This verse is, one must suppose, an attempt to put things into the kind of language that would be understood by be- ginners. Compare Chapter Thirteen of the Book of Lies, where it explains how one is induced to follow the Path by false pretences. Compare also the story of the Dolphin and the Prophet in Liber LXV. 37. Behold! t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 161
…Humanity. It’s perfectly right that one should have to undergo a certain amount of dis- comfort. You couldn’t expect anything else. It’s nature’s way. ... We picked ourselves up with five or six goes of heroin. It’s no use taking cocaine unless you're feeling pretty good already... . The supply is really awfully small. Confound this silly holiday habit. It really isn’t fair of Gretel to let us down like this. We went to the Café Wisteria. Somebody introduced us to somebody that said he could get all he wanted. But now there was a new nuisance. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
Chapter8 OF THE HOMUNCULUS; CONCLUSION OF THE FORMER ARGUMENT CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THE SOUL "I AM going to be perfectly horrid," said Simon Iff, leaning over to Lisa, and measuring his words with the minutest care. "I am going to do everything possible to damp your enthusiasm. I would rather have you start from cold and spark up well as you go, than have you go off with a spurt, and find yourself without petrol in the middle of the big rise. "I want you to take up this research because of your real love of knowledge, not because of your pas…
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
The Hierophant to friends, Nine b y nature, Naught by attainment, Five by fonction. In speech swift, subtle and secret j in thought créative, unbiassed, unboundedj in act gentle, patient and persistent. Hermes to hear, Dionysus to touch, Pan to behold. A Virgin, a Babe, and a Beast! A Liar, an Idiot, and a Master of Men! A kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! Take ten that be one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six! Thy wand to al] Cups, and thy Disk to ail Swords, but betray not thine Egg! Mo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 488
…nts . The stability of a building depends on the proportion of superstructure to foundations. The rule holds good in every department of Nature. There is an optimum for every case. If there is one barber for ten thousand men, most of them will remain unshorn; if there are five thousand barbers , most of them will be out of a job . Apply this measure to society ; there must be an optimum relation between industry and agriculture, between town and country . When the proper balance is not struck , the community must depend on outside help, importi…