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CHAPTER VIII Of Equilibrium, and of the General and Particular Method of Préparation of the Furniture of the Temple and of the Instruments of Art. I “Before there was equilibrium, countenance beheld not count¬ enance.” 1 So sayeth the holiest of the Books of the ancient Qabalah. (Siphra Tzeniutha I. 2.) One countenance here spoken of is the Macrocosm, the other the Microcosm.2 As said above, the object of any magick ceremony is to unité the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal. You mu…
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
… by a cook who is not there? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” * Encyclopedia Britannica. Art. Metaphysics. + The Principles of Mevaphysics, Macmillan.
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
…d Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most inner and supernal dawn, Thou that bearest the torch for the feast of the gods ! In the heart of eld I found thee, and a rose Was thy heart, and a rose thy crown, and tiny rosebuds Girt thy green mantle, and thy yellow hair, Glittered with the dust of the stars! By the river-side Thou camest to me! Oh, the secr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
…d Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most inner and supernal dawn, Thou that bearest the torch for the feast of the gods ! In the heart of eld I found thee, and a rose Was thy heart, and a rose thy crown, and tiny rosebuds Girt thy green mantle, and thy yellow hair, Glittered with the dust of the stars! By the river-side Thou camest to me! Oh, the secr…
1919 · PDF PAGE 354
… way before thee, O Disciple. One single thought about the past that thou hast left behind, will drag thee down, and thou wilt have to start the Climb anew. Remember Lot’s wife. 66. Killin thyself all memory of past experiences. Look not behind or thou art lost. Remember Lot’s wife. It is a division of Will to dwell in the past. But one’s past experiences must be built into one’s Pyramid, as one ad- vances, layer by layer. One must also remark that this verse only applies to those who have not yet come to recon- cile past, present, and future. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
… la Gelée,Cépes Bordelaise,CoupeJack. Demi Clos du Roi. I am sure I made a serious mistake 111 the beginning of this Operation of Magick Art. Iought to have performed a true Equilibration by an hour’s Prana Yama in Asana (even if I had to do it without Kamb- hakham) at midnight, dawn, noon, and sunset, and I should have allowed nothing in heaven above, or in earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, to have interfered with its due performance. Instead I thought myself such a fine fellow that to get into Asana for a few minutes every midni…
1909 · PDF PAGE 132
…re of common things. With what awe does the wise man approach a speck of dust! And it is this Mystery that I approach! For Thou, Adonai, art the immanent and essential Soul of Things ; not separate from them, or from me; but That which is behind the shadow—show, the Cause of all, the Quintessence of All, the Transcender of all. And Thee I seek insistently; though Thou hide Thy- self in the Heaven, there will I seek Thee out ; though Thou wrap Thyself in the Flames οἵthe Abyss, even there will I pursue Thee; Though Thou make Thee a secret place …
1911 · PDF PAGE 161
…re like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! Iam quite blind. Thou art Nuit! Strain, strain, strain my whole soul! Aka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. Falutli! Falutli! I cling unto the burning Aethyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God. And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burn- ing crag! And the sea boils about the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 132
“ART” THE ARROW1. Now, then, behold how the head of the dragon is but the tail of the Aethyr! Many are they that have fought their way from mansion to mansion of the Everlasting House, and be‐ holding me at last have returned, declaring, “Fearful is the aspect of the Mighty and Terrible One”. Happy are they that have known me for whom I am. And glory unto him that hath made a gallery of my throat for his arrow of truth, and the moon for his purity. The moon waneth. The moon waneth. The moon waneth. For in that arrow is the Light of Truth that o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…pposite the larynx.——ED.] Also, since others are to read this, one must mention that almost from the beginning of this Working of Magick Art the changed aspect of the world whose culmination is the keeping of the oath “ I will inter- pret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul ” was present with me. This aspect is difficult to describe; one is indifferent to everything and yet interested in it. The meaning of things is lost, pending the inception of their Spiritual Meaning; just as, on putting one’s eye to the microscope, t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 217
