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Page 62 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 157
…ds the utmost précision in practice. It is true that the best rituals give us instructions in selecting our vehicles of Force. In 777 we find “correspondences” of many classes of being with the various types of operation, so that we know what weapons, jewels, figures, drugs, perfurnes, names, etc. to employ in any particular work. But it has always been assumed that the invoked force is intelligent and competent, that it will direct itself as desired without further ado, by this method of sympathetic vibrations. The necessity of timing the forc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…tion of the figure are exceedingly vague on the one hand, and insufficiently comprehensive on the other. Some Adepts, however, appear to find this System admirable, and obtain great satisfaction from its use. Once more, the personal équation must be allowed full weight. At one time the Master Therion employed it exten- sivelyj but He was never wholly at ease with it 5 He found the 1. Nearly ail professional astrologers are ignorant of their own sub- ject, as of ail others. 158 -
1954 · PDF PAGE 146
…ult of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. But upon the great sea shall the Master of the Temple find neither star nor moon. And I was about to answer him: "The light is within me." But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation . Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she…
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…of Eight Lectures on Yoga so I am putting a copy aside for you in case you should want it. 3. With regard to the O.T.O., I believe I can find you a typescript of all the official documents. If so, I will let you have them to read, and you can make up your mind as to whether you wish to affiliate to the Third Degree of the Order. I should consequently, in the case of your deciding to affiliate, go with you through the script of the Rituals and explain the meaning of the whole thing; communicating, in addition , the real secret and significant kn…
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…e of it? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it?!” Try something easier,!8 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find come in dreams to me. Even as he takes two feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to Jaunch my old barge upon. Analyse, get hints from Newton ! or Faraday,” Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships? Ah me! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me? Parody? Shall not his …
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…—I breathe; I hope. Think deeply in yourself, if you love this girl ! I am older than you, to be sure; but not so much. May be you would find my love a better thing than you think ! Cc
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
… The comment of D. A. on this meditation was that it was most clear, and represented complete success. On the fifteenth of April 1901 we find P. writing in his diary: “T agree to project my astral to Soror F.t in Hong-Kong every Saturday evening at nine o'clock, which should reach her at 4.6 p.m. on Sunday by Hong- Kong time. She is to start at 10 a.m, Sunday by Hong-Kong time to reach me by 12.2 p.m. Saturday. These spirit journeys were to commence on the 31st of * This danger is also experienced by such as carry out Black Magical Operations, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
… The comment of D. A. on this meditation was that it was most clear, and represented complete success. On the fifteenth of April 1901 we find P. writing in his diary: “T agree to project my astral to Soror F.t in Hong-Kong every Saturday evening at nine o'clock, which should reach her at 4.6 p.m. on Sunday by Hong- Kong time. She is to start at 10 a.m, Sunday by Hong-Kong time to reach me by 12.2 p.m. Saturday. These spirit journeys were to commence on the 31st of * This danger is also experienced by such as carry out Black Magical Operations, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
…nows no change for ever. Then what of the body ? The body of such an one continues subject to the laws of its own plane. Yet his friends find him calmer, happier, healthier, his eyes bright and his skin clear even when he is old. But he has this, which they have not, the power of slipping instantly out of this changeful consciousness into the Eternal, and then abiding, supremely single and complete, bathed in unutterable bliss, one with the All. And he knows that this body subject to disease and Death is not himself, but only as it were the ins…
1954 · PDF PAGE 163
… conscious knowledge or control, so also is sex. Indeed, one might class it as deeper still than Art; for Art does at least endeavour to find an intelligible means of expression. That is much nearer to sanity than the blind lust of the sex-impulse. The maddest genius does look from Chokmah not only to Binah, but to the fruit of that union in Daath and the Ruach; the sex-impulse has no use for Binah to understand, to interpret, to transmit. It wants no more than an instrument which will destroy it. What then is the magical remedy? Obvious enough…
1930 · PDF PAGE 118
…edcba”. 15. Capacities differ widely, but the Exempt Adept need hâve no reason to be discouraged if after a month’s continuous labour he find that now and again for a few seconds his brain really Works backwards. 16. The Exempt Adept should concentrate his efforts upon obtaining a perfect picture of five minutes backwards rather than upon extending the time covered by his méditation. For this preliminary training of the brain is the Pons Asinorum of the whole process. 17. This five minutes5 exercise being satisfactory, the Exempt Adept may exte…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…t realize that steel of such exquisite temper might be beaten into a sword fit for the hand of a free man. To my annoyance , I could not find the Elemental Watch Towers anywhere in the house. I daresay I gave up looking rather easily. I had got into a state of disgusted indifference about such things. Rose might have destroyed them in a drunken fit, just as she might have pawned them if they had possessed any commercial value. I shrugged my shoulders accordingly, and gave up the search. The skis that I had promised Ward were not to be found any…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
…nable it, if checked, to retire in good order ; and it is with true pity for a gallant opponent — who would be wiser to surrender—that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime cou- rage to state that my “ Sword of Song ” begins with an effort to expound Buddhism, but that my hatred of Christianity overcame me as I went on, and
1906 · PDF PAGE 289
…he spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; END OF Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the slowing bud dissever : Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
… saved. And remember : there is not one single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood.” Self-doubt, and self-distrust : these find little place in Mrs. Besant’s story ; yet surely they attack all of us alike who strive to those calm heights. Is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser ills? Is the spectre, self, laid beyond remembrance, even, of its horror; that horror which seems branded into the brain of whoso has beheld it ? Long years are they through which Mrs. Besant fought with hardly a friend or a helper; must i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
… saved. And remember : there is not one single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood.” Self-doubt, and self-distrust : these find little place in Mrs. Besant’s story ; yet surely they attack all of us alike who strive to those calm heights. Is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser ills? Is the spectre, self, laid beyond remembrance, even, of its horror; that horror which seems branded into the brain of whoso has beheld it ? Long years are they through which Mrs. Besant fought with hardly a friend or a helper; must i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 545
… began to enjoy life as a child should. I gave him and Dionysus their first lessons in rock climbing. In two or three days they began to find the best way to tackle a crag and to use their muscles to the best advantage. The central principle of my teaching is to compel the pupil to rely on his own resources, and having thus acquired good judgment and confidence, to develop intelligent initiative. One must show them how to choose the best hand holds and foot holds, but not let them acquire the habit of looking for the teacher to tell them what t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…, valueless, and powerless, and transform it into a live thing, active, invaluable and thaumaturgie. The reader of this book will surely find in this a most striking analogy with what we hâve already said of the processes of Magick. What, by our définition, is initiation ? The First Matter is a man, that is to say, a perishable parasite, bred of the earth’s crust, crawl- ing irritably upon it for a span, and at last returning to the dirt whence he sprang. The process of initiation consists in removing his impurities, and finding in his true sel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…idea of attempting the traverse. As I was to go down last, he was carrying the rucksack with our provisions. We made several attempts to find a way down the Zinal face; but always the slopes steepened until it became evident that they pitched over, and we had to retrace our steps. Ellis, however, was very annoyed at my caution and wanted to glissade, which was a proposal about as reasonable as jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Presently he made an excuse for taking off the rope and retired behind a rock while I sat down and lit my pipe. I was arous…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…of it ? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it ?17 Try something easier,18 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find comes in dreams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to launch my old barge upon Analyse, get hints from Newton19 or Faraday,20 Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships ? Ah me ! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground ? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me ? Parody ? Shall not…