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…rade of the Order of the G.+.D.-. in the Outer. Place the Candidate in the Northern part of the Hall, the place of the greatest symbolic Darkness.” The Candidate is then placed in the North, the place of the greatest symbolic Darkness, the invisible station of Taaur the Bull of Earth. But therein dwelleth Ahapshi the rescuer of Matter, Osiris in the Sign of the Spring. That as the earth emergeth from the Darkness and the Barrenness of Winter, so the Candidate may thus affirm the commence- ment of his emancipation from the darkness of ignorance.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
…to show the white Triangle of the Three Supernals, His eyes are also bandaged, symbolising that the Light of the natural world is but as darkness compared with the radiance of the Light Divine. The Ritual then continues : Hegemon : “ Child of Earth ! arise, and enter into the Path of Darkness!” The Hierophant then gives his permission, ordering the Stolistes and Dadouchos to assist the Kerux in the reception ; but the Kerux bars the way saying: “Child of Earth! unpurified and unconsecrated! Thou canst not enter our Sacred Hall.” Whereupon the S…
1909 · PDF PAGE 285
…EMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “Terrible was the silence of an uncreated world. Immeasurable the depth of that Abyss. And the Countenances of Darkness half-formed arose. “They abode not; they hasted away; and in the vastness of vacancy the Spirit moved; and the light-bearers were for a space. “T have said: Darkness of the Dark- ness ; are not the Countenances of Dark- ness fallen with the kings that were? Do Ww nN » the Sons of the Night of Time endure for j ever? Not yet are they passed away. ob ES8 “ Before all things are the waters; and the Darkn…
1909 · PDF PAGE 257
… a terrible and avenging God at the confines of Matter at the borders of the Qliphoth. He is throned DiaGRaM 7. upon Matter and robed in Darkness ; and about his feet are the thunder and the lightning, which two forces are symbolised by the impact of the paths of W and P (Fire, Pisces), terminating respectively in the russet and olive quarters of Malkuth. There, therefore, is he placed as a mighty and avenging guardian unto the Sacred Mysteries. His symbols and insignia are : The throne of the West at the limits of Malkuth; the robe of Darkness…
1909 · PDF PAGE 270
…nd seek the hidden knowledge in the Name of Adonai. Hiereus : And the Angel Samael (Angel of Evil) answered and said : Iam the Prince of Darkness and of Night. The wicked and rebellious man gazeth upon the face of Nature and he findeth therein naught but terror and obscurity; unto him it is but the Darkness of the Darkness; and he is but as a drunken man groping in the dark. Return, for thou canst not pass by. Hierophant: Let the Neophyte enter the path of Good, Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte): I am come from between the pilla…
1909 · PDF PAGE 238
…k round for the hound may perchance stumble and fall—and the foot of that precipice is the valley from which they came. From here all is darkness, and there are no roads to guide the pilgrim, and the sleuth-hound can no more be seen because of the shadows of the night which obscure all things. And how can one write further about these matters? for those who have been so far and have returned, on account of the darkness saw nothing, therefore they have held their tongues. But there is an old parable which relates how the hound that had tempted m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING hoodwink is slipped up to give a glimpse of the Light as dimly seen through Darkness yet heralding a Glory which is in the Beyond. The Hierophant, then slowly lowering his sceptre, says: “Child of Earth! remember that Unbalanced Force is evil. Unbalanced Mercy is but weakness: Unbalanced Severity is but oppression. Thou hast known me; pass thou on unto the Cubical Altar of the Universe.” Thus formulating the Force of the Hidden Central Pillar. The Hierophant then leaveth his throne and passeth between the pillars,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
…, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he rushes down into the infernal darkness on winged thoughts: “ The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into the western sea,” and we find him now in the Goetic king- doms of sorcery, witchcraft, and infernal necromancy. The bats flit by us as we listen to his frenzied cries for light and knowledge: “The Spiritual Guide,” and “The…
1909 · PDF PAGE 310
…reat gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of these visions were carried out with Frater C. S. t+ A circle was first drawn, as in many invocations, in the centre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 172
THE ORGAN IN KING'S CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE THEN silence, and the veil of light is raised And darkness seen behind. Now softly sound The Angels’ herald-trumpets, calling round Thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. Now laden with the spirit of man’s hand There bursts an awful clarion-shout and brings Strange whispering and rushing of strange wings Battling, and furtive secrets of command. Down from the height and up from the abyss Are swept dominion, power, angel, throne, For unimaginable ends, and hiss, And fall. The heralds trumpet ; they are…
1909 · PDF PAGE 289
…f Babel. The flash exactly forms the Astronomical symbol of Mars. It is the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the Column of Darkness. ‘The men falling from the tower represent the fali of the kings of Edom. ‘On the right-hand side of the Tower is Light, and the representation of the Tree of Life by Ten Circles. On the left-hand side is Darkness, and Eleven Circles symbolically representing the Qliphoth.” Suibbew Reon [e) ey aD a) of bet QZ) fee a Wyte Ow [remote [Danccts >|] tates atue Restect Tepe ‘Stat Diacram 44. Arrangement of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 284
…ater, stagnant, and silent, and still; reflecting all, concealing am the inundation. name. Hail unto ye! unto ye! for the rending of the darkness is nigh!’” The Hiereus says: “The Priest with the mask of Horus spake and said: «I am the Water, turbid, and troubled, and deep. Iam the Banisher of Peace in the vast abode of Waters! None is so strong that can withstand the Strength of the great Waters : the Vastness of their Terror: the Magnitude of their Fear: the Roar of their thundering Voice. Iam the +O dO 20 oO : Dracram 34. VY+x all, Iam the P…
1909 · PDF PAGE 214
…st and of the East— The scorpion’s hole, the lion’s lair! I kissed his mouth—sublime despair ! Our souls were one ; our bodies met— Yea! darkness cover everywhere The secret of the House of Set! Arys CUSACK.
