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Page 112 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 535
…toms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one’s blood, one’s life, one’s intelligence, and one’s reason, without ever satisfying them. Axiom XII To affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axiom XIII Light’ is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the will; it lights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV…
1919 · PDF PAGE 266
THE EQUINOX And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. AUMN. AUMN. AUMN. Music isnow played. The child enters with the ewer and the salt. The Virct1n enters with the Sword and the Paten. The child enters with the censer and the perfume. They face the Deacon, deploy- ing into line, from the space between the two altars. Tue Vircin. Greeting of Earth and Heaven! All give the Hailing sign of a Magician, the Deacon leading. The Priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive on her right, ascends th…
1924 · PDF PAGE 8
…ever received by them or him. Instead on February 25 and March 4, the Sunday Express printed a grotesquely stupid narrative defaming his life at Cefalù, accompanied by insulting taunts to fill his purse by means of a libel suit. These new lies were reprinted, in part, by various Italian newspapers, though not by the Sicilian journals ; and at the end of April Mr. 8
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…al apologues, and recounts many taies of folk-lore and magical rites. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. An admirable study of Eastern thought and life. Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative. For Mythology, as teaching Correspondences: Books of Fairy Taies generally. Oriental Classics generally. Sufi Poetry generally. ' Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas generally. Celtic Folk-Lore generally. This course is of general value to the beginner. While it is not to be taken, in ail cases, too seriously, it will give him a general…
1954 · PDF PAGE 227
…ntology and metaphysics down to natural history. More, the most rarefied and recondite of these has a direct bearing upon the conduct of life in its most material details, and the simplest study of such apparently earthbound matters as botany and mineralogy leads to the most abstruse calculations of the imponderables . With what weapons, then, are we to attack so formidable a fortress? The first essential is clear thinking. In a previous letter I have dealt to some extent with this subject; but it is so important that you must forgive me if I r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 266
…g them all .” Thus from the Hegelian abstraction of the non ens we have at last touched bottom , and have come down to the facts of real life . Empty space is the postulate of all metaphysics , but all absolute quantities finally must be beyond the finitely reasoning mind . 1 SPACE This assertion of the Absolute Zero may truly at first sight appear to be a somewhat exaggerated statement ; but on due consideration it will be dis closed , that not only do all physics and metaphysics rest on this bed - rock of nothingness ; but , that also both ab…
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
…ove In the garden of Gods roses, Sorrowless, thornless, passionate Rose, that lies Full in the flood of its own sympathies And makes my life one tune that curls and closes On its won self delight ; A circle, never a line ! Safe from all wind, Secure in its own pleasure-house confined,
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
…t. Let him buy a dildo, for his cry for mem- bers is ceaseless as the jackal’s ! Nay ! But come to me, Habib ! I will cherish thee as my life ; I will take thee in my garden and love thee ever as of old. El Qahar will make new songs for thee, till thy fame standeth for ever among men, as the sun standeth in the sky, not to be denied.6 So sayeth El Qahar. 1. Often the case in Persia. 2. Often the case in Persia. 3. Karenian — proverbial expression. (Write this up fully). (Major Lutiy did not live long enough to accomplish this intention and we c…
1912 · PDF PAGE 85
…e is here, goes down and slobbers on the stones, Kisses the turnkey, deaves the captain with his groans, Wants to repent and live a holy life henceforth, Prays and sings hymns to avert Gods overwhelming wrath, Compares himself, dear God, to the thief upon the cross, Pities his gaolers, doomed to everlasting loss ALESSANDRO. Why, but it seems you have a model set of scamps. What harms done ? GOVERNOR. Harm enough when common sense decamps Its bad enough to guard ones self against attacks, But theres no dealing with religious maniacs. ALES…
1912 · PDF PAGE 72
…ade to repeat this oath: " I, P——, a member of the Body of Christ, do hereby solemnly obligate myself, etc., to lead a pure and unselfish life, and will entirely devote myself so to raise, etc., myself to the Knowledge of my higher and Divine Genius that I shall be He. “ In witness of which I invoke the great Angel Hua to give me a proof of his existence." P. transcribes this, and continues: “Complete and perfect visualization of . . here are hiero— glyphics which may mean “ Christ as -??־ on cross.” He goes on: “ ‘The low dark hill, the storm, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 72
