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Page 63 of 711906 · PDF PAGE 221
… are two, being four. And on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever! Nay, not for ever!), and therewith the Teacher made him a Master of the Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. For the Sword, said the Teacher, is but the Star unfurled.2 And our Father being cunning to place Aleph over Tau rea…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…cal fetish, would flatter him with the title of creator ; philosophers, with a wider outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. Time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. Thus, where shall we put Isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? As the type of motherhood? Asthe moon? As the great goddess Earth? As Nature? As the Cosmic Egg from which all Nature sprang? For as time and place…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…twilight dangers of a boy’s dim way, His dragons to confront, his minotaurs to slay. Yet, when he knew himself the baronet, He took good order for the house, and bore Him as beseemed the master ; none may fret All are as well bestowed as aye before. His father’s eighty was with him fourscore. His father’s old advisers well he groups Into a closer company ; their lore He ardently acquires—he loops no loops,} But— Bacon “grapples them to’s soul with steely hoops ! You, lass, may see here for this Boy’s com- panions Virtue and Peace of Mind, Prude…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…ancy had not misled him; he had found mineral wealth. He proceeded to exploit his discovery and would have become a millionaire in short order had he not met with the opposition of Burnner, Mond & Co. On the other hand, his clairvoyance was hopelessly bad, so that he could not pass the examination for the Grade of Zelator of A.'. A.'. though in other points entitled to a much higher degree. One of his practical objects in visiting England was to ask me personally to get him over the stile. I did so. At the very first trial I enabled him to use …
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…city of Islam, or the mysterious medium of those ancient faiths which come up in as many colours as their investigator has moods.* “ «Tn order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine autho- rity of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology) that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical in- terpretation. ‘his mighty ‘ two-handed engine at th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…t I will leave you to study his books at your leisure, and try to give a more direct answer to your question, We have cases ofbrain dis- order, where grave local mischief survives the disappearance of general symptoms. One man may forget a year of his life; another the whole of it; while yet another may have odd patches effaced here and there, while the inain current flows undisturbed. Myst. Weis so much the poorer for such losses? Scept. Certainly. Alfyst. Did the stars efface their tracks to correspond ? Scept. Joshua is dead. Myst. Yama! be …
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…the future my whole essence must be {803} 1. G.H. Frater AHAH 6° = 5 ř R.R. et A. C. is the humblest and simplest of the Brethren of the Order. He has worked with his hands since he was nine years old and he understands and loves the Law and its Logos as a child does its mother and father. He has my respect and affection as no other of my Brethren: for he represents to me mankind incarnate at its weakest (and therefore strongest) and noblest (and therefore most "common"). He is, in a word, that "Man" of whom I am, being 666 )the number of a man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…eaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." May it not be, though, that such violence should be used against oneself in order to attain that passive state? And, of course, to shut out all rivals? Help me, thou Holy One, even in this; for all my strength is weak as water, and I am but a dog. Help me. O self-glittering one! {528} 1. I am almost sure, on reflection, that it was on the return from Kangchenjunga. draw nigh to me in sleep and in waking, and let me ever be as a wise virgin and expect thy coming with a lamp of oil of h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…gentleman on whom I built ............An absolute trust. During the war, he wrote voluminously to keep me informed of the affairs of the Order. I had but one complaint to make of his conduct. I asked repeatedly for his accounts as treasurer and he would not send them. As time passed his letters became increasingly rabid against Germany. Deprived of adequate verbal communication with others, he trusted the newspapers and took their frenzy for fact. I was alarmed at his attitude and referred him to The Book of the Law. Cap. II,v. 60: Therefore st…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
…ome impossible to do any work where she was. She was in a state of continual irritation. I was obliged to take rooms in Jermyn Street in order to have a moment to myself. In the autumn of 1907 on returning from Tangiers, I {534} found that she had obtained one hundred and fifty bottles of whisky from one grocer alone in five months. Confronted with the fact, she broke down and agreed to take a cure for two months, in an establishment at Leicester. At the end of that time I took her climbing for a fortnight and she came back to London in excelle…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…natural instincts was an insult to nature and a short cut to moral deformity. I already saw that the only proper course of action was to order one's life in accordance with its conditions.
