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Page 62 of 1591906 · PDF PAGE 126
… Ares! Men, rejoice That He can thus avenge his shrine ! One solemn cadence of that voice Peal through the ages, shake the spine Of very Time, and plunge success False-winged into sure-foot distress ! Hail to black Ares! Warrior, hail ! Thou glory of the shining sword ! What proven armour may avail Against the vengeance of the Lord? Athena’s favour must withdraw Before the justice of thy law ! Hail to the Lord of glittering spears, The monarch of the mighty name, The Master of ten thousand Fears Whose sword is as a scarlet flame ! Hail to black…
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
…So he seeks a new method.) ,, 14. Avoided invoking A that He might instruct me in Vision. I am in serious trouble. Place, Method, Means, Time, etc. A wakeful night, followed by profound and dreamless sleep (Had spent much thought on A .'.) ,, 15. Thought a deal ofA ,, 16᾿Will think, again, not do the formal invocation. ,, 17. This thinking seems little or no good: but the fault is that the real P. is actually not thinking of A When he is, the invocation is unneces- sary; when he isn‘t, it’s feeble. What am I to do? (Should suggest sticking to i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 249
… attentively, and cut. 4. Take the cards as cut, and hold as for dealing. First Operation This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you. I. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left. 207
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
…So he seeks a new method.) ,, 14. Avoided invoking A that He might instruct me in Vision. I am in serious trouble. Place, Method, Means, Time, etc. A wakeful night, followed by profound and dreamless sleep (Had spent much thought on A .'.) ,, 15. Thought a deal ofA ,, 16᾿Will think, again, not do the formal invocation. ,, 17. This thinking seems little or no good: but the fault is that the real P. is actually not thinking of A When he is, the invocation is unneces- sary; when he isn‘t, it’s feeble. What am I to do? (Should suggest sticking to i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 249
… attentively, and cut. 4. Take the cards as cut, and hold as for dealing. First Operation This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you. I. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left. 207
1961 · PDF PAGE 148
… of Love (or what not) within thyself, just as all Effort becometh harmonious and easy by virtue of Practice. Rememberest thou the first time thou was thrown into Water, thy fear and thy struggles, and the Vehemence of thy Joy when first thou didst swim without Support? Then, little by little all Violence dieth away, because thou art adjusted to that Condition. Therefore the Fury of thine early Victory in these Arts Magical and Sciences is but the Sign of thine own Baseness and Unworthiness, since the Contrast or Differential is so overwhelming…
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
…h, brand how worse than Cain’s ! Divided being, undivided pains ! What is this life ? (To call it life that grows No inch throughout all time.) This bitterness Too weak and hateful to be called distress ? Slow memory working backward only knows There was some horror grown to it for kin ; Some final leprous growth that took my brain, Weaving a labyrinth of dullest pain From the sweet scarlet threat I thought was sin. I cannot sin ! Alas, one sin were sweet ! But sin is living—and we cannot meet ! So long ago, so miserably long ! I was a maiden—o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 87
OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 71 ALESSANDRO. Well, my friend, youve got it in you To the hilt this time ! [The crowd surges on the bridge. ALESSANDRO. Why, whatevers wrong ? 1ST VOICE. My lord, The Princess murdered ! ALESSANDRO. Stuff ! 2ND VOICE. Its true ; its cried abroad. ALESSANDRO. So for a pedlars wares ! Do you believe him ? Ass ! 1ST VOICE. No, on my soul its true ! I swear it by the Mass. ALESSANDRO. How do you know for sure ? Im Thomas, want to see The prints o the nails, the wound i the side ! 2ND VOICE. Its true, trust me ! 3R…
1913 · PDF PAGE 341
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “Verily I say unto thee, that the time cometh when men shall no longer worship God, either in Jerusalem, or on this moun- tain; for God is a spirit,’ and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” x THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF THE QABALAH Tue key of the Sephiroth. (Vide Dogme et rituel de la haute magie.) XI THE NUMBER ELEVEN ELEVEN is the number of force; it is that of strife and martyrdom. Every man who dies for an idea is a martyr, for in him the aspirations of the spirit have triumphed over the fears…
1913 · PDF PAGE 341
