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Page 74 of 1731944 · PDF PAGE 90
…Serpent stirring in the Darkness of the Abyss below him. Yet the card in itself is essentially a glyph of Water; Mem is one of the three great Mother Letters, and its value is 40, the might of Tetragrammaton fully developed by Malkuth, the symbol of the Universe under the Demiourgos. Moreover, Water is peculiarly the Mother Letter, for both Shin and Aleph (the other two) represent masculine ideas; and, in Nature, Homo Sapiens is a marine mammal, and our intra‐uterine existence is passed in the Amniotic Fluid. The legend of Noah, the Ark and the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…ht akin to thee, a shadow of thee; And every tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rhyme tingles and shakes in me The hlaments of the great web of Love. 19. O Rose all roses far above In the garden of God’s roses, Sorrowless, thornless, passionate Rose, that lies Full in the flood of its own sympathies And makes my life one tune that curls and closes On its own self delight ; A circle, never a line! Safe from. all wind, Secure in its own pleasure-house confined, Mistress of all its moods, Matchless, serene, in sacred amplitudes Of its own ro…
1913 · PDF PAGE 520
…duction of being. One does not violate with impunity the sanctuary of Nature. Without risking his own life, no one lifts the veil of the great Isis. Nature is chaste, and it is to chastity that she gives the key of life. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 520
…duction of being. One does not violate with impunity the sanctuary of Nature. Without risking his own life, no one lifts the veil of the great Isis. Nature is chaste, and it is to chastity that she gives the key of life. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul, is only preserved in the order of Nature. Every voluntary disorder wounds it, prolonged excess murders it. Then, instead of being guided and preserved by reason, one is abandoned to the fatalities of the ebb and flow of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 62
56 ORACLES Though the earth be disparted and rended, Thus only the great peaks change That their image is moulded and blended Into all that a fancy may range ; And the silence my song could refigure To the note of a bird did I will, Of glory or rigour, of passion or vigour— The change were to ill! For silence is better than singing Though a Shelley wove songs in the sky, And hovering is sweeter than winging; To live is less good than to die. The secret of secrets is hidden Not in lives nor in loves, but in wills That are free and unchidden, tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…he Garter , I might never have seen the Star . In it we find the sublime maxim , almost universal , which has been postulated by all the greatest ethical codes of the world . It is the moral prototype , the Favashi of the Zoroastrian , the Tree of Knowledge of Babylonia and Genesis , the Light and Darkness of Isaiah , the Yakheen and Boaz of Solomon , the Unique Athanor of the Qabalist , the Balance of Hegel ; the polarity of the worlds , the great centripetal and centrifugal forces , the harmony of the spheres , the path of the stars , the lif…
1913 · PDF PAGE 415
…as for example, cats, love to roll themselves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges us is like an ocean in which innumerable images are afloat, flotsam of wrecked existences, mirages and reflections …
1913 · PDF PAGE 415
…as for example, cats, love to roll themselves upon coal. One day, medicine will make use of this property, and nervous persons will find great relief from it. CHAPTER II LIFE AND DEATH.—SLEEP AND WAKING SLEEP is an incomplete death; death is a complete sleep. Nature subjects us to sleep in order to accustom us to the idea of death, and warns us by dreams of the persistence of another life. The astral light into which sleep plunges us is like an ocean in which innumerable images are afloat, flotsam of wrecked existences, mirages and reflections …
1919 · PDF PAGE 399
… [FRAGMENT 111] 1. “Upadhaya, the choice is made, I thirst for Wisdom. Now hast thou rent the veil before the secret Path and taught the greater Yana. [Mahayana, the Big Path; a term for the Hinduized Buddhism of Tibet—Ep.] Thy servant here is ready for thy guidance.” This fragment again appears to be intended to follow on immediately after the last, and yet the Chela says to the Guru that the choice is made. Obviously it does not refer to the great choice referred to in Fragment II, verse 88. One is inclined further to suspect that Madame Blav…
1928 · PDF PAGE 115
…n was my custom, so as to drive away, little by little, this tiny corpse which haunted the halls of my brain, and whose phantom with its great fixed eyes wore me out. But the next day I received a packet of letters, some from the tenants in my own house, some from next door; one from the first floor, another from the second, another from the third, and so on; some of them written in a half-jesting style as if seeking to disguise un- der the cloak of frivolity the sincerity of their request; others dully shameless and misspelt, but all of the sa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
