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Page 61 of 911954 · PDF PAGE 314
…al. Now then , it is simple to answer the question of their development , their growing old and dying ; for , being of the same order of Nature as we are ourselves , almost anything which is true of us is true also of them. I have tended rather to elaborate this theme, because of the one personally important question which arises in more recent letters ; for I believe that the Holy Guardian Angel is a Being of this order. He is something more than a man, possibly a being who has already passed through the stage of humanity, and his peculiarly i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 332
… moral and intellectual forces involved, the mind, the will, the consciousness. Let him continue this with unremitting ardour, searching Nature, leaving nothing out . Next, let him take one of the immediate causes of his position, and trace out its equilibrium. For example, the will. What determines the will to aid in holding the body erect and motionless? This being discovered, let him choose one of the forces which determined his will, and trace out that in similar fashion, and let this process be continued for many days until the interdepend…
1922 · PDF PAGE 320
… of King Lamus’s plan, no doubt, that we should be stung with the realisation of our impotence in so divine a spot, where every voice of nature swelled the chorus that spurred us to physical activity. Our invalidism had not seemed so horribly unnatural in London as it did in this consecrated temple of beauty. Lamus himself seemed invigorated to an extraordinary degree by his home-coming. He gambolled like a young goat while we plodded gaspingly up the slope. And while we rested he told us the history of the monu- ments that crumbled on the crag…
1954 · PDF PAGE 143
110 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS possible in Nature: addition and subtraction. Let us apply this to magical progress. What happens when the Aspirant invokes Diana, or calls up Lilith? He increases the sum of his experiences in these particular ways. Sometimes he has a 'liaison-experience', which links two main lines of thought, and so is worth dozens of isolated gains. Now, if there is any difference at all between the White and the Black Adept in similar case, it is that the one, working by "love under will" achieves a marriage with the new idea, whil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…cery, a promise was exacted that I should go to a public school and university as soon as I had passed the "Cambridge Local". Meanwhile, nature took my part. At the end of the first term of my punishment I was so obviously ill during the holidays that questions were asked, and I complained to my mother of the ill-treatment. Instead of investigating the circumstances, they sent for Champney without saying anything to me. I was taken over to my Uncle Tom's house one evening and found muyself penned in a corner of the room by the fulminating headm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 371
… not fit in with the entire fabric of knowledge. A new fact proves itself by its fitness; isolated, it is repugnant to the continuity of nature. When it is seen to explain cognate difficulties, to complete imperfect conceptions; when it leads to lives of research which bear fruit, some sixtyfold, some eightyfold and some an hundredfold, then it becomes impregnable. My conviction in the reality of my magical experiences does not depend on any single event. It is because so many incidents, each one more or less incredible and inexplicable when co…
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
…sence of Light. Many also have sought to describe it by contradictions, since through transcendent negation of all speech it may by some natures be attained. Also by images and symbols have men striven to express it: but always in vain. Yet those that were ready to apprehend the nature of this Light have understood by sympathy: and so shall it be with you who read this little book, loving it. However, be it known unto you that the best of all instruction on this matter, and the Word best suited to the AZon of Horus, is written in the Book of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 410
… its importance is sufficient to have made the Phallus an universal symbol, apart altogether from rea- sons connected with the course of nature. Yet these confirm the choice. It is free—it has a will of its own quite inde- pendent of the conscious will of the man bearing it. It has no conscience. It leaps. It has no consideration for any- thing but its own purpose. Again and again this symbol in a new sense will recur as the type of the ideal. It isa symbol 88
1922 · PDF PAGE 191
…gn to destroy the cowardly superstition that manhood and womanhood are in- capable of the right and proper use of anything what- ever in nature. We have tamed the wild lightning, after all; shall we run away from a packet of powder ? “Love is the ‘law, love under will. “With my kind regards to Sir Peter, “Yours ever, “ Basi, Kinc Lamus.”
