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Page 60 of 1121909 · PDF PAGE 121
…r really arisen in John St. John ; however bad he feels, he always feels that Attainment is the only possible way out of it. This is the good Karma of his ten years’ constant striving. Well, in the upshot, he will get back to Work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! There are further serious considerations to be made concerning Adonai. This title for the Unknown Thought was adopted by Ο. Μ. in November, 19--͵ in Upper Burma, on the occasion of his passi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
…re found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. ‘Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. 8. Who worshi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
…re found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. ‘Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. 8. Who worshi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 113
…ake a mortal maid. I, if her rotten corpse were mine, Would take it as my natural food , Denying all but the Divine Alike in evil and in good. Aspasia may skin me close, And Lais load me with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, these? I shall despise Diogenes. Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. There is thus in this School no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature i:::, so to speak, "the First Matter of the Work," which is to be transmuted into gold. The joy is a …
1961 · PDF PAGE 179
…or Secrecy, and for Concentration, and for Prudence. Lastly, from the Sphere of Mars, travelleth Justice in the Path of the Balance, for good Judgment, and Tact, and Art. O my Son, in this Chapter is more wisdom than in Ten Thousand Folios of the Alchemists! Study therefore to acquire Skill in this Method, and Experience; for this Gold is not only of the Metals, but of every Sphere, and this Key is of virtue to enter every Palace of Perfection. w
1902 · PDF PAGE 16
…Supreme Being. The various other characters are all little parts of Tannhauser's own consciousness and not real persons at all : whether good or bad, all alike hinder and help (and there is not one whose function is not thus double) the realisa- tion of his true unity with all life. This circumstance serves to explain, though perhaps not to excuse, the lack of dramatic action in the story. Love being throughout the symbol of his method, as Beauty of its object, it is through Love, refined into Pity, that he at last attains the Supreme Knowledge…
1906 · PDF PAGE 160
…ity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most immoral and absurd — —(A priest’s invention, in a word)— Of all religions, I have hope In the good Dhamma’s ® wider scope, Nay, certainty ! that all_at last, However came they. in the past, Move, up or down—who knows, my friend ?— But yet with no uncertain trend Unto Nibbana.in the.end. I do not even dare despise | Your doctrines, prayers, and ceremonies ! Far from the word “you'll go to hell !” I] dare not say“ you do not well!” I must obey my own mind’s laws, Accept its limits, seek its cause : My me…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…ch little importance to the Reverend Out-at-Elbows, thundering in Bareboards Chapel that the rich man gets no enjoyment from his wealth. Good, then. Let us obtain the volume entitled “The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”; or the magical writings of that holy illuminated Man of God, Captain Fuller, and carry out fully their instructions. And only when we have succeeded, when we have put a colossal ! against our vital ? need we inquire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. Let us take the first ste…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
… at Lavenue’s at one to—morrow. Bring a girl." “ Right,” said he. “ But I wonder what she means.” And he strolled out to the Döme to find good-hearted Ninon, “ la grande hystérique " of the Quarter, half—mad and wholly amorous, half gamine and half great lady, satiated and un- satisfied indeed, but innocent withal. La Dame de Mont- parno they called her; she dominated her surroundings without effort. Yet none could analyse or explain the fascination to which all surrendered. She had more friends than lovers, and no one ever told a lie about her, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
… at Lavenue’s at one to—morrow. Bring a girl." “ Right,” said he. “ But I wonder what she means.” And he strolled out to the Döme to find good-hearted Ninon, “ la grande hystérique " of the Quarter, half—mad and wholly amorous, half gamine and half great lady, satiated and un- satisfied indeed, but innocent withal. La Dame de Mont- parno they called her; she dominated her surroundings without effort. Yet none could analyse or explain the fascination to which all surrendered. She had more friends than lovers, and no one ever told a lie about her, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 100
…ditation need not be taken cm pied de-Za [612%. His records of meditation contain no reference to this remarkable animal. - It will be a good thing when organized research has determined the 1 It is rather a breach of the scepticism which is the basis of our system to admit that anything can be in any way better than another. Do it thus: “ A. is a thing that B. thinks ‘holy.’ It is natural therefore for B. to meditate on it. ” Get rid of the ego, observe all your actions as if they were another’s, and you will avoid ninety-nine per cent. of the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 369
