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…gil. After I had looked at it carefully, he explained to me how I should make it, and finished by telling me that it was used to summon ‘things of earth.’ “As I looked incredulously at him, hetook hold —Dracram 55. of the sigil, and no sooner had he done so than ‘is! in Book. from out of every crack and seam in the floor there wriggled forth a multitude of rats and other vermin. “ After this, he led me upstairs to another floor, and into a ae room which in the dim light appeared to be in an attic. x 7 “ At the west end of this room, lying upon …
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…s sweep wider at every swing. What should interest us is the consideration of the Point from which it hangs, motionless at the height of things! We I 129
1919 · PDF PAGE 383
…of Renunciation of the Self, that springeth the sweet fruit of final Liberation. This is again obscure, as the word “Self” means so many things, and though many kinds of type have been employed to spell it, clear definitions of what each type indicates are lacking. It is here, however, the doctrine of the Two Paths 61
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…hanically, but chemically, that his being was loosened more and more into its parts, that these were being absorbed into new and hateful things, but that (worst of all) Arthur stood immune from all, behind it, unimpaired, memory and reason ever more acute as ever new and ghastlier experience informed them. It seemed to me as if some mystic state were su- per-added to the torment; for while he was not, em- phatically not, this tortured mass of consciousness, yet that was he. There are always at least two of us! The one who feels and the one who …
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…se who are not content with this, let it be said that there is something more behind and beyond. Among us are those who have experienced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…se who are not content with this, let it be said that there is something more behind and beyond. Among us are those who have experienced things of a nature so exalted that no words ever penned could even adumbrate them faintly. The communication of such knowledge, so far as it is at all possible, must be a personal thing ; and we offer it with both hands. It is simple to write to the Chancellor of the A... A... at the care of the publishers, 23 Paternoster Row, E.C.; a neophyte of the Order will be detailed to meet the inquirer. He will read to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…fully dedicated all I have and all I am. That I do not overvalue ecstasy is shown by this, that I am not one who denies himself the good things of this world. There are too many mystics going about like the fox who lost his brush.
1916 · PDF PAGE 6
…, if you want a girl, you cannot twist your knuckles in her hair, Club her, and drag her bleeding to your cave. No, said my friend, things have changed a great deal since the eighth of July! It is just this capacity for seeing everything sub specie aeternatitis which distinguishes the great artist or the great seer, even to a certain extent the great statesman, from plausible imitations. We do not value Shakespeares histories for their political views; in fact, the portrait of Joan of Arc is a stain upon the character of the poet which n…
1922 · PDF PAGE 109
…personal way. There’s a pain, but the pain doesn’t hurt. You enjoy the fact of the pain as you enjoy reading about all sorts of terrible things in history at school. But the trouble about cocaine is this; that it’s almost impossible to take it in moderation as almost any one, except an American, can take whisky. Every dose makes you better and better. It destroys one’s power of calculation. We had already discovered the fact when we found that the supply we had got from Gretel, with the idea that it would last almost indefinitely, was running v…
1944 · PDF PAGE 137
…have called her, and Malkah, and Betulah, and Persephone. “And the poets have feigned songs about her, and the prophets have spoken vain things, and the young men have dreamed vain dreams: but this is she, that immaculate, the name of whose name may not be spoken. Thought cannot pierce the glory that defendeth her, for thought is smitten dead before her presence. Memory is blank, and in the most ancient books of Magick are neither words to conjure her, nor adorations to praise her. Will bends like a reed in the tempests that sweep the borders o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 252
…nes, And painted in the greyness of your hair? TANNHAUSER., I had an evil dream. LANDGRAVE. You saw the Grail? TANNHAUSER. I saw—strange things.
1907 · PDF PAGE 211
…UTONOE. Fall soft and sweet ! AGAVE, Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MANADS, All wild things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE. Blood! Blood! Bromius, Bromius! Ha! Bring wine ! MAENADS. Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us ! AUTONOE. Us, maidens now And then and ever afterwards ! AGAVE, Chaste, chaste ! Our madness hath no touch of bitterness, No taste of foulness in the morning mouth. AUTONOE, O mouth of ripe red sunny grapes! God! God ! Evoe! Dwell! Abide! AGAVE. I feel …
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…ordship has commanded me to see that your holiness is supplied with everything that you desire.” Then the sage laughed aloud. IV f1 1% (“THINGS TO BE Banana”) Stx months passed by, and Juju, stirring in his sleep, remembered the duties of politeness, and asked for Kwaw. “ He is on your lordship’s estate at Nikko,” the servants hastened to reply, “ and he has turned the whole place completely upside down. Millions of yen have been expended monthly; he has even mortgaged this very palace in which your lordship has been asleep; a body of madmen ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…e , and we behold her go , Haggard and weary , through the palace courts And through the temple , lusting for strange loves And horrible things , and thirsting for new steam Of thickening blood upon her altar steps . | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 260 . 2 Sword of Song , vol . ii, p. 154 . + The Argonauts , vol . ii, p . 119 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 141 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…ven as at the Begin- ning I offered All for Nothing, unwitting as I was of the meaning of those words, I have suffered many and grievous things at the hands of the elements, and of the planets; hunger, thirst, fatigue, disease, anxiety, bereavement, all these woes and others have laid heavy hand upon me, and behold! as I look back upon these years, I declare that all hath been very well. For so great is the Reward which I (unworthy) have attained that the Ordeals seem but incidents hardly worthy to mention, save in so far as they are the Levers…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
THE EQUINOX life are blank. Perhaps during these years of nothingness we see things as they are ; however, civilisation touches us on the lips and we speak and forget all about them. Directly we commence to chatter, our preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them …
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
THE EQUINOX life are blank. Perhaps during these years of nothingness we see things as they are ; however, civilisation touches us on the lips and we speak and forget all about them. Directly we commence to chatter, our preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them …
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
… the hope of hypnotising himself (as it were) into that percep- tion of their identity, which is his (partial and incorrect) idea of how things look from Kether. 126
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…ut cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of vitality resulting from the practices adopted. Equilibrium is above all things necessary, and even in these early stages, the mind of the aspirant should be entirely free from the obsession of either ungratified or over- gratified appetites. Neither Lust nor Chastity should solely occupy him; for as Krishna says: Verily Yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, nor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, O Arjuna. Yoga killeth out a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…ut cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of vitality resulting from the practices adopted. Equilibrium is above all things necessary, and even in these early stages, the mind of the aspirant should be entirely free from the obsession of either ungratified or over- gratified appetites. Neither Lust nor Chastity should solely occupy him; for as Krishna says: Verily Yoga is not for him who eateth too much, nor who abstaineth to excess, nor who is too much addicted to sleep, nor even to wakefulness, O Arjuna. Yoga killeth out a…