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Page 12 of 831961 · PDF PAGE 122
…y Mind forthwith, and it is Four Hundred and Eighteen, like unto the Word of the Æon. So by this I knew that my Work was well wrought in Truth. Thus then also was it with this my Lady; for after many Questions I obtained from the wizard Amalantrah that Name Olun, that is One Hundred and Fifty and Six even as that of our Lady BABALON; and then, being inspired, I wrote down Her Earth-name in Greek, MARIE, which is also that this Name (as I have learned) is in the Phnician Tongue, whôlon; which by Interpretation is That which is Infinite, and Spa…
1902 · PDF PAGE 90
TannhAuser {aside). Let me try the truth For certitude of incredulity ! {Aloud, laughing) I was in Venusberg! All {except Heinrich, zvho lai(ghs). Save us, Maria ! [ They look about them fearfully and cross themselves. Landgrave. Even in jest, such words I— Most dangerous Even to think of! — but to speak ! Heinrich {aside). These fools ! \^He remains, thoughtfully regarding Tannhixuser. Landgrave. God avert omens ! Soft you, Tannhauser, You heard the heralds ? Tannhauser. Never a word of them ! Landgrave. You must remember my Elizabeth, My daug…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
tion of the Soûl to express its Truth, in Ecstasy, through Beauty; and that no Sport rivais its fascinations of danger and delight, so excites, exercises, and tests its devotees to the uttermost, or so rewards them by well-being, pride, and the passionate pleasures of Personal triumph. “Magick takes every thought and act for ifs apparatus; it has the Universe for its Library and its Laboratory; ail Nature is its Subject; and its Game, free from close seasons and protective restrictions, always abounds in infinité variety, being ail that exists.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
… replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware, For I speak subtly. Resultsof prac- tice. ‘The poet abandons all to find ‘Truth. Known as I know my consciousness, That all division’s hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’ert…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…tice tends To holy thoughts (the holy deeds Precede success) and reverent gaze Upon the Ancient One of Days, Beyond which fancy lies the Truth. To find which I have left my youth, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,48 and count my beads, Murmer my mantra,49 till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 500 505 510 Fact replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware. For I speak subtly. Results of prac- tice. The poet abandons all to find Truth.
1899 · PDF PAGE 243
…leep. Your pure names (thine renowned, yours fresh with youth And full of promise) shall be kept Still in our hearts like mirrors of the truth, As if you had not slept.
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
…l, and according to how we live “there are many enjoyments in heaven,” and “in hell there are many sufferings.” Having once realized the truth of “Karma Kanda” the Yogi renounces the works of virtue and vice, and engages in ‘“‘ Jnana Kanda ”—knowledge. In the Shiva Sanhita we read: * In the proper season, various creatures are born to enjoy the consequences of their karma.f As through mistake mother-of-pearl is taken for silver, so through the error of one’s own karma man mistakes Brahma for the universe. Being too much and deeply engaged in th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
…l, and according to how we live “there are many enjoyments in heaven,” and “in hell there are many sufferings.” Having once realized the truth of “Karma Kanda” the Yogi renounces the works of virtue and vice, and engages in ‘“‘ Jnana Kanda ”—knowledge. In the Shiva Sanhita we read: * In the proper season, various creatures are born to enjoy the consequences of their karma.f As through mistake mother-of-pearl is taken for silver, so through the error of one’s own karma man mistakes Brahma for the universe. Being too much and deeply engaged in th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…asant. It is this desire inherent in me for continued consciousness that is responsible for it all, and this leads us to the Third Noble Truth. (3) SoRROW’S CEASING.—The cessation of desire is the cessation of sorrow, This is a simple logical inference from the second Truth, and needs no comment. (4) THE NosLeE EIGHTFOLD ParH.— There f a way, to be considered later, of realising the Third Truth. But we must, before we can perceive its possibility on the one hand, or its necessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…pardon; and in answer to a seemingly widespread desire to know if we mean anything, and if so, What? we request those who would know the Truth of Scientific lluminism to look into the open mouth of its doctrine, to follow its simple teachings step by step, and not to turn their backs on it and, walking in the opposite direction, declare so simple a problem to be an everlasting mystery. We are therefore not concerned with those who have not examined our doctrine of sceptical Theurgy, or scientific illuminism, or that which lies beyond. Let them …
