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Page 18 of 811910 · PDF PAGE 421
…DE hath told the tale Of this misfortune to a sage, How all his ventures nought avail, And all his hopes dissolve in rage. “Now by thine holy beard,” quoth he, “ And by thy venerable age I charge thee this my riddle ree.” Then said that gentle eremite: “This task is easy unto me! Know then the Questing Beast aright! One is the Beast, the Questing one: And one with one is two, Sir Knight! Yet these are one in two, and none Disjoins their substance (mark me well !), Confounds their persons. Rightly run Their attributes: immeasurable, Incomprehens…
1919 · PDF PAGE 50
…f Mystery veil by veil Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over The dissolved heart of the amazéd lover— The angel wings over the Holy Grail!
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
SLAY SPACE ; THEN NAUGHT ABIDES. HOLD NOT THINE HOLY HAND ! WHEN NAUGHT GIVES BACK BEFORE THE ATTACK, SERENE THY SILENCE STAND ! ALLS REST, DEVOID OF MARK ; HOW SHOULD DESIRES FIX TOOTH ? WHEN THEY ARE PAST, THOU SURELY HAST THE SILENCE OF THE TRUTH FLAWLESS THAT TRUTH AND FIXED YET APT TO EACH APPEAL NATURE AND SENSE TO INFLUENCE THE MAGNET TO THE STEEL ! OH ! THIS TRUE TOUCH WITH ALL ELASTIC AND EXACT THAT YET ABIDES ABOVE THEIR TIDES THE SILENCE FREE FROM ACT ! HE THAT HATH THIS SHALL COME LITTLE BY LITTLE, A BREATH, SO FLOWETH HE NOW, TO…
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…ials of five Egyptian deities and also of five Greek deities; in both cases a magic formula of tremendous power is concealed.) As to the Holy Table itself, I cannot see it for the blaze of light; but Iam given to understand that it appears in another Aethyr, of which it forms practically the whole content. And I am bidden to study the Holy Table very intently so as to be able to concentrate on it when it appears. I have grown greater, so that Iam as great as the Angel. And we are standing, as if crucified, face to face, our hands and lips and -…
1907 · PDF PAGE 211
…soft streams Of night air to my heated breast and brow. MANADS. He comes! Iie comes! AGAVE, Silence, O girls, and peace ! The God’s most holy presence asks the hymn The solemn hymn, the hymn of agony, Lest in the air of glory that surrounds The child of Semelé we lose the earth And corporal presence of the Zeus-begot. AUTONOR, Yea, sisters, raise the chant of riot! Lift Your wine-sweet voices, move your wine- stained limbs In joyful invocation ! M-ENADS. Ay, we sing. Hail, child of Semelé ! To her as unto thee Be reverence, be deity, be immorta…
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
…cry aloud for pardon. Let me come and put my head beneath thy feet, that I may serve thee. For if thou commandest me to obedience in the Holy names, I cannot swerve therefrom, for their first whispering is greater than the noise of all my tempests. Bid me therefore come unto thee upon my hands and knees that I may adore thee, and partake of thy forgiveness. Is not thy mercy infinite? (Here Choronzon attempts to seduce the Scribe by appealing to his pride. But the Scribe refused to.be tempted, and commanded the demon to continue with the Aethyr.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…inted. Anoint me, sirs, and call me ’ Anointed ’ ! GOVINDA Rather be Baa-Baa called, for thy jerkin Is a fleece like his friends wrap an holy Turk in, When he twirls on his toes Regarding his nose Or his paunch that would hold a firkin ! THE HAG The little beast is double-jointed. Dance a spring, thou springal strutting Like a stag in the glades at the season of rutting ! ALEXANDER Dance, o thou imp Of the bottle of brass With the hag and the pimp And the ox and the ass !
