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Page 75 of 1291913 · PDF PAGE 486
…nderstood better than Dupuis and Volney the symbolic worship of the sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, who were his contemporaries, and his adversar…
1943 · PDF PAGE 2
…rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In spite of the spite that is day's We are wed, we are wild, we are one! —Aleister Crowley
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…salt tears, till, A well of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose lips are fain convulsively to reach A higher heaven, a deeper hell. Ah! day So soon to dawn, delight to snatch away ! Damned day, whose sunlight finds us as with wine Drunken, with lust made manifest divine Devils of darkness, servants unto hell— Yea, king and queen of Sheol, terrible Above all fiends and furies, hating more The high Jehovah, loving Baal Peor, Our father and our lover and our god ! © Yea, though he lift his adamantine rod __ And pierce us through, how shall his an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…ven starry palaces, anda sword to guard him. Note well also that these children, and those others, are two, being four. And on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever! Nay, not for ever!), and therewith the Teacher made him a Master of the Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. For the Sword, sai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
… Andrew Kirkaldy {388} made a fine basis for playing a fairly decent game. We went to Helwan on February 19th; and I played nearly every day, filled with a passionate ambition to become amateur champion. I had picked up my old form so rapidly that I imagined myself a heaven-born golfer. But the game haled its own. I never even got to scratch. I did a certain amount of pigeon shooting at odd times. I had practised a good deal with clay pigeons at Boleskine and become a really first-class shot. I was also quite good at wild pigeons; but for some …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…ust have been more than this in it. Alick had assuredly a special aptitude for the game; for he never met his master till one {48} fatal day in 1895, when W. V. Naish, the President of the C. U. Ch. C., took the "fresher" who had beaten him to Peterhouse, the abode of Mr. H. E. Atkins, since seven times amateur champion of England and still a formidable figure in the Masters' Tournament. It may here be noted that the injudicious youth tried to trap Atkins with a new move invented by himself. It consists of playing K R B Sq, instead of Castles, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
… ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard a7 acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away.…
1912 · PDF PAGE 90
…s shut, the marriage feast of God begun. There is a song that never tires, and there a light More sweet and strong than all the fires of day or night There is a taste, a savour shed ; is honey sweet, Is moon-wort chaste ? Its flavour fed the Paraclete ! There is a grace and a perfume no earthly bower Showers from its space of lily-bloom and passion flower. There is a touch, sublime, caress beyond all kisses Kissed overmuch in loves distressthey are not as this is ! Ah, me unworthy of the love of God ! me stained With every sin, and bruised wi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 345
…y. Whatever you may do, at your death you will carry away nothing of this world’s goods. Now, that which must be taken away from you one day is not really yours. It has only been lent to you. As to the usufruct, it is the result of work; but even work is not an assured guarantee of possession, and war may come with devastation and fire to displace property. Make then good use of those things which perish, O you who will perish before they do! Consider that egoism provokes egoism, and that the im- morality of the rich man will answer for the cri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 345
…y. Whatever you may do, at your death you will carry away nothing of this world’s goods. Now, that which must be taken away from you one day is not really yours. It has only been lent to you. As to the usufruct, it is the result of work; but even work is not an assured guarantee of possession, and war may come with devastation and fire to displace property. Make then good use of those things which perish, O you who will perish before they do! Consider that egoism provokes egoism, and that the im- morality of the rich man will answer for the cri…
1919 · PDF PAGE 374
…action, he created a revolution in India by attacking the Caste system, and by preaching his law created a Karma so violent that even to-day its primary force is still active. The present ‘Buddha,’ the Master Therion, is doing a similar, but even greater work, by His proclamation: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 32. Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. In- action in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. Thus saith the Sage. This continues the diatribe against non-action, and points out that the Ascet…
