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Page 78 of 951904 · PDF PAGE 44
…udden, and to carry or re-carry anything whither thou wouldest have it to go, or whence thou wouldest have it from. He can pass over the whole Earth in the twinkling of an Eye. He giveth a True relation of all sorts of Theft, and of Treasure hid, and of many other things. He is of an indifferent Good Nature, and is willing to do anything which the Exorcist desireth. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits. And this his Seal is to be worn, etc. (71.) Danration. —The Seventy-first Spiritis Dantalion. He is a Duke Great and Mighty, appearing in the For…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…as. Next, amid a cloud of angels bearing silver trumpets, came one[12] with great height of brow, and eyes of golden flashes. In him the whole heaven [228] rocked with harmonious music, and faint shapes formed up among the waves, like Venus born of ocean foam. They had not substance, like so many Iliel had seen; they were too great, too godlike, to be human. Not one was there of whom it could not be said "Half a woman made with half a god." And these, enormous and tragic, fiery, with wings and sandals of pure light, encompassed him and wooed hi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 170
…hange, i.e., of Love. The objection to Calypso, Circe, Armida, Kundry, and Co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their Gardens. The whole of the Book of the Dead is a device for opening the closed vehi cles, and enabling the Osiris to go in and out at his pleasure. On the other hand, there seems to be a Sealing Up, for a def inite period, in order to allow the Change to proceed undis turbed. Thus Earth lies fallow; the womb is closed during gestation; the Osiris is plugged with talismans. But it is vital to consider this as a strictly t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 266
…s one corporate molecule of space !— You from your perch judge, label, limit Him! Not that your corner is not equally The centre and the whole. Fool’s talk it is! Consider the futility of mind ! Realise utterly how mean, how dull, How fruitless is Philosophy ! ELIZABETH. Indeed My brain is baffled. But I see your point. Talking of God, even imagining, Insane! But for aspiring—that I will! TANNHAUSER. That is true marriage, in my estimate. Aspire together to one Deity? Yes! But to love thee otherwise than that? ELIZABETH. This one thing clearly …
1909 · PDF PAGE 264
…tolistes and Dadouchos. Once they pass round the temple in solemn procession: it is the foundation in Darkness of the Binah angle of the whole Triangle of the Ineffable Light. The Hierophant knocks once as they pass him, and the Hiereus does likewise, as the affirmations of Mercy and Vengeance respectively. A second time they pass the Hierophant affirming the commencement of the formulation of the angle of Chokmah. The Kerux then bars the Candidate’s passage to the West, saying : «Child of Earth! unpurified and unconsecrated! Thou canst not ent…
1909 · PDF PAGE 264
…tolistes and Dadouchos. Once they pass round the temple in solemn procession: it is the foundation in Darkness of the Binah angle of the whole Triangle of the Ineffable Light. The Hierophant knocks once as they pass him, and the Hiereus does likewise, as the affirmations of Mercy and Vengeance respectively. A second time they pass the Hierophant affirming the commencement of the formulation of the angle of Chokmah. The Kerux then bars the Candidate’s passage to the West, saying : «Child of Earth! unpurified and unconsecrated! Thou canst not ent…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
… subject. It is not enough to pretend that your wax image is the person you want to bewitch; you must make a real connexion. That is the whole art of magic, to be able to do that; and it is the one point that Frazer omits." The Countess was now heaving horribly, and emitting a series of complicated snorts. The Pasha [42] explained that this was "normal," that she was "waking up into the new personality." Almost before he finished, she had slid off her chair on to the floor, where she uttered an intense and prolonged wail. The men removed the ta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
… the most perfect example. But the defence of which the magicians were thinking was of a different order; the problem was to convert the whole place as it stood into an impregnable magical circle. For years, of course, the place had been defended, but not as against its present dangers. It had been hitherto sufficient to exclude evil and ignorant beings, things of the same class as Douglas' watcher; but now a far more formidable problem was in view, how to dissuade a Soul, a being armed with the imperial right to enter, from approaching. Demons…
1935 · PDF PAGE 10
…vection (Mercury, Sulphur, Salt; or Sattvas, Rajas, Tamas), with their corresponding natures on other planes. Thirdly, he must exert his whole power and authority to govern the Members of lower Grades with balanced vigour and initiative in such a way as to allow no dispute or complaint; he
1905 · PDF PAGE 260
