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…nd pale, Her looks surpassing loveliness Lulled its own light to fond distress, As if the soul were hardly yet Fit to remember or forget New-born ! and though the goddess bade The nymph-bud blossom to a maid, And soulless immortality Reach to a soul, at last to die, For love’s own sake, bliss dearly bought For change’s altering coin ill-wrought, It seemed as though the soul were strange, Not fledged, not capable to range At random through the world of sense Opened so swift and so intense Unto the being. Thus she stood Impatient on the patient f…
1939 · PDF PAGE 32
…ook on Magick with regard to the formula IAO. This formula covers all learning. You begin with a delightful feeling as of a child with a new toy; you get bored, and you attempt to smash it. But if you are a wise child, you have had a scientific attitude towards it, and you do not smash it. You pass through the stage of boredom, and arise from the inferno of
1905 · PDF PAGE 217
… broken self, that hears the triumph- shout Of its own voice beneath the falling knife, When, like a bad dream changing, swiftly grows A new soul's joy, a fuller-petalled rose. Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan Old Gods that die to constitute a Fate: Flow many Fates then, think you, must control The stainless aspiration of the soul? 1 See the ‘48 Calls or Keys” of Dr. Dee, from which this is quoted.
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
… To‐ rah, the Law; also of ThROA, the Gate. Now, by the Yetziratic attributions—see table at end— this word may be read The Universe—the new‐born Sun—Zero. This is the true Magical Doc‐ trine of Thelema: Zero equals Two. Also, by Gematria, the numerical value of ThROA is 671 =61 x 11. Now 61 is AIN, Nothing or Zero; and 11is the number of Magical Expansion; in this
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
…u its inmost secrets, and become a living part of your life. There are no longer these crude, savage reactions of pleasure and pain. The new knowledge is assimilated. 13. So it is with Asana. The chosen posture attracts you; you purr with self-satisfaction. How clever you have been! How nicely the posture suits all conditions! You absolutely melt with maudlin good feeling. I have known pupils who have actually been betrayed into sparing a kindly thought for the Teacher! It is quite clear that there is something wrong about this. Fortunately, Ti…
1906 · PDF PAGE 255
…ot settled in our minds we cannot work. And this is unquestionable. Suppose a chemist to set to work to determine the boiling-point of a new organic substance. Does he stop in the midst, struck by the fear that his thermometer is inaccurate? No! he has, unless he is a fool, tested it previously. We must have our principia tixed before we can do research work. (3) A scientist hardly requires conviction on this point ! (4) Do you think to combine Newton and Caligula? The passions, allowed to dominate, interfere with the concentration of the mind.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…he throne ! Vanished the written horror of the curse ; Vanished the stars, the sun, the Universe. I was in Heaven, lost, alone. Alone! A new curse gathered as a sombre breath: ‘“Power without Wisdom is the Name of Death !” And therefore from my devastating hand (For I was then unwilling to be dead) I loosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I break the royal wand. Mortal, a plaything for a thousand fears, I found the earth; I found a lonely place To gaze for ever on the ocean’s face, Lamenting through the lamentable years ; W…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…versation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and this ambition in turn arouses automatically further difficulties the conquest of which confers new powers. In the Book of the Thirty Aethyrs, commonly called The Vision and the Voice, it becomes progressively difficult to penetrate each
1939 · PDF PAGE 67
…absurd to contend that this form of ritual forced upon me, first by external and next by internal circumstances, was anything else but a new form of Asana, Pranayama, Mantra-Yoga, and Pratyahara in something very near perfection; and it is therefore not surprising that the Magical exaltation resulting from such ceremonies was in all essential respects the equivalent of Samyama. On the other hand, the Yoga training was an admirable aid to that final concentration of the Will which operates the magical ecstasy. 11. This then is reality: direct ex…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…ome, let me hold my crystal cross up to the moon! A guess of gold were at a loss to tell its tune. 7. After the first and fifth feet: No news! No word of Mortadello's fate! No hope To bruise the head of the old snake, the State. No scope. 8. After the first half foot and the second foot: Come, save me, save Thy Maiden! Strike each barbed dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart. 9. After the fifth foot: Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud and fraud. 10. After the second and fourth …
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…s to unite (with similar disengagement of light and heat) with Potassium, while the resulting 'caustic Potash' has in its turn a totally new series of qualities, with still another 'true Will' of its own; that is, to unite explosively with acids. And so on. (11) It may seem to some of you that these explanations have rather knocked the bottom out of Yoga; that I have reduced it to the category of common things. That was my object. There is no sense in being frightened of Yoga, awed by Yoga, muddled and mystified by Yoga, or
