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…d a canal from sea to sea. 21. Continuation. — Let then the Philosophus meditate upon ail J ove that hath ever stirred him. There is the love of David and of Jonathan, and the love of Abraham and Isaac, and the love of Lear and Cordelia, and the love of Damon and Pythias, and the love of Sappho and Atthis, and the love of Romeo and Juliet, and the love of Dante and Béatrice, and the love of Paolo and Frances- ca, and the love of Caesar and Lucrezia Borgia, and the love of Aucassin and Nicolette, and the love of Daphnis and Chloe, and the love o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 100
let not the Philosophus despise any form of love, but harmonise ail. As it is written: Liber LXV. 32. aSo therefore Perfection abideth not in the Pinnacles or in the Foundation, but in the harmony of One with ail.” Second, if any part of this love exceed, there is disease therein. As, in the love of Othello for Desdemona, lovées jealousy over- came love’s tenderness, so may it be in in this love of a particular Deity. And this is more likely, since in this divine love no élément may be omitted. It is by virtue of this completeness that no human…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
…f powerful imagination, will, and intelligence hâve no need of these material symbols. There hâve been certain saints who are capable of love for an idea as such without it being otherwise than degraded by idolising it, to use this Word in its true sense. Thus one may be impassioned of beauty, without even the need of so small a concrétion of it as “The beauty of Apollo”, the “beauty of roses”, the “beauty of Attis”. Such persons are rare 5 it may be doubted whether Plato himself attained to any vision of absolute beauty without attaching to it…
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AL — Two. L is “Justice”, the Kteis fulfilled by the Phallus, “Naught and Two” because the plus and the minus hâve United in “love under will.” A is “the Fool”, Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpo- crates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, the wander- ing Ghost, but with “possibilités”. He is the Naught that the Two hâve made by “love under will”. LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour and pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye corne to my joy. I charge you earnestly to corne before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am ail pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: corne unto me! To me! To me! Sing the rapturous love-song u…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
… it upon the super-altar. He turns West. The DEACON. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Liberty in the name of IAü. The CONGREGATION. Love is the law, love under will. The DEACON go es to his place between the altar of incense and the font, faces East, and gives the step and sign of a Man and a Br other. Ail imitât e him. The DEACON and ail the PEOPLE. I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD* and in one Star in the company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall …
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…rform the act until he hath done this. As it is written : Liber VII, Cap. 5. — 22. aEvery breath, every word, every thought is an act of love with thee. 23. “The beat of my heart is the pendulum of love. 24. “The songs of me are the soft sighs. 25. “The thoughts of me are very rapture. 26. “And my deeds are the myriads of Thy Children, the stars and the atoms.” And Remember Well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, ail this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereof. 19. Concerning the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
… a step to become a goal. As it is written, Liber CLXXXV: “remembering that Philosophy is the Equilibrium of him that is in the House of Love.” 44. Concerning secrecy and the rites of Blood. —During this practice it is most wise that the Philosophus utter no Word con¬ cerning his working, as if it were a Forbidden Love that consumeth him. But let him answer fools according to their folly; for since he cannot conceal his love from his fellows, he must speak to them as they may understand. And as many Deities demand sacrifice, one of men, another…
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…lgence for ever. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE LORD) The DEACON. Lord secret and most holy, source of light, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and mighty within us, force of energy, fire of motion; with diligence let us ever labour with thee, that we may remain in thine abundant joy. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE MOON) The DEACON. Lady of night, that turning ever about us art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou favourable to hunters, and lovers, and to ail men that toil upon the earth,…
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…urns to the peopley lowers and Taises the Tance y and makes -f* upon them.) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The PEOPLE. Love is the law, love under will. {He lowers the Tancey and turns to East. The PRIESTESS takes the lance in her right handy wtth her left hand she ofjers the Paten. The PRIEST kneels.) The PRIEST. In my mouth be the essence of the life of the Sun. {He takes the Host zvith the right handy makes -f- with it on the Paten y and consumes it.) {Silence. ) {The PRIESTESS takeSy uncoverSy and offers the cupy as bejore…
