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Page 76 of 2251912 · PDF PAGE 43
…here will be no further difficulty in the practice. One Will get into one’s Asana with almost the same feeling as that with which a tired man gets into a hot bath; and While he is in that position, the body may be trusted to send him no message that might disturb his mind. Other results of this practice are described by Hindu authors, but they do not concern us at present. Ourfirst obstacle has been removed, and we can continue With the others.
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
…the borders The sad notes fall Of Hades! All hail to ye, dwellers To the sorrowful womb; of night ! One after one But I am the soul In a man’s control. Ye have nought to do with the dweller of light ! They leap as a host With weapons of fire On a desolate coast, Where love is lost And the bitterness clings of fear, and the Hail to ye, hail sadness dogs of desire ! In the hollow vale, Your weapons are lifted against me in vain. Thrice girded with brass, My lyre shall charm ye, Thrice bound with iron, My voice disarm ye, The gate is in three For …
1922 · PDF PAGE 5
…rong To dwell before thee, and do thy throne no wrong? Art thou grown jealous of the fiery band? Lo! thou hast spoken, and thy strong command Bade earth and air divide, and on the sea Thy spirit moved—and thou must envy me! Our love must lie beneath thy bitter ban! Thou petty, envious God! My King, be sure His brute force shall not to the end endure; Some stronger soul than thine shall wrest his crown And thrust him from his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. For me Forsake thy hopes in him. We worship, we, Rather the dear del…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…of this System the magician is able ultimately to unify the whole of his knowledge — to trans¬ mute, even on the Intellectual Plane, the Many into the One. * The reader can now understand that the sketch given above of the magical Hierarchy is hardly even an outline of the real theory of the Universe. This theory may indeed be studied iii the article already referred to in No. V of the Equinox, and, môre deeply, in the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon: but the true understanding dépends entirely upon the work of the Magician himself…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…ch. "Who was that?" asked Bowling. "The Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button on top! That's Douglas!" "The Black Lodge man?" "Ex-man." "I see daylight. Balloch was condemned, you know, for a crime done twenty years ago. Douglas must have known about it and betrayed him." "That's the regular thing." "How does he come to be a colonel in the French Army?" "Don't know. He was close in with one or two ministers; Becasseux, I think, in particular. There's a lot of politics in Occultism, as you know."
1954 · PDF PAGE 108
…Mendez, found himself caressed by the chaste lips of a virginal priestess of that Goddess at the base of whose shrine is written that No man has lifted her veil. The basis of the Black philosophy is not impossibly mere climate, with its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid, bilious, anaemic, fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. We accordingly find few true equivalents of this School in Europe. In Greek philosophy there is no trace of any such doctrine. The poison in its foulest and most virulent form only entered with C…
1954 · PDF PAGE 499
…ferent, because the mountain does not look the same from Zermatt as it does from Domodossola, or even as seen by a French-Swiss and a German-Swiss.) In the same way read the Life of Napoleon written by one of his marshals, by Michelet (a rabid Republican), by Lord Roseberry, by a patriotic Russian, and by a German poet and philosopher: one can hardly believe that the subject of any two of these biographies is the same man. But upon certain points the identity is bound to transpire; even when we read of his crushing and classic defeat at Waterlo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 121
… will remove from them all taint of poison of the Black, and restore vigour to their central formula of spiritual alchemy by giving each man an independent ideal. It will put an end to the moral castration involved in the assumption that each man, whatever his nature, should deny himself to follow out a fantastic and impracticable ideal of goodness. Incidentally, this formula will save Physical Science itself by making negligible the despair of futility, the vital scepticism which has emasculated it in the past. I t shows that the joy of existe…
1996 · PDF PAGE 173
174 The Law is for All It is we of Thelema who truly love and respect Woman, who hold Her sinless and shameless even as we are; and those who say that we despise Her are those who shrink from the flash of our falchions1 as we strike from Her limbs their foul fetters. 1 [A broad, curved mediaeval sword.] Do we call Woman Whore? Ay, Verily and Amen, She is that; the air shudders and burns as we shout it, exulting and eager. O ye! Was not this your sneer, your vile Whisper that scorned Her and shamed Her? Was not “Whore” the truth of Her, the titl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…er own sisters who are to punish her for the crime of denying Her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man’s own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. Let him attend to his own particular business, to redeem himself—he has surely his hands full! Woman will save herself if she be but left alone to do it. I see it! I, the Beast, who have seen—who see—Space splendid with stars; who have se…
