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Page 71 of 1061929 · PDF PAGE 16
HIS SECRET SIN Inscribed admiringly to Alexander Coote. THEODORE BUGG had made England what she is. The last forty-two years had elevated him from errand-boy to biggest retail grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear con- science, a five-year old grave to keep in order To the memory of my beloved relict, as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore …
1954 · PDF PAGE 87
…discarding all these puerilities. It has of necessity been divided into these schools: the Nihilist, the Monist, and the Dualist. I. The last of these is, on the surface, the most plausible; for almost the first thing that we notice on inspecting the Universe is what the Hindu schools call "the Pairs of Opposites. " This, too, is very convenient, because it lends itself so readily to orthodox theology; so we have Ormuzd and Ahriman, the Devas and the Asuras, Osiris and Set, et cetera and da capo, personifications of "Good" and "Evil." The foes …
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
… ordinary physical sense of people whom I should visit in this shape. There will be found in my Magical Record numerous accounts af this last experiment. In the autumn of '98 my friend, J. L. Baker, whom I hastened to see in London on my return from the Alps, took me on my first astral journey. The details of the method are given in full in The Equinox, Vol. I No. II, (Liber O). I may here outline them thus: Imagine an image of yourself, standing in from of you. Transfer your consciousness to it. Rise upward. Invoking forces desired by the pres…
1906 · PDF PAGE 37
…I. Swift-winged Stability, Lifting the earth and sky, Hold me up utterly, Keep me, O Shuwe! XII. Virginal Queen of Earth, Late love, and last of birth, Loose, loose the golden girth, Nephthys, the crowned one! XIII. Hail, crowned Harpocrates, Show, show thy secrecies, Lotus-throned silences, Typhon’s réplacer ! MARCH IN THE TROPICS. Written near Manzanillo. WHAT ails thee, earth? Is not the breath of Spring Exultant on thy breast? What aileth thee, O many-mooded melancholy sea? [fear the swift rush of that triumphant wing! Listen ! the world’s …
1922 · PDF PAGE 312
…xactly what has happened, as if she were in the witness-box.”’ Lou began to twist herself about uneasily. “I’m fed up,” she burst out at last. “The witness will kindly control herself,” remarked Lamus, judicially. The callousness of his tone restored Lou not merely
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…they were in his subconscious waking self, for one occurred in the afternoon, when he was out shooting, and not in the least asleep. The last of them occurred towards the end of the October term. He was lecturing as usual, I was at home, lethargic after a too heavy breakfast following a wakeful night. I saw suddenly a picture of the lecture-room, enormously greater than in reality, so that it filled all space; and in the rostrum, bulging over it in all direc-
1954 · PDF PAGE 502
…out that Nature exercises many forms of Energy, which are not directly observable by the senses. In fact, the History of Science for the last hundred and fifty years or so has consisted principally of the discovery of such types, with their analysis, measurement and manipulation. There is every reason to suppose that many such remain to be discovered. But what has in no case been observed is any trace of will or of intelligence, except through some apparatus involving a nervous and cerebral system. At this point I want especially to call your a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 410
…no longer be scouted as fantastic. I at least see no reason to doubt the existence of extensive civilizations in North Africa within the last five thousand years. Their decay and total disappearance is explained quite easily by the gradual failure of the water supply. To the eye of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize …
1905 · PDF PAGE 270
….! Mévos Oewy yap Odvaros ob Swowr pa. —AESCH., Fr. Niobe. | FAREWELL! Althzean ! The strange fruits lure me of Persephone ; I raise the last, the memorable pean, Storm-throated, mouthed as the cave-roll- ing sea ; I lift the cup : deep draughts of blue Lethean ! My wine to me. O Light of day, O torch O lamentable season of Apollo, When swoops his glory to the golden wave ! As all his children, so their lord shall follow ! The flower he slew, the maiden he would save, As Itylus,? light woven, tuned! Oh swallow, Bewail their grave! The gracious …
1912 · PDF PAGE 24
… gondolier by the girls she was supposed to be chaperoning; think of C, who forgot the heavenly choir for the earthly, and of D, who was last seen in Naples being sick out of a window on the second floor; think of E, who married a girl named Ethel Maud, reaping in himself that recompense of his error which was meet; think of F, who might have performed the Opera— tion of the Sacred Magic of Abra—melin the Mage, and has taken up Goat Golf instead; think of G, who went ashore once too often, and was caught by a girl named Alphonsina Nectarine Stub…
1912 · PDF PAGE 24
