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Page 67 of 821930 · PDF PAGE 52
…he major premiss of Religion: that there exists a Conscious Intelligence independent of brain and nerve as we know them. If it hâve also Power, so mueh the better. But we already know of inorganic forces; we hâve no evidence of inorganic conscious Mind. How can the Astral Plane help us here? It is not enough to prove, as we easily do, the correspondences between Invocation and Apparition \ We must exclude coincidence 1 2, telepathy3, and subconscious knowledge. 4 Our praeter-human Intelligence 1. The Master Therion’s regular test is to Write th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 139 ORPHEUS. Then thou, O my mother, Hast given to me ‘The power of another, The watery key. Bright air is my brother, My sister the sea ; I have called, and they answer and come; and their song is but glory to thee. One other is left me, The light of the earth. If Fate had bereft me, Oh Muse, of thy birth, Still I had cleft me A way in her girth! | I tune the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her mirth. O mighty and glad In spring-time and summer ! O tearful and sad When the sun is grown dumber, When the se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…r who manifested in his universe such marvellous and beautiful relations. It would get all sorts of fantastic theories of this Creator's power; what it would never get — until it produced a James Hinton — would be the idea that all this diversity was caused by seeing, disjointedly, different aspects of one single simple thing "I purposely took the easiest case. Suppose that instead of a cone we used an irregular body — the series of impressions would seem to the water like absolute madness! "Now slide your imagination up one dimension! Do you n…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
… adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it informs and fortifies his mental and moral qualifies instead of obscuring and upsetting them. He will by now hâve become able to converse with his Angel, impossible as it once seemedj for he now knows that the storm of Sound which he supposed to be the Voice was only the clamour of his own confusions. The “infinity” nonsense was born of his own inability to think clearly beyond his limits, just…
1905 · PDF PAGE 237
…cho of our sighs— Love—dies ?-— Love lives--in granite skirted, And under oaken skies. But best is grim December, * The Goatish God? his power; The Satyr blows the ember, And pain is passion’s flower; When blood drips over kisses, And madness sobs through wine : Ah, mine !— The snake starts up and hisses and strikes and—I am thine! VENUS. Those are thy true joys? Cruelty for love? TANNHAUSER. And death in kissing. Hlow I have despised, Riding through meadows of the rushing Rhine, To watch the gentle foresters of spring Crush dainty violets in t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…must interpret its nature by means of a vision as exactly as if he had read its name and description in the book when it was chosen. The power to make and “charge” talismans is tested as if they were scientific instruments of précision, as they are. In the Qabalah, the candidate must discover for himself, and prove to the examiner beyond ail doubt, the properties of a number never previously examined by any student. annihilation of this Ego. One might therefore be an Adeptus Minor or even a Magister Templi, in essence, though refused official r…
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…There are several ways of dealing with the situation . One can run away, or climb a tree, or shoot him, or (in your case) cow him by the Power of the Human Eye; but the way of the Tao is to take no particular notice. (This, incidentally, is not such bad Magick; the diversion of your attention might very well result in your becoming invisible, as I have explained in a previous
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
…shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the trai tors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; de destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet dead lier than he! Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 257
…of despair, Who bound the golden helmet of Thine head ? Whose voice rings out the pitiful low tones: ‘Who, who hath wronged thee? And my power atones. ‘‘She who now doth flee, shall soon pursue thee; ‘* She who spurns thy gifts, with gifts shall woo thee; ‘“¢ She who loves not, she shall cleave unto thee, 1? ‘* Thou the unwilling Peer of Gods is he, equal soul to theirs, Who lingers in thy passionate embrace : Whose languor-laden kiss Cleaves where thy bosom is A throne of beauty for thy throat and face! In these dark joys and exquisite despair…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom ail shadows flee away: also that Secret Eye which makes an image of its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles, enlightening the mind. Thus, he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his original guise. He therefore becomes apparently the man that he was at the beginning; he lives…
1905 · PDF PAGE 169
