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Page 67 of 731935 · PDF PAGE 15
…ual questions, the candidate must display no less mastery of his subject than if he were entered in the “final” for Doctor of Science or Law at a first class University. In examination of physical practices, there is a standardised test. In Asana, for instance, the candidate must remain motionless for a given time, his success being gauged by poising on his head a cup filled with water to the brim; if he spill one drop, he is rejected. He is tested in “the Spirit Vision” or “Astral Journeying” by giving him a symbol unknown and unintelligible t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 164
…er. I gloated on the coming of the curse— I did create an hearse, Black plumes and solemn mourners; andI saw The triumph of some natural law Fit for a poet’s verse. I saw some common fate to lure, to tempt 5 (No mortal of the ages is exempt)
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…hen sun and star, My sun, my star, the vault that span, Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law? Their death-embrace A simple accident of space? Vv. Where is thy fame, when million leagues OF flaming gas absorb the roll Of many a system ruinous hurled With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy victory over Time? VI. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…mighty limb Shooting to sunset, the black road’s black maw Gapes to the westward; the great trunk divides And all the armies of infernal law Stand ranked about the venerable sides Of the black cave: they speak not; dumb they stand And all the frost of all the air abides Upon them, as a vampire stooped and spanned The white throat ofa maiden and held still Her powers by virtue of its hate’s command, Somewhat like love’s: so all the solemn chill Invades those statued ranks of warriors, And I pass through, the lightning of my will A steady stream …
1939 · PDF PAGE 23
… the universe; it is the Trance of sorrow that has determined one to undertake the task of emancipation. This is the energising force of Law; it is the rigidity of the fact that everything is sorrow which moves one to the task, and keeps one on the Path. 9. The next planet is Jupiter. This planet is in many ways the opposite of Saturn; it represents expansion as Saturn represents contraction; it is the universal love, the selfless love whose object can be no less than the universe itself. This comes to reinforce the powers of Saturn when they a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
…leaping into hideous birth from the imprisoned deserts of the Nile! And thou, O habitant most dread, disastrous crocodile, hear thou the Law, and live, and win to peace ! THE HILLS. TO OSCAR ECKENSTEIN. WHENCE the black lands shudder and darken, Whence the sea birds have empire to range, Whence the moon and the meteor hearken The perpetual rhythm of change, On earth and in heaven deluded With time, that the soul of us kills, I have passed. I have brooded, fled far to the wooded And desolate hills. Not there is the changing of voices That lament…
1905 · PDF PAGE 258
…omb with- held That spiritual fire, and brooded still: Nature and Time, their solenesss undispelled. Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten: uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath of the Eternal and the Vast, Softer than dawn, and closer than a kiss— And lo! the chaos and the darkness passed ! At the creative sigh the Light became. Chaos rolled back in the abundant flame. The vast and mystic Soul, The Firmament, a livin…
1919 · PDF PAGE 304
…g.” It is a philosophical treatise on How to do anything. The arts are one. There is nothing but creation. As it is written, Love is the law, love under will. It is apprehension of this fact that makes art- istry of any sort possible. It explains why there are no artists in America, or at 290
1939 · PDF PAGE 43
…so the original father, dead and made into a 'God,' was called Ad. This name came down unchanged to Egypt, as you see in the Book of the Law. The word 'Adhi' in Sanskrit was usually translated 'Lord.' In the Syrian form we get it duplicated Hadad. You remember Ben Hadad, King of Syria. The Hebrew word for 'Lord' is Adon or Adonai. Adonai, my Lord, is constantly used in the Bible to replace the name Jehovah where that was too sacred to be mentioned, or for other reasons improper to write down. Adonai has also come to mean, through the Rosicrucia…
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…ything is Sorrow'; and 'The cause of Sorrow is Desire.' By the word 'Desire' he meant exactly what is meant by 'Love' in The Book of the Law which I quoted a few moments ago. 'Desire' is the need of every unit to extend its experience by combining with its opposite. (14) It is easy enough to construct the whole series of arguments which lead up to the first 'Noble Truth.' Every operation of Love is the satisfaction of a bitter hunger, but the appetite only grows fiercer by satisfaction; so that we can say with the Preacher: 'He that increaseth …
