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Page 45 of 1141961 · PDF PAGE 158
…e if thou love Wine, but the essential Organs of life above these. Have respect also to the will of thy Fellow, not hindering him in his Way save as he may overly jostle thee in thine. For by the Practice of this Tolerance thou shalt come sooner to the Understanding of this Equality of all things in our Lady Nuith, and so the high Attainment of universal Love. Yet in thy partial and particular Action, as thou art a Creature of Illusion, do thou maintain the right Relation of one Thing to another; fighting if thou be a Soldier, or building if th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…d have 8.32. 9.0. 9.25. 10. 38. 10.40. a Turker. Am up, havingread my letters. Continuingmantra all the time in a more or less conscious way. Wrote my letters and started out. Have reached the Café de la Paix, walking slowly with my mantra. I am'beginningto forget it occasion- ally, mispronouncing some of the words. A good sign! Now and then I tried sending it up and down my spine, with good effect. I will drink a cup of coffee and then proceed to the Hammam. This may ease my limbs, and afford an opportunity for a real go-for-the—gloves effort …
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…to carry on his frauds. Especially is this the case when the person responsible for administering the oath assures you that it is “in no way contrary to your civil, moral, and religious obligations.” (c) I was not, in any case, bound to Mathers, but to the Secret Chiefs, by whose direct orders I caused the rituals to be published. I wish expressly to dissociate from my strictures on 5
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…to carry on his frauds. Especially is this the case when the person responsible for administering the oath assures you that it is “in no way contrary to your civil, moral, and religious obligations.” (c) I was not, in any case, bound to Mathers, but to the Secret Chiefs, by whose direct orders I caused the rituals to be published. I wish expressly to dissociate from my strictures on 5
1913 · PDF PAGE 209
ROSA IGNOTA Herald the day! Aha! Aha! Aha! Ho! Dance in the secret dances of the night, In the mystic windings of the mossy ways Of eld! Oh! let the silence break, break, break At the birth of man from out the universe ! Hail to the Lord of the Sun, and the Sacred Rose! Master of space and time, thou subject god !|— Master of space and time! From the Underworld I speed upon the Way! Ho! Jupiter! Iam Mercury, the little light-heeled god, The summoner of the stars at choiring-time, When they sing thine earth, thine earth, thy sun-child. Yea! From…
1913 · PDF PAGE 209
ROSA IGNOTA Herald the day! Aha! Aha! Aha! Ho! Dance in the secret dances of the night, In the mystic windings of the mossy ways Of eld! Oh! let the silence break, break, break At the birth of man from out the universe ! Hail to the Lord of the Sun, and the Sacred Rose! Master of space and time, thou subject god !|— Master of space and time! From the Underworld I speed upon the Way! Ho! Jupiter! Iam Mercury, the little light-heeled god, The summoner of the stars at choiring-time, When they sing thine earth, thine earth, thy sun-child. Yea! From…
1944 · PDF PAGE 150
… with the Zodiacal attribution. He is graceful, dilettante, with the qualities of Ve‐ nus, or a weak Jupiter. He is amiable in a passive way. He is quick to respond to attraction, and easily becomes enthusiastic under such stimulus; but he is not very enduring. He is exceed‐ ingly sensitive to external influence, but with no material depth in his character. When the card is ill dignified, he is sensual, idle and untruthful. Yet with all this he pos‐ sesses an innocence and purity which are the essence of his nature. But he is, on the whole, so …
1961 · PDF PAGE 169
… that deny Love, restricting it to their own Nature. But the Serpent is the secret Nature of Man, that is Life and Death, and maketh his Way through the Generations in Silence. And the Eagle is that Might of Live which is the Key of Magick, uplifting the Body and its Appurtenance unto high Ekstacy upon his Wings. It is by Virtue thereof that the Sphinx beholdeth he Sun unwinking, and confronteth the Pyramid without Shame. Our Dragon, therefore, combining the Natures of the Eagle and he Serpent, is our Love, the Organ of our Will, by whose Virtu…
1961 · PDF PAGE 185
…enchant him. Lastly the Eagle is subtlest in this Sort, so that this Path is proper to a Transcendental Labour. Yet all these are in the Way of Death, so that thy Wand is dissolved and corroded in the Waters of the Cup, and must be renewed by Virtue of thy Nature in its Course. For Fire is extinguished by Water; but upon Earth it burneth freely, and is inflamed by the Wind. Understand also that which is written concerning the Vesica, that it is the Mother, giving Ease, Sleep, and Death, which Consolations are eschewed by the True Man or Hero. i
1961 · PDF PAGE 209
…OM OR FOLLY 197 Zx De Comedia, quæ ΠΑΝ dicitur (Of the Comedy, which is called Pan) UBTLER than the Serpent of Hermes, o my Son, is this Way of Restraint of Art, and thou shalt meet therein with the God Pan, and have him to thy Playmate. So shalt thou devise Comedy and Tragedy, as it were Settings for the Jewel of thy Will, to enhance the Beauty thereof, and to refine thy Pleasures. This is that which is written in The Book of the Law: . . . Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink…