1954 · PDF PAGE 133
… :. A : . . (The Equinox, Vol. III, Supplement p. 57-59.) We come down to the average popular "teacher," the mere humbug. Read this: One day quite soon an entirely different kind of electricity will be discovered which will bring as many profound changes into human living as the first type did. This new electricity wlll move in a finer ether than does our familiar kind, and thus will be nearer in vibration to the fifth dimension, to the innermost source of things, that realm of "withinness " wherein all is held poised by a colossal force, that …
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
…ake into life—the true life that is Union with Thee. So therefore—perinde ac cadaver—I await Thee. I wrote, by the way, on some previous day (IV. 12.57 AM.) that Ι used the Supreme formula of Awaiting. . . . Ridiculous mouse! is it not written in the Book of the
1906 · PDF PAGE 165
600 605 610 615 ASCENSION DAY 159 Tending to final bliss—to stir heaven suffers Some life to better life, this pain swing fore. Is needful: that I grant again. proaches of Did they at last in glory live, bard. Satan and Judas ® might forgive The middle time of misery, Forgive the wrong creation first Or evolution’s iron key Did them—provided they are passed Beyond all change and pain at last Out of this universe accurst. But otherwise! I lift my voice, Deliberately take my choice Promethean, eager to rejoice, In the grim protest’s joy to revel …
1907 · PDF PAGE 151
…Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulf ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future , a dream of the day , When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Ofsunlight shall flash and the dew die away! Rose of the World , Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory , Rose of the High Host Of Heaven , mystic , rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows ). ? Thus we end our chapter which we have called “ The Mother .” And as Diana , Luna , and Hecate are one , so Rosa M…
1910 · PDF PAGE 246
THE EQUINOX homme. Er—well, we all grow older, you know—one day— er—ah! Nice young fellow, Delhomme! EUPHEMIA. I refused him twenty minutes ago, father. ossory. What? How the deuce did you know what I was going to say? Bless me, I believe there may be some- thing in this psychic business after all! EUPHEMIA. Yes, father, I feel I have strange powers! ossory. But look here, girlie, why did you refuse him? Reculer pour mieux sauter is all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 246
THE EQUINOX homme. Er—well, we all grow older, you know—one day— er—ah! Nice young fellow, Delhomme! EUPHEMIA. I refused him twenty minutes ago, father. ossory. What? How the deuce did you know what I was going to say? Bless me, I believe there may be some- thing in this psychic business after all! EUPHEMIA. Yes, father, I feel I have strange powers! ossory. But look here, girlie, why did you refuse him? Reculer pour mieux sauter is all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…e interesting. Brown- Sequard prepared a testicular infusion, but this was not found — everywhen, everywhere, and by all — a success. To-day they kill a goat, obtain the semen while the animal is still not quite dead, and preserve by a special process. Such a decoction, even when a year old, exhibits live and active spermatozoa when warmed by an experienced mi- croscopist on the stage of a good instrument. In- jected under the skin, it produces magnificent re- sults, both as a general tonic and a cure for impo- tence. Thus the goat, deposed fro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 22
… revolting cruelties which they inflicted on the only pretty and decent member of the family, my dear “ sister ” Isabelle, caused me one day to knock their heads together and walk out of the house. They sent me to Cambridge. I found myself my own master, and settled down to lead a righteous, sober and godly life ; and to make up for lost time in the matter of education. Outside purely scholastic subjects, they had taught me to fight, to love the truth, to hate oppression, — and by God ! I think they taught me well. On my soul, I should thank th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 353
SEPHER SEPHIROTH Vision mene 327 Day Demon of 2"4 Dec. ny w'Q)D [Vide K.D. LC.K. p. 461] WY Night Demon of 3" Dec. 4 “)NY¥"D 4 Princes +8 Sub-Princes+316 328 servient to Spirits Angel of 3 W. mynn To steam; darkness. [Vide Jen K.D. L.C.K, p. 280] 329 Angel of rt Dec, sp 33° Boundary, terminus ; crosspath 9¥f> Revolution ; hurricane, tempest yD Error: fault by 331 Ephraim DTMEN Arbor magna. [Gen. xxi. 33] Swe Archangel of Chokmah be 332 Lux Ardoris NPT TS Night Demon of 3 — yma Dec. € A Duke of Edom. [Vide S¥Db Liber 777, p. 22] Locus vacuus, [V…