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Page 66 of 1051906 · PDF PAGE 159
…thwart the blue? I say not, Which ‘in hearts aright Are treasured? but, What after ages Engrave on history’s iron pages? This is the one word of “Our Lord” ; “T bring not peace ; I bring a sword.” In this the history of the West Bears him out well. How stands the test? One-third a century’s life of pain— He lives, he dies, he lives again, And rises to eternal rest Of bliss with Saints—an endless reign ! Leaving the world to centuries torn By every agony and scorn, And every wickedness and shame Taking their refuge in his Name. No Yogt shot his …
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX rather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX rather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 530
…s from east to west to hide the light from the world, that monster who devours souls, that frightful divinity of ignorance and fear—in a word, the devil, —is still, for a great multitude of children of all ages, a fright- ful reality. In our Dogme et rituel de la haute magie we represented him as the shadow of God, and in saying that, we still hid the half of our thought: God is light without shadow. The devil is only the shadow of the phantom of God! The phantom of God! that last idol of the earth; that anthropomorphic spectre which maliciousl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 530
…s from east to west to hide the light from the world, that monster who devours souls, that frightful divinity of ignorance and fear—in a word, the devil, —is still, for a great multitude of children of all ages, a fright- ful reality. In our Dogme et rituel de la haute magie we represented him as the shadow of God, and in saying that, we still hid the half of our thought: God is light without shadow. The devil is only the shadow of the phantom of God! The phantom of God! that last idol of the earth; that anthropomorphic spectre which maliciousl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 71
38 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS But there is a restricted and conventional sense in which the word may be used without straying too far from the above philosophical position . One might say: "Magick is the study and use of those forms of energy which are (a) subtler than the ordinary physical-mechanical types, (b) accessible only to those who are (in one sense or another) 'Initiates'." I fear that this may sound rather obscurum per obscurius; but this is one of those cases-we are likely to encounter many such in the course of our researches-in which we…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…e ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground before her. “When I opened my eyes again she too was praying. Softly, without a word, I stepped to the window, took the dagger in my teeth, dropped from the edge, landed lightly beside the corpse. She was quite dead, the skull broken in, the teeth exposed in a last snarl. She lay on her back; I opened the coat, turned her over. The gruesome task was nearly finished when the door of the house opened, and an old man, his face scarred, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…e ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground before her. “When I opened my eyes again she too was praying. Softly, without a word, I stepped to the window, took the dagger in my teeth, dropped from the edge, landed lightly beside the corpse. She was quite dead, the skull broken in, the teeth exposed in a last snarl. She lay on her back; I opened the coat, turned her over. The gruesome task was nearly finished when the door of the house opened, and an old man, his face scarred, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grin…
1911 · PDF PAGE 16
THE EQUINOX eyeless face, strained and swollen. And with the Magic sword I pierce through his armour to his breast. He fell back, say- ing: Each of these my scars was thus made, for I am the warden of the aethyr. And he would have said more; but I cut him short, saying: expound the word of the Abyss. And he said: Discipline is sorrowful and ploughing is laborious and age is weariness. Thou shalt be vexed by dispersion. But now, if the sun arise, fold thou thine arms; then shall God smite thee into a pillar of salt. Look not so deeply into words…
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
…ieve alie. And again it is written: The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And again it is written that God tempteth man. But thou hadst the word and the sign, and thou hadst authority from thy superior, and licence. And thou hast done well in that thou didst not dare, and in that thou dost dare. For daring is not presumption. And he said moreover: Thou dost well to keep silence, for I perceive how many questions arise in thy mind; yet already thou knowest that the answering, as the asking, must be vain. For NEMO hath all in himself. He hath come w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…e armour of a Knight? If it were so, perhaps it might be hard to say her nay. But it is none of these. This woman—pollution to that pure word l—comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the TS, the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, a thousand times N0! Let…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…e armour of a Knight? If it were so, perhaps it might be hard to say her nay. But it is none of these. This woman—pollution to that pure word !—comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S., the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, athousand times No! Le…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…e armour of a Knight? If it were so, perhaps it might be hard to say her nay. But it is none of these. This woman—pollution to that pure word !—comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S., the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, athousand times No! Le…
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
…h serve to protect must inevitably destroy the very conditions which they aim to preserve. Hey! Hasn't the dear old Book of Lies got its word on the subject? Never known to fail! The Wound of Amfortas The Self-Mastery of Percivale became the Self-masturbatery of the Bourgeois. Vir-tus has become "virtue. " The qualities which have made a man, a race. a city. a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty oj failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives u…
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
THE SWORD OF SONG 14 But if you drink your mystic fill Under the good tree Igdrasil64 Where is at all your use for Christ? Hath Krishna not at all sufficed? I hereby guarantee to pull A faith as quaint and beautiful As much attractive to an ass, And setting reason at defiance, As Zionism, Christian Science, Or Ladies’ Leage,65 “Keep off the Grass !” From “Alice through the Looking-Glass.” Hence I account no promise worse, Fail to conceive a fiercer curse Than John’s third chapter (sixteenth verse). But now (you say) broad-minded folk Think that…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
THE EQUINOX 39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 332
…great cry of “I am Joseph!” Israel becomes the people of God, that is to say, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand, around the unity of the tabernacle. Hamor and Shechem wish to introduce themselves forcibly into the holy family, and perish with their…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
THE EQUINOX 39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 332
…great cry of “I am Joseph!” Israel becomes the people of God, that is to say, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand, around the unity of the tabernacle. Hamor and Shechem wish to introduce themselves forcibly into the holy family, and perish with their…
1919 · PDF PAGE 248
…by a peculiar course of instruction whose na- ture it would be imprudent as well as impertinent to disclose; I will ask you to accept my word that it is efficient. With this provision, it is easy to see that intolerance and snobbery are impossible; for the example set by members of the universally respected higher grades is against this. I may add that members are bound together by participation in certain mysteries, which lead to a synthetic climax in which a single secret is communicated whose nature is such as to set at rest for ever all div…