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Page 70 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 69
…r like live coals. And the end was to have been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awaited the voice of some great one. And now the silence is not broken. Jerhaps men were not ready for those final chords. Perhaps to hear them would be to pass where he has passed!) But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end ! Would God he could come back only for an hour to put the keystone to his palace that he built…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…d that I was a poet. I got some paper and wrote the following rondel. Damn it, I had to play up to my partner! Rose on the breast of the world of spring, ....I press my breast against thy bloom; My subtle life drawn out to thee; to thee ....its moods and meaning cling. I pass from change and thought to peace, ....woven on love's incredible loom, Rose on the breast of the world of spring! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take ....form and harmony and sing? How shall the ecstasy of light fall back to ....music's magic gloom? O China rose with…
1911 · PDF PAGE 104
…who have slain our son. The scorpion I My sole token. [She/"alts on SLIMAN’s corpse] My son 1 only son of my love] one sole jewel of the world wert thou. And the accurséd scorpion has betrayed me. Oh, let me from this hour throw off all womanhood, all kindness, all compassion—all but my love that has made my hearta hell. From this hell spring forth fiery scorpions—— Eunuchs 1 Girls I let us be men 1 Take swordsl take spears! Truce or no truce, night or no night, out to the field. Let us slay the dogs as they lie. God, hear me! Make me mightier th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 104
…who have slain our son. The scorpion I My sole token. [She/"alts on SLIMAN’s corpse] My son 1 only son of my love] one sole jewel of the world wert thou. And the accurséd scorpion has betrayed me. Oh, let me from this hour throw off all womanhood, all kindness, all compassion—all but my love that has made my hearta hell. From this hell spring forth fiery scorpions—— Eunuchs 1 Girls I let us be men 1 Take swordsl take spears! Truce or no truce, night or no night, out to the field. Let us slay the dogs as they lie. God, hear me! Make me mightier th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 72
…hat its theories rest. It is good, too, hearing how much you were interested in the glimpse that you have had of some of its work in the world; more, that you grasped the fact that this apparently recondite and irrelevant information has an immediate bearing on your personal life of to-day. Still, I was not surprised that you should add: "But why should I make a special study of, and devote my time and energy to acquiring proficiency in, the Science and Art of Magick?" Ah, well then, perhaps you have not understood my remarks at one of our earl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
THE SWORD OF SONG 54 night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrace the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they w ere lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only sou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 87
…d it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who can say: Vi Veri Vniversum Vives Vict. XVII “All things subsist together in the Intelligible World.” ZOROASTER. I must insert a short note on the word Samadhi, source of infinite misunderstanding. Etymologically it is composed of Sam (Greek ow), together with, and Adhi (Heb. Adonai), the Lord, especially the Per- sonal Lord, or Holy Guardian Angel. The Hindus accordingly use it to name that state of mind in which subject and object, becoming One, have disappeared. Just as H combines with Cl, and HCI r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 87
…d it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who can say: Vi Veri Vniversum Vives Vict. XVII “All things subsist together in the Intelligible World.” ZOROASTER. I must insert a short note on the word Samadhi, source of infinite misunderstanding. Etymologically it is composed of Sam (Greek ow), together with, and Adhi (Heb. Adonai), the Lord, especially the Per- sonal Lord, or Holy Guardian Angel. The Hindus accordingly use it to name that state of mind in which subject and object, becoming One, have disappeared. Just as H combines with Cl, and HCI r…
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
…his insane Christianity has produced its own toxin. Our prudery goes hand in hand with the most disgusting system of prostitution in the world, and our Theatres (too pure for that corrupter Sophocles) are disgraced by the most senseless and witless legshows. Our praise of poverty has produced the worst poor-laws in civilization ; our democracy has perfected a snobbery which would make Thackeray stare with surprise. Queen Victoria the Good
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
… are interwoven, Always the One in Three sublimely cloven, Their essence to the Central Spirit hurled And so flung forth, an uncorrupted world, By That which, comprehending in one whole The universal rapture of Its soul, Abides beyond Its own illumination, Withdrawn from Its imperishable station, Upholding all, an arm whose falchion flings With every flash a new-fledged Soul of Things;
