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Page 1 of 31944 · PDF PAGE 95
…NIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM. “Visit the interior parts of the earth: by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone.” Its initials make the word V.I.T.R.I.O.L., the Universal Solvent, to be discussed later. (Its value is 726=6 x 112=33 x 22.) This “hidden stone” is also called the Universal Medicine. It is sometimes described as a stone, sometimes as a powder, sometimes as a tincture. It divides again into two forms, the gold and the silver, the red and the white; but its essence is always the same, and its nature is not to be understood except by…
1944 · PDF PAGE 75
…h—Cheth 8—Yod 10—Tan 400—has the value of 418. This is one of the most important of the key numbers of Liber AL. It is the number of the word of the Aeon, ABRAHADABRA, the cypher of the Great Work. (See The Equinox of The Gods, p. 138. Also The Temple of Solomon the King.) On this word alone a complete volume could, and should, be written. Cancer is the cardinal sign of the element of Water,2 and represents the first keen on‐ rush of that element. Cancer also represents the path which leads from the great Mother Bi‐ nah to Geburah, and is thus …
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…it (not Air) of the Gods of the Liv‐ ing”? And is not Air, the element attributed to Mercury, also most properly the Breath of Life, the Word, the Logos itself? The student must be referred to some less raw, cursory, elementary and superficial Treatise than this present bat‐eyed, penguin‐winged, bluebottle‐brained buzzing. Neverthe‐ less, although Air is in no system the lowest, and so cannot claim benefit of clergy from the doctrine that Malkuth automatically resolves into Kether, the following reference seems not wholly to lack either cogency…
1944 · PDF PAGE 200
… of fertility. The card is referred to the influence of Mercury in Cancer; this carries further the above thesis. Mercury is the Will or Word of the All‐Father; here its influence descends upon the most receptive of the Signs. At the same time, the combination of these forms of energy brings in the possibility of somewhat mysterious ideas. Binah, the Great Sea, is the Moon in one aspect, but Saturn in an‐ other; and Mercury, besides being the Word or Will of the All‐One, is the guide of the souls of the Dead. This card requires great subtlety o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 60
… a phallic memorial: Similar, and equally apt. standing; and thus He is the messenger of the gods, represents precisely that Lingam, the Word of creation whose speech is silence. Mercury, however, represents action in all forms and phases. He is the fluidic basis of all transmission of activity; and, on the dynamic theory of the Universe, he is himself the sub‐ stance thereof. He is, in the language of modern physics, that electric charge which is the first manifestation of the ring of ten indefinable ideas, as pre viously explained. He is thus…
1944 · PDF PAGE 157
… at the best, are they of indi‐ vidual importance. As helpmeets, they are unsurpassed. 1See, for a full analysis and explanation of this Word, Magick, pp. 45‐9.
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…Kun‐ dry to Right Service, and regained the Lance, and revived the Miracle of the Sangraal; yea, also upon himself did he accomplish his Word in the end: “Höchsten Heiles Wunder! Erlösung dem Erlöser!” This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, O my Son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the Opening of the Way that leadeth unto the Crown and Essence of all, to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Aeon. This is the Path of t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 241
…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 Selfhood blent in Spirit‐Being.
