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Page 166 of 1971930 · PDF PAGE 101
…may be taken as a model. Let the Philosophus work out the legend of his own particular Deity, and apportioning days to events, live that life in imagination, exercising the five senses in turn, as occasion arises. 39. Concerning minor matters adjuvant in the ceremonies. — IV. Dur esse. — This method consists in cursing a deity récalci¬ trant ; as, threatening ceremonially ££to burn the blood of Osiris, and to grind down his bones to powder.” This method is alto- gether contrary to the spirit of love unless the particular Deity be himself savage…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…emy is at least inter ested in you: you may make him your friend as you never can do with a neutral. Remember that Magick is the Art of Life, there fore of causing change in accordance with Will; therefore its law is “love under will”, and its every movement is an act of love. Remember that every act of “love under will” is lawful as such; but that when any act is not directed unto Nuit, who is here the inevitable result of the whole Work, that act is waste, and breeds conflict within you, so that “the kingdom of God which is within you”1 2 i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 44
…WIIY JESUS WEPT ANGELA, Ah, were such nights thy gift, dear Christ, all maids Were well thy servants. speaking ! The utmost triumph of a life well spiced With victory---this beats all. Ilortense! IJortense ! Bring me the brandy-—pour a double dram ! Ilere’s luck—ah, Satan, give me fifty such ! [Drinks off the brandy. And now to bed again—to sleep, I am tired. [She goes tit. This is past all While the scene ts being shifted, enter GOWER as Chorus. The figure of the Marquis of Glenstrae Demands the kind attention of the spot Of consciousness that…
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
… that I should have ever recognised her by sight. What put me on the track was the grip of her hand, though I had never touched it in my life before. Now don’t think that I’m going off the deep end about this. Don’t dismiss me as a mystic-monger. Look back each one into your own lives, and if you can’t find half a dozen incidents equally inexplicable, equally
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
…e achievements of these few months. Firstly, "Across the Gulf". This is a prose story of some twenty thousand words. The theme is my own life in the 26th Dynasty, when I was Ankh-f-n-khonsu and brought about the Aeon of Osiris to replace that of Isis. The story must not be taken as true in the ordinary sense of the word, but as allegorical. I wrote many lyrics, but especially "The Sevenfold Sacrament". This poem subsequently appeared in the English Review and has often been reprinted. It {665} is, one might say, a pendant to Aha! It is one of m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…persed many difficultés, harmonized many discords, and — yea, more! It shewed the substance of the Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, possessed of limitless liberty to enjoy Love by combining its units in various manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where ail things are possible. It revealed the omniprésence of Hadit identical with Himself, yet fulfilling Himself by d…
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…n; thou art thyself a star, and in thyself a purpose to thyself. Not only mother of men art thou, or whore to men; serf to their need of Life and Love, not sharing in their Light and Liberty; nay, thou art Mother and Whore for thine own pleasure; the Word I say to Man I say to thee no less: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”! Ay, priest, ay, lawyer, ay, censor! Will ye not gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler’s tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
… whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses. And those arms And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being, and his life was lost In woman’s love at last ! CHORUS. Unseemly act ! Who dared thus break on meditation? MEDEA. CHORUS. Surely thy passion mastered thee, O queen !
