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Page 73 of 901996 · PDF PAGE 141
…among the infinite possibilities of Nuit which possess no correlative points of contact in any given Khu. For example, the Khu of a male body cannot fulfil itself in the quality of motherhood. Any such lacuna must be accepted as a necessary limit, without regret or vain yearnings for the impos sible. But we should beware lest prejudice or other personal passion exclude any type of self-realization which is properly ours. In our initiation the tests must be thorough and exhaustive. The neglect to develop even a single power can only result in d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ceived and germinate in a peculiar thick velvet darkness, crimson, purple, or deep blue, approximating black: as if it were said, In the body of Our Lady of the Stars. See 777 for the correspondences of the various forces of Nature with drugs, perfumes, etc. 2. Such details, however, may safely be left to the good sense of the Student. Expérience here as elsewhere is the best teacher. In the Sacrifice during Invocation, however, it may be said without fear of contradiction that the death of the victim should coincide with the suprême invocation…
1996 · PDF PAGE 26
…rious subsequent occasions. Each “star” is con nected directly with every other star, and the Space being Without Limit (Ain Soph), the Body of Nuit, any one star is as much the Centre as any other. Each man instinctively feels that he is the Centre of the Cosmos, and philosophers have jeered at his presumption. But it was he that was precisely right. The yokel is no more “petty” than the King, nor the Earth than the Sun. Each simple elemental Self is supreme, Very God of Very God. Ay, in this Book is Truth almost insufferably splendid, for Ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 405
…rious factors in the problem; and sooner or later the moment comes when it appears to you quite natural to succeed in getting out of the body, or in opening the eyes on the astral plane, or in getting hold of the particular form of elemental energy which has until that moment escaped you. I ought incidentally to mention that this sudden illumination-that is not quite the right word but I cannot think of a better one-is quite different to the sudden confidence which takes hold of one in the Yoga practices. The more I think of it the more I feel …
1996 · PDF PAGE 139
…the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. Then rose she up from the abyss of Ages of Sleep, and her body embraced me. Altogether I melted into her beauty and was glad. 15. The river also became the river of Amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me.1 1 “Liber LXV,” 11:7-15. 2 [Hippomanes in classical Greece (Grk., imTop.ai>eg) had two forms, both reputed aphrodisiacs: a black caul found on the forehead of new born f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 92
…sely as I now do these printed letters; and they are forgot ten, just as, absorbed in my thought, the trained automatism of my mind and body expresses that thought in writing, without attention on my part, still less with identification of the extremes involved in the process. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. Commentary: “it is I that go.” The Book Aleph must be consulted for a full demonstration of this truth. We may here say b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 398
…logy” in its thoroughness. The experimental method, in which Kilpe is an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. Psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that Supernaturalism has to face. The subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined to be the predominant one. Your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof Kiilpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the Vision in all religions. The translator of “Outlin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 398
…logy” in its thoroughness. The experimental method, in which Kilpe is an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. Psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that Supernaturalism has to face. The subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined to be the predominant one. Your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof Kiilpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the Vision in all religions. The translator of “Outlin…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…e symbols, so that even in his well ordered shrine the whole ceremony revolve inwardly in his heart, that is to say in the temple of his body, of which the outer temple is but an image. For in the brain is the shrine, and there is no Image therein; and the breath of man is the incense and the libation. 18. Continuation. — Further concerning occupation. Let the devotee transmute within the alembic of his heart every thought, or word, or act into the spiritual gold of his dévotion. 393
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
68 The Law is for All hate, of debauch, of sickness, nearly always bear witness in body and mind to the abuse of the talisman. Not only the sins of the father but those of the mother, yes, more, those of their social surroundings, are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. Nay, more, the mischief can never be mended. A man can destroy in a minute his kingdom, inherited from unnumbered dynasties of biological prudence. It will also be admitted, without reference to Magick, that the abuse of the talisman leads to moral, menta…
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
