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…s being but of one Thing only, his sun-whitened skeleton. II. A dainty lady sick of simple life, Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man, Put on her jewels, off the word of wife, Resolved to play the painted courtesan; 96
…t I wrote to tell him that I bore no malice and that I hoped he would be able to prove his innocence. I am indeed sincerely sorry that a man with such great qualities should have turned them to such poor purpose. What is the summary of it all? So many fools confirmed in their folly, so many base, vile passions pandered to; so many simple-minded folk swindled out of their savings. And, on the other side, so many years consumed in cheap coarse pleasures, soured by constant fears of being found out, and crowned by utter ruin worse than death at th…
(9.) Parimon.—The Ninth Spirit in this Order is Paimon, a Great King, and very obedient unto Lucirer. He appeareth in the form of a Man sitting upon a Dromedary with a Crown most glorious upon his head. There goeth before him also an Host of Spirits, like Men with Trumpets and well sounding Cymbals, and all other sorts of Musical Instruments. He hath a great Voice, and roareth at his first coming, and his speech is such that the Magician cannot well understand unless he can compel him. This Spirit can teach all Arts and Sciences, and other secr…
124 Many of the entries in this " ledger " are for the ordinary man neces- sarily illegible; the method of reading them is given in that important instruction of the A. '.A.', called "Thisharb," Liber CMXIII. Now consider that this Karma is all that a man has or is. His ulti- mate object is to get rid of it completely —when it comes to the point of surrendering^ the Self to the Beloved; but in the beginning the Magician is not that Self, he is only the heap of refuse from which that Self is to be built up. The Magical instruments must be made b…
…tters of the tetragram. One sees that the philosophy and the religious dogma of the Qabalah are there indicated in a complete but veiled manner. Let us now investigate the allegories of Genesis. “In the beginning (10p the unity of being,) Elohim, the equilibrated forces (Jakin and Boaz), created the heaven (spirit) and the earth (matter), or in other words, good and evil, affirmation and negation.” Thus begins the Mosaic account of creation. Then, when it comes to giving a place to man, and a sanctuary to his alliance with divinity, Moses speak…
CHAPTER IV MYSTERIES OF PERVERSITY Human equilibrium is composed of two attractions, one towards death, the other towards life. Fatality is the vertigo which drags us to the abyss; liberty is the reasonable effort which lifts us above the fatal attractions of death. What is mortal sin? It is apostasy from our own liberty; it is to abandon ourselves to the law of inertia. An unjust act is a compact with injustice: now, every injustice is an abdication of intelligence. We fall from that moment under the empire of force whose reactions always crus…
…tters of the tetragram. One sees that the philosophy and the religious dogma of the Qabalah are there indicated in a complete but veiled manner. Let us now investigate the allegories of Genesis. “In the beginning (10p the unity of being,) Elohim, the equilibrated forces (Jakin and Boaz), created the heaven (spirit) and the earth (matter), or in other words, good and evil, affirmation and negation.” Thus begins the Mosaic account of creation. Then, when it comes to giving a place to man, and a sanctuary to his alliance with divinity, Moses speak…
CHAPTER IV MYSTERIES OF PERVERSITY Human equilibrium is composed of two attractions, one towards death, the other towards life. Fatality is the vertigo which drags us to the abyss; liberty is the reasonable effort which lifts us above the fatal attractions of death. What is mortal sin? It is apostasy from our own liberty; it is to abandon ourselves to the law of inertia. An unjust act is a compact with injustice: now, every injustice is an abdication of intelligence. We fall from that moment under the empire of force whose reactions always crus…
… means. O.K. Police routine does beat the gifted amateur. Sin, astonishingly , means real! Curtius tells us "Language regards the guilty man as the man who it was." Then , what is 'guilt'? A.S. gyit , trespass; in our own Thelemic language, "deviation from (especially in the matter of excess, trespasser) the True Will." Please take notice that most of the words which denote misconduct imply wandering, either from the home or from the path: error, debauch, wrong (=twisted), wry, evil (excessive) detraguer, go astray, and several others. So I too…
…y, or Gamort.— The Fifty-sixth Spirit is Gremory, or Gamori. Heis a Duke Strong and Powerful, and appeareth in the Form of a Beautiful Woman, with a Duchess’s Crown tied about her waist, and riding on a Great Camel. His Office is to tell of all Things Past, Present, and to Come; and of Treasures Hid, and what they lie in; and to procure the Love of Women both Young and Old. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (57.) Ost, or Voso.—The Fifty-seventh Spirit is Oso, Osé, or Voso. He is a Great President, and appeareth like…
