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Page 38 of 1731913 · PDF PAGE 232
… The shock of hosts , what merit to emerge Pure from the flame ? yet grant to us the scourge But spare the bolt in Thine uplifted hand . Great God , Who dost not doom the sins of men With cold , grey justice of a human eye , Have not our fathers glorified Thy name ? Hath she no service yet ? O grant us then This respite , gracious Lord , or else to die Before our dear , dear country owns her shame . 213
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…o that imagined figure 3 so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (It is sometimes difficult to open the eyes.) 6. Probably he will see figures approaching him, or become conscious of a landscape. Let him speak to such figures, and insist upon being answered, using the proper pentagrams and signs, as prev…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
Attainment of the Virgin of the Absolute; who, being manifested, is the Player upon the seven‐ fold pipe, the Great God Pan, and, being withdrawn into the Perfection that he willed, is Si‐ lence. 2. DE SAPIENTIA ET STULTITIA1 O, my Son, in this the Colophon of mine Epistle will I recall the Title and Superscription thereof; that is, the Book of Wisdom or Folly. I proclaim Blessing and Worship unto Nuith our Lady and her Lord, Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit, as it is shewed in the design Minutum Mundum, the Tre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
85 THE OCTOPUS THE red lips of the Octopus are more than myriad stars of night. The great beast writhes in fiercer foam than thirty stallions amorous. I would they clung to me and stung ; I would they quenched me with delight, The red lips of the Octopus. They reek with poison of the sea, scarlet and hot and languorous. My skin drinks in their slaver warm ; my sweats his rapt embrace excite. The heavy sea rolls languidly oer the ensanguine kiss of us. We strain and strive, we die for love ; we linger in the lusty fight ; We agonize ; our clutc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 220
…rt that they enlarge With hope thy dear sobs shall resound, A drummer rattling out the Charge ! For am I not a discord-note In Gods great anthemthanks to thee Black Irony with greedy throat That shaketh me, devoureth me Through my soft voice this harpy screams ! My blood, this viper-venom base ! I, the black mirror by whose gleams Megaera watches her own face.
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…ut him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Manet and OConor, she has at least conquered the great pianist Wlody- wewsky, and it takes her all her time to manage him and keep the baby out of mischief. Theodore Bugg needs no help of hers in his moral sculpture of the destinies of England.
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
WHEEL AND—WHOA! The Great Wheel of Samsara. The Wheel of the Law. (Dhamma.) The Wheel of the Taro. The Wheel of the Heavens. The Wheel of Life. All these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee consciously. Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may’st thou perceive THAT Will which…
1904 · PDF PAGE 84
…ed him that he had a bold lover, who would stick at nothing, and he gave way. The whole length of his lovers yard was en- gulfed in one great push, and, accustomed as he was to the Captains penis, he could hardly repress a cry of pain. The ravisher was far longer and thicker and cared a great deal less about any pain he [84]
1898 · PDF PAGE 75
…em at first sight less unin- telligible to ordinary analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. Great captains were always great priests, in the secret Qabalistical sense. The priests themselves, then as to-day, were foolish old men trained to bolster up the externals of religion. The real rulers, then as to-day, were not, officially, priests ; the sceptre was wielded by those who, swathed in thick darkness, and enthroned on their own thunderclouds, looked with the eye of gods upon this earth, and carrie…
1922 · PDF PAGE 121
…so we had to wait. . I might have done it; but on the platform at Rome I was brought up with a shock. An impossible thing had happened. “Great Scot,” cried a voice from the window of a coach three ahead of our own. “ Of all the extraordinary coincidences! How are you ?” We looked up, hardly able to believe our ears. Who should it be but our friend Feccles | Well, of course, I’d rather have seen the devil himself. After all, I'd behaved to the man rather shabbily; and, incidentally, made a great fool of myself. But what surprised me on second gl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
…actical life, but many among us have had our equilibrium crowned by that supreme glory of humanity, realization of our identity with the great and holy Tao." Wherewith he set aside no less than three hundred and sixty-five days in every year, and one extra day every fourth year, as days of special rejoicing.
