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Page 35 of 741910 · PDF PAGE 108
…nderlying ever The perfect happiness. Thou knowest that not in flesh Lies the fair fresh Delight of love ; not in mere lips and eyes The secret of these bridal ecstasies, Since thou art everywhere, Rose of the World, Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory, Rose of the High Host Of Heaven, mystic, rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows) How every word awakes its own reward In a thought akin to thee, a shadow of thee ; And every tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rime tingles and shakes i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 22
… PRELIMINARY INVOCATION OF THE Goet1a so-called, with a complete explanation of the barbar- ous names of evocation used therein, and the secret rubrick of the ritual, by the Master Therion. This is the most potent invocation extant, and was used by the Master Himself in his attainment. , Lrper MCCLXIV. Tue Greek QapataH. A complete dictionary of all sacred and important words and phrases given in the Books of the Gnosis and other important writ- ings both in the Greek and the Coptic. 16
1922 · PDF PAGE 246
…ough into the blood. I am itching to do something horrible and insane. “Every drop of the river Of blood aflame and a-quiver With poison secret and sour— With a sudden twitch at the last Like certain jagged daggers.” When Peter crosses the room, I see him “With blood-shot eyes dull-glassed The screaming Malay staggers Through his village aghast.” It is natural and inevitable that he should murder me. I wish he were not so weak. Anything to end it all. : The medical books said that if one didn’t die out- right from abstention, the craving would …
1922 · PDF PAGE 2
…bread, With blood made one, the sacrifice To those, the living, who are dead— Strange gods and goddesses, that shed Monstrous desires of secret things Upon their worshippers, from wings One lucent web of light, from head One labyrinthine passion-fed Palace of love, from breathing rife With secrets of forbidden life. But not the sunlight, nor the stars, Nor any light but theirs alone, Nor iron masteries of Mars, Nor Saturn’s misconceiving zone, Nor any planet’s may be shown, Within the circle of the grove, ‘Where burn the sanctities of love: Nor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…er of Ail!” “Thou Wanderer, Spirit of Ail!” “Thou Shilling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word is Truth, creating the World by its Magick!” ThIAF “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” (The conception is of Air, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Bird, “the Holy Ghost”, of a Mercurial Nature.) Hear me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me 5 so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Et…
1909 · PDF PAGE 32
…stood For by that sigh I knew the adorable PP asa oN : . And caught and kissed — what could the storm have dot.c Truth, that you wept in secret over me. ; . Worse than this sickening fog of solitude? Your silence was the dumb despair of hell; gees os Who can do worse than take away the sun? Who read it right read love. Strange cruelty, 4 ; They better had take care, I think. One da That who would die for you, sweet murderess, y * . ; . We shall go mad, and take ourseives away. Should find his comfort in your bitterness! 6 , _ 9g — — 39=
1954 · PDF PAGE 340
…c. (AL, I: 36; I: 46; I: 54,55; II: 76; III: 16; III: 39; III: 47; III: 63-68; and III: 73) These passages make it clear that there is a secret interpretation, which, being hidden as it is hidden, is presumably of even graver importance than the text as it stands. Such passages as I have been able to decipher confirm this view; so also does the discovery of the key number 31 by Frater Achad. We must also expect a genius to arise who will accomplish all this work for us. Again we know that much information of the utmost value has been given thro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 94
…N - PRIMEU- MATON, and in the angles MI-CA-EL: and at each angle the Seer shall slay a pigeon, and having done this, let him retire to a secret place, where is neither sight nor hearing, and sit within his black robe, secretly invoking the Aethyr. And let the Scribe perform the Banishing Rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagram, and let him call upon the Holy Names of God, and say the Exorcism of Honorius, and let him beseech protection and help of the Most High. And let him be furnished with the Magick Dagger, and let him strike fearlessly at any…
1919 · PDF PAGE 218
…in, the whole body of hidden knowledge preserved in the Sanctuary from the beginning of its manifestation. In the lower grades the final secrets are hinted, and conveyed in symbol, beneath veil, and through sacrament. In this way the intelligence of the initiate is called into play, so that he who well uses the knowledge of the lower grades may be selected for invitation to the higher, where all things are declared openly. 2° They become partakers of the current of Universal Life in Liberty, Beauty, Harmony, and Love which flames within the hea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…the exoteric doctrines of this Master. The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy. The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium. Scrutinium Chymicum, by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy. Science and the Infinité, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years. Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight. Invaluable to ail students. — 210 —
1912 · PDF PAGE 33
… is an impassable abyss between the least of them and the greatest of all the phenomena of normal consciousness. To sum ”!?, we assert a secret source of energy which ex- plains the phenomenon of Genius.1 We do not believe in any supernatural explanations, but insist that this source may be reached by the following out of definite rules, the 1 We have dealt in this preliminary sketch only with examples of religious genius. Other kinds are subject to the same remarks, but the limits of our space forbid discus- sion of these.
