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world, and drenched it in foul darkness for five hundred years. He will delight to draw close parallels with the cognate phenomena displayed before the present generation.
INTRODUCfION 17 Your sub-questions a, b, and c are really answered by the above. All the terms you use are very indefinite . I hope it will not take too long to get you out of the way of thinking in these terms. For instance , the word "initiation" includes the whole process, and how to distinguish between it and enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if…
…pring, Till there be born immaculate A fair new thing. Tall as the mother-lily, still By faint winds swayed ; Tender and pure, without a will— An English maid. No tree of poison, at whose feet All men lie dead ; No well of death, whose waters sweet Are tinged with red. No hideous impassioned queen For whom love dies; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their motherhood. She will remain, unshaken yet By storm and sun ; She will remain, when years forget…
… embraced life. Expiate now thy glory, O Prometheus ! Thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; it is thy vulture, it is Jupiter, who will die! One day we shall awake at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life ; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. Then we shall live in God with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into His works with the light of His thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of His love. We shall be without doubt the elder breth…
… embraced life. Expiate now thy glory, O Prometheus ! Thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; it is thy vulture, it is Jupiter, who will die! One day we shall awake at last from the painful dreams of a tormented life ; our ordeal will be finished, and we shall be sufficiently strong against sorrow to be immortal. Then we shall live in God with a more abundant life, and we shall descend into His works with the light of His thought, we shall be borne away into the infinite by the whisper of His love. We shall be without doubt the elder breth…
…de in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make Personal progress équivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living. The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will is entirely free from internai diversion or external opposition; His work is to create a new Universe in accordance with His Will. He is the Master of the Law of Cha…
308 THE STAR IN THE WEST We only feel the event , namely , the existence of an idea , consequent to the command of the will : But the manner, in which this operation is performed , the power by which it is produced, is entirely beyond our comprehension ... The command of the mind over itself is limited, as well as its command over the body ;) and these limits are not known by reason , or any acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect , but only by experience and observation , as in all other natural events and in the operation of external…
12.3. 7.40. 9.10. 12.15. JOHN ST. JOHN Anyhow I will now (12.37) go quietly to sleep—as I am always saying, and never do when I say it !—in the hope that daylight may bring counsel. Woke fresh and comfortable. Sleep filled with dreams and broken into short lengths. I ought to observe that this is a very striking result of forging this magic chain; for in my normal life I am one of the soundest sleepers imaginable. Nine solid hours without turning once is my irreducible minimum. Having done an hour’s illumination of the New Ritual, will go and br…
THE TWO PATHS 72. And if he falls, e’en then he does not fall in vain; the enemies he slew in the last battle will not return to life in the next birth that will be his. Further encouragement to proceed; for although you do not attain everything, yet the enemies you have conquered will not again attack you. In point of fact this is hardly true. The conquest must be very complete for it to be so; but they certainly recur with very diminished intensity. Similar is the gradual immunization of man to syphilis, which was a rapidly fatal disease when…
… dined upon Maggi! and Cotton ;? We said of the couloir “on pourrait en vouloir” ; We said of the rocks—they are rotten. (2) We said “’T will be cold, not improbably wet,” We sneered at the ridge we had passed, We said of the sun “ His day’s work he has done.” We said of the sky—“ it is vast.” (3) We spoke of the snow—“ it is notably cold ” ; We supped upon Cotton and Maggi ; We observed to the moon “ Be a dear and come soon.’ We remarked of the crags—“ they are craggy.” (4) Intelligent talk will most surely beguile The longest night out on the…
THE EQUINOX same reason) it lacks just that which Zola always gives—a sense of tragedy. Probably Mr, George will say (with a maiden blush) that his novel is none the worse for that; he would deny the truth of the poet‘s vision—insist that the cosmos is but incoherency of heterogeneous incident, I may, however, urge with more hope of his attention that his novel breaks off at the really interesting part. What did Suzette say? Did the family tyranny make a man of Henri? Were they married,and, if so, what came of it ? I wait patiently on Mr. Georg…
THE EQUINOX same reason) it lacks just that which Zola always gives—a sense of tragedy. Probably Mr, George will say (with a maiden blush) that his novel is none the worse for that; he would deny the truth of the poet‘s vision—insist that the cosmos is but incoherency of heterogeneous incident, I may, however, urge with more hope of his attention that his novel breaks off at the really interesting part. What did Suzette say? Did the family tyranny make a man of Henri? Were they married,and, if so, what came of it ? I wait patiently on Mr. Georg…
… himself with the ideasof which atmospheric phenom- ena are the expressions as his humanity is of him; this achieved, he must impose his Will upon them by virtue of the superiority of his intelligence and the intégration of his purpose to their undirected impulses and uncomprehending interplay. Ail such. Magick demands the utmost précision in practice. It is true that the best rituals give us instructions in selecting our vehicles of Force. In 777 we find “correspondences” of many classes of being with the various types of operation, so that we…
The Cross is both the death of the “Saviour” 1 and the Phallic symbol of Résurrection. Will itself must be ready to culminate in the surrender of that Will: 2 the aspirations arrow that is shot against the Holy Dove must transmute itself into the wondering Virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same Spirit of God. Any idea that is thus in itself positive and négative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the Abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the Abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality o…
24 JEPHTHAH. To these damned massacring invaders. Say, My fellows, will ye follow Jephthah? Hail! SOLDIERS. We follow Jephthah to the death. All hail! JEPHTHAH. Go then, refresh yourselves, and sleep to-night. I will send messages to their dread lord Demanding his fell purpose, threatening ‘ My present aid to you with men of valour Chosen of all your tribes, and charging him As he loves life, and victory, to content His army with their present brief success, Lest he pass by the barrier of our suffering, And find our wrath no broken sword, and f…
130 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS That's just the trouble; for it is the first of the masks upon the face of the True Will; and that mask is the Poker-Face! As all true Art is spontaneous, is genius, is utterly beyond all conscious knowledge or control, so also is sex. Indeed, one might class it as deeper still than Art; for Art does at least endeavour to find an intelligible means of expression. That is much nearer to sanity than the blind lust of the sex-impulse. The maddest genius does look from Chokmah not only to Binah, but to the fruit of that uni…
…book of fairy tales. But thank God! there are still some fairies. There are still a few people in the world who love beauty, and who are willing to fight for freedom. To read the newspapers, one would suppose that freedom was dead for ever. But with whatever bonds they will bind liberty, there will always be a few like Padraic Colum to keep Her torch alight. We may not be allowed to speak or write what we think, but life will always live in fairyland, and an hour cometh when the doors of fairyland will open, and the iron hero nursed on fairy mi…
…s ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open the doors of Heaven, and we shall enter in and see God face to face . . . Under the stars will I go forth, my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew : I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free. Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips, and flowers upon your eyes, and a sword …
…y”, or whoever may be the object of worship. Complété absence of ail power to concentrate thought, to follow an argument, to formulate a Will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve thus lost parts of their soûls. They wander from one new cuit to another even crazier. Occasionally such persons drift for a moment into the surroundmgs of The Master Therion, and are shot out by the simple process of making them try to do a half-hour5s honest work of any kind. In projecting the…
…pt the mantra going. One thing at least is good; if anything does come of this great magical retirement—which I am beginning to doubt—it will not be mixed up with any other enthusiasm, poetic, venereal, or bacchanalian. It will be purely mystici But as it has not happened yet—- and just at present it seems incredible that it should happen—I think we may change the subject. . . . . What a fool I am, by the way! Isay that " He is God, and that there is no other God than He” 1800 times an hour; but I don‘t think it even once a day. All my energy h…