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Page 147 of 2031912 · PDF PAGE 328
…ucifer, the Herald Sun?לליה [Vide K. of S,, fig. 53] ”?לשוכ A lamenting, wailing?הלל The Pleiades?המיכ Night; by night?הליל NUIT,THE STAR GODDESS?םיוב Secret, put away ; a hiding-?ןויבה place Rest, peace nl'l‘J Slave, servant?ךנע Frayed ny: The river Gihon. [Gem ii. 13]?ןוחיג Ονἁτῆσννἰπς. [Ps. :»(₪. 5] [WI Towers, citadels?לדגמ The Influence from Kether?לזמ Strength; 3 he-goat?יע There are 78 cards in the Tarot. 2(I—r2)r The Mystic Number of Kether as Huar The sum 01 the Key-Numbers 01 the Super- nal Beard Angel of?וסW.?לאשא Angel of Ra Ηοοκ Khui…
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…olutely final and irreversible, ‘‘¢iat, Goodness only knows. But I will sing it to you.” PRELIMINARY INVOCATION. NOTHUNG.* THE crowns of Gods and mortals wither ; Moons fade where constellations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Niumberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Sand-f…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…s thy saviour. So therefore didst thou shriek in the Black Sabbath when thou didst kiss the hairy buttocks of the goat, when the gnarled god tore thee asunder, when the icy cataract of death swept thee away. Shriek, therefore, shriek aloud; mingle the roar of the gored lion and the moan of the torn bull, and the cry of the man that is torn by the claws of the Eagle, and the scream of the Eagle that is strangled by the hands of the Man. Mingle all these in the death‐shriek of the Sphinx, for the blind man hath profaned her mystery. Who is this, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 363
…appy the pure and the simple hearts that never think themselves better than others! Humanity, my mother, humanity daughter and mother of God, humanity conceived without sin, universal Church, Mary! Happy is he who has dared all to know thee and to understand thee, and who is ready to suffer all once more, in order to serve thee and to love thee ! XVIII THE NUMBER EIGHTEEN Tus number is that of religious dogma, which is all poetry and all mystery. F 65
1913 · PDF PAGE 363
…appy the pure and the simple hearts that never think themselves better than others! Humanity, my mother, humanity daughter and mother of God, humanity conceived without sin, universal Church, Mary! Happy is he who has dared all to know thee and to understand thee, and who is ready to suffer all once more, in order to serve thee and to love thee ! XVIII THE NUMBER EIGHTEEN Tus number is that of religious dogma, which is all poetry and all mystery. F 65
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…ecame rigid in her chair. Simon Iff bade farewell to the three guests; Cyril and Sister Cybele conducted them to the boat, and bade them God-speed. The other brethren of the Order dispersed, one to one task, one to another. Presently Simon and Cyril, Cybele and Lisa were together alone. The old man led the way to a cell cunningly hidden in the wall. There they took seats. Lisa la Giuffria recognized that the critical moment of her life was come upon her. [90]
1961 · PDF PAGE 212
…a crude Denial of what Truth (or rather, Fact) they had perceived concerning he Universe, so that they set up an Idol of Death for their God, in very Rage of Hatred against the Sum of their own Selves. b
1907 · PDF PAGE 88
…e ; though I had seen Chastity charm - proof arm and sea gray eyes And sweet clean body of my spirit's queen , Where nothing dwells that God did not devise .' The sonnets relating the events of the seventh to the tenth day are dismal , attempting to drown Love in Lust . On the twelfth a little flame burns up , then comes the poem , which Alice receives and reads . Every verse is as charming , simple , and fascinating as the following two : One kiss , like snow , to slip , Cool fragrance from thy lip To melt on mine ; One kiss , a white - sail s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
… Abandoning this limbo of Causality, just as the Buddhist did at a later date, he tackled the practical problem “What am I? To hell with God!” The self is the basis for the validity of proof, and therefore is constituted also before the validity of proof. And because it is thus formed it is impossible to call it in question. For we may call a thing in question which comes up to us from without, but not our own essential being. For ifa man calls it in question yet is it his own essential being. An integral part is here revealed in each of us whi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
… Abandoning this limbo of Causality, just as the Buddhist did at a later date, he tackled the practical problem “What am I? To hell with God!” The self is the basis for the validity of proof, and therefore is constituted also before the validity of proof. And because it is thus formed it is impossible to call it in question. For we may call a thing in question which comes up to us from without, but not our own essential being. For ifa man calls it in question yet is it his own essential being. An integral part is here revealed in each of us whi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 518
… of the power to concentrate themselves somewhere, they would be dead and impotent everywhere, lost as they would be in the immensity of God. All created spirits have, then, bodies, some subtler, some grosser, according to the surroundings in which they are called to live. The soul of a dead man would, then, not be able to live in the atmosphere of the living, any more than we can live in earth or in water. For an airy, or rather an ethereal, spirit, it would be necessary to have an artificial body similar to the apparatus of our divers, in ord…