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
…se energy of the primal elements of Nature, call them electrons, atoms, anything you will, it makes no difference; change guarantees the order of Nature. This is why, in learning to ride a bicycle, one falls in an extremely awkward and ridiculous manner. Balance is made difficult by not going fast enough. So also, one cannot draw a straight line if one’s hand shakes. This card is a sort of elementary parable to illustrate the meaning of this aphorism: “Change is Stability.” Here the Moon, the weakest of the planets, is in Sagittarius, the most …
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
…depends upon ignorance of the laws of nature; there is in fact no catastrophe. Natura non facit saltum; all change proceeds with perfect order, ease and harmony. It is the great task set before mankind at the present moment to realize, and there‐ fore to adjust, means of action to the facts of the case, thus preventing the illusion of catastro‐ phe by eliminating the element of surprise. It is of course also of supreme importance to eliminate that prejudiced desire which is the poison of will, “For pure will, unassuaged of pur‐ pose, delivered …
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…s whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 Allan M acGregor Bennett ( whose motto in the “ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was Iehi Aour, i.e. “Let there be Light”), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath [sic., s. b. T aphthartharath — T.S.], the spirit of Mercury. “Now hate hath power, though not the power of love. So it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance Mara1 appeared to him. Never before had his spells …
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
…e two, being four. And on the sixt h day (for the seven day s were past) he rose and came into his ancient tem ple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever ! Nay, not for ever !), and therewith the Teacher m ade him a master of Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. F or the S word, s aid the Teacher, is but the S tar unfurled. 2 And our Father being cunning to place Ale ph over Ta…
1906 · PDF PAGE 285
…than that pain should be of nervous tissue. True. So also Huxley extended the meaning of ‘‘nature”’ to include the ‘‘ supernatural "' in order to deny the supernatural. So also I (maintaining that darkness only exists) meet the cavil of the people who insist on the separate existence of light by showing that light is, after all, merely a sub-section of one kind of darkness.--A: C. This note !s of course ironical, values for either, but always in terms of the other. Scept, Just so we agreed lately about subject and object. Alyst. It is another f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…is 1 The italics are ours.—Epb. it might be worth the research of a scholar to trace Berkeley’s progress through the grades of the Great Order.—A. C. 2 It occurs in James i. 17.
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
… of Solomon” asa work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. Wants SurpLizp. New PUBLICATIONS SUPPLIED TO ORDER. Out of Print Books sought for and reported, Visitors to London who are interested should make a point of calling. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7 GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, W.C. Near to Chancery Lane, the Inns of Court, and First Avenue Hotels. A GREEN GARLAND vV. B. NEUBURG Green Paper Cover 2s. 6d. net “As far as the verse is concerned there is in this volume something more than mere promise; the performance is at t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
… of Solomon” asa work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. Wants SurpLizp. New PUBLICATIONS SUPPLIED TO ORDER. Out of Print Books sought for and reported, Visitors to London who are interested should make a point of calling. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7 GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, W.C. Near to Chancery Lane, the Inns of Court, and First Avenue Hotels. A GREEN GARLAND vV. B. NEUBURG Green Paper Cover 2s. 6d. net “As far as the verse is concerned there is in this volume something more than mere promise; the performance is at t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…y of Islam, or the my sterious medium of those ancient faiths which com e up in as many colours as their investigator has moods.* * “ In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naïve naturalism of many parts of those Scr iptures, in the divine autho- rity of which he fir mly believed, Philo bor rowed from the Stoics ( who had been in like straits in respect of Greek m ythology) that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the m ethod of allegorical in- terpretation. T his m ighty ‘ two handed engi…