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Page 129 of 1541907 · PDF PAGE 184
…the snare. The cold confounds me ; The mist surrounds me; Life trembles and lowers ; Earth fades from miy life. The love of my wife, The light of the flowers, Earth’s beautiful bowers. Pass, and are not. I am awed by the soul of the place, the hope- less, the desolate spot. Here is the wharf Wearily standing, Misshapen and dwarf, Well fit for such landing ! Darker the bloom Of the night-flowers glows, Shadowing the tomb, The indicible woes. Dark and unlovely the cypress still grows Deformed and blistered, Stunted and blackened, Where the dead g…
1954 · PDF PAGE 189
… continual whirling movement rather than the Pantacle or Coin, as is more usual. Once again, exquisite child of our Father the Archer of Light and of seaborn Aphrodite, your well-known acumen has "nicked the ninety and nine and one over" as Browning says when he (he too!) alludes to the Tarot. As you will have gathered from the above, a Talisman is a much more restricted idea; it is no more than one of the objects in his Pantacle, one of the arrows in the quiver of his Lamen. As, then, you would expect, it is very little trouble to design. All …
1954 · PDF PAGE 202
…nd is to be hung from the ceiling exactly above the centre of the altar. There are plenty of old church lamps which serve very well. The light is to be from a wick in a floating cork in a glass of olive oil. (I hope you can get it!) It is really desirable to make this as near the "ever-burning Lamp of the Rosicrucians" as possible; it is not a drawback that this implies frequent attention. Now for the Weapons! The Wand. Let this be simple, straight and slim! Have you an Almond or Witch Hazel in your garden-or do I call it park? If so, cut (with…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
… Come back to life! | Open your eyes ! Come back, breathe softly from the breast of Lift the blue eyelids under the deep lashes Till one light flashes! old . These arms enfold. Wake with one supreme sigh like the old Give me your lips and kiss me once! O wife, sighs ! Come back to life! Open your eyes ! Nay, let the wind but stir the silky hair, : (God’s lesser air, ‘I cannot leave you so, Eurydice. Not His full blossom of woman’s breath !) ! Come back to me! O wife, -Just in the triumph, in love’s utmost hour, Come back to life ! ) Life’s quee…
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
… any consciousness or memory of what had passed. He talked as if there had been no quarrel at all. The colour came back to his face, the light to his eyes. ‘‘One more go like that, Lou,” he said, ‘‘ and I’ll be all right.” I wasn’t at all sure what King Lamus would have said ; but it was my own responsibility, and I couldn’t refuse him. He went off to sleep very soon after. In the morning I found out what had happened to him. He had been round to some of the men he used to know in the hospital to get them to give him some H., but they hadn’t da…
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
…planes. — B y this method mayst thou assist the imagination at the time of concluding thine Invocation. Act as taught in Liber Q, by the light of Liber 777. 37. Concerning minor methods adjuvant in the ceremonies. — IL Talismanic Magic. — Having made by thine Ingenium a talisman or pantacle to represent the particular Deity, and conse- crated it with infinité love and care, do thou burn it ceremonially before the shrine, as if thereby giving up the shadow for the substance. But it is useless to do this unless thou do really in thine heart value…
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
…ne ear, The drone and rustle of the weir Told in bass the treble tale Of the embowered nightingale. Higher, on the patient river, Velvet lights without a quiver Echoed through their hushed rimes The garden's glow beneath the limes. Then the sombre village, crowned By the castellated ground, Where in cerements of sable, One square tower and one great gable Stood, the melancholy wraith Of a false and fallen faith. Over all, supine, enthralling, The young moon, her faint edge falling To the dead verge of her setting, Saintly swam, her silver frett…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…as. It dispersed many difficultés, harmonized many discords, and — yea, more! It shewed the substance of the Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, possessed of limitless liberty to enjoy Love by combining its units in various manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where ail things are possible. It revealed the omniprésence of Hadit identical with Himself, yet fulfilling Hi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…hyself a purpose to thyself. Not only mother of men art thou, or whore to men; serf to their need of Life and Love, not sharing in their Light and Liberty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! Will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler’s tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pirate ship from sinking? It has alway…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
