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Page 50 of 671913 · PDF PAGE 55
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 41
…f it. But nothing changes at all. Nothing but the empty throne, and the eyes, and the avenue of pillars!) And I said to him: O thou that art the first countenance before time; thou of whom it is written that ‘‘ He, God, is one; He is the eternal one, without equal, son or companion. Nothing shall stand before His face”; all we have heard of thine infinite glory and holiness, of thy beauty and majesty, and behold! there is nothing but this abomination of desolation. He speaks; I cannot hear a word; something about the Book of the Law. The answer…
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
…l make the phoenix-wand? Not even he who by his understanding hath made the lotus-wand to grow in the Great Sea. Get thee back, for thou art not an Atheist, and though thou have violated thy mother, thou hast not slain thy father. Get thee back from the Urn; thy ashes are not hidden here. 127
1919 · PDF PAGE 370
…re so hypocritical that they claim their dislikes as virtue, and so the poor, weedy, unhealthy degenerate who cannot smoke because his heart is out of order, and cannot drink because his brain is too weak to stand it, or perhaps because his doctor has forbidden him to do either for the next two years, the man who is afraid of life, afraid to do anything lest some result should follow, is acclaimed as the best and greatest of mankind. It is very amusing in England to watch the snobbishness, particularly of the middle classes, and their absurd ap…
1954 · PDF PAGE 68
…tand] himself, as theoretically should be the case.) 23. Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions . It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. (Illustration: A golf club is intended to move a special ball in a special way in special circumstances. A Niblick should rarely be used on the tee, or a Brassie under the bank of a bunker. But, also, the use of any club demands skill and experience.) 24. Every man has an indefeasible right to be what he is. (Illustration: To insist that anyone else shall comply wi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
… of wisdom that thou mayst know thy Master, for he isa Magus. And because thou didst eat of the Pome- granate in hell, for half the year art thou concealed, and half the year revealed. Now I perceive the Temple that is the heart of this Aethyr; it is an Urn suspended in the air, without support, above the centre of a well. And the well hath eight pillars, and a canopy above it, and without there is a circle of marble paving-stones, and without them a great outer circle of pillars. And beyond there is the forest of the stars. But the Urn is the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
… on the ends, and he has a fierce face, like a dragon’s, and dreadful eyes that pierce one through and through. And he says: O thou that art so dull of understanding, when wilt thou begin to annihilate thyself in the mysteries of the Aethyrs? For all that thou thinkest is but thy thought; and as there is no god in the ultimate shrine, so there is no I in thine own Cosmos. They that have said this are of them that understood. And all men have misinterpreted it, even as thou didst misin- terpret it. He says some more: I cannot catch it properly, …
1898 · PDF PAGE 18
… fiend Jehovah, what then have we done To earn thy curseis love like ours too strong To dwell before thee, and do thy throne no wrong ? Art thou grown jealous of the fiery band ? Lo ! thou hast spoken, and thy strong command Bade earth and air divide, and on the sea Thy spirit movedand thou must envy me ! Gird all thy godhead to destroy a man Whose little moment is a single span, Whose small desire is nothingand thy power
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…E GRETER CURSE. Sola-bi-enu, Adadariitza! Flasa gabe m9. bajilenu iebe totza das Hearken tome, Oye Heavens! Othou Spirit N. because thou art the disobedient ge-Dorebesa Das t babalonu, od ge-30dameranu gohola liaida marebe one who is wicked and appearest not, speaking the secrets of truth according to jijipabé: Dl, elonusabe Diada, Ya-i-Don CElazodape komesalahe, the living breath: I, exalted in the power of God, the All-powerful, the centre of the circle, micaclazodo Mada Das apila lu ipamis, Jebevohbe Cetragrammaton, powerful God who liveth, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…o cook his dinner ; we sincerely hope there will be a time when he ceases to cook his thoughts , but that time , in spite of science and art , is in the far here after . Some people labour under the idea that a genera tion or two hence the world will be sprawling at the feet of Reason instead of those of God . Possibly , yet God is still far from being a centenarian , and our
1911 · PDF PAGE 38
