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Page 134 of 1541996 · PDF PAGE 30
…her Osiris. So also our own Silent Self, helpless and witless, hidden within us, will spring forth, if we have craft to loose him to the Light; spring lustily forward with his Cry of Battle, the Word of our True Wills. This is the Task of the Adept, to have the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, to become aware of his nature and his purpose, fulfilling them. Why is Aiwass thus spelt, when Aiwaz is the natural transliter ation of TTI? [oivz]? Perhaps because he was not content with identifying Himself with Thelema, Agape, et…
1905 · PDF PAGE 271
…n I went Over the mountains—how the Northwind blustered !— And slew with them the beast, and was content. The madness :—Oh! the dreadful light that lustred The main event. Ay! the wild whirlings in the woodland reaches ; The ghastly smile upon the Stone God’s ! lip; The rigid tremors, anguish that beseeches From eye to eye fresh fervours of the whip ; The mounded moss below the swaying beeches— Kiss me and clip! Why ! the old madness grows !—how feebly lying Smooth by this bay where waves are tender flowers. Winds, soft as the old kisses were, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…success. The day succeeding the exploit of the necromancers dawned gay and bright. The earth dried up again, but breathed refreshment. A light mist hung over the walled garden where Iliel stood upon her terrace. The moon sank large and pale over the ocean as sunrise awoke the waves, and Iliel, her vigil almost ended, prepared for the ceremony that ended her day. But no sooner had she gone to the care of her hand-maidens than Cyril Grey came down the garden with Brother Onofrio. Their arms were crossed upon their breasts in the stately fashion o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
… not sufficient to hâte him, even if we grant that the vibrations of thought, when sufficiently powerful and pure, may modify the Astral light sufficiently to impress its intention to a certain extent on such people as happen to be sensitive. It is much surer to use one’s mind and muscle in service of that hâte by devising and making a dagger, and then applying the dagger to the heart of one’s enemy. One must give one’s hâte a bodily form of the same order as that which one’s enemy has taken for his mani¬ festation. Your spirit can only corne i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…man would not have touched the Thing. It was on a different plane, and would no more have interfered with him than sound interferes with light. A young magician, one who had opened a gate on to that plane, but had not yet become master of that plane, might have been overcome. The Thing might even have dispossessed his ego, and used his body as its own. That is the beginner's danger in magick." "And what is your secret?" "To have assimilated all things so perfectly that there is no longer any possibility of strungle. To have destroyed the idea o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 167
…se, if it kills you. Sure cure! O.M.). March 25. Dragon Asana. Mantra A.M.P.H. 9.39 to 10.34 P.M.=55 mins, Breaks 14 to 18, mostly very slight. Interruptions none. Results: Dharana, got feeling on skin and automatic rigidity. Lost all personality most of the time, but only found this out by ‘break’ which revived it. Brain soon took up Mantra automatically. Illumination in brain after a while. Towards the last saw some visions of sea, &c. (very slight). Space and time annihilated during most of the practice. Good. (Beginning good—end bad. O.M.) …
1906 · PDF PAGE 114
…inks up the draught accurst. And all thy seasons grow as sweet as this is, One constant summer in sleep’s bosom nursed. All storm and sunlight, star and season, cease, Ilere is thy peace. © mortal, sad is Jove! But my dominion Extends beyond love’s ultimate abode. Eternity itself is but a minion, Lighting my way on the untravelled road. Gods shelter ’neath one shadow of my pinion. Thou only tread the path none else hath trode ! Come, lover, in my breast all blooms above, Here is thy love! MEDEA. My poet, now! The one song in the world! ORPHEUS.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 295
…iology 69,143,145,146,162 bisexual deities 30 Black Brothers 128,182 error of the 90 black dragon 152 Blake, William 102,138,142 body of light 126 bondage and discipline 42 Bouguereau, Adolphe 112 bourgeoisie 36,49, 72,73.75,97,117, 155 Brahms, Johannes 75 Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme 139 Bronte, Emily 44 Buddha 53,133,151 Buddhism 96.169,170 Bulaq Museum 160 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Zanoni 111 Buriats 85 Burton, Richard Francis 84 Butler, Samuel, the elder 133 Butler, Samuel, the younger 162 Cain 184 Cairo 150 Caligula 65 Calypso 171 casuality 118 …
1905 · PDF PAGE 89
…! CHORUS. In the brave old days ere men began To bind young hearts with an iron tether, Ere love was brief as life, a span, Ere love was light as life, a feather, Earth was free as the glad wild weather, God was father and friend to man. AHINOAM. Then when with mildness and much joy our judge Draw hither, let us send to meet his steps In sackcloth clad, with ashes on their heads, His cruel brethren, that he spare their lives. CHORUS. In the heart of a conqueror mercy sits A brighter jewel than vengeance wroken. Grace is the web that his people …
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
