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Page 70 of 1211919 · PDF PAGE 265
… Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON. And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in His name BAPHOMET. And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA. And I believe in the communion of Saints. And, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…tched from the stars at his birth; Erato the fierce and the mild ; Polymnia grave ; and the girth Broad-girdled of gold and desire, Melpomene’s terrible lyre, That lifts up her life in the wild, The star-piercing pean, and floats in mid- ether, and sinks to the earth. These three of the Muses were mine; They nurtured and knew me and kissed. Erato was hidden in wine; Polymnia dawned in the mist: Melpomene shone in the pyre Ofterrors that burned in her lyre; But all of their passion divine I lost in the life and the stress of the world ere ever t…
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
12 by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos.: and with time, space and causality, the conditions limiting and inyolving them all. Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed, nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence ‘was just as much unformulated as that of toasted cheese. But0? is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our universe is a finite universe ; its categories are themselves finite, and the e…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
…had been present when Zuleika, the Queen of the Sudan, as they called her, undertook (to suck off, and swallow the spend of) fifty-seven men in the first hour, and sev- enty-two in the second, when she had got into her stride, as it were. Alas ! All Europe knows the treachery which cost her life. In the third hour the infamous Selim bin Haroun presented himself dis- guised to her hasty lips. As you know, this chief- tain, desirous of checking his fertility without in- terfering with his pleasures, had bored a hole at the root of his life-preser…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…nct growth from a reverential regard towards its founder , to a satirical disregard for him , and his final dismissal in a jest . Such a mental pro gression is only natural ; from the sublime irrationality of a de Kempis the student will almost inevitably , even unwittingly , pass through the adulations of a 1 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 137 . Ibid . vol . ii, p . 139 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 138. The gods of the ancients were all immolaters of men , and loved blood . Moloch only differed from Jahveh by lack of orthodoxy , and the god of Je…
1913 · PDF PAGE 355
…red the West, and the soft rays of the sun of Asia have touched the icicles of the North. Stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over a worn-out world; the souls of dead people have shone upon rejuvenated races, and enlarged in them the spirit of life. There is in the world a nation which calls itself frankness and freedom, for these two words are synonymous with the name of France. This nation has always been in some ways more Catholic than the Pope, and more Protestant than Luther. The France of the Crusades, the Franc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 355
…red the West, and the soft rays of the sun of Asia have touched the icicles of the North. Stirred by this unknown heat, ant-heaps of new men have spread over a worn-out world; the souls of dead people have shone upon rejuvenated races, and enlarged in them the spirit of life. There is in the world a nation which calls itself frankness and freedom, for these two words are synonymous with the name of France. This nation has always been in some ways more Catholic than the Pope, and more Protestant than Luther. The France of the Crusades, the Franc…
1919 · PDF PAGE 398
…hamma-Buddha who did think something of the kind. But he is assuredly quite indifferent to the praise and blame of the ‘suffering fellow-men.’ He does not want their gratitude. We will now close this painful subject. 88. Behold! The goal of bliss and the long Path of Woe are at the furthest end. Thou canst choose either, O aspirant to Sorrow, throughout the coming cycles! Om Dajrapani Hum With this eloquent passage the Fragment closes. It may be remarked that the statement “thou canst choose” is alto- gether opposed to that form of the theory o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
25 He had started a school for the sons of Brethren at 51 Bateman Street, Cambridge. May God bite into the bones of men the pain of that hell on earth (I have prayed often) that by them it may be sowed with salt, accursed for ever! May the maiden that passes it be barren and the pregnant woman that beholdeth it abort! May the birds of the air refuse to fly over it! May it stand as a curse, as a fear, as an hate, among men! May the wicked dwell therein! May the light of the sun be withheld therefrom and the light of the moon not lighten it! May …
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
… of one accord, it is naturally also the only instance of a miracle which happened in church. The Quakers, arguing soundly enough that women were such a cause of contention chiefly on account of their tongues, and getting a glimpse of these truths which I have so laboriously been endeavouring to expound, hoped for inspiration from the effects of silence alone, and strove (even by a symbolic silence in costume) to repeat the experiment of Pentecost. But they lacked the stimulus of Syrian air, and that of the stirring times of the already visible…
