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Page 99 of 1061944 · PDF PAGE 22
…the representation of an ultimate Point, moves and begets active existence). There is now possible a concrete idea of the Point; and, at last it is a point which can be self‐conscious, because it can have a Past, Present and Future. It is able to define itself in terms of the previous ideas. Here is the number Six, the centre of the system: self‐conscious, capable of experience. At this stage it is convenient to turn away for a moment from the strictly Qabalistic symbolism. The doctrine of the next three numbers (to some minds at least) is not …
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…le : the smallest contributions will be thank- fully received. NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY 1. 1 fung outof chapel,\—Browning, Xmas five, III. last line. 3. Venus’ Bower and Osiris’ Crowley, Zannhduser, 5. God.3—Hebrew DYN, Gen. iii. s. 5. gods.4—Hebrew onde, Gen. iii. 5. The Revisers, seeing this most awkward juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by ‘‘God.” In other passages, however, they have been com- pelled to disclose their own dishonesty and translate ods by ‘‘ gods.” For evidence of this the reader may look up …
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…ristianity. Iota Omega Pi Alpha Nu ! But the matter does not end there. Official science, which can always be relied upon to discover at last what everybody has always known, has just proclaimed the fact that certain states of mind possess the property of performing what used to be called miracles, and that such states may be evoked by the constant repetition of formulae and similar practices. The whole of Eastern ceremonies, from the evolutions of dancing girls to the austerities of ascetics, have all been devised with the intention of inducin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…ng. That I show to my critics the open door of the above city of refuge may be taken as merely another gesture of contemptuous pity, the last insult which may lead my antagonists to that surrender which is the truest victory. PEACE TO ALL BEINGS. * Vide infra, ‘‘ Berashith.”’
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… old- fashioned chandeliers. He used this as a wand. One day, a party of theosophists were chatting sceptically about the power of the "blasting rod". Allan promptly produced his and blasted one of them. It took fourteen hours to restore the incredulous individual to the use of his mind and his muscles. 1. WEH Note: The modern reader should not be too much disturbed by this catalogue of patently illegal drugs. They were all legal until well into the 20th century. This approach to asthma was still followed in the last quarter of the 20th century…
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…layas. Like Keats, I stood in my shoes and I wondered; I wondered; I stood in my shoes and I wondered. Wondering made them no warmer. At last I thought of putting my hand on the sand. I snatched it back as if I had touched a red hot plate. The surface was colder than any ice I had ever known. At that moment we heard the coach and ran back. I dashed in, tore off my boots and spent the next quarter of an hour rubbing life back into my toes. So much for the superstition that the Sahara is a sweltering furnace. On clear nights the radiation is so r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 358
… Spain which holds its own with the rest of the world today is Barcelona, a notorious hotbed of infidelity and freemasonry. It is to the last degree unfortunate that these things should be connected in the minds of the unthinking with anarchy and other cults implying social disorder. Lord Morley was an atheist, Huxley an agnostic, and Edward the Seventh a freemason; but it would be hard to pick three men more genuinely enlightened or more truly conservative. From Pamplona it is three days' easy walking to Logrono. We left our hotel after dinner…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…y's beautiful barriers, iii, 67 Ege of the Slime ! Thy loose abortive lips, ii. 8 Enough. It is ended, the story, ili, 216 Ere fades the last red glimmer of the sun, i, 116 Ere the grape of joy is golden, i. 9 Even as beasts, where the sepulchral ocean sobs, i. 178 Even as the traitor’s breath, i. 148 Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! iii. 203 Exalted over earth, from hell arisen, i. 122 Exile from humankind, i. 118 Existence being sorrow, ii. 200 Exquisite fairy, flower from stone begotten, ili, 118 FAIRER than woman blushing at the kiss, i. 21 F…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…ck themselves. They hired and furnished a room at Cambridge for the purpose and proceeded to evoke various spirits. Nothing happened. At last one of the greatly daring extended his little finger outside the circle. He was not "slain or paralysed as if blasted by the lightning flash" and thence concluded that Magick was all rubbish. I offer this example to logic to the Museum of Human Imbecility, in the principal city of the Astral Plane. I understood perfectly well that Back and Kelly, having no capacity for Magick, were bound to fail either to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 112
…an be perceived, it has exper ienced the r esult of good or evil actions com mitted here and there; now this soul of m ine is permanent, lasting, eternal, has the inhe rent quality of never changing, and will contiue for ever and ever!’ “This, brethren, is called the walking in de- lusion, the jungle of delusion, the wilder ness of delusion, the puppet- show of delusion, the writhing of delusion, the fetter of delusion.” There are, it may be noted, only five ( not six) notions mentioned, unless we take the last as double. Or we m ay consider th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 100
AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY 93 being convinced on insufficient grounds.1 This is surely the last refuge of incompetence. But though, always on the original hypo- thesis of the infinity of s pace, &c., the Ad- vaitist position of the Vedantists and the great Germans is unassailable, yet on practical grounds the Dvaitists have all the a dvantage. Fichte and the others exhaust themselves trying to turn the simple and obvious posi- tion that: “If the Ego alone exists, where is any place, not only for m orals and religion, which we can very well do without…
1929 · PDF PAGE 383
…y often makes young Magicians forget that to dare must be backed by to will and to know, all three being ruled by to keep silence. Which last means many things, but most of all so to control oneself that every act is done noiselessly; all disturbance means clumsiness or blundering. The soldier may happen not to be hit as he carries his wounded comrade through the barrage, but there is no luck in Magick. We work in a fluid world, where every moment is compensated at once. Light, sound and electricity may be shut out, and so the effects of human …
1929 · PDF PAGE 367
…ng both true and false, but also neither true nor false. To perceive an object in this manner implies that the observer has attained the last possible degree of spiritual development which permits any positive point of view soever. Such a man is but one step from the threshold of Arahatship. He has only to destroy this conception of things, as is done in this four-fold formless state, to attain the trance Nerodha-Sammapatti, in which all being and form is absolutely annihilated, so much so that the trance is only distinguishable from Nibbana by…
1929 · PDF PAGE 570
…come to tea the next day. I found her in a curious state. She had lost most of the wholesomeness and health which she had enjoyed when I last saw her. She knew she was going downhill and in danger of stumbling and pitching over the cliffs in the dark. She clung to spiritual aspirations as her only hope and told me her experiences. They resembled Jane's for the most part, but certain incidents were indubitably evidential of genuine communication with intelligences of a very high order of initiation. Her trouble was that she lacked the means of d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 544
…tion and nonchalance were inexpugnable. She went from bad to worse during the following months, but I maintained firm correctness and at last she gave up trying to drag me down to her ignoble ideal. In the depths of her despair there grew a glimmer. She began to understand that love was not necessarily accompanied by meanness, falsehood, callousness and selfishness. Beholding beauty afar off, she staggered stumblingly up the ragged rocks towards the light, and in the end cast off the chains of selfish lust and became a free and happy woman, as …
1944 · PDF PAGE 72
…ped under the generic term Alchemy, have never been made public. The interesting point is that all developments of modern science in the last fifty years have given intelligent and instructed people the opportunity of reflecting that the whole trend of science has been to return to alchemical aims and (mutatis mutandis) methods. The secrecy observed by the alchemists was made necessary by the power of persecut‐ ing Churches. Bitterly as bigots fought among themselves, they were all equally concerned to destroy the infant Science, which, as they…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…elf in control. He became a reckless cyclist and motorist, but he was nervous for a long while with automobiles unless at the wheel. The last event of this period occurred at a railway station. He remembers its general appearance and that of the little family group. A porter, staggering under a heavy trunk, slid it suddenly off his back. It missed crushing the boy by a hair's breadth. He does not remember whether he was snatched away, or anything else, except his father's exclamation, "His guardian angel was watching
1929 · PDF PAGE 488
…hey know to get out somehow, somewhere. West of the twin cities, even towns become rarer and each is more transient and inhuman than the last. The vastness of nature and the stupendous strength of her elemental forces have cried in vain. They move no man to wonder or admiration. He goes about his ant-like work with hurrying intentness, incapable of seeing or hearing anything not directly bearing on the problems that preoccupy him. Nobody reads, nobody thinks. When anyone does, they make short work of him. Not until one crosses the Rockies is th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 221
…ove between us grew to the utmost possibilities of passion without my suspecting it. The Kellys had acquiesced in the fait accompli. The last little splutter was a letter from the Rev. Frederick Festus demanding that I should settle ten thousand pounds on Rose. I might have done so had it not been for his pompous statement that the daughters of his house never married without a settlement. Considering that the very one whom I married myself had had no settlement at her first marriage, the lie was a little blatant, even for a clergyman. I replie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 493
… told me at once, and I have every reason to believe that the letter I wrote to Putnam's is treasured in the archives of the firm as the last word in savage contempt. So ended my adventures with these fascinating freaks. I must now run back to New Orleans. {776} 78 New Orleans and San Antonio are said to be the only two towns in the United States which possess souls of their own. That of New Orleans was already being driven out under my eyes, and I dare say that by this time the work of destruction is complete. Probably San Antonio has shared i…