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Page 73 of 1041913 · PDF PAGE 439
…do miracles, sir? “ But the greatest | “The most astonishing ! “The most incontestable! “The truest miracles that have ever been done on earth since the time of Jesus Christ! ... What! Thousands of hosts appear on altars where there were none; wine appears in empty chalices, and it is not an illusion, it is wine, a delicious wine. . . . celestial music is heard, perfumes of the world beyond fill the room, and then blood. . . . real human blood (doctors have examined it !), real blood, I tell you, sweats and sometimes flows from the hosts, impri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 327
…hrobs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. For prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of God upon earth. Love one another—that is the Law and the Prophets! Meditate, and understand this word. And when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! That is the whole doctrine of true religion; religion means charity, and God Himself is only love. I have already said to you, to love is to give. The impious man is he who absorbs others. The pious…
1913 · PDF PAGE 384
…y; those men who wish to realize salvation by faith alone, because charity escapes them, and who can no longer realize it, even upon the earth, for their. pretended sacraments are no longer anything but allegorical mummeries; they no longer give grace; they no longer make God seen and touched; they are no longer, in a word, the signs of the almighty power of faith, but the compelled witnesses of the eternal impotence of doubt. It is, then, against faith itself that the Reformation pro- tested! Protestants were right only in their protest agains…
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
…do miracles, sir? “ But the greatest | “The most astonishing ! “The most incontestable! “The truest miracles that have ever been done on earth since the time of Jesus Christ! ... What! Thousands of hosts appear on altars where there were none; wine appears in empty chalices, and it is not an illusion, it is wine, a delicious wine. . . . celestial music is heard, perfumes of the world beyond fill the room, and then blood. . . . real human blood (doctors have examined it !), real blood, I tell you, sweats and sometimes flows from the hosts, impri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…ace the Mark of the Beast, and cry AIWAZ! 20. Let him trace the invoking Hexagram of The Beast. 21. Let him lower the wand, striking the Earth therewith. 22. Let him give the sign of Mater Triumphans (The feet are together; the left arm is curved as if it supported a childj the thumb and index finger of the right hand pinch the nipple of the left breast, as if ofîering it to that child). Let him utter the word 0EAHMA ! 23. Perform the spiral dance, moving deosil and whirling widdershins. Each time on passing the West extend the wand to the Quar…
1961 · PDF PAGE 181
…seeketh the Level, whether for Wrath, eating away the Mountains (yet even in this making smooth the Plains) or for Love, in Fecundity of Earth. But it is the Fire of Man that hath heaved up those Mountains, in huge Turmoil. Man them maketh Mischief and Trouble by his Violence, be his Will convenient to His Environment, or antipathetic; but Woman disturbeth by Manipulation, adroit or sinister as her Mood may be of Order or of Disorder. For any Man to meddle in her Affair is Folly, for he comprehendeth not Quiet; so also for her to emulate him in…
1909 · PDF PAGE 323
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “After this I returned to the central altar, where every- thing fell from me, and then I returned to earth, assuming my sword and red robe to dominate the astrals. Thus did I return,” No. 18. To see Sappho. “With bewildering speed I was carried upwards, and in the midst of my flight an angel approached me apparently to aid me, yet I tarried not, but still ascended. On, on I flew, until at length I became surprised at the great distance of my journey. “ Eventually I arrived in a strange land, and after some perplex…
1909 · PDF PAGE 323
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “After this I returned to the central altar, where every- thing fell from me, and then I returned to earth, assuming my sword and red robe to dominate the astrals. Thus did I return,” No. 18. To see Sappho. “With bewildering speed I was carried upwards, and in the midst of my flight an angel approached me apparently to aid me, yet I tarried not, but still ascended. On, on I flew, until at length I became surprised at the great distance of my journey. “ Eventually I arrived in a strange land, and after some perplex…
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…or. Behold the mighty one, behold Kamael the strong! His crownless head was like a whirling wheel of amethyst, and all the forces of the earth and heaven revolved therein. His body was the mighty Sea itself, and it bore the scars of crucifixion that had made it two score times stronger than it was before. He too bore the wings and weapons of Space and of Justice ; and in himself he was that great Amen that is the beginning and the end of all. Behind him were the Seraphim, the fiery Serpents. On their heads the triple tongue of fire; their glory…
