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…e Master of the Temple find neither star nor moon. And I was about to answer him: “The light is within me.” But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name, and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation. Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is my name, and desolation. Intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. I said,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…e Master of the Temple find neither star nor moon. And I was about to answer him: “The light is within me.” But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name, and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation. Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is my name, and desolation. Intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. I said,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX Tome!” And with these words “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” III. In the next chapter of our book is given the word of Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that iis, is a crystalli- zation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…at he is himself the “Angel” or messenger of his Angel 5 that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the Perfection of “Asar” himself as a man, but as Ptah-Apophrasz- Ra, the identity (Hadit) wrapped in the Dragon (Nuith) and thereby manifested as a Sun (Ra- Hoor-Khuit). The “Egg” (or Heart) “girt with a Serpent” is a cognate symbole the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual. (See Liber LXV. which expands this to the uttermost.) The Adept passe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 38
…sense shall be darkened, and the shrine re-veiled. Yet know this for thy reproof, and for the stirring up of dis- content in them whose swords are of lath, that in every word of this vision is concealed the key of many mysteries, even of being, and of knowledge, and of bliss; of will, of courage, of wisdom, and of silence, and of that which, being all these, is greater than all these. Begone! For the night of life is fallen upon thee. And the veil of light hideth that which is. With that, I suddenly see the world as it is, and I am very sorrowf…
1915 · PDF PAGE 2
… hesitates to send a minis- ter to their court of murderers these be thy gods to- day, O England! "Heroic little Servia!" I have not a word to say against the Montenegrins. They are decent, honest cutthroats. And now we come to the treacherous monkeys of Japan, the thieves and pirates of the East. Who makes the shoddy imitations of European and American ma- chinery, forges the names of famous firms, sticks at no meanness to steal trade? Who, under cover of alliance with England, fostered in China a boycott of all English goods? Only yesterday…
1922 · PDF PAGE 185
…writing this in the mood of the recording angel. I am living in eternity, and temporal things have become tedious and stupid symbols. My words are veils of my truth. But I experience quite definite delight in this diary. King Lamus is always at the root of my brain. He is Jupiter and I have sprung from his thought ; Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom ! The most tremendous events of life are unworthy trifles. The sublimity of my conceptions sweeps onward from nowhere to nowhere. Behind my articulate anthem is a stainless silence. I am not writing for an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 191
…ooks. If you are so frivolous as to try to exclude these from our discourse, it is merely evidence that you have not understood a single word of what I have been trying to tell you these last few hundred years! May I close with a stray example or so? The Equinox. Vol. III, No. I, has the Neophyte's Pantacle of Frater O.I.V.V.I.O. The Frontispiece of the original (4 volume) edition of Magick, the colours vilely reproduced, is a Lamen of my own Magick, or a Pantacle of the Science, I'm sure I'm not sure which! Most of my Talismans, like my Invoca…
1954 · PDF PAGE 204
… with your plans: or, the worst difficulty in your way is incomprehensibly removed by some extraordinary "freak of chance." Or . .. In a word, you seem to have strolled into a world where-well, it might be going too far to say that the Law of Cause and Effect is suspended; but at least the Law of Probability seems to be playing practical jokes on you. This means that your manoeuvres have somehow attracted the notice of the Astral Plane: your new neighbours (May I call them?) are taking an interest in the latest Tenderfoot, some to welcome, to d…
1922 · PDF PAGE 137
…magic. And then we found that we were under arrest. We were being questioned in voluble, excited Italian. Neither Lou nor I understood a word that was said to us. The sergeant came out of the dive. He seemed an intelligent man. He understood at once that we were English.
