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Page 64 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 118
…of his work, the Dance of the Sword. [169] Slowly he began to cause his feet to trace a pentagram, and he allowed the Sword to leave his body as he quickened his pace, just as one sees the weights of the ball-governor of a steam-engine fly outwards as pressure and speed leap higher. Gates was altogether fascinated by the sight. In the sunlight, this scarlet figure with lights darting from every brilliance of its steel was a magnificent spectacle, almost bewildering in its intensity. Faster and faster whirled the adept, his sword swaying about h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 97
…r archives? As to his magical weapons, all vanish ed utterly at the moment of his Passing Over. Therefore they carried away our Father’s body piece by piece and that with reverence and in order, so that there was not left of all one hair, nor one nerve, nor one little pore of the skin. Thus was there no funeral pomp; they that say other are liars and blasphemers against a fame untarnished. May the red plague rot their vitals! Thus, O my Brethren, thus and not otherwise was the Passing Over of that Great and Wonderful Magician , our Father and F…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…sense; but he would always be a pal — just as if she were a man. And here was the pang: was he sure to return to the mood that her whole body and soul were even at that moment crying out for? The story of his "Judgment of Paris," as they called it, came into her mind. Some years before, he had had three women in love with him at once. It seemed to each that she was the only one. But they discovered the arrangement — he never took pains to hide such things — and they agreed to confront him. They called at his studio together, and [51] told him t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 66
…t is applied, whichever of those orders is directly affected. (Illustration: If I strike a man with a dagger, his consciousness, not his body only, is affected by my act; although the dagger, as such, has no direct relation therewith. Similarly, the power of my thought may so work on the mind of another person as to produce far-reaching physical changes in him, or in others through him.) 17. A man may learn to use any force so as to serve any purpose, by taking advantage of the above theorems. (Illustration: A man may use a razor to make himsel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
… and soon got back to my old form. For one thing, my protection against mosquitoes had worn off. I spent a night motionless, offering my body to them and concentrating on the thought that they were equally divine with myself. I forced myself to love them, so that in union with them the apparent differences between us might vanish in ecstasy. I compelled my body to accept, to welcome and even to long for their bites, as being acts of love whereby I nourished their lives. In the morning, though badly bitten all over, there was no inflammation wha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…fication, you find yourself spontaneously grasping the more complex combinations of these letters and words which are the anatomy of the body of our Learning. And do not forget the old and well-worn saw: "Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring!-A little learning is a dangerous thing." Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1913 · PDF PAGE 545
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES a God in the body of a beast: there are in him the friends of the angel and the flatterers of the animal. The angel attracts us; but if we are not on our guard, it is the beast that carries us away: it will even drag us fatally with it when it is a question of beastliness; that is to say, of the satisfactions of that life the nourisher of death, which, in the language of beasts, is called “real life.” In religion, the Gospel is a sure guide; it is not so in business, and there are a great many people who, if they had to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 545
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES a God in the body of a beast: there are in him the friends of the angel and the flatterers of the animal. The angel attracts us; but if we are not on our guard, it is the beast that carries us away: it will even drag us fatally with it when it is a question of beastliness; that is to say, of the satisfactions of that life the nourisher of death, which, in the language of beasts, is called “real life.” In religion, the Gospel is a sure guide; it is not so in business, and there are a great many people who, if they had to…
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
…Khabs needs a Khu or Magical Image, in order to play its part in the Great Drama. This Khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable “body of flesh,” and this costume must be worthy of the Play. We therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to fortify and to sublime them. The result is that we of Thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual orgia to creative Art. Even if we had only this one earth life to consider, we ex…
1909 · PDF PAGE 325
…nce only did I call her, and then, once again turning to the Lord of the Universe with the sign of the Qabalistic Cross, returned to the body.” Such are some of the early visions of Frater P. They commence as we see in a series of rapidly changing and for the most part unconnected pictures, flying past the observer as the houses of a town seen through the windows of a quickly moving train. The streets which connect them are not noticed, 317