… its knowledge is enough to kindle a new epoch in mankind. "But heredity and environment usually manage to prevent any of this coming to light. No matter how full of whisky a flask may be, you will never make it drunk! "So we may perhaps conceive of some competition between souls for possession of different minds and bodies; or, let us say, to combine the ideas, different embryos. I hope you notice how this theory removes the objection to reincarnation, that one's mind does not remember 'the last time.' Why should our cone make connexion betwee…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… contradictions in a higher Unity. Beginning with such gross things as the colours of the spectrum, which are only partialities of white light, he resolved everything that came into his mind until he reached such abstractions as matter and motion, being and form; and by this process worked himself up into a state of mind which was capable of grasping those sublime ideas which unite even these ultimate antinomies. That was all. Douglas, still in magical touch with that "watcher," could feel it being slowly digested, so to say, by some other magi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 233
…desolate plain. TANNHAUSER riding towards a great mountain. TANNHAUSER. S1x days. Creation took no longer! Yet I wander eastward, and no light is found. The stars their motion shirk, or else forget. The sun—the moon? Imprisoned under- ground Where gnomes disport, and devils do abound, Six days. I journey to the black unknown, Always in hope the Infinite may rise Some unexpected instant, as ’twere grown A magic palace to enchanted eyes ; A wizard guerdon for a minstrel wise. Perhaps I am a fool to think that here, Merely by rending Nature’s h~"l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…ay Its forehead on the sea, and pray Some idle prayer to sunset, or the storm ! Yea ! as a cloud in worship-trance Swoons in invisible delight, Let slave and king, let death and dance Shake off their forms, and clothe their light In shrouds of sepulchre, the starless night !
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…t they would be able to cause the incarnation of beings of infinite knowledge and power, who would be able to bring the whole world into Light and Truth. "I may conclude this little sketch by saying that the idea has been almost universal in one form or another; the wish has always been for a Messiah or Superman, and the method some attempt to produce man by artificial or at least abnormal means. Greek and Roman legend is full of stories in which this mystery is thinly veiled; they seem mostly to derive from Asia Minor and Syria. Here exogamic …
1939 · PDF PAGE 64
…hly without touching upon, first of all, ontology; secondly, ordinary science; and thirdly, the high Magick of the true initiates of the light. 2. We found that both Ontology and Science, approaching the question of reality from entirely different standpoints, and pursuing their researches by entirely different methods, had yet arrived at an identical impasse. And the general conclusion was that there could be no reality in any intellectual concept of any kind, that the only reality must lie in direct experience of such a kind that it is beyond…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…earn how — alike to decency and to asthetics. "Dinner was served; the Poltergeist supplied the conversation. Never before had he been so light, so genial, so anxious to assure us of our future in Summerland; but ever and anon he touched the minor chord, spoke darkly of 'proof,' and of fish! (I beg you all to bear witness that I have not degraded myself by the evident pun). The dessert arrived. And now the Poltergeist was imminent. The lawyer thought to touch him and to hold him; he saw signs of him all over the room; he ran about after him, lik…
1905 · PDF PAGE 58
POWER 5I Refreshed, encouraged, lightened, Sent on the Way Whose Sun and Star have brightened From dawning into day, I set my face, a flint, Toward where the holy glint Oflamps affords the hint That leads me—where it may. POWER. THE mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command ; The stars that shudder when their king ! Extends his hand, His awful hand to bless, to curse; or moves Toward the dimmest-den In the thick leaves, not known of loves Or nymphs or men ; (Only the sylph’s frail gossamer may wave Their quiet frondage ye…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
…d which you must traverse before arriving at that degree. Take in your right hand the Cubical Cross, and in your left hand the Banner of Light, and follow your guide Anubis* the Guardian: who leads you from the Material to the Spiritual.” Kerux: “Anubis the Guardian spake unto the Aspirant, saying: ‘Let us enter into the Presence of the Lords of Truth.’ Arise and follow me.” * It will be noticed that from here this ritual becomes unnecessarily complicated with Egyptian deities—in fact, its mysteries become rather “forced.” Still more so 266
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
…d which you must traverse before arriving at that degree. Take in your right hand the Cubical Cross, and in your left hand the Banner of Light, and follow your guide Anubis* the Guardian: who leads you from the Material to the Spiritual.” Kerux: “Anubis the Guardian spake unto the Aspirant, saying: ‘Let us enter into the Presence of the Lords of Truth.’ Arise and follow me.” * It will be noticed that from here this ritual becomes unnecessarily complicated with Egyptian deities—in fact, its mysteries become rather “forced.” Still more so 266
1944 · PDF PAGE 109
… Hoor‐pa kraat. (See above, the Formula of Tetragrammaton). He is also solar in character, and is therefore shown coming forth in golden light. The whole of this symbolism is thoroughly explained in the Book of the Law. It should, by the way, be noted that the name Heru is identical with Hru, who is the great Angel set over the Tarot. This new Tarot may therefore be regarded as a series of illus‐ trations to the Book of the Law; the doctrine of that Book is everywhere implicit. At the bottom of the card we see the letter Shin itself in a form s…