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Page 75 of 951929 · PDF PAGE 126
…ity• The bond which unités him with that elemental is love; and, though it is only a small part of the outfit of the magician, it is the whole of the outfit of the elemental. He will, therefore, suffer intensely in case of any error or misfortune occuring to his protégée. This feeling is rather peculiar. It is quite instinctive with the best men. They 1. Yet it might happen that the Will of the other being was to invite the Magician to indwell its instrument. 2. Bspecially on the subject of the Wand or the Disk. 3. This is the magical aspect of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…ution. A leader of temperament and intuition might have rushed that tenuous line. Still, science was as sure as it was as slow — and the whole army knew it. They prepared to die as expensively as possible, with simplicity of manhood. They had not yet heard that Press and Pulpit had made them the laughing-stock of the world by the invention of the ridiculous story of the "Angels of Mons." [323] Lord Juventius Mellor was something of a hero-worshipper. From Simon Iff he would have taken any statement with absolute respect, and Grey's remark had b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 145
…. But we do care that each shall fulfil its Function, and the Failure of even a few Cells, or their Revolt, may involve the Death of the whole Organism. Yet even here the Com plaint of a few, which we call Pain, is a Warning of general Danger. Many Cells fulfil their Destiny by swift Death, and this being their Function, they in no wise resent it. Should Hsemoglobin resist the Attack of Oxygen, the Body would perish, and the Haemoglobin would not thereby save itself. Now, o my Son, do then consider deeply of these Things in thine Ordering of t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
…This State must be endured with fortitude; and no means of alleviating it may be employed. It may be broken up by the breaking up of the whole Method, and a return to the world without. This cowardice not only destroys the value of ail that has gone before, but destroys the value of the Oath of Fealty that thou hast sworn, and makes thy Will a mockery to men and gods. 28. Concerning the Feceftions of the Devil. — Note well that in this State of dryness a thousand séductions will lure thee away; also a thousand means of breaking thine oath in sp…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
YOGA FOR YAHOOS FIRST LECTURE. FIRST PRINCIPLES. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is my will to explain the subject of Yoga in clear language, without resort to jargon or the enunciation of fantastic hypotheses, in order that this great science may be thoroughly understood as of universal importance. For, like all great things, it is simple; but, like all great things, it is masked by confused thinking; and, only too often, brought into contempt by the machinations of knavery. (1) There is more nonsense talked and written abo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 143
144 The Law is for All Obviously, the whole idea of exercise, mental or bodily, is to develop the involved organs in a manner physiologically and psychologically proper. It is deleterious to force any faculty to live by an alien law. When parents insist on a boy adopting a profession which he loathes, because they themselves fancy it; when Florence Nightin gale fought to open hospital windows in India at night; then the Ideal mutilates and murders. iii:60 Every organ has “no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Its law is determined by the history o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
… because He has matched his Will against that of the world, having undertaken the Work of a Magus to establish the Word of is Law on the whole of mankind. He will succeed, without doubt; but He hardly expects to see more than a sample of His product during His présent incarnation. But He refuses to waste the least fraction of His force on Works foreign to His Work, however obvious it may seem to the onlooker that His advantage lies in commanding stones to become bread, or otherwise making things easy for Himself. These considérations being thor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
…he subtler speed Of its own thought than speech of the Pan- dean reed! There no voice may be heard ! No place for any word ! The heart’s whole fervour silently speeds to thee, Immaculate ! and craves Thy kisses or the grave’s, Till, knowing its unworthiness to woo thee, Remembers, grows content With the old element, And asks the lowlier grace its earlier music meant. So, Lady of all power! Kindle this firstling flower The rainbow nymph above the waterfall Into a mortal shade Of thee, immortal maid, That in her love I gather and recall Some memo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…e were to wake up in a boat on a strange river, it would be rash to conclude that the direction of the one reach visible was that of the whole stream. It would help very much if one remembered the bearings of previous reaches traversed before one’s nap. It would further relieve one’s anxiety when one became aware that a uniform and constant force was the single déterminant of ail the flindings of the stream: gravitation. We could rejoice “that even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.” Liber Thisarb describes a method of obtaining th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…bias their judg¬ ment. Magical pupils should be trained on similar lines. They should be made to work alone from the first, to cover the whole ground impartially, to devise their own experiments and draw their own conclusions. 201
1996 · PDF PAGE 57
