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…s the brand of lust, In the eyes the blaze of bliss! Life, the pimp of malice, drags Love with rape of fingers rude, Flings to dust-heap death the rags Of its bleeding maidenhood. Therefore, we, the slaves of love, Stand with trembling lips and eyes; There is that shall reach above The soul’s sullied sanctuaries. Blasphemy beneath our touch Turns to prayer’s most awed intent; The profaner’s vilest smutch Is our central sacrament. Triumph, Templars, that are sworn To that vengeance sinister, Vigilant from murk to morn By our rifled sepulchre. De…
1919 · PDF PAGE 123
…ugh shock or fear, adhere not to it, and the Will strive not continually to repetition of that bliss, more beauti- ful and terrible than death, which it hath won by virtue of Love. There be moreover many other modes of attaining the apprehension of true Life, and these two following are of much value in breaking up the ice of your mortal error in the vision of your being. And of these the first is the constant contemplation of the Identity of Love and Death, and the understanding of the dissolution of the body as an Act of Love done upon the Bo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 272
THE EQUINOX A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of utter- most delight. The PRIEST mounts the third step. Tue Priest. Thou that art One, our Lord in the Universe the Sun, our Lord in ourselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance enlightening the worlds is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before Thee—By the Sign of Light * appear Th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
…eth sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire! 56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenu- ously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life. 57. How shall I answer the foolish man? Inno way shall he come to the Identity of Thee! 58. But I am the Fool that heedeth not the Play of the Magician. Me doth the Woman of the Mysteries instruct in vain; I have burst the bonds of Love and of Power and of Worship. 59. Therefore is the Eagle made one with the Man, and th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 13
HYMN TO PAN The gods withdraw: The great beasts come, Io Pan! Iam borne To death on the horn Of the Unicorn. Iam Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Iam thy mate, Iam thy man, Goat of thy flock, Iam gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; andI rape and I rip andI rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mzenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
1919 · PDF PAGE 55
…eauty, allis joy. For hear, how gracious is the Goddess: “I give unimagi- nable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” Is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the Slave-Gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of “sin,” wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious “virtues”? With such, we who have accepted the Law of Thelema have nothing to do. We have heard the Voice of the Star- Goddess: “I love you! I yearn to you! Pal…
1919 · PDF PAGE 124
THE EQUINOX already taught you, but with especial emphasis in choice of things naturally repulsive, in particular, death itself, and its phenomena ancillary. Thus the Buddha bade his disciples to meditate upon Ten Impurities, that is, upon ten cases of death of decomposition, so that the Aspirant, identifying himself with his own corpse in all these imagined forms, might lose the natural horror, loathing, fear or disgust which he might have had for them. Know this, that every idea of every sort becomes unreal, phantastic, and most manifest illu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
… was dead. In that country where a thousand plagues hunt down mankind, it was most urgent that a medical man should certify the cause of death. How lucky that we had with us a distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine! There was only one slight hitch in the programme. The moment that I told him that the Consul was dead, he turned his donkey and bolted for safety. Holy Kali, it might be an infectious disease! There was no point in chasing the creature at the moment. The matter could wait our return. We brought the Consul to his house and Forrest …
1919 · PDF PAGE 122
…attain- able. It is then best, ultimately, if it be your Will to find alway your chiefest pleasure in Love, that is, in Conquest, and in Death, that is, in Surrender, as I have written to you already. Thus then you shall delight in these delights afore- said, but only as toys, holding your manhood firm and keen to pierce to deeper and holier ecstacies without arrest of Will. Furthermore, I would have you to know that in this prac- tice, pursued with ardour unquenchable, is this especial grace, that you will come as it were by fortune into state…
1919 · PDF PAGE 377