…otice. She shrieks at each mew i12sult. Sweet heaven ! what is Uric, Say rather, what are you? I loved you once Childlike; then came the power of reason- ing, And I beheld you, the unselfish one, Befriending me, the angel of my life. See what it rested on, my happiness ! Your sacrifice is utter selfishness ; Me, the sole pledge of your debaucheries You keep —your love, the mere maternity You share with swine and cattle! All your care Is duty: let the harlot cleanse herself— Tardy repentance !—In the name of God! Worse, you have lied, and built …
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…ly. Cyril Grey went to the door; and once again Lisa had the impression of a duellist. No: it was a sentinel that stood there. Her vivid power of visualization put a spear in his hand. It was his own studio, but he announced his visitors as if he had been a butler. "Akbar Pasha and Countess Helena Mottich." Simon Iff sprang to the door. It was not his studio, but he welcomed the visitors with both hands outstretched. "Since you have crossed our threshold," he cried, "I am sure you will stay to dejeuner." The visitors murmured a polite acceptanc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…esires to possess Nancy, he does in fact evoke a spirit of the nature of Venus, constraining him by his Oath of Love (and by his magical power as a man) to bring him the girl. So also, when he wants to kiJl her, he evokes a Martial or Saturnian spirit, with an Oath of hâte. But these are not pure planetary spints, moving in well- dehned spneres by rigidlv righteous laws. They are gross concré¬ tions of confused impulses, “incapable of understanding the nature of an oath”. They are also such that the idea of murder is nowise offensive to the Spi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 100
…pent’s beauty, and the owl Sits in huge state upon the midmost bench. Thus, therefore, by the manifest design, Joining the wisdom to the power and will, We build the Argo. ARGUS. What a heavy club Wecarry ! And how well becomes our figure The lion’s skin ! HERACLES. Be still, thou art an ass!
1906 · PDF PAGE 143
THE GOD-EATER 137 CriospA. What of the power? I bid these waves be calm In Maurya’s name. [The storm tucreases momently in vio- lence. RUPHA muttters on. CRIOSDA shows with a gesture that he knows his words avail nothing. Rupua. Ho! Ho! Criospa. I wittingly and well resumed the rite Learnt at thy breast, old wolf ! RupHaA. Ho! Ho! The might is mine O’ the rune divine. Silence, winds ! Peace, ye waves! The spell binds Their wrath In the graves Below ocean. Clear the path ! Cease your motion? Swift, be slow ! Ho! Ho! [ The storm ceases. CrIOSDA. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…opted David’s wives and concubines on the roof of the palace, in order to signify that he had succeeded in breaking his father’s magical power. Now, there are a great many talismans in this world which are being left lying about in a most reprehensibly careless manner. Such are the objects of popular adoration, as ikons and idols. But, it is actually true that a great deal of real magical Force is locked up in such things; consequently, by destroying these sacred symbols, you can overcome magically the people who adore them. It is not at ail ir…
1996 · PDF PAGE 149
…d profoundly in Science, financially armed and socially stainless, I should be able to exe cute my Will by pressure upon all classes of powerful people, to make this comment carry conviction to thinkers, and to publish The Book of the Law in every part of the world. Instead, I am exiled and suspected, despised by men of science, ostracized by my class, and a beggar. If I were in my teens again! I cannot change my mind about which ridge I’ll climb the mountain by, now when I see, above these ice-glazed pinnacles storm-swept, through gashes torn…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
… It may be of importance to His Work that man shall sit upon a throne, or be hanged. In such a case He informs his Magus, who exerts the power intrusted to Him, and it happens accord¬ ingly. Yet ail happens naturally, and of necessity, and to ail appearance without a Word from Him. Nor will the mere Master of the Temple, as a rule, présumé to act upon the Universe, save as the servant of his own destiny. It is only the Magus, He of the grade above, who has attained to Chokhmah, Wisdom, and so dare act. He must dare act, although iî like Him not…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…d to tell Things Past, Present, and to Come. He also procureth Friendship between Friends and Foes. He was of the Order of Potestates or Powers. He governeth 37 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, to be made and worn before thee, etc. (48.) Haacenti.—The Forty-eighth Spirit is Haagenti. He is a Presi- dent, appearing in the Form of a Mighty Bull with Gryphon’s Wings. This is at first, but after, at the Command of the Exorcist he putteth on Human Shape. His Office is to make Men wise, and to instruct them in divers things; also to Transmut…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…names are based upon ShT or D, vocalized by the free breath A. For these Names imply the qualifies of courage, frankness, energy, pride, power and triumph; they are the words which express the créative and paternal will. Thus “the Devil” is Capricornus, the Goat who leaps upon the loftiest mountains, the Godhead which, if it become manifest in man, makes him Aegipan, the Ail. The Sun enters this sign when he turns to renew the year in the North. He is also the vowel O, proper to roar, to boom, and 36