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Page 6 of 2571930 · PDF PAGE 79
Section F. Section Ff. his will with majestic and irrésistible motion, mindful of its impulse gravitation, yet with a suave and tranquil appearance of weakness. Again, he may apply the formula of water to its peculiar pur- pose as it surges back into his sphere, using it with conscious skill for the cleansing and calming of the réceptive and emotional éléments in his character, and for the solution or sweeping away of those tangled weeds of préjudice which hamper him from freedom to act as he will. Similar applica¬ tions of the remaining invoca…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
4 ALEXANDRA NOTES : 1. Translation by Mr A.B. Waulkphast. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! Read ! I will not be a Cassandra. (i.e. a prophetess of evil.) I will write those things which become me : Xenophon (an ancient writer . . . ah ! did you once see Shelley plain ? in his extant mas- terpiece) did no more. Alexandra ! Alexandra ! I will not be a bad Cassandra. (i.e. a seer of future misfortunes.) O spring ! make me a poet (poetess) concerning thee ! Reign ! Live ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Alexandra ! I being unarmed. (Because Mrs Cox is a woman. Cf. Vol…
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The six Chakkras are points often used by the Yogi when in contemplation. Thus seated in the Padmasana he will fix his attention in the Ajna lotus, and by contemplating upon this light the “Shiva Sanhita”* informs us “all sins (un- balanced forces) are destroyed, and even the most wicked (unbalanced) person obtains the highest end.” Those who would practise Dharana successfully should live alone, and should take care to distract the mind as little as possible. They should not speak much or work much, and they shou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The six Chakkras are points often used by the Yogi when in contemplation. Thus seated in the Padmasana he will fix his attention in the Ajna lotus, and by contemplating upon this light the “Shiva Sanhita”* informs us “all sins (un- balanced forces) are destroyed, and even the most wicked (unbalanced) person obtains the highest end.” Those who would practise Dharana successfully should live alone, and should take care to distract the mind as little as possible. They should not speak much or work much, and they shou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 406
…te natures are highly charged magnets; they attract or repel with violence. It is possible to magnetize in two ways: first, in acting by will upon the plastic medium of another person, whose will and whose acts are, in consequence, subordinated to that action. Secondly, in acting through the will of another, either by intimidation, or by persuasion, so that the influenced will modifies at our pleasure the plastic medium and the acts of that person. One magnetizes by radiation, by contact, by look, or by word. The vibrations of the voice modify …
1913 · PDF PAGE 406
…te natures are highly charged magnets; they attract or repel with violence. It is possible to magnetize in two ways: first, in acting by will upon the plastic medium of another person, whose will and whose acts are, in consequence, subordinated to that action. Secondly, in acting through the will of another, either by intimidation, or by persuasion, so that the influenced will modifies at our pleasure the plastic medium and the acts of that person. One magnetizes by radiation, by contact, by look, or by word. The vibrations of the voice modify …
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…ng lime being fooled and flattered by the As Irais thaï lie has himself modified or manufacturée!. Their natural subservienee to himself will please him, poor ape! They wiîi prétend to show him marvellous my s Sériés, pageants of heauty and wonder unspeakably splendid; he will incline to accept them as true, for the very reason that they are images of himself idealized by imagination. But his real progress will stop dead. Tliese phantasms will prevent him from coming into contact with indepen- dent intelligences, from whom alone he can learn an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
42 This Magical Will is the wand in your hand by which the Great Work is accomplished, by which the Daughter is not merely set upon the throne of the Mother, but assumed into the Highest.^ The Magick Wand is thus the principal weapon of the Magus; and the name of that wand is the Magical Oath. The will being twofold is in Chokmah, who is the Logos, the word; hence some have said that the word is the will. Thoth the Lord of Magic is also the Lord of Speech; Hermes the messenger bears the Caduceus. Word should express will: hence the Mystic Name …
1902 · PDF PAGE 73
Tannhauser. Vile thing I will try otherwise —to raise myself : But if I fail, I will not drag her down ; I will return. Venus. To lose thee for one hour Is my swift death—so desolate am I ! I have not got one lover in the world, Save only Tannhauser. And he will go. Tannhauser. One lover ! Who makes up the equal soul Of all the wickedness beneath the sun ? Lilith ! Seek out thy children to devour ! Leave me. I go to my Elizabeth. Venus. no ! It kills me ! That is naked truth. 1 am the soul and symbol of desire. Yet individual to thy love. Stay …
1910 · PDF PAGE 75
22 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. I have magnificent And sublime and noble scheme. Listen ! I will find a woman — THE VULTURE Oh ! you dirty-minded rascal ! THE DOVE Wait a moment — I will do it. Find a virgin — if I can, And on her beget this lambkin In the image of a man. THE VULTURE That seems complicated, pigeon. We’ve the lamb begotten here. THE DOVE Yes, I know ; it seems absurd ; But in practice I am certain It will work out splendidly. THE VULTURE Well, proceed !
