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…se the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat méat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine our- selves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose. It is ceremonially désirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, and accordingly the first operation in any actual ceremony is bathing and robing, with appropriate words. The bath signifies th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
deed into dévotion, and consecrated by the right performance of the holy ceremonies. Yet herein is danger, for that the Mind is fluid as quicksilver, and bordereth upon the Abyss, and is beset by many sirens and devils that seduce and attack it to destroy it. Therefore let the devotee beware, and précisé accurately his médi¬ tations, even as a man should build a canal from sea to sea. 21. Continuation. — Let then the Philosophus meditate upon ail J ove that hath ever stirred him. There is the love of David and of Jonathan, and the love of Abrah…
1996 · PDF PAGE 143
144 The Law is for All Obviously, the whole idea of exercise, mental or bodily, is to develop the involved organs in a manner physiologically and psychologically proper. It is deleterious to force any faculty to live by an alien law. When parents insist on a boy adopting a profession which he loathes, because they themselves fancy it; when Florence Nightin gale fought to open hospital windows in India at night; then the Ideal mutilates and murders. iii:60 Every organ has “no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Its law is determined by the history o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
… CALLED BREAKS By Frater Perdurabo. (Wieland & Co., 21s.) Poetry and Drama says: Creation and destruction of Gods has been for centuries mankind’s favourite religious mania and philosophical exercise. ‘The Book of Lies’ is a witty, instructive, and wholly admirable collection of paradoxes, in themselves. Contradictory, summing up and illustrating various experiments in God-making. Frater Perdurabo, however, has not written a Philosophical or mystical treatise; on the contrary, his book leaves one witha feeling of intense exhilaration and clearh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
… CALLED BREAKS By Frater Perdurabo. (Wieland & Co., 21s.) Poetry and Drama says: Creation and destruction of Gods has been for centuries mankind’s favourite religious mania and philosophical exercise. ‘The Book of Lies’ is a witty, instructive, and wholly admirable collection of paradoxes, in themselves. Contradictory, summing up and illustrating various experiments in God-making. Frater Perdurabo, however, has not written a Philosophical or mystical treatise; on the contrary, his book leaves one witha feeling of intense exhilaration and clearh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…ut fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought! THE TWELFTH DAY. ‘* T grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subjects.”’ The Sonnets. I LEARNT at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my …
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
…elled her attention by a sign of such authority that no initiate dare overlook it. "Sister," he said very gently, "you do not speak with man; what cause, then, can there be for bitterness?" She answered him, still angrily. "The house is upside down," she said. "Iliel is as irritable as an eczema; the boys have both made insulting faces at every one they have seen this morning; and the girls are absolutely impudent." "This is a matter for me, as in charge of the defence of the circle." [165] Sister Clara uttered a sharp exclamation. It had not o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…too small to understand himself ! ELDEST PILGRIM. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! TANNHAUSER. You know not, friend, the man to whom you speak. I have lived long in miracles enough, Myself the crowning miracle of all, That Iam merely here. God speed you, sirs! I ask your blessing, not to stay therewith My soul’s own need (though that is dire enough) But—he that blesseth shall himself be blessed ! My blessing were small help to you, my friends. AN INTELLIGENT PILGRIM. For your own reason, give it to us, then! TANNHAUSER. The Bles…
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
…is Andrealphus. He is a Mighty Marquis, appearing at first in the form of a Peacock, with great Noises. But after a time he putteth on Human shape. He can teach Geo- metry perfectly. He maketh Men very subtle therein; and in all Things pertaining unto Mensuration or Astronomy. He can transform a Man into the Likeness of a Bird. He governeth 30 Legions of Infernal Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (66.) Cimeyes, or Cimeres, or Kimaris.—The Sixty-sixth Spirit is Cimejes, or Cimeies, or Kimaris. He is a Marquis, Mighty, Great, Strong and Powerfu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
… in his dull pages. He drones on in such an exalted kind of way, don’tcherknow! There is hardly a mystic living who wouldn’t be a better man for reading Gal’s Gossip now and then. I wish I had a copy here! Doris LESLIE (“ BABY ”). THINGS A FREEMASON SHOULD Know. By F. J. W. CRowg. G. Kenning and Son. It is a pity that the title of this excellent manual should suggest the sexual sliminess of Sylvanus Stall, D.D., for it is a most admirable compilation, a capital handbook and vade-mecum which no Mason should be without. It is intensely interestin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