1911 · PDF PAGE 85
THE VISION AND THE VOICE Sabbath; and in the Holy Assembly hath she poured it out for her worshippers, and they have become drunken thereon, so that face to face have they beheld my Father. Thus are they made worthy to become partakers of the Mystery of this holy vessel, for the blood is the life. So sitteth she from age to age, and the righteous are never weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is truth. (This wine is such that its virtue radiateth throu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 121
… a woman’s head sparkling and coruscating with its own light of gems. But I look upwards, seeing that she is called the footstool of the Holy One, even as Binah is called His throne. And the whole Aethyr is full of the most wonderful bands of light,—a thousand different curves and whorls, even as it was before, when I spake mysteries of the Holy Qabalah, and so could not describe it. Oh, I see vast plains beneath her feet, enormous deserts studded with great rocks; and I see little lonely souls, running helplessly about, minute black creatures …
1906 · PDF PAGE 81
…I accept the furious course, Invoke the all-embracing curse. Blessing and peace beyond may lie When I annihilate the °° I.” Therefore, O holy mother, gnash Thy teeth upon my willing flesh! Thy chain of skulls wild music clash! Thy bosom bruise my own afresh! Sri Maharani! draw my breath Into the hollow lungs of death! There is no light, nor any motion. There is no mass, nor any sound. Still, in the lampless heart of ocean, Fasten me down and hold me drowned Within thy womb, within thy thought, Where there is naught—where there is naught ! 73
1961 · PDF PAGE 118
… forces to that one End. But now also learn how great is the conomy of our Magick, and this will I declare unto thee in a Figure of the Holy Qabalah, to wit, the Formula of the Tetra- grammaton. Firstly, the Effect of the Operation of Yod and Hé is not Vau only, but with Vau appeareth also a new Hé, as a By-Product, and She is mysterious, being at once the Flower of the three others, and their Poison. Now by the Operation of Vau upon that Hé is no new Creation, but the Daughter is set upon the Throne of Her Mother, and by this is rekindled the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 125
…a buoyant heart. Such joys are his who loves the grassy knoll And contemplates the sad, effusive me. Nor seeks in vain the Virgin Marys holy shrine. [127]
1944 · PDF PAGE 46
PART TWO THE ATU (KEYS or TRUMPS) 0. The Fool. The Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Green Man of the Spring Festival. April Fool; The Holy Ghost; The Great Fool of the Celts (Dalua); The Rich Fisherman; Percivale; The Croco dile (Mako, Son of Set, or Sebek); HoorPaKraat; Zeus Arrheno theleus; Dionysus Zagreus; Bacchus Diphues; Baphomet; Sum mary. I. to XXI. The Juggler; The High Priestess; The Empress; The Em peror; The Hierophant; The Lovers (or, The Brothers); The Char iot; Adjustment; The Hermit; Fortune; Lust; The Hanged Man; D…
1911 · PDF PAGE 52
THE EQUINOX not fall; for my plumes reach up unto the Knees of Him that sitteth upon the holy throne, and liveth and reigneth for ever and ever as the balance of righteousness and truth. I am the Angel of the moon. I am the veiled one that sitteth between the pillars veiled with a shining veil, and on my lap is the open Book of the mysteries of the ineffable light. Iam the aspiration unto the higher; I am the love of the unknown. I am the blind ache within the heart of man. I am the minister of the sacrament of pain. I swing the censer of worsh…
1898 · PDF PAGE 99
…en gold And secret might ; Because my forehead bears the sacred name, And my lips bear the brand Of Him whose heaven is one flame, Whose holy hand Gathers this earth, who built the vaults of space, Moulded the stars, and fixed the iron sea, Because His love lights through my face And all of me. Because my hand may fasten on the sword If my heart falter not, and smite Those lampless limits most abhorred Of iron night, 89
1902 · PDF PAGE 101
…, dear to Germany, My child's betrothal to this noble youth. Great lord, true knight, and honest gentleman, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace. In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet's tourney. Wolfram. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. Landgrave. Ha ! He is not here ! 99
1912 · PDF PAGE 24
18 VI S1r PaLaMepE the Saracen The earth from murder hath released, Is hidden from the eyes of men. Sir Arthur sits again at feast. The holy order burns with zeal : Its fame revives from west to east. Now, following Fortune’s whirling wheel, There comes a dwarf to Arthur's hall, All cased in damascenéd steel. A sceptre and a golden ball He bears, and on his head a crown ; But on his shoulders drapes a pall Of velvet flowing sably down Above his vest of cramoisie. Now doth the king of high renown Demand him of his dignity. Whereat the dwarf begi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 167
… sounds have entered into every angle. And they have awakened the Angels of the Aethyrs that slept these three hundred years. For in the Holy letter Shin, that is the Resurrection in the Book of Thoth, that is the Holy Spirit in the Trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath the tomb been opened, so that this great wisdom might be revealed. Come away! For the Second Triad is completed, and there remaineth only the Lord of the Aeon, the Avenger, the Child 165
1954 · PDF PAGE 493
…oam of the grape is like the storm upon the sea; the ships tremble and shudder; the shipmaster is afraid. 61. That is thy drunkenness, 0 holy one, and the winds whirl away the soul of the scribe into the happy haven. 62. 0 Lord God! Let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! Let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with thy light! Yes, I dare say. But is there not here a sort of moral oxymoron? Are not the Masters pursuing two diametrically opposed policies at the same time? Genius-or Initiation, which implies the liberation and dev…
1913 · PDF PAGE 84
…ne be the kingdom ! Thine the power ! The glory triply thine ! Thine through Eternity 's swift hour , Eternity , thy shrine Yea , by the holy lotos - flower , Even mine ! + This poem describes what happens when the student of ceremonial magic performs the ' lesser ritual of the pentagram .'