… CHORUS. Surely a bane more potent than the first. MEDEA. Love is itself enchantment ! CHORUS. Some kind god Whispers from this a little light of hope. MEDEA. Only the hopeless are the happy ones. CHORUS. But didst thou turn him from his gleaming goal? Cover that shame with sweeter shame than this? MEDEA. Thou knowest that his vigil was to keep, Invoking all Olympus all the night, And then to yoke the oxen, and to plough The fearful furrow, sow the dreadful seed, Smite down the armies, and assuage the pest Of slime thrice coiled about the sacre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…e still voice, and we know him . we come ! We are sightless and dumb. ORPHEUS. More frail than your friends, The clouds borne above, The light of thee blends With the moon and her love. Thy spirit descends As a white-throated dove. Come forth! I invoke thee, O mist, and make me a sharer thereof ! THE MIsT. From valleys of violet My shadow hath kissed, From low-lying islet, A vision of mist, The voice of my pilot Steals soft to insist. O azure of sky, let Me pass to the tryst ! I hear the low voice of my love ; and I rest A maid on his breast. O…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…e consequently pauses to cast a last glance around the Temple to assure himself of the perfect readiness of ail things necessary, and to light the incense. The Oath is the foundation of ail Work in Magick, as it is an affirmation of the Will. An Oath binds the Magician for ever. In Part II of Book 4 something has already been said on this subject; but its importance deserves some further élaboration. Thus, should one, loving a woman, make a spell to compel her embraces, and tiring of her a little later, evoke Zazel to kill her; he will find tha…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its éléments, and further to combine Sat- Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which méditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest world) in Liber XXVII, “Here is Nothing under its three Forms.” 18. And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus, and by the Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapatti. 19* And woe, woe, woe, yea …
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…o certain Initiations before he was able to proceed. Thus, it is necessary that the technique of Magick should he perfected. The Body of Light nmst be rendered capable of going every- where and doing everything. It is, therefore, always the question of drill which is of importance. You hâve got to go out Rising on the Planes every day of your life, year after year. You are not to be disheartened by failure, or too much encouraged by success, in any one practice or set of practices. What you are doing is what will be of real value to you in the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…e Most Convenient Manner of Statement?) . ^ may intoxicate and exalt the Seer, it may inspire and fortify him in every way, it may throw light upon most holy mysteries, yet withal be no more than an interprétation of the individual to himself, the formula not of Abraham but of Onan. These plastic "Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man” are well enough for those who hâve heard “Know Thyself”. They are necessary, even, to assist that analysis of one’s nature which the Probationer of A.-. A.*, is sworn to accomplish. But "Love is the Law, love un…
1954 · PDF PAGE 391
358 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS to the snows. We took off the rope, and I sat down to coil it and light a pipe, while he wandered down. By this time I was as tired as 14 dogs, each one more tired than all the rest put together; what I call "silly tired ." I took a chance (for nightfall was near) on resting 5 or 10 minutes. Restored, I sprang to my feet, threw the coiled rope over my shoulder, and started to run down. But I was too tired to run; I slackened off. Then, to my amazement, I saw on the slopes below me, two little fellows hopping playfully a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 105
… God, are blinded ; mighty ones, Seeking His presence, reel before the glance ; ” And They, the greatest that may be of men, Become that Light, and care no whit for earth. But all your prayers are answered by your- selves, As I myself achieve this thought of niine. CHORUS. To me thou seemest to blaspheme the gods. MEDEA. Belike I seem, O ye of little wit. CHORUS. Surely thy tender years and gentle looks Belie such hatred to our king! I scorn To triumph on an enemy once fallen. MEDEA. Fools always! Iam tenderer than my years, And gentler than my…
1922 · PDF PAGE 202
…ed to do at school when I didn’t feel sure whether I had been found out in something or not. I tried to cover my confusion by starting a light conversation ; but I soon gave it up. He was taking no notice of my remarks. To him they were simply one of my symptoms. I realised with frightful certitude that my plans were impossible. I couldn’t fool this man, I couldn’t play on his passions, I couldn’t stealin his presence. Despite myself, my lie had become the truth. I could only do what I said I was coming to do; to ask him to help me out. No, not…
1996 · PDF PAGE 96
…m stronger. Commentary: This compulsion was that of true inspiration. It was the karma of countless incarnations of struggle towards the light. There is a sharp repulsion, physical and mental, toward any initiation, like that towards death. The above paragraph states only a part of the truth. I am not sure that it is not an attempt to explain away the verse, which humiliates me. I remember clearly enough the impulse to refuse to go on, and the fierce resentment at the refusal of my muscles to
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…g, and bearing children. So, all the serious words are jests, [213] and all the jokes are earnest. This, oh my brother, is the key to my light and sparkling conversation." "But — " "I know what you are going to say. You can reverse it again. That is precisely the idea. You keep on reversing it; and it gets funnier and more serious every time, and it spins faster and faster until you cannot follow it, and your brain begins to whirl, and presently you become That Spiral Force which is of the Quintessence of the Absolute. So it is all a simple and…