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Page 67 of 871904 · PDF PAGE 39
… of Geometry and the Liberal Sciences. He, at the Command of the Exorcist, will produce Great Noises like the Rushings of many Waters, although there be none. He warmeth Waters, and discovereth Baths. He was of the Order of Potestates, or Powers, before his fall, as he declared unto the King Solomon. He governeth 48 Legions of Spirits. Huis Seal is this, the which wear thou as aforesaid. (50.) Furcas.—The Fiftieth Spirit is Furcas. He is a Knight, and appeareth in the Form of a Cruel Old Man with a long Beard and a hoary Head, riding upon a pal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…ls himself in a succession of novels or pictures, each of which is wholly himself and nothing else, but himself under varied conditions, though each appears utterly différent from its fellows. In that Light one is “swift without feet and flying without wings”; one can travel without moving, and communicate without conventional means of expression. One is insensible to heat, cold, pain, and other forms of appréhension, at least in the shapes which are familiar to us in our bodily vehicles. They exist, but they are appreciated by us, and they aff…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
… save a life. MOLLY. You hunt Sir Percy Percivale ! CARRUTHERS. To save him. MOLLY. God save all honest men from knaves like you ! Stay, though, you are his friend? CARRUTHERS. His guardian. MOLLY. And I his promised wife. CARRUTHERS. Mad girl, be off ! MOLLY. Ay, strike me, coward ! CARRUTHERS (after thinking a moment), Then, come here, behind me! Quick, if you love him ! MOLLY. I will see him safe. What is this danger? CARRUTHERS. Danger of your sort. [She mounts. OLD TYSON comes out into the open. TYSON, Eh, less, wheer off noo ?
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
…itator. Meanwhile the meditator must so strengthen his will, that he wd/s to remain in his meditation uninterrupted; and yet in the end, though his mind has never wandered in contemplating the object meditated upon, he, neverthe- less, has to repeat what the speaker said; which when the will is very strong may not even be heard as a sound, let alone as a coherent sentence. The will has to keep the thinking faculty of the meditator from interrupting the medita- tion; but meanwhile the thinking faculty without in any way breaking the meditation h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 167
…itator. Meanwhile the meditator must so strengthen his will, that he wd/s to remain in his meditation uninterrupted; and yet in the end, though his mind has never wandered in contemplating the object meditated upon, he, neverthe- less, has to repeat what the speaker said; which when the will is very strong may not even be heard as a sound, let alone as a coherent sentence. The will has to keep the thinking faculty of the meditator from interrupting the medita- tion; but meanwhile the thinking faculty without in any way breaking the meditation h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
…at more would she have? PRIEST. The situation is not usual to a young damsel, and somewhat trying to her blushes. ALAIN. She should have thought of that before. This devil’s dance is not to my piping, but since she is in it, by ’r Lady, she shall carry it through. [Afotzons PRIEST fo retire. Exit PRIEST, wth a low reverence to ALAIN and a courteous bow to DENYS. DENYS. [Azses and clears his throat.| Sir, let me —explain that ALAIN. Don’t explain. May I beg you to be seated, my dear young friend. We've been expecting you all night: the lady is r…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…e oracle is omniscient. By the nature of the case, on the contrary, it is the utterance of a being whose powers are partial and limited, though not to such an extent, or in the same directions, as one’s own. But a man who is advised to purchase a certain stock should not complain if a general panic knocks the bottom ont of it a few weeks later. The advice only referred to the prospects of the stock in itself. The divination must not be blarned any more than one would blâme a man for buying a house at Ypres three vears before the World-War. As a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
… the oracles of them that, knowing the fraud, feared not, but were his priests and wardens of his mystery. What now ? How can any of us, though wise and strong as never was known, prevail on men to act in concert, now that each prays to his own chip of God, and yet knows every other chip to be a worthless ort, dream-dust, ape-dung, tradition-bone, or — what not else ? ” So science begins to see that the Initiâtes were maybe not merely silly and selfish in making their rule of silence, and in protecting philosophy from the profane. Yet still she…
1996 · PDF PAGE 25
