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Page 59 of 1071913 · PDF PAGE 512
THE EQUINOX and what we have understood through deciphering the qabalistic characters, and the allegories of which he makes use in his work: The human soul is material; the divine sevs is offered to it to immortalize it and to make it live spiritually and indi- vidually, but its natural substance is fluidic and collective. There are, then, in man, two lives: the individual or reasonable life, and the common or instinctive life. It is by this latter that one can live in the bodies of others, since the universal soul, of which each nervous organi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 147
…cribed manner. But, said he, “Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure”; and it will no doubt be best to under- take a week of this work so as to get used to it, after which I shall probably have no more trouble in this respect. He decided therefore to omit the word AND from his conversa- tion for that period. His record of this experiment is kept in detail* and may prove interesting to other Students; so I shall transcribe it in full. Saturday, Jan. 7th, 1911. Vancouver, B. C. 4 P.M. Have just received THE Equinox and am going to experime…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…Since three parts of all wisdom I may claim, Hermes thrice great, and greatest, is my name. What I have written of the one sole Sun, His work, is here divined, and dared, and done."
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
…agittarius. See the Archer, not shooting forth benign rays, but dealing the sharp rain of death! The Wand has conquered; it has done its work; it has done its work too well; it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One thinks of the Hydra when one reflects that King Charles was beheaded in White hall! The Ten of Cups is called Satiety. its attribution is Mars in Pisces. The watery sign has sunk into a stagnant dream, but in it broods and breeds the violent quality of Mars, to putrefy it. As it is written: “Until a dart strik…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
15 Chapter OF DR. VESQUIT AND HIS COMPANIONS, HOW THEY FARED IN THEIR WORK OF NECROMANCY; AND OF A COUNCIL OF WAR OF CYRIL GREY AND BROTHER ONOFRIO; WITH CERTAIN OPINIONS OF THE FORMER UPON THE ART OF MAGICK. THE Neapolitan winter had overpassed its common clemency; save for a touch of frost, kindly and wholesome, on a few nights, it had no frown or rigour. Day after day the sun had enkindled the still air, and life had danced with love upon the hills. But on the night of her fullness, the moon was tawny and obscure, with a reddish vapour about…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…areless rapture". I accordingly jumped out of the train at El Kantara and wrote it that evening and next day. I had done little creative work during the walk. My Retirements, as a rule, especially when they involve physical hardship, keep me in intimate communion with the universe and rarely dispose me to write the result. I lie fallow and the expression of ecstasy follows my return to physical comfort and leisure. My last important work had been done at Marseilles on the way out, where we had to wait two days for a boat to take us to Algiers. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 80
…I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul. “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.* “O Keshara,” cries Arjuna, “enjoin in me this terrible action!” This will TO WILL. To turn the mind inwards, as it were, and stop it wander- ing outwardly, and then to concentrate all its powers upon itself, are the methods adopted by the Yogi in opening the closed Eye which sleeps in the heart of every one of us, and to create this will TO WILL. By doing so he ultimate…
1910 · PDF PAGE 80
…I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul. “At my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.* “O Keshara,” cries Arjuna, “enjoin in me this terrible action!” This will TO WILL. To turn the mind inwards, as it were, and stop it wander- ing outwardly, and then to concentrate all its powers upon itself, are the methods adopted by the Yogi in opening the closed Eye which sleeps in the heart of every one of us, and to create this will TO WILL. By doing so he ultimate…
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
…c of 1848 was clearly announced in the prophecy of Orval, which dated at least from 1830 and which we strongly suspect to be, like those works attributed to the brothers Olivarius, the posthumous work of Mlle. Lenormand. This is a matter of little importance in this thesis. That magnetic light which causes the future to appear, also causes things at present existing, but hidden, to be guessed; as it is the universal life, it is also the agent of human sensibility, transmitting to some the sickness or the health of others, according to the fatal…
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
…c of 1848 was clearly announced in the prophecy of Orval, which dated at least from 1830 and which we strongly suspect to be, like those works attributed to the brothers Olivarius, the posthumous work of Mlle. Lenormand. This is a matter of little importance in this thesis. That magnetic light which causes the future to appear, also causes things at present existing, but hidden, to be guessed; as it is the universal life, it is also the agent of human sensibility, transmitting to some the sickness or the health of others, according to the fatal…
1922 · PDF PAGE 250
…l? I seem to hear him saying that I was cured from the moment that I forgot myself altogetherin the absorption of my love for Peter; the work of bringing him back to life. And now that I have ceased to look at myself and feel for myself, I have. become able to see him and feel for him with absolute clearness. There is not the slightest possibility of error.