1909 · PDF PAGE 106
…since unshipped; the power 01 his personality has broken down, yet under the tiny storm-sail 01 his Will to Adonai, the crazy bark holds way, steered by the car of Discipline— Yea, he holds his course. Adonail Adonai! is not the harbour yet in sight? He has returned home and burnt (as every night since its arrival) the holy incense of Abramelin the Mage. The atmosphere is full of vitality, sweetened and strengthened; the soul naturally and simply turns to the holy task with vigour and confidence; the black demons of doubt and despair flee away; o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 107
…stands ; he cannot concentrate his mind for three seconds together. How utterly hopeless it makes one feel! One thinks one is at least always good for a fair average performance—and one is undeceived. This, by the way, is the supreme use of a record like this. It makes it impossible to cheat oneself. Well, he has got to get up more steam somehow, though the boiler bursts. Perhaps early dinner, with Ritual, may induce that Enthusiastic Energy of which the Gnostics write. This morning the whole Sankhara-dhatu (the tendency of the being John St. J…
1919 · PDF PAGE 189
KHABS AM PEKHT “There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters (there are the adorations, as thou hast written) as it is said: The Light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Tum, Of Khephra, and of Ahathoor. Iam thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-f-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O Nuith! Bid me within thine House to dwell, O winged snake of light, Hadith! Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!” In the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 105
…r dissatisfaction , that the more apparently pleasant an event is, the more malignantly deceptive is its fascination . There is only one way of escape 72
1961 · PDF PAGE 189
…n Image of Our Lady Nuith, but also it is called the Fool, who is Parsifal, der reine Thor, and so referreth to him thatwalketh in the Way of the Tao. Also, he is Harpocrates, the Child Horus, walking, (as saith David, the Badavi that became King in his Psalms) upon the Lion and the Dragon; that is, he is in Unity with his own secret Nature, as I have shewn thee in my Word concerning the Sphinx. O my Son, yester Eve came the Spirit upon me that I also should eat the Grass of the Arabs, and by Virtue of the Bewitchment thereof behold that whic…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
23 In yet one other way is magic a capital training- ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the cidola, and it is possible in this manner very largely to increase the magical “ potential,” to borrow a term from electrical science. Of course, there are bad and invalid processes, which tend rather to disperse or to excite the mind-stuff than to control it; these we must discard. But there is a true magical ceremonial, the central Arcanum alike of Eastern and Western practical transcendentali…
1907 · PDF PAGE 316
…s ignorant of the Supreme Being , yet his ignorance is so naïve, that he all but lifted the veil of Isis . His “ Ignorance " is in every way equivalent to Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Kant , who set himself the question , “ Must we believe that Mysticism is like some vast ocean , the empire of illusion ? " And then again and again answered in the negative . He proposed time after time that Reason be its own end , founded upon Right and Duty , and in the Freedom of the “ Person ," the moral sublimity of “ Duty ”: It is not so muc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…ut the very stigmata on which this view is based — the absence of the Takhallus, and of the word “ kun ” — seem to us to point the other way. No forger would have omitted so simple a precau- tion. It is possible that the ode is incomplete. More reasonable seems the suggestions that el Haji (1) disliked the introduction of his holy word [Persian text] and of his sacred Name in an ode of
1961 · PDF PAGE 146
…petent to the Formula of the other. Therefore also thy Will is itself Imperfection, as I have shewed thee aforetime, thou art not in the way of Love except thou be dressed in that Robe of thine which thou callest Woman. And thou canst not lure her to this Action proper to her by thy Truth; but thou shalt, as our Grammar sayeth, assume the Mask of the Spirit, that thou mayst evoke it by Sympathy. But thou shalt appear in thy Glory only when she is in thy Power, and bewildered utterly by Ecstasy. This is a Mystery, o my Son, and of old times it w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…e mouth of Madonna, and sug- gests (what seems to us quite as improbable) that it issued from the sexton himself... Like from like, By way of the ordure corner. . . At first sight it may seem that Science endorses this dogma in its fullest sense ; but the truth is that if we apply the fundamental fact to man, we are led into error. For the nature of no man is simple thorn or simple grape : in the incalculable tale of his ancestors must inevitably be found, not only both these types, but a host of others. Further, in the complex chemical natu…