…Law, its Quality, its Will and its Appurtenance or Ornament. For it is the Child of my Love toward thee, and the Expression through mine Art of my Will so far as that regardeth thee. Now every Child is made of the Essence of his Father, so that every Creation is a Likeness or image of the Creator, but modified by the Mother, that is to say, the Material whereon he begetteth it. So then this Letter is a Projection of mine own Star in a Mirror, to wit, mine Idea in hy Regard; and it shall be unto thee as a clear Vision of thy Father, and of the W…
1944 · PDF PAGE 133
…ot by the topmost point of the Jod; and that Jod is the Hermit, and it is the minute point that is not extended, that is nigh unto the heart of Hadit. And now it is commanded thee that thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, and on the morrow, at the appointed hour, shall it be given thee further, as thou goest upon thy way, meditating this mystery. 1From The Vision and the Voice, 5th Aethyr. And thou shalt summon the Scribe, and that which shall be written shall be written. Therefore I withdraw myself, as I am commanded. The Desert between Bens…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
PREFACE. XXXIII — what a washerwoman lost to mankind ! was the French nation’s epitaph upon her — drove the last nail into the coffin of art in England. Though ’twas needless cruelty : whom have we had of the first rank in England since Eli- zabeth but the Revolutionaries ? Blake, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Swinburne, Swift, Butler, Milton, every one exiled, starved, bullied, driven insane ; except Milton, whose supreme hypocrisy saved him, as it damned the nation for ever. Anyhow, bad as it was, Victoria made it worse, and, under a quee…
1909 · PDF PAGE 402
…re, its sweating, its commercialism, its respectability, its humanitarianism, its inhumanity. Of this age we have two perfect relics. If art be defined as the true reflection of the inmost soul of the age, then the works of Alfred Tennyson and the Albert Memorial are among our chiefest treasures. How harmonious, too, they are! There is nothing in Tennyson which the Memorial does not figure in one or other of its gaudy features; no flatulence of the Memorial whose 394
1909 · PDF PAGE 402
…re, its sweating, its commercialism, its respectability, its humanitarianism, its inhumanity. Of this age we have two perfect relics. If art be defined as the true reflection of the inmost soul of the age, then the works of Alfred Tennyson and the Albert Memorial are among our chiefest treasures. How harmonious, too, they are! There is nothing in Tennyson which the Memorial does not figure in one or other of its gaudy features; no flatulence of the Memorial whose 394
1919 · PDF PAGE 96
…w is Asi fulfilled of Asar; now is Hoor let down into the Animal Soul of Things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. 6. Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl’d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee. 7. My prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. Thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasem…
1961 · PDF PAGE 167
…first the Hoodwink was uplifted from before thine Eyes, thou wast brought unto the Throne of Horus, the Lord of the Lion, and by Him enheartened against Fear. Moreover, in Minutum Mundum, the Map of the Universe, it is the Path of the Lion that bindeth he two Highest Faculties of thy Mind. Again, it is Mau, the Sun at Brightness of high Noon, that is called the Lion, very lordly, in our Holy Invocation. Sekhet our Lady is figured as a lioness, for that She is that Lust of Nuith toward Hadith which is the Fierceness of the Night of the Stars, an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
…hman on its heels. The very coffee sent son Anglais." " Et les femmes," muttered Edgar. She slapped his hand half fiercely. “ It's Poster Art of immorality.” ”I remember going with an American girl to the Guignol once. They played a comedy one could have acted in a Sunday—school in Glasgow; but Verro-nika, as they called her, who didn’t understand a word of French, said the atmosphere was one of the most awful lust. Poor girl ! she had paid a lot to see Yurrup and its wickedness. I had not the heart to undeceive her.” “ You sympathised, and offe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
…hman on its heels. The very coffee sent son Anglais." " Et les femmes," muttered Edgar. She slapped his hand half fiercely. “ It's Poster Art of immorality.” ”I remember going with an American girl to the Guignol once. They played a comedy one could have acted in a Sunday—school in Glasgow; but Verro-nika, as they called her, who didn’t understand a word of French, said the atmosphere was one of the most awful lust. Poor girl ! she had paid a lot to see Yurrup and its wickedness. I had not the heart to undeceive her.” “ You sympathised, and offe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…btain an illustrated interview in a Sunday supplement, with a full account of their wonderful discoveries, which have revolutionized the art of sucking eggs. They are peculiarly severe upon back numbers like Charles Darwin. Their ignorance leads them to believe the bombast of democracy-flatterers, who scream weekly of Progress, and it really appears to them that anything more than six months old is out-of-date. They do not know that this is only true of loud-shouted mushroom rubbish such as they call truth. [185] The fundamental difference betw…