… gondolier by the girls she was supposed to be chaperoning; think of C, who forgot the heavenly choir for the earthly, and of D, who was last seen in Naples being sick out of a window on the second floor; think of E, who married a girl named Ethel Maud, reaping in himself that recompense of his error which was meet; think of F, who might have performed the Opera— tion of the Sacred Magic of Abra—melin the Mage, and has taken up Goat Golf instead; think of G, who went ashore once too often, and was caught by a girl named Alphonsina Nectarine Stub…
1919 · PDF PAGE 396
… also laid down his Pan-pipe, and with the human voice sang his infinite tunes. . 43. Then the faun was enraptured, and followed far; at last the harper was silent, and the faun became Pan in the midst of the primal forest of Eternity. 44. Thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, O my Prophet! 85. Thou hast the knowledge concerning the two Ways. Thy time will come for choice, O thou eager Soul, when thou hast reached the end and passed the seven Portals. Thy mind is clear. No more art thou entangled in delusive thoughts, for thou hast lea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 365
332 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS January 12 describe the Sign, "The omnipresence of my body." And there She was-in the last place in the world where one would have sought Her. Note, too, the accuracy of the Yi King Symbol =-= for = = is of course the Symbol of our Lady, and the God below Her in the Stele is == the Sun. All this is clear proof of the unspeakable power and wisdom of Those who have sent me to proclaim the Law. If these events be indeed the result of calculation and control on the part of the Secret Chiefs, it seems at first sight as if th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 488
…lly ruinous ; organization breaks down altogether ; one meaningless revolution follows another ; famine and pestilence complete the job. Last time - when Osiris replaced Isis- the wreck was limited in scope- note that it was the civilized, the organized part that broke down. (Jews and Arabs could remain aloof , and keep a small torch burning until Light returned with the Renaissance.) This time there is no civilization which can escape being involved in the totality of the catastrophe. Achievement of high aims, which tends ultimately to the wel…
1954 · PDF PAGE 494
…d Good Manners, low as it is, is less low in Tory circles. As I think that totalitarian methods are already on the way to extinguish the last spark of manly independence-that is, in self-styled civilized countries-it seems to me that we all should regard with shrewd suspicion any plans for "perfecting" social conditions . The extreme horror is the formula of the gregarious type of insect. Inherent in the premises is the impossibility of advance. One may sum the policy of the A:. A:. as follows : I. To assist the initiation of the individual. 2.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…receive it? Will he not be misunderstood? Will not one set of fools cry “ Casuist !” and their twin brethren exclaim: “ Here, indeed, at last shine wisdom, and virtue, and multiscient truth 1"? No: for the Essay, and the Hearer, what are they but dog-faced demons, that manifest no sign of Truth, but seduce ever from the Sacred Mysteries? Aflirm their identity with the One that is None, or destroy them—these are the two aspects of the supreme Ritual, and these two are one, which is None. Thus far the authentic voice of O. M. [Respectful silence. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
…t from it), because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling of him that is fallen. (That is that Mystery which was revealed in the last Aethyr; the universe being, as it were, a garden wherein the Holy 153
1935 · PDF PAGE 6
…in its greatest and highest sense. Ipsissimus. — Is beyond all this and beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees. But of these last three Grades see some further account in The Temple of Solomon the King, Equinox I to X and elsewhere. It should be stated that these Grades are not necessarily attained fully, and in strict consecution, or manifested wholly on all planes. The subject is very difficult, and entirely beyond the limits of this small treatise. We append a more detailed account. 3. The Order of the S. S. is composed of those …
1929 · PDF PAGE 392
…e sense and thought so that the soul becomes aware of every modulation of its melody. A few miles beyond Bou Sada there is no road. The last link with civilization is broken. It is no longer possible to pretend that the world is a mere stage where we may strut and scream without facing the facts. Each man must match himself, alone as at the hour of death, with each inexorable fact that nature flings in his face --- brigands, sunstroke, hunger, thirst, sickness, accident: no one of these to be evaded or explained away, and no one to be propitia…
1929 · PDF PAGE 449
…eting was adjourned sine die. A council was then legally convened; and a man designated by Yarker himself as his successor in one of his last letters to me was elected Grand Master for Britain, with myself as his principal officer. Yarker's office as Grand Hierophant was filled by Dr. Encausse (Papus), the Grand Master of France. Having accomplished these duties, I was free to accompany the "Ragged Ragtime Girls" to Moscow, where they were engaged for the summer, at the Aquarium. They were badly in need of protection. Leila Waddell was the only…