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Page 64 of 1071913 · PDF PAGE 332
…y, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand, around the unity of the tabernacle. Hamor and Shechem wish to introduce themselves forcibly into the holy family, and perish with their people after under- going a feigned initiation. In order to dominate the v…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
… or virtue. Natural laws find an opportunity in an organism whose exceptional qualifications are not clear to us, and they perform their work with their invariable precision and calm. The most refined gourmets appreciate truffles, and employ them for their purposes, but it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for plenty of things less material and less gastronomical : instincts have groping presentiments, but it is really only science which discovers. The actual progress of human knowledge has diminished by a great deal the cha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 332
…y, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand, around the unity of the tabernacle. Hamor and Shechem wish to introduce themselves forcibly into the holy family, and perish with their people after under- going a feigned initiation. In order to dominate the v…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
… or virtue. Natural laws find an opportunity in an organism whose exceptional qualifications are not clear to us, and they perform their work with their invariable precision and calm. The most refined gourmets appreciate truffles, and employ them for their purposes, but it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for plenty of things less material and less gastronomical : instincts have groping presentiments, but it is really only science which discovers. The actual progress of human knowledge has diminished by a great deal the cha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…mic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on His left a stone plaque of Lakshmi, the Hindu Venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room, except an exquisite pencil sketch of a child, done with all the delicacy and strength of Whistler. The rest of the decoration was a delicious mixture of the grotesque and the obscene. Sketches, pastels, cuts, cartoons, oils, all the media of art, had been exhausted in a 108
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…mic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on His left a stone plaque of Lakshmi, the Hindu Venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room, except an exquisite pencil sketch of a child, done with all the delicacy and strength of Whistler. The rest of the decoration was a delicious mixture of the grotesque and the obscene. Sketches, pastels, cuts, cartoons, oils, all the media of art, had been exhausted in a 108
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING living tree, dissimilar in shape but similar in substance, and all working for one definite end. Thus did Frater P. by two years close and unabandoned experiment show, to his own satisfaction, that Yoga was but the Art of uniting the mind to a single idea; and that Gnana- Yoga, Raja-Yoga, Bhakta-Yoga and Hatha-Yoga* were but one class of methods leading to the same Result as attained to by The Holy Qabalah, The Sacred Magic, the Acts of Worship and The Ordeals of Western Ceremonial Magic; which again are but subse…
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING living tree, dissimilar in shape but similar in substance, and all working for one definite end. Thus did Frater P. by two years close and unabandoned experiment show, to his own satisfaction, that Yoga was but the Art of uniting the mind to a single idea; and that Gnana- Yoga, Raja-Yoga, Bhakta-Yoga and Hatha-Yoga* were but one class of methods leading to the same Result as attained to by The Holy Qabalah, The Sacred Magic, the Acts of Worship and The Ordeals of Western Ceremonial Magic; which again are but subse…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…in with the world that is without. And at the end of the ninety-one days he shall return into the world, and there shall he perform that work to which the Angel shall have appointed him. And more than this it is not necessary to say, for his Angel shall have entreated him kindly, and showed him in what manner he may be most perfectly invoked. And unto him that hath this Master there is nothing else that he need- eth, so long as he continue in the knowledge and conversation of the Angel, so that he shall come at last into the City of the Pyramid…
1911 · PDF PAGE 149
… made one with CHAOS canst thou begin that last, that most terrible projection, the three-fold Regimen which alone constitutes the Great Work. For Choronzon is as it were the shell or excrement of these three paths, and therefore is his head raised unto Daath, and therefore have the Black Brotherhood declared him to be the child of Wisdom and Understanding, who is but the bastard of the Svastika. And this is that which is written in 147
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
… bringing the light down and establishing it even in the abyss. Elementary as this is, it is a very satisfactory hieroglyph of the Great Work, though the student is warned that the obvious sentimental interpretation will have to be dis- carded as soon as it has been understood. It is a very noble illusion, and therefore a very dangerous one, to figure one's self as the Redeemer. For, of all the illusions in this Cup —the subtler and purer they are, the more difficult they are to detect.