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
…RD OF THE UNIVERSE! HOLY ART THOU, WHOM NATURE HATH NOT FORMED! HOLY ART THOU, THE VAST AND THE MIGHTY ONE! LORD OF THE LIGHT AND OF THE DARKNESS!” (At each of these sentences all bow and give the sign, the officers raising their banners, sceptres, sword and wand on high, and then sink them in salutation.) The Hierophant then orders the Kerux to declare the Hall of the Neophytes opened by him, which he does in the following words: “In the name of the Lord of the Universe, I declare that the Sun hath arisen, and that the Light shineth in Darknes…
1909 · PDF PAGE 202
…ou love me, I charge you to mould Pipe after pipe, till the heavens are rolled Back and are lost as a tale that is told! III Silence and darkness are weaving a web Broidered with Nothing at uttermost ebb :— Cover, oh cover the shaming of Seb! Fling the wide veil, O Nuit, on the shame |— Shame from the Knowledge and unto the Name— Hide it, O hide it, in flowers of flame! Now in the balance of infinite things Stirs not a feather ; the universe swings Poised on the stealth of ineffable wings. Surely the sable Osirian bird Sole in the zether shall …
1909 · PDF PAGE 264
…, leading the Candidate, then the Stolistes and Dadouchos. Once they pass round the temple in solemn procession: it is the foundation in Darkness of the Binah angle of the whole Triangle of the Ineffable Light. The Hierophant knocks once as they pass him, and the Hiereus does likewise, as the affirmations of Mercy and Vengeance respectively. A second time they pass the Hierophant affirming the commencement of the formulation of the angle of Chokmah. The Kerux then bars the Candidate’s passage to the West, saying : «Child of Earth! unpurified an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
… « By command of the Very Honoured Hierophant, I invest you with the distinguish- ing badge of the grade. It symbolises Light dawning in Darkness.” The four pillars being thus established, now only is the Candidate invested with the badge of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals formulating in Darkness ; and now only is the Higher Soul able to formulate a link with him if the human will of the natural man be in reality consenting thereto, For the free will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the Higher Soul, or by…
1909 · PDF PAGE 239
…scarcely had he learnt to lisp the simplest syllables of childhood than his martyrdom began. From infancy he struggled through the chill darkness of his surroundings into boyhood, and as he grew and throve, so did the iniquity of that unnatural treatment which with lavish and cruel hand was squandered on him. Then youth came, and with it God’s name had grown to bea curse, and the form of Jesus stood forth in the gloom of Golgotha, a chill and hideous horror which vampire-like had sucked dry the joy of his boyhood; when suddenly one summer night…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…eet? “It mattered little, though certainly it left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ h…
1909 · PDF PAGE 243
…t ultimate summit which gleams with the stone of the Wise, and whose secret lies in the opening of the “Closed Eye”—the consuming of the Darkness. He who dismisses Paracelsus with a twopenny clyster, or Raymond Lully with a sixpenny reprint, is not a fool, no, no, nothing so exalted; but merely a rabbit-brained louse, who, flattering himself that he is crawling in the grey beard of Haeckel and the scanty locks of Spencer, sucks pseudo- scientific blood from the advertisement leaflets of our monthly magazines, and declares all outside the ration…