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Page 92 of 1061906 · PDF PAGE 223
AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM 217 the Serpent should be his at last. ‘* None for the fool,” they laughed back—nay, even his maiden queen. For she would not any should know thereof. Yet were all right, both he and they. But truth ran quickly about ; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Hammer of Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree bor. was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 224
… Father, Brethren, having attained the mature age of three hundred 1 Kether adds up to 620, 2 These are the letters of Ain Soph Aur, the last two of which he destroys, so as to leave only Ain, Not, or Nothing. 3 To (1+10+ 50) 3 x 2 he adds 300, Shin, the flame of the Spirit =6664. 4 666=:6x 111. 111=Aleph, the Ox. 5 His journeys as Initiator.
1905 · PDF PAGE 109
…Torn by the thunder and the bitter strife Of warring flames and tempest’s wrath, we came And flung ourselves within, and laid us down At last to sleep ; and Sleep, a veinéd shape Of naked stateliness, came down to us, And tenderly stooped down, and kissed our brows. 1 The Ménchjoch. 2 The Berglihiitte.
1919 · PDF PAGE 175
… that some time, when I can find the right person, it would be well to get him to record for me one of these experiences such as that of last night, during its occurrence; (1) providing I could speak without altering the state of consciousness; (2) providing I could find the neces- sary person. (No good. O.M.) Dec. 15th, 11.50 to 12.9 P.M. Astral Journey. On first trying to project astral it went rapidly off in a N.E. direction (Bad. O.M.) then described a curve to the North and so round twice, and became nor- mal again. Second attempt. Enclose…
1929 · PDF PAGE 431
…ite sufficient if the client is morally and mentally unstable from fear, credulity, anxiety, desire or even natural uncertainty --- this last being, of course, an evident condition of any serious consultation whatever. Give him something to work on and little by little one is bound to fall into his line of thought, after which it is child's play to turn every incident to advantage. The client will come away from the consultation convinced of the supernatural powers of the charlatan. From the beginning of my investigation of so-called psychical …
1905 · PDF PAGE 48
…s of rain. God! have Thou pity soon on this amazing pain. If but a lion stirred with distant roar The silence of the world, perchance at last I might find honey in his mouth, and store His tawny flanks until the sand were past.! Nay, but these wastes intolerably vast, Like glowing copper raging for the heat, Stretch and stretch on and leave me all achast Straining my eyes in horror and defeat Toward the long vista seen where rescue seems to greet, The vessel fills with brackish foam. I drink, Drink to the end, and stagger on alone Without a sta…
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
… forehead to the earth. Still just, Still patient, passionless, and proud, I ruled my heavy wrath. I passed That hidden insult: spake at last. I spake him fair. My memory held Him still a member of my folk ; A warrior might be bold of eld, My hardy spearman when we broke The flashing lines of Syrians. Yea! I spake him fair. Alas the day!
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…arly Fathers who assign the authorship to Cerinthus, and also the later German critics, who believe that the first three chapters and the last have been added by a later hand, and other portions altered to agree with the Scriptures held to be orthodox. Οι’ course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of Mr Pryse, but rather strengthens them, as I look upon the imagery of the book as essen- tially that of the earlier and pre-Christian Gnostics. Though we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the Gnosis, such as…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…arly Fathers who assign the authorship to Cerinthus, and also the later German critics, who believe that the first three chapters and the last have been added by a later hand, and other portions altered to agree with the Scriptures held to be orthodox. Οι’ course this, if it were so, does not effect in any way the views of Mr Pryse, but rather strengthens them, as I look upon the imagery of the book as essen- tially that of the earlier and pre-Christian Gnostics. Though we may not have absolute proof of the great antiquity of the Gnosis, such as…
1939 · PDF PAGE 30
…d so. "Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!" The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage. The injunction 'Sit still' is intended to include the inhibition of all bodily stimuli capable of creating movement in consciousness. The injunction 'Stop thinking' is the extension of this to all mental stimuli. It is unnecessary to discuss here whether the latter can exist apart from the former. It is at least…
1929 · PDF PAGE 318
…es the final formula to raise that consciousness in the Shivalingam, springing to his feet at the moment of uniting himself with it, and lastly uttering that supreme song of the initiate beginning: "I am He, the Bornless Spirit, having sight in the feet; strong and the Immortal Fire!" (Thus performed, the invocation means about half an hour of the most intense magical work imaginable --- a minute of it would represent the equivalent of about twelve hours of Asana.) Despite the distracting influence of the varied adventures described in the last…
1905 · PDF PAGE 204
…out from: yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, I know it in my soul, despite of this, The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kiss, This horror of great darkness. I am come Into this darkness to attain the light : To gain my voice I make myself as dumb: That I may see I close my outer sight : So, I am here. My brows are bent in prayer ; I kneel already…
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…Father, Brethren, having attained the mature age of three hundred 1 Kether adds up to 620. 2 These are the letters of Ain Soph Aur , the last two of which he destroys so as to leave only Ain, Not, or Nothing. 3 To (1 + 10 + 50) 3 × 2 he adds 300, Shin, the flame of the Spirit = 666. 4 666 = 6 × 111. 111 = Aleph, the Ox. 5 His journeys as Initiator. Griphus VIII. Griphus IX. Griphus X. Culpa Urbium Nota Terræ. Nechesh.
