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Page 87 of 1731961 · PDF PAGE 180
…ng heavy in Spirit, make Question of her, saying: To what End? And at this was she confounded and brought into Bewilderment; but after a great While, fumbling in her Mind, made Answer, like a Scarecrow in a Field, so was it for Rags and Tatters of Thought. Thus yet more Atrabilious and Sluggard was this Liver of thy Father, so that I fell into a Gloom night unto Weeping. Then she beholding me with Amazement cried upon me hus: Art thou not glad in Heart, o my Master? At this I gave a Sigh even as one night unto Death. And She: if this be so, the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
… its organisation, are sadly in need of repair; research must be done, men must be perfected, error must be fought. And if,in the West a great Buddhist society is built up of men of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lies, there is then an awakening, a true redemption, of the weary and forgetful Empires of the East. X THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH. To return from our little digression to the original plan of our essay. It is time to note the ‘‘ Noble Eightfold Path,” referred to, and its consideration deferred, in Sec- tion III. In this…
1929 · PDF PAGE 398
…e. She is Isis and Mary, Istar and Bhavani, Artemis and Diana. But Artemis is still barren of hope until the spirit of the Infinite All, great Pan, tears asunder the veil and displays the hope of humanity, the Crowned Child of the Future. I throw myself no bouquets about these Rites of Eleusis. I should have given more weeks to their preparation than I did minutes. I diminished the importance of the dramatic elements; the dialogue and action were little more than a setting for the soloists. These were principally three; myself, reciting appropr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 170
IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH I SAW in a trance or a vision the web of the ages unfurled, flung wide with a scream of derision, a mockery mute of the world. As it spread over sky I mapped it fair on a sheet of blue air with a hurricane pen. I copy it here for men. First on the ghostly adytum of pale mist that was the abyss of time and space (the stars all blotted out, poor faded nenuphars on the storm-sea of the infinite :) I wist a shapeless figure arise and cover all, its cloak an ancient pall, vaster and older than the skies of night, and b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
… and they were just like anybody else’s, only dirtier. Poverty and paralysis were his crimes, I warrant ye, my masters! Anyway, it was a great joke, and I made a splendid Arabian Tale of it. Read it! was the chorus. Which he did. THE MOSQUE BEWITCHED AN aged sorcerer there dwelt within the town of Marrakesh The fangs of Hell in life who felt twitching his soul out through the flesh. Though not originally had his moral ruin was complete: His pious parents said he had the devil’s claw-marks on his feet.
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…ST. JOHN 12.45. one’s body. So, too, I think, for the highest spiritual work ; for that Work extends from Malkuth to Kether. Here is the great value of the rationalistic Eastern systems. [P.S. Of course scientifically worked with pencil, note-book, and stop-watch. The Yogi is usually in practice just as vague a dreamer as the mystic] They keep one always balanced by common sense. One might go off on lines of pleasing illusion for years, until one was lost on the ”Astral Plane.” All this, observe, is very meaningless, very vague at the best. What…
1911 · PDF PAGE 152
…s manage to find trouble I " "Miss Pendragon will be out of the hospital in four days,” began Edgar in explanation. “Lucky dog!” said the great man. “ But the funny thing is that 1 am in trouble too.” I am sorry.”? 0111װ ”I wonder if you could help. It’s this way. Sometimes I twiddle my thumbs so—we call that the plus direction: and sometimes so—the minus direction. Now I lost count years and years ago; and so whichever way I twiddle, I may be getting further and further from equality. Then how—I ask you l—may man attain to the Universal Equilib…
1911 · PDF PAGE 152
…s manage to find trouble I " "Miss Pendragon will be out of the hospital in four days,” began Edgar in explanation. “Lucky dog!” said the great man. “ But the funny thing is that 1 am in trouble too.” I am sorry.”? 0111װ ”I wonder if you could help. It’s this way. Sometimes I twiddle my thumbs so—we call that the plus direction: and sometimes so—the minus direction. Now I lost count years and years ago; and so whichever way I twiddle, I may be getting further and further from equality. Then how—I ask you l—may man attain to the Universal Equilib…
1912 · PDF PAGE 23
…“morals.” We should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to investigate with perfect freedom from bias the phenomena which occurred to these great leaders of mankind. There is no difficulty in our assuming that these men themselves did not understand clearly what happened to them. The only one who explains his system thoroughly is Buddha, and Buddha is the only one that is not dogmatic. We may also suppose that the others thought it inadvisable to explain too clearly to their followers ; St. Paul evidently took this line. Our best document will ther…
1919 · PDF PAGE 340
… similar treatises. But as it is better than ‘genuine,’ be- ing, like ‘The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz,’ the forgery of a great adept, one cannot too confidently refer it thus. For the ‘Seven Worlds’ are not Buddhism. 23. If thou would’st learn their names, then hearken, and remember. The name of the first Hall is IGNORANCE— Avidyé. It is the Hall in which thou saw’st the light, in which thou livest and shalt die. These three Halls correspond to the Gunas: Ignorance, Tamas; Learning, Rajas; Wisdom, Sattvas. Again, Ignorance corre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