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “Verily I say unto thee, that the time cometh when men shall no longer worship God, either in Jerusalem, or on this moun- tain; for God is a spirit,’ and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” x THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF THE QABALAH Tue key of the Sephiroth. (Vide Dogme et rituel de la haute magie.) XI THE NUMBER ELEVEN ELEVEN is the number of force; it is that of strife and martyrdom. Every man who dies for an idea is a martyr, for in him the aspirations of the spirit have triumphed over the fears…
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…he body, and causing it to whirl and dance in order to find expression somehow.) April 9th. Started to read about 8.30 this morning. Sometime during morning lost idea of “ego” to realize All as Self. (Left notes for a couple of hours) I find terrible difficulty in expressing the slightest idea of that which occurred during this state, yet it would seem of importance to do the best I can. That there is no soul struck me as a horrible blank. That J do not, and never have existed as “I” comes as a wonderful realization while the consciousness of t…
1899 · PDF PAGE 7
LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 121 So verily long time I rode afar. My course was lighted by some gloomy star That boded evil, that I would not shun, But rather welcome, as the storm the sun, Lowering and red, a hurtful avatar, Whose fatal forehead like itself is dun. It was no wonder when the second day Showed me a city on the desert way, Whose brazen gates.were open, where within _ I saw a statue for a sign of sin, And saw the people come to it and pray, Before its mouth set open for a gin. And seeing me, a clamour rose among — Their dwarfish crowds, …
1903 · PDF PAGE 77
…e that abides in the glooms. Walking he is, and slowly; thoughtful he seems, Pure and happy and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart; He is tamed by the art of the sages, the magical art. No longer he burns and blisters, consumes and corrodes; He hath Muses nine for sisters; the holy a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
… it were, awakened in order to be destroyed, so that the will of the Magician is in a sense trying to do two opposite things at the same time. Consciousness itself is only destroyed by Samadhi. One can now see the logical process which begins in refusing to think of a foot, and ends by destroying the sense of individuality. Of the methods of destroying various deep-rooted ideas there are many. The best is perhaps the method of equilibrium. Get the mind into the habit of calling up the opposite to every thought that may arise. In conversation al…
1913 · PDF PAGE 217
…rld, my Rose of Roses, Thou shalt be born anew, and live for ever! XVIII THE YELLOW SQUARE DeatH! Death! In the cool green colonnades of time I pursue thee; thou art fled before me now In the silence. By the secret door I wait For a sign of thee; but thou art fled before me 179
1913 · PDF PAGE 217
…rld, my Rose of Roses, Thou shalt be born anew, and live for ever! XVIII THE YELLOW SQUARE DeatH! Death! In the cool green colonnades of time I pursue thee; thou art fled before me now In the silence. By the secret door I wait For a sign of thee; but thou art fled before me 179
1899 · PDF PAGE 143
LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 121 So verily long time I rode afar. My course was lighted by some gloomy star That boded evil, that I would not shun, But rather welcome, as the storm the sun, Lowering and red, a hurtful avatar, Whose fatal forehead like itself is dun. It was no wonder when the second day Showed me a city on the desert way, Whose brazen gates.were open, where within _ I saw a statue for a sign of sin, And saw the people come to it and pray, Before its mouth set open for a gin. And seeing me, a clamour rose among — Their dwarfish crowds, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
… the above. Even as the bright coils of the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. 104
1909 · PDF PAGE 34
… curses from my life’s envenomed flood Break in a vomit of black foam and blood. IX As one entranced by dint of cannabis, Whose sense of time is changed past recognition, Whether he suffer woe or taste of bliss, He loses both his reason and volition. He says one word — what countless ages pass! He walks across the room —— a voyage as far As the astronomer’s who turns his glass On faintest star-webs past the farthest star And travels thither in the spirit. So It seems impossible to me that ever The sands of our ill luck should run so low That sp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 2
…the name of the A... A. THE Chancellor of the A..A.*. considers it desirable to make a brief statement of the financial position, as the time has now arrived to make an effort to spread the knowledge to the ends of the earth. The expenses of the propaganda are roughly estimated as follows— Maintenance of Temple, and service . : £200 pa. Publications : foe 4200 pa. Advertising, electrical expenses, ete. | 4200 pa. Maintenance of an Hermitage where poor Brethren may make retirements. 4200 pa. 4800 p.a.