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… words represent. An excellent man of great intelligence, a iearned Qabalist, once amazed the Master Therion by stating that the Tree of Life was the framework of the Universe. It was as if some one had seriously maintained that a ait was a créature constructed by placing the letters C. A. T. in that order. It is no wonder that Magick has excited the ridicule of the unintelligent, since even its i. See “The Soldier and the HunchbackT Equinox I, i. The apparatus of human reason is simply one particular System of coordinating impressions; its str…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…himself and fulfil himself. 4. For example, as when Firmness with one’s self or another is the truest kindness; or when amputation saves life. 5. See Liber 418, nth Aethyr. 61
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…yphic rather than literary. In the case of a book, such a book as the Book of the Law which is the suprême truih and the perfect rule of life, it is not répugnant to good sense to dérivé an oracle from its pages. It will of course be remarked that the Book of the Law is not mereiy a literary compilation but a complex mathematical structure. It îherefore fulfiïs the required conditions. The principal means of divination in history are astrology, geo- mancy, the Tarot, the Holy Qabalah, and the Yi King. There aie hundreds of othersj from pyromanc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 98
…il- ment of the routine. Beware, then, last, of that devil who shall whisper in thine ear that the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life, and answer : Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Yet shalt thou also beware of disputation with the devil and pride in the cleverness of thine answers to him. Therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be hrst and last employed against him. 30. Concerning the Enflaming of the Heart. — Now learn that thy me…
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…us let thy Star have profit of thy Vehicle, assimilating it, and sustaining it, so that it be healed of its Separation, and this even in Life, but most especially in Death. Also thou oughtest to increase thy Vehicle in Mass by true Growth in Balance that thou be a Bridegroom comely and well-favoured, a Man of Might, and a Warrior worthy of the Bed of so divine a Dissolution. 46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? Commentary: This verse brings out what is a fact in psychol ogy, the necessary connection between fear, sorrow,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
… spring the spectres (Whence come, where bound ?) To baffle those protectors Whose wings are broad around. Uprise they and upbraid, Till life shrinks back afraid, And death itself dismayed Sinks back to the profound. Unholy phantom faces (Of self? Of sin?) Grin wild in all the places Where blood is trodden in : The ground of night enchanted With deadly blooms is planted, Where evil beasts have panted And snakes have shed their skin. With poison steams the air, And evil scent Is potent everywhere ; Creation waits the event: In silence, without s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 97
…h, the glory of the quest, ' The gainless goodly prize ! The fairest form man e’er caressed, The word he heard most wise ;— All lures of life avoid and cease Before the winning of the Fleece ! O nameless splendour of the Gods, Begotten hardly of Heaven ! Unspoken treasure of the abodes Beyond the lightning levin ! No misery, no despair may pay * The joy to hold thee for a day ! JASON. Athena’s servant recks not much of Ares. PELIAS. Are thine eyes kindled at thought ? the golden JASON. Mine eyes see farther than the Fleece of Gold. PELIAS. What…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
…uld not have followed Cyril's very astute calculations — those which he meant to lay before General Cripps; but he would have staked his life on the accuracy of a Tarot divination so obscure that he was not allowed even to hear its nature, and which in fact had not been performed. Indeed, it did not even exist, having been invented on the spur of the moment by the unscrupulous magician. "I shall tell him that the military situation is inextricably bound up with political and dynastic considerations; I shall drop a word about Anschauung and Welt…
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
…oem now together. PERCY. Dear heart, dear heart! And she will give us light, our dear moon out yonder, always a pure cold light: and our life shall answer a purer, warmer flame. She is like a maiden covered with lilies; your lilies have kissed roses. And when the moon’s light fails, the light of your song. PERCY. Let that light be drawn from [Heaven too! EsSME. Oh, Percy, I am so glad, so glad ! PERCY. Esmé ! EsMk, When will you begin your great poem-— now ?
