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Page 74 of 831944 · PDF PAGE 55
…for this present purpose is that Zeus was peculiarly the Lord of Air.2 Men who sought the origin of Nature in the earliest days tried to find this origin in one of the Elements. (The history of philosophy describes the controversy between Anaximander and Zenocrates; later, Empedocles.) It may be that the original authors of the Tarot were trying to promulgate 1It was a tribal necessity of the savage wanderers to have an uncivilized and simple Demiurge for god; the complexities and refinements of settled nations were to them mere weakness. Obser…
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…ation. Thus A and B sometimes recognize each other, but, while A recognizes C, B does not, so that a member of B and a member of C might find themselves meeting in a Lodge of A, and thereby automatically excommunicate each other. 4. English Craft masons do not permit religious political or commercial motives to enter into freemasonry, yet they are in official relationship with certain masonic bodies whose sole raison d'ętre is anti- clericalism, political intrigue or mutual trade benefit. 5. The Scottish Rite, the degrees of Knight Templar, Kni…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…enables us to communicate by means of language, and as soon as we invent a language in which we can talk to anything soever, we begin to find evidence of consciousness. The was is therefore clear for me to come forward and assert positively that I have opened up communication with one such intelligence; or, rather, that I have been selected by him to receive the first message from a new order of beings. THE HISTORICAL CONCEPTION ON WHICH THE BOOK OF THE LAW IS BASED. Just as The book of the Law reconciles an impersonal and infinite interpretati…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
… rem‐ edy for the error of the Sevens. The mischief has been done; and there is now a reaction against it. One may, therefore, expect to find that, while there is no possibility of perfection in the cards of this number, they are free from such essential and original errors as in the Lower case. The Eight of Wands is called Swiftness, as one might expect from its attribution to Mer‐ cury and Sagittarius. This is an etherealization of the idea of fire; all gross elements have dis‐ appeared. (Let there be a short digression with regard to the sig…
1904 · PDF PAGE 121
…on than any thing we can at pres ent conceive of. It has perhaps its analogies and correspondences on the normal planes, and so shall we find of the steps as well as of the Goal. Even the sim ple first step, which every true Buddhist has taken, Sam maditthi, is a very different thing from the point of view of an Arahat. The Buddha stated expressly that none but an Arahat could really com- prehend the Dhamma.
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…to comprehend my explanation that I was a Man, returning in time to behold the Beginning of Things.) So I returned; having difficulty to find the earth. But I called on S.R.M.D. and V.N.R., who were glad to see me; and returned into the body: to waste the night in gibing at a foolish medico. My actions continually testify that I naturally possessed what is after all the most essential asset for a Magician, in singular perfection. It came natural to me to despise and reject utterly, without a second's hesitation or regret, anything soever that s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…inite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited ; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the Serpent been aware o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
437 refused the water, so he dismounted to find out the reason. The taste told him at once that he had discovered an immensely rich deposit of alkali. His geomancy had not misled him; he had found mineral wealth. He proceeded to exploit his discovery and would have become a millionaire in short order had he not met with the opposition of Burnner, Mond & Co. On the other hand, his clairvoyance was hopelessly bad, so that he could not pass the examination for the Grade of Zelator of A.'. A.'. though in other points entitled to a much higher degre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…lappers on the front, playing chess or climbing Beachy Head. My chess was almost entirely book learning and I was very mush surprised to find myself the best player in the town. For although the local champion insisted on giving me pawn and more, I beat him so easily every time I met him that the odds might have been reversed without making much difference {93} to the result. I edited a chess column in the Eastbourne Gazette and made myself a host of enemies by criticizing the team. I wanted to arose enthusiasm, to insist on study and practice …