… quite so contaminating as humanity, espe- cially Theosophists, as Mme. Blavatsky herself discovered. But the best of all lustrations is death, in which all things unessential to progress are burned up. The plan is much better than that of the Elixir of Life. It is perfectly all right to use this Elixir for energy and youth, but despite all, im- pressions keep on cluttering up the mind, and once in a while it is certainly a splendid thing for everybody to have the Spring Cleaning of death. With regard to one’s purpose in doing anything at all, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 57
…Supreme Ritual and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this new law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of fool- ish fables beneath the intellectual…
1919 · PDF PAGE 104
…s about Him at eventide into a molten sea of Joy; and the snake that is the crown of Ra bindeth them about with the golden girdle of the death- kisses. 65. So also is the end of the book, and the Lord Adonai is about it on all sides like a Thunderbolt, and a Pylon, and a Snake, and a Phallus, and in the midst thereof He is like the Woman that jetteth out the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps. 98
1919 · PDF PAGE 176
…ws how I went astray. I find however that the word actually adds to 607=Adam Primus. But 6 plus 7=13 Unity, Love, and The Tarot Trump is DEATH, and this is what he said he was writing. (Note Apr. 21, 1917. Ha=The Sun; tha=The Moon, as stated in the Hatha-Yoga Pradipiha.) . (Well worked out, method good; but not much of a place to have reached. You should have got more of the book, too. O.M.) Dec. 18th. Note. There is one thing I had intended to mention before. Instead of sleeping deeply, as was my former habit, I have lately noticed quite a cha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 205
… With the ring of space and eternity, And where the oil, the Holiest Breath, With Its first whisper dedicateth Its new life to a further death. Iwas cold as earth: the night Had given way. One star hung bright Over the church, now gray; I rose up to greet the ray That thrilled through elm and chestnut, lit The grass, made diamonds of it, And bade the weir’s long smile of spray Leap with laughter for the day. The birds woke over all the weald; The sullen peasants slouched afield; The lilies swayed before the breeze That murmured matins in the tr…
1919 · PDF PAGE 132
…cried aloud in my joy, I made songs unto the Lord, the living God. I will follow the Lord all the days of my life, and in the hour of my death let the Lord lead me into the House Ever- lasting. 126
1919 · PDF PAGE 175
…ve.” (I seem to have asked him an- other question, but cannot remember what.) Then I said: “What writest thou, Father?” And he replied: “Death, always Death.” And I said: “Show me thy writing, Father” and looking he wrote the word HARTHA. And I said “This is a mystery to me” so he pointed to it letter by letter and I tried to interpret it Qabalistically, but was not successful. It seemed that the value of the letters was 507. He said I should understand, and with that I left him and returned. 167
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… together with a true account of the catastrophe, so called, which ended in its disappear- ance. Liser CVI. A TREATISE ON THE NatTuRE oF DEATH, and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. Liser DCCCLXXXVIII. A Compiete Stupy oF THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY. 14
1919 · PDF PAGE 276
… under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. Tue Peopte. So mote it be. (DEATH) Tue Deacon. Term of all that liveth, whose name is in- scrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. Tue Propte. So mote it be. 262
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
…impulsive one. Mr. Bishop’s motto seems to be, “Safety First.” Many years ago, as stated in THE Equinox, Mr. Bishop worked his sister to death in order to spare himself the expense of a stenographer. Mr. Bishop is a man of considerable wealth, but he never allows it to injure his moral principles. The death of his sister left him with one other sister, and for her he professed the most unbounded devotion. As she lay dead in her house, he wrote long letters to her son about One pound, three and tuppence that she owed to the grocer, sixteen and n…
1919 · PDF PAGE 236
…n the legal advisers of the Order to defend them against their enemies in case of need. EIGHTH HOUSE 63. All Brethren are entitled after death to the proper dis- posal of their remains according to the rites of the Order and their grade in it. 64. If the Brother so desire, the entire amount of the fees and subscriptions which he has paid during his life will be handed over by the Order to his heirs and legatees. The Order thus affords an absolute system of insurance in addi- tion to its other benefits. NINTH HOUSE 65. The Order teaches the only…