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…d she were not thus vowed ; as Mortadellos bride She would bring poor and proud to fight on Freedoms side. ALESSANDRO. Listen ; in all good faith, I gladly grant you much. Not prone to scoff, and scathe the scutcheon with a smutch. She owes the supreme debt, a soul as pure as fair, Cobwebs no finer, jet no blacker than her hair, Gray clouds no grayer, wells no deeper than her eyes, Blue skies no gayer, bells no merrier, psaltries No holier than her laugh, most suave and sleek and slim, Her body, the pure graff of sylph and seraphim, Her mind …
1912 · PDF PAGE 89
…VERNOR. Oh, keep the people still ! Ill bring her to the window. [He goes. ALESSANDRO. Ho ! three cheers for her And three more for the good old Governor ! [The crowd cheer lustily. Now, friends, we look to see our virgin lily-bloom From its shy nook expend its infinite perfume. We are like birds that wait the whisper of the wind Whose April words are earnest of the May behind. We are like choirs of angels that wait seven by seven What time aspires and assumes the Virgin to his Heaven God ! We areoh ! I feel her presence permeate The air like…
1954 · PDF PAGE 248
…it were 'true' and 'certain without error', perhaps even 'of the essence of truth'. (Browning discusses this in Mr. Sludge the Medium. ) Good: the fIeld is clear for an enquiry into this word 'God' . We fInd ourselves in trouble from the start. We must defIne, and to defIne is to limit; and to limit is to reduce 'God' to 'a God' or at best 'the God'. He must be omniscient omnipotent and omnipresent (8) ; yet to such a Being no purpose would be possible; so that all the apologies for the existence of "evil" crash. If there be opposites of any ki…
1954 · PDF PAGE 400
…ppertain to the element of earth. Anyone therefore who has got in his nativity an earthy sign rising, or the sun in an earthy sign, or a good proportion of planets in an earthy sign, is much more likely to find Geomancy attractive than anyone the principal features of whose horoscope are devoted to other elements, especially air, which of course is the enemy of earth . Now these remarks apply of course very much to the type of question that is likely to be within the grasp of the Geomantic Intelligences, that must certainly be considered as wel…
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
Gabriel. By Thy Holy Angel Gabriel, who is the Author and Mes- senger of good tidings : Levanah. Direct and support us at this present and for ever. THe EXPLANATION OF THE Two TRIANGLES! IN THE PARCHMENT. Alpha and Omega. Thou, O great God, Who art the beginning and the end: Tetragrammaton. Thou God of Almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let Thy Holy Spirit and presence be now and always with us: Soluzen. I command thee, thou Spirit, of whatsoever region thou art, to come unto this circle: Halliza. And appear in…
1909 · PDF PAGE 107
…s ; 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. John) …
1909 · PDF PAGE 116
…! Failure! Failure! Now then let me (7.35) take the position of the Hanged Man and invoke Adonai. Probably sleep returned shortly. Not a good night, though dreamless, so far as memory serves. The rain comes wearily down, not chasing the dryness, but soddening the streets. The rain of autumn, not the rain of spring! So is it in this soul, Lord Adonai. The thought of Thee is heavy and uneasy, flabby and loose, like an old fat woman stupid-drunk in her slum; which was as a young maiden in a field of lilies, arrow-straight, sun- strong, moon-pure, a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
LIBER O matter, and its grades so delicately shaded, that it must be left to the good sense of the student to decide whether or not he should be satisfied with his result. Vv 1. Let the student be at rest in one of his prescribed positions, having bathed and robed with the proper decorum. Let the Place of Working be free from all disturbance, and let the preliminary purifications, banishings and invocations be duly accomplished, and, lastly, let the incense be kindled. 2. Let him imagine his own figure (preferably robed in the proper magical ga…
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
LIBER O matter, and its grades so delicately shaded, that it must be left to the good sense of the student to decide whether or not he should be satisfied with his result. Vv 1. Let the student be at rest in one of his prescribed positions, having bathed and robed with the proper decorum. Let the Place of Working be free from all disturbance, and let the preliminary purifications, banishings and invocations be duly accomplished, and, lastly, let the incense be kindled. 2. Let him imagine his own figure (preferably robed in the proper magical ga…
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…ower parts of the man as insanity or death. I must attain, or . . . an end of John St. John. An end of him, one way or the other, then l Good-bye, John ! Ten minutes wasted in sheer mooning! I’m getting worse every minute. Fooled away ten minutes more! Humiliation enough! For though I made the cross with Blood and Flame, I cannot even remain concen- trated in humiliation, which yet I feel so acutely. What a wormy worm I am! I tried the new strict Siddhasana, only to find that Ι had hurt myself so this morningwith it that I cannot hear it at all,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 93
