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Page 76 of 1051954 · PDF PAGE 529
…unction as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and a close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick. We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering alway…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…rather timid grey eyes. Andrew saw the sly looks of the midshipman and one day went into his cabin and, stepping to his side with- out a word, gave him a fierce kiss, while his hand sought to awake desire in an even more direct manner. But the passing fancy of the boy had gone, and he rudely repulsed the advances of his would-be lover. Andrew, with great self-command, withdrew in silence. Next day, however, they were both called before the Captain, read a long lecture on the sin of pederasty and severely repri- manded. It was evident that Capta…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX Thus we find that “duality” in the East is synonymous with “a mere matter of words,”* and further, that, when anything is (or can be) described by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX Thus we find that “duality” in the East is synonymous with “a mere matter of words,”* and further, that, when anything is (or can be) described by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 83
…et intensity which should have made her irresistible; and yet she was absolutely devoid of what we call magnetism. It isn’t a scientific word—so much the worse for science. It describes a fact in nature, and one of the most important facts in practical affairs. Everything of human interest, from music-hall turns to empires, is run on magnetism and very little else. And science ignores it because it can’t be measured by mechanical instruments| The whole of the woman’s vitality was directed to some secret interior shrine of her own soul. Now she …
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…r no man attains the summit of an art in a day, he would build a superstructure by the deft introduction of parentheses, amplifying each word until the original coherence of the paragraph was diluted to such an extent that the true trail was undiscoverable. The effect upon his public was to impress them with the universality of his learning. Arthwait being thus well out of harm's way, Vesquit and Abdul set to work on the less arduous of the preparations. Four black cats were needed for the four points of the compass, and it was desirable to mas…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…ed attempt to decipher the jargon of Hermetic treatises. We need not enter upon an historical discussion. Let it suffice to say that the Word alchemy is an Arabie term consisting of the article “al” and the adjective “khemi” which means “that which pertains to Egypt” h A rough translation would be “The Egyptian matter”. The assumption is that the Mohammedan grammarians held traditionally that the art was derived from that wisdom of the Egyptians which was the boast of Moses, Plato, and Pythagoras, and the source of their illumination. Modem res…
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
…am? (Dial numbers at random: the results are often surprisingly delightful!) Besides, I didn't ask you to invoke a supersensible (what a word!! Meaning?) Being right away, or
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
48 KONX OM PAX from the nave to the chaps, and generally made a Grand Slam in Swords. Any one but a benighted Hindu would have declared Hearts and sent the girl across on a raft! Bones. I don’t see it, quite. Bowley. Nor do I. It’s the story, though. Bones. I suppose devotion to one’s profession is a form of Truth. But even if, as you say, it is often a question of courage and will, these are the very qualities which this truth telling stimulates. It’s a V.C. touch to reply to a lady who asks how her hat suits “ Not at all." Bowley. It seems to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 210
…he thing out to a finish. Basil was not moved by the savage spite of Peter. He refused to be provoked. Whenever he got a chance to put a word in, he simply asserted the purpose of his visit. He did not even take the trouble to deny the main accusation. It tired Peter to dash himself so uselessly against the cliff of Basil’s contempt. I don’t mean that it was contempt, either, but his calm kindness was bound to be felt as contempt because Peter couldn’t help knowing how well he deserved disdain. He was aware of the fact that his abuse became wea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…ll appreciate my story. Swear, then, he went on with sudden gravity, swear that you will never whisper to any living soul the smallest word of what I am about to tell you. Swear by the soul of your dead mother. My mother is alive, returned Bevan. I knew it, exclaimed his companion, a great and strange look of god-like pity illuminating his sunburnt face. It was such a look as one sees upon many statues of Buddha, a look of divine, of impersonal compassion. Then swear by the Lord Chancellor. Bevan was more than ever persuaded that the s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 312
…he Demiurge) and whose other angle is Chiah, the Masculine aspect of the self, which creates. (Chiah corresponds to Chokmah: Wisdom, the Word.) This divine consciousness is triune. In its essence it is absolute and therefore contains all things in itself, but has no means of discriminating between them. It apprehends itself by formulating itself through the postulation of itself as male and female, active and passive, positive and negative, etc. The idea of separateness, of imperfection, of sorrow, is realized by it as an illusion created by it…
1898 · PDF PAGE 75
NOTE. 71 of the written Qabalah, though, perhaps (a word to the wise is enough), truth lies hidden deeper yet in the ten volumes of that Qabalah which is unwritten, and which is only granted to those who by previous incarnations have fitted themselves for so sublime a knowledge. The brief sketch above will, however, make clear the Oath of the people and the Prayer of Jephthah, among other phrases which may seem at first sight less unin- telligible to ordinary analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. G…
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
… him to abandon this dangerous fallacy, and.to devote his undoubted genius to the task of becoming a great poet in the true sense of the word. He can do so if he will."—7he Cambridge Magasine. 8
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
… of BABALON, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its Lord and Lover! Also He made me a Magus, speaking through His Law, the Word of the new Aeon, the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. 2 Thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of Men. Yea, he wrought also in me a Work of Wonder beyond this, but in this matter I am sworn to hold my peace. 1. See the maps “Minutum Mundum” in the Equinex i, 2 & 3 and the general relations detailed in Liber 777, of which the most important columns are reprinted in Appendix V.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 40
…ny reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love," as you will understand when I come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event." But love has to be "under will" if it
1922 · PDF PAGE 84
…I feel that con- tact of any sort, even with myself, contaminates me. I was the chief of sinners in my time, in the English sense of the word. Now I’ve forgotten what love means, except for a faint sense of nausea when it comes under my notice. I hardly eat at all—it’s only brutes
1922 · PDF PAGE 355
…able to control my thoughts; and I was transported into a totally unfamiliar world. I did not exist at all, in any ordinary sense of the word. I was a mathematical expression in a complex scheme of geometry. My equilibrium was maintained by innumerable other forces in the same system, and what I called myself was in some mysterious way charged with a duty of manipulating the other forces, and these evaded me. When I strove to grasp them, they disappeared. My functions seemed to be to simplify complex expressions, and then to build up new comple…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…t, Von Kluck is bound to swerve East, right across our front — and we'll smash him!" "He couldn't risk such a crazy manoeuvre." "Mark my word, sir, he will." "And what do you suggest that I should do about it? Unofficially, Captain Grey, quite unofficially!" "Get ready to lam it in, sir — quite unofficially." "Well, sir, I congratulate you — on having talked the most amusing nonsense that I've heard since my last talk with General Buller! And now perhaps you had better report to Colonel Mavor as Intelligence Officer." The general's tone was con…
1954 · PDF PAGE 228
…I wonder if you remember a delightful passage in Anatole France where he interprets an "exalted" mystical statement, first by giving the words their meaning as concrete images, when he gets a magnificent hymn, like a passage from the Rig-Veda; secondly, by digging down to the original meaning, with an effect comical and even a little ribald. I fear I have no idea where to find it; in one of the "odds and ends" compilations most likely. So please, look somebody; you won't have wasted your time!) This has been put in a sort of text, because the f…