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Page 132 of 1591904 · PDF PAGE 43
…e Sixty-fifth Spirit is Andrealphus. He is a Mighty Marquis, appearing at first in the form of a Peacock, with great Noises. But after a time he putteth on Human shape. He can teach Geo- metry perfectly. He maketh Men very subtle therein; and in all Things pertaining unto Mensuration or Astronomy. He can transform a Man into the Likeness of a Bird. He governeth 30 Legions of Infernal Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (66.) Cimeyes, or Cimeres, or Kimaris.—The Sixty-sixth Spirit is Cimejes, or Cimeies, or Kimaris. He is a Marquis, Mighty, Grea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 47
…nection between them is simply that they all refer to the same thing. In studying the Qabalah you mention six months; I think after that time you should be able to realize that, after six incarnations of uninterrupted study, you may realize that you can never know it; as Confucius said about the Yi King: "If a few more years were added to my life, J would devote a hundred of them to the study of the Yi." If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in…
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…a great extent, right. His poems, ‘ Mors Janua Amoris ’ and ‘ The Whore in Heaven,’ will horrify the votaries of Mrs Grundy. At the same time, these daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we live in a hypocritical age, and apparently the author of these extraordinary poems realises the fact, for his volume is ‘ privately printed.’ The epilogue, ‘ A Death in Sicily,’ is really a magnificent poem—pagan in its intensity and vivedness of colouring ; but the prudes who think nakedness impurity and who abjectly fear death will de…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…re his glory with another? He had the enemy on the run; he had better pursue them forthwith. Vesquit's slow methods would only give them time to recover. So he resolved upon the chivalrous if perilous course of Cat's Cradle. This magical operation, the relics of which are familiar even to the most unspiritually-minded children, is exceedingly widespread, especially among nations which live principally by fishing, as, for example, the South Sea Islanders. Many most intricate and beautiful patterns have been devised, and
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
"I'll think that over. I might ask the minister this morning. But I tell you it's no time for trifles. Ever since all the mobilization plans were scrapped by the failure of Liege and Namur to hold out, distraction has reigned supreme, no casual mistress, but a wife, and procuress to the Lords of Hell at that!" "Do not quote Tennyson, even mixed, under the shadow of the Lion de Belfort! As to trifles, there are none in war. Ask the Germans if you don't believe me." [313] A little later, after the Rotonde Cafe' in the Boulevard Montparnasse had r…
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…confirmed by other parts of the text, or by events subsequent to the Writing of the Book. I worked on: I asked myself for the thousandth time what the Stèle could claim with literal strictness as “its name.” I scribbled the word ETHAH and added it up. The result is 546, when ET counts as 500, or 52, when ET is 6, a frequent usage, as in ETATPOE, whose number is thus 777. Idly enough, my tired pen subtracted 52 from 718. I started up like a Magician who, conjuring Satan in vain till
1996 · PDF PAGE 64
…s you from the brigand and the bully. You give your life on Her Altar. You make yourself worthy of Her by your readiness to fight at any time, in any place, with any weapon, and at any odds. For Her, from Whom you come, of Whom you are, to Whom you go, your life is no more and no less than one con tinuous sacrament. You have no word but Her praise, no thought but love of Her. You have only one cry, of inarticulate ecstasy, the intense spasm, possession of Her, and Death, to Her. You have no act but the priest’s gesture that makes your body Her…
1905 · PDF PAGE 242
…ion !—She is gone! VENUS. Save me, my knight! To thy sufficing arms I cling in this distress of womanhood ! TANNHAUSER, Kiss me the last time. VENUS. Whom have I but thee, Thee in the ages? Barren were my bliss And shorn my Godhead of eternal joy, Barred from thy kiss. TANNHAUSER. Call not thyself again Goddess. I saw thee in the Presence there. The scales are fallen, and mine eyes see clear. VENUS. Then you would leave me! Serpent if I were, My cvils should press in dolorous delight Thy straining bosom, and my kiss were death! Death! Dost thou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…destroyed; and I am rather sorry for it. While they possessed no merit, their contents would afford a valuable key to my thoughts at the time. The few fragments which escaped destruction were reprinted in my Oracles. I remember something of their general moral tendency, which was to celebrate the triumph of the revolt of youth and passion against age and propriety. I tried to get effect by using extremes of expression. I remember two lines from an epic. "Lady Ethelreda": Baron Ethelred waxed wroth, Frothed he with a frothy froth. But as I grew …
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
… Angel to shape one’s circumstances with skill. If one be but absorbed in the ardour of one’s aspiration toward Him, short indeed is the time before Expérience instils the certain conviction that His Works and His ways are inhnitely apt to one’s needs. 2. See Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie; Rituel, ch. XIII.