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…nd craft of the Magus but glamour. How shall He destroy Himself ? o. Y et the Magus hath power upon the Mother both directly and through love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth together That and This in His Conjuration. 1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soûl. Yet therein is the Mystery of Rédemption. 2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: the World that is God is none other than He. 3. How then shall He end His Speech with Silence ? For He is Speech. 4. He is the First and the La…
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… take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love, but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Ladv, J s nor to the Beast whereon She rideth, nor unto the Virgin her daughter, nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known ? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning. — 431 — 9
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… space, before whom Time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark, not unto Thee may we attain, unless Thine image be Love. Therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit we do invoke Thee. Then the priest answered and said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, con- tinuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
…one overrun his fellow. 42. Further concerning the value of this Method. — Certain objections arise. Firstly, in the nature of ail human love is illusion, and a certain blindness. Nor is there any true love below the Veil of the Abyss. For this reason we give this method to the Philoso¬ phus, as the reflection of the Exempt Adept, who reflects the Magister Templi and the Magus. Let then the Philosophus attain this Method as a foundation of the higher Methods to be given to him when he attains those higher grades. 402
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…anic Magic. — Having made by thine Ingenium a talisman or pantacle to represent the particular Deity, and conse- crated it with infinité love and care, do thou burn it ceremonially before the shrine, as if thereby giving up the shadow for the substance. But it is useless to do this unless thou do really in thine heart value the talisman beyond ail else that thou hast. 38. Concerning minor methods adjuvant in the Ceremonies. — III. Rehearsal.— It may assist if the traditional history of the particular Deity be rehearsed before him; perhaps this …
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…e, because the end is One, so are they One because the method is One, even the method of turning the mind toward the particular Deity by love in every act. And lest thy twine slip, here is a little cord that wrappeth tighdy round and round ail, even the Mantram or Continuous Prayer. 24. Concerning the Aîantram or Continuous Prayer. — Let the Philosophus weave the Name of the particular Deity into a sentence short and rhythmical, as, for Artémis: èttsXGgv, èTusXOov, ApT£fJuç ; or, for Shiva : Namo Shivaya namaha Aum 3 or, for Mary 3 Ave Maria3 o…
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…ing the Enflaming of the Heart. — Now learn that thy methods are dry, one and ail. Intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not Love. Yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true Love leap unasked into thy méditation. Yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. It may be that thou hast no tinder near. In the end shall corne suddenly a great flame and devouring, and burn thee utterly. Now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and of these beginni…
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…ach current is also thus polarized. Sh is Heaven and Earth, T Male and Female j ShT is Spirit and Matter- one is the Word of Liberty and Love flashing its Light to restore Life to Earth j the other is the act by which Life daims that Love is Light and Liberty. And these are Two-in-One, the divine letter of Silence-in-Speech whose Symbol is the Sun in the arms of the Moon. But Sh and T are alike formulae of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not States of existence, but modes of motion. They are verbs, not nouns. Sh is the Holy Spi…
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…joy the substance of simplicity by watching the wanderings of my shadows. I am not that which is not; I know not that which knows not; I love not that which loves not. For I am Love, whereby division dies in delight; I am Knowledge, whereby ail parts, plunged in the whole, perish and pass into perfection; and I am that I am, the being wherein Being is lost in Nothing, nor deigns to be but by its Will to unfold its nature, its need to express its perfection in ail possibilités, each phase a partial phantasm, and yet inévitable and absolute. I am…
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…R PANTACLE SUIT (DIAMONDS) 0 1 The Root of the Powers of Water. The Root of the Powers of Air. The Root of the Powers of Earth. 2 9 in 0 Love. ü in ^ The Lord of Peace restored. ¥■ in VS The Lord of Harmonious Change. 3 5 in G Abundance. ï) in laa Sorrow. cf in VJ Material Works. 4 © in 8 Blended Pleas- ure. ,}f in aa Rest from Strife. © in le? Earthly Power. 5 0* in nj, Loss in Pleasure. 9 in ^ Defeat. 5 in y Material Trouble. 6 Q in m. Pleasure. $ in ^ Earned Success. U in y Material Success. 7 9 in m Illusionary Success. Q in ^ Unstable Effo…