…with a dustpan and brush! He could only obtain relief (before trying to sleep) by being rubbed with oil of wintergreen, which filled his whole house with a loathsome stench. One would have thought that the first wish of a man thus afflicted would be to sleep alone, that it would be utterly repugnant and revolting to him to sleep with another person, for his own sake, apart from any consider ation for her. But his wife, herself an invalid—a huge obese greasy woman (of middle age when I knew the family) suffer ing from rheumatoid arthritis, tub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
… the base of their skulls. They were extraordinarily light and active on their feet, [193] and the tails kept up a lashing movement. The whole effect was comic, at the first sight; one might have said tadpoles on stilts. But a closer inspection stayed her laughter. Each of these creatures had a single eye, and in this eye was expressed such force and energy that it was terrifying. The effect was heightened by the sagacity, the occult and profound knowledge of all possible things, which dwelt behind those fiery wills. In the carriage of the head…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…into continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of “Love” under “Will” as shewn by MPN = 40 + 3 + 50 = 93 ArAIlH, 0EAHMA etc., and the whole word has the value of 100, Perfection Perfected, the Unity in completion, and équivalent to KP the conjuncticn of the essential male and female principles. 2. The “normal” intellect is incapable of these functions; a superior faculty must hâve been developed. As Zoroaster says: “Extend the void mind of thy soûl to that Intelligible that thou mayst learn the Intelligible, because it subsisteth beyond Mind…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…he mogician himself considérée! as the microcosm. The microcosm is an exact image o£ the Macrocosm; the Great Work is the raising of the whole man in perfect balance to the power of ïnfinity. The reader will remark that ail criticism directed against the Magical Hierarchy is futile. One cannot call it incorrect — the only line to take might be that it was inconvénient. In the same way one çannot say that the Roman alphabet is better or worse than the Greek, since ail required sounds can be more or less satisfactorily represented by either; yet …
1906 · PDF PAGE 83
… My blind eyes burned into her mild ones: limbs Twined to each other while fine dew bedims Their quivering skins: lip fastened unto lip: Whole soul and body frenzied meet and clip; And the breath staggers, and the life- blood swims ! Terrible gods chant black demoniac hymns As the frail cords of honour strain and slip. For in the midst of that tremendous tide The mighty vigour of a god was mine! Drunk with desire, her lamentations died. The dove gave place a moment to the swine ! Rapturous draughts of madness! Out she sighed Uttermost life’s lo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…ror of the universe”; and, so far as any one can tell, nothing exists outside of this mirror. It is at least convenient to represent the whole as if it were subjective. It leads to less confusion. And, as a man is a perfect microcosm,1 it is perfectly easy to re-model one’s conception at any moment. Now there is a traditional correspondance, which modem experiment has shown to be fairly reliable. There is a certain natural connexion between certain letters, words, numbers, gestures, sliapes, perfumes and so on, so that any idea or (as we might …
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
… I have brought all that is to an end; for myself am sufficient and sole. Do I trick myself now? Shall I rend once again this homologous Whole? I have stripped every garment from space; I have strangled the secret of Time, All being is fled from my face, with Motions inhibited rime. Stiller and stiller I sit, till even Infinity fades; Tis an idoltis weakness of wit that breeds, in inanity, shades! Yet the fullness of Naught I become, the deepest and steadiest Naught,
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ut a word. Only a cheque. You shall have half to-morrow when I've cashed it." "Come here at noon. Despite the obvious degradation of his whole being, S.R.M.D. was still somebody. He was a wreck, but he was the wreck of something indubitably big. He had not only the habit of command, but the tone of fine manners. In his palmy days he had associated with some very highly placed people. It was said that the Third Section of the Russian Police Bureau had once found a use for him. "Is the Countess at home?" asked Balloch, apparently in courtesy. "Sh…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…not been since the beginning of the world; and by the name Aponat, which Moses named, and there came up locusts, which appeared upon the whole land, and devoured all which the hail had left; and by the name ScHEMA AMATHIA which Ioshua called upon, and the sun stayed his course; and by the name AtpHa and Omeca, which Daniel named, and destroyed Bel, and slew the Dragon; and in the name EMMANUEL, which the three children, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, sang in the midst of the fiery furnace, and were delivered; and by the name Hacios; and by th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…nconscious psychical pro- cesses’ is for us an empty conception”; and so, on the strength of this assertion, he attempts to work out the whole of his argument empirically. This he does rationally enough, as we might expect from a professor of Jena; but in spite of the cunning of his logic and the lucidity of his numerous “becauses,” he, in the end, is as inconclusive as Wundt or any of the modern psychologists. Finally he explains nothing, or, to be charitable, very little, and in spite of his assertion, ‘Our thoughts are never voluntary,” we a…