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Page 167 of 1971907 · PDF PAGE 142
… of the mime That mocks the loud lords of Olympus; we mingle; I wake. I come with the sound of a snake. ORIPHEUS, O storm many-winded, O life of the air, Thou angry and blinded Hast sky for thy share. O mother deep-minded, My lyre to my prayer Responds, and the elements answer or ever| my soul is aware. Ye powers of deep water And sea-running bays, Earth’s fugitive daughter In deep-riven ways, i Enamoured of slaughter, A mirage of grays, Deep blues, and pale greens unbegotten, I turn to your lyrical praise. I tune the loud lyre To the haunts of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…ng outside ourselves save only as it is also within us. Whatever I do to another, I do also to myself. If I kill a man, I destroy my own life at the same time. That is the magical meaning of the so- 121
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…ious thing in the world." "Religion." "Exactly. Now, what is religion? The consummation of the soul by itself in divine ecstasy. What is life but love, and what is love but laughter? In other words, religion is a joke. There is the spirit of Dionysus and there is the spirit of Pan; but they are twin phases of laughter. Religion is a joke. Now what is the most absurd thing in the world?" "Woman." "Right again. And therefore she is the only serious island in this ocean of laughter. While we hunt and fish, and fight, and otherwise take our pleasur…
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
…and Her Lord Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra-Hoor-Khuit, as it is shewn in the Design Minutum Mundum, the Tree of Life. For though Wisdom be the Second Emanation of his Essence, there is a Path to separate and to join them, the Reference thereof being Aleph, that is One indeed, but also an Hundred and Eleven in his full Orthography; to signify the Most Holy Trinity, and by Metathesis it is Thick Darkness, and Sudden Death. This is also the Number of AUM, which is AMOUN, and the Root-Sound of OMNE, or, in Greek, PAN, and i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 28
…he old classification of things) of Air. Now as “One” or aleph he represents the Male Principle, the First Cause, and the free breath of Life, the sound of the vowel A being made with the open throat and mouth. As Zero he represents the Female Principle, the fertile Mother. (An old name for the card is “Mat,” from the Italian matto, “fool,” but earlier also from Maut, the Egyptian Vulture-Mother- Goddess.) Fertile, for the “Egg of Blue” is the Uterus, and in the Macrocosm the Body of Nuit, and it contains the Unborn Babe, helpless yet protected…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…f it to offer a copy. Thus one’s operation would consist in inflaming one’s Will to possess the knowledge to the point of devoting one’s life to it, in expressing that will by seeking out people who seem likely to know what is needed, and in imposing it on them by exhibiting such enthusiastic earnestness that they will tell the enquirer that this book will meet his needs. Does this Sound too simple? Can this obvious common-sense course be really that marvellous Magick that frightens folk so? Yes, even this triviality is one instance of how Magi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…of the world, notably the identification of the system of the Yi King with that of the Qabalah. But I do assure you that the whole of my life's work, were it multiplied a thousand fold, would not be worth one tithe of the value of a single verse of The Book of the Law. I think you should have a copy of The Equinox of the Gods and make The Book of the Law your constant study. Such value as my own work may possess for you should amount to no more than an aid to the interpretation of this book. 2. It may be that later on you will want a copy of Ei…
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
…cidal to aim at homogeneity, or to assert it. Spiritual experience soon enables the aspirant to assimilate these ideas, and he can enjoy life to the full, finding his True Self alike in the contemplation of every element of existence. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. Commentary: This refers to the spiritual experience of Iden tity. When one realizes one’s Truth there is no room for any other conception. It also means that the God-idea must go with other relics of the Fear born of Ignorance into the limbo of savagery. I speak of the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…e let’s draught, bolus, globule us! 40 45 60 55 60 65 Wise and succinct bids, I think, Aristobulus.! Whether my Muse be Euterpe or Clio, Life, Death, and Love are all Batrachomyo !6— Machia, what? ho! old extinct Alcibiades? For me, do ut—God true, be mannikin har !—des ! It’s rather hard, isn’t it, sir, to make sense of it? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it?!” Try something easier,!8 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find come in dreams to me. Even as he takes two feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to Jau…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…Of a voice more fair. Leave echo, and wake, and proclaim that ye stand against death and despair ! Ye hills where I rested In rapture of life, From dawn calm-breasted To evening’s strife, Where skies were nested With mist for a wife ! Leave echo, and speak for yourselves: let your song pierce the heaven as a knife !