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
… no need to watch the thermometer. Automatically I became aware that the mercury was close to the limit, and would go over from my other work and adjust it without a thought. More remarkable still, if any object were placed on my bench without my knowledge and then removed, I could, if asked within a few minutes, describe the object roughly, especially distinguishing the shape of its base and the degree of its opacity to heat and light. From these data I could make a pretty good guess at what the object was. This faculty of mine was repeatedly …
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…ayed home, though, and kept a sharp look-out with the gaff for the serpent. This is what happened in his absence. Eve had done her days work, and was sprawl- ing in the sun with her tailor-made fur-lined dress within easy reach (fig-leaves, in the daytime, had entirely gone out, and were now only worn for eve- ning dress), and meditating on the curious events of the past evening. Silly thing that of Adams, she soliloquized, just when I was feeling nice, it turned sick and collapsed, and took ten minutes to get well again. Why, I could ha…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
…on to the edition (save the mark) of the “Goetia” produced by Mr. A. E. Waite in the “ Book of Black Magic.” But a fresh perusal of that work reveals it to be such a farrago of twenty-fifth-rate shoddy schoolboy journalism that disgust compels me to refrain. I may merely mention that the letterpress is garbled and the seals abominably drawn. To give one concrete example; on p. 202 Mr. Waite observes : “This” (that the compiler of the Lemegeton was acquainted with the N. T.) “is proved by the references in the Third Conjuration to the Living Cre…
1906 · PDF PAGE 120
…TIS. Hlow grand it were to see Our aged father rival the strong youths In feats of great agility ! MEDEA. Agreed ! But surely you should work the charm your- selves. For children magic is a blithesome game! DANAIDES. Dear lady ! teach us how to say the spell! MEDEA. Words must be aided by appalling deeds ! ALCESTIS. O! O! you frighten us. MEDEA. Be brave, my child ! I too passed through unutterable things ! ALCESTIS. Let me fetch father ! MEDEA. Nay, consider first. Would he consent? The process is severe ! DANAIDES. We know the sire is not exa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…his brother , he is a liar . For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth , how can he love God whom he seeth not .” So the mystic's work lies here in life , and the greatest and most divine mystics have probably been those whose naïveté of soul was such , that they knew not that they were mystics , and whose illumination has become so brilliant , that they cannot even find expression in the most divine of symbols . Such adepts who arrive at so exalted a plane , keep silence , as Crowley says : “ the first and last ordeals and rewards of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…eeps remarkably green for its age , grow apt to tell me that when it comes to particular poets — or at any rate , when it comes to their work , it discriminates less well than of yore : and I make no doubt they are right . Since , right or wrong , they are certain to scan this book more closely , not to say jealously , than the ordinary disinterested reader , I decline taking the risk of detailed praise . A small word of protest will be safer . I note - and may summon almost every page of the book for evidence that the lyrical form nowadays dom…
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…oaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the Lady. She thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to his work. Her image, however, remained clear before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. Well, little Piotr heard it all. As there was but one woman in the whole world whom he loved, the description of another woman did not in the least attract his attention. Only when mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…oaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voice of the Lady. She thanked him, him, a poor peasant, her slave, and left him to his work. Her image, however, remained clear before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. Well, little Piotr heard it all. As there was but one woman in the whole world whom he loved, the description of another woman did not in the least attract his attention. Only when mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…ubstitute human arbitrament for the legitimate des- potism of the law, to put, in other words, tyranny in the place of authority, is the work of all Protestantism and of all democracies. What men call liberty is the sanction of illegitimate authority, or, rather, the fiction of power not sanctioned by authority. 1 The author had perhaps no space to continue with a demonstration that the Gospel legend itself is a macédoine of those of Bacchus, Adonis, Osiris, and a hundred others, and that the Mass, and Christian ceremonies generally, have simil…