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Page 144 of 1961906 · PDF PAGE 138
…he passage ! and the next day he was dead —murdered, murdered ! Oh, how horrible! —what a horrible place this is with all its beauty and love! and my worship—oh, how strange it all is. Criosda! come! [She begins to carry him to the great door, then notices his white robe. This must come off: they must not see the holy robes. Criosda! my darling dear brother, do look at me! [She has removed the robes. CRIQSDA is now seen to be dressed ina dark- green tartan kilt and quast-military tunic with silver buttons, A dirk hangs at his stde. Its hilt ts …
1913 · PDF PAGE 415
…um, absorbed by the charcoal, becomes wholly negative; for this reason animals which are tormented by electricity, as for example, cats, love to roll themselves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges …
1913 · PDF PAGE 415
…um, absorbed by the charcoal, becomes wholly negative; for this reason animals which are tormented by electricity, as for example, cats, love to roll themselves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges …
1913 · PDF PAGE 47
…ens of heaven and the world, legitimately recommended to the Father and Creator of the Universe by their virtue, which procures them His love, virtue that sets before it for its prize the most suitable reward of nobility and goodness, outstripping every gift of fortune, and the first comer in the race to the very goal of blessedness.” The striking identity of this with the account of the ritual derived from @ priori considerations will at once be manifest. Letter RECEIVED “Dear Sir, “Your name has highly been recommended to me in the Occult Rev…
1913 · PDF PAGE 47
…ens of heaven and the world, legitimately recommended to the Father and Creator of the Universe by their virtue, which procures them His love, virtue that sets before it for its prize the most suitable reward of nobility and goodness, outstripping every gift of fortune, and the first comer in the race to the very goal of blessedness.” The striking identity of this with the account of the ritual derived from @ priori considerations will at once be manifest. Letter RECEIVED “Dear Sir, “Your name has highly been recommended to me in the Occult Rev…
1944 · PDF PAGE 106
… New Aeon, in his manifestation to the race of men as the Sun spiritual, moral, and physical. He is the Lord of Light, Life, Liberty and Love. This Aeon has for its purpose the complete emanci‐ pation of the human race. The rose represents the flowering of the solar influence. Around the whole picture we see the signs of the Zodiac in their normal position, Aries rising in the East, and so on. Free‐ dom brings sanity. The Zodiac is a kind of childish representation of the body of Nuith, a dif‐ ferentiation and classification, a chosen belt, one…
1961 · PDF PAGE 172
…nt the Pyramid, if thou art established as a Sphinx. For It also hath the foursquare Base of Law, and the Four Triangles of Light, Life, Love and Liberty for its Sides, that meet in a Point of Perfection that is Hadith, poised to the Kiss of Nuith. But in this Pyramid there is no Difference of Form between the Sides, as it is in thy Sphinx, for these are wholly One, save in Direction. Thou art then an Harmony of the Four by Right of thy Attainment of Adeptship, the Crown of thy Manhood, but not an Identity, as in Godhead. Therefore may it be sa…
1961 · PDF PAGE 173
…ee in thine Adultery with Her. They are then as a Vesture of Honour, and a Reward, that are won by the Intensity of thy Light and of thy Love. So perperly we esteem Men by the Measure of their Intelligence and their Strength, since they are equal in their essential Godhead, so far as concerneth the Quality thereof. See thou closely moreover into it, that if thou be well favoured of Our Lady, thy Lion and thy Dragon grow in like Measure, for the Excess of the Feminine is Dead Weight. The Intellectual without Virility is a Dreamer of Follies, and…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…eing also a number, links that word with others of the same value, or a multiple thereof. For example, AChD unity (1+8 +4) =13; and AHBH love (1+5+2+5)=13. This fact is held to indicate “The nature of Unity is Love”. Then IHVH Jehovah (10 +5+6+5) =26=2 X 13. Therefore: “Jehovah is Unity manifested in Duality.” And so forth. One important interpretation of Tarot is that it is a Notariqon of the Hebrew To‐ rah, the Law; also of ThROA, the Gate. Now, by the Yetziratic attributions—see table at end— this word may be read The Universe—the new‐born S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 208
… barley from the sea, And binds it royally Into a sheaf that waves to the wind’s tune. The rocky portals rise above. Here I may clasp my love, Here Hermes shall deliver. Ah! how shook Yon cliff at the wind’s ardent kiss ! This is the hour of bliss— Thesea! Thesea! Eurydice! Look, Look! Ai! but like wind-whirled flowers of frost The flying form is lost ! Cancelled and empty of Eurydice The black paths where she trod ! Ai! Ai! My God! My God! Apollo, why hast thou forsaken me? EXPLICIT LIBER TERTIUS
1912 · PDF PAGE 58