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…y reverence good poetry without wrapping a religious mystery about it. It is with poets as with bricklayers ,-- if you set a thousand to work you are likelier to discover genius than if you set a dozen ; and this in spite of all such sayings as poeta nascitur non fit and solus rex vel poeta non quotannis nascitur . For even as many youths have started with an impulse for poetry and failed to achieve it, so many others have dropped into it almost by hazard and discovered their genius by practice . Which is more likely — that Shake speare came to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…on made by Leadbeater. In any case, the boy who is not able to write a decent English letter is absolutely incapable of producing such a work. The plaintiff submits that this course of conduct is calculated to warp the moral nature of the boys and to make them moral degenerates. The defendant, beyond putting forward divine claims on behalf of the boys, has not been taking proper care of their education. The first boy has not picked up the rudiments of the English language in spite of three years of alleged tuition by English tutors. The plaintif…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
…se, complete it. However, we may be permitted, before proceeding to other accounts, to transcribe here a page from a German dluminé, the work of Ludwig Tieck : “Tf, for example, as an ancient tradition informs us, some of the angels whom God had created fell all too soon, and if these, as they also say, were precisely the most brilliant of the angels, one may very well understand by this ‘fall’ that they sought a new road, a new form of activity, other occupations, and another life than those orthodox or more passive spirits who remained in the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
…se, complete it. However, we may be permitted, before proceeding to other accounts, to transcribe here a page from a German dluminé, the work of Ludwig Tieck : “Tf, for example, as an ancient tradition informs us, some of the angels whom God had created fell all too soon, and if these, as they also say, were precisely the most brilliant of the angels, one may very well understand by this ‘fall’ that they sought a new road, a new form of activity, other occupations, and another life than those orthodox or more passive spirits who remained in the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…re recently, {33} 1. WEH Note: Raoul Loveday, who died at the Abbey of Thelema after drinking from a polluted stream. See part 6 of this work for the rest. the converse is the case. My physical environment fits into my spiritual preoccupation. This change would be sufficient by itself to ensure the theoretical impossibility of editing a life like mine on any consistent principle. I find myself obliged, for these and many other reasons, to abandon altogether any idea of conceiving an artistic structure for the work or formulating an artistic pur…
1910 · PDF PAGE 197
…early all irrational. Strong sub-current of swift thought noted. Quite the old times! Excel- lent: I require less food and less literary work. I wonder if it would be worth while to try irritation of skin over Ajna with tincture of Iodine.] In30am. 1155am. Ajna 25m. 20 breaks. 9.36 p.m. 9.514pm. Ajna 15m. 30s. 20 breaks, Ill.* 10.57a.m. 11.4 a.m. Pranayama 7m. Nose not clear, i16am, i1n18am. Ajna 2m, 6 breaks. [Hyperaesthesia of sense. Various sounds disturbed me much.] Again ill, 3.38 p.m. 3.46 p.m. Pranayama 8 m. Going easier. 3.48 p.m. 3.51p…
1910 · PDF PAGE 197
…early all irrational. Strong sub-current of swift thought noted. Quite the old times! Excel- lent: I require less food and less literary work. I wonder if it would be worth while to try irritation of skin over Ajna with tincture of Iodine.] In30am. 1155am. Ajna 25m. 20 breaks. 9.36 p.m. 9.514pm. Ajna 15m. 30s. 20 breaks, Ill.* 10.57a.m. 11.4 a.m. Pranayama 7m. Nose not clear, i16am, i1n18am. Ajna 2m, 6 breaks. [Hyperaesthesia of sense. Various sounds disturbed me much.] Again ill, 3.38 p.m. 3.46 p.m. Pranayama 8 m. Going easier. 3.48 p.m. 3.51p…
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
… that remains to him. An artist might finish his creation. Dr. B. Oh, artists ! Another set of liars! Dr. P. A doctor will go on with his work better if his brain is not clouded with his own mortal fear. Dr. B. Rot ! if he’s finished, he'd better finish. And besides, despair can often do more than hope. Put the 69
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
… that remains to him. An artist might finish his creation. Dr. B. Oh, artists ! Another set of liars! Dr. P. A doctor will go on with his work better if his brain is not clouded with his own mortal fear. Dr. B. Rot ! if he’s finished, he'd better finish. And besides, despair can often do more than hope. Put the 69