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Page 109 of 1301909 · PDF PAGE 285
THE TEMPLE 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…ock in itself. The divination must not be blarned any more than one would blâme a man for buying a house at Ypres three vears before the World-War. As against this, one must insist that it is obviously to the advan- tage of the diviner to obtain this information from beings of the most exalted essence available. An old witch who has a familiar spirit of merely local celebritv such as the toad in her tree, can hardly expect him to tell her much more of private matters than her parish magazine does of public. It dépends entirely on the Magician h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 25
…and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly inde structible. This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc., exist. Evil is only an appearance because, (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monism, but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of Himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presup pose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 79
…s of the firmament, with ideas, souls, etc. I perceived also that each star was connected by a ray of light with each other star. In the world of ideas, each thought possessed a necessary relation with each other thought; each such relation is of course a thought in itself; each such ray is itself a star. It is here that logical difficulty first presents itself. The seer has a direct perception of infinite series. Logically, therefore, it would appear as if the entire space must be filled up with a homogeneous blaze of light. This however is no…
1996 · PDF PAGE 143
…mastered his work, dies to school, reincar nates in cap and gown, triumphs in the Tripos, dies to the clois ters, and is reborn to the world. Note that the Atu “Death” in the Tarot refers to Scorpio. This sign is threefold: the Scorpion that kills itself with its own poison, when its environment (the ring of fire) becomes intolerable; the Serpent that renews itself by shedding its skin, that is crowned and hooded, that moves by undulations like Light, and gives man Wisdom at the price of Toil, Suffering, and Mortality; and the Eagle that soar…
1996 · PDF PAGE 172
…er destiny. She is Her own sole arbiter; we ask no more than to supply our strength to Her, whose natural weakness else were prey to the world’s pres sure. Nay more, it were too zealous even to guard Her in Her Going; for She were best by Her own self-reliance to win Her own way forth! We do not want Her as a slave; we want Her free and royal, whether Her love fight death in our arms by night, or Her loyalty ride by day beside us in the Charge of the Battle of Life. “Let the woman be girt with a sword before me”! ni:ll So sayeth this our Book …
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
… half-hearted. Yet, even so, then intrinsic power of the truth of the Law and the impact of the publication were sufficient to shake the world so that a critical war broke out, and the minds of men were moved in a mysterious manner. The second blow was struck by the re-publication of the Book in September 1913, and this time the might of this Magick burst out and caused a catastrophe to civilization. At this hour, the Master Therion is concealed, collecting his forces for a final blow. When the Book of the Law and its Comment is published, with…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
244 TANNHAUSER TANNHAUSER. Ah no! I have been shown another way than yours | I am too old in this world’s weariness, Too hungry in its hunger unto God, Too foolish-wise, too passionate-cynical, To seek your royal road to Deity ! ANOTHER PILGRIM. Leave him! Belike ‘tis some philosopher With words too big to understand himself. TANNHAUSER. With heart too seared to understand himself! With mind too wise to understand himself ! With soul too small to understand himself ! ELDEST PILGRIM. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! TANNHAUSER. Y…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…hysical toil. Two men of thirty stood beside him, and behind them two lads of about sixteen. They were all devoted — so far as the outer world was aware — to the healing of humanity in respect of its physical ills. The men were doctors, or students, the women nurses; though in fact Sister Clara was herself the most brilliant of them all, a surgeon who could have held her own against any man in Europe. But it was contrary to the rule of the house for any sick person to lodge there; the private hospital which was attached to it was situated some …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
medicine to a wake the Eld of the All-Father, and redeem the Virgin of the World from her virginity. II Before leaving the subject of Black Magic, one may touch lightly on the question of Pacts with the Devil. The Devil tloes not exist. It is a false name invenîed by tlie Black Brothers to imply a Unity in tlieir ignorant muddle of dispersions» A devil who liad unity would be a God L. It was said by the Sorcerer of the Jura that in order to invoke the Devil it is only necessary to caîl him with y our whole will. This is an universal magical tru…
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
