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Page 73 of 911906 · PDF PAGE 100
… cannot so apply it as to build An Argo. ARGUS. Yet I verily believe Such mind must pierce far deeper than these names, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. say !1 Tell us what they THESEUS. Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS. You speak more wisely when you float away Into pure dream, and talk of mystic things That no man born of woman understands, And therefore does…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…its justifica¬ tion, or rather the réconciliation of the apparent contradiction between the carnivorous and humanitarian éléments in the nature of Homo Safiens. — 90 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 149
…cloud-surpassing summit, not far, not very far. I regret nothing, be sure! I may be even in error to argue that an evident distortion of nature, and its issue in disaster, are proof of imprudence. Perhaps the other road would not have taken me to Cairo, to the climax of my life, to my true Will fulfilled in =44 Aiwaz and made Word in this Book. Perhaps it is lingering “lust of result” that whispers hideous lies to daunt me, that urges these plausible arguments to accuse me. It may be that my present extremity is the very condition required for …
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…d, and poised it over a bowl of water. "We are now going to suppose that this very simple object is going to try its best to explain its nature to the surface of the water, which we will imagine as endowed with powers of observation and reasoning equal to our own. All that the cone can do is to show itself to the water, and it can only impress the water by touching it.
1996 · PDF PAGE 145
… another Kubla Khan.1 It is his own responsibility. Also we know well that “If he be a King” it will not hurt him — in the end. We trust Nature to protect, and Wisdom to be justified of, their chil dren. It is superficial to object that a man should be prevented from ruining and killing himself, for his own sake or for that of 1 [A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), conceived while intoxicated on opium. See Works Cited.]
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
… child. She wanted to climb on to everybody's knee, and be hugged! She had regained at a single [100] stroke the infant's faith in human nature; she looked at the universe as simply as a great artist does. (For in him too lives and rejoices the Eternal Babe). But her greatest surprise was in her physical health and energy. She had passed through a fierce and furious day, a night of infernal torture; yet she was unaccountably buoyant, eager, assiduous in every act, from her smiled word of pleasure to the drinking of her coffee. Everything at tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…ted as a monologue. One may also add the inquiry “What is the Great Work?” and answer appropriately, when it seems useful to specify the nature of the Operation in progress at the time. The point is to seize every occasion of bringing every available force to bear upon the objective of the assault. It does not matter what the force is (by any standard of judgment) so long as it plays its proper part in securing the success of the general purpose. Thus, even laziness may be used to increase our indifférence to interfering impulses, or envy to co…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…ster, or pronounce a philosophical dictum as to wisdom in the abstract sense. One must not assume tliat the 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 blar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…lliam James, who are incapable of philosophy, magick, or even religion, but seek instinctively a refuge from the horror of contemplating Nature, which they do not comprehend, in soothing-syrup affirmations such as those of Christian Science, Spiritualism, and ail the sham ‘occult’ creeds, as well as the emasculated forms of so-called Christianity. 50
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…in of knowledge. But that a field for research is opened up no sane man may doubt. Nor may one question that the very first fact is of a nature disruptive of difficulty philosophical and reasonable; since the phenomenon does not invoke the assent of the reasoning faculty. The argu- ments which reason may bring to bear against it are self-destructive; reason has given con- sciousness the lie, but consciousness survives and smiles. Reason is a part of consciousness and can never be greater than its whole; this Spencer sees ; but reason is not eve…
1996 · PDF PAGE 299
…monism 26,189 monogamy 55 Montauk, New York 81 moral ideas 59,63,100,115,117 morality 45,50,52,55,57,58.75,92. 131,137,145,153,161 moral nature 51 Mordred 171 Morocco 188 morphia 85 Morris, William 162 Moses 133 Moslems 84 Mother-Goddess 30,44,178 motion 23,24,64,74,79,93,106,121 and matter 42,46,88,94 Mount Abiegnus 24 music 74,84, 85 mysticism 31.34.76,77,80.82,85,91, 105,116,147-148,169,182 mystic marriage 74 mystics 44 mythology 29 Celtic 29 Egyptian 29,188 Hindu 31 Sumerian 24 Napoleon 117 Narcissus 66 natural selection 102,143,147,157 Ner…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