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
…T SPEAKS. Duy 1V. Vale VET) THE ( Proccdee to. LAY them together for the sake of Love Within a little plot of piteous earth, When life’s last flower is faded in the sun. Lay them together in the tender ground That summer showers may shed a trembling lear, And summer breezes whisper melodies Of pity. Lay them there, and when the sky Opens a lingering eyelash of deep cloud, And the sea sparkles out from under it To kiss the earth into awakening From the dream-slumbers that its fancies weave— ‘ancies Of starlight on the lucent sea Gleaming from wi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…st I lie there beneath a barren sea Forgotten of high God, until there went The final trumpet of the dead, who flee Vainly that fearful blast of judgment. is me! Woe My feet, in spite of me, in circles bend ; I meet my own tracks often, all in vain I seek some tower or cliff to make an end,! I find no object on the distant plain ; Misty distortions crowd upon my brain, And spectre fountains gurgle on the ground; I drop to drink, and hear the horrid strain Of chuckling devils, that grimace around, And think I catch the note of Hell’s three- head…
1905 · PDF PAGE 54
ISAIAH 47 We ride upon the fury of the blast, Fast, fast. We race upon the horses of the wind : The tameless thunder follows hard behind, Fast, and too fast. The lightning heralds us ; the tron blast Lends us its splendour fora steedfrre-shod, The steed of God! From all the caverns of the hollow sea, And all the fortresses that guard the air, And all the fearful palaces of fire, And all the earth’s dwarf-ridden secrecy, They come, they gather, and they ride, to bear Destruction and disorder and desire ; They cling to him who braves the gale of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX Sat., April 8th. During the last three days have gradually been nearing another ‘climax’ which reached, shall I say, its height on Saturday, when I arrived at a state of Illumination which was, as it were ‘added to my previous state.’ I seized a scrap of paper and wrote “Amid all the complications and perplexity there remains, back of all, the Will. The Will to Be. The Will to Be Nothing, which is the only state inconceivable to the mind. The old God willed to be some- thing, and the Universe appeared, The New God wills to be Nothin…
1919 · PDF PAGE 159
…ome new instructions. He wanted to know, what I meant by making a claim to having attained Samadhi, or something very like it, in August last, and then shortly afterwards started cutting my arm, etc. I have not answered it yet, but this much for reference: (1) I never mentioned Samadhi, 1Frater P.A. was not a Neophyte, but had been appointed to receive other Probationers for administrative convenience. This was a plain breach of the regulations of the Order, and the result was this comic letter. Frater P.A. was apparently under the impression t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 47
…His golden locks are burning on my eyes, And He with rosy finger points the way, The blood-wrought mystic path of Paradise That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vaults of the undying day.
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
AMBROSII MAGI HORTIS ROSARUM 83 the Serpent should be his at last. “None for the fool,” they laughed back—nay, even his maiden queen. For she would not any should know thereof. Yet all were right, both he and they. But truth ran quickly about; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to y ou, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time;…