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Page 96 of 1061906 · PDF PAGE 236
…d; ‘that about the Characteristics is very clever; and curiously enough, my perception of this has always just preceded my death for the last six goes.’ ‘¢ Well, so long, old chap,’ said Gautama, ‘I must really be off. I have an appoint- ment with Brother Mara at the Bo-Tree. He has promised to introduce his charming daughters , ‘“*Good-bye, and don’t do anything rash !’ ‘Rejoice! our Lord wended unto the Tree !2 As blank verse this scans but ill, but it clearly shows what happened. XI. ‘©The ‘Nineteenth Mahakalpa’ brought out its April Number.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…arry on the business, though he has substituted a pompous, turgid rigmarole of bombastic platitudes for the neophyte ritual, so that the last spark of interest is extinct for ever. Mathers, of course, carried on; but he had fallen. The Secret Chiefs cast him off; he fell into deplorable abjection; even his scholarship deserted him. He published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put and end to his long misery. He was a great man in his way. May he have expiated his errors and resumed his labours, with the advantage of exper…
1929 · PDF PAGE 441
441 As freemasonry has been "exposed" every few minutes for the last century or so, and as any layman can walk into a masonic shop and buy the complete Rituals for a few pence, the only omissions being of no importance to our present point, it would be imbecile to pretend that the nature of the ceremonies of Craft masonry is an any sense a "mystery". There is, therefore, no reason for refraining from the plain statement that, to anyone who understands the rudiments of symbolism, the Master's degree is identical with the Mass. This is in fact th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 398
…pressed when the officers circumambulate the temple and the audience are picked at random, one by {636} one, to join the procession, the last to do so being reminded, "Thou also must die!"
1904 · PDF PAGE 94
…o and acros s each other, s o that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- lasting, saith Adhou Bim Aram, the Arab. O Elmen Zata, our Sophic Pilaster ! Further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. Further, he beheld a cavern full of most ancient bones of men, and therein a lion with the voice of a dog. Then came a voice: “Thirteen1 are they, who are one. Once is a oneness : twice is t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 18
…layman, it ought to be evident that balance and fitness are essential to any perfection, and the elucidation of these two tangles in the last 150 years is undoubtedly a very remarkable phenomenon. SUMMARY OF THE QUESTIONS HITHERTO DISCUSSED 1. The origin of the Tarot is quite irrelevant, even if it were certain, It must stand or fall as a system on its own merits. 2. It is beyond doubt a deliberate attempt to represent, in pictorial form, the doctrines of the Qabalah. 3. The evidence for this is very much like the evidence brought forward by a …
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet’s work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” — Publishers’ Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?” Well, Mr Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering n…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet’s work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” — Publishers’ Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?” Well, Mr Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering n…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…t under stand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night! “This is that which is written: ‘O my God, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many!’ For she is Love, and her love is one; and she hath divided the one love into in‐ finite loves, and each love is one, and equal with The One, and therefore is she passed ‘from the assembly and the law and the enlightenment unto the anarchy of solitude and darkness. For ever thus must she veil the brilliance of Her self.’ “O Babylon, Babylon, thou mighty Mo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…n providing a witness --- like the witnesses against Naboth! Then the witness and his story, as smooth as a policeman's. Next, sentence. Last, execution, with intervals of prayer! Champney's physique being impaired, one may suppose by his excessive devotion to Jesus, he arranged to give sixty strokes one day and sixty the next. My memory fails --- perhaps Barton will one day oblige with his reminiscences --- but I fancy the first day came so near to killing him that he escaped the second. I remember one licking I got --- on the legs, because fl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 490