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…il by repeating the “Lord’s Prayer” backwards. He went into the garden and did so. The Devil appeared., and almost scared him out of his life. It is therefore not quite certain in what the efficacy of conjura¬ tions really lies. The peculiar mental excitement required may even be aroused by the perception of the absurdity of the process, and the persistence in it, as when once Frater Perdurabo (at the end of His magical resources) recited “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains”, and obtained His resuit. 1 It may be conceded in any case that the long s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…ch method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its éléments, and further to combine Sat- Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which méditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest world) in Liber XXVII, “Here is Nothing under its three Forms.” 18. And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus, and by the Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapatti. 19* And woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and agai…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…se mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if you like, try to work out a progress of Osiris through Amennti on the Tree of Life, but I doubt whether you will get any satisfactory result. It seems to me that you should confine yourself very closely to the actual work in front of you. At the present moment, of course, this includes a great deal of general study ; but my point is that the terms employed in that study should always be capable of precise definition. I am not sure whether you have my Little Essays Toward Truth. The firs…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…ng. It is, therefore, always the question of drill which is of importance. You hâve got to go out Rising on the Planes every day of your life, year after year. You are not to be disheartened by failure, or too much encouraged by success, in any one practice or set of practices. What you are doing is what will be of real value to you in the end j and that is, developing a character, creating a Karma, which will give you the power to do your Will. IV Divination is so important a bran ch of Magick as almost to demand a separate treatise. Genius is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… later, Ishmael was my middle name. I cannot account for it at all satisfactorily. I had been perfectly genuine in my ambition to lead a life of holiness; the idea of intimate communion with "Jesus" was constantly present to my mind. I do not remember any steps in the volte-face. I asked one of the masters one day how it was that Jesus was three days and three nights in the grave, although crucified on Friday and risen again on Sunday morning. He could not explain and said that it had never been explained. So I formulated the ambition to become…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…nd that purity of spirit which resnlts from a perfect understanding both of the différences and harmonies of the planes upon the Tree of Life. For this reason Frater Perdurabo has never dared to use this formula in a fully cérémonial manner, save once only, on an occasion of tremendous import, when, indeed, it was not He that made the offering, but ONE in Him. For he perceived a grave defect in his moral character which he has been able to overcome on the intellectual plane, but not hitherto upon higher planes. Before the conclusion of writing …
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
… MASTERS 315 why, and so on. There was little to do but to erect a superstructure of symbolism. This, by the way, has hampered me all my life, in every way: I am so aware of my own shameful ignorance on every subject-there is no mistake about this!-that I cannot conceive of any human being who is actually more ignorant than myself. How could such an one endure to live, with the consciousness of his infamy gnawing his liver? I know this sounds mad; but it's true. Well, then, I set myself to repair the omission with Part III; this should be a rea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 391
…the traditional gnome of German folk-tales; the Heinzelmanner that one sees sometimes on German beer-mugs (I have never drunk beer in my life) and in friezes on the walls of a Conditorei. I hailed them cheerfully-at first I thought they were some of the local nobility and gentry of a type I had not yet encountered; but they took no notice, just went on playing about. They were still at it when I reached my cousin, sheltering behind some boulders at the foot of the slope; and I saw no more of them. I saw them as plainly as I ever saw anything; t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…the Tenth Impurity. Dissolved All vision of his being but of one Thing only, his sun-whitened skeleton. II, A dainty lady sick of simple life, Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man, Put on her jewels, off the word of wife, Resolved to play the painted courtesan, So ran along the village path. Her laughter Wooed all the world to follow tumbling after. III. Then when she met the venerable monk Her shamelessness desired a_ leprous wreath Of poisonous flowers, seducing him. He shrunk Back from her smile, seeing her close white teeth. Bones ! …
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
…g with it the fructifying and germinating power. fas I am the plenteous yielder of Harvest; I Sa cnr of sew do [Me | am the cherisher of Life.’” the bast WK ‘ A 5 ee “The Priestess with the Mask of Tarot . 7 5 7 Nephthys spake and said: ‘I am the dew a descending, viewless, Cases] | | civ. ie » sore — bomen | and silent, gemming |_\“% 4 Roomex 2 Via fitsize] | the Earth with count- 2 0 mor . Fart, ere less Diamondsof Dew, ma bearing down the in- fluence from above in the solemn darkness Diacram 42. of Night.’ ” adw The Arrangement of the Temple…
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
…g with it the fructifying and germinating power. fas I am the plenteous yielder of Harvest; I Sa cnr of sew do [Me | am the cherisher of Life.’” the bast WK ‘ A 5 ee “The Priestess with the Mask of Tarot . 7 5 7 Nephthys spake and said: ‘I am the dew a descending, viewless, Cases] | | civ. ie » sore — bomen | and silent, gemming |_\“% 4 Roomex 2 Via fitsize] | the Earth with count- 2 0 mor . Fart, ere less Diamondsof Dew, ma bearing down the in- fluence from above in the solemn darkness Diacram 42. of Night.’ ” adw The Arrangement of the Temple…
1996 · PDF PAGE 52
…between two war rior comrades, his belt bearing an iron key, a whip, and a sword, wherewith to limit women’s liberty, their love, their life, lest to his loss they lure him. The Beast is there also, aloof, attentive. He will not weigh the evidence in the balances of any particular kind of advantage. He will not admit any standard as adequate to assess the absolute. To him, the pettiest personal whimsy outweighs all wisdom, all phi losophy, all private profit and all public prudence. The sexual obol of the meanest is stamped with the signature…