1906 · PDF PAGE 288
…pull down the church and the Free Library ;! with each stone torn thence let us build the humble and practical homes of the true ‘‘ holy men” of our age, the 1 The sarcasm is perhaps against the popu- larity of the worthless novel, as shown in Free Library statistics ; or against the uselessness of any form of reading to a man not otherwise educated. austere and single-minded labourers in the fields of Physics and Physiology. Myst. Here, moreover, is the foundation of race harmony ; here the possible basis for a genuine brotherhood of man! * He…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…im until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and having acquired that glorified vision by which he can distinguish between the permanent and the impermanent, he aspires to the attainment of a perfect knowledge of that which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t At this stage the Bodhi Satva …
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…im until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and having acquired that glorified vision by which he can distinguish between the permanent and the impermanent, he aspires to the attainment of a perfect knowledge of that which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t At this stage the Bodhi Satva …
1913 · PDF PAGE 366
…rt one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all buildings; thou art one, and in the secret of thy unity the most wise of men are lost, because they know it not. Thou art one, and thy unity neither wanes nor waxes, neither suffers any change. Thou art one, and yet not the one of the mathematician, for thy unity admits neither multipli- cation, nor change, nor form. Thou art one, and not one of mine imaginations can fix a limit for thee, or give a definition of thee; therefore will I take heed to my ways, lest I offend with my ton…
1913 · PDF PAGE 549
… light, representing always the same circle of images, and consequently determined and determining impressions. These vortices exist for men as for stars. ‘The stars,” said Paracelsus, “ breathe out their luminous soul, and attract each other's radiation. The soul of the earth, prisoner of the fatal laws of gravitation, frees itself by specializing itself, and passes through the instinct of animals to arrive at the intelligence of man. The active portion of this will is dumb, but it preserves in writing the secrets of Nature. The free part can …
1913 · PDF PAGE 366
…rt one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all buildings; thou art one, and in the secret of thy unity the most wise of men are lost, because they know it not. Thou art one, and thy unity neither wanes nor waxes, neither suffers any change. Thou art one, and yet not the one of the mathematician, for thy unity admits neither multipli- cation, nor change, nor form. Thou art one, and not one of mine imaginations can fix a limit for thee, or give a definition of thee; therefore will I take heed to my ways, lest I offend with my ton…
1913 · PDF PAGE 549
… light, representing always the same circle of images, and consequently determined and determining impressions. These vortices exist for men as for stars. ‘The stars,” said Paracelsus, “ breathe out their luminous soul, and attract each other's radiation. The soul of the earth, prisoner of the fatal laws of gravitation, frees itself by specializing itself, and passes through the instinct of animals to arrive at the intelligence of man. The active portion of this will is dumb, but it preserves in writing the secrets of Nature. The free part can …
1922 · PDF PAGE 17
…feeling depressed. I don’t think that this was altogether the reaction of the day. Of course, there always is a reaction after the excitement of a flight; but the effect is more physical than moral. One doesn’t talk. One lies about and smokes and drinks champagne. No, I was feeling quite a different kind of rotten. I looked at my mind, as the better class of flying man soon learns to do, and I really felt ashamed of myself. Take me for all in all, I was one of the luckiest men alive. War is like a wave; some it rolls over, some it drowns, some …
1929 · PDF PAGE 484
484 Lest any reader should seek to emulate these efforts and meet with disappointment, let me warn him of two common factors of failure: 1. People of unfamiliar races manifest the astrological appearance of their ethnological branch and this masks that due to their nativity. Experience enables one to penetrate the superficial indication. 2. The skill required to judge this matter develops with surprising speed as soon as a certain point has been reached. It is best to proceed systematically by asking oneself, first of all, to what element the e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
…, the more they gave the child her proper place. But it must not be inferred that little Ljubov was either worshipped or freed from such menial works as children of her age are called upon to perform. Nor did her playmates realize her superiority. The alleged miracles and the reported cases of healing were heard of some ten years after her death, when eye-witnesses had all departed from this world. Yet, of course, they were possible, quite possible, quite. Til “ALL of you, suckling babes, have read the Russian tale of the Man who bought souls—o…