1898 · PDF PAGE 7
Showed me things wonderful, unbound The fetters that beset me round, Opened my waking ear to sound That may not by a man be found, except in sleep. Thy presence was as subtle flame Burning in dawny groves ; thy name Like dew upon the hills became, And all thy mind a star most bright ; And, following with wakeful eyes The strait meridian of the wise, My feet tread under stars and skies ; My spirit soars and seeks and flies, a child of light. Thus eager, may my purpose stand Firm as the faith of honest hand, Nor change like castles built of sand …
1902 · PDF PAGE 117
The Unknown Minstrel. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit : land you in the Three, Where form is perfect— in the triangle. Tannhauser. My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine ! The Unknown Minstrel. The solid ! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo ! the Pyramid ! The Sages say : Unite that to the Sphinx, and all is done, Completion of the Magnum Opus. Tannhause…
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
… in his home Despair and Strife Lie in his bosom for a wife! But oh, the glory of the quest, The gainless goodly prize! The fairest form man e’er caressed, The word he heard most wise ;— All lures of life avoid and cease Before the winning of the Fleece! O nameless splendour of the Gods, Begotten hardly of Heaven! Unspoken treasure of the abodes Beyond the lightning levin! No misery, no despair may pay The joy to hold thee for a day! JASON. Athena’s servant recks not much of Ares. PELIAS, Are thine eyes kindled at the golden thought? JASON. * M…
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…ed By love’s exulting stings, Whose starry shape shone in the west, Held of the glimmering wings. Her shadowy soul perceived the jest Of man and mortal things. And there I vowed a solemn oath To Aphrodite fair, Sealing that sacramental troth With a long curl of hair, And the strange prayer’s reiterant growth Sent shining through the air. (Invoking Aphrodtte) Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the Father of all, the A‘gis-bearing King! Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
… be ! In God we trust. They diedthey diedand we are free. Take up their cross ! Deserve their crown ! The stainless flag of liberty By man shall not be trodden down ! Ashes to ashes ? Dust to dust ? So let it be ! In God we trust. In war and earthquake, wreck and wrong, Still let the flag of freedom fly ! In peace and safety, still be strong ! For we will live as we would die. Ashes to ashes ? Dust to dust ? So let it be ! In God we trust. Though ruin wash the world in blood, Though death devour, though time decay,
1910 · PDF PAGE 225
215 WOMAN THE whole wide world is meat-of-murderess For thee, foul woman, cruel from idleness. To whet thy teeth at this ferocious play Thy rat-trap needs a mans heart every day. Thine eyes, lit up like shops or booths that flare When all the world keeps holiday, still glare, Using a borrowed power with insolence, Ignoring beautys law that lent them sense. Blind wheel and deaf, of Hell in travail curled ! Brave tool that drinks the blood of all the world ! Hast thou no shame ? and hast thou no alarm Whose mirror shows thee thy decaying charm …
1913 · PDF PAGE 101
…re your children stand . Is not Bagdad the beautiful ? O stay ! THE MERCHANTS ( in chorus) We take the Golden Road to Samarkand . AN OLD MAN Have you not girls and garlands in your homes , Eunuchs and Syrian boys at your command ? Seek not excess : God hateth him who roams ! THE MERCHANTS (in chorus) We make the golden journey to Samarkand. A PILGRIM WITH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE Sweet to ride forth at evening from the wells When shadows pass gigantic on the sand, And softly through the silence beat the bells Along the golden road to Samarkand. A MERC…
1913 · PDF PAGE 45
…n with ITSELF. All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false. Strain forth thine Intelligence, O man, O worthy one, O chosen of IT, to apprehend the discourse of THE MASTER; for thus fetter is struck from a slave’s throat.
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…ctus. 25 Centaur, Horse, Hippoqriff, Dog. Rush. 26 Goat, Ass. Indian Hemp, Orchis Root, Thistle. 27 Horse, Bear, Wolf. Absinthe, Rue. 28 Man or Eagle (Cherub of A) Peacock. (Olive) Cocoanut. 29 Fish, Dolphin, Crayfish, Beetle. llnicellular Organisms, Q- pium. 30 Lion, Sparrowhawk. Sunflower, Laurel, Hélio¬ trope. 31 Lion (Cherub of A)- Red Poppy, Hibiscus, Nettle. 32 Crocodile. Ash, Cypress, Hellebore, Yew, Nightshade. 32 bis Bull (Cherub of V)- Oak, Ivy. 31 bis Sphinx (if Sworded and Crowned ). Almond in flower.
1906 · PDF PAGE 265
…o record those results in an intelligible, orderly form. Others deliberately set their face against such an attempt. I am not of them; humanity has grown up; if the knowledge be dangerous in unsuspected ways, what of bacteriology? I have obtained one result; a result striking “at the very condition of consciousness; which I may formulate as follows: ‘‘Tf a single state of consciousness persist unchanged for a period exceeding a very few seconds, its duality is annihilated ; its nature is violently overthrown ; this phenomenon is accompanied by …