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Page 75 of 901996 · PDF PAGE 65
66 The Law is for All like Narcissus, offer oneself loveless to every love like Catherine, or find the body so vain as to enclose one’s lust in the soul and make one lifelong spinthria1 unassuaged in the imagination like Aubrey Beardsley, the means matter no whit. Bach takes one way, Keats one, Goya one. The end is everything: that by the act, what ever it is, one worships, loves, possesses, and becomes Nuit. 1 [“Seeing stars,” or spintherism, from omi^rip, “sparks.”] 2 [Shakespeare, Macbeth i, 7.] The act of love can no more “trammel up the c…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…lips from thy sleek shoulders, slips from thy lissome ioins; drunk on delight of the godly grape, thou knowest no more the burden o£ the body and the vexation of the spirit. Corne, Bacchus, corne thou hither, corne out of the East; corne out of the East, astride the Ass of Priapus! Corne with thy revel of dancers and singers! Who followeth thee, forbearing to laugh and to leap? Corne, in thy name Dionysus, that maidens be mated to God-head! Corne, in thy name Iacchus, with thy mystical fan to winnow the air, each gust of thy Spirit inspiring ou…
1919 · PDF PAGE 153
…ego” which shall eventually destroy it. Is it not written in Liber LXV “As an acid eats into steel, and as a cancer utterly corrupts the body, so am I unto the spirit of Man. I shall not rest until I have destroyed it utterly”? Sunday April 2nd (Fra V.1.0.’s 25th Birthday) During practice I had a dis- tinct consciousness of the ‘centre of consciousness’ being not ‘within’ as usual, but above head. April 3rd. I alternate between a state of ‘enjoying any task or position because it is the first that comes to hand and therefore the simplest and be…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
…s that the soûl cannot fathom it. It is less like pain than like death. But it is the necessary death that cornes before the rising of a body glorified. This State must be endured with fortitude; and no means of alleviating it may be employed. It may be broken up by the breaking up of the whole Method, and a return to the world without. This cowardice not only destroys the value of ail that has gone before, but destroys the value of the Oath of Fealty that thou hast sworn, and makes thy Will a mockery to men and gods. 28. Concerning the Fecefti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…d we then put into it those objects, and only those Law.” “What is thy Will? ” “It is my will to eat and drink ” “To what end?” “That my body may be fortified thereby.” “To what end?” “That I may accomplish the Great Work.” “Love is the law, love under will.” “Fall to!” This may be adapted as a monologue. One may also add the inquiry “What is the Great Work?” and answer appropriately, when it seems useful to specify the nature of the Operation in progress at the time. The point is to seize every occasion of bringing every available force to bea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
… sense the universe considered as a single phenomenon in time and space, and in another sense is the négation of that consciousness. The body and mind of the man are only important (if at ail) as the telescope of the astronomer to him. If the telescope were destroyed it would make no appréciable différence to the Universe which that telescope reveals. It will now be understood that this formula of I A O is a formula of Tiphareth. The magician who employa it is conscious of himself as a man liable to suffering, and anxious to transcend that stat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
The object is to possess a Body wkicli is capable of doing easily any particular task tbat may lie before it. There musî be no sélection of spécial expérience which appeals to one’s immédiate desire. One must go steadily through ail the possible pylons. Frater Perdurabo was very unfortunate in not having magical teachers to explain these things to Him. He was rather encouraged in unsystematic working. Very fortunate, on the other hand, was He to hâve found a Guru who instructed Him in the proper principles of the technique of Yoga, and He, havi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…n, Of my own mind, the Genii of the Seven, To come and live with me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought! THE TWELFTH DAY. ‘* T grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…l the hest mincis liave been trained by preliminary study of classics and mathematics. The same principle applies to the training of the body. The original exercises should be of a character to train the muscles generally to perform any kind or work, rather than to train them for some spécial kind of work, concentration on which will unfit them for other tasks by depriving them of the elasticity which is the proper condition of life. 1 In Magick and méditation this principle applies with tremend- ous force. It is quite useless to teach people h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…again. I have not gained one jot since first I saw The stately bosom of the Venusbherg, Save that mine eyes have seen a little truth, My body found a little weariness. © I am very feeble! Hither comes the hunt! [4 horn winds quite close by. The noble, doomed, swift beauty! Closer yet Pant the long hounds! What heart he has! One, two ! See the brach1 dying by his bloody flank ! So could not Tannhauser awhile ago. My help lay outside and above myself. What skills him he is brave? He ends the same. Poor stag! hunters up. My very kinsmen! too ! Her…
