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Page 78 of 821944 · PDF PAGE 41
…y some accident. But they thought that a superior type of person, by dint of searching, study and experiment, might acquire this general power. A per‐ son still more advanced in this science could get into real connection with the superior, be‐ cause subtler, forms of Life. He could perhaps cause them to manifest themselves to him in material shape. A good deal of this rests upon the Platonic ideology, which maintained that any mate‐ rial object was an impure and imperfect copy of some ideal perfection. So men who wished to advance in spiritual…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…such as adorned old- fashioned chandeliers. He used this as a wand. One day, a party of theosophists were chatting sceptically about the power of the "blasting rod". Allan promptly produced his and blasted one of them. It took fourteen hours to restore the incredulous individual to the use of his mind and his muscles. 1. WEH Note: The modern reader should not be too much disturbed by this catalogue of patently illegal drugs. They were all legal until well into the 20th century. This approach to asthma was still followed in the last quarter of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
406 turn is its own all-sufficient witness by virtue of its power to express itself in beauty. "Beauty is truth; truth, beauty" has thus a precise logical meaning; it is not merely a poetical fancy. Our appreciation of a sonnet and a syllogism is aroused by identical qualities in our nature. The same principle applied to each impression produces reactions whose interrelation is necessary. It is not merely a matter of taste to prefer Rembrandt to Dana Gibson. It implies a corresponding perception of scientific and philosophical problems. When me…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…i. 166 First word of my song, ili, 131 Fivefold the shape sublime that lifts its head, ili, 150 Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power ! ili, 159 Floating in the summer air, ii. 2 For, at first, this practice leads, ii. 176 Forged by God's fingers in His furnace, ii. 63 For our God is as a fire, 1. 68 For the web of the battle is woven, i. 74 Fraught with the glory of a dead despair, iii. 59 Fresh breath from the woodland blows sweet, i, I17 Fresh in the savage vigour of the time, iii. 117 From darkness of fugitive thought, iii. 127 Fro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…cupy s pace and to exist, his formula would then be X 0. This expression is equal to 1; whatever X may represent, if it be raised to the power of 0 (this meaning mathematically “if it be extended in no dimension or category”), the result is Unity, and the unknown factor X is eliminated. This is the Advaitist idea of the future of m an; his personality , bereft of all qualities, disappears and is lost, while in its place aris es the im personal Unity, The Pleroma, Parabrahma, or the Allah of the Unity-adoring followers of Mohammed. (To the Musul…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
96 proper means, we can induce him to do for us those things which are consonant with his nature and powers. The whole question is, therefore, one of practice; and by this standard we find that there is no particular reason for quarrelling with the conventional nomenclature. At this time I had not worked out any such apology for the theories of transcendentalism. I took everything as it came and submitted it to the test of experience. As it happened, I had no reason at any time to doubt the reality of the magical universe. I began my practical …
1906 · PDF PAGE 258
… The con- sciousness phenomenon, and the bliss, is of so stupendous and well-defined a nature that I cannot imagineany preconceived idea power- ful enough to diminish it appreciably. But for the sake of the former class I hold my tongue.’ I trust it is now perfectly clear, if my statements are accepted—and I can only 1 On the advisability of so doing I am open to conviction. ‘The scientific mind, I might argue, will not readily fall into that error; and for the others, they will be useless as a research phalanx, and may as well see blue pigs an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 261
… Western Science that we look. Your achievements have shattered the battle-array of dogma and despotism; your columns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false meta- physic and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. The battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the Vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in Buddha’s hand; we are your brothers. But in the race of intellect we have fallen behind a little; will you tak…
1929 · PDF PAGE 544
…passed masterpiece! This ignorant untrained {858} nursemaid had analysed herself so deeply and accurately, had dramatized her tragedy so powerfully, and had expressed her experiences in intense and emphatic language, eked out by metaphors derived from direct observation, that this record is more pitilessly truthful than Marie Bashkirtseff at her best; the stark savagery, the naked cruelty of her passions, is no less fierce than anything in Wuthering Heights. She had plumbed the bottmless pit of damnation and ravaged the heights of heaven with r…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