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…ch occurred in 1906. to-day Christianity is the irreligion of the materialist, or if you like, the sensualist; while in Paganism, we may find the expression of that ever-haunting love— nay, necessity !—of the Beyond which tor- tures and beautifies those of us who are poets. wavTa Kaapa rots Kafapots—and, while there is no logical break between the appa- rently chaste dogma of the Virgin Birth and the horrible grossness of R. P. Sanchez in his De Matrimonio, Lib. ii. Cap. xxi., “Utium Virgo Maria semen emiserit in copulatione cum Spiritu Sancto,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…ap showing the distribution of population, or a strategic map; and so on for ever. The student of the Tarot must not therefore expect to find anything beyond a careful selection of the facts about any given card, a selection made for a quite definite magical pur‐ pose. However, the Tarot does try to resume, in a single pictorial symbol, as many as possible of the useful aspects of the idea. In studying any card, one ought not to neglect any of the at‐ tributions, because each class of attribution does modify the form and colour of the card, and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
…eloped into a large lump of dough. She has caught his complaint, and divides her time between drunken orgies with any loose fish she can find, and passionate protestations that she is utterly pure. I really believe she persuades herself that the other half of her life does not exist. To me both extremes seem equally the debauches of an unbalanced and uncontrolled emotionalism. This view is confirmed by the fact that as she advanced in flabbiness, fat and the forties, she found it harder to attract men, and took to spasms of spiritualism. She ra…
1906 · PDF PAGE 280
…a formula to express all that a Man is. For example he might be: 10a + 33125 + 890¢ + 800112658e + 992/ + ww ween +... 2, and, if we can find the ratio ofa: 6:¢:d: e:fi......:n, we can resolve the equa- tion into a single term, and compare man and man. Myst. Y catch the idea. Fanciful as it of course is in practice, the theory is sound to the core. You delight me! Scept. Not at all, not at all. Further, I see that since the memory is a storehouse of limited capacity, it follows that he who can remember most is he who can group and generalise mo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 578
…ing complete knowledge of all matters magical, and command of all powers. Frater A V D wrote a criticism of this thesis to which I could find no error of any kind. There are not alive a dozen men today who could do as well. In practical Magick, he showed promise of the same order, though, of course, not having previously attempted any work of the kind, he had much to learn. Nevertheless, he progressed with astonishing rapidity. Within a fortnight, he was able to perform the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram sufficiently well to produce unmistak…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
…imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream? and ‘The Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste.” —The Daily Telegraph. “Here is a poet of promise.”—Zvhe Daily Chronicle. “Tt is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.” —The Morning Leader. “There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.”—The Times. To be obtained of PROBSTHAIN & CO. 41 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C. And all Booksellers
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
…imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream? and ‘The Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste.” —The Daily Telegraph. “Here is a poet of promise.”—Zvhe Daily Chronicle. “Tt is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.” —The Morning Leader. “There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.”—The Times. To be obtained of PROBSTHAIN & CO. 41 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C. And all Booksellers
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…es is worthy of the music of the Universe throughout Eternity. I have simply been led by my loyal Love of that strange Race among whom I find myself incarnate to indite this poor stanza of the infinite Epic of Harpocrates as being the facet of His fecund Brilliance which has refracted the most need ful light upon mine own darkling Entrance to His shrine of fulminating, of ineffable Godhead. I praise the luxuriant Rapture of Innocence, the virile and pantomorphous Ecstasy of All‐Fulfilment; I praise the Crowned and Conquering Child whose name is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…nesis. Mathers was behaving badly; he was sick of the whole business. Mrs. Emery, the nominal representative of the Chief, was trying to find a diplomatic solution. Her attitude was most serious and earnest and she was greatly distressed by her dilemma. She had thought it best to resign quietly, but received a reply of the most staggering character. The letter is dated February 16th, 1900, and I quote the last two paragraphs in full. Now, with regard to the Second Order, it would be with the very greatest regret both from my personal regard for…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…finite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence every where, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of way s. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the Serpent been aware…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…en them last week. He recalls no other room in the house except his own bedroom, and that only because he "came to himself" one night to find a fire lighted, a steam kettle going, a strange woman present, an atmosphere of anxiety and a feeling of fever; for he had an attack of bronchitis. He remembers his first governess, Miss Arkell, a grey-haired lady with traces of beard upon her large flat face and a black dress of what he calls bombasine, though to this hour he does not know what bombasine may be, and thinks that the dress was of alpaca or…