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Page 179 of 1961930 · PDF PAGE 43
…rds, 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 dividing his interplay with Nuit into épisodes,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…rt 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 pirate ship…
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Till the Three Worlds! flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead ! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy ! JASON. It is enough ! HERACLES, Too great for a god’s strength ! THESEUS. Speak ! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death ! ORPHEUS. Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. ‘* This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. 1 Of go…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…ng which 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, an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…the Knowledge and Conversation of His own Holy Guardian Angel with the same ardour as that of Frater Perdurabo when Fie abandoned. ail r love, wealth, rank, famé, to seek Him. Nay, this he must do or condemn himself to be — 262 —
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
…rus, lest anger take benignancy From his left hand and smite thee with his strength. Thou hearest? Nay, thou pitiful old man, For I have loved thee. Yet my godhead must Get worship. Anger not the god, but stoop, My faithful priest, and worship at my feet. AMENHATED, Tam most miserable. But truth must leap In this tremendous moment from my lips, Its long-shut barrier. For I pity thee With my old heart’s whole pity. Thou art young, And beautiful, and proud, and dear to me, Whom I have served thy life through. Now that love Demands a deadlier serv…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…nd encouraged by frequent intercourse. They shouid be treated with courtesy, considération, and even affection. They shouid be taught to love and respect their master, and to take pride in being trusted by him. It îs sometimes better to act on the advice of a spirit even when one knows it to be wrong, though in such a case one must take the proper précautions against an undesirable resuit. The reason for this is that spirits of this type are very sensitive. They suffer agonies of remorse on realising that they hâve injured their Master5 for he …
1906 · PDF PAGE 105
ACTUS TERTIUS 99 AEETES. I love him little. Yet my words were true, Nor would it skill him aught if myriad mén Bucklered his back and breast. For when a man Batters with sword-hilt at the frowning gates That lead to the Beyond, not human force— Hardly the favour of the gods themsel ves— Shall stead him in that peril. CHORUS. Yet we know Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods ! CHORUS. If only he Know who he is—that all these gods and men And things are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you ho…
1922 · PDF PAGE 256
…d been starving ourselves for months, and we had to make up for it. The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to the earth ! But it doesn’t satisfy, even so. The intervals between one’s emotions are appallingly long. I think drugs intensify the high lights for one thing ; but for another, and this is really more important, they fit up the inter- stices of shadow. It’s hard, I imagine, in the ordinary way, to come off one’s honeymoon back into regular life. I often wonder how a poet feels when …
1996 · PDF PAGE 96
…of beatitudes prolonged for whole months, of initiations indescribably exalted, of proof piled on proof of His power, His vigilance, His love, after being protected and energized with incredible aptness, I find myself still only too ready to grumble, nay even to doubt. It seems as if I resented the whole business. There are times when I feel that the amoeba, the bourgeois, and the cow represent the abc of enviable creatures. There may be a melancholic strain in me, as one might expect in a case of venal weakness such as mine. In any event, it i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…ve it. The Link must be perfectly made. The object must possess in itself a sufficiency of stuff sympathetic to our work. We cannot make love to a brick, or set an oak to run errands. We see, then, that we can never affect anything 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
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
…, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani mal kingdom is His cognate symbol the Phallus, representing Love and Liberty. Ra-Hoor-Khuit, like all true Gods, is therefore a Solar-Phallic deity. But we regard Him as He is in truth, eternal; the Solar-Phallic deities of the old /Eon, such as Osiris, “Christ,” Hiram, Adonis, Hercules, etc., were supposed, through our igno rance of the Cosmos, to “die” and “rise again.” Thus we celebrated rites of “crucifixion” and so on, which have now become meaningless. Ra-Hoor-K…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…hush! how beautifully Mr. Worcester is expounding about Barabbas ! | Godly for ‘* become a Plymouth Brother.” —ALC, * Godly for ‘fare in love with one another.’ —A, C, Mr. G. K. CHESTERTON (altogether znaudtbly). This scene is all description and no drama, and ought to satisfy Mr. Bernard Shaw’s idea of a dramatic scene. [Zhe beautiful woman gets up and goes. The poet hastily fol:ows her out. SCENE XIV. TEN MONTHS LATER, SiR Percy DE PERCIVALE’S Ancestral Hall. Sir HERPES ZOSTER, M.D. SIR GRABSON JOBS, Q.C. Sir Herpes Z,. Yes, indeed, a most fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…ut thy brow Twine, and the disc of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With leopard’s pell, and golden sound Of planets choral in their course! O thou self-formulated sire! Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name. For I am Yesterday, and I To-day, and I to-morrow, born Now and ag…
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
64 The Law is for All 1. The accidents of any act of love, such as its protagonists and their peculiarities of expression on whatever plane, are totally immaterial to the Magical import of the act. Each person is responsible to himself, being a star, to travel in his own orbit, composed of his own elements, to shine with his own light, with the colour proper to his own nature, to revolve and to rush with his own inherent motion, and to maintain his own relation with his own galaxy in its own place in the Universe. His existence is his sole and …
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
… in order to delude themselves. The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
… of austerity and melancholy which we call Saturn, or with the idea of force and fire which we call Mars, or with the idea of nature and love which we call Venus, and so for the others, if he becomes identified with this idea the union is one of ecstatic bliss, and its only imperfection is due to the fact that the idea in question, whatever it may be, is only partial. Ecstasy is therefore progressive. Gradually the adept unites himself with holier and higher ideas until he becomes one with the Universe itself, and even with That which is beyond…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…ian, invoking Sol, were persuaded by a plausible spirit of Saturn that he was the Solar Intelligence required, and bade him eschew human love if he would attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel; and suppose that his will, and that AngePs nature, were such that the Crux of their Formula was Lyrical Exaltation! Apart from the regular tests —- made at the time — of the integrity of any spirit, the Magician must make a careful record of every vision, omitting no detail ; he must then make sure that it tallies in every po…
1906 · PDF PAGE 289
…assion glowing to distil a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…dge of the Aeon, had the value of 93 (M = 40, G = 3, N = 50). 93 is the number of the word of the Law — T helema — Will, and of Agapé -— Love, which indicates the nature of Will. It is further¬ more the number of the Word which overcomes death, as members of the degree of M.M. of the O.T.O. are well awarej and it is also that of the complété formula of existence as expressed in the 48