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Page 61 of 841919 · PDF PAGE 249
… of your fees and subscriptions. Are you ona journey? You have the right to the hospitality of the Mas- ter of a Lodge of the O.T.O. for three days in any one place. Are you anxious to educate your children? The O.T.O. will fit them for the battle. Are you at odds with a brother? The Grand Tribunal of the O.T.O. will arbitrate, free of charge, between you. Are you moribund? You have the power to leave the total amount that you have paid into the Treasury 235
1922 · PDF PAGE 211
…ctor. Peter had put me up to symptoms ; but he wasn’t taking any. He talked.about change of climate and diet and the mixture to be taken three times a day. I saw at once it was no good by the way he jumped when I mentioned heroin first. All I could do was to get out of the old fool’s room without losing face... . I didn’t know what to do next. I felt like Morris
1922 · PDF PAGE 363
… mechanical genius. Fact two: From your earliest childhood, subjects of this sort have exercised the strongest fascination for you. Fact three: Whenever you get off those subjects, you are unhappy, unsuccessful, and get into various kinds of mess. Fact four: The moment the war gives you your opportunity, you throw up medicine and go back to engineering. Fact five: You graduate re- luctantly from the bench to the pilot’s seat, and your squad commander himself sees that it’s a case of a square peg in a round hole. Fact six: As soon as the Armisti…
1922 · PDF PAGE 373
…f foam darted among huge boulders piled bombastically along the bed of the valley. Opposite, jutting from the grassy slopes, there stood three stark needles of red rock, glowing still redder with some splash of crimson stolen from the storehouse of the sunset; and above the highest of these there sprang a sudden shaft of stone against the skyline. A blind dome of marble rimmed with a balcony at the base crowned the tower, circular, with many tall windows Gothic in design, but capped with fleurs-de-lys; and this was set upon eight noble pillars …
1929 · PDF PAGE 178
… and made themselves notably unpleasant. We rather encouraged them to go off all day and make heroic ascents. But their proposal to take three days' provisions in their rucksacks and go off and climb K2 was negatived. It is really astonishing that so many days of travel had taught them nothing about the scale of the mountains. One cannot measure them by feet and miles. I myself cannot quite see how it is that the difference comes in. But there is not doubt of the fact. It is quite useless to talk of climbing a mountain whose summit is five thou…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…lts external to the mind of the seer (objective in the ordinal y common sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.) 6. There are three important practices connected with ail forms of cérémonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). These are: (1) Assumption of God-forms. (2) Vibration of Divine Names. (3) Rituals of “Banishing” and “Invoking”. These, at least, should be completely mastered before the dangerous Methods of Chapter V and VI are attempted. 377 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 106
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (2) 73 even conceivable, and this way is quite simple, annihilation. (Shallow critics of Buddhism have wasted a great deal of stupid ingenuity on trying to make out that Nirvana or Nibbana means something different from what etymology, tradition, and the evidence of the Classics combine to define it. The word means, quite simply, cessation: and it stands to reason that, if everything is sorrow, the only thing which is not sorrow is nothing, and that therefore to escape from sorrow is the attainment of nothingness.) Weste…
1954 · PDF PAGE 278
…n not only very well prepared to reincarnate at once-this means about six months after his death, for his vehicle will be a foetus about three months old, but to extirpate more deliberately all impressions that may assail its integrity. Alternatively, there may be something in the nature of such impressions that is unsuitable for carrying over into the conscious mind of the new man. Or there may be a rule-e.g., the draught of the waters of the River Lethe-and it might be possible for some Adept (whose initiation is of a higher degree than, or o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 583
583 In due course, Frater O. P. V. arrived at the abbey and on his heels two Oxford men: Pinney and Bosanquet. We put them up for three nights. They were flabbergasted to find us perfectly normal decent people. They were keen rock climbers. I was too ill to join them, but I dragged myself to the foot of the crags and showed them the two problems which I had not carred to attempt without a trustworthy companion. These were the outside way up the Cavern Pitch in Deep Gill and the Deep Gill pillar. They succeeded in climbing both, to my great joy.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 321
…country could earn double wages if he could do without sleep, for they work much the same by night as they do by day.’ ‘That was written three thousand years ago, and even the name of the woman who wrote that poem, albeit it is one of the most famous poems in the world, is lost. But there are the shepherds saluting each other to-day as they did then. MANTA PEI said Heracleitus, ‘all things flow.’ And everything that tries to escape that law, that relies on its strength, that becomes nigid, that endeavours to calla halt, is broken up by the irre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (3) 89 unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfil them, and rejoice therein. This process is what is really meant by initiation; that is to say, the going into oneself, and making one's peace, so to speak, with all the forces that one finds there. It is forbidden here to discuss the nature of The Book of the Law, the Sacred Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty years of close expert examination, it remains to a great extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 495
