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Page 64 of 821907 · PDF PAGE 158
152 ORPHEUS As the children of Fear In the Fear-God’s Power, And their names disappear As the fall of a flower! The universe-day (Whereof I am a second) Shall fall away And be no more reckoned; Shall fall into ruin. (Sad garden it grew in !) Unguessed at, unknown, Beyond them alone, Is a space that is grey As it caught them, and beckoned, And lost them—their way Is nor counted nor reckoned ! Inconceivable hollow, Eternity’s womb! Cataclysmal they follow, Tomb hidden in tomb. Keeled off and unspun, Time’s fashion is done In the ultimate Abysses …
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
…n of a new-comer to that part of the world in general. Of course all these miracles are very naughty of you; they mean that your magical power has sprung a few small leaks; at least, the water is oozing between some planks not sealed as Hermetically as they should be. But oh-and this is naughtier still-it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they happen, that chance, coincidence, and all the rest will simply not explain it all away, that your new vision of life is not a dream, but part and parcel of Experience for evermore, as real as any other m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr’d Pall come sweeping by.” It Penseroso. Tdde viv éralpats Tats tua répmva Kddws aelow. | SAPPILO, ‘It need not appear strange unto you that this Book is not at all like unto so many others which I have, and which are composed in a lofty and subtle style.”— The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Mtelin the Mage. PRELI…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…yperaesthesia. Began to forget Mantra.]* 10.12} p.m. 1019p.m. Pranayama 6m. 30s. Very hard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this moves about. If so, it is a clear piece of evidence for the idealistic position…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…yperaesthesia. Began to forget Mantra.]* 10.12} p.m. 1019p.m. Pranayama 6m. 30s. Very hard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this moves about. If so, it is a clear piece of evidence for the idealistic position…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…rate such sanctuaries as are guarded from the profane, to make such relations with its inhabitants as may avail to acquire knowledge and power, or to command service 5 ail this is a question of the general Magical attainment of the student. He must be absolutely at ease in his Body of Light, and hâve made it invulnérable. He must be adept in assuming ali God- forms, in using ail weapons, sigils, gestures, words, and signs. He must be familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. He must be alert, sensitive, and ready to exe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 337
304 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS impression, especially as she swore him most solemnly to secrecy as to the source of his power. (Obviously, he would not wish to share it with others.) From time to time, when circumstances suggested it, she wrote to him, enclosing pertinent sections of my commentary, of which I had given her a copy at the time of the "Zeugnis."2 Had Hitler been a less abnormal character, no great "mischief," or at least a very different kind of "mischief," might have come of it. I think you have read Hitler Speaks-if not, do so-his pri…
1996 · PDF PAGE 70
…realize even a third of our possibilities. Our Magical engine is mighty indeed when its efficiency reaches 50% of its theoretical horse power. But the enormous majority of mankind have no idea what ever of taking Love as a sacred and serious thing, of using the eye of the microscopist, or the heart and brain of the artist. Their ignorance and their shame have made Love a carcass of pesti lence; and Love has avenged the outrage by crushing their lives when they pull down the temple upon them. The chance of finding a suitable object of Love ha…
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
…dy a slave. Let the whole world take opium, hashish, and the rest; those who are liable to abuse them were better dead. For it is in the power of all so-called intoxicating drugs to reveal a man to himself. If this revelation declare a Star, then it shines brighter ever after. If it declare a Christian—a thing nor man nor beast, but a muddle of mind—he craves the drug, no more for its analytical but for its numbing effect. Lytton has a
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…back on faith, and all the rest of the nauseous mess of medieval superstition, and we may just as well have vital principle and creative power as not, for Science cannot help us. True, if we do not use all the methods at our disposal! But we go bey ond. We admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to illusion and inaccuracy of any sort. So were the early determ inations of s pecific heat. Even biologists have erred. But to the true scientist every failure is a stepping- stone to s uccess; every m istake is the key to a new truth…
1906 · PDF PAGE 7
…n, I will not shake thy hand ; You bear a traitor’s brand, old man, You bear a liar’s brand. Thy talents are profound and wide, Apparent power to win; It is not everyone has lied A nation into sin. And look thou not so black, my friend, Nor seam that hoary brow ; Thy deeds are seamier, my friend, Thy record blacker now. Conceining the title He does not seem to have been aware that Coleridge gave the title ‘‘SibylJine Leaves” toa similar culiection. VOl.. IT. A