1910 · PDF PAGE 340
…rk, where one felt their outstretching hands in pale and piteous appeal, as one may hear the early lilies break through the encompassing earth. In me were the seed of kisses that could only burst to flower in a hundred years to come. 322
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…or. Behold the mighty one, behold Kamael the strong! His crownless head was like a whirling wheel of amethyst, and all the forces of the earth and heaven revolved therein. His body was the mighty Sea itself, and it bore the scars of crucifixion that had made it two score times stronger than it was before. He too bore the wings and weapons of Space and of Justice ; and in himself he was that great Amen that is the beginning and the end of all. Behind him were the Seraphim, the fiery Serpents. On their heads the triple tongue of fire; their glory…
1910 · PDF PAGE 340
…rk, where one felt their outstretching hands in pale and piteous appeal, as one may hear the early lilies break through the encompassing earth. In me were the seed of kisses that could only burst to flower in a hundred years to come. 322
1912 · PDF PAGE 125
…f her person and attire, exaggerated even for the Cafe d‘Harcourt, the fortress whence her sallies, was in Fontainebleau a thing to make earth‘s guardian angels throw up the sponge. This was a summer’s afternoon; and the strange pair, encountering Placide Gervez as he chopped, accosted him. The philosopher, whose irrelevant name was Theophraste Goulet, drew out a cigarette and offered it to his intended victim. It is impossible in a polite nation to leave a man until you have finished the cigarette he gives you—a man, if he was a man, once gave …
1912 · PDF PAGE 125
…f her person and attire, exaggerated even for the Cafe d‘Harcourt, the fortress whence her sallies, was in Fontainebleau a thing to make earth‘s guardian angels throw up the sponge. This was a summer’s afternoon; and the strange pair, encountering Placide Gervez as he chopped, accosted him. The philosopher, whose irrelevant name was Theophraste Goulet, drew out a cigarette and offered it to his intended victim. It is impossible in a polite nation to leave a man until you have finished the cigarette he gives you—a man, if he was a man, once gave …
1944 · PDF PAGE 250
…’S PALACE HIS DAUGHTER AWAITS THEE. In spiritual matters, the Fool means idea, thought, spirituality, that which endeavours to transcend earth. In material matters, it may, if badly dignified, mean folly, eccentricity, or even mania. But the essential of this card is that it represents an original, subtle, sudden impulse or impact, coming from a completely strange quarter. All such impulses are right, if rightly received; and the good or ill interpretation of the card depends entirely on the right attitude of the Querent. I The True Self is the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…t quo-o-al 3a Das larasada tofijilo; peripesol, caclazo0, caosago, who is the Creator and doth dispose of all things, heaven, firmament, earth, oD faorejita oresa. and the dwelling of darkness. YE GENERALL CURSE. YCLEPT YE SPIRITS’ CHAYNE, AGAYNSTE ALL SPIRITS YT REBELLE. §lasa babalonu gabe MQ. das ge-Dorebesa, bajilenu oborela, od vinu O thou wicked spirit N. that obeyeth not, because I made a law and invoked omaosa busada oD adapebabeta Aada CGooanu go-a-al tofijilo, od ilas the names of the glorious and ineffable God of Truth, the creator o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…ghty breast of foam Thalassian, Bear on my bosom, jutting plenilune, Maiden, the fadeless Rose of the Creation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as the river-cleaving Lotus—barne lord of Silence: I create Or discreate, both in my bosom heaving : My lightest look is mother ofa Fate: My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine older mind, I am: I am not, but all…
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…ghty breast of foam Thalassian, Bear on my bosom, jutting plenilune, Maiden, the fadeless Rose of the Creation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as the river-cleaving Lotus—barne lord of Silence: I create Or discreate, both in my bosom heaving : My lightest look is mother ofa Fate: My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine older mind, I am: I am not, but all…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…ts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in love, in a maternal Providence which counts all our steps, and will reward all our tears, is to be a perfect dupe, the corrupt world will say; it does not see that it is itself who is the dupe, believing itself strong in depriving itself of all the delights of the soul. To believe in moral good is to possess that good: for this reason the Saviour of the world promises the kingdom of he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…ts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in love, in a maternal Providence which counts all our steps, and will reward all our tears, is to be a perfect dupe, the corrupt world will say; it does not see that it is itself who is the dupe, believing itself strong in depriving itself of all the delights of the soul. To believe in moral good is to possess that good: for this reason the Saviour of the world promises the kingdom of he…