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…, now became an all-absorbing vice. He was never able to rebuild his Lodge on its former lines; but those who thirsted for knowledge and power and these he still possessed in ever increasing abundance as he himself decayed — clung to him, hating and envying him, as a young ruffian of the [122] streets will envy the fame of some robber or murderer who happens to fill the public eye. It was with this clot of perverse feelings that Balloch approached the Rue Quincampoix, one of the lowest streets in Paris, and turned in at the den where Douglas lo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…to call upon the divine forces of Mars, before which even Bartzabel "trembles every day," and, thus having converted himself into a high-power engine of war, sat down to a Gargantuan banquet, eating the entire consignment himself. The result was that the unfortunate Arthwait was seized with violent and intractable colic, which kept him twisted in agony on his bed for forty-eight hours. Gates had taken no part in this performance; [160] he knew how dangerous it was, and how likely to recoil upon the rash practitioner. But he did some genuinely u…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…f the daily and periodical Press all over the world.” It is a big order for a man who despises money. My correspondent seems to know the powers which rule the world: Capital and Publicity. Alas ! the puppies will keep on losing part of their tails in spite of the S.P.T.B.P., because of that third power, Fashion. As for the £1000, I may—or I may not.... But we are digressing. To use an expression from the French, somewhat slangy, but expressive, “Je passe le crachoir 4 lorateur.” I believe the author tobe mad. I nevertheless think it necessary t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…f the daily and periodical Press all over the world.” It is a big order for a man who despises money. My correspondent seems to know the powers which rule the world: Capital and Publicity. Alas ! the puppies will keep on losing part of their tails in spite of the S.P.T.B.P., because of that third power, Fashion. As for the £1000, I may—or I may not.... But we are digressing. To use an expression from the French, somewhat slangy, but expressive, “Je passe le crachoir 4 lorateur.” I believe the author tobe mad. I nevertheless think it necessary t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
There are a great many ways of acquiring the power. Gaze into a crvstal, or into a pool of ink in the palm of the hand, or into a mirror, or into a teacup. Just as with a microscope the expert operator keeps both eves open, though seeing only through the one at the eye-piece of the instrument, so the natural eyes, ceasing to give anv message to the brain, the attention is withdrawn from them, and the man begins to see through the Astral eyes. These methods appear to The Master Therion to be unsatisfactory. Very often they do not work at ail. It…
1905 · PDF PAGE 89
…g harness, and excel The charioteers of heaven and hell, In all the Names writ secretly And sacred songs ineffable ; In all the words of power that fly About the world, this song they spell He keepeth Israel. AHINOAM. Ye praise God of full heart: I would to God Your minds were somewhat juller, and could keep Discretion seated on her ivory throne. What folly is it they will now be at, Gray beards, and goatish manners? Hark to them ! CHORUS. In the brave old days ere men began To bind young hearts with an iron tether, Ere love was brief as life, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong lauzhing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion: then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening ; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour changes as his child Calls him first father” ; sense of strength divine Fills him; then man’s work in the world, and wild Efforts to fame: then steadier in the shrine Burns t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
126 The Law is for All the Mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath not Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the Dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…rotected magically against all incompatible forces, and by invoking into that place some one force which they desired, some tremendously powerful being, angel or archangel — and they had conjurations which they thought capable of doing this — that they would be able to cause the incarnation of beings of infinite knowledge and power, who would be able to bring the whole world into Light and Truth. "I may conclude this little sketch by saying that the idea has been almost universal in one form or another; the wish has always been for a Messiah or…
1996 · PDF PAGE 80
