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Page 43 of 841913 · PDF PAGE 358
THE EQUINOX Silence, then, to the Pharisees of the new synagogue! Silence to the hateful traditions of the Schools, to the arrogance of Presbyterianism, to the absurdity of Jansenism, and to all those shameful and superstitious interpretations of the eternal dogma, so justly stigmatized by the pitiless genius of Voltaire! Voltaire and Napoleon died Catholics.1_ And do you know what the Catholicism of the future must be? It will be the dogma of the Gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of Voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the worl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
THE EQUINOX Silence, then, to the Pharisees of the new synagogue! Silence to the hateful traditions of the Schools, to the arrogance of Presbyterianism, to the absurdity of Jansenism, and to all those shameful and superstitious interpretations of the eternal dogma, so justly stigmatized by the pitiless genius of Voltaire! Voltaire and Napoleon died Catholics.1_ And do you know what the Catholicism of the future must be? It will be the dogma of the Gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of Voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the worl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…a ! I thought I was with Adam Oh, how lovely ! And she gave a delicious little sigh. Pardon this intrusion, Duchess, pray said a new voice, in the well-bred deferential manner that is so characteristic of diplomats. But is it the third Wednesday, is it not ? My dear Prince, how good of you to come. I was just hoping some one would drop in and cheer me up. This move has left me quite a wreck. Ah ! Duchess, you are more beautiful than ever. Bad man Yes, and deserve a better husband. Adam is as good as But his po…
1907 · PDF PAGE 12
…hall depart as a scroll , and the stars shall fall, and the mountains be moved out of their places ; and they shall become as kings in a new kingdom , and be crowned with that Crown which passes Under standing I have attempted in the following seven chapters to interpret the Book of the Seven Seals , and to paint its splendour , as an artist would incarnadine his can vas with the red blood of his mistress , love - kissed from the bloom of her crimson lips . I have not , as Samuel , hacked and hewn Agag into pieces before the Lord in Gilgal ; bu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 208
THE NEW WINE 201 states , if pushed to its logical extreme , passes into pantheism pure and simple ; and thus through object ing to Locke's primary qualities as things in them selves , Berkeley returns , through the objection , back to the causa sui , or better , ratio sui of Spinoza , the spiritual twin of Locke . I have taken some little trouble to arrive at this one isolated conclusion , that the Realism of the scholastic philosophers , the materialism of the classical and modern sages , and also , if we choose to extend our scheme , Nominal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 258
THE NEW WINE 251 Many of the poems in “Songs of the Spirit " and “ The Holy of Holies ,” hold fast to this idea ; and it is this ideal , the progression from the Kingdom to the Crown , from Malkuth to Kether , which constitutes one of the most beautiful doctrines of the older and simpler Qabalah . The Qabalah guides us to a divine theurgy . Ac cording to the Zohar it is impossible to know God , herein the Qabalah is Agnostic , it forbids the repre sentation of God , herein it is Rational . The Ain Soph is the “ All-pervading ,” the “ Non Ens ” …
1907 · PDF PAGE 328
THE NEW WINE 321 of Magic ,' for she has always denied relationship to those who live outside the brothel , the asylum , and the jail ; and further , in this case , burnt and destroyed countless thousands of innocent and erudite persons on the authority of a divine book she had rendered obscene by her whorish thumbmarks ; nevertheless , in spite of her Lodges and her logic , the greatest of her sons and daughters , as we have already seen , were mystics and magicians pure and simple ; this no doubt accounts for the comparative safety and dignit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 131
…the Cup for Love, the Sword for Life, the Disk for Light: and with these work all wonders by the Art of High Magick under the Law of the New AZon, whose Word is @EAHMA. 125
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
… Further on in this same series of poems we come across an almost more lurid description of this Mes saline in “ The Jilt,” in which her new -found lover feasts off the agony of her last victim , which still moistens her blood -red lips : His death lends savour to our passionate life ; His is the heart I taste upon your tongue ; His death -spasms our love -spasms , my wife ; His death -songs are the love -songs that you sung ! Ah ! Sweet , each kiss I drink from you is warm With the dear life -blood of a man-a man ! The scent of murder lures me…
1919 · PDF PAGE 232
