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Page 108 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 256
…on, And they arrive in heaven very soon. [ /mmense, Spontaneous, uncontrollable applause sweeps like a whirlwind through the court. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL (breaking tn unheralded), Tender the phrase, and faint the melody, When poets praise a maiden’s purity ; Platitude linked to imbecility. [Murmurs of surprise. As ’mongst spring’s sprigs sprouts sunshine’s constant face ; Or as a mill grinds on, with steady pace ; So sprouts, so grinds, the unblushing commonplace. Soft, soft the brain— [Zhe murmurs break into an indig- nant uproar. HERALD. Silenc…
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
…A web of fairy ticken 1 To make a fairy rose: Pure as the seas that lave With phosphorescent wave The sombre architrave Of Castle No-man-knows. Pure as the dreams, undreamt (That men have in contempt, That wise men yearn to see), Of angel forms exempt Irom mockeries that tempt Who fly about the lea ; Proclaiming things unheard, Unknown to brightest bird, Things, whose unspoken word Ts utmost secrecy. 1 A closely woven fabric. So pure, so pale we lie, Like angels eye to eye, Like lovers lip to lip. So, the elect knight, I Keep vigil to the sky, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…ht that may befall it. In the Aeon of Osiris it was indeed' realised that Man must die in order to live. But now in the Aeon of Horus we know that every event is a death; subject and object slay each other in “love under will”; each such death is itself life, the means by which one réalisés oneself in a sériés of épisodes. The second main point is the completion of the A babe Bacchus by the O Pan (Parzival wins the Lance, etc.). 37
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…t accept the Crowned and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowledge that “The Word of the Law is 0EAHMA and that “Love is the Law, love under Will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. 2 He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with ail the energy, courage, and ab…
1996 · PDF PAGE 107
… wholly in the integration of the infinite Pantheon of images; for if he fail to formulate one facet of himself, by lack thereof will he know himself falsely. There is of course no ultimate difference between the Artist as here delineated and him who follows the “Way of the Tao,” though the latter finds perfection in his existing relation with his environment, and the former creates a private perfection of a peculiar and secondary character. We might call one the son, the other the daughter, of the Absolute. But the Artist, though his Work, the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 169
…und a slave Tt will eat me up. I, each evasion. To this wild passion. CORA. You cannot guess the horror that you speak. I tell you, if I know your golden heart, This detestation of yourself shall cry The cry of CEdipus—“‘ I have profaned 23 ULRIC., What sphinx more cruel? What new - CEdipus? You riddle, Cora, and it breaks my heart. [He seks exhausted. (Rallying.) By God, I swear to you no lie shall keep Its Dead Sea bar against our marrying. CORA. The truth! Thetruth! The truth! Iam indeed That whoreI told you. That makes nothing here. I am th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…d knew that every statement contained an absurdity. He therefore said: “Let me déclaré this Work under this title: 'The obtaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian AngeP ”, because the theory implied in these words is so patently absurd that only simpletons would waste much time in analysing it. It would be accepted as a convention, and no one would incur the grave danger of building a philosophical system upon it. With this understanding, we may rehabilitate the Hebrew System of invocations. The mind is the great enemy; so…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…l. [30] Simon Iff gave her a significant glance, and she was wise enough to take it. There are subjects which it is better to drop. "You know, Mr. Iff," said Lisa, to lighten the sudden tension, "I've been most fearfully interested in all you have said, and I think I have understood quite a part of it; but I don't see the practical application. Do you want me to get messages from the Mighty Dead?" "Just at present," said the mystic, "I want you to digest what you have heard, and the dejeuner which Brother Cyril is about to offer us. After that …
1954 · PDF PAGE 127
94 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS the Law is almost his only link with my work. That, and his use of the Ophidian Vibrations: I don't know which of us is better at it, but I am sure that he must be a very long way ahead of me if he is one of Them. You have already in these pages and elsewhere in my writings examples numerous and varied of the way in which They work. The list is far from complete. The matters of Ab-ul-Diz and of Amalantrah show one method of communication; then there is the way of direct "inspiration," as in the case of "Hermes Eimi" in N…
1996 · PDF PAGE 13
…e Law rests upon a mathematical basis. It makes no partial appeal; it does not depend upon religious theory or racial tradition. One who knows far more than I do both of mathematics and of mysticism has thrown a clearer light than I could upon the evidence of the preternatural character of this Book. He writes: The Qabalists conceal the value of it in the name of alhim, which is God considered as the cooperative forces of Nature, and by taking the significant figure in the conventional value of these letters you obtain the number 3.1415. But th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 143
