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Page 63 of 911910 · PDF PAGE 124
…ong it is before the error is discovered.” Some very much more elaborate and difficult meditations were attempted by P. at this time; in nature they are very similar to many of St. Loyola’s. We give the account in his own words: I tried to imagine the sound of a waterfall. This was very difficult to get at; and it makes one’s ears sing for a long time afterwards. If I really got it, it was however not strong enough to shut other physical sounds. I also tried to imagine the “ puff-puff” of an engine. This resulted better than the last, but it ca…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…ong it is before the error is discovered.” Some very much more elaborate and difficult meditations were attempted by P. at this time; in nature they are very similar to many of St. Loyola’s. We give the account in his own words: I tried to imagine the sound of a waterfall. This was very difficult to get at; and it makes one’s ears sing for a long time afterwards. If I really got it, it was however not strong enough to shut other physical sounds. I also tried to imagine the “ puff-puff” of an engine. This resulted better than the last, but it ca…
1930 · PDF PAGE 115
…It is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to 1. This book tells how to enquire “Who am I? ” “What is my relation with nature ? ” 2. One must destroy one’s false notions about who and what one is before one can hnd the truth of the matter. One must therefore under- stand those false notions before giving them up. Unless this be done perfectly, one will get the True mixed up with the remains of the False. 3. One’s life has hitherto been guided by those false notions. There¬ fore on giving them up, one has no standard of control…
1954 · PDF PAGE 74
…he proper touch. Always either Naught or Two! But every new re-arrangement throws further light on the possible tangles, that is, on the Nature of the String itself. It is always "Nothing" when you pull it out ; but becomes "Everything" as you play about with it,· since there is no limit to the combinations that you can form from it, save only in your imagination (where the whole thing belongs!) and that grows mightily with Experience. It is accordingly well worth while to fulfill oneself in every conceivable manner. It is then (you will say) i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
… seal upon the actual attainment or achievement. This is one of the reasons why the older I grow and the more experience I have of human nature, the more am I convinced of the wisdom of the Chiefs of the A :. A:. , where association with any other person except your immediate superior or the one of whom you are yourself in charge is discouraged in every possible way. There are of course exceptions. It is necessary, though regrettably so, for personal instruction in the practices to be given or received. For all that, I wish I could show you 200…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
… that came within their scope, yet they were free from spiritual pride. They enjoyed intimate communion with the immanent divine soul of nature. Inheritors of innocence and illumination, they were not self-seekers; and their one passion was to bring mankind into the sphere of their own sublimity, dealing with each individual as his circumstances required. To them the members of the Trinity were nearer and more real than anything else in the universe. But they were pure ideas of incorruptible integrity. The incarnation was a mystical or magical …
1922 · PDF PAGE 371
…ur spiritual truth. My wife didnot answer. There was no need. Her understanding was perfect. We united with the un- conscious ecstasy of nature. Articulate human language was an offence to our spiritual rapture. Our union destroyed our sense of separateness from the universe of which we were part ; the sun, the sky, the sea, the earth, partook with us of that ineffable sacrament. There was no discontinuity between that first embrace of our true marriage, and the occupation of the afternoon in taking stock of the effects of the laboratory, and m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 433
…iff and Epopt of the Illuminati. Further, when you enter the Sanctuary of the Gnosis-oh boy! Or, more accurately, oh girl! The forces of Nature employed in these presumably abominable practices are similar or identical. The doctrine of "Vital Force" has been so long and so completely exploded that I hardly need to tell you that in some still undiscovered (or, rather, unpublished) and unmeasured form it is certainly a fact. Haven't I told you one time how we nearly starved on Iztaccihuatl with dozens of tinned foods all round us, they being anci…
1954 · PDF PAGE 535
… said in explaining the whole of Magick as the science and art of extending, first in oneself, one's own faculties, secondly in external nature their hidden characteristics. Before closing the subject entirely I think it well to point out that there are quite a number of worlds on which a good deal of work remains to be done. In particular I cannot refrain from mentioning the work of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly. My own work on this subject has been so elaborate and extensive that I shall never sufficiently regret that I never had an opportunit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…r he will no longer plunge into his was a prostitute from native passion may indulge with safety in the pleasure of love; she who was by nature cold may enjoy a virginity in no wise marred by her disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other. “I have been taxed with assaulting what is commonly known as virtue. True; I hate it, but only in the same degree as I hate what is commonly known as vice. “ So it must be acknowledged that one who is but slightly unbalanced needs a milder correction than whoso is obsess…
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…er or a ruined constitution will no more be the penalty of a moment’s exuberance. Above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of the sexual process, its physical insignificance as one among many parts of the body, its transcendent importance as the vehicle of the True Will and the first of the sheaths of the Self.
