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Page 71 of 871996 · PDF PAGE 201
… say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis lazuli & jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…ist on the river ! Stronger the shoulder Impels the sad boat. Sadder and weaker Shudder and quiver The notes of the lyre. Quenched is my fire In the fog of the air. Dim my desire Cuts through the snare. The cold confounds me ; The mist surrounds me; Life trembles and lowers ; Earth fades from miy life. The love of my wife, The light of the flowers, Earth’s beautiful bowers. Pass, and are not. I am awed by the soul of the place, the hope- less, the desolate spot. Here is the wharf Wearily standing, Misshapen and dwarf, Well fit for such landing …
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…s the Magick or the transmutations. ShT is the formula of this particular aeon; another aeon might hâve another way of saying 31. S h is Fire as T is Force; conjoined they express Ra-Hoor-Khuit. “The Angel” represents the Stélé 666, showing the Gods of the Aeon, while “Strength” is a picture of Babalon and The Beast, the earthly emissaries of those Gods. ShT is the dynamic équivalent of LA and AL. S h shows the Word of the Law, being triple, as 93 is thrice 31. T shows the formula of Magick declared in that Word; the Lion, the Serpent, the Sun,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…ain." One incident I remember very vividly indeed; an old friend and I were sitting opposite each other in armchairs in front of a large fire, smoking our pipes. Suddenly he lost sight of me, and actually cried out in alarm. I said: "What's wrong?" That broke the spell; there I was, all present and correct.
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
…to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words a miracle, to prevent them ?”—Hume, iv., p. 133. “It is a miracle that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country.”—Hume, iv., p. 134. + If a piece of lead were to remain susp…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
…to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words a miracle, to prevent them ?”—Hume, iv., p. 133. “It is a miracle that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country.”—Hume, iv., p. 134. + If a piece of lead were to remain susp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…hat you died by a poison administered in a wine of that character, your aversion is explained by the proverb, aA burnt. child dreads the fire.” It may be objected that in such a case your libido has created a phantasm of itself in the manner which Freud has explained. The criticism is just, but its value is reduced if it should happen that you were not aware of its existence until your Magical Memory attracted your attention to it. In fact, the essence of the test consists in this: that your memory notifies you of something which is the logical…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
32 The Law is for All side by the letter of Air, and followed by the letter of Fire twice over. 8. The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs. Commentary: We are not to regard ourselves as base beings, without whose sphere is Light or “God.” Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a “Dark Star,” and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by “puri fying” them. This “purification” is really “simplification”; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaqu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…throne, and up- flying | Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake ! Then crown me and cling ! Flash forward—and spring ! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ; Till the Three Worlds! flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead ! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy ! JASON. It is enough ! HERACLES, Too great for a god’s strength ! THESEUS. Speak ! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death ! ORPHEUS. Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEU…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
…aract Of amber-scented hair hissing about His head, and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him, and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses. And those arms And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being, and his life was lost In woman’s love at last ! CHORUS. Unseemly act ! Who dared thus break on meditation? MEDEA. CHORUS. Surely thy passion mastered thee, O queen !
