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Page 76 of 781911 · PDF PAGE 309
… Lévi NOSTRODAMUS.—The True Prophecies and Prognostications of Michael Nostrodamus, Physician to Henry II., Francis IL, and Charles IX., Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were ; a Work full of Curiosity and Learning, Translated and Commented by THorxiLus GARIENCERES, M.D. Folio, fine portraitfrontis- biece by Dolle, orig. calf, fine sound copy, rare in this state, 1672. 455 THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING (Clavicula Salomonis), translated and edited from Ancient MSS, in the British Museum, by S. Lippett. MacGrecor-Matuers, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…my.) The equilibrium and counter‐change are carried out completely in the figure itself; the white woman has now a black bead; the black king, a white one. She wears the golden crown with a silver band, he, the silver crown with a golden fillet; but the white head on the right is extended in action by a white arm on the left which holds the cup of the white gluten, while the black head on the left has the black arm on the right, holding the lance which has become a torch and pours forth its burning blood. The fire burns up the water; the water …
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
… has done its work too well; it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One thinks of the Hydra when one reflects that King Charles was beheaded in White hall! The Ten of Cups is called Satiety. its attribution is Mars in Pisces. The watery sign has sunk into a stagnant dream, but in it broods and breeds the violent quality of Mars, to putrefy it. As it is written: “Until a dart strike through his liver.” The pursuit of pleasure has been crowned with perfect success; and constantly it is discovered that, having got everything …
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…of the same stock. Legend will have it that the then head of the family came to England with the Earl of Richmond and helped to make him king on Bosworth Field. Edward Crowley was educated as an engineer, but never practised his profession4. He was devoted to religion and became a follower of John Nelson Darby, the founder of the "Plymouth Brethren". The fact reveals a stern logician; for the sect is characterized by refusal to compromise; it insists on the literal interpretation of the Bible as the exact words of the Holy Ghost5. He married (i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…had no proof whatever that there was any purpose in my past life or could be in my future. I again quote from "The Temple of Solomon the King": Baffled again and again, the fall with his horse supplied the one factor missing in his calculations. He had repeatedly escaped death in matters almost miraculous. "Then I am some use after all!" was his conclusion. "I am indeed SENT to do something." For whom? For the universe; no partial good could possibly satisfy his equation. I am, then, the "Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space". Very good:…
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…ial Pentheus, impious and self-sufficient as he, disguise himself (with a tremor of fear) in his noblest artistic attire, as the foolish king in the Bassara of the Maenads! How often have I seen Dionysus --- or some god --- discover the cheat and give him over to those high priests of dialectic, D--- and L---, to be ravaged and stripped amid the gleeful shrieks of the wit- intoxicated crowd! But once the victim was upon the altar, once he rose from his chair, then what a silence fell! Frozen with the icy contempt of the assembly, the wretch wou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 209
…ogy, and as nothing more. Even when we learn that the Bible, by a * This essay forms the introduction to an edition of the ‘‘ Goetia” of King Solomon. t ‘‘A Thousand and One Nights,” commonly called ** Arabian Nights.” profound and minute study of the text, may be forced to yield up Qabalistic arcana of cosmic scope and importance, we are too often slow to apply a similar restorative to the com- panion volume, even if we are the lucky holders of Burton's veritable edition. To me, then, it remains to raise the Alf Laylah wa Laylah into its prope…
1929 · PDF PAGE 457
…th his normal senses, yet in a way which has no relation to his previous experience. The stolid old gentleman in evening dress is really King Solomon. He hears a rigmarole both false and meaningless in itself, which he must understand as conveying something entirely other than it apparently implies. His words are put into his mouth, and produce an effect neither expected, desired, nor understood. He performs a series of gestures neither comprehensible in themselves, nor even (so far as he can see) calculated to assist his purpose. And even when…
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…ropology, and as nothing more. Even when we learn that the Bible, by a * This essay forms the introduction an edition of the “Goetia” of King Solomon † “A T housand and One Nights, ” com monly called “Arabian Nights.” profound and minute study of the text, may be forced to yield up Qabalistic arcana of cosmic scope and importance, we are too often slow to apply a similar restorative to the companion volume, even if we are the lucky holders of Burton’s veritable edition. To me, then, it remains to raise the A lf Laylah wa Laylah into its proper …
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…nslator's infuriated snarls (in brackets) when he suspects this tendency to accept facts as facts. 6, Svul went down.’— The Questions of King Milinda, 40-45, 48, 67, 86-80, 111, 132. , 7. The metaphysical lotus-eyed.6—Gautama| Buddha. 10. Chtlde Roland.?—Browning, Dramatic Romancees. 11. Two hundred thousand Trees.3—Brown- | ing wrote about 200,000 lines. 13. Your Reverence,29—TVhe imaginary Aunt | Sally for the poetic cocoanut.* | 16. ‘' God's right use of tt.”’ %"—'* And many an eel, though no adept In God's right reason for it, kept Gnawing …
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
… unknown; but it has been the lot of none to sing songs of so divine a melody and so diabolic a discord; since the days when Solomon the King vied with the bul-buls in the rose-bowers of Sharon, and showered urple kisses on the jet-black thighs of strange women amongst the white lilies in the alley of Jordan. As we open this regal book, all the gold of Ophir and the glitterin jewels of Havilah flash before our wondering eyes. And once a in we wander ro h the scented gardens of Shiraz and drink deep of the go] en vintage of Omar. ll is a melody o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…f the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The Sword of Song, the Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King, Why Jesus Wept, Oracles, Orpheus, Gargoyles and The Collected Works. I had simply no idea of business. Besides this, I was in no need of money; my responsibility to the gods was to write as I was inspired; my responsibility to mankind was to publish what I wrote. But it ended there. As long as what I wrote was technically accessible to the public through the British Museum, and such places, my hands were…
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
… we avoid the neces- sity of any explanation. How did nothing come to be? is a question which requires no answer. 2 See the Questions of King Milinda, vol. ii. p. 103 3 Se also Huxley, ‘‘ Evolution and Ethics."’