1954 · PDF PAGE 138
…"archetypal world"? Is not . .. Oh, all right, all right! Keep your blouse on! I didn't go for to do it. You're quite right: the Tree of Life is like that, in appearance. But that is the wrong way to look at it. We get our number two, for example, as "that which is common to a bird's legs, a man's ears, twins, the cube root of eight, the greater luminaries, the spikes of a pitchfork," etc., but having got it, we must not go on to argue that the number two being possessed of this and that property, therefore there must be two of something or oth…
1954 · PDF PAGE 163
…ubly baffled, robbed not only of the ecstatic Present, but of the glamorous Future. If she eat independently of the Fruit of the Tree of Life when unripe, she has not only the bad taste in the mouth , but indigestion to follow. Then , living as she does so much in the world of imagination, constantly living shadow-pictures of her Desire, she is not nearly so liable to the violent insanities of sheer blind lust, as is the male. The essential difference is indicated
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…h opens the gates of the most exalted palaces of initiation is equally effective when employed to advise one in the ordinary business of life. The Master Therion has found the Yi King entirely satisfactory in every respect. The intelligences which direct it show no inclination to évadé the question or to mislead the querent. A further advantage is that the actual apparatus is simple. Also the System is easy to manipulate, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. With regard to the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 289
…l is fusion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; END OF Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the slowing bud dissever : Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon …
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
…isher Unwin, Third Impression, 5s. It is a splendid oasis in the desert of silly memoirs, this sturdy and valiant record of a very noble life, How surely and steadily has Mrs, Besant moved, urged by the one un- selfish thought, high-minded love for humanity, from her Eden through the hell of revolt to the Paradise that so few earn! And she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. Priceless and unenvied reward of suffering ! True it is, that the chosen of the Masters must leave all. The lightest breeze can stir the Feathe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
…isher Unwin, Third Impression, 5s. It is a splendid oasis in the desert of silly memoirs, this sturdy and valiant record of a very noble life, How surely and steadily has Mrs, Besant moved, urged by the one un- selfish thought, high-minded love for humanity, from her Eden through the hell of revolt to the Paradise that so few earn! And she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. Priceless and unenvied reward of suffering ! True it is, that the chosen of the Masters must leave all. The lightest breeze can stir the Feathe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 259
… Treasurer General. The members subsist on the charity of the Order, which is extended to them in accordance with their original rank in life. “These remarks apply equally to the Supreme Grand Council, and all higher degrees. “In the Seventh Degree it is a qualification to vest some real property in the Order; and no one is admitted to this grade without this preliminary. “Those members of the Order who have given all to it must obtain the money for their initiation fees and subscriptions from the Third Triad, whose honour is thus concerned in …
1922 · PDF PAGE 337
…er within forty-eight hours that there is no possibility of amusing oneself in any of the ordinary ways. In London one could waste one’s life before bringing one’s mind to the point where Big Lion wants it. So one finds oneself immediately up against the fact that one has got to find something to do. Well, we go and ask Big Lion; and Big Lion says: ‘Do what thou wilt.’ ‘But, yes,’ we say, ‘what is that?’ He replies rudely, ‘Find out.’ We ask how to find out; and he says, ‘How do you know what is the good of a motor- car?’ Well, we think a bit ;…
1996 · PDF PAGE 136
…ntal need of nature. What is the ultimate use of the telephone and all the other inventions on which we pride ourselves? Only to sustain life, or to protect or reproduce it; or to subserve Knowledge and other forms of Pleasure. On the other hand, the passions must be understood properly as what they are, nothing in themselves, but the diverse forms of expression employed by the Will. One must preserve discipline. A passion cannot be good or bad, too weak or too strong, etc., by an arbitrary standard. Its virtue consists solely in its conformity…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…e great hand. They shudderand murmur in the web of Kama. They hear no music in the white word Rama. They rush, colossi, liquid swords of life Strident with spurious desire and strife. Mocked! I am dumb: I await the gray command : I wait for Her : 1 Written in collaboration with S, M,