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Page 56 of 711996 · PDF PAGE 41
…ety, though it admits cruelty and selfishness, offers us no example of the puritan and the prig! However, to the mind of Law there is an Order of Going; and a machine is more beautiful, save to the Small Boy, when it works than when it smashes. Now the Machine of Matter-Motion is an explosive machine, with pyrotechnic effects; but these are only incidentals. Laws against adultery are based upon the idea that woman is a chattel, so that to make love to a married woman is to deprive the husband of her services. It is the frankest and most crass s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 101
…our greatest hero gone. THESEUS. This is the midmost hour of day. JASON. Arise, All heroes, circling round the sacred stone In beautiful order and procession grave, While our chief priest, our mightiest in song, The dowered of Phoebus, great Oecager’s heir, Invokes that glory on the sacrifice That kindles all its slumber into life And vivid flame descending on the wheel And chariot of lightning, licking up | ‘The water of the loud-resounding sea Lustral, poured seven times upon the earth, And in one flash consuming wood and stone And the sweet …
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
… of wheels which he is trying to adjust. In the same way, a writer emplovs arbitrary characters according to a meaningless convention in order to enable his reader by retranslating them to obtain an approximation to his idea. Such are a few of the principal characteristics of the Astral Light. Its quantitative laws are much less dissimilar from those of material physics. Magicians hâve too often been foolish enough to suppose that ail classes of Magical Operations were equally easy. They seem to hâve assumed that the “almighty power of God” was…
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
Chapter III & Verse 19 159 I found XAIPE A/.A.-., 718, “Hail to the A.-.A.-..” I grace fully acknowledged the greeting to Our Holy Order, but went on with my search. There is no such word as AXPIETA,1 “unchristlike things”; only blind bigotry could be satisfied with so crude an invention. 1 [The ST has the numeration 6.] Then came XAPATH, 713, an “engraved character.” That was a true name for the Stèle; if I suffixed AA, 5, it might read “The Mark of Hadit.” But I did not feel inwardly that thrill of ecstasy that springs in the heart or that d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…dens than Cyril Grey came down the garden with Brother Onofrio. Their arms were crossed upon their breasts in the stately fashion of the Order; and Brother Onofrio's scarlet robe contrasted magnificently with the soft green silk of Brother Cyril's. In the eyes of the Italian was a passionate reverence for the younger, but more gifted, man, coupled with a human affection which was almost more than friendship; there was in it the devotion, selfless and unsleeping, which is
1996 · PDF PAGE 64
…ashes your corpse that is as the fragment of the Host, broken by you, the Priest, into Her golden chalice. You, Knight and Priest of the Order of the Temple, saying Her mass, become God in Her, by love and death. This act of love, though in its form it be with a horse like Caligula, with a mob like Messalina, with a giant like Heliogabalus, with a pollard like Nero, with a monster like Baudelaire, though with de Sade it gloat on blood, with Sacher-Masoch crave for whips and furs, with Yvette Guilbert1 2 crave the glove, or dote on babes like E.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…vising and making a dagger, and then applying the dagger to the heart of one’s enemy. One must give one’s hâte a bodily form of the same order as that which one’s enemy has taken for his mani¬ festation. Your spirit can only corne into contact with his by me^yis of this magical manufacture of phantomsj in the same way, one can only measure one’s mind (a certain part of it) against another man’s by expressing them in some such form as the game of chess. One cannot use chessmen against another man unless he agréé to use them in the same sense as …
1909 · PDF PAGE 255
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Now the Imperator governeth, because in Netzach—which is the highest grade of the First Order—is the fire reflected from Geburah. The Preemonstrator is second, because in Hod is the water reflected from Chesed. The Cancellarius is third, because in Yesod is the air reflected from Tiphereth, But in each Temple these three chiefs are coeternal and coequal, thus figuring the Triad in Unity, yet are their functions different: The Imperator to command. The Pramonstrator to instruct. The Cancellarius to record. ‘« Even …
1909 · PDF PAGE 255
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Now the Imperator governeth, because in Netzach—which is the highest grade of the First Order—is the fire reflected from Geburah. The Preemonstrator is second, because in Hod is the water reflected from Chesed. The Cancellarius is third, because in Yesod is the air reflected from Tiphereth, But in each Temple these three chiefs are coeternal and coequal, thus figuring the Triad in Unity, yet are their functions different: The Imperator to command. The Pramonstrator to instruct. The Cancellarius to record. ‘« Even …
1904 · PDF PAGE 28
… such as the barking of Dogs. He breaketh the Hidden Treasures open that have been laid by the Enchant- ments of Magicians. He is of the Order of Virtues, of which some part he retaineth still; and he knoweth all things Past, and to Come, and con- ciliateth Friends and those that be in Power. He ruleth over 30 Legions of Spirits. His Seal of Obedience is this, the which wear before thee as aforesaid. 14
