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Page 22 of 1141910 · PDF PAGE 38
28 THE WIZARD WAY Give thy body to the beasts ! Give thy spirit to the priests ! Break in twain the hazel rod On the virgin lips of God ! Tear the Rosy Cross asunder ! Shatter the black bolt of thunder ! Suck the swart ensanguine kiss Of the resolute abyss ! Wonder-weft the wizard heard This intolerable word. Smote the blasting hazel rod On the scarlet lips of God ; Trampled Cross and rosy core ; Brake the thunder-tool of Thor ; Meek and holy acolyte Of the priestly hells of spite Sleek and shameless catamite Of the beasts that prowl by ni…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…t only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way for the layman to approach this Book is to regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not be able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately personal sense, to him. It is because the thought expressed in this Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commen…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…pothesis, empiric as it was, and is. But with the growth and gathering-together, classifying, criticism of our facts, we are well on the way to erect a surer structure on a broader basis. IX. AGNOSTICISM. It should be clearly understood, and well remembered, that throughout all these medi- tations and ideas, there is no necessary way to any orthodox ontology whatever. As to the way of salvation, we are not to rely on the Buddha; the vicious lie of vicarious atonement finds no place here. The Buddha himself does not escape the law of causation ;…
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
THE WIZARD WAY 27 Surely in the circle millions Of immaculate pavilions Flash upon the trembling turf Like the sea-stars in the surf Millions of bejewelled tents For the warrior sacraments. Vaster, vaster, vaster, vaster, Grows the stature of the master ; All the ringed encampment vies With the infinite galaxies. In the midst a cubic stone With the Devil set thereon ; Hath a lamb's virginal throat ; Hath the body of a stoat ; Hath the buttocks of a goat ; Hath the sanguine face and rod Of a goddess and a god ! Spell by spell and pace by pa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 60
… rein the riotous car Of galloping, galloping Love ; And straight to the steady ray Of the Lion-heart Lord I career, Pointing my flaming way With the spasm of night for a spear ! O moon ! O secret sweet ! Chalcedony clouds of caresses About the flame of our feet, The night of our terrible tresses ! It is a wonder, then If the people are mad with blindness, And nothing is stranger to men Than silence, and wisdom, and kindness ? Nay ! let him fashion an arrow Whose heart is sober and stout !
1944 · PDF PAGE 183
… use it rightly. This must necessarily happen in spheres which have nothing whatever to do with material posses‐ sions, as such. In this way, Carnegie establishes a Library, Rockefeller endows Research, sim‐ ply because there is nothing else to do. But all this doctrine lies behind the card; it is the inner meaning of the card. There is another view to consider, that this is the last of all the cards, and therefore represents the sum total of all the work that has been done from the beginning. Therefore, in it is drawn the very figure of the Tr…
1961 · PDF PAGE 30
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 18 % De Somno Lucido (Of the Sleep of Light) OW know this also that at the End of that secret Way lieth a Garden wherein is a Rest House prepared for thee. For to him whose physical Needs of whatever Kind are not truly satisfied cometh a Lunar or physical Sleep appointed to refresh and recreate by Cleansing and Repose; but on him that is bodily pure the Lord bestoweth a Solar or Lucid Sleep, wherein move Images of pure Light fashioned by the True Will. And this is called by the Qabalists the Sleep of Shiloam, and of this doe…
1961 · PDF PAGE 75
…pen Sea. And if so be that thou in thy sounding findest new Channels, rejoice and map them for the Profit of thy Fellows; But remember always that to find a new Way up a Precipice removeth not the Precipice. For where thou, o Angel and yet Man, hast trod delicately albeit without Fear, Fools will rush in to their Destruction. c
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…tly impossible to attain great variety in the smaller numbers. But this fact illustrâtes the excellence of our system. There is only one way of striking 2 knocks, and this fact agréés with the nature of Chokmah; there is only one way of creating. We can express only ourselves, although we do so in duplex form. But there are three ways of striking 3 knocks, and these 3 ways correspond to the threefold manner in which Binah can receive the créative idea. There are three possible types of triangle. We may understand an idea either as an unity trip…
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