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
…onard.’’—ELIPHAZ LEVI. He’s the man for muck.— BROWNING. I. SMALL coffin-worms that burrow in thy brain Writhe with delight ; thy rotten body teems With all infesting vermin, as beseems The mirror of an obscene mind. In vain Thy misbegotten brutehood shirks the pain Of its avenging leprosies: death steams In all thy rank foul atmosphere: the gleams Of phosphorescent putrefaction wane. Thy sordid hands reach through the filth to snatch The offal money of a prurient swarm. Thy liar’s tongue licks liquid dung to hatch From fetid ulcers with its sl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfec- tion—He knows! Thus the disk came clear: but I began to be worried by body and clouded by doubt, and an effort to return only brought up a memory-picture. The flaming clouds are “thought”; the shadowy or hinted Form is Adonai! 5.35 p.m. Three Pranayamas of 50. 25. 15. 5.40 p.m. Pranayama. Twenty minutes Io. 20. 30. 9.30 p.m. Holiday; which was fatal folly! The full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Trut…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfec- tion—He knows! Thus the disk came clear: but I began to be worried by body and clouded by doubt, and an effort to return only brought up a memory-picture. The flaming clouds are “thought”; the shadowy or hinted Form is Adonai! 5.35 p.m. Three Pranayamas of 50. 25. 15. 5.40 p.m. Pranayama. Twenty minutes Io. 20. 30. 9.30 p.m. Holiday; which was fatal folly! The full account of this wonderful realization of Dhyana is set forth by P. in this note book entitled “The Writings of Trut…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
… physical exercises — yet it was something more than that. At one moment she fancied that she could distinguish leaders, that this was a body of troops being rallied to some assault. And then her attention was distracted. From her feet arose a swan, and took wing over the forest. It must have been there for a long time, for it had laid an egg directly between her sandalled feet. She suddenly realized that she was dreadfully hungry. She would go into the temple and have the egg for
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…phed to Arthwait to get the inquest adjourned "so that the relatives of the deceased in England might attend, and take possession of the body," and to Vesquit to attend the same. On this occasion the coroner needed no threat — the job was after his own heart. Douglas met him in Paris in high glee, for he was not sorry to be rid of Gates; and, on the other hand, the man had died in full tide of battle, and
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…defiled To wade, to dip Down through the mass, caressed by every purple lip. XAILX. Choked with their reek and fume and bitter Sweat His body perishes ; his life is drained; The last sweet drop of nectar has not stained Another life; his lips and limbs are wet With death-dews! Ha! The painter has attained As high a meed As his who first begot sweet music on a reed. XXX, And O! my music is so poor and thin! I am poor Marsyas?; where shall I find A wise Olympas and a lover kind To teach my mouth to sing some secret sin, Faint, fierce, and horribl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…NAH, Luna. (Colours.—The space between the outer and inner circles, where the serpent is coiled, with the Hebrew names written along his body, is bright deep yellow. The square in the centre of the circle, where the word “ Master ” is written, is filled in with red. All names and letters are in black. In the Hexagrams the outer triangles where the letters a, D, 0, N, A, J, appear are filled in with bright yellow, the centres, where the T-shaped crosses are, blue or green. In the Pentagrams outside the circle, the outer triangles where “Te, tra,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 271
…And thou, Persephone, I know thy story, That I must taste the terror of thy wrong : How Hades ride across the promontory, Snatch my pale body in mid over-song ; Drag me from sight of my Apollo’s glory With horses strong. Nay! as Apollo half the day is shrouded, As Artemis twice seven nights is dark ; Surely he shines in other lands unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays…
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
…, He says: “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, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile ? “It is a lie, this folly against itself_Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture : fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” Again and again, in words like these, He sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. ; Here…
1906 · PDF PAGE 83
…burned into her mild ones: limbs Twined to each other while fine dew bedims Their quivering skins: lip fastened unto lip: Whole soul and body frenzied meet and clip; And the breath staggers, and the life- blood swims ! Terrible gods chant black demoniac hymns As the frail cords of honour strain and slip. For in the midst of that tremendous tide The mighty vigour of a god was mine! Drunk with desire, her lamentations died. The dove gave place a moment to the swine ! Rapturous draughts of madness! Out she sighed Uttermost life’s love, and became …