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…ence have certainly abused it. High magic, as we have proved, leads man back to the laws of the purest morality. Either he finds a thing holy or makes it holy, says an adept—Ve/ sanctum invenit, vel sanctum Jacit; because it makes us understand that in order to be happy, even in this world, one must be holy. To be holy! that is easy to say; but how give one’s self faith when one no longer believes? How re-discover a taste for virtue in a heart faded by vice? One must have recourse to the four words of science: to know, to dare, to will, and to …
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…e trees That fringed his garden’s glowing border, At sunset walked, and, in the breeze With his disciples, took his ease An Adept of the Holy Order. “My children,” said the holy man, “Once more I’m willing to unmask me. This is my birthday ; and my plan Is to bestow on you (I can) Whatever favour you may ask me.” Nor curiosity nor greed Brought these disciples to disaster ; For, being very wise indeed, The adolescents all agreed To ask His Secret of the Master. gi
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…l Tablets. And lo! when I had at last abandoned the search, I cast mine eyes upon a hole in the loft, where were ski, etc., and there, O Holy, Holy, Holy! were not only all that I sought, but the manuscript of Liber Legis!” It was the last straw. For the next two days he remained in meditation, as in his previous Samma Sati meditation in Burma and China, where his marvellous escape from death supplied the last factor in the equation, and brought him to the understanding of who he was and what his work. So 98
1913 · PDF PAGE 321
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES prophets and the last of them that stifled the Word are confounded, then will be the reign of the Holy Ghost. Then, Glory to the Father who drowned the host of Pharaoh in the Red Sea! Glory to the Son, who tore the veil of the temple, and whose cross, overweighing the crown of the Czsars, broke the forehead of the Czesars against the earth! Glory to the Holy Ghost, who shall sweep from the earth by His terrible breath all the thieves and all the executioners, to make room for the banquet of the children of God! Glory to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 141
…evere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! Yet, immediately following this, comes the Method of Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and an account of the attainment of that knowledge. marsyaS. I teach the royal road of light. Be thou, devoutly eremite, Free of thy fate. Choose tenderly A place for thine Academy. Let there be an holy wood Of embowered solitude By the still, the rainless river, Underneath the tangled roots Of majestic trees that quiver In the quiet airs: where shoots Of the kindly grass are green, Moss a…
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ARAB. JULIAN. THE EQUINOX The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the holy word? [Whispered] The word is rightly spoken. Hast thou the secret token? [Given, each extend- ing the forefinger and striking tt against that of the other.| The token is in order. Pass to my brother warder ! [They pass over to JULIAN. I am the camel brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your God a new and nobler shrine. Give me the sign. [Done, each striking his breast Jive times with clenched hand] The sign is strict, averred. Ha…
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…invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, to thy child | So from the Father to the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm: Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-being veiled in Woman-form, Glory and worship in the Highest, Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest, Being that race—most royally run To spring sunshine through winter storm !
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…P Jutta [Within]. Softly splendid, to his rest Steals the godhead—to my breast! JOANNA [Within]. Mute, magnificently male, Hidden in the holy veil, Thou and I prepare the rite Of this night of his delight. Joun [Within]. Every brother to his ward ! Every hand to hilt of sword ! Every buckler to its arm, Lest the Holy One take harm ! (Without, a clash of steel. Chorus. The warrior lords are wake and ware, Three hundred blades of steel are bare. Their threescore corporals stand steady. Five captains, all alert and ready, Watch, lion-heart, agains…
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… that the number 7 is peculiarly suitable to the subject of the Book. VIII. The Tarot card numbered 8, the Charioteer, the bearer of the Holy Graal, represents the Holy Guardian Angel. IX. Refers to Yesod. The foundation, because the elementary practices recommended in the book are the foundation of all the work. X. Porta Lucis, the Gate of Light, is one of the titles of Malkuth, whose number is X. XI. Avconcentration of the title N V, whose value is 56, and 6 and 5 are 11. (See CCXX. I, i. and II, i.) XIII. The number of Achad= Unity, and the …
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…n end to thought, an end to pain; And there is death, a cool, gray, silent place, Calm in the afterglow of life; one grace Kept pure and holy, and one sacred thing In the deep centre of the mystic ring Of life, whence all roads lead, a winding path Through plains of dumb despair and sunless wrath. There is one holy spot under the skies Kept sacred from the screaming herd : there lies The silent singer, and the dreamer asleep, Calm in the mother-earth, and sunken deep From all the toil of the world and the heat of day, Buried and quite forgotten…