…yer; Sol, Osiris, the Slain and Risen. The initials of these three divine beings thus make the more ancient name of Jehovah lAO. In this way the initiates of old expressed their understanding of the fact that the Universe was after all perfect, even if requiring a little manipulation; but as explained previously, this doctrine is for the weaker brethren, for those who are suffering from the illusion of imperfection; it enables them to make their way to the i1limitable Light. DIAGRAM 7. THE ELEMENTAL WEAPONS This diagram shows the attribution of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…swer is that the li is a measure of the time of marching, not of miles. The difference of calculation informs one that Pu Peng is a long way up the hill. It is very much the same with the Tarot. The 6 of Wands is referred to Jupiter in Leo, and called the Lord of Victory. This dictates not only what victory is like, but also the condi‐ tions to be fulfilled in order to obtain victory. There is need of the fiery energy of the suit of Wands, the balance of the number 6, the stubborn courage of Leo, and also the influence of Jupiter, the little bi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…ow perceives a totally different set of phenomena; there are no circles, but ellipses. Dip again, first at this angle, then at that. One way we get curious curves called parabolas, the other way equally curious curves called hyperbolas. "By this time the water would be nearly out of its mind, if it insisted on trying to refer all these absolutely different phenomena to a single cause! "It might work out a geometry — our own plane geometry, in fact — and it would perhaps get some extraordinary poetic conception of a Creator who manifested in his…
1961 · PDF PAGE 31
…ording to their own Nature, without Desire, and they oppose no Resistance to the Operations of Time. Such are called Happy, and in their Way of Vegetable Life it is so; for they are free of any Poison. m
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
… renew the charm. TANNHAUSER. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work Thy devilish lusts on me unfortunate ! There is no gateway to this fortalice? Thy fiends surround me? Hein! their pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Avé Maria ! VENUS. Mercy! Mercy, God! [ Zhunder rolls in the lightning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and TANNHAUSER finds himself in a cross-way of the forest, where is a Crucifix. eis kneeling at the foot, amazed, as one awakening from a dream, orfrom aviston of mysterious power. "TANNHAUS…
1944 · PDF PAGE 26
…nderstanding which is infinitely clearer than any intellectual in‐ terpretation could possibly be. This is a fundamental exercise in the way to initiation. If one were a shallow rationalist, it would be quite easy to pick holes in all these attributions and semi‐philosophical hypotheses, or near‐hypotheses; but it is also quite simple to prove by mathematics that it is impossible to hit a golf ball. Hitherto, the main theme of this essay has been the Tree of Life, in its essence the Se‐ phiroth. It is now proper to consider the relations of the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
… ing in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the trai tors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; de destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strik…
1898 · PDF PAGE 54
…And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, desolate and blind. The dusty desert glimmers in the night, A solitary palm-tree shades the well ; I am alone, a weary eremite Striving the secrets of the stars to tell, And every blade of grass that makes the dell Is counted and divined by me, who stare With eyes half blinded by the fires of Hell That my wild brain imagines everywhere, Roaring and raging round with red infernal glare.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 129
… my funny little jokes, Ah ! Dust to dust and clay to clay When Celia croaks. Ill dress her up in cloaks and toques Etcetera, earn her away And after sundry final pokes Hire her at three-and-six a day To G...H... what a hoax ! None but the dead shall have its way When Celia croaks. X When Celia rots, each poxy hole Will serve : she hath an hundred twats. Come finger, tongue, and fucking pole When Celia rots. Here, the old ulcers ! Happy spots ! Hail, pustules ! Hail, oh central goal Wherein some sucking devil squats Now surely as ever ! …
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
…n enthymeme with a suppressed and impossible Major. There is no progression on these lines, and what I foolishly mistook for a nice easy way to glide into my story proves but the blindest of blind alleys.
1909 · PDF PAGE 30
… Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee :— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or to still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (there are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: The Light is mine ; its rays consume Me: I have …