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Page 59 of 761909 · PDF PAGE 268
…, by word or deed!” The Hierophant then says: “Resume your seat in the N.W., and remember that your admission to this Order gives you no right to initiate any other person without dispensation from the greatly honoured chiefs of the Second Order.” Thus ends the Admission, after which the Closing takes place. THE CLOSING The Closing Ceremony is opened by the cry: “HEKAS, HEKAS, ESTE, BEBELOI!” and the greater part of its symbolism is explained in the Opening. The reverse circum- ambulation is intended to formulate the withdrawal of the Light of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…ot, of course, their wishes as individual human beings, but their will as ofhcers of the New Aeon. 2. It is not considered “essential to right conduct” to be an active propagandist of the Law, and so on; it may, or may not, be the True Will of any particular person to do so. But since the fundamental purpose of the Order is to further the Attainment of humanity, membership implies, by définition, the Will to help mankind by the means best adapted thereto. — 241
1905 · PDF PAGE 166
…s, indeed, Love is my meaning. Does it shame me much To talk so openly of love to you? But Iam old enough to be—to be-—— ULRIC (breaking right out). My wife! O Cora, I have loved you so! My heart is like a fountain of the sea. I burn, I tremble; in my veins there swims A torrid ecstasy of madness. Ah! Ah God! I kiss you, kiss you! O you faint! Swectheart, my passion overwhelms your soul. Your virginal sweet spirit cannot reach My fury. You are silent. Yet you love! I read it in the terror of your eyes, The crimson of your burning face. I know y…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… Nor change our lordly looks before a sup- pliant’s face. AL ACUS. Stern in all justice, we Assent aloud to thee, We affirm thy cause as right : We put forth all the might Of aid : and all is done. Our utmost power is none To lift one soul to live and look upon the sun. 1 Egypt.
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…t; what was the work of a month when He was a full Major Adept is to day wrought in a few minutes by the Words of Will, uttered with the right vibrations into the prepared Ear. — 127 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 127
…ain, They may send an ordinary living man, whether one of Themselves or no I cannot feel sure, to instruct me in some task, or to set me right when I have erred. Then there have been messages conveyed by natural objects, animate or inanimate. 2 Needless to say, the outstanding example in my life is the whole Plan of Campaign concerning The Book of the Law. But is Aiwaz a man (presumably a Persian or Assyrian) and a "Secret Chief," or is He an 'angel' in the sense that Gabriel is an angel? Is Ab-ul-Diz an Adept who can project himself into the a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…ea is excluded; all bodily motions are observed and recorded; for instance, one may sit down quietly and say: “There is a raising of the right foot.” “There is an expiration,” etc., etc., just as it happens. When once this habit of excluding the Ego becomes intuitive, the next step is to explain the above thus: “ There is a sensation (Vedana) of a raising, etc.” The next stage is that of perception (Safifia) “ There is a perception of a (pleasant and unpleas- ant) sensation of a raising, etc.” The two further stages Sankhara and Vififianam purs…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…ea is excluded; all bodily motions are observed and recorded; for instance, one may sit down quietly and say: “There is a raising of the right foot.” “There is an expiration,” etc., etc., just as it happens. When once this habit of excluding the Ego becomes intuitive, the next step is to explain the above thus: “ There is a sensation (Vedana) of a raising, etc.” The next stage is that of perception (Safifia) “ There is a perception of a (pleasant and unpleas- ant) sensation of a raising, etc.” The two further stages Sankhara and Vififianam purs…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…ce is neither easy nor justifiable, because the magical being of the other was incarnated in accordance with its Will. And “Thou hast no right but to do thy Will.” One should hardly strain this sentence to make one’s own will include the will to upset somebody else’s will! 1 Moreover, it is extremely difficult thus to expatriate another magical being ; for though, unless it is a complété microcosm like a human being, it cannot be called a star, it is a little bit of a star, and a part of the body of Nuit. But there is no call for ail this frigh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…to tell Cripps something, and he'll think I'm mad. It's bluff, too; but it's true for all that — and it's the one chance in the world." "Right O!" "Are we retreating again?" "All through the night. There's not a dog's chance to save Paris, and the line stretches every hour." "Don't worry about Paris — it's as safe as Bordeaux. Safer, because the Covernment is at Bordeaux!" "My poor friend, wouldn't you be better in a home?" The British Army had no illusions about its situation. It was a thin, drab line of heroes, very thin and very drab, but th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…e enter into his kingdom. 