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Page 80 of 1141930 · PDF PAGE 80
…rs of the Sphinx much has been written. * 1 Wisely they hâve been kept in the forefront of true magical instruction. Even the tyro can always rattle off that he has to know, to dare to will and to keep silence. It is difficult to Write on this subject, for these powers are indeed comprehensive, and the interplay of one with the other becomes increasingly évident as one goes more deeply into the subject. But there is one general principle which seems worthy of spécial emphasis in this place. These four powers are thus complex because they are th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 383
…t mean globe-trotting; and privacy, less attainable every year as the Meddlesome Matties invade every corner of life. But this is by the way; the text , tenor and thesis of the illuminated and illuminating discourse is the above Epigram, which is not merely one of the extravagant absurdities for which I am justly infamous. It is the Pearl of Great Price. Observe that , formally it is a generalization of the principle of the old injunction "to buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without haggling." I want you to realize the supreme importance of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…sense to keep secret. Now whatever their own peculiar genius may select as their line, they will realise that nothing is possible in any way while the accursed system stands. Their first duty is Revolt. And presently some one will come along with the wit and the will and the weapon, and blow the whole most damnable bag of tricks sky-high. We had better busy ourselves about this while it is still possible to get back to freedom without universal bloodshed. "All right, Master, you win! Now give us your own idea of Utopia." An Utopia to end Utopia…
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
…at hover, Light gathered in sheaves Blind air that obeys, Of tenderest fears I come to thee over ' As dayspring enweaves The mountainous ways My soul into spheres— As a bride to the bridegroom: I blush, but] I hear, and I nestle upon thee, O lyrist I come supreme, And bow to thee dumb. Light loves in a dream. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. O blacker than hell, Child of sweet rain, © bluer than heaven, O fathered of frost ! O green as the dell Bitterest pain Lit of sunlight at even ! The birth of thee cost. © strong as a spell! Passion is slain O bright as t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…treading the enamelled turf ; and ere I know it a fierce lithe hairy body has gripped mine, and the dread wand of magic shudders it live way into my being, so that the foundations of my soul are shaken. The heavy breath and the rank kisses of a faun are on my neck, and his teeth fasten in my flesh — a terrible heave flings our bodies into mid- air with the athletic passion that unites us with the utmost God — “ hid ’i th’ middle o’ matter ” — and the life of my strange lover boils within by bo- wels — there is a ronronnement as of myriad nymphs…
1922 · PDF PAGE 78
…e I had finished recognising him, he had shaken hands with me and was prattling about the old days. “T hear you’re Sir Peter now, by the way,” he said. “Good for you. I always picked you for a winner.” “T think I’ve met you,” interrupted Lou. “ Surely, it’s Mr. Feccles.”’ “Oh, yes, I remember you quite well. Miss Laleham, isn’t it?”
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
…y. The conviction of Michael Angelo that his work was the most important thing in the Renaissance was not quite sane, even although in a way time has justified his belief. That is what is wrong with the majority of vaccina- tionists and anti-vaccinationists and vegetarians and anarchists and the “ irascible race of seers ’’ in general, that they over-play their hands. However right they are in their belief, and in thinking that belief important, they are wrong in forgetting the equal or greater importance of other things. The really important t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 62
…t the wrong window of the Bank. There may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when Leonardo da Vinci found his masterpiece fade away. The force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut.) 4. The first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions. (Illustration: The most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own True Will, or of the means by which to fulfil that Will. A man may fancy himself a painter, and wast…
1996 · PDF PAGE 120
…made the last ten years memorable. 1 [Rejected, scoffed at.] 33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! Commentary: This is the only way to deal with reason. Reason is like a woman; if you listen, you are lost; with a thick stick, you have some sort of sporting chance. Reason leads the philosopher to self-contradiction, the statesman to doctrinaire follies; it makes the warrior lay down his arms, and the lover
1922 · PDF PAGE 72
…is mate. I wanted her to adore me for my little scraps of knowledge; the fragments I had picked up inmy .- abandoned education. Lou is always practical; and she puts something of the priestess into everything she does. There was a certain solemnity in the way in which she took up the heroin on the blade of a knife and put it on to the back of her hand. “My Knight,” she said, with flashing eyes, “ your Lady arms you for the fight.” And she held out her fist to my nostrils. I snuffed up the heroin with a sort of ritualistic reverence. I can't ima…
1935 · PDF PAGE 16
…examine the evidence at their disposal. This paper has been written not only with the object of at- tracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A-. A.. as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the law, love under will. O.M.7° == gO A.A Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalu, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° Virgo and the Moon in 14° Pisces.