… THREEFOLD NATURE, HER FOURFOLD PHASES, AND HER EIGHT-AND-TWENTY MANSIONS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE CLIMAX OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, BUT ESPECIALLY OF THE VISION OF ILIEL THE Ancients, whose wisdom is so much despised by those who have never studied it, but content themselves with a pretence of understanding modern science which deceives nobody, would have smiled to observe how often the "latest discoveries" are equivalent to some fancy of Aristotle, or some speculation of Heracleitus. The remoter Picay-universities of Ame…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
Introduction 5 that first letter of the first ode was Aleph, the second of the second Ba, the third of the third Jim, and so on ! I take great credit to myself for the fact that with only six transpositions my provisional order became that of the poet. THE POEM Abdullah el Haji flourished in circa 1600 A.D., well after the classic era of Persian poetry. But his style is highly praised by competent judges, though the older school regret the way in which he has broken away from tradition in : (a) the introduction of coarse expressions. (b) the un…
1911 · PDF PAGE 154
…en Sephardi pointing—blasphemers! And here! don’t you blaspheme, youngfeller my lad. You’ve got a good woman: make the most of her." " A great woman, perhaps.” “A good woman. In the next siege of Paris I hope I shall not have to boil your head; I prefer thick soup. A good woman. A sister of the Silver Star, my good goat] ” "I do not understand, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?" “ I? You? This is intolerable. Give m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 154
…en Sephardi pointing—blasphemers! And here! don’t you blaspheme, youngfeller my lad. You’ve got a good woman: make the most of her." " A great woman, perhaps.” “A good woman. In the next siege of Paris I hope I shall not have to boil your head; I prefer thick soup. A good woman. A sister of the Silver Star, my good goat] ” "I do not understand, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?" “ I? You? This is intolerable. Give m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 11
…of explosion: and all is shattered. And I saw above me a Vast Arm reach down, dark and terrible, and a voice cried: I AM ETERNITY. And a great mingled cry arose: “No! no! no! All is changed; all is confounded; naught is ordered: the white is stained with blood: the black is kissed of the Christ! Return! Return! It is a new chaos that thou findest here: chaos for thee: for us it is the skeleton of a New Truth!” I said: Tell me this truth: for I have conjured ye by the Mighty Names of God, the which ye cannot but obey. The voice said: Light is co…
1912 · PDF PAGE 25
…and redeemed, Arthur Edward Waite. It is intituled, Εῤοῤ! 311?-?!ששחש1, “ St. Leger’s Eve”; Part II, “ Moral Certainty”; Part III, " The Great Oath " ; Part IV, “ First Paces on the Path "; Part V, “Three spheres of Gold” ; ?311 VI, “The Initiate‘s Pledge "; Part VII, “ Beneath the Seat " ; PartVIII, “The Maker of the Book”; Part IX, ”Some Sixty—fold"; Part X, “The Bier”; Part XI, “ The Bier” (cmlz'nued); Part XII, “The Bier" (mniz'nued); Part XIII, “Blue Robes”; Part XIV, “The Dark Night”; Part XV, “Before the Accusers"; Part XVI, “The Assesso…
1912 · PDF PAGE 25
…and redeemed, Arthur Edward Waite. It is intituled, Εῤοῤ! 311?-?!ששחש1, “ St. Leger’s Eve”; Part II, “ Moral Certainty”; Part III, " The Great Oath " ; Part IV, “ First Paces on the Path "; Part V, “Three spheres of Gold” ; ?311 VI, “The Initiate‘s Pledge "; Part VII, “ Beneath the Seat " ; PartVIII, “The Maker of the Book”; Part IX, ”Some Sixty—fold"; Part X, “The Bier”; Part XI, “ The Bier” (cmlz'nued); Part XII, “The Bier" (mniz'nued); Part XIII, “Blue Robes”; Part XIV, “The Dark Night”; Part XV, “Before the Accusers"; Part XVI, “The Assesso…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
42 This Magical Will is the wand in your hand by which the Great Work is accomplished, by which the Daughter is not merely set upon the throne of the Mother, but assumed into the Highest.^ The Magick Wand is thus the principal weapon of the Magus; and the name of that wand is the Magical Oath. The will being twofold is in Chokmah, who is the Logos, the word; hence some have said that the word is the will. Thoth the Lord of Magic is also the Lord of Speech; Hermes the messenger bears the Caduceus. Word should express will: hence the Mystic Name …
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
… to enter into combination, but prevents the remaining twenty-one per cent, from doing so. Enthusiasms are checked; the intellect is the great enemy of devotion. One of the tasks of the Magician is to manage somehow to separate the Oxygen and Nitrogen in his mind, to stifle four-fifths so that he may burn up the remainder, a flame of holiness. But this cannot be done by the Sword. H
1919 · PDF PAGE 227
ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS 11. (Yet in view of the great objects of the Order, endow- ment is welcome.) 12. Every Brother shall show himself solicitous of, the comfort and happiness of any Brother who may be old, at- tending not only to all material wants, but to his amusement, so that his declining years may be made joyful. FIFTH HOUSE 13. Every Brother shall seek constantly to give pleasure to all Brethren with whom he is acquainted, whether by entertainment or conversation, or in any other manner that may suggest itself. It will frequently and nat…