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…ntrol the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carries the sensations to the brain, whilst the other carries them back from the brain to the tissues of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…ntrol the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carries the sensations to the brain, whilst the other carries them back from the brain to the tissues of the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 332
THE EQUINOX he will be under the dominion of an entirely new set of the type of Rajo-Guna, the principle of Activity, and soon. To the advanced Student a simple ordinary thought, which seems little or nothing to the beginner, becomes a great and terrible fountain of iniquity, and the higher he goes, up toa certain point, the point of definitive victory, the more that is the case. The beginner can think, ‘it is ten o’clock,’ and dismiss the thought. To the mind of the adept this sentence will awaken all its possible correspondences, all the refl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 195
…actors of which we know nothing at all, by which the basic possibilities of a figure are set to work. (Just as a car with engine running will not start until the clutch is put in.) I will conclude by announcing a rather remarkable position. 1. I see no objection at all to postulating that certain "rays," or other means of transmitting some peculiar form or forms of energy, may reach us from the other parts of the solar system; for we can in fact point to perfectly analogous phenomena in the discoveries of the last hundred years or so. But that …
1954 · PDF PAGE 377
…se of the formulae of nature which have brought them to their present situation , are attempts to proceed further on the way of the True Will. It is particularly important to understand this at the present time when the Aeon of Horus is just getting under way. For the Aeon of Isis, that of the Mother, appears to have regarded the whole of Nature as a spontaneous growth of universal scope. In the aeon of Osiris, the restriction of Family appears for the first time. The world of sentient beings is separated into clusters, each family, clan, gens,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…ample of a Magical Act: that of a man blowing his nose. What are the conditions of the success of the Operation? Firstly, that the man’s Will should be to blow his nose; secondly, that he should hâve a nose capable of being blown; thirdly, that he should hâve at command an apparatus capable of expressing his spiritual Will in terms of material force, and applying that force to the object which he desires to affect. His Will may be as strong and concentrated as that of Jupiter, and his nose may be totally incapable of résistance; but unless the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…pon the secret things that were there shown to me I ponder yet; so that in this place I shall make no mention of them. But this treasure will I give out, that everything noble in that House seemeth vile to them that are swimming in the stream; and everything vile to them appeareth noble. Thus they endure not the delicate stuffs with rough and impure handling; and the rubbish they carry away with them, and devour. Thus wisely hath the master of the House ordained. Now of the silver radiance that issueth from the darkness of the House I will say …
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…pon the secret things that were there shown to me I ponder yet; so that in this place I shall make no mention of them. But this treasure will I give out, that everything noble in that House seemeth vile to them that are swimming in the stream; and everything vile to them appeareth noble. Thus they endure not the delicate stuffs with rough and impure handling; and the rubbish they carry away with them, and devour. Thus wisely hath the master of the House ordained. Now of the silver radiance that issueth from the darkness of the House I will say …
1913 · PDF PAGE 61
…s not necessarily subservient to the destiny of the man who possesses it. One may be unable to tell when a thread of a particular colour will be woven into the carpet of Destiny. It is only when the carpet is fin- ished and seen from a proper distance that the position of that par- ticular strand is seen to be necessary. From this one is tempted to break a lance on that most ancient battlefield, free-will and destiny. But even though every man is "determined" so that every action is merely the passive resultant of the sum-total of the forces wh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…s or untrue. Nor can he avoid this writing, for this is a Magick Book. If you abandon even for an hour the one purpose of your life, you will find a number of meaningless scratches and scrawls on the white vellum; and these cannot be erased. In such a case, when you come to conjure a demon by the power of the Book, he will mock you; he will point to all this foolish writing, more like his own than yours. In vain will you continue with the subsequent spells; you have broken by your own foolishness the chain which would have bound him. Even the c…