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Page 181 of 2031954 · PDF PAGE 179
…ut there is no trace noticeable of any of her more amiable characteristics. You will therefore make up your mind that it is a Saturn ian god-form that you need. Fortunate indeed for you that you have practised daily the assumption of such forms! Very firmly, very steadily, very slowly, very quietly, you transform your normal astral appearance into that of Sebek. The Chimaera, recognizing your divine authority , becomes less formidable and menacing in appearance. He may, in some way, indicate his willingness to serve you. Very good , so far; but…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…preciation of the Sporting Times !” Mr Chesterton thinks it funny that I should call upon “Shu.” Has he forgotten that the Christian God may be most suitably invoked by the name “Yah” ? I should be sorry if God were to mistake his religious enthusiasms for the derisive ribaldry of the London “gamin.” Similar remarks apply to “El” and other Hebrai-christian deities. This note is hardly intelligible without the review referred to. I therefore reprint the * Sacred Books. portion thereof which is germane to my matter from the Daily News, June 1…
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
… well! [A.xz2¢ THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Wake, wake, poor child, poor child, Eliza- beth! ELIZABETH. What says my dear one? I have been with God. TANNHAUSER (as7de). How shall I speak? A violent good-bye, As one distraught, ashamed? I had unbared My bosom to these folk, but the sole pride, My father’s gift-——to be a gentleman— Forbade the dying, welcome otherwise, At any despicable hands as theirs. They, they might boast—-we hundred swords or So Set on the mivhty Tannhduser, and slew him. We, scarceanhundred! Yes, believe tt, sirs R
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…such logical fatality that a mistake is im¬ possible/ The conscious ego of the Magician is to be destroyed to be absorbed in that of the God whom he invokes, and the process should not interfère with the automaton who is performing the ceremony. But this ego of which it is here spoken is the true ultimate ego. The automaton should possess will, energy, intelligence, reason, and resource. This automaton should be the perfect man far more 1. If this were not the case, individuality wouid not be inviolable. No man can communicate even the simplest…
1906 · PDF PAGE 87
… soul, and fill My heart with pure love like a snowfall shed Meekly, a blossom where frail white and red Were never frenzied at some mad god’s will. She sat and gazed upon me all day long. Sometimes she held my hands; then she would weep, And then stoop tenderly and kiss my lips, Or lull me with some chaste and gentle song Of angel love. Night’s plume its dew fall drips As she still sits and watches me to sleep. 1 Cuckold.
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…eks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, IIence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts? Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies, Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. throne Of the unknown Base and The! Ah! men my: How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 171
…d even took his legs off the table. "Say!" he cried. "Have a heart! Can the rough dope, Count! This is a straight proposition, honest to God!" "I am already aware of your sincerity," answered the other. "But infinite courage is required to confront those formidable Entities that lie in wait for the seeker even at the first Portal of the Descending Staircase!" "Oh, I'm wise to Old Dog Cerberus. Ish [241] Kabibble. Gimme an upper berth in the Chicawgo, Saint Lewis, and Hell Limited, if it busts the roll. Do you get me, Steve?" "I understand you t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
… useless (except as a temporary expédient) to set up one class of ideas against another as being "more real”. The advance of man towaids God is not necessarily an advance towards truth. Ail philosophical Systems hâve crumbled. But each class of ideas possesses true relations within itself. It is possible, with Berkeley, 1 to deny the existence of water and of wood; but, for ail that, wood fioats on water. The Magician becomes identical with the imrnor- tal Osins, yet the Magician dies. In this dilemma the facts must be restated. One should pref…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…k if he hits the bulPs eye four times in ten.” The error of ail dogmatists (from the oldest prophet with his “literally-inspired word of God” to the newest German professor with his single-track explanation of the Universe) lies in trying to prove too much, in defending themselves against critics by stretch- ing a propably excellent theorv to mclude ail the facts and th^ fables, until it bursts like the overblown bladder it is. Divination is no more than a rough and ready practical method which we understand hardly at ail, and operate only as e…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…ior of the Infernal Orders in the Dominion of the East; I do invocate and command thee by the especial and true name of Gop; and by that God that Thou Worshippest; and by the Seal of thy creation; and by the most mighty and powerful name of Gop, I—EHovAH TETRAGRAMMATON who cast thee out of heaven with all other