…pected to do all in his power to induce his personal friends to accept the Law and join the Order. He should therefore endeavour to make new friends outside the Order, for the purpose of widening its scope. TWELFTH HOUSE 43. The Brethren are bound to secrecy only with regard to the nature of the rituals of our Order, and to our words, signs, etc. The general principles of the Order may be fully explained, so far as they are understood below the VI’; as it is written, “The ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: …
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
… The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“ New Birth” you'll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary sphere And flies in the direction ‘‘x.” (There lies the fourth dimension.) Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations, But leave me with the Flaming Star,” Jeheshua (See thou Zohar !) And thus our formidable Pigeon- Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground, Pi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 224
THE NEW WINE 217 storm arose , scarce dare open our eyes for fear of being blinded . A mystic by nature and a priest by profession , we must , in reviewing his bequests to knowledge , always remember how much of the one side to deduct from the other , should we wish to prove him either an Adept or a Bishop . But with such inborn predilection , and such outward assumption , it is easy to understand why it was that he threw the whole energy of his life into an attempt to refute the advancing scepticism latent in the works of Hobbes and Locke . He…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
THE NEW WINE 241 with the Absolute . ” ] The two disputants , Scepticus and Mysticus , set out by agreeing that the unknow able is unreal , and as the latter says with Berkeley , a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by ") 2 us. ” When Scepticus asks Mysticus , • How old are you ? ” and receives the answer , “ I am but an ulti mate truth , six world -truths , fourteen grand general izations , eighty generalizations , sixty -two dilemmas , and the usual odd million impressions , " he is receiving a much more correct and scientific ans…
1911 · PDF PAGE 26
… on and on and on—all on the hairs of this lion’s tail. And then there is the tuft of his tail, which is like a comet, but the head is a new universe, and each hair streaming away from it is a Milky Way. And then there is a pale stern figure, enormous, enormous, bigger than all that universe is, in silver armour, with a sword and a pair of balances. That is only vague. All has gone into stone-gray, blank. There is nothing. AIN EL HajeEL. November 25, 1909. 8.40-9.40 p.m. 24
1913 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. 49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. There is a veil: that vei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. 49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. There is a veil: that vei…
1907 · PDF PAGE 324
THE NEW WINE 317 bush—or a flaming chariot-or a still small voice , and joining myself to God I become one spirit with him . As : O night ! Fade , love ! Fade , light ! I pass beyond Life's law . I melt as snow ; as ice 1 thaw ; As mist I dissipate : I am borne , I draw Through chasms on the mountains : stormy gusts Of ancient sorrows and forgotten lusts Bear me along : they touch me not : I waste. The memory of long lives interlaced Fades in my tading . I disintegrate Fall into black oblivion of Fate . My being divides . I have forgot my name …
1913 · PDF PAGE 457
…hadowy arm which passed and repassed before me, as if to magnetize me. Then I went to sleep again, and some instants afterwards, waking anew, I saw again the same light, but it had changed its place. It had passed from left to right, and upon a luminous background I distinguished the silhouette of a man who was looking at me with arms crossed.” “What was this man like?” “ Just about your height and breadth.” “It is well. Go, and continue to do what I told you.” The nine days rolled by; at the end of that time, a new visit; but this time he was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 457
…hadowy arm which passed and repassed before me, as if to magnetize me. Then I went to sleep again, and some instants afterwards, waking anew, I saw again the same light, but it had changed its place. It had passed from left to right, and upon a luminous background I distinguished the silhouette of a man who was looking at me with arms crossed.” “What was this man like?” “ Just about your height and breadth.” “It is well. Go, and continue to do what I told you.” The nine days rolled by; at the end of that time, a new visit; but this time he was …
1919 · PDF PAGE 439
…re attempt wins its reward in time. The holy germs that sprout and grow un- seen in the disciple’s soul, their stalks wax strong at each new trial, they bend like reeds but never break, nor can they eer be lost. But when the hour has struck they blossom forth. But if thou cam’st prepared, then have no fear. These verses explain the cumulative effect of which we spoke. It is very hard to persist, because very often we seem to make no progress. There is the water on the fire, and nothing whatever appears to be happening. But with- out warning it …