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… for her to do — the regeneration of humanity and so forth, I think it was; anyhow, something perfectly dotty. She was now quite without power to criticize her actions by reason or good sense; the voice of the 'Spirits' was for her the voice of God. So they sent her to the Bank for money, and to the Steamship office for a passage to Europe; and when she got to Liverpool they sent her to London, from London to Paris, from Paris to Genoa. And when she came to Genoa they told her which hotel to choose; and then they sent her out to buy a revolver …
1905 · PDF PAGE 40
…I will devote to prayer. Afess. At dawn, my lord. [Avee Messenger. Lh. [Turns to window.) O Maker and O Ruler of all worlds, Illimitable power, immortal God, Vague, vast, unknown, dim-looking, scarcely spied Through doubtful crannies of the Universe, Unseen, intangible, eluding sense And poor conception, halting for a phrase Of weak mind-language, O Eternity, Hear thou the feeble word, desire, The dubious crying of the pinioned dove, The wordless eloquent emotion That speaks within a man, despite his mind ! Ifear, who can pray for naught, unkno…
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
… flower Will bloom sweet scented, delicate and ex- cellent to think upon; So ’mid the slothful worthless ones, the Walkers in Delusion’s power, In glory of Wisdom, light of Buddh forth hath the True Disciple shone. Desunt cetera ST. PATRICK’S DAY, 1902. Written at Dethi. O coop St. Patrick, turn again Thy mild eyes to the Western main ! Shalt thou be silent? thou forget? Are there no snakes in Ireland yet? Death to the Saxon! Slay nor spare! O God ofJustice, hear us swear! 1 ‘The reader will kindly note such important changes of metre as occur …
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
AIWAZ, the name of the Intelligence in question, proves: (a) His power to pre-arrange events unconnected with His scribe so that they should fit in with that scribe’s private calculations. E. g. The Stélé which reveals the Theogony of the Book was cfficially numbered 666, in the Boulak Muséum. The scribe had adopted 666 as His magical number, many years previously. Again, the scribe’s magical House, bought years earlier, had a name whose value was 418. The scribe had calculated 418 as the clusion of an article callecl “The Revival of Magick” by…
1906 · PDF PAGE 57
…nsense lore! Ho there! Travellers! Mine host! Open the door !” Desunt cetera. In the second part—a joyous inn fireside —the Earl refuses power, knowledge, and love (offered him by a guest) by the symbolic drink of ale and the cherry cheeks of the maid. In part three she, coming secretly to him, warns him he must destroy the three vices, faith, hope, and charity. This he does easily, save the love of the figure of the Crucified; but at last conquering this, he attains. [These were never written.] 1 The mystic mountain of the Rosicrucians,
1906 · PDF PAGE 96
…— Bending ashaméd brows upon the earth ! I am well weary of the world of men. I grow both old and hateful to myself, Most on the throne: power which to youth is sweet To age looks fearful. Also I have wept— Alas ! how often !—and repented me. Of those unkingly deeds whereby I gained This throne whose joy is turned to bitterness. I will make peace with thee, and justice still Shall have a home and shrine in Thessaly. Be patient notwithstanding! Prove thyself Valiant and wise—and reign here! If in sooth . An aged counsellor, whose reverend hair C…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…oney," he said. "That man Iff is in the second grade, perhaps even the first, of their dirty Order; and we sometimes think he's the most powerful of the whole damned crew. That fool Grey's a child to him. I know now how the Watcher was destroyed. Oh! S.R.M.D. will pay somebody for this! But listen, man — you bring that old beast's head on a charger — or Grey's, either! — and you can have any grade you dare ask for! And that's no lie, curse it! Why," he went on with increasing vehemence, "the whole thing's a plant of ours. Monet-Knott's one of u…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
VENUS 29 I who have been all Beauty and all Power !— This is thine hour, Apollyon, thine Hour ! I, who have twice beheld the awful throne ; And, as it were the vision of a glass, Beheld the Mist be born thereon, and pass ; I, who have stood upon the four-square stone ! I, who have twice been One——! Woe, woe is me! Lost, lost, upon the lifeless, deathless plane, The desert desolate, the air inane; Fallen, O fallen to eternity ! I, who have looked upon the Lord of Light ; I, Iam Nothing, and dissolved in Night ! (THE SPIRIT OF GOD, DESCENDING, AS…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
…eks the lamen. Once again Fearless I front the awful shape before me, earless I speak his Name. My trembling brain Vibrates that Word of Power. I cry amain: ‘‘Down, Dweller of the Darkness, and adore me! fam thy Master, and thy God! Behold The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold !3 “Jam thy Saviour!” At the kindling word Up springs the dawn-light in the broken bowls ; Up leaps the glittering circle. Then I heard A hoarse shrill voice, as if some carrion bird Shrieked, mightier than the storm that rocks and rolls Through desolation: my Name. What…
1907 · PDF PAGE 216
…as, Wisdom The One became divided. Praise ye Him, Chronos, from whom, the third, is form per- ceived. Praise ye Poseidon, his productive power, And Juno, secret nature of all things, On which all things are builded: praise ye Love, by whose 1 The following is paraphrased from one of the writings (falsely) attributed to Orpheus.
