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Page 82 of 1051930 · PDF PAGE 43
…y real meaning. If a man in delirium tremens fell into the Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as “truth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less than…
1954 · PDF PAGE 509
…subject from the yellowest of yellow newspapers , magazines and novels. So darkly deep is their ignorance that they do not know what the word means-like us so often, yes? Wide sections of the U.S.A. are scared of tea and coffee. They blench when you point out that bicarbonate of soda is a drug just as much as cocaine; at the same time they literally shovel in the really dangerous Aspirin , to say nothing of the thousand Patent Medicines blared at them from every radio - as if the Press were not enough to poison the whole population! they gasp w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…! 20. And woe also be unto Him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a Magus, and the burden of the Attainment thereof. 21. And in the word CHAOS let the book be sealed, yea, let the Book be sealed. — 424 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
… you use are very indefinite . I hope it will not take too long to get you out of the way of thinking in these terms. For instance , the word "initiation" includes the whole process, and how to distinguish between it and enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if you like, try to work out a progress of Osiris through Amennti on the Tree of Life, but I dou…
1996 · PDF PAGE 181
…n trust to brittle bone that hinders thee from growth? Let every man bear arms, swift to resent oppression, generous and ardent to draw sword in any cause, if justice or freedom summon him! “all fools despise.” In this last phrase the word “fools” is evi dently not to be taken in its deeper mystical sense, the context plainly bearing reference to ordinary life.
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
… of English, of mathematical and philosophical conceptions, of poetic splendour and intense passion, while concealing in the letters and words a complex cipher involving the knowledge of facts never tili then existing in any human mind, and depending on the control of the arm of the scribe, though He thought Fie was writing consciously from dictation; and to weave into a single pattern so many threads of proof of different orders that every type of mind, so it be but open and just, may be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 93
…nergies) determined in space by his relations with his neighbours, and in time by his relations with himself. It is evidently “a foolish word” for Hadit to say “Come unto me”, as did Nuit naturally enough, meaning “Fulfill thy possibili ties”; for who can “come unto” Motion itself, who draw near unto that which is in very truth his innermost identity?
1929 · PDF PAGE 527
…" "True," he answered, "there is an R at the end." The answer struck me in the midriff. One theory of the name is that it represents the words Beta alpha phi eta mu eta tau epsilon omicron sigma , the baptism of wisdom; another, that it is a corruption of a title meaning "Father Mithras". Needless to say, the suffix R supported the latter theory. I added up the word as spelt by the Wizard. It totalled 729. This number had never appeared in my Cabbalistic working and therefore meant nothing to me. It however justified itself as being the cube of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…is sun-whitened skeleton. II, A dainty lady sick of simple life, Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man, Put on her jewels, off the word of wife, Resolved to play the painted courtesan, So ran along the village path. Her laughter Wooed all the world to follow tumbling after. III. Then when she met the venerable monk Her shamelessness desired a_ leprous wreath Of poisonous flowers, seducing him. He shrunk Back from her smile, seeing her close white teeth. Bones ! he exclaimed, and meditating that, From a mere Bhikkhu grew an Arahat. IV. Her…
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
…s, the Hzerophant explains to the Practicus the truncated Pyramid : This pyramid is attributed to the four elements ; on its apex is the word my (Ath) composed of the first and last letters of the Alphabet, it signifies Essence. The square base represents the material universe. And then the Seventeenth Key of the Tarot : This Key represents a Star with seven principal and fourteen secondary rays, altogether twenty-one, the number of the divine name Eheieh. In the Egyptian sense it is Sirius, the Dog-Star, the star of Isis-Sothis. Around it are …
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
…s, the Hzerophant explains to the Practicus the truncated Pyramid : This pyramid is attributed to the four elements ; on its apex is the word my (Ath) composed of the first and last letters of the Alphabet, it signifies Essence. The square base represents the material universe. And then the Seventeenth Key of the Tarot : This Key represents a Star with seven principal and fourteen secondary rays, altogether twenty-one, the number of the divine name Eheieh. In the Egyptian sense it is Sirius, the Dog-Star, the star of Isis-Sothis. Around it are …