…ade to repeat this oath: " I, P——, a member of the Body of Christ, do hereby solemnly obligate myself, etc., to lead a pure and unselfish life, and will entirely devote myself so to raise, etc., myself to the Knowledge of my higher and Divine Genius that I shall be He. “ In witness of which I invoke the great Angel Hua to give me a proof of his existence." P. transcribes this, and continues: “Complete and perfect visualization of . . here are hiero— glyphics which may mean “ Christ as -??־ on cross.” He goes on: “ ‘The low dark hill, the storm, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 2
…from wings One lucent web of light, from head One labyrinthine passion-fed Palace of love, from breathing rife With secrets of forbidden life. But not the sunlight, nor the stars, Nor any light but theirs alone, Nor iron masteries of Mars, Nor Saturn’s misconceiving zone, Nor any planet’s may be shown, Within the circle of the grove, ‘Where burn the sanctities of love: Nor may the foot of man be known, Nor evil eyes of mothers thrown On maidens that desire the kiss Only of maiden Artemis. But horned and huntress from the skies, She bends her li…
1901 · PDF PAGE 91
… dark by your shameful beautiful sides ! And now you are mine no more, I know ; but I cannot bear The curse—that another is drunk on the life that stirs your hair : Every hair was alive with a spark of midnight’s delicate flame, Or a glow of the nether fire, or an old illustrious shame. Many, so many, were ye to make one Womanhood— A thing of fire and flesh, of wine and glory and blood, In whose rose-orient texture a golden light is spun, A gossamer scheme of love, as water in the sun Flecked by wonderful bars, most delicately crossed, Worked i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 124
…o glory! " —I’m very sorry. That’s the story. But what’s the moral? asks a big Girl with the makings of a prig. First. Golf is long, and life is fleeting: Only one Bogey is worth beating. Moral the Second (Quiet, girls!) A sane squire is worth ten mad earls. And, most important, Number Three: Every one must trust somebody.) You do well to treat it lightly, said Basil. It’s the most terrible story I ever heard. A fico for your tragedies of blood and bones! Indeed, ’tis the one hopeless hell, added the Scholar. It is true? You knew the man? I did, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 339
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Cause ye the Paths of Wrath to be opened unto me; that I may advance over the Tree of Life unto the Place of the River. I stand upon the Northern Quarter of the Universe of Matter, and around me glows the Ruddy Flame of Earth. Before me is the Portal of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal Flame: Thence gleameth the Red Glory into the World of Assiah. Lift up your Heads O ye Gates! And be ye lifted up, ye Everlasting Doors! And the King of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance ov…
1909 · PDF PAGE 381
…that I know for certain” I began with these sentences : “Your enemy, when his hatred and persecution lead you to a clearer perception of Life’s secrets, becomes your benefactor.” “The men living in my company being unable to realise that my body is nothing but an illusion of their deficient sight, it is useless for me to try and oblige them to recognise it as a mere wood cover.” “ Their error will appear even more plausible and explicable when one considers that a few days ago I was myself unaware of my real personality; and that I am still at …
1909 · PDF PAGE 339
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Cause ye the Paths of Wrath to be opened unto me; that I may advance over the Tree of Life unto the Place of the River. I stand upon the Northern Quarter of the Universe of Matter, and around me glows the Ruddy Flame of Earth. Before me is the Portal of the Path of the Spirit of the Primal Flame: Thence gleameth the Red Glory into the World of Assiah. Lift up your Heads O ye Gates! And be ye lifted up, ye Everlasting Doors! And the King of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance ov…
1909 · PDF PAGE 381
…that I know for certain” I began with these sentences : “Your enemy, when his hatred and persecution lead you to a clearer perception of Life’s secrets, becomes your benefactor.” “The men living in my company being unable to realise that my body is nothing but an illusion of their deficient sight, it is useless for me to try and oblige them to recognise it as a mere wood cover.” “ Their error will appear even more plausible and explicable when one considers that a few days ago I was myself unaware of my real personality; and that I am still at …
1912 · PDF PAGE 32
…lack desire ! Bruise me with lust, and tear my flesh, and drink my blood, One poniard thrust, one flail to thresh, one storm to flood My life with death, my soul to charO speak the spell !
1913 · PDF PAGE 110
…ust be wielded to gain admission to the palace, it cannot be worn at the marriage feast. One might say that the Pantacle is the bread of life, and the Sword the knife which cuts it up. One must have ideas, but one must criticize them. The Sword, too, is that weapon with which one strikes terror into the demons and dominates them. One must keep the Ego Lord of the impressions. One must not allow the circle to be broken by the demon; one must not allow any one idea to carry one away. It will readily be seen how very elementary and false all this …