…ching in very deed Impersonal existence ;—Lo! Man is made one with God, an equal soul. For he shall know The harmony, the oneness of the Whole. This task Vain, The Star of the Unconquered This was my purpose. Ah vain! Will Centred its vehemence and light, to stain In one successful strain The stainless sphere of the unchangeable, With its own passionate, desperate breath Ever confronting the dark gate of Death. I passed that gate! O pitiful! The same Mystery holds me, and the flame Of Life stands up, unbroken citadel, Beyond my sight, vague, fa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…our represented the four phases of the moon. This ceremony was performed thrice daily; but the intervals were fully occupied. During the whole of the twenty-five hours one or the other of the enchanters kept up their conjurations by spells, by music, and by dances. Every day witnessed some new [219] phenomenon, ever more vivid and persistent, as the imminence of the lunar world increased, and as the natures of the celebrants became more and more capable of appreciating those silvern vibrations. Cyril Grey alone took no active part. He represent…
1939 · PDF PAGE 58
YOGA FOR YELLOWBELLIES. THIRD LECTURE. Dear Children, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. You will remember that last week our study of Yoga had led us to the Fathers of the Church. We saw that their philosophy and science, in following an independent route, had brought us to the famous exclamation of Tertullian: "certum est quia ineptum!" How right the Church has been to deny the authority of Reason! 2. We are almost tempted to enquire for a moment what the Church means by 'faith.' St. Paul tells us that faith is 'the substance…
1943 · PDF PAGE 3
…ay perfect." Book of the Law, I, 44. To-day practically all men must realize that humanity has arrived at a cross road. Society over the whole earth is being rocked to its foundations, and change of great magnitude is facing all established human institutions. Years ago some few foresaw the approaching cataclysm, and a small minority saw the import thereof. In a poem written in 1900 and published in 1906, it is stated: "This is the birth hour of the age of gold, The false gold pales before the gold divine." And we read: "Perfection abideth not …
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…he kissed me, and we went on. He said: “Good little girl of mine, there’s many a one stays there all his life." I forgot to say that the whole place was just one mass of books, and
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
…s furious that it should be Sister Clara herself who had led her into this Sabbath, for another; and she was infinitely disgusted at the whole vile revel. Now she noticed that each pair of worshippers had newborn children in their arms; and they offered these to their god, who threw them instantly towards the centre of the web. Following up those cruel meshes, she beheld the spider itself, with its six legs. Its head and body formed one black sphere, covered with moving eyes that darted rays of darkness in every direction, and mouths that sucke…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…o a dreadful dark passage again, so narrow and low, that it was like a dirty old tunnel, and yet so vast and wide that everything in the whole world was contained in it. We saw all the strange dreams and awful shapes of fear, and really I don’t know how we ever got through, except that the Prince called for some splendid strong creatures to guard us. There was an eagle that flew, and beat his wings, and tore and bit at everything that came near; and there was a lion that roared terribly, and his breath was a flame, and burnt up the things, so tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…gically perfect. “Do what thou wilt” implies self-adjustment, so that failure cannot occur. One’s true Will is necessarily fitted to the whole Universe with the utmost exactitude, because each term in the équation a + b+c=0 must be equal and opposite to the sum of ail the other terms. No individual can ever be aught than himself, or do aught else than his Will, which is his necessary relation with his environment, dynamically considered. Ail error is no more than an illusion proper to him to dissipate the mirage, and it is a general law that th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…hover Above us, within us! Daintily shod, Daintily robed, His witcheries spin us A web of desire. Subtle as fire He cometh among us. The whole sky globed Is on fire with delight, Delight that hath stung us, The passion of night. Night be our mistress ! That tress and this tress Weave with thy wind Into curls deep-vined ! Passionate bliss ! Rapture on rapture! Our hymns recapture The Bromian kiss. Blesséd our souls ! Blesséd this even | We reach to the goals Of the starriest heaven. Daphnis, and Atthis, and Chrysis, and Chloe, Mingle, O maidens!…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…old where every thing is irrational and unthinkable. If you cut off a man's head, he dies. Why? Because it kills him. That is really the whole answer. Learned excursions into anatomy and physiology only beg the question; it does not explain why the heart is necessary to life to
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…body that lay supine in the cradle, with the moon [221] gleaming upon its bloodless countenance. No; she was rather the blue mist of the whole circle of enchantment, and her thoughts the sparkling dew- spirits that darted hither and thither like silvery fire-flies. And, as if they were parts of herself, she saw Sister Clara and her pages and her hand-maidens under the image of stars. For each was a radiant world of glory, thrilling with most divine activities, yet all in azure orbits curling celestially, their wake of light like comets' tails, …