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Page 51 of 821911 · PDF PAGE 53
…Ix4ve: it is formed of the initials of five Egyptian deities and also of five Greek deities; in both cases a magic formula of tremendous power is concealed.) As to the Holy Table itself, I cannot see it for the blaze of light; but Iam given to understand that it appears in another Aethyr, of which it forms practically the whole content. And I am bidden to study the Holy Table very intently so as to be able to concentrate on it when it appears. I have grown greater, so that Iam as great as the Angel. And we are standing, as if crucified, face to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 109
… take it in moderation as almost any one, except an American, can take whisky. Every dose makes you better and better. It destroys one’s power of calculation. We had already discovered the fact when we found that the supply we had got from Gretel, with the idea that it would last almost indefinitely, was running very short, when the dressing-gown came to solve the problem. We had only been a few days on the stunt, and what we had got from three or four sniffs, to begin with, meant almost perpetual stoking to carry on. However, that didn’t matte…
1954 · PDF PAGE 468
… of the Universe, its Harmony and its Beauty, with the Knowledge of that which compelleth it. Yet this is not equal to the former two in Power to reveal thee to thyself; and its first Use is to instruct thee in the true Method of Advancement in Knowledge, which is, fundamentally, the Observation of the Like and the Unlike. Also, it shall arouse in thee the Ecstasy of Wonder; and it shall bring thee to a proper Understanding of Art Magick. For our Magick is but one of the Powers that lie within us undeveloped and unanalysed; and it is by the Met…
1954 · PDF PAGE 551
…444 Lytton , 447 MacCarthy, Desmond, 441 Machen, Arthur, 447 Magical Child, 303 -Formula, 305 , 306 INDEX -Link, 391 -Memory, 243 , 491 -Power, 351, 392 -Record, see Diary -Theory, 375, 391 Magick, 1,2 , 18, 19, 24,52,62 , 64,129 , 139, 284,294 , 314, 360, 393, 401 , 426 , 436 , 492 , 493,494 -Defined , 64 Magick in Theory and Practice , 52, 296 , 297, 306, 364, 493 ; genesis, 260 Magician, 117, 486 MaGus, Magi, 91,115 , 331 Maha Brahma , 206 Mahaparinibbana Sutta , 98 Mahasatipathana, 107, 229 Matiland, Edward , 85 Malaria, 483 Maliel,105 Malk…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…ne , too foul to fling Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back , to your mother filth ! With hope , and youth , Love , light , and power , and mastery of truth Armed , we reject you ; the bright scourge we ply , Your howling spirits stumble to your sty : The worm that was your lie- our heel its head Bruises , that bruised us once ; the snake is dead . So , passionate and pure , the strong chant rolls , Queen of the mystic unity of souls ; So from eternity its glory springs King of the magical brotherhood of kings ; The absolute crown and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
… AND THE VOICE smile, but I smile upon whom I would seduce, O inviolable one, that canst not be tempted. If thou canst command me by the power of the Most High, know that I did indeed tempt thee, and it repenteth me. I bow myself humbly before the great and terrible names whereby thou hast conjured and constrained me. But thy name is mercy, and I cry aloud for pardon. Let me come and put my head beneath thy feet, that I may serve thee. For if thou commandest me to obedience in the Holy names, I cannot swerve therefrom, for their first whisperin…
1911 · PDF PAGE 145
…little black specks that stained the Heaven of Urania. And all these are the excrement of Chor- onzon. And for this is BABALON under the power of the Magician, that she hath submitted herself unto the work; and she guardeth the Abyss. And in her is a perfect purity of that which is above; yet she is sent as the Redeemer to them that are below. For there is no other way into the Supernal Mystery but through her, and the Beast on which she rideth; and the Magician is set beyond her to deceive the brothers of blackness, lest they should make unto …
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…ose’s perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all thatis sensual. - You who hold more skill and more power than your great English predecessor, Robertus de Fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal ‘the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sailin the Company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” — The New Age. **The light wherein he writes is the L.U.X. of that, which first maste…
1907 · PDF PAGE 210
…rmuring to the mystic night. Io! Evoe! Circle splendid ! Dance, ye maids serene and subtle ! Clotho’s task is fairly ended. Atropos, thy power is rended ! Ho, Lachesis! ply thy shuttle! Weave the human dance together With the life of rocks and trees ! Let the blue delirious weather Bind all spirits in one tether, Overwhelming ecstasies ! Io Evoe! J faint, I fall, Swoon in purple light ; the grape Drowns my spirit in its thrall. Love tne, love me over all, Spirit in the spirit shape ! All is one! I murmur. Distant Sounds the shout, Evoe, Evoe ! …
1911 · PDF PAGE 121
…ll of eyes, that are at the same time 4x 7. And for this is the number 28 reflected down into Netzach; and that 28 is Kaph Cheth (Kach), power. For she is Sakti, the eternal energy of the Concealed One. And it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. And this explaineth the call of the Aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of Sakti. And this mystery is reflected in the legend of the * The fourth of the mystic numbers of Jupiter, is 136. 119