…mony, in majesty be all, And in humility endure what may befall. For you, most high Princess, yet a third loads to bear. The state that loves its lord is hungry for his heir. Ay, to this end, indeed, was marriage first ordained, And to this end to-day is by the Church sustained. Even as the Church to Christ (Beneath reflects Above !) You owe your lord respect, obedience, and love. [To MORTADELLO.] As Christ delights in Her for whom He gave His life, So cherish and defend and pleasure in your wife. Now, if in Heaven indeed be made and sealed a …
1899 · PDF PAGE 18
…bjure, Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead is powerless, even on the slave, Who once could scar the forehead of the brave, Break love’s heart pitiful, and reach the strong Through stricken children, and a mother’s wrong. Day after darkness, life beyond the tomb! Manhood reluctant from religion’s womb Leaps, and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 31
…ures of some dirty slut of a Princess. They scent indecency in passion beyond the marriage-tie : they will not even allow a man to be in love with his own wife. Why shouldn’t he be ? He is now and then. I happen to know it. The long and short of the whole matter is this, that there is no- thing clean but ecstasy. Whether that ecstasy is the divine spirituality of Visva- rupadarshana, or the sexual splendour of Epipsychidion, or the laughter of Catullus, all is pure and perfect. It is the vision of the God that is pure ; it is the veils that sta…
1912 · PDF PAGE 85
…are now interested in the work for its own sake. A most astounding phenomenon has happened to us ; we have had an experience which makes Love, fame, rank, ambition, wealth, look like thirty cents; and we begin to wonder passionately, “What is truth?” The Universe has tumbled about our ears like a house of cards,
1913 · PDF PAGE 100
…nd Pe, is one of the most wonderful passages in all the Holy Qabalah. His resolution of what we take to be the bond of slavery into very love, the embroidered neckband of honour bestowed upon us by the King himself, is one of the most sublime passages in this class of literature. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. He put her in a peanut shell; Then he kept her very well. This early authentic text of the Hinayana school of Buddhism is much esteemed even to-day by the more cultured and devoted followers of that school.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…e to day1 } who cares whether spirits or shekels wrought that which these Magicians willed ? Let the Magical Link be made strong! It is “love under will”; it affirms the identity of the Equation of the work; it makes success Necessity. I. P. S. He died some months after this passage was written : but he had been enabled to live and work for nearly a quarter of a century longer than he would otherwise hâve done. 122
1954 · PDF PAGE 288
…d, and joined the merry throng. So people said, "Is Saul also among the Prophets?" meaning a man capable of the "divine" intoxication of love, song, eloquence, or whatever else enthusiastic might possess him. Men seized by the afflatus were found to be capable of extraordinary exploits; hence the condition was admired and envied by the average clod. Also, imitated by the average crook!) For all that, I am going for once to yield to popular clamour, and use words in their popular sense. That seems to me, roughly this: Prediction is a forecast ba…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…I will lift the twisted rod, And make my power as the power of God ! I made my beauty as it was before. I learned strange secrets; by my love and skill I bent creation to my wanded will. I tuned the stars, I bound the bitter shore Beyond the Pleiads: until the Universe Moved at my mantra?: Heaven and Hell obeyed ; | Creation at my orders stayed or swayed. ‘* Take back,” I cried, ‘‘ the mockery of a curse !” “T wield Thy Power.” With my magic rod Again I strode before the Throne of God. ‘*Forgone my Virgin Splendour ! I aspire No longer as a mai…
1905 · PDF PAGE 220
…er Isis,! let thine cyes Behold my grief, and sympathise ! are I cannot round the perfect wheel, Attain not to the fuller end. In part I love, in part I feel, IKnow, worship, will, and comprehend. O Mother Nephthys,* fill me up Thine own perfection’s deadly cup! My aspiration quails within me ; ‘* My heart is fixed,” in vain I ery ; The little loves and whispers win me :— + 39 ** Eli, lama sabacthani ! 1 Nature: the beginning. 2 Perfection: the end. ‘© Chomse,! moon-god, grant thy boon, The silver pathway of the moon ! Beyond the Glory of the D…
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
THE LOOKING -GLASS 39 The fourth , to draw her kisses and to keep ; The fifth , for love ; the sixth , in sweet despair ; The seventh , to destroy us unaware ; The eighth , to dive within the infernal deep .' would scan better ; but by replacing it by “ within ” we can feel the dark waters close over us as we are borne down their unfathomable depths . Similarly in the following : Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids ' lazy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” i…