… in his dull pages. He drones on in such an exalted kind of way, don’tcherknow! There is hardly a mystic living who wouldn’t be a better man for reading Gal’s Gossip now and then. I wish I had a copy here! Doris LESLIE (“ BABY ”). THINGS A FREEMASON SHOULD Know. By F. J. W. CRowg. G. Kenning and Son. It is a pity that the title of this excellent manual should suggest the sexual sliminess of Sylvanus Stall, D.D., for it is a most admirable compilation, a capital handbook and vade-mecum which no Mason should be without. It is intensely interestin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…ation or dramatic representation of the legend of the capture of Diana by Pan. It is, of course, from such rites that all dramatic performance developed. The idea is to identify oneself, in thought by means of action, with the deities whom one desires to invoke. The idea of presenting a story ceremonially may have preceded the ritual, and the Gods may have been mere sublimations of eponymous heroes or personifications of abstract ideas; but ultimately it is much the same. Admit that the genius of man is divine, and the question "Which is the ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
life had recently been manifest. An obvious corollary is that the best bodies are those that have met a violent death, rather than those which have been subjected to illness and decay. Also, it followed that the best corpses of all were those of executed murderers, whose vitality may be assumed as very great — though on this last point Cyril Grey, for one, would have disagreed with him, saying that the most vital people would have too much respect for the principle of life to commit murder in cold blood. However, Dr Vesquit had obtained an appo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
6 ending in something like a tragic farce. The love of a man for his own mother, not according to a moral but a sexual standard, is not quite a novel idea, but Mr Crowley handles the subject in a revolting fashion, which the Greek poets avoided, owing to their keen artistic sensibility. Some passages in this drama are really very fine ; and ‘ The Fatal Force ’ is also a dramatic poem of singular power, though the subject is equally horrible. There is scarcely a poem in the entire volume free from morbidity ; and yet it is impossible to deny tha…
1906 · PDF PAGE 101
…he fabled ass, O Zeus-descended one ? HERACLES. What ass? ARGUS. The one that wore the lion’s skin ! THESEUS. This fellow were beneath a man’s contempt. ‘?ow should a God-born heed him ? JASON, We are here, ven, to invoke Athena, immolate 1e sacred cock upon her altar-stone, ‘hat She, who sprang in armour from the brain ‘4f the All-Father, may descend to bless ‘ar labours, since delay grows dangerous, ‘ iaply by Her power and subtlety Se please to aid the work, and to perform A prodigy to save us! Mighty Queen, That art the balance and the swor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…passage where the twins live is very difficult too. They are two sisters; and one is very pure and good, and the other is a horrid fast woman. But that shows you how silly dream language is— really there is another way to put it: you can say they are two sisters, and one is very silly and ignorant, and the other has learnt to know and enjoy. Now when one is a Princess it is very important to have good manners, so you have to go into the passage, and take one on each arm, and go through with them singing and dancing; and if you hurt the feelings …
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…ician himself considérée! as the microcosm. The microcosm is an exact image o£ the Macrocosm; the Great Work is the raising of the whole man in perfect balance to the power of ïnfinity. The reader will remark that ail criticism directed against the Magical Hierarchy is futile. One cannot call it incorrect — the only line to take might be that it was inconvénient. In the same way one çannot say that the Roman alphabet is better or worse than the Greek, since ail required sounds can be more or less satisfactorily represented by either; yet both t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…mself from his sordidness; and he was always in need of money. It was no feigned need, either; for he was sometimes short of whisky. The man's knowledge of the minds of others was uncanny; he read Balloch at a gesture. "Grey never struck the Watcher," he said; "it was not his style; who was it?" "Simon Iff." "I shall see to that." Balloch understood that, though S.R.M.D. feared Iff and loathed him, his great preoccupation was with Cyril Grey. He hated the young magician with a perfect hatred; he would never forget his ruin at those boyish hands…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…he Word and the Letter of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life.9 They must acknow- ledge the Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as 1. This book is published in the Equinox Vol. III No. 2. 2. Liber 185 need not be quoted at length. It is needful only to say that the Aspirant is trained systematically and comprehensively in the various technical practices which form the basis of Our Work. One may become expert in any or ail of these without necessarily making any real progress, just as a man might be first-rate at grammar, syntax, an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 242
… waking! Hail to Thee ! I am afraid, I also, I myself! Help! lover, Venus, mistress of my life ! I cannot bear the glory of the gaze. No man shall look upon the face of God! Where art thou? Save me from scorpion ! 1 I am—alone ! the HATHOOR. Light, Truth, arise, arise ! TANNHAUSER. All blinded by the Light— Life, the I see—I see ! Thou art the Way, the Truti. Love ! Thou, Whom I sought through ages of deep sleep 1 Lilith, among other shapes, can assume that of a scorpion. Forgotten when I died. There is no death: Change alternating ; and forget…