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…sitive and mystical, square fingers mathematical, spatulated fingers obstinate and ambitious. The thumb, pollex, the finger of force and power, corre- sponds in the qabalistic symbolism to the first letter of the name of Jehovah. This finger is then a synthesis of the hand: if it is strong, the man is morally strong; if it is weak, the man is weak. It has three phalanges, of which the first is hidden in the palm of the hand, as the imaginary axis of the world traverses the thickness of the earth. This first phalanx corresponds to the physical l…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…sitive and mystical, square fingers mathematical, spatulated fingers obstinate and ambitious. The thumb, pollex, the finger of force and power, corre- sponds in the qabalistic symbolism to the first letter of the name of Jehovah. This finger is then a synthesis of the hand: if it is strong, the man is morally strong; if it is weak, the man is weak. It has three phalanges, of which the first is hidden in the palm of the hand, as the imaginary axis of the world traverses the thickness of the earth. This first phalanx corresponds to the physical l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 264
…ame, leaping to my fingers’ ends, piercing my brain, startling me till I almost spring from my chair. I could not doubt it. I was in the power of the hasheesh influence. My first emotion was one of uncontrollable terror— a sense of getting something which I had not bargained for. That moment I would have given all I had or hoped to have to be as I was three hours before. No pain anywhere—not a twinge in any fibre—yet a cloud of unutterable strangeness was settling upon me, and wrapping me impenetrably in from all that was natural or familiar. A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 264
…ame, leaping to my fingers’ ends, piercing my brain, startling me till I almost spring from my chair. I could not doubt it. I was in the power of the hasheesh influence. My first emotion was one of uncontrollable terror— a sense of getting something which I had not bargained for. That moment I would have given all I had or hoped to have to be as I was three hours before. No pain anywhere—not a twinge in any fibre—yet a cloud of unutterable strangeness was settling upon me, and wrapping me impenetrably in from all that was natural or familiar. A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…stimulate , it must irritate the soul in some definite manner , or else it ceases to be poetry . For when once poetry exerts a soporific power its whole object is lost , and , as a flash of lightning , it must be vivid , bright , flaming for a moment , awful , eloquent , rush ing from the darkness of night through the flashing elements of day into the silence of eternity . And this is exactly the poetry we here find . No poems are of any great length , no poems here contain a labour on the part of the reader to attain the end , though in some p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
THE VIRGIN 71 eternal symbol of love and life , and the purest of human joys, " and which act being attributed to supernatural powers came under the authority of religion , and fell into the hands of an interested priesthood , giving them an immense power over women , and through women over men ; an influence that has been exercised in every land , and every age , by these spiritual leaders : an influence by which they have in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…ean thought has been labouring under the damnosa hereditas of fore gone conclusions . And as religion in the attempt to anthropomorphise power , through the medium of dialectic symbols , lost all footing and plunged head long into the pandemoniac majesty of Deity , so philo sophy , losing all grip of reality by clutching the illusive realism of its own creative faculties , was it self whirled into that furnace of hereditary prejudice , and educational bias , from out of which it has flowed a mass of molten and subservient acquiescence . Lost in…
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…el the mighty returned before the Great White Spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that All-powerful One. He dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of His right hand. If He was disturbed, He was too proud to show it. “This,” he said to himself, “is clearly a matter for Elohim Gibor.” Therefore He summoned that divine power before Him. The crown of Elohim Gibor was Space itself; the two halves of his brain were the Yea and Nay of the Universe; his breath was the breath of very Life; his being w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…el the mighty returned before the Great White Spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that All-powerful One. He dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of His right hand. If He was disturbed, He was too proud to show it. “This,” he said to himself, “is clearly a matter for Elohim Gibor.” Therefore He summoned that divine power before Him. The crown of Elohim Gibor was Space itself; the two halves of his brain were the Yea and Nay of the Universe; his breath was the breath of very Life; his being w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
supreme power partly to snubthe rebels, and partly (as Tsai, another place) “to make a better man of him.” Sconrio, K.C. Besides the money that Crowley lent you, did he ever give you any? Marinas. Yes: a wealthy lady, the wife of an English fice, Colonel, being interested in occultisn, once gave him £20 for me. Scownio, K.C. Is that all? Matis, She gave him some jewels for the purpose of deco 1g statue of Isis for my temple, ‘Scorri0, K.C, She quarrelled with him subseques Maruuns. [believe so, In f Scourio, KC. They are good fri Matures, He ba…