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…et he is not one of the Sephiroth, and his place is in the Abyss. By this symbolism we draw atten tion to the fact that Knowledge is by nature impossible; for it implies Duality, and is therefore relative. Any proposition of Knowledge may be written “arb”: “a has the relation r to b.” 1:3
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…rovement in our physical health, and the intoxicating effect of the climate and the surroundings urged us to take part in the pageant of nature. Yet against all such ideas we could not help but hear the insistent voice of Haidee Lamoureux, that the end of all these things is death. She had deliberately renounced existence as futile, and there was no answer to her pleadings. Besides this, my mind had eaten up its pabulum. I had literally nothing to think of except heroin, and I discovered that heroin appealed to me behind all veils, as being an …
1922 · PDF PAGE 186
…habiting eternity have a purpose? The absolute, the all, cannot change; how then could it wish to change? It acts in accordance with its nature; but all such action is without effect. It is essentially illusion; and the deeper one enters into one’s self the less one is influenced by such illusions. As the night went on, I found myself less and less disturbed by my own exquisite emotions. I felt myself dissolving deliciously into absence of interruption to the serenity of my soul.... I think writing this has reminded me of what I used to think w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…al character differentiates them from physical laws in the narrower sense; or who abdicates his autonomy, on the ground that the subtler nature of astral phenomena guarantees their autho- rity and integrity. 14) The variety of the general character of the “planes” of being is indefinitely large. But there are several main types of symbolism corresponding to the forms of plastic présentation established by the minds of Mankind. Each such “plane” has its spécial appearances, inhabitants, and laws — spécial cases of the general proposition. Notabl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 369
…ly inductive. "Gamble away his life," did I say? Indeed I did. If there is any truth at all in anything, or even any meaning in life, in Nature herself; then there is one thing, one thing only paramount; to find out who one is, what is one's necessary Way. The alternative to the Great Work is the hotchpot of dispersion, of fatuity, or disconnected nonsense. To the performance of this Work the nearest obstacle and the most obvious is the Family. Its presumption is manifest, in that it expects everybody to yield it first priority. In the Russian …
1996 · PDF PAGE 24
…easing to be itself; that its one way to do this is to gain experience, and that therefore it enters into combinations in which its true Nature is for awhile disguised, even from itself. Analogously, an atom of carbon may pass through myriad Proteus-phases, appearing in Chalk, Chloro form, Sugar, Sap, Brain and Blood, not recognizable as “itself” the black amorphous solid, but recoverable as such, unchanged by its adventures.
1929 · PDF PAGE 504
…personal self, yet his force was discharging itself dispersedly through all sorts of channels appropriate to the various elements in his nature. It was necessary to constrain every particle of his energy to move in one sole direction. (The physical analogy of a gas whose electrons are polarized and one not so organized is not so bad.) It must now be explained how he was able to understand what was happening to him in this initiation --- his life from 1914 to 1919. The Grade of Magus is traditionally connected with the idea of the number 2; male…
1909 · PDF PAGE 276
…arot, the naked female form of which represents the Bride of the Apocalypse, the Qabalistic Queen of the Canticles, the Egyptian Isis of Nature. Her two wands are the directing forces of the DiacraM 21. DiacraM 22. The Cubical Cross of Twenty- The Garden of Eden and two Squares. the Holy City. Positive and Negative currents. She is the synthesis of the Thirty-second Path uniting Malkuth and Yesod, The Hegemon then explains his tablet, which contains the occult symbolism of the Garden of Eden and the Holy City of the Apocalypse; and the Kerux al…
1909 · PDF PAGE 276
…arot, the naked female form of which represents the Bride of the Apocalypse, the Qabalistic Queen of the Canticles, the Egyptian Isis of Nature. Her two wands are the directing forces of the DiacraM 21. DiacraM 22. The Cubical Cross of Twenty- The Garden of Eden and two Squares. the Holy City. Positive and Negative currents. She is the synthesis of the Thirty-second Path uniting Malkuth and Yesod, The Hegemon then explains his tablet, which contains the occult symbolism of the Garden of Eden and the Holy City of the Apocalypse; and the Kerux al…
1919 · PDF PAGE 377
…endid thing for everybody to have the Spring Cleaning of death. With regard to one’s purpose in doing anything at all, it depends on the nature of one’s Star. Blavatsky was horribly hampered by the Trance of Sorrow. She could see nothing 55
1922 · PDF PAGE 264
…e has travelled a little and has some imagination, he may think of the chill spells of fever. But neither of these give much idea of the nature of the cold produced by abstinence. Our poet, whoever he is (his name is not given in the magazine) certainly succeeds in conveying to his reader the truth, that is, provided his reader already knows it. I can’t imagine how it would strike any one who had not experienced it. For he conveys his meaning, so to speak, in spite of the words. This business of expression is very curious. How could one describ…