1954 · PDF PAGE 209
… a little drink would do me no great harm" I shall feel that I have deserved well of my country! For-see Liber Aleph, after Rabelais-the Word of the Last Oracle is TRINe. This plaint of yours tails off-and perks up in so doing-with confession of Ambition, and considerations of what you must leave over to your next life. Very right! but all that is covered by your general programme. It is proper to assimilate these ideas with the fundamental structure of your mind: "Perhaps I had better leave 'The Life and opinion of Battling Bill, the Ballarat …
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…e in London. He added, "I will introduce you to a man who is much more of a Magician than I am." To sum the matter in brief, he kept his word. The Secret Assembly materialized as the "Hermetic Order of the G.·. D.·.," and the Magician as one George Cecil Jones. During the whole summer, the weather got steadily worse and my health took the same course. I found myself obliged to leave the camp and go to London to see doctors. I took rooms in an hotel in London, attended to the necessary medical treatment and spent my time writing poetry. The play…
1910 · PDF PAGE 307
…sked him to repeat what he had said, and as I did so I noticed that several of the faithful shivered and turned pale. At length came the word “ expecta- tion” or “separation,” and as I could not catch which, I ex- claimed “what?” “You pig-faced man!” shouted His Holiness, “you dirty fellow, you come here to take away my disciples . . . vat you vant vith this: vat! vat! vat! vat! ... You do no exercise, else you understand vat I say, dirty man!” And then turning to 289
1910 · PDF PAGE 307
…sked him to repeat what he had said, and as I did so I noticed that several of the faithful shivered and turned pale. At length came the word “ expecta- tion” or “separation,” and as I could not catch which, I ex- claimed “what?” “You pig-faced man!” shouted His Holiness, “you dirty fellow, you come here to take away my disciples . . . vat you vant vith this: vat! vat! vat! vat! ... You do no exercise, else you understand vat I say, dirty man!” And then turning to 289
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…otonous noise? They pray as they sleep, and they sacrifice as they eat. They are machines full of bread, meat and wine, and of senseless words. And when they plume themselves, like the oyster in the sun, on being without thought and without love, one says that they have peace of soul! They have the peace of the brute. For man, that of the tomb is better: these are the priests of folly and ignorance, these are the ministers of Antichrist. The true priest of Christ is a man who lives, suffers, loves and fights for justice. He does not dispute, he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…otonous noise? They pray as they sleep, and they sacrifice as they eat. They are machines full of bread, meat and wine, and of senseless words. And when they plume themselves, like the oyster in the sun, on being without thought and without love, one says that they have peace of soul! They have the peace of the brute. For man, that of the tomb is better: these are the priests of folly and ignorance, these are the ministers of Antichrist. The true priest of Christ is a man who lives, suffers, loves and fights for justice. He does not dispute, he…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…and made me enter the car. One of them took charge of the driving, and the other followed us two in the back seats. The man said but one word, “ Scat,” and we started at a terrific speed and were soon off on the road. I began to feel uneasy; but prudence stopped my speech in time, and the man next to me began to titter. Then he spoke; and though he may have uttered different words, this is what I understood: “You are trying to deceive us. I always notice such an attempt, even when it has only reached its mental stage. Indeed, I cannot help noti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…and made me enter the car. One of them took charge of the driving, and the other followed us two in the back seats. The man said but one word, “ Scat,” and we started at a terrific speed and were soon off on the road. I began to feel uneasy; but prudence stopped my speech in time, and the man next to me began to titter. Then he spoke; and though he may have uttered different words, this is what I understood: “You are trying to deceive us. I always notice such an attempt, even when it has only reached its mental stage. Indeed, I cannot help noti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…e God's responsible) to—mutter In gutter, pav your tithe to vice Since virtue kicks you down its stairs. So thus I clothed it in strange word To catch you thinking unawares. Think ? do you think ? Then, thinks a bird. Read your Descartes ! Nietzsche demurred? To you, who give yourself such airs, This riddle cannot offer snares ! ‘ ; ‘ . : Love’s mass is holier than wine and wafer. Thou couldst not beetle be: then, be cock- chafer !"’ Hence my address, this swoodier Swood To Khephra, hence the ambiguous speech, The alluring analogue, the good, T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
…s. Before I take again to the main road of my history, which I shall neither leave again or follow further than necessary, I must give a word of praise to my wives. Of course the poor creatures think I am a mere man, but apart from this 382