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PART II VENUS. (Awekihg) 3334-333. [Venus is Mil/iahlly illuminated; the rest remain dark. VENUS. Little brother, what is the hour? PISCES. The dawn is at hand. VENUS. Little brother, what is the place? TAURUS. It is the holy mountain of our Lady Venus. VENUS. Children, awake and rejoice. LIBRA. Awake and rejoice. PISCES. How shall we rejoice? TAURUS. As our Lady hath appointed. LIBRA. AS you like it. PISCES. Wherein shall we rejoice? TAURUS. In our Lady Venus. LIBRA. In what you will. TAURUS. Thy will, our Lady, and not ours be done! PISCES. M…
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
II THE GREY HOUR "To resume," observed Rolles as he removed the tea-tray, ”since you have done no prescribed practices (wicked little sister !) you cannot banish the body by bidding it keep silence. So it must be banished by exhaustion, and the spirit awakened by a sevenfold dose of the Elixir.” “ Have you the Elixir?" she asked, rather awed. “It is entrusted to me,“ he answered simply. ”To this laudable end I have appointed a sufficiency of Bisque Kadosh at the Cafe Riche, followed by Homard Cardinal and Truffes au champagne With a savoury of m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 285
THE RITE OF MERCURY Verily, O thou littlest babe, too weak Το stir or speak, Capable hardly of a thought, yet seed Of word and deed ! Το thine assured fruition we may trust This weary dust. We who are old, and palsied (and so wise !) Lift up our eyes To little children, as the storm~tossed bark Hails in the dark Some hardly visible harbour light; we hold The hours of gold To our own breasts, whose hours are iron and brass :— So swift they pass And grind us down :—we hold the wondrous light Our scattering sight Yet sees, the one star in a night …
1911 · PDF PAGE 133
…nder than shorn Samson ! . . . Well, I‘m in charge of Delilah at present, and here’s the House where we don't admit Philistinesl Get up, little girll ” He lifted her gently from the fiacre and paid the driver. “Stamp!" said he, “stamp like Dr Johnson! The ground is firm.” " Ε pur si muove," murmured she, and clung (O illogical sex !) still closer to his arm. 125
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…servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto. 14. It is impossible to tell you 01 the splendours of that to which they have attained. Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the Path 01 the Adepts, and its nameless goal. 15. Even as a man ascending a steep mountain is lost to sight 01 his friends in the valley, so mustthe adept seem. They shall say: He is lost in the clouds. But he shall rejoice in the sunlight above them, and come to the eternal snows. 16. Or as a scholar may learn some sec…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…ination to think of the earth as seen from Cor Scorpionis, all such diatribes would seem infinitely petty. We may splutter about with our little verbal fireworks, as 1 am doing now; but to take it seriously! " There's nothing serious in mortality;” God is All in All. The Universe is but a mote playing in that sunbeam ; why bother to fill 600 dull pages? Nothing 15 worth writing but literature. Art is the expression of divine Truth; Mr Underhill, being no artist, expresses only human error. CANDLESTICK. DEATH. HEREWARD CARRINGTON and JOHN R. ΜΕΑυΕκ…
1911 · PDF PAGE 100
…` My father is the Grand Master of the Temple, and he will come and cut all your heads off. LAYLAH [goes down io her]. Thou preposterous little curd of sour milkl Thy father is dead] I saw the Banner of the Temple snap like a dry twig. My brave son Sliman cut it at a single blow. He will whip home the dogs, your friends, and you shall be his toy to play with and break and make sport of. He will twist your skinny arm—sol [She ent/ches the child's wrist, twists if, anu' makes her scream. Spindle—legged little spider I [The child 62765 her των.] V…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…but that I clung tightly to the boat. This indeed floated as serenely as if it had been upon the still waters of a lake; and when I had a little plucked up courage, I saw sitting at the helm him that is appointed to steer; I saw him face to face. This then endured for a space; and with his aid I began ship—building. “ For” (said he) “there are many that swim, and find no boats. Be it thy task to aid them.” Of my journey to the House he spake nothing. But in the ship- building came the fair man my brother to my help ; and one evening as we sate at…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…ond scorpion! Oh dear! Oh dear! URCHIN. ΓΗ be a dragon, with wings. They shan’t burn me; I'll burn them. ISAAC. Of course, you will, you little fire-aatem What‘s your great name? URCHIN. Saladin. CURTAIN. [o7
1911 · PDF PAGE 197
