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Page 37 of 831961 · PDF PAGE 120
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 108 Dd De Stella Macrocosmi (Of the Star of the Macrocosm) HUS far then concerning the Pentagram, how it is of the Cross, and its Virtue of the Highest; but the Hexagram is for the most Part a Detail of the Formula of the Rose and Cross. Already have I shewed unto thee how the Most Holy Trinity is the Yang; but the Spirit, and the Water (or Fluid) and the Blood, that bear Witness in the Inferior, are of the Yin. Thus the Operation of the Hexagram lieth wholly within the Order of our Plane, uniting indeed any soul with its Im…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
…initiation. I claim that my book establishes the outline of an entirely final theory of the construction of Christianity. The subject is far too vast and complex to be adequately discussed in this autohagiography. But I have no hesitation in referring the student to my essay for the solution of any and every difficulty which he may have found in the consideration of this matter. Having completed this treatise, I discovered myself to be inspired to write a number of short stories based on The Golden Bough. They are "The Hearth", "The God of Ibre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
…t . And likewise love .? Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle.3 He taunts them , insults God ; and tells all , shouting it far and broad , that his road was the road of the Mount of Venus , the road of Lust , the fiery baptism of Vice which impels Virtue . Then the silence breaks , the foul mob of the Self - sufficient , the spawn of ignor ance , and the slime of superstition , let loose their hell - hound voices : —fiend ! atheist ! devil ! are hurled at his head ; kill him ! Crucify him ! death ! death ! But Tannhäuser stands a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
… making a few flattering remarks about my body than I find everything wrong with it, and two grains of Cascara Sagrada necessary to its welfare! . . . . I wish I knew where I was! I don’t at all recognise what Path I am on; it doesn’t seem like a Path at all. As far as I can see, I am drifting rudder- less and sailless on a sea of no shore—the False Sea of the Qliphoth. For in my stupidity I began to try a certain ritual of the Evil Magic, so called. . . . Not
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…k alike to me; there are just as many pros and cons to Pranayama as to Ceremonial, etc. etc., —and the pros and cons are so numerous and far- reaching that I simply dare not start discussing even one. I can see an endless avenue in every case. In short, like the hashish-drunkard in full blast, I am overwhelmed by the multitude of my own magical Images. I have become the great Magician—Mayan, the Maker of Illusion——the Lord of the Brethren of the Left—hand Path. I don’t “wear my iniquity as an aureole, deathless in Spiritual Evil," as Mr. Waite …
1913 · PDF PAGE 469
…d to hold, whom a hundred shaken fists sought to strike. This man later complained of having been roughly handled by the police, but, as far as one could see in such an uproar, the police were rather protecting him against the exasperation of the mob. Women were running after him, shrieking: “ Kill him!” “ But what has he done?” cried other voices. “The wretch! He has struck the Archbishop with his fist!” said the women. Then others came out of the church, and contradictory accounts were flying to and fro. “The Archbishop was frightened, and ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 469
…d to hold, whom a hundred shaken fists sought to strike. This man later complained of having been roughly handled by the police, but, as far as one could see in such an uproar, the police were rather protecting him against the exasperation of the mob. Women were running after him, shrieking: “ Kill him!” “ But what has he done?” cried other voices. “The wretch! He has struck the Archbishop with his fist!” said the women. Then others came out of the church, and contradictory accounts were flying to and fro. “The Archbishop was frightened, and ha…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
… of no importance whatever that the invocation should be “right”. There are a thousand different wavs of compassing the end proposed, so far as external things are concerned. The whole secret may be summarised in these four words: “Enflame thyself in praying.” 1 The mind must be exalted until it loses consciousness of self. The Magician must be carried forward blindly by a force which, though. in him and of him, is by no means that which he in his normal State of consciousness calls I. Just as the poet, the lover, the artist, is carried out of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…But I followed Browning's advice to "greet the Unseen with a cheer": my real knowledge of Greek and Latin enabled me to give renderings, far above the average, of unfamiliar passages. I could never adapt myself to the sheep-system of mnemonic "learning". In October I entered the university, taking rooms at 16 St. John's Street. From that moment begins an entirely new chapter in my life. {106} 12 When I went up to Cambridge in the October term of 1895, I had the sensation of drawing a long deep breath as one does after swimming under water or (a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
… was born at a date when folk were less fastidious ! and let him return to the quiet and uneventful autobiography with which he has so far pleasantly and inoffensively regaled us. Ah ! You would, would you, you penny-a-peep flapper ? Well, little girls will be little girls. Adam fell for less than this Oh ! If you suck so I shall go mad Stop, for Gods sake ! This was the song.