…hur.) “Now the Lamb grows small again, there is again nothing but the wheel, and the hand that whirleth it. “And I said: ‘By the word of power, double in the voice of the Master; by the word that is seven, and one in seven; and by the great and terrible word 210, I beseech thee, O my Lord, to grant me the vision of thy Glory.’ And all the rays of the wheel stream out at me, and I am blasted and blinded with the light. I am caught up into the wheel. I am one with the wheel. I am greater than the wheel. In the midst of a myriad lightnings I stand…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…trologer. (He prophesied, observe, that it would become like "the courts where Jamshyd glorified and drank deep", and so it did!) But my power to feel had been definitely dulled by the expedition. Hardship and sickness had temporarily exhausted my vitality. A queer token of this and the only one. My beard was at this time a mixture of red and black in almost equal proportions. I shaved to go to Europe; and when I let it grow again, all the red hairs had become perfectly white. I left Bombay on the fourth of October, by the poor old Egypt wrecke…
1906 · PDF PAGE 286
…and- ing-out,’ éx-crag.s, quasi-spasmodic, of a special tract of the brain as, if persisted in, involves the risk of a permanent loss of power, almost in the end a paralysis of the other tracts. —Like other bad habits, it grows by what it feeds on, and may put the fine and complex co-ordinated machinery quite out of gear. The
1929 · PDF PAGE 555
…oly Guardian Angel, and presented him with a copy of the manuscript for use in his operation. I entitled it Liber Samekh. It is the most powerful and exalted of all my magical instructions. I think he was helped not a little, not only by the ritual itself, but by the feeling that I had sufficient care for him --- he suffered from humility --- to devote myself so passionately to making his path plain. One result of this Retirement is astounding from the point of view of the profane. The Spirit of the Lord descended upon him and opened his eyes t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 502
…aze and gloat. He brought everyone he knew to look at it. And even artists famous for their classical refinement had to admit its grisly power. In short, the dead souls conquered the city and their Queen their creator. She came like Balchis to Solomon, bringing gifts, an endless caravan of fascinations. Innumerable elephants groaning under the treasury of virtues, while in her own slim-fingered hands, she brought her heart. Before her coming the concubines covered their faces and fled. We found almost at once a splendid studio on the south side…
1929 · PDF PAGE 336
… ... Such are some of the sensations described by Aleister Crowley in his quest for the discovery of his Relation with the Absolute. His power of expression is extraordinary; his kite flies, but he never fails to jerk it back to earth with some touch of ridicule or pathos which makes it still an open question whether he will excite that life-giving animosity on the part of Public Opinion which, as we have hinted, is only accorded to the most dangerous thinkers. I was enormously encouraged by this article. I knew how serious my purpose was. She …
1929 · PDF PAGE 322
…f the Book of Job. I quote the entry in full, concealing only the name of the Order. At Kobe. A.'. fair only; though I invoked all these powers of mine. Yet after, by a strong effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my surroundings, and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which a cruciform table was spread, a naked man being nailed thereto. Many venerable men sat around, feasting on his living flesh and quaffing his hot blood. These (I was told) were the adepts, whom I might one day join. This I understood to mean that I should…
1929 · PDF PAGE 424
… he resumes his aspiration to the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, with whose reappearance he perfects his Magical Powers so that he is ready to undertake the Work of annihilating the universe, which, being done, he becomes a full Master of the Temple. LIBER DLV. This is a paraphrase of the instructions given in The book of the Law for attaining Hadit. LIBER DCCCXXXI, The Book of Vesta. This book describes three main methods of reducing the multiplicity of thoughts to one. (The magical method is to banish ceremonially the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 204
…8 THE SWORD OF SONG all the maddest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. But always to the very end his power is un- exhausted, immense, terrible. His delirium does not amuse; it appals! A man whocould conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of Boundless Love, That this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. He might have been so great! He missed Heaven! ‘Think kindly of him! 169. Correctly rhymes.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…ree-masonry. My Cabbalistic knowledge being already profound by current standards, he thought me worthy of the highest initiation in his power to confer; special powers were obtained in view of my limited sojourn, and I was pushed rapidly through and admitted to the thirty-third and last degree before I left the country. I had also a certain amount of latitude granted by Mathers to initiate suitable people in partibus. I, therefore, established an entirely new Order of my own, called L.I.L.: the "Lamp of the Invisible Light". Don Jesus became i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 245
…t impossible to formulate mentally. As to an infinite intelligence, all. philo- sophers of any standing are agreed that all-love and all-power are incompatible: The existence of the universe is a standing proof of this. | The Deist needs the Optimist to keep him company; over their firesides all goes well, but it is a sad shipwreck they suffer on emerging into the cold world. This is why those who seek to buttress up religion are so anxious to prove that the universe has no real existence, or only a temporary and relatively unimportant one; the…