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… "Grand Tour," or rather, the roving Englishman of the Nineteenth Century. Entrust them with the secrets of discipline, of authority, of power. Hardship and danger in full measure; and responsibility. A great deal of such material will be as disgustingly wasted as it has been in the past; and there will be much abuse of privilege. But this must be allowed and allowed for; no very
…mmand to perform a magical ceremony on the summit. We accordingly took loose rocks and built a great circle, inscribed with the words of power; and in the midst we erected an altar and there I sacrificed myself. The fire of the all seeing sun smote down upon the altar, consuming utterly every particle of my personality. I am obliged to write in hieroglyph of this matter, because it concerns things of which it is unlawful to speak openly under penalty of the most dreadful punishment; but I may say that the essence of the matter was that I had hi…
…Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. The progression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims ; they are all mere toys, the basisof mercenary fraud ; flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety, where Virtue, Wisdom, and Equity are assembled.” “Stoop not down unto the darkly splendid World ; wherein c…
…Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. The progression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissection of the entrails of victims ; they are all mere toys, the basisof mercenary fraud ; flee from these if you would enter the sacred paradise of piety, where Virtue, Wisdom, and Equity are assembled.” “Stoop not down unto the darkly splendid World ; wherein c…
…en done by the Society founded to that end by our Sister. Yet even so, behold! Full Fifty years have passed, and only now is the hour of Power come upon our Brother the Lion to utter His Word with full efficacy to the whole Earth. Now was he silent and my spirit was sore troubled; my face darkened, for I approached the Mystery of Sin. But the countenance of my Teacher was glad; and his years fell from him like a mask; and his voice thrilled with the rapture of release.
…f it which coconsists of "fooling all the people all the time." But such an operation, if true magick were employed, would be beyond the power of any magician of my acquaintance; for it would mess up the solar system completely. (You remember how this happened, and what came of it, in a rather clever short story by H.G. Wells.) For true Magick means "to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set" -I quote, as closely as memory serves, Thomas Henry Huxley, when he explains that when he lifts his water-jug-o…
…and half concealed: the Law is for all. Commentary: The Ordeals are at present carried out unknown to the Candidate by the secret Magick Power of The Beast. Those who are accepted by Him for initiation testify that these Ordeals are frequently independent of His conscious care. They are not, like the traditional ordeals, formal, or identical for all; the Candidate finds himself in circumstances which afford a real test of conduct, and compel him to discover his own nature, to become aware of himself by bringing his secret motives to the surface…
…ment. In Italy, for instance, those very classes who naturally respect the law and the constitution have acquiesced in the usurpation of power by the chief of a gang of banditti, simply on his promise to put an end to the insecurity of exercising power because uninspired by any principle of action sufficiently rigid to contend with circumstances. It is evident to all serious thinkers that the only hope of saving mankind from a catastrophe so complete that the very name of civilization will perish is in the appearance of a new religion. The Law …
…ht ; Grey desires invade the white, Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me ! and woe is man ! ’ “ In conclusion, as far as descriptive power and beauty of thought are concerned, we consider that the author of ‘ The Tale of Archais ’ holds the first place among the latter-day poets.”— Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 3s. 6d. A collection of delicate lyrics, illustrative of the vague yet holy aspirations of adolescence. “ We shall be sorry if any one who cares much for verse in itself, who is curious of new tendencies in contemporary po…
… Merely that you can explain such matters to yourself well enough. All right; on to No.2. Shall we look at levitation for a change? This power-if it be one-is very curious indeed. It connects more directly with magnetism than almost any other. The first thing we think of when someone says "magnet" is picking up iron filings as a child. Age before honesty! Let Father Poulain SJ. speak first! He is obliged to admit the phenomenon, because the Church has done so. But precisely similar accounts of the levitation of pagans and heretics must be, acco…
…, it is useless to expect them to think of other things. This truth is vital to the statesman, now that women have some direct political power; they will certainly overthrow the Republic unless they obtain full sexual satisfaction. Also, women outnumber men; and one man cannot satisfy a woman unless he be skilful and diligent. The New /Eon will have a foundation of Happy Women. A Woman under tabu is loath some to Life, detested by her fellows, and wretched in herself. [Qu’ran 2:223.] The student should study, in Liber Aleph and Liber 418, the …
…eing all glorious and incomprehensible names of the true Gop, the maker and creator of thee and of me, and of all the world; I po by the power of these names the which no creature is able to resist, curse thee into the depths of the Bottomless Abyss, there to remain unto the Day of Doom in chains, and in fire and brimstone unquenchable, unless thou forthwith appear here before this Circle, in this triangle to do my will. And, therefore, come thou quickly and peaceably, in and by these names of Gop, Aponat, ZABAOTH, ADONAI, AMIORAN; come thou! c…
…o worship. Therefore, however well a man might remember his incarnation as Julius Caesar, there is no necessity for his representing his power to set ail upon the hazard of a die by imagining the Rubicon. Any spiritual State can be symbolized by an infinité variety of actions in an infinité variety of circum¬ stances. One should recollect only those events which happen to 56 —
…d a far higher place among the North- men than any of the lower animals. He had a mysterious connection with the human race, and had the power of assum- ing the human form and faculties, and every true descendant of the Vikings looks upon the seal as a kind of second cousin in disgrace. Old beliefs die hard, and, in illustration of this, the following paragraph from a Scottish daily newspaper may be appropriately given : A MERMAID ON AN ORKNEY ISLE.—A strange story of the mermaid comes from Birsay, Orkney. The other day a farmer’s wife was down…
…d a far higher place among the North- men than any of the lower animals. He had a mysterious connection with the human race, and had the power of assum- ing the human form and faculties, and every true descendant of the Vikings looks upon the seal as a kind of second cousin in disgrace. Old beliefs die hard, and, in illustration of this, the following paragraph from a Scottish daily newspaper may be appropriately given : A MERMAID ON AN ORKNEY ISLE.—A strange story of the mermaid comes from Birsay, Orkney. The other day a farmer’s wife was down…
…en Six Great Civilizations, about to be drawn together by the opening up of communications over the planet by the expansion of the Roman Power. After these there stood almost alone the name: APOLLON. But above that extract, the whole width of the chart, the word I A O. Then came a blackness over the whole map, for at one time the Brotherhood had been nigh utterly destroyed by a Great Sorcery of the Black Lodge, and the darkening of all Counsel, and the confusion of all Truth. I saw only one glimmer bare legible: PLOTINUS. And at the end of the …
…over them. Such persons indeed consummate the marriage of Nuit and Hadit in them selves; in that case they are aware of certain Ways to Power. There is also a mystical sense in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! Commentary: The whole doctrine of “love” is discussed in the B…
…u shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassi…
… simply a series of vibrations arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the…
… simply a series of vibrations arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the…