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…ekiel; and the Christ, new and eternal Solomon, will chant, beneath roofs of cedar and of cypress, the Epithalamium of his marriage with holy liberty, the holy bride of the Song of Songs. But Jehovah will have laid aside his thunderbolts, to bless 61
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…to the Stanzas of Dzyan in another system. Liser LXV.—Lider Cordis cincti serpente. An account of the relations of the Aspirant with his Holy Guardian Angel. This book is given to Probationers, as the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is the Crown of the Outer College. Simi- larly Liber VII is given to Neophytes, as the grade of Master of the Temple is the next resting-place, and Liber CCXX to Zelator, since that carries him to the highest of all possible grades. Liber XXVII is given to the Practicus, as in…
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…e prepared for the crossing of the Abyss. Every drop of his blood is taken for the cup of BABALON. The Candidate asks, “Is there not the Holy Guardian Angel?” And the answer is given, “ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” It is the last word of the A2thyr. And of all the horror of the Abyss, that is the one word that yet chills his blood as he remembers it. Now then, in the roth AEthyr, is given the Abyss. The Candidate is identified with the horror of that Abyss. Had not the Master already passed the Abyss, as it were, un- officially, …
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…norance. His precepts, better known and mightier soon to be, Shall judge the quick and dead for all eternity. I do believe in God’s most Holy Spirit, whose fire The heart and mind of saints and prophets did inspire. He is a Breath of life and of fecundity, Proceeding both from God and from humanity. I do believe in one most holy brotherhood Ofjust men that revere heaven’s ordinance of good. I do believe one place, one pontiff, and one right, One symbol of one God, in one intent unite. I do believe that death by changing us renews, And that in m…
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…blime meaning was not yet suspected by Frater Perdu- rabo. On November 9 we find the entry “Here endeth this diary, for I write now in a Holy Book of my Holy Pilgrimage to the Sun.” In fact, he left London for Paris on November 10, attended only by a single Chela. He arrived at Algiers on the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from which point they started to walk to Bou- Saada. At Aumale he took up again the work of obtaining the Cries of the 30 A&thyrs, to which he had not paid attention since August 1900. It is evident that he …
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… to Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! [He raises his hands to the shrine, and opens it. A rosy light stveams thence and fills the holy place, while the white Dove that was enshrined therein descends upon his head. The tree blossoms into leat, flower, and fruit. (The curtain falls.) 79
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TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL o. My mouth is on fire To my lord’s desire. [They exchange the holy greeting by a kiss. 1. I kneel at thy feet, And the honey is sweet. [o. plays music while 1 worships in silence. o. Exhausted, I sink. 1. I am dead, on the brink. o. Let us dance! I Let us dance! o. 1. The Lord give us power To be lost in the trance For an hour—for an hour! [They dance together. A pause of perfect stillness and silence follows; until O., sua sponte, advances and places 1. upon the altar. o. Exhaust me! 1. o. Ere I sink! I. I shall sink !…
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING oLympas. O nowI burn with holy haste. This doctrine hath so sweet a taste That all the other wine is sour. MARSYAS. Son, there’s a bee for every flower. Lie open, a chameleon cup, And let Him suck thine honey up! Ah, boy, all crowns and thrones above Is the sanctity of love. In His warm and secret shrine Is a cup of perfect wine, Whereof one drop is medicine Against all ills that hurt the soul. A flaming daughter of the Jinn Brought to me once a winged scroll, Wherein I read the spell that brings The knowledge of …
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…eal. otympas. I worship thee. The moon-rays flow Masterfully rich and real From thy red mouth, and burst, young suns Chanting before the Holy Ones Thine Eight Mysterious Orisons| marsyas. The last spell! The availing word ! The two completed by the third! The Lord of War, of Vengeance 107
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…he wild waves o’ th’ west! Blessed are they whose strength and faith Pilot the ship whose name is Death! Advancing ever to the east, The holy pilgrims pace. To the live God comes the dead priest To front Him face to face, If haply He reverse the doom And tear its trophy from the tomb. [The warders now approach and lay the body of the priest, still in its shroud, at the foot of the Tree. Juita. Now be ye witnesses of Truth! Here let love’s lust yield youth! [She raises her hands to heaven. Joanna [Comes forward and invokes at the shrine). Now le…