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Page 67 of 1061919 · PDF PAGE 423
…aith: “I have renounced all this passing frame: I have destroyed the cause: the shadows cast can, as effects, no longer be.” For now the last great fight, the final war be- tween the Higher and the Lower Self, hath taken place. Be- hold, the very battlefield is now engulfed in the great war, and is no more. The quotation is only proper in the mouth of a Buddha, from whom it is taken. At this point the Higher and Lower Selves are united. It is a mistake to represent their contest as a war—it is a wedding. IOI
1954 · PDF PAGE 363
…ok it mentally as referring to the expected arrival of Our Lady, but it might mean a trance, or almost anything. So I will ask Yi, as my last magical act for the time being. I think this means the arrival of Our Lady. I have serious doubts whether the hexagram should not have been: which would certainly have meant that. That I should doubt anything is absurd; I shall know the Sign, without fail. And herewith I close the Record, and await that Sign. The next entry is dated Sunday, February 1. Kindly read over the entry of January 12 with care ex…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…. I left Baramula on September 21st, reached Pindi on the twenty-fourth, and after a day or two in Delhi and Ajmer reached Bombay on the last day of the month. I had meant to investigate Jaipur and the abandoned city which was deserted in the heyday of its splendour at an hour's notice on the advice of an astrologer. (He prophesied, observe, that it would become like "the courts where Jamshyd glorified and drank deep", and so it did!) But my power to feel had been definitely dulled by the expedition. Hardship and sickness had temporarily exhaus…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…ng light we again find the mystic Trinity midst the hellebore and thistles of existence , en throned , eternal . The sun sinks , and the last notes of the nightingale die into the stillness of falling night . The emerald sky like the robe of some car - borne Astarté , slashed with an infinite orange and red , fades into the sombre garment of night ; and above silently
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…of these monthly would spill her crim son libation to the moon . “ Yea ! truly , away, away , out of my sight , O shadow of a king ; but last night wert thou not fingering the delicate chalice of Cam paspe , and a few hours hence will not thy drowsy hand crimson the white womb of thy Mother Earth with the red lees of the grape of Bacchus , so full of the poppies of sleep , and the wormwood of sorrow . " From the silver goblet of laughter , that leaden cup of weeping , have the nations drunk the dregs of many lives : for the woman arrayed in pur…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…d lava, jetted from the volca- noes of the infinite, this lake of fire that is reserved for the devil and his angels, might not one at last touch bottom? Ah! but time was no more, neither any eidolon thereof!
1929 · PDF PAGE 464
…Any serious setback might cause disaster in a dozen different directions. They talk of the melting pot. The metaphor is not bad. For the last sixty years they have pitched into it indiscriminately everything that came along. They protest passionately that the product must be that perfect gold, the "one hundred per cent. American", which may be defined as the wish phantasms of a Sunday School superintendent, a romantic flapper, an unscrupulous usurer, and a maudlin medium, worked up into a single delirious nightmare. More likely the interaction …
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
… debate.” I answer, Here in India wait Christian pre- misses ac- cepted. Severe mental strain involved in reading poem. The Ascension at last ! This is a common feat. Prana- yama. Difference be- tween David Douglas [sic] Home, Sri Swami Sabapati Vamadeva Bhaskara- nanda Sara- swati and the Christ. Latter com- pared to Madame Hum- bert. 300 305 310 315 320 325 330 335
1910 · PDF PAGE 22
… a helio- graph under unfavourable conditions. But (as with that instrument) by dint of repetition one gets the all-important message at last : and the situation is saved. It is undoubtedly the importance which he at- taches to Sin, Repentance, Penance, Grace, as the means of raising the old to the new Adam that cost el Haji so much pains in persecution by the more orthodox Muslim : possible the teaching of St. Paul had vaguely penetrated to the gulf with the mer- chant of Venice or Portugal, and their danger had been recognized by those who he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
…a lethargy of varying duration. (The resurrection of Lazarus, if we could admit it as a scientific fact, would prove that this state may last for four days.) Let us now come to the secret of the Great Work, which we have given only in Hebrew, without vowel points, in the Rituel de la haute magie. Here is the complete text in Latin, as one finds it on page 144 of the Sepher Yetzirah, commented by the alchemist Abraham (Amsterdam, 1642): 1 It will be objected that Lazarus stank, but this is a thing which happens frequently to healthy people, as w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
