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Page 49 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 336
…re, sky-blue, immaculate Hecate, in Thy book of Fate Read thou my name, the soaring soul That seeks the supreme, sunless goal! And thou, great Sekhet, roar! Arise, Confront the lion in the way! Thy calm indomitable eyes Lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay! Iam past. Hail, Hecate! Untrod Thy steep ascent to God, to God! Lo! what unnamed, unnameable Sphere hangs above inscrutable? There is no virtue in thy kiss To affront that soulless swart abyss. I match, &c. 328
1909 · PDF PAGE 105
…g his limbs in some delicious dim Depth, where the evening star May kiss his mouth, or by the black sky’s rim He makes his prayer To the great serpent that is coiled in rapture there. VII I rose to seek him. First my footsteps faint Pressed the starred moss ; but soon I wandered, like some sweet sequestered saint, Into the wood, my mind. The moon Was staggered by the trees ; with fierce constraint Hardly one ray Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay. VIII I wandered, crying on my Lord. I wandered Eagerly seeking everywhere. The…
1909 · PDF PAGE 336
…re, sky-blue, immaculate Hecate, in Thy book of Fate Read thou my name, the soaring soul That seeks the supreme, sunless goal! And thou, great Sekhet, roar! Arise, Confront the lion in the way! Thy calm indomitable eyes Lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay! Iam past. Hail, Hecate! Untrod Thy steep ascent to God, to God! Lo! what unnamed, unnameable Sphere hangs above inscrutable? There is no virtue in thy kiss To affront that soulless swart abyss. I match, &c. 328
1922 · PDF PAGE 328
…nd out of his sails. Cypris pressed his hand, and he brightened up again. “To what end?” he repeated boldly. “ That I may accomplish the Great Work,” replied Athena. Dionysus seemed to have got |on to his game. He retorted without the slightest hesitation. . “ Love is the law, under will.” , “ Love is the law, love under will,’’ corrected Cypris ; and the baby repeated it solemnly. : | “ Fall to,” cried Athena cheerfully, and sat down,
1906 · PDF PAGE 280
…during Crowley’s residence. ‘/yst. We then is the longest-lived, and the wisest, and the worthiest of respect, who can sum up all in one great generalisation? Scept. So Spencer defines philosophy: as the art of doing this. Myst. But you leave out this -‘‘ vividness.”’ He is greater who generalised the data of evolution than he who did the same thing tor heraldry: not only because of the number of facts covered, but because of the greater intrinsic value and interest of each fact. Not only, moreover, is the philosopher who can sum up the observa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 100
…ut mix the manual and the mental—well, No ship was built by pure philosophy. POLLUX. Nor yet designed by artisans. JASON. Enough ! Come, great Alcides, it is time to go. ARGUS. A fool allows a moment’s irritation To move the purpose of a thousand years. Go, go! HERACLES. Remember! We are met this day To call upon the name with praise and prayer Of great Athena, since our ship is built With sculptured olive pregnant in the prow, And all the length of pine is coiled and curled With the swift serpent’s beauty, and the owl Sits in huge state upon t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…concubines on the roof of the palace, in order to signify that he had succeeded in breaking his father’s magical power. Now, there are a great many talismans in this world which are being left lying about in a most reprehensibly careless manner. Such are the objects of popular adoration, as ikons and idols. But, it is actually true that a great deal of real magical Force is locked up in such things; consequently, by destroying these sacred symbols, you can overcome magically the people who adore them. It is not at ail irrational to fight for on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
444 consecrate himself to the particular Great Work which he came to earth in order to perform. In the VII°, which is tripartite, he is first taught the principle of equilibrium as extended to all possible moral ideas; secondly, to all possible intellectual ideas; and lastly, he is shown how, basing all his actions on this impregnable rock of justice, he may so direct his life as to undertake his Great Work with the fullest responsibility and in absolute freedom from all possibility of interferences. In the VIII°, the secret is once more manife…
1929 · PDF PAGE 163
…n souls had long since made themselves perfect, true images of the cosmos, by accepting the formula of Love and Death; they had made the great sacrifice again and again; they were veterans of the spiritual world-war, and asked nothing better than to go back to the trenches. But these others were partial souls; they had not yet [230] attained humanity; they had not understood that in order to grow one must assimilate oneself with another being, the death of two to create the life of one, in whom the two live once more, transmuted and glorified, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
…at crowning curse Can bid that cup of curses brim ? How may Gods maniac ministers Lash the last langour out of Him ? I did it. How ? So great and grim The Gods are, I may never guess. Suffice it, on his mouth I swim A drowning dastard. The caress
1912 · PDF PAGE 67
…y over-eating. It is difficult to say whether so definite a result would come to all, or even to most people. The matter is one of no very great importance. If you have acquired the power of checking the rise of thought you may proceed to the next stage.