…fy himself. Burleon had shown him the copy which had been submitted to the censors. Keasbey's article was marked as objectionable by all three pencils. Harris exploded. "You can't understand it," he raged. "I can't understand it. I don't believe there's any man alive who could make head or tail of a single sentence. How can it do any harm?" Keasbey's social opinions had cost him his chair at Austin. He had read and admired some of my work, and sought me out in my cottage by Lake Pasquaney. We spent three delightful days without even stopping ta…
1922 · PDF PAGE 28
… Her husband was an influential Member of Parliament. People said that he lived on her earnings. There were even darker whispers. Two or three pretty wise birds had told me they thought it was she, and not poor little Mati Hara, who tipped off the Tanks to the Boche. Did I mention that my sculptor’s name was Owen ? Well, it was, is, and will be while the name of Art endures. He was supporting himself unsteadily with one hand on the table, while with the other he put his guests in their seats. I thought of a child playing with dolls. : , As the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 238
…could only see the whites. That is a sign that he is possessed by the Devil, and that the angels are protecting me. He has: fired two or three times, and now I see him coming up from the lake. I must hide this book, and then I will go to the garage, and hide till the morning. Keletiel tells me that this is the critical night. I will get into the big car under the sheet. He won't look for me there, and the angels will be on the watch. It came out all right. I slept on the seat of the car. I had a dreadful nightmare, and woke sweating all over. T…
1922 · PDF PAGE 257
…htened up at dinner. “‘ Let’s go to town to-morrow, Lou,’”’ he said. ‘“‘ We'll just take small bags. We needn’t be away more than two or three days. What we need is a few decent meals in a restaurant, and take in a show or two, and perhaps get a bunch down here to liven us up a bit. The birds are pretty good this year after all.” October 31 It only struck us when we got into the train that we couldn't possibly go to the Savoy with no clothes, Peter thought it would be a joke to go round to that place of ours in Greek Street. It certainly will b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 112
…ell) and crush sugar in his teeth (taste and hearing) and so on. 3. These twenty-five practices being accomplished, let him combine them three at a time, then four at a time. 4. Lastly, let him combine ail the senses in a single object. And herein may a sixth sense be included. He is then to with- draw himself entirely from ail these stimulations, ferinde ac cadaver, in spite of his own efforts to attach himself to them. — 412 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 110
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (2) 77 appears first of all in the legend of Dionysus. (In this connection read carefully Browning's "Apollo and the Fates.") The Egyptian tradition of Osiris is not dissimilar. The central idea of the White School is that, admitted that "everything is sorrow" for the profane, the Initiate has the means of transforming it to "everything is joy." There is no question of any ostrich-ignoring of fact, as in Christian Science. There is not even any more or less sophisticated argument about the point of view altering the situ…
1954 · PDF PAGE 119
… most loathsome moral qualities, added the most fatuous imbecility. And then blew up! This, then, is the present state of the war of the Three Schools. We cannot suppose that humanity is so entirely base as to accept Krishnamurti; yet that such a scheme could ever have been conceived is a symptom of the almost hopeless decadence of the White School. l The Black adepts boast 1. Note. This passage was written in 1924 e.v. The Master Therion arose and smote him. What seemed a menace is now hardly even a memory.
1954 · PDF PAGE 383
350 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Money being the fourth great power, "what are the other three?" Come, come, you can surely do that in your head. Four's Tetragrammaton, isn't it? Very well, then! The First Great Power is Yod, the Father , Fire, the Wand, the Flame of Creative Genius. The Second is He, the Mother , Water, the Cup, the Sea to which all things tend ; it is the gift of pleasing, of absorbing , of drawing all things to oneself. The Third is Vau, the Son, the Sword , the moving, penetrating element , double in nature. For it is intellect , b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 194
…ssacres of 1939 e.v. and later in the one did not take place in the other. All the seaports of the world naturally come under one of the three watery signs; but we do not find that an affliction of Pisces, which hits Tunis , should do no harm to all the other harbours similarly ruled. This brings us to the first Big Jump in the steeplechase of the whole science. We hear of thousands of people being killed at the same time (within an hour or two, perhaps a minute or two) by earthquake, shipwreck, explosion, battle or other form of violence. Was …