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…he profound Chasms of matter—so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space, 1 Revelations xii. I, Limitless fields of Time. I knew in me That I must fall into the ground and die ; Dwell in the deep a-many years, at last To rise again—Osiris, slain and risen ! Light of the Cross, I see Thee in the sky, My future! I must perish from the earth, Abide in desolate halls, until the hour When a new Christ must needs be crucified.— So weep I ever with Our Lady’s tears, Weep for the pain, the travail, the old curse ; Weep, weep, and die. Grail…
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…od | In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dropped above From her sweet breast in vaporous light Into the willowy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange chant—the woods began to sing ; The river took the tune; the willows kept Time; and the black skies wept Those tears, those blossoms, those pear] drops of milk That the moon shed: and looking up he saw As if the willows were but robes of silk, The moon’s face stoop and draw Clos…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
…solate shore.! So to the mine of that crystalline ore Golden, the electric spark of man is drawn Deep in the bosom of the world, to soar New-fledged, an eagle to the dazzling dawn With lidless eyes undazzled, to arise, Son of the morning, to the Southern skies ; And fling its wild chant higher at the fall Of even, and of bright Hyperion ; To mix its fire with dew, to call The spirit of the limitless air, made one In the amazing essence of all light Limitless, emanation of the migh’ Of the great Light above all gods, the fire Of our supreme desi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…re not here; for we, bccause we love, Are not of earth, but, as the immortals, stand With eyes immutable; our souls are fed On a strange new nepenthe from the cup Of the vast firmament. Nor do we dream, Nor think we aught of the transient world, But are absorbed in our own deity : And our clear eyes reflect—(who dares to gaze Shall see and die !)—the changeless empyréan Eternity, the concentrated void Of space, for being the centre of all things, Time is to us the Now, and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates, is a part Of our own thoug…
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…. But Fish is also the Vesica, or Womb, and Christ—and so on. This symbol resumes the whole Secret Doctrine. beginning to take shape the new forms which he creates in his dance; and these forms dance also. In this card the symbol of the fish is paramount; the fish (Il pesce, as they call him in Naples and many other places) and the serpent are the two principal objects of worship in cults which taught the doctrines of resurrection or re‐incarnation. Thus we have Oannes and Dagon, fish gods, in western Asia; in many other parts of the world are …
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
…d, The child of freedom! So the moulder, man, Shakes his grim shoulders, and the shadows wan Fall to forgetfulness ; so life revives And'new sweet loves beget diviner lives, And (Freedom stands, re-risen from the rod, A goodlier godhead than the broken God ; Uniting ‘all the universe in this Music more musical than breezes’ kiss, A song more potent than the sullen sea, The triumph of the freedom of the free ; One stronger song than thrilled the rapturous birth Of stars and planets and the mother, earth ; As lovers, calling lovers when they die,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
… Schwob and made considerable stir in Paris. Even at this length of time, I attach a certain importance to it. For one thing, it marks a new stage in my own art. BALZAC Giant, with iron secrecies ennighted, Cloaked, Balzac stands and sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, shake or still the ignited Stature of the Master, vivid. Far, affrighted, The stunned air shudders on the skin. In vain The Master of La Comédie Humaine Shadows the deep-set eyes, genius-lighted. Epithalamia, birth songs, epitaphs, Are w…
1939 · PDF PAGE 22
… merely measurable in terms of quantity and efficiency. As we rise from the coarse to the fine, from the gross to the subtle, we enter a new (and what appears on first sight to be an immeasurable) region. It is quite impossible to explain what I mean by this; if I could, you would know it already. How can one explain to a person who has never skated the nature of the pleasure of executing a difficult figure on the ice? He has in himself the whole apparatus ready for use; but experience, and experience only, can make him aware of the results of …
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…nce has to do in every experiment. This is what constitutes an experiment. The other kind of man has only bad habits. When you explore a new country, you don't know what the conditions are going to be; and you have to master those conditions by the method of trial and error. We start to penetrate the stratosphere; and we have to modify our machines in all sorts of ways which were not altogether foreseen. I wish to thunder forth once more that no questions of right or wrong enter into our problems. But in the stratosphere it is 'right' for a man…