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
…-clothed memory, some secret redolence of gloom, Some darkling murmurous song of lust quite strange to man and beast and bird, Silent in power, not overheard by any snake that eats the dust. No crimson-hooded viper knows ; no silver- crested asp has guessed The strange soft secrets of my breast ; no leprous cobra shall disclose The many-seated, multiform, divine, essential joys that these Dank odours bring, that starry seas wash white in vain ; intense and warm The scents fulfil; they permeate all lips, all arteries, and fire New murmured music…
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
…i. 31 What change of language! lil, 18 What is my soul? The shadow of my will, 1. 194 What makes God then of all the curses, ii. 17 What power or fascination lie, i. 180 What sadness closes in between, ili. 2 What words are these that shudder through my sleep, i, 103 When a battle is all but lost and won, ii. 270 When, at the awful Judgment-day, God stands, ili, 115 Whence the black lands shudder, ii. 55 When God bethought Him, i. 10 When God uplifted hands to smite, i, 82 When I go to take Pansil, ii. 194 When illegitimate criticism is met wit…
1905 · PDF PAGE 194
… keep thee—Gereth, kneel ! ‘¢T dub thee Earl; arise!” rings The queen’s voice: match the king’s? Here, from my finger drawn, this gem of power Shall guard thee in some unimagined hour. And then there “Shall my love not It hath strange virtue over mortal things. I freely give it for thy stirrup’s dower.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…ial dowers shall be birds in our bowers, Our couches the delicate heaps of the wind, Where the lily-bloom showers all its light, and the powers Of earth in our twinning are wedded and twinned. So singing I make reverence and retire; Not with high words of worship fairly flung To that sad monarch from the magic lyre, And half the triumphs in my heart unsung, Surpassing, as such triumphs must, all praise Of golden strings and human- fashioned tongue. But now I follow the uprising ways By secret paths indubitably drawn Straight from the centre of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 177
…ughts”: “Idle thoughts of an idle fel- low.” It’s a soul-destroying, mind-fuddling practice. If indulged in, it will absolutely ruin all power of concentration. Now here is your Examination for the Grade of Zelator.? (a) Go through a door on which is engraved this figure X and explain the figure in detail by means of your visions. (b) Invoke Mercury and Hod, and travel till you meet 4 zl the Unicorn mentioned in Liber LXV Cap. III verse 2. Re- port its conversation fully. (c) Discover by visions the nature of the Alchemical principles, Sulphur,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…an and beast The worship of each God demands. All priests are greedy—gold and feast Pour from the poor folk to their hands. The doubtful power from heaven to strike The levin bolt they claim alike. I take no heed of trickery played By cunning mad Elijah’s skill, When the great test of strength was made On Carmel’s melancholy hill, And on the altar-stone the liar Cried ‘‘ Water,” and poured forth Greek fire ! Then while the fools peer heavenward, Even as he prays, to see the skies Vomit the flash, his furtive sword Fast to the flinty altar flies…
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
…our Father : Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ! (For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) Then said the sixth virgin openly: Gripbus VI. Power lieth in the river of fire. And our Father laughed aloud and answered: I am come from the waterfall. So at that the seventh virgin came forth: and her countenance was Griphus VII. troubled. The seventh riddle: The oldest said to the most beautiful: What doest thou here? 1 This is obscure. 2o+it2+ ... +21=231. 3 ‘The Seplinoth. + The maiden (Malkuth) is blind (unredeemed). Answer: She shall be what she do…
1929 · PDF PAGE 431
…ch it is child's play to turn every incident to advantage. The client will come away from the consultation convinced of the supernatural powers of the charlatan. From the beginning of my investigation of so-called psychical research, I felt sure from mere consideration of the conditions of the problem that the adhesion of so many prominent men of science to spiritism must be explained by psychological facts. This saved me a great deal of time. The first key that I tried fitted the lock. I noted immediately that the scientific men concerned were…
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
…in Invades my being everywhere. Sprung from a seed too small to see, A monster spawns and strangles me. Like Cain, Tis scarce a week! In power and pride I rode in state about the city ; Took pleasure in the eager ride, Saw grief, took pleasure in my pity ; Saw joy, took pleasure in the seeing, And the full rapture of well-being. Would God that I had stayed, and smote My favourite captain through the heart, Caught my young daughter by the throat, And torn her life and limbs apart, Stabbed my queen dead : remorse for these Might ape, not match, t…
1935 · PDF PAGE 15
…must interpret its nature by means of a vision as exactly as if he had read its name and description in the book when it was chosen. The power to make and “charge” talismans is tested as if they were scientific instruments of precision, as they are. inferior to the average mediocrity in mathematics, that despite repeated efforts he could not pass the “little go” at Cambridge — which the dullest minds can usually do. He was so deeply esteemed for his classics that a special “Grace” was placeted so as to admit him to matriculation. Similarly a br…