1996 · PDF PAGE 181
…, so that Theosophy with its Black Brothers, Mrs. Eddy with her Mental Arsenic Experts,1 and the Evangelical Revivalists with their Hell Fire, made people’s flesh creep once more, and got both credit and cash. 1 [Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) founded Christian Science and was the author of Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures (1895).] The Book of the Law flings forth no theological fulminations; but we have quarrels enough on our hands. We have to fight for Freedom against oppressors, religious, social, or industrial; and we are utterl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
…. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched 8c the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 100
…t fulfilling its function, doing its Will, with ease and joy. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. Commentary: As soon as one realizes one’s self as Hadit, one obtains all His qualities. It is all a question of doing one’s Will. A flaming harlot, with red cap and sparkling eyes, her foot on the neck of a dead king, is just as much a star as her predecessor, 11:9
1907 · PDF PAGE 142
… Deep blues, and pale greens unbegotten, I turn to your lyrical praise. I tune the loud lyre To the haunts of the vale As a sea-piercing fire On the wings of the gale. I lift my desire, I madden, I wail! Come forth! I invoke ye, O powers, in the waters that purple and pale. Come forth in your pleasure, O fountains and springs ! Come dance me a measure Unholpen of wings ! Show, show the deep treasure, Unspeakable things ! Come forth! I invoke ye, O fountains, I - sweep the invincible strings. THE FOUNTAINS, In the heather deeply hidden, From the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 92
…der joys, With songs unwritten, With music many-mouthed, with robes in snowy cquipoise. Jephthah ! Semicnorus II. With hearts infused of fire, Eyes clear with many waters, With lips to air that quire, We, earth’s desirous daughters, Lift up the song of triumph, sound the lutes of our desire ! Jahveh ! SeMicnuorus I. With branches strewn before us, And roses flung In all the ways, we chorus With throat and tongue The glory of our warrior sires whose victor swords restore us Jephthah ! SEMICHORUS IT. With angels vast and calm That keep his way, W…
1909 · PDF PAGE 281
… & inferior and passive elements, as the Sun Fegre | Bessey and the Air above them are the superior Reaves =r faa and active elements of Fire and Air.” — V Furthermore, these two children resemble be osatt, svar af weak the sign Gemini (which the Greeks and Romans referred to Castor and Pollux), eon arot8 which unites the Earthy sign of Taurus n fone and the Watery sign of Cancer. The Hiereus then shows the Theoricus Diacram 30. the tablet of“ The astrological symbols of The Arrangement of the Temple for the oth Path ne ‘ . in the 3° = 8° Ritua…
1909 · PDF PAGE 281
… & inferior and passive elements, as the Sun Fegre | Bessey and the Air above them are the superior Reaves =r faa and active elements of Fire and Air.” — V Furthermore, these two children resemble be osatt, svar af weak the sign Gemini (which the Greeks and Romans referred to Castor and Pollux), eon arot8 which unites the Earthy sign of Taurus n fone and the Watery sign of Cancer. The Hiereus then shows the Theoricus Diacram 30. the tablet of“ The astrological symbols of The Arrangement of the Temple for the oth Path ne ‘ . in the 3° = 8° Ritua…
1906 · PDF PAGE 75
…nse of Nature’s dream And scent of Heaven Shown in the glint and gleam Of the pure dawn’s first beam, With earth for leaven ; Moulded of fire and gold, Water and wine to fold Me in its life, and hold !— In all but seven! I would not kiss thee, I! Lest my lip’s charactery Ruin thy flower. Curve thou one maidenly Kiss, stooping from thy sky Of peace and power ! Thine only be the embrace !— I move not from my place, Feel the exultant face — Mine for an hour ! THE THIRTEENTH DAY. ‘‘If it be a sin to make a true election, she is damned.” Cymbeline. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…alleys profound As a man’s desire, Ye woodlands bound In the hills that are higher Than even the note of a bird as it wings to the solar fire ! Ye fruits and corn, Gold, rose, and green, Vines purple-born, Pearl-hidden sheen, Trees waving in scorn Of the grass between ! Come forth in your chorus, and chant the praise of your mother and queen! Ye trees many-fronded That shake to the wind, Green leaves that have sounded My harp in your kind, Light boughs that are rounded, Grey tops that are shrined In the tears of the heaven as they fall in the b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
8 the pure idea of austerity and melancholy which we call Saturn, or with the idea of force and fire which we call Mars, or with the idea of nature and love which we call Venus, and so for the others, if he becomes identified with this idea the union is one of ecstatic bliss, and its only imperfection is due to the fact that the idea in question, whatever it may be, is only partial. Ecstasy is therefore progressive. Gradually the adept unites himself with holier and higher ideas until he becomes one with the Universe itself, and even with That …