1911 · PDF PAGE 2
…ormation, assistance, further inter- pretation, etc., are requested to communicate with THE CHANCELLOR OF THE A.: A:. c/o THE EQUINOX, 3 Great James Street, W.C. Telephone: CITY 8987, or to call at that address by appointment. A representative will be there to meet them. Probationers are reminded that the object of Probations and Ordeals is one: namely, to select Adepts. But the method appears twofold: (i) to fortify the fit; (ii) to eliminate the unfit. The Chancellor of the A.'. A.: views without satisfaction the practice of Probationers workin…
1911 · PDF PAGE 2
…ormation, assistance, further inter- pretation, etc., are requested to communicate with THE CHANCELLOR OF THE A.: A:. c/o THE EQUINOX, 3 Great James Street, W.C. Telephone: CITY 8987, or to call at that address by appointment. A representative will be there to meet them. Probationers are reminded that the object of Probations and Ordeals is one: namely, to select Adepts. But the method appears twofold: (i) to fortify the fit; (ii) to eliminate the unfit. The Chancellor of the A.'. A.: views without satisfaction the practice of Probationers workin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 38
…dapples the abundant vale , And in a while no cloud is on the sky . Their forms are fanciful , of texture frail : And now like hounds in great pursuit they seem ! - Their prey will vanish in the opening morn . Only a little while the trappings gleam , And for a little space doth sound a horn . 3. Winds . room to . TIPTOE up and down and all about What folly prompts you , wind , from room ? Leave now the creaking staircases ; go out ; Make sturdy movement all across the broom And in the heather - bells ; or in a mead Stiffen the hairs upon a hor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…the depths of that volcano; but they had been turned to human service; they had been used to heat the forge of art. For this woman was a great singer; and no one outside the Order knew of her secret aspirations, or that she retired from time to time to one or the other of the Profess-Houses of the Order, there to pursue a mightier transmutation of her being. She greeted Cyril with peculiar warmth — indeed, it had been she to whom he had once thrown a pair of socks. In a way, it was he that had made her a great artist; for his personality had br…
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…ghterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates of Matter: the Child of the Forces of Time . LETTER ATTRI- BUTION ` "h ιι?כ .₪,`כ V?מ 11כ B Φ V.??ע 151
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…ghterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates of Matter: the Child of the Forces of Time . LETTER ATTRI- BUTION ` "h ιι?כ .₪,`כ V?מ 11כ B Φ V.??ע 151
1899 · PDF PAGE 93
…em at first sight less unin- telligible to ordinary analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. Great captains were always great priests, in the secret Qabalistical sense. The priests themselves, then as to-day, were foolish old men trained to bolster up the externals of religion. The real rulers, then as to-day, were not, officially, priests ; the sceptre was wielded by those who, swathed in thick darkness, and enthroned on their own thunderclouds, looked with the eye of gods upon this earth, and carrie…
1954 · PDF PAGE 166
… "always" admits of no exception; "unto Me" may be paraphrased as the "fulfilment of one possibility necessary to the achievement of the Great Work." Every act is a sacrament, but this pre-eminently so. The text continues with a plain threat: "if the ritual be not ever unto Me, then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit." To profane this sacrament of sacraments is the most fatal of errors and offences; for it is high treason to the Great Work itself. The next verse repeats: "If the ritual be not ever unto me"; and it is emphasized and f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…th nothing else whatever. If I enter thy laboratory, 0 Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, who protestest that thou dost aspire to the Great White Brotherhood, and demand of thee, “ What are thou doing?” wilt thou reply, “I am extracting the enzymes from this ferment,” or rather, “I am aspiring to the Great White Brotherhood ”? And if that question puzzle thee, as well it may, seeing that either answer is in some sense or other a lie—then see to it, I say, that thou lie not to the Holy Ghost! Shakespeare is perhaps thought by some (may it be …