…is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing (although originally an Infinite Per fection) could become something more than itself; and thus a real development is possible. One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations (God, that was a magnificent conception!) because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory of His own Reality of Perfection which he has during these incarna tions, becaus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…rom her silk stockings or her dress; if you get people that are really too clever for her, then 'the force is very weak this afternoon,' though she keeps you longer than ever in the hope of tiring your attention, and perhaps to pay you out for baffling her!" Grey said all this with an air of the most hideous boredom. It was evident that he hated the whole business. He was restless and anxious, too, with another part of his brain; Lisa could see that, but she dared not question him. So she went on the old track. "Doesn't she get messages from th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…f the crowning miracle of all, That Iam merely here. God speed you, sirs! I ask your blessing, not to stay therewith My soul’s own need (though that is dire enough) But—he that blesseth shall himself be blessed ! My blessing were small help to you, my friends. AN INTELLIGENT PILGRIM. For your own reason, give it to us, then! TANNHAUSER. The Blessing of the Lord! May Mary’s self Be with you and defend you evermore, Most from the fearful destiny of him Men used to call the minstrel Tannhauser ! ELDEST PILGRIM. A sombre blessing ! On you and yours…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…outer world was aware — to the healing of humanity in respect of its physical ills. The men were doctors, or students, the women nurses; though in fact Sister Clara was herself the most brilliant of them all, a surgeon who could have held her own against any man in Europe. But it was contrary to the rule of the house for any sick person to lodge there; the private hospital which was attached to it was situated some three hundred yards further back from the hillside. At a glance Lisa perceived that she had come into a circle where discipline was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…nd decay. Also, it followed that the best corpses of all were those of executed murderers, whose vitality may be assumed as very great — though on this last point Cyril Grey, for one, would have disagreed with him, saying that the most vital people would have too much respect for the principle of life to commit murder in cold blood. However, Dr Vesquit had obtained an appointment as coroner in the most murderous district of London; and uncanny were the rumours that circulated among occult sympathizers. [173] His career had nearly been ruined on…
1996 · PDF PAGE 41
…course this is merely my personal view; a star who happened to be a lawyer might see things otherwise! Yet Nature’s unspeakable variety, though it admits cruelty and selfishness, offers us no example of the puritan and the prig! However, to the mind of Law there is an Order of Going; and a machine is more beautiful, save to the Small Boy, when it works than when it smashes. Now the Machine of Matter-Motion is an explosive machine, with pyrotechnic effects; but these are only incidentals. Laws against adultery are based upon the idea that woman …
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…istic sensibility. Some passages in this drama are really very fine ; and ‘ The Fatal Force ’ is also a dramatic poem of singular power, though the subject is equally horrible. There is scarcely a poem in the entire volume free from morbidity ; and yet it is impossible to deny that Mr Crowley has a claim to re-cognition as a true poet. Most men who have thought deeply on life’s problems recognize that the current religion of nearly all their fellow men is an idle mockery. The relations of men and women, as well as the constitution of states and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The passage where the twins live is very difficult too. They are two sisters; and one is very pure and good, and the other is a horrid fast woman. But that shows you how silly dream language is— really there is anot…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
… see ourselves, and therefore to aid us to initiate ourselves by showing us what we are doing. In the same way a watchmaker uses a lens, though it exaggerates and thus falsifies the image of the System of wheels which he is trying to adjust. In the same way, a writer emplovs arbitrary characters according to a meaningless convention in order to enable his reader by retranslating them to obtain an approximation to his idea. Such are a few of the principal characteristics of the Astral Light. Its quantitative laws are much less dissimilar from th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…would refuse to swerve from Its system; the Aspirant wouîd be compelled to remain at the Barrier until he succeeded in breaking it down, though a new incarnation were necessary to permit him to do so. But no technical failure of any kind soever could necessarily prevent him from accomplishing the Two Critical Tasks, since the fact of his incarnation itself proves that he has taken the Oath which entitled him to attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, and the 242
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…brew names of these 72 Spirits are given; but it appears to me that many ate manifestly incorrect in orthography. The codex in question, though beautifully written, also contains many other errors, particularly in the Sigils. Such as they are, these names in the Hebrew of Dr. Rudd are here shown. (See Figures 81 to 152 inclusive.) THE MAGICAL CIRCLE. Tus is the Form of the Magical Circle of King Solomon, the which he made that he might preserve himself therein from the malice of these Evil Spirits. (See Frontispiece, Figure 153.) This Magical C…
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
THE EQUINOX this is contrary. And the nave or axis of the wheel will be about the invisible station of Harpocrates ; as though that God stood there with the sign of Silence, and affirmed the concealment of that central atom of the wheel which alone revolveth not. The object of the Mystic Circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the Divine Light above and the Temple, and therefore the Hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the Light from beyond the Veils. Each member i…