FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
1,787 matching pages
Page 72 of 901996 · PDF PAGE 161
… a sense which every other antivaccinationist would repudiate. I admit that vaccination protects from smallpox. But I should like every body to have smallpox. The weak would die; the strong might have pitted faces; but the race would become immune to the disease in a few generations. On somewhat similar lines, I would advocate, with Samuel Butler, the destruction of all machinery.1 (I admit the practical dif ficulties of defining the limits of legitimate devices. The issue is this: how are we to develop human skill? The printing press is admi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…tain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less than the whole body of his knowledge, implied in the theory of his définition of himself, and confirmed by every single expérience. Fie could receive impressions only by meeting A, or being caught up by B. \ et he would be wrong in an infinité number of ways. There are therefore Aleph-Zero possibilities that at any moment a man may find himself totally transformed. And it may be that our présent dazzled bewilderment is due t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
…ven up to sleepless muttering Of charms not mine—decrees Olympian— All on a sudden he felt fervent arms Flung round him, and a hot sweet body’s rush Lithe to embrace him, and a cataract Of amber-scented hair hissing about His head, and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him, and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses. And those arms And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being, and his life was lost In woman’s love at last ! CHORUS. Unseemly act ! Who dared thus break on meditation? MEDEA. CHORUS. Surely…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…o undergo certain Initiations before he was able to proceed. Thus, it is necessary that the technique of Magick should he perfected. The Body of Light nmst be rendered capable of going every- where and doing everything. It is, therefore, always the question of drill which is of importance. You hâve got to go out Rising on the Planes every day of your life, year after year. You are not to be disheartened by failure, or too much encouraged by success, in any one practice or set of practices. What you are doing is what will be of real value to you…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…of different orders that every type of mind, so it be but open and just, may be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of body, conscious and individual, with a mind mightier than man’s, and a power beyond man’s set in motion by will. In a word, the Book of the Law proves the prime postulate of Religion. The Magician may therefore be confident that Spiritual Beings exist, and seek the Knowledge and Conversation of His own Holy Guardian Angel with the same ardour as that of Frater Perdurabo when Fie abandoned. ail r love, wealth, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
… partaketh of the fruit thereof shall never die 3. Unless he so will. Who would not rather work through incarna¬ tion; a real renewal of body and brain, than content himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth ? 1. The Lance and the Graal are fïrstly dedicated to the Holy Spirit of Life, in Silence. The Bread and Wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the Virgin Mother. The éléments are then intermingled and consumed after the Epiphany of Iacchus, when “Cou…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
…f the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star 8c the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To wor ship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, 8c be drunk thereof! They shall not har…
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
…m. 5-12-5.40 p.m. p.m. 7 am. 4:35-5.16 p.m. p.m. 10.50 p.m. get a sort of Sukshma-Kumbhaka which I cannot reproduce at will. Rigidity of body and the fading of all vision are its stig- mata. Curiously this happened on coming out of Mental Muttering back to audible, or rather at one loud slow Mantra, ze. when no Kumbhaka was possible. Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after …
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
…m. 5-12-5.40 p.m. p.m. 7 am. 4:35-5.16 p.m. p.m. 10.50 p.m. get a sort of Sukshma-Kumbhaka which I cannot reproduce at will. Rigidity of body and the fading of all vision are its stig- mata. Curiously this happened on coming out of Mental Muttering back to audible, or rather at one loud slow Mantra, ze. when no Kumbhaka was possible. Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after …
1922 · PDF PAGE 202
… sat on the corner of his big square table swinging his leg. His eyes were absolutely motionless; yet I felt that they were devouring my body and soul inch by inch. I wriggled on my chair as I used to do at school when I didn’t feel sure whether I had been found out in something or not. I tried to cover my confusion by starting a light conversation ; but I soon gave it up. He was taking no notice of my remarks. To him they were simply one of my symptoms. I realised with frightful certitude that my plans were impossible. I couldn’t fool this man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…dge of exoteric science is comically limited by the fact that we hâve no access, except in the most indirect way, to any other celestial body than our own. In the last few years, the semi-educated hâve got an idea that they know a great deal about the universe, and the principal ground for their fine opinion of themselves is usually the téléphoné or the airship. It is pitiful to read the bombastic twaddle about progress, which journalists and others, who wish to prevent men from thinking, put out for consumption. We know infinitesimally little …
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
… a cat’s miauling and purring. The faculty may be greatly developed. (4) Business capacity may be stimulated. (5) Abnormal states of the body may be corrected, and the involved tissues brought back to tone, in obedience to currents started from the brain. So for all other phenomena. There is no effect which is truly and necessarily miraculous. Our Ceremonial Magic fines down, then, to a series of minute, though of course empirical, physiological experiments, and whoso will carry them through intelligently need not fear the result. I have all th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 117
or in what order you hâve corne ; so that although you hâve become a servant to the body, you may again rise to that Order (the A.*. A.*.) from which you descended, joining Works (Kamma) to the Sacred Reason (the Tao)”. io. The Resuit of the Second Method is to show the Adept to what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss and becomes Nemo, the return of the current causes him ato appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star” 1 In other words he should discover what may be the nature of his work. Thu…
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
…O, and its Name is MAT, whereof I have spoken formerly, and its Image is the Fool. O my Son, gather thou all these Limbs together in One Body, and breathe upon it with thy Spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with Lust of they Manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be One Flesh. Now at last in the Reinforcement and Ecstasy of this Consummation thou shalt with by what Inspiration thou didst choose thy Name in the Gnosis, I mean PARZIVAL, der reine Thor, the True Knight that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 28
…ut earlier also from Maut, the Egyptian Vulture-Mother- Goddess.) Fertile, for the “Egg of Blue” is the Uterus, and in the Macrocosm the Body of Nuit, and it contains the Unborn Babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gesta tion. He sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the “Nile,” the amniotic fluid. In his absolute innocence and ignorance he is “The Fool”; he is the “Saviour,” being the Son who shall trample on the croco diles and tigers, and aven…
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
… are incommensurables and absolutes. Our reli gion therefore, for the People, is the Cult of the Sun, who is our particular star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of Him, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani mal kingdom is His cognate symbol the Phallus, representing Love and Liberty. Ra-Hoor-Khuit, like all true Gods, is therefore a Solar-Phallic deity. But we regard Him as He is in truth, eternal; the Solar-Phallic deities of the old /Eon,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…uilibrium by bringing the book. Suppose a severer and more serious aim; suppose that I wish to win a woman who dislikes me and loves somebody else. In this case, not only her Will, but her lover’s must be overcome by my own. I hâve no direct control of either. But my Will is in touch with the woman’s by means of our minds; I hâve only to make my mind the master of hers by the existing means of communication; her mind will then présent its recantation to her Will, her Will repeal its decision, and her body submit to mine as the seal of her surre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…answers with Harpo- crates sign.|| Then as soon as Enterer sign weakens change conscious- ness as for Astral Visions. After which attack body from Simulacrum * The colour of Chokmah. + See Plate VI. “The Kabbalah Unveiled,” S, L. Mathers, t It is to be noted that this Vision is of a fiery nature, and that it was experienced shortly after meditating upon Tejas-Apas. § Very similar to the older form of “Temperance” in the Taro, l| See Liber O, THE Equinox, vol. i, No. 2; Plate, “Signs of the Grades,” i; and vol. i, No, 1; Plates the “Silent Watch…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…answers with Harpo- crates sign.|| Then as soon as Enterer sign weakens change conscious- ness as for Astral Visions. After which attack body from Simulacrum * The colour of Chokmah. + See Plate VI. “The Kabbalah Unveiled,” S, L. Mathers, t It is to be noted that this Vision is of a fiery nature, and that it was experienced shortly after meditating upon Tejas-Apas. § Very similar to the older form of “Temperance” in the Taro, l| See Liber O, THE Equinox, vol. i, No. 2; Plate, “Signs of the Grades,” i; and vol. i, No, 1; Plates the “Silent Watch…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
Lastly, Magick is a Pyramid, built layer by layer. The work of the Body of Light — with the technique of Yoga — is the foundation of the whole. One’s appréhension of the Astral Plane must be accurate, for Angels, Archangels, and Gods are derived therefrom by analysis. One must hâve pure materials if one wishes to brew pure beer. If one hâve an incomplète and incorrect view of the uni verse, how can one find out its laws? Thus, original omission or error tends to extend to the higher planes. Suppose a Magician, invoking Sol, were persuaded by a …