1910 · PDF PAGE 140
… podex close on El Qahar’s enamoured tool ! Though we mistake the world and God, at least is no mistake in this. 1. After this ode the “ secret key-number ” breaks down. It is said that there are five odes missing. But no doubt need therefore be cast upon the genuineness of the following odes. Some weight is to be given to the contention that there can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for mystical reasons. Their Persian dress I cannot learn ; but the Egyptians knew 42 Gods who purify the soul ; and the Jews speak of the “ Revolution of t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
… none shall stand before you. g. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. WSOMAKL 25
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
… none shall stand before you. g. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. WSOMAKL 25
1961 · PDF PAGE 121
…ystery that I endure, a Mystery too great for the mortal Part of me. For but now, when I cried out upon the Name Olun }wlo, which is the secret Name of my Lady that hath come to me most strangely! then I was rapt away altogether subtly yet fiercely into a Trance that hath transformed me with Attainment, yet without Trace in Mind. O my son! there is the Transfiguration of Glory, and there is the Jewel in the Lotus-flower; yea, also is many other whereof I am Partaker. But this last Passion, that my Lady Olun hath brought unto me upon this la…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…an Cocytus, lurk the shades Darker than deaths, more terrible than hells, Uttering unwritten words : the silent wells Keep their sweet secret till the morning maids
1911 · PDF PAGE 300
…nd make its darkness morn! PAN. [Rises] Brother Satyr, scourge forth these that profane the sanctuary of our Lady: for they know not the secret of the shrine. [SATYR dances the dame qf the scourge, driving the offers down the stage, where they crouch] PAN. [Goes to utter] Brother Satyr, I command you to perform the dance of Syrinx and Fan, in honour of our Lady Artemis. 122
1911 · PDF PAGE 300
…nd make its darkness morn! PAN. [Rises] Brother Satyr, scourge forth these that profane the sanctuary of our Lady: for they know not the secret of the shrine. [SATYR dances the dame qf the scourge, driving the offers down the stage, where they crouch] PAN. [Goes to utter] Brother Satyr, I command you to perform the dance of Syrinx and Fan, in honour of our Lady Artemis. 122
1901 · PDF PAGE 48
34 THE FATAL FORCE Thou royal offspring of a kingly sire, Less kingly for the single flower of love! I hail thee, son, the secret spouse of me, King of my body and this realm to-day! For lo! the child leapt up within my womb, Hailing me mother, and my spirit leapt, Hailing him brother! Son and spouse and king, Exulting father of the royal soul That lies here, loving me, assume thy crown And sit beside me, equal to thy queen. For look ye to the burning south, and see The Sun grown amorous, and behold his fire Leap to my godhead. For without a ma…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
… aim. 53. Actuated by mercy for my devotees, I shall now explain the Vajroli Mudra, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all the secrets. 54. Even while following all his desires, and without conforming to the regulations of Yoga, a