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
134 In Colombo this world problem solves itself; for the Indian toils, without ambition or object, from sheer habit; the European bosses things, with selfimportance and brafado; the Australian lumbers in and out, loutishly, hoping not to be seen; and China, silent and absent, conveys majestically patriarchal reproof by simply ignoring the impertinence. Slightly as I had brushed against the yellow silken robes of China in the press of jostling cultures, its virtue had so entered into me that the positive and aggressive aspects of Colombo, tumult…
1910 · PDF PAGE 240
…y, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. EUPHEMIA. I think you're the greatest brute in the world— and I love you. carr. How reciprocal of you! EUPHEMIA. Sweet! carr. On my honour, I haven't a single chocolate on me. Have a cigar? [Business with case. EUPHEMIA. Be serious! You must marry me at once. carr. Then how can I be serious? I understand from a gentleman named Shaw that marriage is only a joke—no, 222
1910 · PDF PAGE 240
…y, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. EUPHEMIA. I think you're the greatest brute in the world— and I love you. carr. How reciprocal of you! EUPHEMIA. Sweet! carr. On my honour, I haven't a single chocolate on me. Have a cigar? [Business with case. EUPHEMIA. Be serious! You must marry me at once. carr. Then how can I be serious? I understand from a gentleman named Shaw that marriage is only a joke—no, 222
1919 · PDF PAGE 53
…er of our godhead: “Every man and every woman is a star.” We are all free, all independent, all shining glori- ously, each one a radiant world. Is not that good tidings? Then comes the first call of the Great Goddess Nuit, Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Hear Her first summons to 47
1919 · PDF PAGE 416
…d to the strings of the soul- echoing Vina; Mankind, unto its sounding-board; the hand that sweeps it to the tuneful breath of the GREAT WORLD- SOUL. The string that fails to answer ’neath the Master's touch in dulcet harmony with all the others, breaks—and is cast away. So the collective minds of Lanoo-Shravakas. 94
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…M A ! FIAOF ! ArAIIH ! ATMFN ! (Thus shall be declared the Words of Power whereby the Energies of the Aeon of Horus work his will in the world.) The Proclamation of the Accomplishment. i. Let the Magician strike the Battery : 3-5-3, crying ABRAHADABRA. The SECOND GESTURE. The Enchantment. 1. Let the Magician, still facing Boleskine, advance to the circumference of his circle. 2. Let in turn himself towards the left, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of his circle, until he complété one révolution thereof. 3. Let h…
1944 · PDF PAGE 69
… child. This symbolizes the law of the new Aeon of the Child Horns, which has supplanted that Aeon of the “Dying God” which governed the world for two thousand years. Before him is the woman girt with a sword; she represents the Scarlet Woman in the hierarchy of the new Aeon. This sym‐ bolism is further carried out in the oriel where, behind the phallic headdress, the rose of five petals is in blossom. The symbolism of the snake and dove refers to this verse of the Book of the Law—chap. I, verse 57: “there are love and love. There is the dove, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
…iris, also, perhaps, of Adonis and Attis, on the one hand, and those of Hermes on the other, at that period when initiation all over the world found it necessary, owing to the growth of the Roman empire, and the opening up of means of communication, to replace conflicting polytheisms by a synthetic faith. (This is absolutely new to me, this conception {720} of Christ as Mercury.) Some difficulty about the ... (This sentence is now quite unintelligible.) To continue the identification, compare Christ's descent into hell with the function of Herm…
1913 · PDF PAGE 16
…ses or Colleges of the Holy Ghost belonging to the Order (an ancient and historic manor-house in one of the most romantic valleys of the world) is attached hereto,* in order that those intending to apply to the Grand Secretary General for admission to the Order may understand that its purely material advantages are sufficient compensation for the fees demanded, and that the Gift of God is indeed without money and without price. 18, In selecting members for advancement, attention is paid to their devotion to the order, to their intelligence * Th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
… the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like Nicholas Flamel. The universal light, when it magnetizes the worlds, is called astral light; when it forms the metals, one calls it azoth, or philosophical mercury ; when it gives life to animals, it should be called animal magnetism. The brute is subject to the fatalities of this light; man is able to direct it. It is the intelligence which, by adapting the sign to the thought, creates forms and images. The universal light is like the divine imagination, and this world…