1954 · PDF PAGE 146
…e Master of the Temple find neither star nor moon. And I was about to answer him: "The light is within me." But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation . Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is my name and desolation. Intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. I said, …
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
…e Sangral; yea also upon himself did he accomplish his Work in the End: Hochsten Heiles Wunder! Erlosung dem Erloser! This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, o my son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the opening of the Way that leadeth unto theCrown and Essence of all, to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Æon. This Way is the Path of the Pure Fool. Amoun. o
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
…e: we under- stand ! [Zhe soldier slips on the marble floor, and lies groaning. AMENHATEDP. See that due silence greets catastrophe ! No word from now without command of mine. [Szlence. Then grows a notse of men jighting, Gc. ; above this after a while rises a shrill laughter, terrify- tng to hear. Then cries of victory and the triumphant laugh of a great conqueror. Hts heavy step, and that of his staff, Gec., ts next heard com- ing masterfully dowit the corridor. | Lhe soldier gives a shriek. THE LEPER. The Syrian must not see a cur like this …
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…d, a most fortunate event. The children weigh 46 Ibs, between the three of them. All boys! SIR GRABSON J. Good! Good! failing—ha ! But a word in your ear. No chance of heirs This morphia? Sirk HERPES Z. Not a sign of relapse, old friend, and never will be now. Sir Percy is as sound a man as lives in England—I took four other opinions. SIR GRABSON J. None as weighty as your own. Six HlErRpss Z. You are polite, very polite. Where Carruthers ?
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…pect. The reader should also consult Konx Om Pax, “Introduction”, and “Thien Tao” in the same volume. Ail this is to be expressed in the words of the ritual itself, and symbolised in every act performed. II It is said in the ancient books of Magick that everything used by the Magician must be “virgin”. That is: it must never hâve been used by any other person or for any other purpose. The 1. It is the extension in matter of the Individual Self, the Indivisible Point determined by reference to the Four Quarters. This is the formula which enables…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…of how Magick Works. But the above practical programme may be a fiasco. One might then resort to Magick in the conventional sense of the Word, by constructing and charging a Pantacle appropriate to the object; this Pantacle should then cause a strain in the Astral Light such that the vibrations would compel some alien consciousness to restore equilibrium by bringing the book. Suppose a severer and more serious aim; suppose that I wish to win a woman who dislikes me and loves somebody else. In this case, not only her Will, but her lover’s must b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. This need not be a Chemical substance at ail in the ordinary sense of the Word. The Elixir of Life will similarly consist of a living organism capable of growth, at the expense of its environment ; and of such a nature that its “true Will75 is to cause that environment to serve it as its means of expression in the physical world of human life. The Universal Medicine will be a menstruum of such subtlety as to be able to penetrate ail matter and transmute it in the sense of its own te…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all_ occasions, «‘civie Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. « . "American Register, _‘.. Many beautiful passages in the volume... strange allusions to unpleasant gods, and the imagery is occasionally repellent ‘ . " sche fremendous conception of that ‘world so wide’ . .. at his best in some of the shorter poems . . « stirring ‘rhythm. ° HIS swe linger with delight over the splendid line— “The murmurous so…
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
…nk he is a friend of Mr. Percy's, sir. PERCY [alarmed]. It might be my father. [Asade.] And I could have finished to-night—the very last word. Something has been singing in me all day. VAUGHAN. I will come and speak to him. [Aatt. The votces are heard outside. BRANDON [stout, purple, ‘‘ knobbed,” and tdi-tempered). Either I see my son now, or I fetch in a policeman. idnapper! Yes, sir, that’s what I call vou! Yes, sir! my name zs Brandon. And your damned name is Vaughan, sir! And I'll drag your damned name through a police-court, sir, as soon a…