Chapter I * Verse 59 81 truths; to the acquisition of the power to think in a manner totally foreign to the normal mind, the rare possession of the greatest thinkers of the world. A further development of the vision brought the con sciousness that the structure of the universe was highly orga nized, that certain stars were of greater magnitude and brilliancy than the rest. I began to seek similes to help me to explain myself. Several such attempts are mentioned later in this note. Here again are certain analogies with some of the properties o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…rm of a Man with Gryphon’s Wings. His office is to slay Men, and to drown them in the Waters, and to overthrow Ships of War, for he hath Power over both Winds and Seas; but he will not hurt any man or thing if he be commanded to the contrary by the Exorcist. He also hath hopes to return to the Seventh Throne after 1,000 years. He governeth 30' Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (42.) Vepar.—The Forty-second Spirit is Vepar, or Vephar. Heisa Duke Great and Strong, and appeareth like a Mermaid. His office is to govern the Waters, and …
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
…als mechanically docile. The utmost extension of Science can merely organize the household of Art. Art thus progresses in perception and power by increased control or automatic accuracy of its details. The Master Therion has made an Epoch in the Art of Magick by applying the Method of Science to its problems. His Work is a contribution of unique value, comparable only to that of those men of genius who revolutionized the empirical guess- work of “natural philosophers”. The Magicians of to-morrow will be armed with mathematical theory, organized…
1905 · PDF PAGE 56
…over on a single spray of thorn. There is a great grey tower! Cut clear against the deep ; In the sun’s wakening hour I think it has the power To touch the soul of sleep With its tender thought, and bid me to awake for joy—and weep. This night I am earlier. No drowsy thoughts drew nigh At eve to make demur That I be minister To Cynthia maidenly : All night I have watched her sail through a black and silver sky. Within my soul there fight Two full and urgent streams, Work’s woe and dream’s delight : Like snow and sun they smite, Days battle hard…
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…ll not shake thy hand; You bear a traitor's brand, old man, ....You bear a liar's brand. Thy talents are profound and wide, ....Apparent power to win; It is not every one has lied ....A nation into sin. And look not thou so black, my friend, ....Nor seam that hoary brow; Thy deeds are seamier, my friend, ....Thy record blacker now. Your age and sex forbid, old man, ....I need not tell you how, Or else I'd knock you down1, old man, ....Like that extremist cow. {120} 1. Mr. Gladstone was attacked by a cow in Hawarden Park in 1891. You've gained y…
1906 · PDF PAGE 23
…ny dead. Then, O my beauty! tell the worms, who will devour With kisses all of you to dust ; That I have kept the form and the essential power Divine of my distorted lust. THE DENIAL OF Sr. PETER. I. WnaratT makes God then of all the curses deep That daily reach his Seraphim divine? Like to a tyrant gorged with meat and wine, Our blasphemous music lulleth him to sleep. II. Tears of the martyrs, and saints torturéd, Must prove intoxicating symphonies, Since, spite of blood-price paid to gain them ease, The heavens therewith are not yet satiated.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …
1939 · PDF PAGE 15
…om trunk murders! Organisms developed by specialising their component structures have not achieved this so much by an acquisition of new powers, as by a restriction of part of the general powers. Thus, a Harley Street specialist is simply an ordinary doctor who says: 'I won't go out and attend to a sick person; I won't, I won't, I won't.' Now what is true of cells is true of all already potentially specialised organs. Muscular power is based upon the rigidity of bones, and upon the refusal of joints to allow any movement in any but the appointe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
first time on what a ship they had embarked? Suppose the corpse did move? Suppose Gates rose in the power of the devil, and strangled them? Their sweat ran down, and mingled with the blood. The stench of the slain goat was horrible, and the body of Gates had begun decomposition. The sulphur, burning in little patches here and there, where a candle had fallen and kindled it, added the reek of hell to that of death. Abdul Bey of a sudden was taken deathly sick; at the end he pitched forward, prone upon the corpses. Vesquit pulled him roughly back…
1906 · PDF PAGE 118
…To shake our sea, and swell our sails. Not song, but silence, were a boon— Save for this tune. 1 The legend is grotesque, and the poet's power is strained—-perhaps overstrained—to be faithful without being ridiculous. Only the tragic necessity of avenging the indignity done to Ares compelled this conclusion of the drama, ind the somewhat fantastic and unreal machinery of the catastrophe. .. Round capes grown darker as night falls, We see at last the splendid walls That ridge the bay ; the town lies there Lighted (the temple’s hour for prayer)
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
… sense and reason with the sight, Manifold, mighty, monstrous, no light giving Unto the soul that is not also light ; We rise in ghastly power; we know the token, © The speech of silence and the song unspoken. ORPHEUS., Come forth to the sound, Ye lustres of years That hide in profound Abysses of fears, Hidden and bound ! The voice of tears Implores and impels ye, O lustres, with a tune that is strong as a seer’s. THE LUSTRES. Fivefold the shape sublime that lifts its head Uniform, self-repeating, comparable At last to a man’s life: twice seven…