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…ance for you. Behold who dare! (Ay, you are fain!) Purblind with prejudice? No vision, Palsied with passion? Sight in vain. ‘Stupid with sense of self? Division, Picture, not model? Then you win, T painted soul, who saw your skin -— Be soul! That saves you. If you fail, ‘Why, then, you fail! Enough of this—
…ome a Néophyte, i° = io°, than to pass from that grade to Zelator, 2° = 90. Initiation is, therefore, progressively easier, in a certain sense, after the first step is taken. But (especially after the passing of Tiphareth) the distance between grade and grade increases as it were by a geometrical progression with an enormously high factor, which itself progresses. 2 1. The Holy Qabalah (see Liber D in Eqiiinox I, VIII, Supplément, and Liber 777) affords the means of analysis and application required. See also Equinox I, V, “The Temple of Solomo…
… puff out their emptiness; scratched for the Great Race of Life, they watch the Derby instead. Brave such may be; they may well be (in a sense) classed with the rat; but brainless and idle they must be, who have no goal beyond the grave, where, at the best, chance flings fast-withering flowers of false and garish glory. They serve to defend things vital to their country; they are the skull that keeps the brain from harm? Oh foolish brain! Wert thou not wiser to defend thyself, rather than trust to brittle bone that hinders thee from growth? Let…
…asy Cover the frail blue veil of sky, And speak immortal things ! Dream, lady, dream through summer noon, Lulled by the sleepy tune! The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice II
…e, but this is rather like buying a safe to keep a brick in. Expérience is the only teacher. One acquires what one may almost calî a new sense. One feels in one’s self whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of i…
And, subtler than the Sphinx, The ineffable iynx Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When from the bluest bowers And greenest-hearted hours Of Heaven thou smilest toward earth, a miracle of flowers! Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate, where the shade of earth is black, Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face! The glory of the comet-tailéd track Blinds all black earth with tears. Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the starry spheres. Wrapped in rose, green and gold, Blues many and manif…
…ood, and is to that extent qliphotic 3 and dangerous. Even an idea like “truth” is unsafe unless it is realized that ail Truth is in one sense falsehood. For ail Truth is relative ; and if it be supposed absolute, will mislead.4 “The Book of Lies falsely so called” (Liber 333) is worthy of close and careful study in this respect. The reader should also consult Konx Om Pax, “Introduction”, and “Thien Tao” in the same volume. Ail this is to be expressed in the words of the ritual itself, and symbolised in every act performed. II It is said in the…
…tic earnestness that they will tell the enquirer that this book will meet his needs. Does this Sound too simple? Can this obvious common-sense course be really that marvellous Magick that frightens folk so? Yes, even this triviality is one instance of how Magick Works. But the above practical programme may be a fiasco. One might then resort to Magick in the conventional sense of the Word, by constructing and charging a Pantacle appropriate to the object; this Pantacle should then cause a strain in the Astral Light such that the vibrations would…
… of vibration) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. This need not be a Chemical substance at ail in the ordinary sense of the Word. The Elixir of Life will similarly consist of a living organism capable of growth, at the expense of its environment ; and of such a nature that its “true Will75 is to cause that environment to serve it as its means of expression in the physical world of human life. The Universal Medicine will be a menstruum of such subtlety as to be able to penetrate ail matter and transmute it in the sense …
…ss. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! 62. At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say—and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple—To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. Commentary: It is evident that Our Lady, in her Personality, contemplates some more or less ope…
…he same inherent defects as are found in the Sevens will apply. Yet one may perhaps urge this alleviation, that the Eights come as (in a sense) a rem‐ edy for the error of the Sevens. The mischief has been done; and there is now a reaction against it. One may, therefore, expect to find that, while there is no possibility of perfection in the cards of this number, they are free from such essential and original errors as in the Lower case. The Eight of Wands is called Swiftness, as one might expect from its attribution to Mer‐ cury and Sagittariu…
ALI SLOPER; OR, THE FORTY LIARS 47 in value to yours of telling truth to a man in the sense he under stands. Bones. Yes; I may grant so much: but my formula is a good one too. Bowley. I promise to try it. Bones. You have two advantages. One is the common or Garden Magic; you acquire the habit of telling truth in the low material ob jective sense, and nature is bound (as Levi says) “to accommodate herself to the statement of the magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “ It does not hurt ” and it doesn’t. 80101:]. I have…
…r and of Vengeance”; see Cap. III. The doctrine of the previous verses, which appears not merely to allow sexual liberty in the ordinary sense, but even to advocate it in a sense which is calculated to shock the most abandoned lib ertine, can do no less than startle and alarm the magician, and that only the more so as he is familiar with the theory and prac tice of his art. “What is this, in the name of Adonai?” I hear him exclaim: “is it not the immemorial and unchallenged tradition that the exorcist who would apply himself to the most eleme…
…rn, delight the vales ; Nor beast, nor bird, span space. Immense, Black rain, grey mist, white wrath of gales, Fill the dread armoury of sense. Nor shines the sun; nor moon, nor star Their subtle light at all display ; Nor day, nor night, dispute the scaur: All’s one intolerable grey. Black Ilyns, grey rocks, white hills of snow! No flower, no colour: life is not. This is no way for men to go From Severn-mouth to Camelot. Despair, the world upon his speed, Drive (like a lion from his den Whom hunger hunts) the man at need, Sir Palamede the Sara…
… ' largesse on sultry plains , And sun - dried mowings lying sweet and grey , And opal benison of quiet rains Have satisfied the reeling sense with May ; Grant us remembrance - lest we fail to know One lavish moment 's poignant loveliness ,- ) How in the grey streets passeth to and fro Shrill - crying , lost , night - blinded bitterness . 171
…rom place to place without the trouble of inventing and using locomotives. Let us apply these considérations to Magick in its restricted sense, the sense in which it was always understood until the Master Therion extended it to cover the entire operations of Nature. What is the theory implied in such rituals as those of the Goetia? What does the Magician do? He applies himself to invoke a God, and this God compels the appearance of a spirit whose function is to perform the Will of the Magician at the moment. There is no trace of what may be cal…
…shing forward on the gale, Till its blade that wavereth Like the flickering of Death Sank before his subtle fence To the starless sea of sense. Now at last the man is come Haply to his halidom. Surely as he waves his rod In a circle on the sod Springs the emerald chaste and clean From the duller paler green.
…of time If thy bewitching beauty be the theme. MEDEA. Sing me thy song, sweet poet, of the sea, That song of swimming when thy love lost sense Before the passion of the Infinite. JASON. The more so as my master warns me oft Of late how near that island is, where dwell The alluring daughters of Melpomene. 1 The ‘‘ fable" is Crowley's own, ORPHEUS.! Light shed from seaward over breakers bend- ing Kiss-wise to the emerald hollows : light divine Whereof the sun is God, the sea his shrine; Light in vibrations rhythmic; light unending ; Light sideway…
…so that each is absolute, and the whole insusceptible of increase or diminution. It is (in fact) tech- nically a pantacle in the fullest sense of the word. Let us consider some prominent examples of such System. We may observe that a common mode of divination is to inquire of books by placing the thumb at random within the leaves. The Books of the Sybil, the Works of Vergil, and the Bible hâve been used ’very frequently for this purpose. For theoretical justification, one must assume that the book employed is a perfect représentation of the Uni…
…onquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas ! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie. Condemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind.