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…MASS OF THE PHG:NIX The Magician, his breast bare, stands before an altar onwhich are his Burin, Bell, Thurible, and two of the Cakes of Light. In the Sign of the Exterer he reaches West across the Into the Caverns of the Dark! He gives the sign of Silence, and takes the Bell, and Fire, in his hands. East of the Altar see me stand With Light and Musick in mine hand! fe strikes Eleven times upon the Bell 33 3— 555 55-333 and places the Fire in the Thurible. I strike the Bell: I light the flame: I utter the mysterious Name. ABRAHADABRA 55
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…e symbols of the secret of my soul. of the Initiator in mine ear: yea, I abhor birth, ululating lamentations of Night! Agony! Agony! the Light within me deeds veils; the song within me dumbness. God! in what prism may any man analyze my Light? Immortal are the adepts; and yet They die— They die of SHAME unspeakable; They die as the Gods die, for SORROW. 73
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…smell. He standeth before the Altar of the Universe at Sunset, when Earth-life fades. He summons the Universe, and crowns it with MAGICK Light to replace the sun of natural light. He prays unto, and gives homage to, Ra-Hoor- Khuit; to Him be then sacrifices. The first cake, burnt, illustrates the profit drawn from the scheme of incarnation. The second, mixt with his life’s blood and eaten, illustrates the use of the lower life to feed the higher life. He then takes the Oath and becomes free— unconditioned—the Absolute. Burning up in the Flame o…
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…The Word. THE ABYSS The Word is broken up. There is Knowledge. Knowledge is Relation. These fragments are Creation. The broken manifests Light.? 7
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…all of every herald of the Dawn! O ye who dwell in the City of the Pyramids beneath the Night of PAN, remember that ye shall see no more light but That of the great fire that shall consume your dust to ashes!
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…ife, but it is not so. The reflection of All is Pan: the Night of Pan is the Annihilation of the All. Cast down through The Abyss is the Light, the Rosy Cross, the rapture of Union that destroys, that is The Way. The Rosy Cross is the Ambassador of Pan. How infinite 1s the distance from This to That ! Yet Allis Here and Now. Nor is there any 19
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…this Naught are identical ; they are not correlatives or phases of some one deeper Absence-of-Idea; they are not aspects of some further Light: they are They! Beware, O my brother, lest this chapter de- ceive thee!
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
…ght not often reached.” —Pudlishers’ Circular. The Sword of Song. Ios. ‘The Sword of Song” is a masterpiece of learn- ing and satire. In light and quaint or graceful verse all philosophical systems are discussed and dismissed. The second part of the book, written in prose, deals with possible means of research, ye) that we may progress from the unsatisfactory state of the sceptic to a real knowledge, founded on I2I
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…any of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” — The New Age. **The light wherein he writes is the L.U.X. of that, which first mastering and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought. Itis one of the most suggestive definitions of KONX—the L.U.X. of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross—that it transcends all the possible pairs of opposites. Nor does this sound nonsensical to those who are acquainted with that…
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…r this: ‘Wein the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray: Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light!’ May his enemies learn from these words to ‘lift up’ their hearts with him.”—Euzglish Review. ‘**“ Mortadello’ is a drama of old Venice. It dis- plays a similar fearlessness of treatment. The theme is bitterly cynical, yet there prevails against the cynicism a just appreciation or poetic values. Mr. Crowley has not shirked the ugliness of his theme. He had no temptation to do so. For he holds life cheap…