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…pardon; and in answer to a seemingly widespread desire to know if we mean anything, and if so, What? we request those who would know the Truth of Scientific lluminism to look into the open mouth of its doctrine, to follow its simple teachings step by step, and not to turn their backs on it and, walking in the opposite direction, declare so simple a problem to be an everlasting mystery. We are therefore not concerned with those who have not examined our doctrine of sceptical Theurgy, or scientific illuminism, or that which lies beyond. Let them …
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…. HELL IS THE CONFLICT OF COWARDLY INSTINCTS. When humanity, by dint of bloody and dolorous experience, has truly understood this double truth, it will abjure the Hell of selfishness to enter into the Heaven of devotion and of Christian charity. The lyre of Orpheus civilized savage Greece, and the lyre of Amphion built Thebes the Mysterious, because harmony is truth. The whole of Nature is harmony. But the Gospel is not a lyre: it is the book of the eternal principles which should and will regulate all the lyres and all the living harmonies of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…. HELL IS THE CONFLICT OF COWARDLY INSTINCTS. When humanity, by dint of bloody and dolorous experience, has truly understood this double truth, it will abjure the Hell of selfishness to enter into the Heaven of devotion and of Christian charity. The lyre of Orpheus civilized savage Greece, and the lyre of Amphion built Thebes the Mysterious, because harmony is truth. The whole of Nature is harmony. But the Gospel is not a lyre: it is the book of the eternal principles which should and will regulate all the lyres and all the living harmonies of …
1961 · PDF PAGE 182
…ing Woman) F a Thousand Years it is nigh unto the Fiftieth Part, o my Son, since I obtained Favour in the Light of a great Master of the Truth, whom Men call Allan Bennett, so that he received me for his Disciple in Magick. And he was instant with me in his Matter, and vehement, adjuring his Gods that this (which I have myself here above declared unto thee) was the Truth concerning the Nature of Woman. But I being but a Youth, and Headstrong, and being enraptured in Love of Women, and Admiration of Them, and Worship, delighting in them eagerly,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
… or even according to a much mightier ratio, there is an opportunity thoroughly to scrutinise the hitherto evanescent phenomena, and the truth comes out. How many more such prophecies as these may have been rejected through the gross habit of the body we may never know until spirit vindicates her claim in a court where she must have audience. In this world we are but half spirit; we are thus able to hold only the perceptions and emotions of half an orb. Once fully rounded into symmetry ourselves, we shall have strength to bear the pressure of i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 282
… or even according to a much mightier ratio, there is an opportunity thoroughly to scrutinise the hitherto evanescent phenomena, and the truth comes out. How many more such prophecies as these may have been rejected through the gross habit of the body we may never know until spirit vindicates her claim in a court where she must have audience. In this world we are but half spirit; we are thus able to hold only the perceptions and emotions of half an orb. Once fully rounded into symmetry ourselves, we shall have strength to bear the pressure of i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… centuries nine and ten, Life of women — death of men ! In that sinister sad star Men shall bear the upright bar, Hanged for honesty and truth, Wisdom, courage, love, or youth. Women bear the cross-bar, living In the filth beyond believing. Svelte or buxom, fair or dark, Go to the maw of the greedy shark
1906 · PDF PAGE 180
…lts As by a lightning flash, solve doubt a concentra- And turn all Nature inside out : 390 ion do so. And, if such potency of might Hath Truth, once state the truth aright, Whence came the use for all those pages Milhons together—mighty sages Whom the least obstacle enrages? 395 Condemn the mystic if he prove Thinking less valuable than love? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s? How many are Hegelians? 400 This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 31
Aicra. One yard. Crassus. ‘You always meck me? Auicra. Pity of my youtht I swerve not from, you stumble at, the truth, Crassus. 1 like not jests. This is a serious journey. ALICIA. Why did you make 2 mocker your attorney? The way to Rome leads through the Apennines. Bacchus has horns beneath the crown of vines. If you fear horns, make some polite excuse Net to invoke him by the name Zagreust A Faun (Passing among the trees). ‘Ye thought me a lamb With a crown of thorns: Lam royal, a ram With death in my horns. So mild and soft And feminine, H#
1928 · PDF PAGE 55
there was not, to tell the truth, any longer the bone of contention. The piece of bread had disappeared, and was scattered in crumbs like the grains of sand with which it was mingled. This sight hard darkened the landscape for me, and the calm joy, in which my soul danced before it saw these miniatures of men, had vanished utterly. On that account I remained sad for a long while, saying to myself over and over again, There is then a sublime country where bread is called cake, and is so rare a delicacy that it may beget war between broth- ers.