1996 · PDF PAGE 87
…w is for All He is “not extended”; that is, without condition of any sort in the metaphysical sense. Only in the highest trances can the nature of these truths be realized. It is indeed a supra-rational experience not dissimilar to those characteristic of the “Star-Sponge” Vision previously described1 that can help us here. The trouble is that the truth itself is unfitted to the dualistic reason of “normal” man kind. Hadit seems to be the principle of Motion which is every where, yet is not extended in any dimension except as it chances to co…
1922 · PDF PAGE 123
… about my first pick.” He stopped short. We looked at him blankly, though we were seething with some blind suppressed excite- ment whose nature we could hardly describe. He took out a pipe, and began to nibble the vulcanite rather nervously. He drew a deep breath, and looked Lou straight in the face. “Does it suggest anything to you,” he murmured, _ almost inaudibly, ‘‘ a man’s leaving Paris at a moment's notice in the middle of a vast financial scheme, and turning up in Italy, heavily camouflaged? ” “The police on your track!” giggled Lou. He …
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…though even etymology asserts the identity . In these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even synchretic. And you must consider the nature of your work. If I wanted to evoke Taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." But in such a case one may expe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 106
…heir Universe. (And after all, everyone has surely the right to have his own Universe the way he wants it.) This School being debased by nature, is not so far removed from conventional religion as either the White or the Yellow. Most primitive fetishistic religions may, in fact, be considered fairly faithful representatives of this philosophy. Where animism holds sway, the "medicine-man" personifies this universal evil, and seeks to propitiate it by human sacrifice. The early forms of Judaism, and that type of Christianity which we associate wi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 278
…nths 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 of a different type to, mine) to make his way through that particular barrier. Enough of may, might, perhaps, and all that harpy brood! The plain …
1922 · PDF PAGE 323
…s hand and strode up the hill with the steady swinging step of the practised mountaineer. Lou’s hand crept into mine. We were alone with nature. A new feeling had been born in us. The sense of personality had somehow faded out. I drew her gently into my arms; and we exchanged a long kiss such as we had never done before. We were not kissing each other. We were parts of the picture, whose natural expression it was to kiss. “‘ Hadn’t we better go on ? ” said Lou after a while, releasing herself. But at this moment we found ourselves confronted by…
1954 · PDF PAGE 396
…your question arises-what is their "life" like? In the visions, they never do anything but "go through the motions" appropriate to their nature and to the character of the vision. Are we to conclude that the whole set of impressions is no more than symbolic? Is it all a part of oneself , like a daydream, but a daydream intensified and made "real" because its crucial incidents turn out to be true, as must always occur during the testing of the genuineness of the vision? It seems to me much simpler to say that these Angels are "real" individuals,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 309
… of all proportion with the observer. They belong to a different scale; and they impress one with the same idea of utter indifference by nature. They fascinate, as all things vast beyond computation invariably do. I felt that if I lived with them for even a short time they would completely obsess me and possibly lure me to end my life with their eternity. I felt the same about the mountains of India, the expanse of China, the solitude of the Sahara. I feel as if the better part of me belonged to them, as if my dearest destiny would be to live a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX For know, that all things are masks or symbols of the One Truth, and nature serveth alway to point out the higher per- fection under the veil of the lower perfection. So then all the Art and Craft of human love shall serve you as an hiero- glyphic: for it is written that That which is above is like that which is below: and That which is below is like that which is above. Therefore also doth it behove you to take well heed lest in any manner you fail in this business of purity. For though each act is to be complete on its own plane, …