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…owledge of Good and of Evil , and has become as a god . He wends his way to the Court of the Landgrave and there meets Elizabeth , “ His far - off baby - love ,” as Venus called her , and whispers to himself , “ Cannot purity be brought to know aught but itself ? ” Herein lies the note of his misfortunes . Purity was but ignorance , and Tannhäuser was now a god , knowing both good and evil : 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 239 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 316
…ough which poor little Ljubov lived before she grew accustomed to her blindness? I am not a medical philosopher; I like home and comfort far too much. If I journey, I must needs travel in state, and my staff includes both a medical 298
1910 · PDF PAGE 316
…ough which poor little Ljubov lived before she grew accustomed to her blindness? I am not a medical philosopher; I like home and comfort far too much. If I journey, I must needs travel in state, and my staff includes both a medical 298
1916 · PDF PAGE 8
… Indians themselves, in many important respects, particularly in that of caste. In the case of South Africa it is once again evident how far more vital than material considerations are the spiritual. The Boers, driven from one settlement to another by the most barefaced treachery and tyranny, and finally conquered in their last stronghold by invading armies outnumbering them twenty to one, were yet able to reconquer their country for themselves, without a drop of bloodshed, within a decade of the fall of Pretoria.
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
… or sin —, in which case the expression is unreal, w and may be neglected. 2 Two or more things cannot form part of any one thing, in so far as they remain two, Considered in relation to that of which they form part, they become fractions. 3 Cf. A. B, Douglas, Reminiscences. S. Fourth-dimensionally ; no more. M. Yet his right optic nerve will see through his left eye? S. Of course. Af. Then of an event, an argument, a dialectic euhemerism, protoplasmic or blasto- dermic? S. I see what you mean. You would say that duality irresolvable into unity…
1907 · PDF PAGE 212
…We are ready. AGAVE. Strong now and steady ! First MANAD. The tiger is harnessed. SECOND MAENAD. The nightingale urges Our toil from her far nest. THIRD MANAD. Ionian surges Roar back to our chant. FOURTH M-ENAD. Aha ! for the taunt Of Theban sages Is lost, lost, lost ! The wine that enrages Our life is enforced. We dare them and daunt. AGAVE. The spirits that haunt The rocks and the river, The moors and the woods, The fields and the floods, Are with us for ever! MAZNADS. Are of us for ever. Evoe! Evoe! AUTONOE. Agave! He cometh! AGAVE, Cry ho!…
1909 · PDF PAGE 38
…y create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwards. It might be dangerous to go too far, or stay too long ; for fatigue must be avoided. The danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. Finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to have been travelling to coincide with the physical, tightening his muscles, drawing in his breath, and putting his forefinger to his lips. Then let him “awake” by a well-…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
… blade of still better temper. VIII “It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far-reaching Mind, measuring all things except that Intelligible. But it is requisite to understand this; for if thou inclinest thy Mind thou wilt understand it, not earnestly; but it is becoming to bring with thee a pure and inquiring sense, to extend the void mind of thy soul to that Intelligible, that thou mayst learn the Intelligible, because it subsisteth beyond Mind.” “Thou wilt not understand it, as whe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 38
…y create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwards. It might be dangerous to go too far, or stay too long ; for fatigue must be avoided. The danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. Finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to have been travelling to coincide with the physical, tightening his muscles, drawing in his breath, and putting his forefinger to his lips. Then let him “awake” by a well-…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
… blade of still better temper. VIII “It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far-reaching Mind, measuring all things except that Intelligible. But it is requisite to understand this; for if thou inclinest thy Mind thou wilt understand it, not earnestly; but it is becoming to bring with thee a pure and inquiring sense, to extend the void mind of thy soul to that Intelligible, that thou mayst learn the Intelligible, because it subsisteth beyond Mind.” “Thou wilt not understand it, as whe…