… is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore Bugg had forgotten all about England, and what she is, and how he had made her. Or if the good work was going on, it was subconscious. He was standing by the gilded statue of Ieanne d‘Arc, his mouth wide open, his Baedeker limp in his perspiring hand. “ She's riding astride l " The molten madness throbbed in his brain. “ She‘s got man‘s clothes on ! " The shocking truth must out: Theodore Bugg had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sunday and Monday of Whitsunt…
1912 · PDF PAGE 93
… is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodore Bugg had forgotten all about England, and what she is, and how he had made her. Or if the good work was going on, it was subconscious. He was standing by the gilded statue of Ieanne d‘Arc, his mouth wide open, his Baedeker limp in his perspiring hand. “ She's riding astride l " The molten madness throbbed in his brain. “ She‘s got man‘s clothes on ! " The shocking truth must out: Theodore Bugg had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sunday and Monday of Whitsunt…
1904 · PDF PAGE 29
…inner. With sacred thirst, I, soul-hydroptic,1 Read Levi2 and the cryptic Coptic ;3 With ANET’ HER-K UAA EN RA,4 And atwoynxd arps While good MacGregor5 (who taught freely us) Bade us investigate Cornelius Agrippa and the sorceries black Of grim Honorius and Abramelin ;6 While, fertile as the teeming spawn Of pickled lax or stickleback, Came ancient rituals,7 whack ! whack ! Of Rosy Cross and Golden Dawn.8 * Truth-lover. 5 10 15 20 25 30 Poem dissimi- lar to its pre- decessor. Will it lead some- where this time? Reflections on the weather, prop…
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…t, through the minis- tration of Mr. Hogwash, the Baptist minister at Brixton (Mr. Chesterton executes the cake-walk), who they say is a good man, and very much blessed of the dear Lord, my dear, in his ministrations, though of course he has not been brought out of sect2 as yet. II AGÉD SISTER, do. Dear ! Dear ! Very sad ! Perhaps the dear Lord will open his eyes. (The praying brother sits down suddenly, satisfied with himself.) A HORNY-HANDED BROTHER, who rises grunting, as if the action were painful or unfamiliar. Matthew Twenty-fourth and Fo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…used higher formula: in the course of my working. My Prana is acting in a feverish manner ; a mixture of fatigue and energy. This is not good: it probably comes from bolting that big lunch, and may mean that I must sleep to recover equilibrium. I will, however, use the Pentagram ritual on my Anahata Cakkram [the heart; a nerve—centre in Hindu mystical physiology—ED] and see if that steadies me. (P.S.— Yes: instantly). Notice, please, how in this condition of intense magical strain the most trifling things have a great influence. Normally, I can e…
1909 · PDF PAGE 134
…ays—a dozen poems or so—two or three short stories—odds and ends of one sort and another: it’s a miserable record, though the Tragedy is good enough to last a life. It marks an epoch in literature, though nobody else will guess it for fifty years yet. The travel, too, has been rubbish. It’s been a petty, peddling year. The one absolute indication is: on no account live otherwise than alone. But it is 1035; these considerations, though in a way pertaining to the Work, are not the Work itself. Let me begin to inflame myselfinfraying! The Twelfth Da…
1909 · PDF PAGE 195
…Q ad Sephira, to preserve intact the Ten-ness of the Sephiroth. Showing how by that very eating of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and of Evil should come the Saving of Mankind; for Daath is the Priceless Gift of Knowledge and Intellect whereby cometh Salvation. Wherefore also is 11 the Key Number of the Great Saviour’s Name (m wis = 29 = 11), and this is also in the Taro the Wheel of the Great Law, 5, the Lord of the Forces of Life. 185,
1909 · PDF PAGE 195
…Q ad Sephira, to preserve intact the Ten-ness of the Sephiroth. Showing how by that very eating of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and of Evil should come the Saving of Mankind; for Daath is the Priceless Gift of Knowledge and Intellect whereby cometh Salvation. Wherefore also is 11 the Key Number of the Great Saviour’s Name (m wis = 29 = 11), and this is also in the Taro the Wheel of the Great Law, 5, the Lord of the Forces of Life. 185,
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
…n but needs the spark. A daythe flash will cleave the horror of the dark. Do me this honour ; dine with me to-morrow eve. I promise you good wine, and shapely limbs to weave Your dreams to more than dream. Besides, I promise this : You shall know how extreme abject a thing he is. And you may see, perhaps, a drama something apt Of how in his own traps the hunter may be trapped. 1ST MASK. Well, we accept the gage. We have upheld him well Till now.
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
… best act of piety.” “Judge not ; speak hardly at all ; love and act.” Another prophet came and said: “ Protest against bad doctrines by good works, but do not separate yourselves. “ Rebuild all the altars, purify all the temples, and hold yourselves in readiness for the visit of the Spirit. “Let every one pray in his own fashion, and hold com- munion with his own ; but do not condemn others. “A religious practice is never contemptible, for it is the sign of a great and holy thought. “To pray together is to communicate in the same hope, the sam…