THE TWO PATHS The subject of elimination is here further developed. The favourite Eastern image of the Wheel of the Good Law is difficult to Western minds, and the whole metaphor appears to us somewhat confused. 19. True knowledge is the flour, false learning is the husk. If thou would’st eat the bread of Wisdom, thy flour thou hast to knead with Amrita’s clear waters. But if thou kneadest husks with Maya's dew, thou canst create but food for the black doves of death, the birds of birth, decay and SOrrow. “Amrita” means not only Immortality, bu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 434
…th of pure knowledge” named. Once more the passage harks back to the Abyss where thoughts prevail. It is another poetic image, and not a good one. Extraordinary how liable this unassailable Alaya- Soul is to catch cold! It isn’t woe to him; it’s woe to YOU! 57. Ere thou canst settle in Dhyéna-Mérga and call it thine, thy Soul has to become as the ripe mango fruit; as soft and sweet as its bright golden pulp for others’ woes, as hard as that fruit’s stone for thine own throes and sorrows, O conqueror of weal and woe. More trouble, more poetic im…
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
…ord of that Word with the Magician Dee, sayeth falsely) that an Angel did declare unto Kelly the very Axiomata of our Law of Thelema, in good Measure, and plainly; but Dee, afflicted by the Fixity of his Tenets that were of the Slave- Gods, was wroth, and by his Authority prevailed upon the other, who was indeed not wholly perfected as an Instrument, or the World ready for that Sowing. Consider also how in this very Life I was the Enemy of mine own Law, and wrote down The Book of the Law contrary o my conscious Will by the Virtue of Obedience a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
…at the same time stable. One thinks of Queen Victoria’s time, of a man who is “something in the City” rolling up to Town with Albert the Good advertized by his watch‐chain and his frock‐coat; on the surface he is very affable, but he is nobody’s fool. THE FOUR NINES These cards are attributed to Yesod. After the double excursion into misfortune, the current returns to the middle pillar. This Sephira is the seat of the great crystallization of En‐ ergy. But it takes place very far down the Tree, at the apex of the third descending triangle, and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
… is of course to kill them without thinking of the killing, which thought is naturally just as bad as any other thought. I never got any good out of this method myself. It may, I believe, happen with fair frequency that in the course of any advanced meditation or invocation this particular type of spiritual experience may suddenly arise without apparent cause. Anyway, let us hope so! As a matter of practical politics, I think that a judicious mixture of the methods of East and West is likely to give the best results. Let the young Adept, for ex…
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
… is of course to kill them without thinking of the killing, which thought is naturally just as bad as any other thought. I never got any good out of this method myself. It may, I believe, happen with fair frequency that in the course of any advanced meditation or invocation this particular type of spiritual experience may suddenly arise without apparent cause. Anyway, let us hope so! As a matter of practical politics, I think that a judicious mixture of the methods of East and West is likely to give the best results. Let the young Adept, for ex…
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
THE EQUINOX Oct. 9. Tested new ritual and behold it was very good! Thanked gods and sacrificed for—— In the “thanksgivingand sacrifice for. . I did get rid of everything but the Holy Exalted One, and must have held Him for a minute or two. I did. I am sure I did. Such is the fragmentary account of what was then the greatest event in Fra. P.’s career. Yet this is an account of the highest of the trances—of Shivadarshana itself, as we know from other sources. The “vision,” to use still the name become totally inadequate, appears to have had three m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
THE EQUINOX Oct. 9. Tested new ritual and behold it was very good! Thanked gods and sacrificed for—— In the “thanksgivingand sacrifice for. . I did get rid of everything but the Holy Exalted One, and must have held Him for a minute or two. I did. I am sure I did. Such is the fragmentary account of what was then the greatest event in Fra. P.’s career. Yet this is an account of the highest of the trances—of Shivadarshana itself, as we know from other sources. The “vision,” to use still the name become totally inadequate, appears to have had three m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 438
… remain calm in the presence of prodigies. . . .” “Oh, oh, you speak of prodigies, thatinterests me. Come, between ourselves, and in all good faith, of what prodigies are you speaking ?” “Eh, what prodigies should they be but those of the great prophet Elias, returned to earth under the name of Pierre Michel ?” “Tunderstand; you mean Eugéne Vintras. I have heard his prophecies spoken of. But does he really perform miracles ?” [Here Mr. Madrolle jumps in his chair, raises his eyes and his hands to heaven, and finally smiles with a condescension …