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…h issues a serpent. The third totem, the scorpion, is not shewn in the picture, for the putrefaction which it represents is an extremely secret process. Beneath his chariot is the calm and stagnant water of a lake upon which rain falls heavily. The whole symbolism of this card is exceedingly complicated, for Scorpio is the most mysterious of the Signs, and the manifested portion of it symbolized by the eagle is in reality the least important part of his nature. The moral characteristics of the person pictured in this card are subtlety, secret v…
1944 · PDF PAGE 17
…ared. manner the knowledge which they already possessed. In other words, they must utilize their magical powers to make contact with the Secret Chiefs of the Order. (This, incidentally, is a quite normal and traditional mode of procedure.) Shortly afterwards, Mathers, who had manoeuvred himself into the practical Headship of the Order, announced that he had made this link; that the Secret Chiefs had authorized him to continue the work of the Order, as its sole head. There is, however, no evidence that he was here a witness of truth, because no …
1944 · PDF PAGE 9
…hall endure to the end”1 In February of the year following, he attained the grade of Practicus, and was accord‐ ingly entrusted with the secret attributions of the Tarot, especially those of the Atu. (See pp. 5‐ 10). He worked daily on these MSS., for the most part under the personal instruction of G.H. Frater 7°=4°, D.D.C.F. (S. Liddell Matters) and V.H. Fratres 5°=6° Iehi Aour (Allan Bennett, later Sayadaw Ananda Metteya) and Volo Noscere (George Cecil Jones) as host or guest of one of these Adepts. He continued these studies alone during his…
1944 · PDF PAGE 205
…ster‐keys to the Gate of Initiation. To realize and to enjoy this fully it is necessary to know, to understand, and to ex‐ perience, the Secret of the Ninth Degree of the O.T.O.
1944 · PDF PAGE 235
… the highest exalted. These last three cards seem to prepare the explosion which will renew the whole Cycle. Note that Virgo is Yod, the secret seed of Life, and also the Virgin Earth awaiting the Phallic Plough. The interest of this card is the interest of the common people. The rulership of the Sun in Virgo suggests also birth. The disks are arranged in the form of the geomantic figure Popu‐ lus. These disks may be represented as the flowers or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. In the Yî King, Sol in Virgo is represente…
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…Nature. Furthermore, he is crowned with the crown of Osiris; he represents Osiris in the waters of Amennti. Yet more, he is the original secret male creative God: see Atu XV. “Redeunt Saturnia regna.” It was only the cor‐ ruption of the Tradition, the confusion with Set, and the Cult of the Dying God, misunderstood, deformed and distorted by the Black Lodge, that turned him into a senile and fiendish symbol. With the sweep of his scythe he creates bubbles in which are 1The Qabalists embodied in the Book of Genesis, Caps I and II, this doctrine …
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
head is the Uraeus serpent, Lord of Life and Death. She is masked, and her expression shows her secret intimate satisfaction in her domination of every element of dis‐equilibrium in the Universe. This condition is symbolized by the Magic Sword which she holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced ex‐ actly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience …
1944 · PDF PAGE 172
…y on the brink of transfiguration. She is strong and beautiful, with an ex‐ pression of intense brooding, as if about to become aware of secret wonder. Her crest is the head of the ram, and her sceptre descends into the earth. There its head becomes a diamond, the precious stone of Kether, thus symbolizing the birth of the high‐ est and purest light in the deepest and darkest of the Elements. She stands within a grove of sacred trees before an altar suggesting a wheatsheaf, for she is a priestess of Demeter. She bears within her body the secret…
1944 · PDF PAGE 241
INVOCATION (An Oath written during the Dawn‐Meditation) Aiwaz! confirm my troth with Thee! my will inspire With secret sperm of subtle, free, creating Fire! Mould thou my very flesh as Thine, renew my birth In childhood merry as divine, enchanted Earth! Dissolve my rapture in Thine own, a sacred slaughter Whereby to capture and atone the Soul of Water! Fill thou my mind with gleaming Thought intense and rare To One refined, outflung to Naught, the Word of Air! Most, bridal bound, my quintessential Form thus freeing From self, be found one Selfh…
1944 · PDF PAGE 103
“At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say‐and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple‐To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love‐chant. “Sing the rapturous love‐song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! “I am the blue‐lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night‐sky. “To me! To me! “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”
1944 · PDF PAGE 279
©, ‘The Holy Ghost. I. The Messenger. IX. The Secret Seed. ‘The Three Goddesses IIL, The Wife. ( (1 The Virgin, | xvit. ‘the Mother. ‘The Three Deminrges 1V. The Raler. fX The All Father 3 in x. toy. , VI. The Twins Emerging ‘The Childter. Horus and Hoor-Pa- Krast { XIX. The Sun (Playing) XVI. The Crowned and Conquering Child emerging from Womb a5 inALP ( VIL. The Graal; Chariot of Life, The Yoni geudens (The Woman XIV. The Preguant Womb preserving justified) \ ite. VIIE, The Sexually joined. [XT 256 & 666, The Slain Geds I XIE The Redeemer in …
1944 · PDF PAGE 219
…xagram. Their points touch the outer petals of a red rose upon a golden cross of six squares, thus showing the Rosy Cross as the central secret of scientific truth.