…had ever met magically. The suggestion was of a putrefying and entirely bloodless flesh, as if a cannibal had sucked out its life to the last drop and flung it away. Her disciples corresponded. They moved about limp and listless, corpse-pallid, with the eyes of dead fishes. I got out of the cesspool without wasting time, but even so I had to pay for my imprudence. San Diego possessed one most attractive feature. It is within a short motor ride of the frontier of Mexico. One comes to a town, Tia Juanta, which thrives on refugees from righteousne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…est of mankind were doomed to eternal punishment. One card --- a great favourite, as being peculiarly deadly --- was headed "Poor Anne's Last Words"; the gist of her remarks appears to have been "Lost, lost, lost!" She had been a servant in the house of Edward Crowley the elder, and her dying delirium had made a deep impression upon the son of the house. By the way, Edward Crowley possessed the power, as per Higgins, the professor in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, of telling instantly from a man's speech what part of the country he lived in. It was …
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
…to go a little into the magical doctrine of the succession of the Aeons, which is connected with the procession of the Zodiac. Thus, the last Aeon, that of Osiris, is re‐ ferred to Aries and Libra, as the previous Aeon, that of Isis, was especially connected with the signs of Pisces and Virgo, while the present, that of Horus, is linked with Aquarius and Leo. The central mystery in that past Aeon was that of Incarnation; all the legends of god‐men were founded upon some symbolic story of that kind. The essential of all such stories was to deny …
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…e avail to call me forth.2. ‘Slay me my enemy!’ howled the wretch. But. Mara. trembled. ‘Enquire of Ganesha concerning him!’ faltered at last the fiend. ‘¢ Jehjaour awoke. IV. _6Ves!’ said Ganesha gloomily, ‘the young man has given me up altogether. He tells me I am as mortal as he is, and he doesn’t mean to worry about me any more.’ ‘Alas!’ sighed the deceitful Jeh- jaour, who cared no more for Ganesha and any indignities that might be offered him than his enemy did. ‘One of my best devotees too!’ muttered, or rather trum- peted, the elephanti…
1906 · PDF PAGE 269
…ubject—O bless our divided middle !—for thine own venerable Yoni. Aum !” S. I am touched by your eloquence; but Science has not said its last word on Saba- paty Swami and his application of Prana- yama to the aberrations of the evolutionary retrocessions—flexomotor in type, yet sensorial in function—of the Sahasrara-Chakra, as you urged yesterday. fe , AM. I will not press it. But in the so- affected ambulatory vibrations (as I must insist, and you practically agreed) of the lower chakras may yet be found to lie the solution of our primordial d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…o a priori reason for doubting the existence of such beings. We have long been acquainted with many discarnate forces. Especially in the last few years science has been chiefly occupied with the reactions, not {397} merely of things which cannot be directly perceived by sense, but of forces which do not possess being at all in the old sense of the word. Yet the average man of science still denies the existence of the elementals of the Rosicrucian, the angels of the Cabbalist, the Nats, Pisachas and Devas of southern Asia, and the Jinn of Islam,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…wn by the mind, is therefore to conceive of the Point as built up of these previous nine successive developments from Zero. Here then at last is the number Ten. In other words, to describe Reality in the form of Knowledge, one must postulate these ten successive ideas. In the Qabalah, they are called “Sephiroth”, which means “Numbers”. As will be seen later, each number has a significance of its own; each corresponds with all phe‐ nomena in such a way that their arrangement in the Tree of Life, as shown in the diagrams (pp. 266, 268, 270), is a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
…t in sensible experience by impinging upon the senses, crystallising out in a fourth element which they call “Earth”, represented by the last letter of the alphabet, Tau. This, then, is another quite different interpretation of the idea of the Daughter, which is here considered as a pendant to the Triangle. It is the number Ten suspended from the 7, 8, 9 in the diagram. These two interpretations must be kept in mind simultaneously. The Qabalists, devis‐ ing the Tarot, then proceeded to make pictures of these extremely abstract ideas of Father, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…some way or other the host’s own fault. The party that he planned was just a little bit above his capacity; perhaps he lost heart at the last moment. The Eight of Swords is called Interference. At first sight, it would seem easy to confuse it with the Eight of Cups; but the idea is, in reality, quite different. The card is attributed to Jupiter and Gemini; accordingly, there is no weighing down of the will by internal or external stress. It is simply the error of being good‐natured when good‐nature is disastrous. Gemini is an airy sign, an inte…
1944 · PDF PAGE 179
…generation of the element. Its utmost weakness is exposed in every case. The Seven of Wands is called Valour. Energy feels itself at its last gasp; it struggles des‐ perately, and may be overcome. This card brings out the defect inherent in the idea of Mars. Patriotism, so to speak, is not enough. The Seven of Cups is called Debauch. This is one of the worst ideas that one can have; its mode is poison, its goal madness. It represents the delusion of Delirium Tremens and drug addiction; it represents the sinking into the mire of false pleasure. …