1935 · PDF PAGE 8
…gi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make personal progress equivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living. The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will is entirely free from internal diversion or external oppositio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…P.* as an anonymous gift, to be nevertheless published in the records of the daily and periodical Press all over the world.” It is a big order for a man who despises money. My correspondent seems to know the powers which rule the world: Capital and Publicity. Alas ! the puppies will keep on losing part of their tails in spite of the S.P.T.B.P., because of that third power, Fashion. As for the £1000, I may—or I may not.... But we are digressing. To use an expression from the French, somewhat slangy, but expressive, “Je passe le crachoir 4 lorate…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…P.* as an anonymous gift, to be nevertheless published in the records of the daily and periodical Press all over the world.” It is a big order for a man who despises money. My correspondent seems to know the powers which rule the world: Capital and Publicity. Alas ! the puppies will keep on losing part of their tails in spite of the S.P.T.B.P., because of that third power, Fashion. As for the £1000, I may—or I may not.... But we are digressing. To use an expression from the French, somewhat slangy, but expressive, “Je passe le crachoir 4 lorate…
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
…ectly normal child, which yet is also a Homunculus in the mediaeval sense of the word! "And he has asked me to lend you the villa of the Order at Naples for the purpose." Lisa had lent forward; her face, between her hands was burning. Slowly she spoke: "You know that you are asking me to sacrifice my humanity?" She was not silly enough to pretend to misunderstand the proposal and Simon liked her better for the way she took it. He thought a moment. "I see now; I never thought of it before, and I am foolish, The conservatism of woman calls this s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…Dignities of Men, and to tell all things, Past, and what Is, and what Will Be; and to cause Love between Friends and Foes. He was of the Order of Thrones. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, which wear thou as aforesaid. (41.) Focator.—The Forty-first Spirit is Focalor, or Forcalor, or Fur- calor. He isa Mighty Duke and Strong. He appeareth in the Form of a Man with Gryphon’s Wings. His office is to slay Men, and to drown them in the Waters, and to overthrow Ships of War, for he hath Power over both Winds and Seas; but he …
1944 · PDF PAGE 109
…the Aeon which should be studied in the Book of the Law. It is also important to study very thoroughly, and meditate upon, this Book, in order to appreciate the spiritual, moral, and material events which have marked the catastrophic tran‐ sition from the Aeon of Osiris. The time for the birth of an Aeon seems to be indicated by great concentration of political power with the accompanying improvements in the means of travel and communication, with a general advance in philosophy and science, with a general need of consolidation in religious tho…
1904 · PDF PAGE 35
… speedily from one Kingdom to another, at the Will and Pleasure of the Exorcist. He ruleth over 66 Legions of Spirits, and he was of the Order of Potentates. His Seal is this to be made and to be worn as aforesaid, etc. (34.) Furrur.—The Thirty-fourth Spirit is Furfur. Heis a Great and Mighty Earl, appearing in the Form of an Hart with a Fiery Tail. He never speaketh truth unless he be compelled, or brought up within a triangle, A. Being therein, he will take upon himself the Form of an Angel. Being bidden, he speaketh with a hoarse voice. Also…
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
…egative in its effects. We are imposing inhibitions on the existing current of energy, just as one compresses a waterfall in turbines in order to control and direct the natural gravitational energy of the stream. 3. It might be as well, before altogether leaving the subject of Yama, to enumerate a few of the practical conclusions which follow from our premise that nothing which might weaken or destroy the beauty and harmony of the mind must be permitted. Social existence of any kind renders any serious Yoga absolutely out of the question; domes…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…ailstones and coals of fire, to burn up Gomorrah and Sodom where Love is either shameful and secret, or daubed with dung of sentiment in order that the swinish citizens may recognize their ideal therein. We do not tell the artist that his art is so sacred, so disgusting, so splendid and so disgraceful that he must not on any account learn the use of the tools of his trade, and study in school how to see with his eye, and record what he sees with his hand. We do not tell the man who would heal disease that he must not know his subject, from anat…
1996 · PDF PAGE 8
…rowley arranged for John W. (Jack) Parsons of the American o.T.o. to commission the editorial work on the commentaries, on behalf of the Order. This accomplished, he then introduced Wilkinson to Eliza M. Butler of Newnham College, Cambridge, an academic acquaintance.3 His letter of introduction, though half-joking, reveals his attitude to the work: Some 25 years ago I wrote a Commentary on The Book of the Law — over a quarter of a million words of the most tur gid and incomprehensible hogwash ever penned. Certain adventurous spirits, however, …