1913 · PDF PAGE 518
… of the power to concentrate themselves somewhere, they would be dead and impotent everywhere, lost as they would be in the immensity of God. All created spirits have, then, bodies, some subtler, some grosser, according to the surroundings in which they are called to live. The soul of a dead man would, then, not be able to live in the atmosphere of the living, any more than we can live in earth or in water. For an airy, or rather an ethereal, spirit, it would be necessary to have an artificial body similar to the apparatus of our divers, in ord…
1954 · PDF PAGE 113
…with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, these? I shall despise Diogenes. Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. There is thus in this School no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature i:::, so to speak, "the First Matter of the Work," which is to be transmuted into gold. The joy is a function of our own part in this alchemy. For this reason we find the boldest and most skilful adepts deliberately seeking out the most repugnant elements of Nature that their triumph may…
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
12 by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos.: and with time, space and causality, the conditions limiting and inyolving them all. Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed, nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence ‘was just as much unformulated as that of toasted cheese. But0? is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our universe is a finite universe ; its categories are themselves finite, and the e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…istians ! you daily crucify your Saviour , hourly you drive the rusty nails through His outstretched hands , O “ maudite race !” “ WHOSE GOD IS THEIR BELLY , WHOSE GLORY IS IN THEIR SHAME , WHO MIND EARTHLY THINGS .” Temptation is the Armourer who tries the blade, and Resistance the quality of the steel. How many of the well -fed will bear the test of old Andrea ? How many would prove themselves a worthy blade to Ferrara ? Sadness stares around us with hollow tear -drowned eyes , and the days of our joys are wet with the weep ing of the night o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…obtain the volume entitled “The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”; or the magical writings of that holy illuminated Man of God, Captain Fuller, and carry out fully their instructions. And only when we have succeeded, when we have put a colossal ! against our vital ? need we inquire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. Let us take the first step ; let us sing: “1 do not ask to see The distant path ; one step’s enough for me.” But (you will doubtless say) I pith your ? itself with another ?: Why qu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…t. I only stayed two or three days in Edinburgh and, having attended to the matter of wine and woman, completed the triad by writing The God-Eater. This sort play is singularly unsatisfactory as a work of art, but extremely significant as a piece of autohagiography. The explanatory note in my Collected Works is itself obscure. The idea of this obscure and fantastic play is a follows: By a glorious act human misery is secured (history of Christianity). Hence, appreciation of the personality of Jesus is no excuse for being a Christian. Inversely,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…Crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of Eternity the sacred blood of the Bull , the Second Christ ; and as the first, the Lamb of God, sprang from the immaculate womb of the Virgin -Mother , so shall this second incarnation spring blood -red from the snowy lips of the great Supernal Mother , androgynous, the Circe - Isis of the ages . In “ Alice , an Adultery ,” we see a woman passionate in her love , strenuous in her affection , yet in the end failing by abandoning her lover for her children . Not so , however , in “ Rosa Inferni ,” whe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 313
…istence independent of its own ." 2 Others attain but a glimpse . Maimonides long ago noticed : Learn that Prophecy is an emanation from God which flows , through the intermediary of the active Intellect , upon the rational Faculty first , and then upon the imaginative Faculty ; it is the highest degree of a man , and the term of perfection to which the species may aspire ; and this state is the highest perfection of the imaginative Faculty . . . If the emanation flows into the imaginative Faculty only , and if the rational Faculty remains behi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
Devotion better than learning. 123 But the light-hearted Sufi thither floats Breasting God’s waves with Life for coracle. So El Qahar defies the host of Fate, Having thy podex for a citadel. 1. Zemzem. The holy well at Mecca. Its waters are excessively foul, and even the most devout make a wry face when drinking them. 2. Jasmine podex — surely a true perversion of sense ! Yet the adjective is as invariable as pius for Aeneas and fidus for Achates. 3. Fatihah, the first chapter of the Q’uran. To recite it 1,000 times nightly causes one to become…