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…om its éléments. This is, generally speaking, a very hard thing to do, because the physical constitution of any material being with much power is, or at least should be, the outcome of âges of évolution. However, there is a lawful method of producing an homunculus which is taught in a certain secret organization, perhaps known to some of those who may read this, which could very readily be adapted to some such purpose as we are now discussing. The second method sounds very easy and amusing. You take some organism already existing, which happens…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
…tcht, as it were, from him by untimely Death, resolved to go down to Hell with his harp, to try if he might obtain her of the in- fernal power." —7he Wisdom of the Ancients. ORPHEUS, FINDING EURYDICE Stir once, move once, rise once, Eurydice ! DEAD, STUNG BY A SERPENT, : Be good to me! LAMENTS OVER HER. ' Rise once.—O sleep not! Listen ! Is not all | Nature my thrall ? Come back, come back, come back, Eury- |“Once only: be not dead, Eurydice! dice! ! Be good to me! Come back to me! Y love you—be not dead !—rise up and say Lie not so quiet, draw…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…is equally a defect characteristic of the Grade. 43. Concerning a notable danger of Success. — It may occur that owing to the tremendous power of the Samadhi, overcoming ail other memories as it should and does do, that the mind of the devotee may be obsessed, so that he déclaré his particular Deity to be sole God and Lord. This error has been the foundation of ail dogmatic religions, and so the cause of more misery than ail other errors combined. The Philosophus is peculiarly liable to this because from the nature of the Method he cannot remai…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…ve so much experience that the merest outline could take us far beyond the limits of a letter. In Mexico D.F., I worked at acquiring the power by means of ritual. I worked desperately hard. I got to the point where my image in a pier-glass flickered, rather like the very earliest films did. Possibly more work, after more skill had come to me, might have done the whole trick. But I did not persist when I found out how to do it by fascination. (Here we are at last!) Roughly, this is how to do it. If one is concentrated to the point when what you …
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…re implies that it is essential to the Work. He evaded the question by making the petitio principii of assigning to the Astral Light the power of transmitting vibrations of ail kinds. He nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. He does not inform us as to the qualitative or quantitative laws of this light. (The scientifically trained student will observe the analogy between Levi’s postulate and that of ordinary science in re the luminiferous ether.) It is déplorable that nobody should hâve recorded in a syste- matic form t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…nd their life depart ! Till the Eye that was blind ? Be a lamp to my mind! 1 The Hindus hold that the Kundalini, the spring of spiritual power, lies coiled and sleep- ing upon a lotus-flower at the base of the spine. She may be aroused by various methods. 2 The ‘‘third eye,’ that rudimentary eye called the pineal gland. Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir, leave the flower-throne, and up- flying | Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake ! Then crown me and cling ! Flash forward—and spring ! Flash forth o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…ry of Selflessness, which is called also the Mystery of Pan. 16. Let the Magus then contemplate each in turn, raising it to the ultimate power of Infinity. Wherein Sorrow is Joy, and Change is Stability, and Selflessness is Self. For the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be performed not by simple méditation — how much less then by reason! but by the method which shall hâve been given unto Him in His initiation to the Grade. 17. Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that tri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…of destruction, which may be done in many different ways. One may fascinate and bend to one’s will a person who has of his own right the power to destroy. One may employ spirits or talismans. The more powerful magicians of the last few centuries hâve employed books. In private matters these Works are very easy, if they be neces- sary. An adept known to The Master Therion once found it necessary to slay a Circe who was bewitching brethren. He merely walked to the door of her room, and drew an Astral T (“tradi- tore”, and the symbol of Saturn) wi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
…vat| spake and said: ‘Iam the rain of Heaven Proven CH bution descending upon the Earth, bearing with it the fructifying and germinating power. fas I am the plenteous yielder of Harvest; I Sa cnr of sew do [Me | am the cherisher of Life.’” the bast WK ‘ A 5 ee “The Priestess with the Mask of Tarot . 7 5 7 Nephthys spake and said: ‘I am the dew a descending, viewless, Cases] | | civ. ie » sore — bomen | and silent, gemming |_\“% 4 Roomex 2 Via fitsize] | the Earth with count- 2 0 mor . Fart, ere less Diamondsof Dew, ma bearing down the in- fluen…