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Page 89 of 1301996 · PDF PAGE 209
…among the Kings. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76. 4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX 24 89 RPSTOV A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…obscure is traceable more particularly to the utter mystery man saw in this supreme function , and also , that all hygienic laws being unknown to him , any disease resulting from the act was attributed indirectly to the woman -instead of to his own want of know ledge - and directly to the supernatural manifesting its wrath through her as a medium ; for the super natural to primitive man's understanding invariably took the shape of malevolent and not benevolent powers . This and the periodic functions of the woman , as well as , as Westermarck s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…Oh, my thoughts, my lofty thoughts,” he went on, “you shall to-night be seques- tered from the world of your enemies !” I should like to know, dear unknown being to whom my winged friend will bring this letter, what you would have done in my place! How was I to escape? There was cer- tainly not the slightest doubt that the man was a lunatic. Now, as it happens, lunatics have always been exceedingly interesting to me. Here was a case for my curiosity. This fellow, thought I, must have deceived the vigilance of his guardians, and I shall find no …
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…Oh, my thoughts, my lofty thoughts,” he went on, “you shall to-night be seques- tered from the world of your enemies !” I should like to know, dear unknown being to whom my winged friend will bring this letter, what you would have done in my place! How was I to escape? There was cer- tainly not the slightest doubt that the man was a lunatic. Now, as it happens, lunatics have always been exceedingly interesting to me. Here was a case for my curiosity. This fellow, thought I, must have deceived the vigilance of his guardians, and I shall find no …
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
…justice, but he lacked that rectitude of heart which the intelligence ot faith gives. Voltaire could not admit faith, because he did not know how to love. The spirit of charity did not reveal itself to that soul which had no tenderness, and he bitterly criticized the hearth of which he did not feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would …
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
…justice, but he lacked that rectitude of heart which the intelligence ot faith gives. Voltaire could not admit faith, because he did not know how to love. The spirit of charity did not reveal itself to that soul which had no tenderness, and he bitterly criticized the hearth of which he did not feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, and one would be obliged to fall on one’s knees before the heroism of his courage. Voltaire would …
1922 · PDF PAGE 79
A Heroin Heroine 65 “ Please let’s forget the past,” smiled Lou, taking my arm. I don’t know why I should have felt embarrassed at explaining that we were married. Feccles rattled off a string of congratulations. “‘ May I introduce Mademoiselle Haidée Lamoureux? ” The girl beside him smiled and bowed. Haidée Lamoureux was a brilliant brunette with a flashing smile and eyes with pupils like pin-points. She was a mass of charming contradictions. The nose and mouth suggested more than a trace of Semitic blood, but the wedge-shaped contour of the f…
1898 · PDF PAGE 19
…m his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. For me Forsake thy hopes in him ! We worship, we, Rather the dear delights we know and hold ; The first cool kiss, within the water cold That draws its music from some bubbling well, Looks long, looks deadly, looks desirable, The touch that fires, the next kiss, and the whole Body embracing, symbol of the soul, And all the perfect passion of an hour. Turn to me, pluck that amaranthine flower, And leave the doubtful blossoms of the sky ! You dare not kiss me ! dare not draw you nigh Lest…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
…their enemy, for my fleece is white and warm, and my teeth are not the teeth of one that teareth flesh; and mine eyes are mild, and they know me not the chief of the lying spirits that the Father of all sent forth from before his face in the beginning. (His attribution is salt; the wolf mercury, and the raven sulphur.) 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 g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 415
…fty chosen ones in the highest. ... (V.50) The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. ... (cap. III, v.42) These "blind" ordeals presumably refer to such tests of fitness as that of which we have been telling. In the ancient mysteries it was possible to appoint formal ordeals. A young man would go into the Temple to be initiated and he would know perfectly well that his life might depend on his proving him…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…am’s Eye. And upon a map of the stars shalt thou draw the sigil of that name; and because also some of the letters are alike, thou shalt know that the stars also have tribes and nations. The letter of a star is but the totem thereof. And the letter repre- senteth not the whole nature of the star, but each star must be known by itself in the wisdom of him that hath the Cyno- cephalus in leash. And this pertaineth unto the grade of a Magus,—and that is beyond thine. (All this is communicated not by voice, or by writing; and there is no form in th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 126
…e great schools of the Magi, who are also the three Magi that journeyed unto Bethlehem; and because thou hast not wisdom, thou shalt not know which school prevaileth, or if the three schools be not one. For the Black Brothers lift not up their heads thus far into the Holy Chokmah, for they were all drowned in the great flood, which is Binah, 124
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
… burning cheeks, the bitten lips !) whose hidden fire shall kindle the great blaze ? How talk with thee, whose quickened hearing has not known him creep ever closer, yet afraid to touch thee, has not heard the rushing of his heart, the shortening of his breath ? How talk, if thou have not felt one trem- bling foot seed thine, one hand steal near thee and yet nearer ? Till thou feel the tremor of his body ; till his hot breath stir thine hair ! Why, neither thou nor I can tell of that swift attack (is it a minute or an hour ?) when without word …
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
…rience. “ My son ! ” replies the good man “ favoured of Heaven ! You have had a vision of the realms of Paradise.” He naturally wants to know how to get back, and the Mullah reiterates the well-known blessing on those who die, slaying infidels, and further indicates such and such a Sahib — who has probably made himself obnoxious to the faithful in some way — as a suitable person to attack. Lord Curzon however very wisely met this manoevre by ordering the cre- mation of murderers of this type. If the body of a Musselman is burnt he cannot go to …
1911 · PDF PAGE 75
…ust of light. I am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. But upo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
…this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow the will of that higher nature, which he does not yet know, but which he desires to find. In obeying the will of the master, instead of following the one which he believes to be his own, but which is in reality only that 01 his lower nature, he obeys the will 01 his own higher nature with which his master is associated for the purpose of aiding the disciple in attaining the conquest over himself The conquest of the higher self over the lower self means the victory…
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
…this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow the will of that higher nature, which he does not yet know, but which he desires to find. In obeying the will of the master, instead of following the one which he believes to be his own, but which is in reality only that 01 his lower nature, he obeys the will 01 his own higher nature with which his master is associated for the purpose of aiding the disciple in attaining the conquest over himself The conquest of the higher self over the lower self means the victory…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow the will of that higher nature, which he does not yet know, but which he desires to find. In obeying the will of the master, instead of following the one which he believes to be his own, but which is in reality only that of his lower nature, he obeys the will of his own higher nature with which his master is associated for the purpose of aiding the disciple in attaining the conquest over himself. The conquest of the higher self over the lower self means the victo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow the will of that higher nature, which he does not yet know, but which he desires to find. In obeying the will of the master, instead of following the one which he believes to be his own, but which is in reality only that of his lower nature, he obeys the will of his own higher nature with which his master is associated for the purpose of aiding the disciple in attaining the conquest over himself. The conquest of the higher self over the lower self means the victo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 146
…e for others to share his experience. Since however he finds it impossible to explain it in words, he recognises that he must obtain the knowledge of some definite System of producing the state scientifically, but since he is not even a Neophyte of the A..A..., he won- ders if They will recognise him as qualified to demand the right to know and spread Their teachings. He determines in any case to reduce the wants of the Ego as a separate being as far as possible, by forgetting self in his efforts to do all he can for others according to the Lig…