infernal spirits; and by all the most powerful and great names of Gop who created Heaven, and Earth, and Hell, and all things in them contained; and by their power and virtue; and by the name PRimMEuMATON who commandeth the whole host of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…s: we will not stay ! Dreams lure not those who ply the sail Before, the home! behind, the gale! JASON. Ah ! Iam torn, I am torn! MEDEA, God’s poet, hail ! Help us, Apollo! Light of Sun, awake ! This is the desperate hour. JASON. I have no strength. MEDEA. Beware the third, the awful ecstasy ! ORPHEUS. A higher spell controls a lower song. Listen, they sing! JASON. Joy! Joy! they sing, they sing! LEUCOSIA. O lover, I am lonely here! O lover, I am weeping ! Each pearl of ocean is a tear Let fall while love was sleeping. A tear is made of fire an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…haka, 1.23 am, I awoke, lying on left side. This being unusual... . I did not know I had been asleep, and the time much surprised * When Gods are near, or Kundalini arises thither, the petals bend down and out: thus is the Winged-Globe of Egypt formed. These petals are the same as the horns of Pan which open out as the God descends. 160
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…haka, 1.23 am, I awoke, lying on left side. This being unusual... . I did not know I had been asleep, and the time much surprised * When Gods are near, or Kundalini arises thither, the petals bend down and out: thus is the Winged-Globe of Egypt formed. These petals are the same as the horns of Pan which open out as the God descends. 160
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…yance, and leave no scar, are those between people who have accepted the Law of Thelema, and broken for good 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 Fashio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
136 THE GOD-EATER Whose sweet reversion hangs above me now : To order luck ! Criospa. Skill orders luck ! MAURYA. ._ The draught ! CRIOsSDA. Elither, O Maurya! MAURYA. IT will come to thee. [Criospa, taking hashish, throws it upon the glowing censer. MAURYA comes down stage and bends over tt, CRIOSDA “ifts tt up and offers it reverently, Maurya. Methinks anticipation o’ the event Shoots in my veins, darting delight. Why, this is strange ! I am losing myself. Criosda ! The walls of the world fall back with a crash. Where isall this? Iam out of m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 207
…: as we move Swell the wild chorus Of welcome and love! Alas! that ever the dark place Should from its rocky base Give up no echo of the god’s strong stride, And no one whisper steal and thrill My heart, dissolve the ill That gathers close and fears me for my bride. I were no worse if I were blind. I may not look behind To catch one glimpse of the dear face that follows, Lest I should gain forbidden lore And wisdom’s dangerous store Of the black secrets of those heights and hollows. Alas! the way is over long, And weary of my song I sing who ye…
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
…and to Keep Silence. By the harmonious exercise of these, the fifth Element of Spirit is formulated in the being of the Adept. It is the god within, the sun, which is the centre of the Universe from the human point of view, with its own particular virtue, which is to Go. The essential charac‐ teristic of the godhead is this faculty of Going; the free movements of space and time and all other possible conditions. In the Egyptian hieroglyphic system, this faculty of going was rep‐ resented by a sandal strap, which represents by its hieroglyphic f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
…ussia; I wanted to make love to her; and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible God. Consider now: the Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the Stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the Body of our Lady Nuit. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.6. Jane Cheron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, then, I was in her apartment. I had attained none of my objectives in calling on her, and was a bout to depart. Sh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 237
…d, Lose echo of our sighs— Love—dies ?-— Love lives--in granite skirted, And under oaken skies. But best is grim December, * The Goatish God? his power; The Satyr blows the ember, And pain is passion’s flower; When blood drips over kisses, And madness sobs through wine : Ah, mine !— The snake starts up and hisses and strikes and—I am thine! VENUS. Those are thy true joys? Cruelty for love? TANNHAUSER. And death in kissing. Hlow I have despised, Riding through meadows of the rushing Rhine, To watch the gentle foresters of spring Crush dainty vio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…n of the pairs of opposites as real. In fact, my thought “ Bones ” may be allowed to believe that he is real, and that there is no other God but he—for such a thought is hardly an illusion—but Bones must not and shall not think that there is an opposition of black and white, good and evil, truth and falsehood. One of our weaker brethren (and I alas! had relied on him as strong among the strong 1) recently plumed himself vastly on this per ception of the Illusion of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil— though “Why in the name of Glory was he …