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Page 57 of 871913 · PDF PAGE 256
…aratively few. Waite was no Crippen, be it under- stood. If Crowley teasingly called him “old lag” in friendly converse round the office fire, too strict a significance, too vital an importance, may easily be attached to the phrase. Crowley may only have been referring to the number of his incarnations. Or some secret meaning may lie hidden in the term. It was at least the fact that Waite was inclined to writhe under its application. So he did when any one said “ you and Westcott,” or “you and Wilmshurst” ; but this was obviously a reference to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…ater sins aspire ; I might-so gross am 1 --- take pleasure in These filthy holocausts , that burn to sin A damned incense in the hellish fire Of human lust - earth's joys no heaven may win ; Pain holds the prize In blood - stained hands ; Love laughs , with anguish in His eyes . Also he sees how dangerous it is to sip from the cup of “ little common sins . ” Sins nurtured by trust in man's forgiveness ; then struck with the horror of the still small voice , he bids God break his unrepentant will , and let the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lip…
1919 · PDF PAGE 235
ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laugh- ter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” 54. Children of all Brethren are entitled to the care of the Order, and arrangements will be made to educate them in certain of the Profess-Houses of the Order. 55. Children of Brethren who are left orphans will be officially adopted by the Master of his Lodge, or if the latter decline, by the Supreme Holy King himself, and treated in all ways as if they were his own. 56. Brethren who have a right to some espec…
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
…l take you unto me. 20. I ask you to sacrifice nothing at mine altar; I am the God who giveth all. 21. Light, Life, Love; Force, Fantasy, Fire; these do I bring you : mine hands are full of these. 22. There is joy in the setting—out; there is joy in the journey; there is joy in the goal. 23. Only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or dis— comforted; then ye may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith I guide you to the heart of the groves of Eleusis. zo
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
…l take you unto me. 20. I ask you to sacrifice nothing at mine altar; I am the God who giveth all. 21. Light, Life, Love; Force, Fantasy, Fire; these do I bring you : mine hands are full of these. 22. There is joy in the setting—out; there is joy in the journey; there is joy in the goal. 23. Only if ye are sorrowful, or weary, or angry, or dis— comforted; then ye may know that ye have lost the golden thread, the thread wherewith I guide you to the heart of the groves of Eleusis. zo
1910 · PDF PAGE 271
…the Cymri drank the health of Howell Dda. It danced and sparkled like some liquid metempsychosis of amber; it gleamed with the spiritual fire of a thousand chrysolites. To sight, to taste it was metheglin, such as never mantled in the cups of the Valhalla. Hasheesh I called the “ drug of travel,” and I had only to direct my thoughts strongly toward a particular part of the world previously to swallowing my bolus to make my whole fantasia in the strongest possible degree topographical. There are two facts which I have verified as universal by re…
1910 · PDF PAGE 271
…the Cymri drank the health of Howell Dda. It danced and sparkled like some liquid metempsychosis of amber; it gleamed with the spiritual fire of a thousand chrysolites. To sight, to taste it was metheglin, such as never mantled in the cups of the Valhalla. Hasheesh I called the “ drug of travel,” and I had only to direct my thoughts strongly toward a particular part of the world previously to swallowing my bolus to make my whole fantasia in the strongest possible degree topographical. There are two facts which I have verified as universal by re…
1919 · PDF PAGE 265
…imitate him. THE DEACON AND ALL THE PEOPLE. I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON. And I believe in the Serpent and…
1919 · PDF PAGE 334
… image (man) has to be- come as deaf to roarings as to whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden firefly. In the text the image is explained as ‘Man,’ but it more properly refers to the consciousness of man, which con- sciousness is considered as being a reflection of the Non- Ego, or a creation of the Ego, according to the school of philosophy to which the Student may belong. 11. Before the Soul can comprehend and may remember, she must unto the Silent Speaker be united, just as the form to which the cla…
1922 · PDF PAGE 195
…g of the Brakes 181 were dissolved into one; a giant ghost that enveloped us. I hissed the next lines through my teeth, feeling myself a fire-breathing dragon. ** Horror indeed intense, Seduction ever intenser, Swinging the smoke of sense From the bowl of a smouldering censer ! ”’ We were out of breath. My boy sat on the edge of the bed. I crept up behind him. I shook out my hair all over his face, and dug my nails into his scalp. We were living the heroin life, the life of the world of the soul. We had identified ourselves with the people of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 257
…ly festival .' The search after Mystery is finely described in the opening dedication of “ The Songs of the Spirit " : Mine was the holy fire that drew Its perfect passion from the dew , And all the flowers that blushed and blew On sunny slopes by little brooks . Mine the desire that brushed aside The thorns, and would not be denied , And sought, more eager than a bride , The cold grey secret wan and wide of sacred books .2 It is in this search that the soul unfurls its wings and sweeps into the infinite ether of existence , bending its course …
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…blanched eyeless beetles that have neither wing nor horn. Return, blot out the vision, wipe from thy mind the memory thereof; stifle the fire with green wood; consume the Sacrament; cover the Altar; veil the shrine; shut up the Temple and spread booths in the market place; until the appointed time come when the Holy One shall declare unto thee the Mystery of the Third Aethyr. Yet be thou wake and ware, for the great Angel Hua is about thee, and overshadoweth thee, and at any moment he may come upon thee unawares. The voice of PAZ is ended. BISK…
1919 · PDF PAGE 194
… understanding unto the parable of this Magick. We have for the whole Beginning of Our Work, praise be eternally unto His Holy Name, the Fire of our Father the Sun. The inspiration is ours, and ours is the Law of The- lema that shall set the world ablaze. And We have many small dry sticks, that kindle quickly and burn through quickly, leaving the larger Wood unlit. And the great logs, the masses of humanity, are always with us. But our edged need is of those middle fagots that on the one hand are read- ily kindled by the small Wood, and on the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 146
PRINCE OF WANDS The Prince of Wands represents the airy part of Fire, with its faculty of expanding and volatilising. He rules from the 21st degree of Cancer to the 20th degree of Leo. He is a warrior in complete armour of scale mail, but his arms are bare on account of his vigour and activity. He wears a rayed crown surmounted by a lion’s head winged, and from this crown depends a curtain of flame. On his breast is the sigil of To Mega Therion. In his left hand he bears the Phoenix wand of the Second Adept (in the Ritual of 5°=6° of R.R. at A.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…er tire ! Thy queen , quick - breathing for your twin desire !" I shudder , for the mystery of bliss ; I go , heart crying and a soul on fire !? . . Still , I stepped onward . Credit me so far ! The harlot had my soul : my will , the star ! Thus I went onward , as a man goes blind , Into a torrent crowd of mine own kind ; Jostlers and hurried folk , and mad they are , A million actions and a single mind .? As he proceeds along his weary path , he feels a strengthening within him of the higher self , struggling against his desire , again and aga…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
…rinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he rushes down into the infernal darkness on winged thoughts: “ The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun …
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
…rinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he rushes down into the infernal darkness on winged thoughts: “ The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun …
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: If the body of the King dissolve, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: If the body of the King dissolve, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 155
…nvey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger Sc trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire Sc blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon them, o warrior, I will give you of their flesh to eat! 12. Sacrifice cattle, little and big: after a child. 13. But not now. 14. Ye shall see that hour, o blessed Beast, and thou the Scarlet Concubine of his desire! 15. Ye shall be sad thereof. 16. Dee…