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…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 that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. For alway doth this Arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the Not and the Arcanum. Amen,! passing, are void either on the one side or the other, and Who shall tell their ways? So our Father, having won the Serpent C…
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114 THE ARGONAUTS MEDEA. At the full end I see Allusion to my magic—to that spell Whereby an old man may renew his youth. ALCESTIS. Our father! MEDEA. You have guessed aright, my child. Your father must abandon his old age And—by my magic—find sweet youth again ! DANAIDES. But this is very difficult to do. MEDEA. For me such miracles are merely play, Serving to while away the idle hours While Jason hunts—— ALCESTIS. Hlow grand it were to see Our aged father rival the strong youths In feats of great agility ! MEDEA. Agreed ! But surely you shoul…
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218 AMBROSIIT MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM Griphus VIII. Griphus IX, Griphus X. Culpa Urbium Nota Terrae. Nechesh. Our Father: And she answered him: I am in the place of the bridge. Go thou up higher : go thou where these are not. Thereat was commotion and bitter wailing, and the eighth virgin came forth with rent attire and cried the eighth riddle : The sea hath conceived. Our Father raised his head, and there was a great darkness. The ninth virgin, sobbing at his feet, the ninth riddle : By wisdom. | Then our Father touched his crown and they all rejo…
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…e Adept. ‘‘ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—’”’ There was silence. And under the Goat's throne was a rainbow? of seven colours: our Father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and shot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair? robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. And he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, who st…
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…er-stone: whirlpool : lotus-flower: ho! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded with gems, one on each knee. Dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. A horn grew from her forehead ; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, yet our Father bowed down flat on his face to the earth. ‘‘ Holy Virgin of God,” said he, ‘‘ what dost thou h…
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… world ; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarp and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K., C., B., C., G., T., N., H., I., and M., his illust…
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…ROSIT MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM 22! With the poison he gave also in offering a stag and a maiden. But about the noon came one shining unto our Father and gave him Somnium Auri to drink from a dull and heavy bowl. And this was a liquor potent and Potabilis. heavy, by’r lady! So that our Father sank into deep sleep and dreamed a dream, and in that mirific dream it seemed unto him that the walls of all -things slid into and across each other, so that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- la…
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…t great wedding was a Suggler,® a riddler: for he said, ‘‘ Thou hast beasts: I will give thee weapons one for one.” For the Lion did our Father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his Eagle a cup of ever flowing water : for his Man the Suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but him- self only), while for a curious coin he bartered his good Bul]. Alas for our Father! Now the Suggler mocks him and cries: ‘‘ Four fool’s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit …
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…t dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. But the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew so mighty a blast that the dead rose all from their tombs, and our Father among them. ‘‘ Now away!” he cried. ‘‘I would look upon the sun!” And with that the fire hissed like a myriad of serpents …
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…t: he delighted. Therefore he is not, having become that which he was not. Mark ye all: it is declared. Now of the last adventure of our Father and of his going into the land of Apes, that is, England, and of what he did there, it is not fitting that I, the poor old fool who loved him, shall now dis- course. But it is most necessary that I should speak of his holy death and of his funeral and of the bruit thereof, for that is gone into divers lands as a false and lying report, whereby much harm and ill-luck come to the Brethren. In this place, …
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…ROSARUM 215 and he went on. ‘‘ Leave thine ox-goad,’’! quoth he, *‘ till I come back anox!” And she laughed and let him pass. Now is our Father come to the Unstable Lands, ’Od wot, for the Wheel whereon he poised was ever turning. Sworded was the Sphinx, but he out-dared her in riddling : deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. But that would he not, my Brethren ; to the centre he clomb ever: and having won thither, he vanished. As a hermit ever he travelled and the lamp and wand were his. In his path a lion roared, …
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…AI I am undone by my own ALCESTIS. MEDEA. Al Ai! What! the work? CHORUS. ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Alas! Alas! the work! JASON. MEDEA. Thy father? ALCESTIS. Slain ! CHORUS. Ai Ai! the old man slain ! MEDEA. Ai Ai! ALCESTIS, Ai Ai! MEDEA. The strong spell broken? ALCESTIS. Nay, but thoughts arose, So many thoughts—or ever I was ware— And he—the caldron seethes —— MEDEA. He rises not? . ALCESTIS. Nought but moist smoke springs up. MEDEA. Alas! for me! All is but lost. ALCESTIS. Canst thou do anything? What ! Shall the hunter find his joy abroad, An…
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…the Three Keys in Nags-Head Court, Gracechurch St. IT is fitting that I, Ambrose, called I. A. O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,! the Star Suaconch ? being” in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug? to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark and th…
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…maketh he nothing: let him be cast out on the dunghills beyond Jordan ; let him pass into the S. P. P., and that utterly ! With that our Father sighed deep and laid back his reverend head, and was silent. But from his heart came a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about tis body…
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… slaves before the shrine Pray, praise. do sacrifice, and weep. Ten generations following past Shall not exhaust the curse at last. From father unto son it flees, An awful heritage of woe. Wives feel its cancerous prodigies Invade their wombs; the children know ' The inexpiable word, exhaust Not by a tenfold holocaust. Thus let mankind abase in fear Their hearts, nor sacrilege profane ‘The awful slumber of the seer, The dread adytum of the fane; Nor gain the mockery of a fleece, Losing reality of peace. Hail to wild Ares! Men, rejoice That He c…
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…give birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu.4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to the rhythm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his fingers, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him. But it is written that misfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the seed of the Banyan T…
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…y placed her portfolio at my service. A letter dated October 15, 1866, indicates that our author was born on the 23rd of that month. The father and mother of George were, at least on the surface, of an extraordinary re- ligious turn of mind. Mathilde’s version of the story, which has its source in our friend himself, agrees almost word for word with a letter of the Rev. Edw. Turle to Mrs. Cope, recommending the child to her care. ‘The substance of the story is as follows. The parents of George carried their religious ideas to the point of never…
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… cells ? 1 M. I would. S. The devil you would ! M. I would. Our line becomes single? S. In the higher sense. Mf, So that the Mind of the Father riding on the subtle guiders got it right after all? S. Pretty right. M. And all things are divisible Three, not into Two? S. Into A, zot-A, and the dividing line. M. Though the Reason of Man _ has boggled often enough at this, the intuition of Woman has always perceived it. 5S. But she has gone too far, placing the importance of that dividing middle above all into other things in earth or heaven. We ho…
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… selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain, Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby each life laments and hangs, (Now as I speak a lizard TM lies In wait for light-bewildered flies)
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…it. Af. Then you surrender? The tripartite anatomy of ‘Tat Sat is granted me? Hegel is God, and Zoroaster his prophet? ‘ The mind of the Father said ‘Into 3!’ and immediately all things were so divided!’ ? S. Arrahmanu arrahimu al maliku al gadusu as salamu—Vete cabron! Chinga sumadre! I give in on that issue. Mf. Alhamdolillah ! For there are four letters in Allah g\Jt. A for Ab--Father, L for Lovos—double, for he is both God and man, and H for Holy Ghost. S. The language of your Notariqon is tripartite too! On point (1) though, ’twas but by a…