… failures — due to the incapacity of his assistants — by a sweeping success. For to his magic, evidently, was due the observed change in nature! Shortly after the arrival of Vesquit, he had completed his latest operation, the bewitchment of three nails in such a manner that, if struck into the door of a room of a house, the occupants would be thereby debarred from the enjoyment of conjugal felicity. And here was the result, shining before him, beautiful with banners. Even the pretence of amity had been abandoned. As a matter of fact, Brother On…
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…henomenon which accompanies any important discovery. It is like First Love, at First Sight, to the one; like the recognition of a Law of Nature, to the other. It inflames one with Love for the Uni verse, and it explains all its puzzles, in a flash; and it gives an interior conviction which nothing can shake, a living cer tainty quite beyond one’s argued acquiescence in any newly acquired facts. I lacked this; I knew that I had to seek further. The Truth uttered by Aiwaz is hidden with such exquisite art that it is always easy to wring out a m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…maining officers remain standing whilst the Hierophant repeats the Adoration : “HOLY ART THOU, LORD OF THE UNIVERSE! HOLY ART THOU, WHOM NATURE HATH NOT FORMED! HOLY ART THOU, THE VAST AND THE MIGHTY ONE! LORD OF THE LIGHT AND OF THE DARKNESS!” (At each of these sentences all bow and give the sign, the officers raising their banners, sceptres, sword and wand on high, and then sink them in salutation.) The Hierophant then orders the Kerux to declare the Hall of the Neophytes opened by him, which he does in the following words: “In the name of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…maining officers remain standing whilst the Hierophant repeats the Adoration : “HOLY ART THOU, LORD OF THE UNIVERSE! HOLY ART THOU, WHOM NATURE HATH NOT FORMED! HOLY ART THOU, THE VAST AND THE MIGHTY ONE! LORD OF THE LIGHT AND OF THE DARKNESS!” (At each of these sentences all bow and give the sign, the officers raising their banners, sceptres, sword and wand on high, and then sink them in salutation.) The Hierophant then orders the Kerux to declare the Hall of the Neophytes opened by him, which he does in the following words: “In the name of th…
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
…verse comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that is, is a crystallisation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: “I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star.” He is then your own inmost divine self; it is you, and not another, who is lost in the constant rapture of the embraces of Infinite Beauty. A little further on He speaks of us : “ We are not for the po…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…for God, and is commonly attached by the sages to divers roots, to imply that these ideas have been manifested in individuals of angelic nature. This instruction had been given to Lisa in advance; now that it was ceremonially conferred upon her, she was struck to the heart by its great meaning. Her passion for Cyril Grey had been gross and vehement, [146] almost vulgar; he had translated it into terms of hunger after holiness, of awful aspiration, of utter purity. Nor Rhea Silvia, nor Semele, nor any other mortal virgin had ever glowed to inher…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…the Great Work, in every one of its aspects. Lastly> it is possible thereby to express ail possible spheres of operation, whatever their nature. This is effected by making an équation between the number of the Sephira and the différence between that number and n. For example, 2°=9° is the formula of the grade of initiation corresponding to Yesod. Yesod represents the instability of air, the sterility of the moonj but these qualities are balanced in it by the stability implied in its position as the Foundation, and by its function of génération.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
…elema, like the artist, the true lover of Love, shameless and fearless, seeing God face to face alike in our own souls within and in all Nature without, though we use, as the bourgeois does, the word Love, we hold not the word “too often profaned for us to profane it”; it burns inviolate in its sanctuary, being reborn immaculate with every breath of life. But by “Love” we mean a thing which the eye of the bourgeois hath not seen, nor his ear heard; neither hath his heart conceived it. We have
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
surroundings, and your nature developed on the best lines possible without check. You married early." "Yes; but there was trouble. I divorced my husband, and married again two years later." "That was the Marquis la Giuffria?" "Yes." "Well, then, you left him, although he was a good husband, and devoted to you, to throw in your lot with Lavinia King." "I have lived with her for five years, almost to a month." "Then why? I used to know her pretty well myself. She was, even in those days, heartless, and mercenary; she was a sponger, the worst type…