…is one, whose individuum is one, and whose permutation is one; whose light is one, whose life is one, whose love is one. For though thou art joined to the inmost mystery of the heaven, thou must accomplish the sevenfold task of the earth, even as thou sawest the Angels from the greatest unto the least. And of all this shalt thou take back with thee but a little part, for the sense shall be darkened, and the shrine re-veiled. Yet know this for thy reproof, and for the stirring up of dis- content in them whose swords are of lath, that in every wo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 74
THE EQUINOX thou goest. And the worm is crowned. All that thou wast hath he eaten up, and all that thou art is his pasture until to-morrow. And all that thou shalt be is nothing. Thou who wouldst enter the domain of the Great One of the Night of Time, this burden must thou take up. Deepen not a superficies. But I go on tearing down the veil that I may behold the vision of UTI, and hear the voice thereof. And there is a voice: He hath drawn the black bean. And another voice answers it: Not otherwise could he plant the Rose. And the first voice: …
1913 · PDF PAGE 53
…l be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipre- sence of my body. 27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat : O Nuit, continuous o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 53
…l be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipre- sence of my body. 27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat : O Nuit, continuous o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 115
DE LEGE LIBELLVM aspirant to our holy Science and Art increase constantly by this method of assimilating ideas, that in the end, become capable of apprehending the Universe in one thought, he may leap forth upon It with the massed violence of his Self, and destroying both these, become that Unity whose name is No Thing. Seek ye all therefore constantly to unite your- selves in rapture with each and every thing that is, and that by utmost passion and lust of Union. To this end take chiefly all such things as are naturally repulsive. For what is …
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
… tremenclous of the forces which threaten to obsess. There is also some danger of acute délirions melancholia at point I.) III sss “Thou art a beautiful thing, whiter than a woman in the column of this vibration. “I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above. “But it is death, and the flame of the pyre. “Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my Soûl ! “Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light. “When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in thy great N…
1911 · PDF PAGE 21
…e irrevocable. Therefore there is neither wisdom nor understanding nor knowledge in this house, that hangeth upon the edge of hell. Thou art not 4 but 2, O thou blasphemy spoken against 1! Therefore whoso worshippeth thee is accursed. He shall be brayed in a mortar and the powder thereof cast to the winds, that the birds of the air may eat thereof and die; and he shall be dissolved in strong acid and the elixir poured into the sea, that the fishes of the sea may breathe thereof and die. And he shall be mingled with dung and spread upon the eart…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
… the rock ! Dost love me? A VOICE AS OF FALLING ROCK. I love thee. THIRD: MAENAD. Woo me then! Let all the sharp hard spikes of crystal dart, Press hard upon my body! O, I fall, Fall from thy crags, still clinging, clinging so, Into the dark. Oblivion! A DISTANT VOICE. To Evoe! [ORPHEUS ezfe7's. Crown or MANADS. Evoe! Evoe! It isa tion! FourtTH MAENAD. Lion, O lion, dost thou love me? FirrH MAENAD. Thee I love, OQ tawny king of these deep glades ! SIXTH MAENAD. What wood Were worthy for thy dwelling? CHORUS. Come, come, come, O lion, and revel …
1910 · PDF PAGE 77
The Shame of the Prodigal. 69 thy feet. Thou art no longer cheerful ; Laila in the night bade me observe that in thy song, which thou sangest to the eunuchs, there was a note of pain. Is it because thou hast not eaten for three days that thou hast lost thy good spirits ? Or wast thou ashamed, shooting the peppercorns ?3 No, by Allah, for thou hast no shame. It may be because I have clothed the male ass of Abdullah the tailor in costly trappings and made him pass throughout the whole city in charge of the pimp Mohammed Shaib the Maghraby4 saying…
1898 · PDF PAGE 19
… fair flower Of passion ! Listen to thine own voice yet ; A rich man many flocks and herds did get And took the poor mans lamb. Thou art the man ! Our love must lie beneath thy bitter ban ! Thou petty, envious God ! My king, be sure His brute force shall not to the end endure ; Some stronger soul than thine shall wrest his crown And thrust him from his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. For me Forsake thy hopes in him ! We worship, we, Rather the dear delights we know and hold ; The first cool kiss, within the water cold T…