1909 · PDF PAGE 325
…nce only did I call her, and then, once again turning to the Lord of the Universe with the sign of the Qabalistic Cross, returned to the body.” Such are some of the early visions of Frater P. They commence as we see in a series of rapidly changing and for the most part unconnected pictures, flying past the observer as the houses of a town seen through the windows of a quickly moving train. The streets which connect them are not noticed, 317
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
…weet tinkling sounds arise from the Akasa of the heart. When the sound begins to be heard in the Shunya (Akasa), the Yogi possessed of a body resplendent and giving out sweet odour, is free from all diseases and his heart is filled (with Prana).§ * These mystic sounds heard by the Yogi are supposed to proceed from the Anahata Chakkra. + Short for Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum. ¢ “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 91. The description here is of the Shanmukhi Mudra, § Lbid., p. 92. 152
1910 · PDF PAGE 168
…weet tinkling sounds arise from the Akasa of the heart. When the sound begins to be heard in the Shunya (Akasa), the Yogi possessed of a body resplendent and giving out sweet odour, is free from all diseases and his heart is filled (with Prana).§ * These mystic sounds heard by the Yogi are supposed to proceed from the Anahata Chakkra. + Short for Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum. ¢ “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 91. The description here is of the Shanmukhi Mudra, § Lbid., p. 92. 152
1913 · PDF PAGE 391
…ositive order of things, in spite of all the laws of Nature; you do not affirm that a piece of bread is not only a God, but a real human body with its bones and its veins, its organs, its blood; such, in short, that you make of your children who eat this bread a little race of cannibals. FAITH. There is not a single Christian who would not be revolted by what you have just said. That sufficiently proves that they do not understand my teachings in this positive and gross sense. The supernatural which I affirm is above Nature, and consequently co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 391
…ositive order of things, in spite of all the laws of Nature; you do not affirm that a piece of bread is not only a God, but a real human body with its bones and its veins, its organs, its blood; such, in short, that you make of your children who eat this bread a little race of cannibals. FAITH. There is not a single Christian who would not be revolted by what you have just said. That sufficiently proves that they do not understand my teachings in this positive and gross sense. The supernatural which I affirm is above Nature, and consequently co…
1922 · PDF PAGE 372
…s as we held his hands on the last steep winding path among the olives, and we did not speak. But an electric flame ran through his tiny body from one to the other, and we knew for the first time what huge happiness lay in ambush for our love. The silence of dinner shone with silken lustre. It lasted long—so long—each moment charged with litanies of love. When coffee came, Big Lion himself broke the spell. “T am going to the tower to sleep to-night; so you will be in charge of the Strangers’ House, Sir Peter| The duties are simple ; if any wand…
1954 · PDF PAGE 69
36 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man's own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe and its effects continue eternally throughout all space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of every subsequent thought, and tends to influence every subsequent action. A golfer may lose a few yards on his drive, a few more with his second and third, he may lie on the green six bare inches too far from the hole; bu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 308
…breviation. One means "my nose," or "my elbow," as the case may be! No, I can't conscientiously admit it as a noun. More accurately: "my body fell, and I am suffering from the injury thereby caused to my whatever it was." So what? Brahman-don't confuse with the Brahma of the Trimurti, as so many Nippies and Clippies are but too liable to do-is the macro cosmic Negative Absolute, when cross-examined; its microcosm is Purusha or A tma. Very near our own Qabalistic Zero-Nought in no dimensions-equals Infmity (air connu). Then comes Buddhi, which c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
… shipwreck upon Scylla the Yogi has lost his life in the eddying whirlpools of Charybdis. The Yogis claim that the energies of the human body are stored up in the brain, and the highest of these energies they call “Ojas.” They also claim that that part of the human energy which is expressed in sexual passion, when checked, easily becomes changed into Ojas; and so it is that they in- variably insist in their disciples gathering up the sexual energy and converting it into Ojas. Thus we read: It is only the chaste man and woman who can make the Oj…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
… shipwreck upon Scylla the Yogi has lost his life in the eddying whirlpools of Charybdis. The Yogis claim that the energies of the human body are stored up in the brain, and the highest of these energies they call “Ojas.” They also claim that that part of the human energy which is expressed in sexual passion, when checked, easily becomes changed into Ojas; and so it is that they in- variably insist in their disciples gathering up the sexual energy and converting it into Ojas. Thus we read: It is only the chaste man and woman who can make the Oj…