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…o discuss relevant details. The part of it which is here relevant is called Gematria, a science in which the numerical value of a Hebrew word, each letter being also a number, links that word with others of the same value, or a multiple thereof. For example, AChD unity (1+8 +4) =13; and AHBH love (1+5+2+5)=13. This fact is held to indicate “The nature of Unity is Love”. Then IHVH Jehovah (10 +5+6+5) =26=2 X 13. Therefore: “Jehovah is Unity manifested in Duality.” And so forth. One important interpretation of Tarot is that it is a Notariqon of t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 237
…ded at some distance by a ring, six larger disks in the form of a hexagon. This signifies the multiplication of the original established Word‐by the mingling of “good luck and good management”. The three central disks are of the magical pattern as in earlier cards; but the others, since the descent into matter implies the gradual exhaustion of the original whirling energy, now take on the form of coins. These may be marked with the magical images of the appropriate planets. As a general remark, one may say that the multiplication of a symbol of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
THE ATU: MNEMONICS a Truth, laughter, lust: Wine’s Holy Fool! Veil rent, Lewd madness is sublime enlightenment. b The Word of Wisdom weaves the web of lies, Weds irreducible Infinities. g Mother, moon‐maiden, playmate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each …
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
…tanding in the Sign of the Enterer, as if pro‐ jecting the mysterious forces of creation. About his arms is a scroll, in dicative of the Word which is alike his essence and his message. But the Sign of the Enterer is also the Sign of Benediction and of Consecration; thus his action in this card is the Celebration of the Her‐ metic Marriage. Behind him are the figures of Eve, Lilith and Cupid. This symbolism has been incorporated in order to preserve in some measure the original form of the card, and to show its derivation, its heirship, its con…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
… thrilling one, like an electric discharge passing through one. “Now I see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon. And that is wrong. The rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake; in the centre of the wheel is a scarlet heart; and, impossible to explain as it is, the scar‐ let of the heart and the green of the snake are yet more vivid than the blinding white brilliance of the wheel. “The figures on the wheel are darker than the wheel itself; in fact, they are stains upon the purity of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
…nature all other ideas in some way or other. Thus 93 is related to 31, being a multiple of it; 13 is related to I, since AChD the Hebrew word for Unity means One. A gentian is related to the sky, because both appear blue; and blue is related to Jupiter, Venus and the Moon, thus to the numbers sacred to those planets 4, 7, and 9, because blue is the colour of all three planets in one scale or another. All words are thus in some way connotations of every other word or number; it is merely a question of finding the right category to assert the rel…
1944 · PDF PAGE 61
…futation of the Phallic school of Archaeology, would have us suppose. The other form of Thoth represents him primarily as Wisdom and the Word. He bears in his right hand the Style, in his left the Papyrus. He is the messenger of the gods; he trans‐ mits their will by hieroglyphs intelligible to the initiate, and records their acts; but it was seen from very early times that the use of speech, or writing, meant the introduction of ambiguity at the best, and falsehood at the worst; they therefore represented Thoth as followed by an ape, the cynoc…
1944 · PDF PAGE 84
XI. LUST This Trump was formerly called Strength. But it implies far more than strength in the ordinary sense of the word. Technical analysis shows that the Path corresponding to the card is not the Strength of Geburah, but the influence from Chesed upon Geburah, the Path bal‐ anced both vertically and horizontally on the Tree of Life (see diagram). For this reason it has been thought better to change the traditional title. Lust implies not only strength, but the joy of strength exercised. It is vigour, and the rapture of vigour. “Come forth, o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 68
…scends upon him indicates the position of this card in the Tree of Life. His authority is derived from Chokmah, the creative Wisdom, the Word, and is exerted upon Tiphareth, the organized man.
1944 · PDF PAGE 115
…od of Silence, is called “The Lord of Defence and Protection”. But His nature is by no means that negative and passive silence which the word com‐ monly connotes; for He is the All‐Wandering Spirit, the Pure and Perfect Knight‐Errant, who answers all Enigmas, and opens the closed Portal of the King’s Daughter. But Silence in the
1944 · PDF PAGE 198
LOVE TWO OF CUPS The Two always represents the Word and the Will. It is the first manifestation. There‐ fore, in the suit of Water, it must refer to Love, which recovers unity from dividuality by mu‐ tual annihilation. The card also refers to Venus in Cancer. Cancer is, more than any other, the receptive Sign; it is the House of the Moon, and in that Sign Jupiter is exalted. These are, superficially, the three most friendly of the planets. The hieroglyph of the card represents two cups in the foreground, overflowing upon a calm sea. They are fe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 156
…. For her crest she wears a swan with open wings. The symbolism of this swan reminds one of the swan in oriental philosophy which is the word AUM or AUMGN, which is the symbol of the entire process of creation.1 She bears a covered cup from which issues a tortoise. This is again the tortoise which in Hindu philosophy supports the elephant on whose back is the Universe. She is dancing upon a foaming sea in which disports himself a dolphin, the royal fish, which symbolizes the power of Creation. The character of the Princess is infinitely graciou…