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Page 34 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 241
…or two beyond the spires and gables of that city of hidebound pedants which had been his school, his home, and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the dark cloak of unutterable thoughts. A distant bell chimed the last quarter of the dying year, and the snow which lay fine and crisp on the roadway was being caught up here and there by the puffs of sharp frosty wind that came…
1902 · PDF PAGE 23
A lonely and desolate plain. Tannhduser riding towards a great nioutitain. Tannhauser. SI X days. Creation took no longer ! Yet I wander eastward, and no light is found. The stars their motion shirk, or else forget. The sun — the moon ? Imprisoned underground ! Where gnomes disport, and devils do abound. Six days. I journey to the black unknown, Always in hope the Infinite may rise Some unexpected instant, as 'twere grown A magic palace to enchanted eyes ; A wizard guerdon for a minstrel wise. Perhaps I am a fool to think that here, Merely by r…
1905 · PDF PAGE 168
…hell but earth. Vain are the falsehoods that subserve to mirth. Dust is to dust, create or uncreate. The wheel is bounded by the world’s great girth. By prayer and penance unregenerate, Redeemed by no man’s sacrifice or worth, We swing : no mortal knows his ultimate. There is no hell but earth. II In all the skies the planets and the stars Receive us, where our fate in order plies. Somewhere we live between the savage bars In all the skies. 163
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…t ! Hold the bright hair Firm in one swarthy grip ; And ere the blood leap strong Suck with insensate lip That wine of Pan ! Ah, drink ! Great king — as if the brink Of Ganymede’s own cup flowed over,
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
…e Druids dwell. There came an eagle from the height And bade him mount. From dale to dell They sank and soared. Last to the light Of the great sun himself they flew, Piercing the borders of the night, Passing the irremeable blue. Far into space beyond the stars At last they came. And there he knew All the blind reasonable bars Broken, and all the emotions stilled, And all the stains and all the scars Left him; so like a child he thrilled With utmost knowledge; all his soul, With perfect sense and sight fulfilled,
1913 · PDF PAGE 296
THE EQUINOX hidden sense of the Zohar, the great dogmatic treatise of the Qabalah of the Hebrews. The Clavicles of Solomon, forgotten in the course of time, and supposed lost, have been re- discovered by ourselves; without trouble we have opened all the doors of those old sanctuaries where absolute truth seemed to sleep,—always young, and always beautiful, like that princess of the childish legend, who, during a century of slumber, awaits the bridegroom whose mission it is to awaken her. After our book, there will still be mysteries, but higher…
1913 · PDF PAGE 296
THE EQUINOX hidden sense of the Zohar, the great dogmatic treatise of the Qabalah of the Hebrews. The Clavicles of Solomon, forgotten in the course of time, and supposed lost, have been re- discovered by ourselves; without trouble we have opened all the doors of those old sanctuaries where absolute truth seemed to sleep,—always young, and always beautiful, like that princess of the childish legend, who, during a century of slumber, awaits the bridegroom whose mission it is to awaken her. After our book, there will still be mysteries, but higher…
1944 · PDF PAGE 210
…e cups is that of the Tree of Life. But, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other. The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due. This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disrup‐ tive force which inevitably attacks every supposed perfection. His energy displays the greatest possible contrast with that of Pisces, which is both peaceful and spiritualized.
