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Page 57 of 2031919 · PDF PAGE 100
…ing clad in purple robes and drunken with purple wine, and their whole soul was one purple flower-flame of holiness. 35. They beheld not God; they beheld not the Image of God; therefore were they arisen to the Palace of the Splen- dour Ineffable. A sharp sword smote out before them, and the worm Hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. Even as their rapture shore asunder the visible Hope, so also the Fear Invisible fled away and was no more. 37. O ye that are beyond Aormuzdi and Ahrimanes! blesséd are ye unto the ages. 38. They sha…
1899 · PDF PAGE 241
…are too proud and free And full of might . To care for time or space, but glorious wend A royal path of flowers to the end. I pray thee, God, to weapon me With this keen fire, That I may set this people free As my desire ; That the white lilies of our liberty Grow on Life’s crags still higher, Till on the loftiest peaks their blossom flower, The rampart of a people and their power.
1906 · PDF PAGE 94
…he mystery I mean. The dead were dancing with the worms; The live were laughing with their lemans; The dead-alive were making terms With God, and notaries, and germs, With house-agents and demons. 86
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 229 British Government, when he was a baby Nat. ‘“The Queen of Heaven and the Lord of the Gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops: the affaire Humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 25
…bove the square of Tiphereth; and the Oil, whose phial is so small that it will suit any altar. On the Circle are inscribed the Names of God; the Circle is of green, and the names are in flaming vermilion, of the same colour as the Tau. Without the Circle are nine pentagrams equidistant,' in the ^ Some magicians prefer seven lamps, for the seven Spirits of God that are before the Throne. Each stands in a heptagram, and in each angle of the heptagram is a
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…according to a certain long‐ hidden tradition. One of the shocks for candidates in the “Mysteries” was the revelation “Osiris is a black god”. Saturn, therefore, is masculine; he is the old god, the god of fertility) the sun in the south; but equally the Great Sea, the great Mother; and the letter Tau upon the Tree of Life ap‐ pears as an emanation from the moon of Yesod, the foundation of the Tree and representative of the reproductive process and of the equilibrium between change and stability, or rather their identification. The influence of…
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
PENTECOST 41 Out of a silver Tube a Dart Shooting Gods Spirit to her heart—61 This beats the orthodox Dove-Suitor ! What explanation could be cuter Than—Gabriel with a pea-shooter ? In such a conflict I stand neuter. But oh ! mistake not gold for pewter ! The plain fact is : materialise What spiritual fact you choose, And all such turn to folly—lose The subtle splendour, and the wise Love and dear bliss of truth. Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any ! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference ’Twixt spirit and the things of se…
1906 · PDF PAGE 165
…el, Tossed on some burning bed of steel, But theirs: My soul of love should swell And, on those piteous floors they trod, Feel, and make God feel, out of Hell, Across the gulf impassable, That He was damned and I was God! Ay! Let him rise and answer me. Ethical and That false creative Deity, eloquent de- Whence came his right to rack the Earth Christian Cos- With pangs of death,” disease, and birth : mogony. No joy unmarred by pain and grief: Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul …
1909 · PDF PAGE 36
…th the sigil of % or v. To banish reverse the hexagram. In all cases use a conjuration first with Ararita, and next with the name of the God corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with. The Hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in plate on preceding page. 2. These rituals should be practised until the figures drawn appear in flame, in flame so near to physical flame that it would perhaps be visible to the eyes of a bystander, were one present. It is alleged that some persons have attained the power of actually kindling fire by…
1909 · PDF PAGE 36
…th the sigil of % or v. To banish reverse the hexagram. In all cases use a conjuration first with Ararita, and next with the name of the God corresponding to the planet or sign you are dealing with. The Hexagrams pertaining to the planets are as in plate on preceding page. 2. These rituals should be practised until the figures drawn appear in flame, in flame so near to physical flame that it would perhaps be visible to the eyes of a bystander, were one present. It is alleged that some persons have attained the power of actually kindling fire by…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…e-angel is before me. His wings seem to hide all the Heaven. He cried aloud saying: The Voice of the Lord upon the Waters: the Terror of God upon Mankind. The voice of the Lord maketh the Skies to tremble: the Stars are troubled: the Aires fall. The First Voice Speaketh and saith: Cursed, cursed be the Earth, for her iniquity is great. Oh Lord! Let Thy Mercy be lost in the great Deep! Open thine eyes of Flame and Light, O God, upon the wicked! Lighten thine Eyes! The Clamour of Thy Voice, let it smite down the Mountains! Let us not see it! Cove…
1902 · PDF PAGE 90
…angerous Even to think of! — but to speak ! Heinrich {aside). These fools ! \^He remains, thoughtfully regarding Tannhixuser. Landgrave. God avert omens ! Soft you, Tannhauser, You heard the heralds ? Tannhauser. Never a word of them ! Landgrave. You must remember my Elizabeth, My daughter — I designed to marry her To a most noble youth — 88
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
…s flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy! JASON. It is enough! HERACLES. Too great for a god’s strength! THESEUS. Speak! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death! ORPHEUS, Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. “This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. JASON. Nay, brother. The voice was: “The end is sorrow!”
1905 · PDF PAGE 54
TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDELAIRE CAIN ET ABEL SEED of Abel, eat, drink, sleep ! God shall smile complaisantly. Seed of Cain, in the muck-heap Crawl and miserably die ! Seed of Abel, thine oblation Sweet to Seraphim doth smell : Seed of Cain, shall thy damnation Ever find the bounds of Hell ? Race of Abel, see thy seed And thy cattle flourish more ! Race of Cain, for hunger’s need, Like a dog thy bowels roar. Seed of Abel, warm thy paunch At thy patriarchal hall ! Seed of Cain, on shivering haunch Squat in cave, despised jackal ! 49
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…perhaps hardly aware of how his eagle-flights have brushed the sun with their fiery wings.) If a dweller upon this plane meditate upon a God, his first experience of that God will be no longer of His appearance or of His effect upon himself, but rather of His nature in some 72
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…perhaps hardly aware of how his eagle-flights have brushed the sun with their fiery wings.) If a dweller upon this plane meditate upon a God, his first experience of that God will be no longer of His appearance or of His effect upon himself, but rather of His nature in some 72
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
…ture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions, God. For, at first, this practice leads To holy thoughts (the holy deeds Precede success) and reverent gaze Upon the Ancient One of Days, Beyond which fancy lies the Truth. To find which I have left my youth, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,* and c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
… the mention of his name by the present writer induces an attack οί epileptic mania; if such are really “united with " or ”absorbed in ” God, what of God? We are told in Galatians that the fruits of the Spirit are peace, love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; and somewhere else, “ By their fruits ye shall know them.” Of these evil-doers then we must either think that they are dishonest, and have never attained at all, or that they have united themselves with a devil. Such are “Brethren of the Left Hand Pat…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
… the mention of his name by the present writer induces an attack οί epileptic mania; if such are really “united with " or ”absorbed in ” God, what of God? We are told in Galatians that the fruits of the Spirit are peace, love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; and somewhere else, “ By their fruits ye shall know them.” Of these evil-doers then we must either think that they are dishonest, and have never attained at all, or that they have united themselves with a devil. Such are “Brethren of the Left Hand Pat…