2 The true God 1. TEITAN — 300+5+ 10+300+1+50 = 666. 2. In another sense, a higher sense, Nature is absolutely right through- out* The position is that the Magician discovers himself imprisoned in a distorted Nature of Iniquity; and his task is to disentangle it. This is ail to be studied in the Book of Wisdom or Folly (Liber ALEPH, CXI) and in The Master Therion’s édition of the Tao T eh King. A rough note from His Magical Diary is appended here : “Ail éléments must at one time hâve been separate, — that would be the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…uth is a silly superstition which the accidents of their local conditions suggested to our animistic ancestors. We see no enmitv between Right and Left, Up and Down, and similar pairs of opposites. These antithèses are real only as a statement of relation; they are the conventions of an arbitrary device for representing our icleas in a pluralistic symbolism based on duality. “Good” must be defined in terms of human ideals and instincts. “East” has no meaning except with reference to the earth’s internai aff airs ; as an absolute direction in sp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
THE SIRE DE MALETROIT’S DOOR 73 ALAIN, Well, well, that’s all right. Here you are, which is the great thing after all, isn’t it? Sit down, my dear young friend [Denys zncomfortably and slowly takes a chair}, and we shall—er—arrange our little affair. You arrived uninvited, but believe me, most welcome. DENYS. Sir, you persist in error. I am a stranger: Denys de Beaulieu is my name, and I am here under a safe-conduct. That you see me in your house is only owing to—your door. ALAIN, Ah! my door—a hospitable fancy of mine ! DENYS. I don’t understa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 279
…e constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame. I am Fire, Astral a and Fluid, winding through the firma- ofAte ment of Air. I am the life of Being, the rome Pact vital heat of Existence.” i \ ve rene il Seals | The Hierophant then takes the solid [FZ me else . triangular pyramid and explains : Zz 2 fFRtavens) “The solid triangular Pyramid is an atts, | st jes Asovap) appropriate hieroglyph of fire. It is ‘nr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 279
…e constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame. I am Fire, Astral a and Fluid, winding through the firma- ofAte ment of Air. I am the life of Being, the rome Pact vital heat of Existence.” i \ ve rene il Seals | The Hierophant then takes the solid [FZ me else . triangular pyramid and explains : Zz 2 fFRtavens) “The solid triangular Pyramid is an atts, | st jes Asovap) appropriate hieroglyph of fire. It is ‘nr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 219
…all goes pretty well; look how Simple Simon has isolated Germany! Even there he has been thwarted by the Exchequer; five millions in the right place would have bought the Balkans. How much do you think that little economy will cost us before we're through? As for the foolishness of leaving Turkey doubtful, it's beyond all words!" "Yes," agreed Bowling "we ought to have supported Abdul Hamid from the first. The best kind of Englishman is blood brother to the best kind of Mussulman. He is brave, just, frank, manly and proud. We should always be i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
deed into dévotion, and consecrated by the right performance of the holy ceremonies. Yet herein is danger, for that the Mind is fluid as quicksilver, and bordereth upon the Abyss, and is beset by many sirens and devils that seduce and attack it to destroy it. Therefore let the devotee beware, and précisé accurately his médi¬ tations, even as a man should build a canal from sea to sea. 21. Continuation. — Let then the Philosophus meditate upon ail J ove that hath ever stirred him. There is the love of David and of Jonathan, and the love of Abrah…
1938 · PDF PAGE 8
…ed, as if in worship or in wonder of rapture. His arms are folded on his breast: upon his corslet is the golden image of the Sun. In his right hand is a rod of amber, crowned with a ruby; in his left an amethyst lotus with a sapphire corolla. Lo! from his eyes flow tears of mingled sorrow and joy, of joy that burns up sorrow, and with these tears he smites the barren rock beneath his feet. It melts like wax at the touch; roses spring up and twine about his limbs. Around him are four living creatures, begotten of his will, so that the mountain m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 57
…, tubercular trouble in the arms, etc., etc.—was his Wife; she must be immediately available should Mr. H. want to exercise his conjugal Right. (In this case, too, Mrs. H. was likely to die if impregnated.) The extraordinary feature is that so extremely sensitive and refined a man could be so disgustingly callous on such a mat ter. Even vulgar people fear to appear physically repulsive to the person whom they love. It seems as if the fact of Marriage destroys every natural characteristic, and has a set of rules of its own diametrically opposed…
1996 · PDF PAGE 41
…ervices. It is the frankest and most crass state ment of a slave-situation. To us, every woman is a star. She has therefore an absolute right to travel in her own orbit. There is no