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
…songs with the wilderness laden ! Thy lyre be adrift and astray :— So to me thou shalt cling ! So to me thou shalt sing Of the beautiful law of the day ! 1 Possibly intended as a reference to the poet himself,
1919 · PDF PAGE 296
…and Howells and Mr. Winston Churchill. His reverence for the technique and toil of art is Bostonian. When he is not either observing the law or laying it down, he is as ill at ease as a pedagogue in a bar-room. His American Puritanism nibbles his ear all the time. His hatred of what he calls rhetoric, his mania for the ‘clear’ and the ‘hard,’ his earnest belief that poetry must never be a ‘pastime,’ all derive from the Amer- ican conscience; and so does his distaste for the Puritan poet Milton, whose ex- treme sensuality avenged its suppression…
1905 · PDF PAGE 105
…le of the fiery ring! Became one moment like a little thing, And Truth and God were near us to with- draw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. 17 e. the wedding ring,
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…vast turquoise Of the whole sky : expanded far Beyond the farthest sun or star, Beyond all space, all time. I saw The very limits of the law That hath no bounds: beheld the bliss Of that first wonder of the kiss In its true self: how very love Is God, and hath its substance of Pure light : and how love hath its cause Beyond religions, worlds, and laws; Is in itself the first : and moves All evolution, and disproves God in affirming God: all this In that one rapture of the kiss I knew, and all creation’s pain Fell into nothing in my brain, As I,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 60
…the ring of ten indefinable ideas, as pre viously explained. He is thus continu‐ ous creation. Logically also, being the Word, he is the law of reason or of necessity or chance, which is the secret meaning of the Word, which is the essence of the Word, and the condition of its utterance. This being so, and especially because he is duality, he represents both trnth and falsehood, wisdom and folly. Being the unexpected, he unsettles any established idea, and therefore appears tricky. He has no conscience, being creative. If he cannot attain his e…
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
…colour of Earth not black, but green; it insists that every Disk is a living and revolving symbol. The central thesis of the Book of the Law asserts the Perfection of the Universe. In its pantheistic conception all possibilities are equal in value; each and every Point‐Event is “a play of Nuit”, as it is written in the Book of Wisdom or Folly, “Bind noth‐ ing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whose availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!” Liber Al. 1. 22…
1939 · PDF PAGE 26
…s just as the newly discovered chemical elements discovered in the last fifty years fill the gaps in Mendelejeff's table of the Periodic Law. 17. Herschel represents the highest form of the True Will, and it seems natural and right that this should not rank with the seven sacred planets, because the True Will is the sphere which transcends them. 'Every man and every woman is a star.' Herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. But Herschel is dynamic; Herschel is explosive; Herschel, astrologically speaking, does not move in an orbit; he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
… and mind? What is the body but a sheath? Did he ply forceps, scalpel, saw, Tear all the grace of form apart, Intent to catch some final law Behind the engine of the heart? He tried not ; whoso has, has failed. So, did I pry beneath the robe, Till stubborn will availed, nor quailed, Intimate with the naked probe ? I know the husks! to strip; name, form, Sensation, then perception, stress Of nature thither ; last, the swarm Of honey-bees called consciousness. These change and shape a myriad shapes. Diverse are these, not one at all, What gain I …
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…s Unity manifested in Duality.” And so forth. One important interpretation of Tarot is that it is a Notariqon of the Hebrew To‐ rah, the Law; also of ThROA, the Gate. Now, by the Yetziratic attributions—see table at end— this word may be read The Universe—the new‐born Sun—Zero. This is the true Magical Doc‐ trine of Thelema: Zero equals Two. Also, by Gematria, the numerical value of ThROA is 671 =61 x 11. Now 61 is AIN, Nothing or Zero; and 11is the number of Magical Expansion; in this
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
…y incorporate these documents in the body of this book, but they are presented in an appendix, together with the text of The Book of the Law. Most of the past nine years of my life have been preoccupied, each year more fully than the last, with the problem of proving to humanity in general the propositions involved. To make the elements of my thesis as clear and distinct as possible, I shall endeavour to insulate them in sections. Ouarda and I left Helwan for Cairo. (Date unascertained, probably on March 11th or 13th.) We had taken an apartment…