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
…place in England. Its interest centred in ancient religions, and their traditions of initiation and thaumaturgy. Learned societies, some secret or semi‐secret, were founded or revived. Among the members of one such group, the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Freemasonry, were three men: one, Dr. Wynn Westcott, a London coroner; a Dr. Woodford, and a Dr. Woodman. There is a lit‐ tle dispute as to which of these men went to the Farringdon Road, or whether it was the Far‐ ringdon Road to which they went; but there is no doubt whatever that one of them bo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
…e Sangraal, life and rapture, Wine’s and Blood’s! e The Lion‐Serpent begets Gods! Thy throne The rampant Beast, our Lady Babalon! i Most secret seed of all Life’s serpent plan, Virgin, the Hermit goes, dumb Guardian. k Sped by its energies triune, the Wheel Of Fortune spins: its Axle’s immobile.
1944 · PDF PAGE 197
THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF WATER ACE OF CUPS This card represents the element of Water in its most secret and original form. It is the feminine complement of the Ace of Wands, and is derived from the Yoni and the Moon exactly as that is from the Lingam and the Sun. The third in the Hierarchy. This accordingly represents the essential form of the Holy Grail. Upon the dark sea of Binah, the Great Mother, are Lotuses, two in one, which fill the cup with the Life‐fluid, symbolically represented either as Water, as Blood, or as Wine, according to the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 252
…the Light so bright that no man seeth thee. Be not moved by aught without or within: keep Silence in all ways. Illumination from within, secret impulse from within; practical plans derived accord‐ ingly. Retirement from participation in current events. X Follow thy Fortune, careless where it lead thee. The axle moveth not: attain thou that. Change of fortune. (This generally means good fortune because the fact of consultation implies anxiety or discontent.) XI Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things. Worship the name , four…
1944 · PDF PAGE 162
… by accident. This is a perfect picture of the Mind. On the head of this Prince is, nevertheless, a child’s head radiant, for there is a secret crown in the nature of this card; if concentrated, it is exactly Tiphareth. The operation of his logical mental processes have reduced the Air, which is his ele‐ ment, to many diverse geometrical patterns, but in these there is no real plan; they are dem‐ onstrations of the powers of the Mind without definite purpose. In his right hand is a lifted sword wherewith to create, but in his left hand a sickle…
1944 · PDF PAGE 80
…tates. In his hand he holds a Lamp whose centre is the Sun, portrayed in the likeness of the Sigil of the great King of Fire (Yod is the secret Fire). It seems that he is contemplating—in a certain sense, adoring—the Orphic egg (greenish in colour) because it is conterminous with the Universe, while the snake which surrounds it is many‐coloured to signify the iridescence of Mercury. For he is not only creative, but is the fluidic essence of Light, which is the life of the Universe.
1944 · PDF PAGE 155
…e passion. He is on the surface suscep‐ tible to external influences, but he accepts them only to transmute them to the advantage of his secret designs. He is thus completely without conscience in the ordinary sense of the word, and is therefore usually distrusted by his neighbours. They feel they do not, and can never, understand him. Thus he inspires unreasonable fear. He is in fact perfectly ruthless. He cares intensely for power, wisdom, and his own aims. He feels no responsibility to others, and although his abilities are so immense, he ca…
1944 · PDF PAGE 253
…ith the left accept all that be created otherwise. Blind impulse, irresistibly strong and unscrupulous, ambition, temptation, obsession, secret plan about to be executed; hard work, obstinacy, rigidity, aching discontent, endurance.