…ese waves be calm In Maurya’s name. [The storm tucreases momently in vio- lence. RUPHA muttters on. CRIOSDA shows with a gesture that he knows his words avail nothing. Rupua. Ho! Ho! Criospa. I wittingly and well resumed the rite Learnt at thy breast, old wolf ! RupHaA. Ho! Ho! The might is mine O’ the rune divine. Silence, winds ! Peace, ye waves! The spell binds Their wrath In the graves Below ocean. Clear the path ! Cease your motion? Swift, be slow ! Ho! Ho! [ The storm ceases. CrIOSDA. 7y words avail then ? RupHa. Ha! Ha! They avail. I ava…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
is impossible to lay down précisé rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel ; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother’s God, or the Rite that invokes Him. The Masters of the A A .*. hâve therefore made no attempt to institute any regular ritual for this central Work of their Order, save the generalised …
1906 · PDF PAGE 200
…e placarded with rival posters— Ne buvez pas de |’Alcool ! L’Alcool est un poison ! and Buvez de |’Alcool ! L’Alcool est un aliment ! We know now that alcohol is a food up to a certain amount; the precept, good enough for a rough rule as it stands, will not bear close inspection. What Buddha really commands, with that grim humour of his, is: Avoid Intoxi- cation. But what is intoxication? unless it be the loss o! power to use perfectly a truth-telling set of faculties. If I walk unsteadily it is owing to nervous lies—and so for all the phenomen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…ture may wound, and, vigilant, shuns them as being of the family of murder. In Magick, likewise, the Adept who is sworn to attain to the Know¬ ledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel may in his grosser days hâve been expert as a Healer, to find that he is now incapable of any such work. He will probably be puzzled, and wonder whether he has lost ail his power. Y et the cause may be no more than that the Wisdom of his Angel deprecates the interférence of ignorant kindlmess with diseases which may hâve been sent to the sufferer for a pu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 147
…ictim be in need. His sense of humour is omnivorous, and may make him a mysterious figure, dreaded without reason by people who actually know nothing about him but his name‐as a symbol of Terror. This is due to the influence of the last decan of Cancer upon this card. One of his greatest faults is pride; meanness and pettiness of any kind he holds in infinite scorn. His courage is fanatically strong, and his endurance inde‐ fatigable. He is always fighting against odds, and always wins in the long‐the very long‐run. This is principally due to h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 47
…samadhis. Jasmine and Rose are hieroglyphs of the two main Sacraments, while the emblems of death may refer to certain secrets of a well-known exoteric school of initiation whose members, with the rarest exceptions, do not know what it is all about. 1 [See Works Cited under “Liber 150.”] 2 [A phrase from the Great Obligation of the A.•.A/, (the Oath of the Abyss); see “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909), p. 11, or The Equinox 111(10) (1986), p. 18.] The question then arises as to whether the initiate is able to stand firmly in this Place o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 149
…rifices on the altar of my God Magick. They were all accepted, as it then seemed. I attained all my ambitions; yea, and more also. But I know now that I should not have forced my growth, and deformed my destiny. To nail geese to boards and stuff them makes foie gras, very true; but it does not improve the geese. It may be said that I strengthened my moral character by these sacrifices, and that I was indeed com pelled to act as I did. The mad elephant Wantobemagus pulled over the team of oxen? We may put it like that, certainly; but still I fe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…hâve nothing else in mind but the wish to obtain super- natural sanction for their follies. Apart from Occultism alto- gether, every one knows that when people ask for advice, they only want to be told how wise they are. Hardly any one acts on the most obviously commonsense counsel if it happens to clash with his previous intentions. Indeed, who would take counsel unless he were warned by some little whisper in his heart that he was about to make a fool of himself, which he is determined to do, and only wants to be able to blâme his best friend…
1996 · PDF PAGE 145
…n take opium. He may destroy his physical vehicle thereby, but he may produce another Kubla Khan.1 It is his own responsibility. Also we know well that “If he be a King” it will not hurt him — in the end. We trust Nature to protect, and Wisdom to be justified of, their chil dren. It is superficial to object that a man should be prevented from ruining and killing himself, for his own sake or for that of 1 [A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), conceived while intoxicated on opium. See Works Cited.]
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…xalted initia¬ tions undergone in the Aethyrs themselves that He was able to penetrate beyond the I5th. The Guardians of such fortresses know how to guard. The Master Therion has published the most important prac- tical magical secrets in the plainest language. No one, by virtue °£ being clever or learned, has understood one word; and those unworthy who hâve profaned the sacrament hâve but eaten and drunken damnation to themselves. One may bring down stolen fire in a hollow tube from Heaven, as The Master Therion indeed has done in a way that n…