1912 · PDF PAGE 118
…nd in that place All they did know the Beauteous Breath And taste the Goodly Gift of Grace. Then fell the night. Above the baying Of the great Beast, that was the bass To all the harps of Heaven a-playing, There came a solemn voice (not one But was upon his knees in praying And glorifying God). The Son Of God Himself—men thought—spoke then. “ Arise! brave soldier, thou hast won The quest not given to mortal men. Arise! Sir Palamede Adept, Christian, and no more Saracen ! On wake or sleeping, wise, inept, Still thou didst seek. Those foolish way…
1929 · PDF PAGE 207
the blue of the bay, wondered what romances were dancing on the decks of the great white liners that steamed in from America to tour the Mediterranean, laughed with joy over the antics of the children who played on the slopes below the garden, and glowed with the vigour of the sturdy peasants who bore their baskets of fish, or flowers, or their bundles of firewood, up or down the lanes which her terraces overlooked. There was one wrinkled fish- wife who was perfectly delightful: old and worn with a lifetime of toil, she was as cheerful as the d…
1944 · PDF PAGE 229
…ndu system; Aleph, Shin, and Mem‐Air, Fire, and Water‐the three Mother letters of the Hebrew al‐ phabet. This pyramid is situated in the great Sea of Binah in the Night of Time, but the sea is solidified; hence the colours of the back‐ ground are mottled, a cold thin dark grey with a pat‐ tern of indigo and green. The sides of the pyramid have a strong reddish tint, showing the in‐ fluence of Mars.
1944 · PDF PAGE 147
…othing about him but his name‐as a symbol of Terror. This is due to the influence of the last decan of Cancer upon this card. One of his greatest faults is pride; meanness and pettiness of any kind he holds in infinite scorn. His courage is fanatically strong, and his endurance inde‐ fatigable. He is always fighting against odds, and always wins in the long‐the very long‐run. This is principally due to his enormous capacity for work, which he exercises for its own sake, “without lust of result”; perhaps his haughty contempt for the world at lar…
1996 · PDF PAGE 47
…whose members, with the rarest exceptions, do not know what it is all about. 1 [See Works Cited under “Liber 150.”] 2 [A phrase from the Great Obligation of the A.•.A/, (the Oath of the Abyss); see “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909), p. 11, or The Equinox 111(10) (1986), p. 18.] The question then arises as to whether the initiate is able to stand firmly in this Place of Exaltation. It seems to me as if this refers to the ascetic life, commonly considered as an essential con dition of participation in these mysteries. The answer is that “…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…, rather, the nectar which is the mother of that blood. She pours it upon the junction of land and water. This water is the water of the great Sea of Binah; in the manifestation of Nuith on a lower plane, she is the Great Mother. For the Great Sea is upon the shore of the fertile earth, as represented by the roses in the right hand corner of the picture. But between sea and land is the “Abyss”, and this is hidden by the clouds, which whirl as a development of her hair: “my hair the trees of Eternity”. (AL. 1, 59). In the left‐hand corner of the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 85
… head Uniform, self-repeating, comparable At last to a man’s life: twice seven times dead Ere the light flickers in that citadel, Or the great whiteness lure his soul instead Of many-coloured earth: ere the strong spell Fail, and the Fates with iron-shapen shears Cut the frail silver, hide him from the years. Fivefold: the year that is in darkness hidden, Being beginning: then the moving year, All change and tumult ; then the quiet unchidden Of deep reflection; then the gladdening tear 86
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
…s by the Gnostics ; Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans; the Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Medieval Monuments; the Great Pyramid; Myths of the Scorpion, or the Snake in its many Disguises: Rosicrucians Celestial and Terrestrial; Alchemy; Rosicrucians in Strange Symbols; Robert Flood; Indian ‘Mystic Adoration of Forms; etc., etc. REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, founded on their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and’ Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren, by ARtHuR E, Warre, ildustrated, 8vo, cloth, uncit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
…s by the Gnostics ; Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans; the Rosy Cross in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Medieval Monuments; the Great Pyramid; Myths of the Scorpion, or the Snake in its many Disguises: Rosicrucians Celestial and Terrestrial; Alchemy; Rosicrucians in Strange Symbols; Robert Flood; Indian ‘Mystic Adoration of Forms; etc., etc. REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, founded on their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and’ Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren, by ARtHuR E, Warre, ildustrated, 8vo, cloth, uncit…