… comedy in which nobody cares whether the consequences of his actions are injurious to others or not ? Mr Crowley seems to hold that the world is reeking with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right. His poems, ‘ Mors Janua Amoris ’ and ‘ The Whore in Heaven,’ will horrify the votaries of Mrs Grundy. At the same time, these daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we live in a hypocritical age, and apparently the author of these extraordinary poems realises the fact, for his volume is ‘ privately printed.’ The epilogue…
1996 · PDF PAGE 30
…pecially the 16th /Ethyr.] Aiwass is then, as this verse 7 states, the “minister” of this Hoor-paar-kraat, that is of the Saviour of the World in the larger sense, and of mine own “Silent Self” in the lesser. A “minister” is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of reveal ing; He was the intelligible medium between the Babe God—the New £on about to be born—and myself. This Book of the Law is the Voice of his Mother, His Father, and Himself. But on His appearing, He assumes the active form twin to Harpocrates, that of Ra-Hoor-…
1905 · PDF PAGE 271
…lands unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays abide, this heart not wither, 7 It cannot be I shall not find a friend. Some pale immortal lover draw me thither ! To kiss me bend ! Moreover, as Apollo re-arisen Flames, with a roaring of the morning sea, Up from the stricken gray, the iron-barred prison, Flashes his face again upon the lea, And diamond dews the woodland one…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…mandrines;! sleep, ye gnomes ! Were those the sylphs that round me hovered On the mountain, and destroyed my peace? O the misery of this world ; the fear And folly that is unattained desire ! I would be master; I, the lord of Greece; 1 The spirits of fire, air, water, and earth were respectively named salamanders (fem. -drines), sylphs, undines, and gnomes.
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
… the tide. I accept every phantom of Mind, vain dreams in fatuity curled; I accept the corruption of Body, delight to bring Death to the world. In measureless madness I bask, I gloat upon carrion flesh. I wallow with God in the mire, and of mire I create Him afresh. There is naught, nor shall be, that my love cannot gnaw with insatiate tooth: I will wring forth the Truth from the lies as I once found the lies in the Truth. Astarte, I know thee for rotten as others have seen thee for pure; I tear off the mask that smiled false on the slaves who …
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…ture thence. When the wise man by Earnestness hath Vanity to chaos hurled '{e mounts to wisdom’s palace, looks serene upon the sorrowing world. 1 Sanskrit, Amrita, the ‘' Elixir of Life” and food of the gods. 2 Sanskrit, Nirvana. See Childers’ Dictionary for etymological discussion, Pah The signification is too difficult a question to settle | ofthand in a note, Mighty is wisdom: as a man climbs high upon the hills ice-crowned, Surveys, aloof, the toiling folk far distant on the dusty ground. Among the sleepers vigilant, among the thoughtless e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
THE WAKE WORLD 9 people reading them till they were so silly, they didn’t know what they were doing. And there were cheats, and doctors, and thieves; l was really very glad to go away. There were three ways into the Seventh House, and the first was Via? _ such a funny way. We walked through a pool, each on the arm of a “ cranium great big Beetle, and then we found ourselves on a narrow winding path. There were nasty Jackals about, they made such a noise, and at the end I could see two towers. Then there was the queerest moon you ever saw, only a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 67
…for the tawdry gems of style when the breast they would adorn is ‘that of a breathing, living beauty of man’s love, the heart of all the world. Nor let us taint one sympathy with even a shadow of regret. Let us leave him where ‘* Sight nor sound shall war against him more, For whom all winds are quiet as the sun, All waters as the shore." } NoTE.—The sudden and tragic death of the Editor has necessitated the completion of his task by another hand. The introduction was, however, in practically its present form. WHAT LAY BEFORE. WHITE POPPY. AMID…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…destroying all things; and by the name Exon, which Moses named, and there was great hail such as had not been since the beginning of the world; and by the name Aponat, which Moses named, and there came up locusts, which appeared upon the whole land, and devoured all which the hail had left; and by the name ScHEMA AMATHIA which Ioshua called upon, and the sun stayed his course; and by the name AtpHa and Omeca, which Daniel named, and destroyed Bel, and slew the Dragon; and in the name EMMANUEL, which the three children, Shadrach, Meshach and Abe…
1935 · PDF PAGE 8
…rmula of an infant: when teeth appear it marks a new “Aeon”, whose “Word” is “Eating”). A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at inter- vals of some centuries; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make personal progress equivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the w…