…a lethargy of varying duration. (The resurrection of Lazarus, if we could admit it as a scientific fact, would prove that this state may last for four days.) Let us now come to the secret of the Great Work, which we have given only in Hebrew, without vowel points, in the Rituel de la haute magie. Here is the complete text in Latin, as one finds it on page 144 of the Sepher Yetzirah, commented by the alchemist Abraham (Amsterdam, 1642): 1 It will be objected that Lazarus stank, but this is a thing which happens frequently to healthy people, as w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…ur ex- periments again. My powers had returned, and in triple force. Arthur explained my intuition as follows: The doc- tor (when you last saw him) did not know consciously that he had cancer; but subconsciously Nature gave warning. You read this subconsciously, and it sprang into your consciousness when you read on the nurse's face that he was ill. This, farfetched as it may seem, at least avoids the shallow theories about telepathy. From this time my powers constantly increased. I could read my husband's thoughts from imperceptible move…
1909 · PDF PAGE 388
…I wanted to carry it out faithfully, without losing an instant. We struggled a long time; and as I was getting exhausted, I succeeded at last in taking his knife, and sank it in his stomach. It was not very pleasant for me to see his blood running black and hot on the sand; but I had to perform this execu- tion, owing to his obstinacy. It was safer to destroy my understudy, as I had called him till then in my happy thoughts, and try afterwards to get another one to fill his place. His 380
1909 · PDF PAGE 388
…I wanted to carry it out faithfully, without losing an instant. We struggled a long time; and as I was getting exhausted, I succeeded at last in taking his knife, and sank it in his stomach. It was not very pleasant for me to see his blood running black and hot on the sand; but I had to perform this execu- tion, owing to his obstinacy. It was safer to destroy my understudy, as I had called him till then in my happy thoughts, and try afterwards to get another one to fill his place. His 380
1911 · PDF PAGE 133
…ld how the head of the dragon is but the tail of the Aethyr! Many are they that have fought their way from mansion to mansion of the Everlasting House, and beholding me at last have returned, declaring, “ Fearful is the aspect of the Mighty and Terrible One.” Happy are they that have known me for whom I am. And glory unto him that hath made a gallery of my throat for his arrow of truth, and the moon for his purity. The moon waneth. The moon waneth. The moon waneth. For in that arrow is the Light of Truth that overmastereth the light of the sun,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 581
…out to fall into the gulf of the unknown. It is accomplished; it falls, it is crushed with pain, a strange cold seizes it, it breathes a last sigh which turns into a first cry; it is dead to embryonic life, it is born to human life! During embryonic life it seemed to it that the placenta was its body, and it was in fact its special embryonic body, a body useless for another life, a body which had to be thrown off as an unclean thing at the moment of birth. The body of our human life is like a second envelope, use- less for the third life, and f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 581
…out to fall into the gulf of the unknown. It is accomplished; it falls, it is crushed with pain, a strange cold seizes it, it breathes a last sigh which turns into a first cry; it is dead to embryonic life, it is born to human life! During embryonic life it seemed to it that the placenta was its body, and it was in fact its special embryonic body, a body useless for another life, a body which had to be thrown off as an unclean thing at the moment of birth. The body of our human life is like a second envelope, use- less for the third life, and f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…te Professor Blair. Her mind undoubtedly became unhinged through grief at her husband's death; the medical man who at- tended him in his last illness grew alarmed at her condi- tion, and had her watched. She tried (fruitlessly) to pur- chase dynamite at several shops, but on her going to the laboratory of her late husband, and attempting to manufacture Chloride of Nitrogen, obviously for the pur- pose of suicide, she was seized, certified insane, and placed in my care. The case is most unusual in several respects. (1) I have never known her ina…
1954 · PDF PAGE 78
HIEROGLYPHICS 45 upon you will satisfy you, or even whether it will hold water! In the last resort, I shall have to maintain that we are justified by experience, by the empirical success in communicating thought which has attended, and continues to attend, our endeavors. But to give a complete answer, I shall have to go back to the beginning, and restate the original problem; and I beg that you will not suppose that I am evading the question, or adopting the Irish method of answering it by another, though I know it may sound as if I were. Let m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 191
… these from our discourse, it is merely evidence that you have not understood a single word of what I have been trying to tell you these last few hundred years! May I close with a stray example or so? The Equinox. Vol. III, No. I, has the Neophyte's Pantacle of Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. The Frontispiece of the original (4 volume) edition of Magick, the colours vilely reproduced, is a Lamen of my own Magick, or a Pantacle of the Science, I'm sure I'm not sure which! Most of my Talismans, like my Invocations, have been poems. This letter must be like T…