1938 · PDF PAGE 23
… our Brother the Master whose Word is Thelema, whose Name is yet hidden under the form of a Lion. For it was most needful to prepare His Way that He might proclaim His Law in every land that is upon the surface of the Earth. And this work has been done by the Society founded to that end by our Sister. Yet even so, behold! Full Fifty years have passed, and only now is the hour of Power come upon our Brother the Lion to utter His Word with full efficacy to the whole Earth. Now was he silent and my spirit was sore troubled; my face darkened, for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 236
…to Latin!-worth, or-no, it's really too difficult. Of course, sometimes it has a "bad" meaning, as of temperature in fever; but nearly always it implies a condition preferable to "low. " Applied to the 'self, it becomes a sort of trade name; nobody tells me if he means Khu, or Ba, or Khabs, or Ut of the Upanishads, or Augoeides of the Neo-Platonists, or Adonai of Bulwer-Lytton, or-here we are with all those thrice-accurs't alternatives. There is not, cannot be, any specific meaning unless we start with a sound skeleton of ontogenic theory, a we…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…welve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. I set him right way up and he came out of this trance. He was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. But he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by Pranayama. There is no doubt whatever about this phenomenon; it is quite common. But the yogis claim that the lateral motion is due to lack of balance and that if one were in perfect equilibrium one would rise directly in the air. I hav…
1922 · PDF PAGE 281
First Aid 267 We drove back to London, and had tea on the way in a cottage where the people seemed to know our friends very well. It was kept by a little old man and his wife who had the air of being family retainers. The cottage stood well away from the road in grounds of its own. Two mighty yew trees stood one on either side of the gate. Lala told us that the place belonged to the Order of which King Lamus was the head, and that he occasionally sent people down here for certain parts of his training which could only be carried out in solitude…
1922 · PDF PAGE 318
…make the buttered toast. You sit down and talk and make your plans for honey- moon number eight, or whichever it is. And don’t get in my way, because I’m going to be a very busy man. In fact, it’s rather lucky that I’ve acquired the habit of starting for three years’ trips around the world at three minutes notice.” ‘It was half an hour before tea was ready. Lou and I sat on the sofa, shaken and sore by what we had
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
principles whose interplay învolves different orders of idea connected with each other in a way beyond our présent compréhension. (Illustration: We are able to light cities by rule-of-thumb methods. We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular action ; what electricity is or how it is connected with the machines that generate it; and our methods dépend on calculations involving mathematical ideas which hâve no correspondence in the Universe as we know it. *) (12) Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and p…
1954 · PDF PAGE 175
…is very true. See The Book of the Law , Chapter 1:44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose , delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect . This, from a practical point of view, is one of the most important verses in the book . The unusual word unassuaged is very interesting. People generally suppose that 'will' is the slave of purpose, that you cannot will a thing properly unless you are aiming at a definite goal. But this is not the case. Thinking of the goal actually serves to distract the mind. In these few words is included the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 219
…equent misadventures-won't he laugh when he reads this! But there are other senses: l'amour de l'oreille may refer not only to Othello's way of snaring Desdemona, but subtleties of timbre in the voice ... Yes, yes, you say impatiently, but there isn't any miracle about all this in the ordinary sense of the word. True, but why the devil do you want me, so long as you're getting what you need? Just being childlike, I suppose! No? Merely that you can explain such matters to yourself well enough. All right; on to No.2. Shall we look at levitation f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…e merely as an instru- ment without any thought of the event. By thus doing there is no sin.” This is sound Rosicrucian doctrine, by the way. * “ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika,” pp. 5,6. Note the similarity of these conditions to those laid down in “The Book of the Sacred Magic,” Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” p. 33. 75