1911 · PDF PAGE 24
…comes a lion and swallows the two latter angels up. The first angel goes to the lion and closes his mouth. And behind them are arrayed a great company of Angels with silver spears, like a forest. And the Angel says: Blow, all ye trumpets, for I will loose my hands from the mouth of the lion, and his roar- ing shall enkindle the worlds. Then the trumpets blow, and the wind rises and whistles terribly. It is a blue wind with silver specks; and it blows through the whole Aethyr. But through it one perceives the lion, which has become as a raging f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 138
THE EQUINOX its own opposite. And this is the great Mystery of the Super- nals that are beyond the Abyss. For below the Abyss, con- tradiction is division; but above the Abyss, contradiction is Unity. And there could be nothing true except by virtue of the contradiction that is contained in itself. Thou canst not believe how marvellous is this vision of the Arrow. And it could never be shut out, except the Lords of Vision troubled the waters of the pool, the mind of the Seer. But they send forth a wind that is a cloud of Angels, and they beat t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 276
… maintain a Mind of each Kind behind each Class of Things of one Kind ; but so did Berkeley, and his Argument in that Respect is, as the great Huxley showed, irrefragable. For by the Universe I mean the Sensible ; any other is Not to be Known ; and the Sensible is dependent upon Mind. Nay, though the Sensible is said to be an Argument of an Universe Insensible, the latter becomes sensible to Mind as soon as the Argument is accepted, and disappears with its Rejection. Nor is the Qabalah dependent upon its Realism, and its Application to the Work…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
…unconscious strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated deed of mere brute muscle and nerve! Thence, by great Will new- freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarco- phggus! an end! an end! Resounds the echo in the stone, incalculable myriad…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…rful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral guide, it is indescribably dangerous. I have given a great many hints, especially in Magick. and The Book of Thoth-some of the cards are almost blatantly revealing; so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles for giving children matches for playthings. My excuse has been that they have already got the matches, that my explanations have been directed to add conscious precautions to the existing automatic safeguards. The above remarks refer mainly to t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 115
… we lack ” (quoth he) ; “ For surely in some sore distress May be Sir Palamede.” Then they Rose as one man in glad liesse To honour that great health. ‘“God’s way Is not as man’s” (quoth Lancelot). “Yet, may God send him back this day, His quest achieved, to Camelot!” “ Amen!” they cried, and raised the bow! ; When—the wind rose, a blast as hot 109
1912 · PDF PAGE 39
…ed nightingales I love, With the earth below, and the moon above, And the rippling river singing slowly Under the stars serene and holy. Great staring moon before the dawn, Shining young grass, Oh, have ye heard Diana pass Over the lawn ? Oh, dimpling river, murmuring slowly Under the starlight pale, and holy, Oh, little green grasshoppers chirring, chirring, What have ye seen in the bright night stirring? xxxrx
1912 · PDF PAGE 39
…ed nightingales I love, With the earth below, and the moon above, And the rippling river singing slowly Under the stars serene and holy. Great staring moon before the dawn, Shining young grass, Oh, have ye heard Diana pass Over the lawn ? Oh, dimpling river, murmuring slowly Under the starlight pale, and holy, Oh, little green grasshoppers chirring, chirring, What have ye seen in the bright night stirring? xxxrx
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
THE EQUINOX and myriads of little spheres, which he feels are in Reality one Great Ocean if he could only make them unite. Each stage above him is his Ultimate goal for the time being. Possessing one little sphere, his one and only object is to unite it to another, or another to it; not two others, not to the whole, but only to that Ove Other. For the time being (let it appear as if it were for all time to the initiate), that Oxe Other is God and Very God—the Omega of his quest, and that a// others are Devils that would tempt and seduce him. Th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 348
…storm. But at length Gioga landed him safely, and he, for his part, kept the bargain and restored the skin of her son, so that there was great rejoicing on the Skerry that night. There is one other story of particular interest, in that it contains features not generally found amongst the bulk of the Seal-folk legends. It is the story of the Wounded Seal. There was once an islander who made his living by the killing of seals. One night, as he sat by the fire, resting after his day's work, he heard a knocking at the door, and, on opening it, foun…
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
THE EQUINOX and myriads of little spheres, which he feels are in Reality one Great Ocean if he could only make them unite. Each stage above him is his Ultimate goal for the time being. Possessing one little sphere, his one and only object is to unite it to another, or another to it; not two others, not to the whole, but only to that Ove Other. For the time being (let it appear as if it were for all time to the initiate), that Oxe Other is God and Very God—the Omega of his quest, and that a// others are Devils that would tempt and seduce him. Th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 348
…storm. But at length Gioga landed him safely, and he, for his part, kept the bargain and restored the skin of her son, so that there was great rejoicing on the Skerry that night. There is one other story of particular interest, in that it contains features not generally found amongst the bulk of the Seal-folk legends. It is the story of the Wounded Seal. There was once an islander who made his living by the killing of seals. One night, as he sat by the fire, resting after his day's work, he heard a knocking at the door, and, on opening it, foun…