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
…swooned. TANNHAUSER. Who are you, sir, stood smiling, nonchalant, At all the turmoil, ridiculing it ? | You knew the secret symbol of my life, You forced me to that miserable song. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. My name, sir, at your service, is Sefchift. TANNHAUSER. Sent? And the purpose of your coming here? You must. wield power to keep them silent so, When the first word had culminated else In twice the tempest echoed to the last! VOL. I. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. It was most necessary for yourself To formulate your thought in Fnough— The thought transmu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…setting digestion, which disorders respiration, on which cardiac welfare dépends.) (27) Every man should make Magick the keynote of liis life. He should learn its laws and live by them. (Illustration: The Banker should discover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profes¬ sion. He should understand banking as a necessary factor in the économie existence of mankind, instead of as merelv a business whose objects are independent of the general welfare. He should learn to distinguish false values from real…
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
… suitable for its reception. The climate must be favourable, the soil must be prepared, and the enemies of the young child that seek its life must be driven beyond range of malice. These points are obvious enough, if applied to the ordinary affair of breeding children. One needs the right woman, and the right conditions for her. It applies even more closely to other acts, for woman is pro tected by generations of biological adaptation, whereas spiritual children are more easily diseased and deformed, being of subtler and more sensitive matter.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…lls Down to the glamour Of dream ; and fear Beats like a hammer. Ilere ! it is here! Lost are my friends ; The elements shrink Where the life-world ends On the icy brink Of the sunless river ; Inds, and for ever ! I pass to the portals Of death in my flight. I sound at the gates. I call the immortals Of death and of night. I call on the Fates By the summons of light. The gates are rended; The rocks divide ; My soul hath descended Abreast of the tide. I, single and splendid, Death have defied ! I pass by the terrible gates and the guardians drag…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…n essential harmony with all living systems, by reason that Truth, even when it appears to be buried beneath the greatest errors, is the life of all that lives. As a registered subscriber to 7hke Equinox, you will have an opportunity, should you desire it,of being examined by the A.°. A.°. as to your fitness for instruction and assistance in your search for Truth. The Review will appear on or about the 21st of March and the 21st of Sep- temberin each year. Each of the more important articles will be paged separately with their titles, so that t…
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…that Brother was hidden from me. Then was I shewn the Mystery of the Words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum of Love. So, when the time was ripe, appeared the Brethren of the Formula of Osiris, whose word is I A O; so that men worshipped Man, thinking him subject to Death, and his victory dependent upon Resurrection. Even so conceived they of the Sun as slain and reborn with eve…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…d the lyre ; We have the altar, we the shrine, . And ours the joy of love and wine. Why take one pleasure, put aside The myriad bliss of life diverse? Unchanging joy will soon divide Into the likeness of a curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far ! What love as sweet as theirs is lies In Sun or planet, moon or star? What nymphs as sweet as ours are dwell By foreign grove and alien well? With every watchman’s cheery cry, ‘‘Land ho!” through all the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
…roclaiming: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Lisa thought that breakfast the most delicious she had ever tasted in her life. A great reaction from the strain of the previous twenty-four hours was
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
8) The Qabaiah maps ourselves by means of a convention. Every aspect of every object may thus be referred to the Tree of Life, and evoked by using the proper keys. 9) Time and Space are forms by which we obtain (distorted) images of Ideas. Our measures of Time and Space 1 are crude conventions, and differ widely for different Beings. (Hashish shows how the same mind may vary.) 10) We may admit that any aspect of any object or idea may be presented to us in a symbolic form, whose relation to its Being is irrational. (Thus, there is no rational l…
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
… with the tabus of the slave-gods. The true artist, loving his art and nothing else, can enjoy a series of spontaneous liaisons, all his life long, yet never suffer himself, or cause any other to suffer. Of such liaisons Beauty is ever the child; the wholesome atti tude of the clean simple mind, free from all complications alien to Love, assures it. Just as a woman’s body is deformed and diseased by the corset demanded by Jaganath Fashion, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…age. Special care has been taken to eliminate the errors and mistakes with which the American edition abounds. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of Ursura N. GestEFELD. Price 3s. 6d. net. Corents.—Preface. Part I—How we Master our Fate. The Inventor and the Invention. The Ascension of Ideas. Living by Insight or by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. ‘The Origin of Evil. What is within the Ht Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. ‘The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought World, The Language of Suggestion,…