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…agonia by Lady Florence Dixie. The long name fascinated me; I begged him to buy it for me and he did. The name stuck and I decided to be King of Patagonia. Psycho-analysts will learn with pleasure that the name of my capital was Margaragstagregorstoryaka. "Margar" was derived from Margaret, queen of Henry VI, who was my favourite character in history. This is highly significant, as indicating the type of woman that I have always admired. I want her to be wicked, independent, courageous, ambitious, and so on. I cannot place the "ragstag", but it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 258
…f and ingenuity of the creature struck me as astonishing. (Legless animals are practically helpless on open ground. One can walk up to a king cobra on a smooth road and set one's heel on its head, as prophesied in Genesis, without much danger of being struck, and though it sees you coming, it is quite unable to escape. But give the same snake a little grass to flagellate and the eye can hardly follow its motion. It goes like a snipe.) Coming back over the same ridge, I was on an open hillside running fast. It was raining downwards instead of up…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…anslator’s infuriated snarls (in brackets) when he suspects this tendency to accept facts as facts. 6. Soul went down.5—The Questions of King Milinda, 40-45, 48, 67, 86-89, 111, 132. 7. The metaphysical lotus-eyed.6—Gautama Buddha. 10. Childe Roland.7—Browning, Dramatic Romances. 11. Two hundred thousand Trees.8—Brown- ing wrote about 200,000 lines. 13. Your Reverence.9—The imaginary Aunt Sally for the poetic cocoanut.* 16. “Gods right use of it.”10—“And many an eel, though no adept In God’s right reason for it, kept Gnawing his kidneys half a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 216
…nial magick" which I prefaced to my edition of The Goetia. I had employed Mathers to translate the text of The Lesser Key of Solomon the King of which The Goetia is the first section. He got no further; after the events of 1900, he had simply collapsed morally. I added a translation of the conjurations into the Enochian or Angelic language; edited and annotated the text, prefixed a "Preliminary Invocation", added a prefatory note, a Magical Square (intended to prevent improper use of the book) and ultimately an Invocation of Typhon when the Fir…
1906 · PDF PAGE 60
…se a peace profounder than Himalayan snows cooped in their crystalline ravines. I saw the ultimation of the one wise law. I stood in the King’s Chamber, by the tomb of slain Osiris, in the Pyramid and looked down the Great Gallery, deep, deep into the hollow of earth; grand gloom burned royally therein ; I was well hid in the shadow ; here I realised myself to be in that sepulchral sleep wherein were mirrored all these things of mystery. So the long passage steeply sliding ever up to my feet where I stood in the emptiness ; at last asure abidin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 171
…ound another rajah equally urbane. Travel in the East is essential to any sort of understanding of the Bible. The equivalent of the word king is constantly used to describe men who may be anything from absolute monarchs over hundreds of thousands of people, to country squires or even headmen of a tribe of gypsies. We reached Skardu on the fourteenth of May, and put in four days making {292} arrangements for the next stage of the journey. We could no longer depend on finding enough coolies, the villages beyond Shigar being poorly populated. We t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 400
… Bottomley subsided at once on discovering that I was not likely to pay up and look pleasant; but there was at that time a paper, The Looking Glass, edited by an animal called De Wend Fenton. He printed a scurrilous attack on the ceremony and concluded by a threat to proceed to expose my personal misdeeds. He then rang up a mutual friend, and said that he hoped I was not offended, and that he would like to meet me at dinner to talk things over. My friend rang me up. I merely said, "I take it that you don't want me to be blackmailed over your co…