…y rank with exhalations fetid. {378} Upon this rottenness the sun shone deadly straight ....As if to cook it to a turn, And gave back to great Nature hundred-fold the debt ....That, joining it together, she did earn. The sky beheld this carcase most superb outspread ....As spreads a flower, itself, whose taint Stank so supremely strong, that on the grass your head ....You thought to lay, in sudden faint. The flies swarmed numberless on this putrescent belly, ....Whence issued a battalion Of larvae, black, that flowed, a sluggish liquid jelly, .…
1910 · PDF PAGE 123
114 AMBERGRIS Is fit for children. We are too well ware How vain is prayer, How nought is great, since all is immanent, The vast content Of all the universe unalterable. We know too well How no one thing abides awhile at all, How things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. So we, Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What ? Must we pray ?…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…ng , Love , through the gate that is horn , Sing ! The anger of Zeus is aroused . Aphrodite bids Charicles flee , but his passion is too great , he defies the powers . ( They are only gods ; would he have succeeded had they been Grundy ?) The curse of Zeus is reversed : His form did change , and , writhing from her clasp , Fled hissing outward , a more hateful asp Than India breeds to - day . till day Dropped her blue pinions , and the night drew on , And sable clouds banked out the weary sun . The whole course of events is now reversed , Char …
1909 · PDF PAGE 139
…ed, a private garden to walk in . . . and so on. But at least it is useful and important to know that things can be done at a pinch in a great city and a small room. The lunch is good ; the kidneys were well cooked; the tarte aux {raises was excellent; the Burgundy came straight from the Vat of Bacchus. The Coffee and Cognac are beyond all praise; the cigar is the best Cabana I ever smoked. Ι37
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
…ous wealth of our material. To enter into a critical examination of all systems would be an unending task; the cloud of witnesses is too great. Now each religion is equally positive; and each demands faith. This we refuse in the absence of positive proof. But we may usefully inquire whether there is not any one thing upon which all religions have agreed: for, if so, it seems possible that it may be worthy of really thorough consideration. It is certainly not to be found in dogma. Even so simple an idea as that of a supreme and eternal being is …
1912 · PDF PAGE 151
THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS [Elevate cup.] In the Name of RAAGIOSEL, great King of the West, Spirits of Water, adore your Creatori In the name of Elohim Tzabaoth, I declare that the Spirits of Water have been duly invoked, The Knock. 1—333—1—333. THE FOURTH KEY OTAHIL elasadi babaje, 00 dorepaha gohol: gi-cahisaje auauago coremepe þeda, dasonuf vi-vau-di-vau? Casaremi oeli(/שמש₪?? sobame agi coremepo carep—el : casaremeji caro— o-dazodi cahisa od vaugeji; dasata ca—pi—mali cahisa ca-pi- ma-on: od elonusahinu cahisa ta el—o [tt/aa. Torezodu no…
1912 · PDF PAGE 151
THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS [Elevate cup.] In the Name of RAAGIOSEL, great King of the West, Spirits of Water, adore your Creatori In the name of Elohim Tzabaoth, I declare that the Spirits of Water have been duly invoked, The Knock. 1—333—1—333. THE FOURTH KEY OTAHIL elasadi babaje, 00 dorepaha gohol: gi-cahisaje auauago coremepe þeda, dasonuf vi-vau-di-vau? Casaremi oeli(/שמש₪?? sobame agi coremepo carep—el : casaremeji caro— o-dazodi cahisa od vaugeji; dasata ca—pi—mali cahisa ca-pi- ma-on: od elonusahinu cahisa ta el—o [tt/aa. Torezodu no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
…of Holy Obedience; for not only does it lead to perfect freedom, but is a training in that surrender which is the last task. It has this great value, that it never gets rusty. If the superior to whom the vow is taken knows his business, he will quickly detect which things are really displeasing to his pupil, and familiarize him with them. Disobedience to the superior is a contest between these two wills in the inferior. The will expressed in his vow, which is the will linked to his highest will by the fact that he has taken it in order to devel…
1922 · PDF PAGE 89
…t routine always arouse subconscious revolt in the spirit of man. It was the progressive prosperity of the Victorian age that caused the Great War. It was the reaction of the schoolboy against the abolition of adventure. This curious condition of mind possessed an eternal quality; the stream of thoughts flowed through my brain like a vast irresistible river. I felt that nothing could ever stop it, or even change the current in any important respect. My consciousness had something of the quality of a fixed star proceeding through space by right …
1928 · PDF PAGE 84
…o so far to look for what is so near me. Pleasure and happiness live in the first inn one comes to; in the chance inn; is not chance the great mother of pleasures? A big fire, gaudy porcelain, a passable supper, rough