… veil and walks πῤand down. He returns.] [bg/tts mir. Brother Capricornus, what do you find ? CAPRICORNUS. Master, there is nothing but a little pile of dust. AQUARIUS. There is no living thing therein? CAPRICORNUS. There is no living thing therein. MAGISTER TEMPLI. [Reni/e: poem: “ Collogue sen/z'men/al."] In the ancient frozen solitary park Two figures passed anon—now mark ! Their eyes are dead, their lips are soft and grey; One scarce can hear the words they say. In the ancient frozen solitary park Two ghosts evoke the past—oh hark l “Dost tho…
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THE EQUINOX little one, star of the night, beautiful young moon over the sand—dunes [He Clasps her in his arms. LAYLAH [tone/255131]. Victory! Ay, victory is sweet. We shall feast to—night. [She shudders. SAID OMAR [seeing that all is not well]. What is it? What is it? LAYLAH. Ι have had evil dreams. SAID OMAR [to his men]. On to the houses! We must feast; we must sleepi [He takes LAYLAH on his sadai/ehem] You must sleep, whisper of the west wind! LAYLAH. I shall have evil dreams. SAID OMAR. No! you shall not sleep to—night, white fairy of Para…
1911 · PDF PAGE 79
…ched lance. SIR RAYMOND. Netted like a fish 1 SIR JAMES. And now lives in the desert with the witch, a wild man, and banned. SIR RAYMOND. Little better than a robber. And the word goes that he hath apostatized from our holy faith. [ALL cross themselves. JOCELYN [πᾶς;] Heighol Heighol the Crescent and Cross! If the one is a bargain, the others a loss. 71
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
…ndon in a house unknown to me, whose occupants were unknown to me, He is a man of science and of most accurate and balancedjudgment. One little lapse 01 memory: he forgot that he had told me that the book was not in his shelves; another little lapse of memory: he forgot where the book was; and there is your miracle! Now for my constructive policy. I suggest that a “spirit” be cultivated on the lines laid down by Eliphaz Levi, “Dogma and Ritual,” Cap. XIII,, so that he may manifest more wholly. Then let him dictate to two or three segregated med…
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
…would have summoned my kin. RINALDO. I have a score good knights within sound of my horn. And your kin are but the dotards and women and little children. Your fighting men are away. LAYLAH. Ay, slaying your good knights. 75
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… these soft splendours of a dream 1 turn, and seek the Self supreme. This world is shadow-shapen of The bitterness of pain. Vain are the little lamps of love! The light of life is vain! Life, death, joy, sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a further truthi Beyond the splendour of the world, False glittering of the gold, A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom’s sacred cold, Life is the flaming of that flame Death is the naming of that name, The forehead of the snake is bright With one immortal star, Lighting her coils with living light To wher…
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… upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. Then shall the winds gather themselves together, and bear thee up as it were a little heap of dust in a sheet that hath four corners, and they shall give it unto the guardians of the abyss. 6. And because there is no life therein, the guardians of the abyss shall bid the angels of the winds pass by. And the angels shall lay thy dust in the City of the Pyramids, and the name thereof shall be no more. 25
1911 · PDF PAGE 63
…an I perceived that it was now become dark. On the one hand glowed a star, curious indeed, but of no great brightness, and promising but little; while on the other was a sombre and fantastic lamp, whose fascination was its horror. If I swam lazily towards either of these, it was because their light, confused and difficult on the one part, and tenebrous on the other, was yet light in comparison with that aimless and abiding gloom which had now settled upon the bosom of 55
1911 · PDF PAGE 161
… at all is free from danger, and one may wonder what danger can threatenthe man whose object is his own utter ruin. One may also smile a little grimly at the integrity of those who try to include all Magic under Black Magic, as is the present trick of the Mystic Militant here on earth. Now, as one who may claim to a slight acquaintance with the literature of both paths, and to have been honoured by personal exposition from the adepts of both paths, I believe that I may be able to bring them fairly into the balance. This is the magical theory, t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 68
…plunge me once more into the stream, yet I strove as a man may. Then, mine eye being accustomed to the gloom, I beheld by my side, yet a little above me, the dark man my brother. 60
1911 · PDF PAGE 137
…rd ? " Haltingly came the answer: “ Ar—ar—it—a.” “One is His beginning; one is His individuality; His permutation one. Do not forget it, little sister." " Are you ready ? " “I am ready. Farewell’farewell for ever ! " " Farewell.” He took his Signet-ring, and pressed a spring. The bezel opened and disclosed a small jewelled wheel, divided into many compartments. He pressed a second spring. The wheel began to revolve, and in the silence sang a tiny tune. VI 1 1 29