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…workman and an architect thou hast taken from thy knowledge a divine will, at an appointed time, to draw being from nothing; so that the light which falls from the eyes is drawn from its own centre without any instrument or tool. This divine will has hol- lowed, designed, purified and moulded; it has ordered 7°
…workman and an architect thou hast taken from thy knowledge a divine will, at an appointed time, to draw being from nothing; so that the light which falls from the eyes is drawn from its own centre without any instrument or tool. This divine will has hol- lowed, designed, purified and moulded; it has ordered 7°
…ferent from a title. That solution is clever, but it just won't do, because that Stele never had a name! You lie! I shouted, as the full light broke through the mists of my mind; in these three thousand years it has once, if only once, had a name by invoking which you could bring it up before you; its name is "Stele 666" in the Catalogue of the Museum at Boulak! A single simple hammerstroke, and the nail is driven home to the head! Compare this with the chaotic devices of the "bilateral-cipher" maniacs, by the application of which it is easy to…
… the inter- minable stairs. I was received by a gentleman robed in white and carrying a drawn sword. The room was dark ; only a dull-red light shone upon an altar.
THE VISION AND THE VOICE the substance of him. But the light is without heat. It is the vision of Ut in the Upanishads. And from this vision have come all the legends of Bacchus and Krishna and Adonis. For the impression is of a youth dancing and making music. But you must understand that he is not doing that, for he is still. Even the hand that turns the wheel is not his hand, but only a hand energized by him. And now it is the dance of Shiva. I lie beneath his feet, his saint, his victim. My form is the form of the God Phtah, in my essence, b…
… the strength of the giants snaps, and they fall in heaps to the earth, as though all their bones were suddenly broken. And now waves of light roll through the Aethyr, as if they were playing. Therefore suddenly I am in a garden, upon a terrace of a great castle, that is upon a rocky mountain. In the garden are fountains and many flowers. There are girls also in the garden, tall, slim, delicate and pale. And nowI see that the flowers are the girls, for they change from one to another; so varied, and lucent, and harmonious is all this garden, th…
… hand. I didn’t like the way Lou was acting. She stayed so absolutely still and silent, it was uncanny. Lamus had taken three matches to light his pipe and it kept on going out between almost every puff. By- and-by he threw it angrily on the carpet and lighted a cigar. There was a club fender round the grate. Maisie was sitting on it swinging her legs impatiently. We all seemed to be waiting for something to happen and it was as if nobody knew where to begin. “ Tell him, Lou,” said Lamus suddenly. She started as if he had struck her. Then she t…
…strength and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations, and the two and twenty Privileges, and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the Universe. Veiled are their faces, that have beheld the glory Ineffable. These adepts seem like Pyramids-their hoods and robes are like Pyramids. And the Angel sayeth: Verily is the Pyramid a Temple of Initiation. Veril…
…alternative spelling TzBA — F where the Root, “an Host,>, has the value of 93. The Practicus should revive this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and thus make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast. 290
…that it was the civilized, the organized part that broke down. (Jews and Arabs could remain aloof , and keep a small torch burning until Light returned with the Renaissance.) This time there is no civilization which can escape being involved in the totality of the catastrophe. Achievement of high aims, which tends ultimately to the well-being, the prosperity of the republic , depends on the proportion of masters to servants . The stability of a building depends on the proportion of superstructure to foundations. The rule holds good in every dep…
ness”. The existence of the Angel is the justifica¬ tion of the device of création. 1 Line 9. This line must be studied in the light of Liber LXV (Equinox XL p. 65). Section H, This récapitulation demands the going forth together of the Adept and his Angel ato do their pleasure on the Earth among the living.” Section J. The Beast 666 having devised the présent method of using this Ritual, having proved it by his own practice to be of infallible puissance when properly performed, and now having written it down for the World, it shall be an ornam…
…Preferring love to pomp, and peace to revel— MEDEA. And the soft cushions of the moss-grown trees To royal pillows, and the moon’s young light To gaudy lamps of antique workmanship— JASON. And music of the birds to harps of gold Struck by unwilling fingers for gold coin. MEDEA. Come! lest the curse I call upon this house Eat us up also! May the red plague rot Their bones! I lift my voice and prophesy : The curse shall never leave this house of fear ; But one by treachery shall slay another, And vengeance shall smite one, and one lay bare oe Her…
… of the individual. Directly the seeker realizes this, a new reality is born, and the clouds of night roll back and melt away before the light of a breaking dawn, brilliant beyond all that have preceded it. Destroy this consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2. 4. 12. + The illusion of thinking ourselves similar to the Unity and yet …
… of the individual. Directly the seeker realizes this, a new reality is born, and the clouds of night roll back and melt away before the light of a breaking dawn, brilliant beyond all that have preceded it. Destroy this consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2. 4. 12. + The illusion of thinking ourselves similar to the Unity and yet …
…t, but managed to scramble out. Seeing an ass going in that direction, he kindly warned him. The ass disdainfully replied that he, being light, ran little danger. Ay ! said the elephant, but small and without an hand, how will thou escape if thou dost fall ? And in fact the ass fell, and perished misera- bly. [I think it far more likely that it refers to another fable, the following, told by Persians against Omar and Ayeshah who as the daughter of Abu Bekr is supposed by the Shiahs to have influ- enced Mohammed’s conduct for evil. There are num…
…ible), and he blots out the whole sphere of the stone. Then suddenly all is gone, and there is nothing in the stone save brilliant white light and flecks like sparks of golden fire; and there is a ringing, as if bells were being used for anvils. And there is a perfume which I cannot describe; it is like nothing that one can describe, but the suggestion is like lignum aloes. And now all these things are there at once in the same place and time. Now a veil of olive and silver is drawn over the stone, only I hear the voice of the angel receding, v…
THE EQUINOX voice cometh, as it were the music of the ripples of the surface of the sphere: Truth is delight. (This means that the Truth of the universe is delight.) Another voice cometh; it is the voice of a mighty Angel, all in silver; the scales of his armour and the plumes of his wings are like mother-of-pearl in a framework of silver. And he sayeth: Justice is the equity that ye have made for yourselves between truth and falsehood. But in Truth there is nothing of this, for there is only Truth. Your falsehood is but a little falser than yo…
…hen shalt thou meet me in equal con- flict, and thou shalt see me as Iam. And I will overcome thee and slay thee with the red rain of my lightnings. I am lying underneath this pyramid of light. It seems as if I had the whole weight of it upon me, crushing me with bliss. And yet I know that I am like the prophet that said: I shall see Him, but not nigh. And the Angel sayeth: So shall it be until they that wake are asleep, and she that sleepeth be arisen from her sleep. For thou art transparent unto the vision and the voice. And therefore in thee…
…The automobile stopped at the end of the dirty little street where the Fauno Ebbrio lurks. The motorman pointed to the zig-zag streak of light that issued from it, and cast a sinister gleam on the opposite wall. A bold, black-haired, short-skirted girl with a gaudy shawl and huge gold ear-rings was standing in the door. What with the long journey and the drugs and other things, we were a little drunk—just enough to realise that it was part of our policy to pretend to be a little more drunk than we were. We let our heads roll from side to side a…
…ain without error that he knew a very great deal more, and that of an altogether higher order, than I knew; finally, such glimmerings of light as time and desperate (See Appendi x I The Constitution of Man)