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…rick myself now? Shall I rend once again this homologous Whole? I have stripped every garment from space; I have strangled the secret of Time, All being is fled from my face, with Motions inhibited rime. Stiller and stiller I sit, till even Infinity fades; Tis an idoltis weakness of wit that breeds, in inanity, shades! Yet the fullness of Naught I become, the deepest and steadiest Naught,
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…." Cyril turned rather angrily to Lisa. "He's impossible! I fancy myself at paradox, you know; but he goes beyond my understanding every time. I'm an amateur, and a rotten amateur at that." "Let me explain!" said Simple Simon. "If everybody did his Will, there would be no collision. Every man and every woman is a star. It is when we get off our orbits that the clashes come. Now if a Thing gets off its orbit, and comes into my sphere of attraction, I absorb it as quietly as possible, and the stars sing together again." "Whew!" said Cyril, and pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…se for him. "Is the Countess at home?" asked Balloch, apparently in courtesy. "She's on the Boulevard. Where else should she be, at this time of night?" It was the vilest thing charged against that vile parody of a man, his treatment of his wife, a young, beautiful, talented, and charming girl, the sister of [123] a famous Professor at the Sorbonne. He had delighted to reduce her to the bedraggled street-walker that she now was. Nobody knew what Douglas did with his money. The contributions of his
1996 · PDF PAGE 147
… perilous. For one cannot be sure that a faculty which seems (on the surface) useless, even hostile, to one’s work, may not in course of time become one of vital value. If it be atrophied — alas! Its suppression may moreover have poisoned one’s whole system, as a breast debarred from its natu ral use is prone to cancer. At best, it may be too late to repair the mischief; the lost opportunity may be a life-long remorse. The one way of safety lies in applying the Law of Thelema with the utmost rigour. Every impulse, however feeble, is neces sar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…y cannot fail to be of great interest to every psychologist who cares for the physiological side of his fascinating science. At the same time, it should, we think, never be forgotten that the study of physiological psychology is hardly complete without a parallel research in psychological physiology. Nor should confusion arise between physiology proper, psychology proper, 391
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…y cannot fail to be of great interest to every psychologist who cares for the physiological side of his fascinating science. At the same time, it should, we think, never be forgotten that the study of physiological psychology is hardly complete without a parallel research in psychological physiology. Nor should confusion arise between physiology proper, psychology proper, 391
1930 · PDF PAGE 122
…n animal, their height and length suggest an animal of the size of a horse. That the carnage is open suggests a climate tolerable at any time of the year. The height of the box suggests crowded streets, or the spirited character of the animal employed to draw it. The cushions indicate its use to convey men rather than merchandise; its hood that rain some- jmes falls, or that the sun is at times powerful. The springs would imply considérable skill in metals; the varnish much attainment in that craft. 35* Similarly, let the adept consider of his …
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…rness. "It won't deceive Douglas for two minutes, if he be, as I suspect, the immediate Hound of the Baskervilles, but he may waste some time rejoicing [130] over my being such an ass as to try it; and that's always a gain." Lisa began to wonder whether her best chance of ever saying the right thing would not be to choose the wrong. His point of view was always round
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…victim, for your maid. Go to America; find the Child of the Moon. There may, or there may not be, other tasks for us to do; I know not — time will show." "I will, I will," she cried, "I will go now, quickly. Kiss me first!" Once again the tears gathered in the magician's [333] eyes; he understood, more deeply than he had ever done, the Sorrow of the Universe. He saw how utterly incompatible are all our human ideals with the Laws of Life. He took her slowly and gently in his arms; and he kissed her. But Lisa did not respond; she understood that …
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…make a break of a few strokes. But chance cannot account for consistent success, even if moderate, when it extends over a long period of time. And the ability of the expert to “name his shot” manifests a knowledge of the relations of cause and effect which confirms the testimony of his empirical skill that his success is not chance and coincidence. 2. This cynical statement is an absurdity of Black Magic. ï97 —