… or Paramatma.} August 14th. Bought a meditation-mat and also a bronze Buddha, Nadi-Yama§ 10 minutes in the Saivite posture, in which my body-seat fits exactly into a square of about 18 inches forming the letter Aleph. Mantra (N.S.N.A.). At the 28th minute got faint sounds like a musical box worked by a mallet on metal bars. As I stopped I heard a piano very distant, The intense attention requisite to try to catch the subtle sounds of the Universe when in Rechaka prevents Mantra, as my mental mutter- ing is not yet absolutely automatic. 15th. B…
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
… or Paramatma.} August 14th. Bought a meditation-mat and also a bronze Buddha, Nadi-Yama§ 10 minutes in the Saivite posture, in which my body-seat fits exactly into a square of about 18 inches forming the letter Aleph. Mantra (N.S.N.A.). At the 28th minute got faint sounds like a musical box worked by a mallet on metal bars. As I stopped I heard a piano very distant, The intense attention requisite to try to catch the subtle sounds of the Universe when in Rechaka prevents Mantra, as my mental mutter- ing is not yet absolutely automatic. 15th. B…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
… to replace the image of truth which the figure ought to be; and it is not too much to say that the entire subconscious machinery of the body and mind lends itself with horrid willingness to this ape- like antic of treason. But now that the figure stands for judgment, the same bias Vvouid tend to form its phantasm of wish-fulfilment in a different manner. It would act through the mind to bewray sound judgment. It might, for example, induce one to emphasize the Venereal element in Puella at the expense of the Saturnian. -i. It might lead one to …
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
Chapter I * Verse 52 69 One must fortify one’s body to the utmost, and protect it from every disaster, so that the substance of the talisman may be as per fect as possible. One must calm the mind, increasing its knowl edge, organizing its powers, resolving its tangles, so that it may truly apprehend the Silent Self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the Will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the Lordship of the thought which expresses the act. The Will must …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
… devise for himself a definite technique for destroving “evil”. The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which cause fear, pain, disgust1, shame, and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyse them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them if they are really harmful in relation to health or comfort. Also, our sélection of “…
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…upon His Way. Even so goeth the Sun: for as it is now known that night is but the shadow of the Earth, so Death is but the shadow of the Body, that veileth his Light from its bearer. Of this Prophet the Word is ¸ µ»· ¼± Many and marvelous are the mysteries of this Word, and of the Numeration thereof! Nor may I declare them, save this the simplest, for the sake of little children: Love is the law, love under will. The chart was suddenly furled close, and mine Instructor bade me turn: for there had come into that place a maiden like a golden ro…
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…e of the Mass, by which the material wafer, composed of the passive elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the sub stance of the Body of God, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. It is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half-intellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, which has driven him to fence the act about with tabus. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. His fear has created phantoms, and his malobservation suggested precautions scarce worthy to be called …
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…t is possible, with great expérience, to deduce facts about material things from the astral aspect which they présent to the eyes of the Body of Light.1 This astral plane is so varied and so changeable that several clairvoyants looking at the same thing might give totally different accounts of what they saw; yet they might each make correct déductions. In looking at a man the first clairvoyant might say : “The lines of force are ail drooping”; the second : “It seems ail dirtv and spotty”; a third; “The Aura looks very ragged.” Yet ail might agr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…r the child; the wholesome atti tude of the clean simple mind, free from all complications alien to Love, assures it. Just as a woman’s body is deformed and diseased by the corset demanded by Jaganath Fashion, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless as that of the man-milliner, though they call him God, and his freakish Fiat pass for Everlasting Law. The English Bible sanctions the polygamy and concubinage of Abraham, Solomon and others, the incest of Lot, the wholesale rape of ca…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
…n bending over her, leaps up, shrteks. Criospa. The luck of Maurya ! [fe draws quickly his dirk ; 2t flashes on high, he leaps on to the body of Maurya, and plunges tt into her heart. Cri- CURTAIN. ACT II. FORTY YEARS AFTERWARDS. The scene ts an open and stormy sea, RUPHA, with her staff, wave-riding in a cockle- shell. RUPHA, Ha! Ha! In the storm I ride. The winds bear me. The waves fear me. I appal ; I inform Their pride. Let him hither, Drifting ever Wrecked and lost ! His life shall wither. The dirk shall sever His rune ill-crossed. I hear …