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Page 76 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 52
…bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The wingéd globe, the starry blue, Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu! 15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18, Bu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 109
…t that cometh unto the Master, the first need is freedom. The great bond of all bonds is ignorance. How shall a man be free to act if he know not his own purpose? You must therefore first of all discover which star of all the stars you are, your relation to the other stars about you, and your relation to, and identity with, the Whole. In our Holy Books are given sundry means of making this discovery, and each must make it for himself, attaining absolute conviction by direct experience, not merely reason- ing and calculating what is probable. An…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…n accusation against Gilles de Rais is therefore just this general accusation against anyone in Christendom who exhibited any desire for know- ledge. Only, in his case, it was concentrated and exaggerated to fantastic lengths by some factor or other on which I feel it useless to speculate. The
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t know what it means!” I think it right to mention that I never obtained any sort of success in this meditation, and only give it on hearsay. The real key to the stage is Sammasati—Right Recollec- tion. One considers all known factors which have gone to make one up such as one is, oneself and not another. Clearly the omission of a single minute item must alter the whole course of events. Consider then, why thus,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…a with the Brahmarandra of the sphere of the 99-year-old-Talipot-palm- like sucking Arahat may have something to do with it. Plainly, we know so very little; so few ever attain this class of experience that one is perhaps hardly justified in maintaining (as I always have maintained and that stoutly) that the reward is according to the work. It may conceivably be that work does not affect the question, as it clearly does in the lower grades, it may be that an outsider may pull off the big thing—Agnosco! Still, I advise people to work at it. Perh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t know what it means!” I think it right to mention that I never obtained any sort of success in this meditation, and only give it on hearsay. The real key to the stage is Sammasati—Right Recollec- tion. One considers all known factors which have gone to make one up such as one is, oneself and not another. Clearly the omission of a single minute item must alter the whole course of events. Consider then, why thus,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…a with the Brahmarandra of the sphere of the 99-year-old-Talipot-palm- like sucking Arahat may have something to do with it. Plainly, we know so very little; so few ever attain this class of experience that one is perhaps hardly justified in maintaining (as I always have maintained and that stoutly) that the reward is according to the work. It may conceivably be that work does not affect the question, as it clearly does in the lower grades, it may be that an outsider may pull off the big thing—Agnosco! Still, I advise people to work at it. Perh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…ft alone in the midst of an infinity of space. And now more and more every moment increased the conviction that I was watched. I did not know then, as I learned afterward, that suspicion of all earthly things and persons was the characteristic of the hasheesh delirium. In the midst of my complicated hallucination, I could perceive that I had a dual existence. One portion of me was whirled unresistingly along the track of this tremendous experience, the other sat looking down from a height upon its double, observing, reasoning, and serenely weig…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…ft alone in the midst of an infinity of space. And now more and more every moment increased the conviction that I was watched. I did not know then, as I learned afterward, that suspicion of all earthly things and persons was the characteristic of the hasheesh delirium. In the midst of my complicated hallucination, I could perceive that I had a dual existence. One portion of me was whirled unresistingly along the track of this tremendous experience, the other sat looking down from a height upon its double, observing, reasoning, and serenely weig…
1913 · PDF PAGE 462
…, reverend sir, I fear that I am over-stepping the boundaries of discretion.” “ Say everything, sir; I am willing to hear all, I wish to know everything.” “Oh, well! If, as I do not doubt to be the case, you turn to the profit of charity all the restless activities with which the passions of your heart furnish you, you must often be blessed for your good works.” The Abbé once more smiled that dubious and fatal smile which gave so singular an expression to his pallid counte- nance. He rose and took his leave without having given his name, and wi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 462
…, reverend sir, I fear that I am over-stepping the boundaries of discretion.” “ Say everything, sir; I am willing to hear all, I wish to know everything.” “Oh, well! If, as I do not doubt to be the case, you turn to the profit of charity all the restless activities with which the passions of your heart furnish you, you must often be blessed for your good works.” The Abbé once more smiled that dubious and fatal smile which gave so singular an expression to his pallid counte- nance. He rose and took his leave without having given his name, and wi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
… my senses). I have consequently done all I can to shock and hurt the enemy. I have painted their God as the obscene thing he is from my knowledge of my Uncle Tom ; I have made his Trinity ridiculous and his scheme disgusting ; I have painted Magdalen as the Syrian strumpet she was from the best models among English society whores (thank you, Ada ; thank you, Kathleen !) ; I have painted Mary as a lascivious flapper from my knowledge of English virgins — thank you, Vera ! thank you, Lydia ! thank you, Millicent ! — the hag is my mother- in-law,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 63
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still ; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A …
1913 · PDF PAGE 63
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still ; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A …
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
… ! ALCESTIS. I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. ACASTUS. Enough of this ! It is the malice of that sorceress Disguised —she well knows how. CHORUS. Thus, thus it is! We know the witch’s cunning. JASON. Dogs and fools! For this ye die. MADNESS. Nobility and love . Urge my own sanction to support the wife ! JASON, I bade my queen prepare this spell. Disputes Your arrogance my kingship ? ACASTUS. Ay, indeed ! Now justice turns against thee, fickle jade As fortune. Mine is a boy’s arm, but I Advance against thee an impervious blade, And giv…
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
…s and vials of poison and sharp swords and whirling thunderbolts that are about the corners of the earth, girded with wrath and justice, know ye that His name is Righteous- ness in Beauty? Burnt out are your eyes, for that ye have seen me in my majesty. And broken are the drum-heads of 18
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
…of his desire! 15. Ye shall be sad thereof. 16. Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises; fear not to undergo the curses. Ye, even ye, know not this meaning all. 17. Fear not at all; fear neither men, nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 26
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…tions of the eternal dogma, so justly stigmatized by the pitiless genius of Voltaire! Voltaire and Napoleon died Catholics.1_ And do you know what the Catholicism of the future must be? It will be the dogma of the Gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of Voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the world, by the genius of the Christian Napoleon. Those who will not march will be dragged or trampled by events. Immense calamities may again hang over the world. The armies of the Apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. T…
1913 · PDF PAGE 493
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES they did not know how to employ it properly, and used it solely for fortune-telling. The game of chess, attributed to Palamedes, has no other origin than the Tarot, and one finds there the same combina- tions and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. In old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manceuvring the hieroglyphic characters acr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 579
…acres of his quarter. The good man consoled himself in the vein of Galileo, and answered them: “You may laugh as much as you like. All I know is, that the death certificate was signed and the burial licence made out; eighteen hours later they were going to bury me, and here I am.” CHAPTER III THE GRAND ARCANUM OF DEATH WE often become sad in thinking that the most beautiful life must finish, and the approach of the terrible Unknown that one calls death disgusts us with all the joys of existence. Why be born, if one must live so little? Why brin…