…bscure to-day as was that of spectrum analysis a génération ago. That the Chemical composition of the fixed stars should become known to man seemed an insane imagining too ridiculous to discuss. To-day it seems equally irrational to enquire of the desert sand concerning the fate of empires. Yet surely it, if any one knows, should know! To-day it may Sound impossible for inanimate objects to reveal the inmost secrets of mankind and nature. We cannot say whv divination is valid. We cannot trace the process by which it per- forms its marvels.1 But…
… THE King-Ghost is abroad. His spectre legions Sweep from their icy lakes and bleak ravines Unto these weary and untrodden regions Where man lies penned among his Might-have- beens. Keep us in safety, Lord, What time the King-Ghost is abroad! The King-Ghost from his gray malefic slumbers Awakes the malice of his bloodless brain. He marshals the innumerable numbers Of shrieking shapes on the sepulchral plain. Keep us, for Jesu’s sake, What time the King-Ghost is awake! 1 <)
92 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Whose windy letch hath blown me out Like a rich man with flatulence and gout ! THE HAG Ho ! stanch thy throttle ! Come forth ! She delivers her. O jest insane ! For all this pious pain Naught but an old brass bottle ! GOVINDA Maybe it holds the two and seventy Jinn That Solomon screwed in. ALEXANDER More like, the wine that Dionysus spilled From Cyprus grapes distilled. CHAU We lose our wagers ? It may be Best to unscrew it, and to see.
…hyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!
… world real was simply an elaboration of these “ thinks." These spiritualistic philosophies stagnating for a time were soon mystified by man's inherent longing for the wonderful ,' and developed into various systems of Spiritism and Mysticism , both high and low . Of the latter the most renowned , and in many ways the most profound , was the Philosophy of the Qabalah . 1 Time , vol . ii , p. 268. 2 “ The imagination of man is naturally sublime , delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running with out control into the most dist…
THE EQUINOX hood itself, not to mention humanity—while he is occupied in playing spillikins, and further insults you by explaining that he is trying to prove that, if you only do it carefully enough, you can detach planets from the solar system without hurting it. On this occasion, however, Rolles was fortunate enough to find the Brother whom he knew at leisure—even for him. His feet were on the mantelpiece; a long pipe was in his mouth, and he was twiddling his thumbs. “Ave, Frater] " said he, as Rolles entered. “Also Vale. How you young brothe…
THE EQUINOX hood itself, not to mention humanity—while he is occupied in playing spillikins, and further insults you by explaining that he is trying to prove that, if you only do it carefully enough, you can detach planets from the solar system without hurting it. On this occasion, however, Rolles was fortunate enough to find the Brother whom he knew at leisure—even for him. His feet were on the mantelpiece; a long pipe was in his mouth, and he was twiddling his thumbs. “Ave, Frater] " said he, as Rolles entered. “Also Vale. How you young brothe…
…OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 147 Ep De Formula Deorum Occisorum (Of the Formula of the Dying Gods) LAS, my Son! this hath been fatal constantly to many a Man of noble Aspiration, that these Words were hidden from his Understanding. For there is a Balance in all Things and the Body hath Charter to fulfil his Nature, even as the Mind hath. So to repress one Function is to destroy that Proportion which is wholesome, and wherein indeed all Health and Sanity have Consistency. Verily, it is the Art of Life to develop each Organ of Body and Mind, or, as I may s…
… debarred from expressing themselves by sheer ignorance of the technique of the act. What Nature declares as the climax of the Mass, the manifestation of God in the flesh, when the flesh is begotten, is so gross, clumsy and brutal that it disappoints and disgusts. They are horribly conscious that something is wrong. They do not know how to amend it. They are ashamed to discuss it. They have neither the experience to guide nor the imagination to experiment. Countless thousands of delicate-minded lovers turn against Love and blaspheme Him. Countl…
…et it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I " incorporate in All.3 It further finds development in the last four lines of “ Ode to Poesy ”: No man, No petty god , but One who governs all , Slips the sun's leash , perceives the sparrow's fall , Too high for me to fear , too near for man to call .* And arrives at full manhood in such fine lines as the following : God is the Complex as the Protoplast : He is the First ( not “ was "), and is the Last . ( Not “ will be ") ... 6 God slips you , He is Undefinable . Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all …