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Page 76 of 941930 · PDF PAGE 43
…Calderazzo” 1 and “Jacob” 2 make this more cogent. rebuttal. But most of these subtleties miss the point. Truth must be defined. It is a name, being a noun (nomen); and ail names are human symbols of things. Now Truth is the power to arouse a certain reaction (“assent”) in a man, under certain conditions; (“greenness”, weight, ail other qualities, are also powers). It exists in the object, whether latent or manifest; so experiencing both does and does not alter the facts. This is Solipsism, because we can only be conscious of our own consciousn…
1996 · PDF PAGE 58
…tle and alarm the magician, and that only the more so as he is familiar with the theory and prac tice of his art. “What is this, in the name of Adonai?” I hear him exclaim: “is it not the immemorial and unchallenged tradition that the exorcist who would apply himself to the most elementary operations of our Art is bound to prepare himself by a course of chastity? Is it not notorious that virginity is by its own virtue one of the most powerful means, and one of the most essential condi tions, of all Magical works? This is no question of techni…
1911 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX name written upon that organ, according to Mr Pryse! Iacchus: IAO= Jehovah, and concentrates LN.R.[. We recommend the book for its suggestion and insight; it is one of the best of the kind. NICK LAMB. SALAMAN ET ABSAL, POEME ALLE‘GORIQUE PERSAN DE DJAMI. Traduit par AUGUSTE BRICTEUX, Ph.D., Litt.D,, etc. etc., avec une Introduction sur le Mysticisme persan, etc, Bruxelles, 10 rue de la Tribune (Librairie Ch. Carrington). 10fram-:. A magnificent volume without and within. This, with the single exception of the "Bagh-i-muattar"(Probsth…
1911 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX name written upon that organ, according to Mr Pryse! Iacchus: IAO= Jehovah, and concentrates LN.R.[. We recommend the book for its suggestion and insight; it is one of the best of the kind. NICK LAMB. SALAMAN ET ABSAL, POEME ALLE‘GORIQUE PERSAN DE DJAMI. Traduit par AUGUSTE BRICTEUX, Ph.D., Litt.D,, etc. etc., avec une Introduction sur le Mysticisme persan, etc, Bruxelles, 10 rue de la Tribune (Librairie Ch. Carrington). 10fram-:. A magnificent volume without and within. This, with the single exception of the "Bagh-i-muattar"(Probsth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…ew for Truth, Baby! Reflect, O bat-eyed child, upon the circumstance that Amath adds up to 44!, which is the square of 2!, Eheieh, divine name of Kether, also mystic number of Tiphereth—vzde Tiphereth clause in “]”—“I will devote my self to Great Work,” etc., you remember—meaning Truth is of Kether the end and of Tiphereth the means, also Aleph is the Fool, Kether, Mem the Hanged Man, Tiphereth ; and Tau the Sign of the Cross and the Virgin of the World. May be read by Tarot (McGregor Mathers) Fools hang Virgins! What about wise men? Hush, baby …
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
… and round ail, even the Mantram or Continuous Prayer. 24. Concerning the Aîantram or Continuous Prayer. — Let the Philosophus weave the Name of the particular Deity into a sentence short and rhythmical, as, for Artémis: èttsXGgv, èTusXOov, ApT£fJuç ; or, for Shiva : Namo Shivaya namaha Aum 3 or, for Mary 3 Ave Maria3 or for Pan, Xoups HcoTY)p Koopiou, Ito Ilav, Ico Uav ; or, for Allah, Hua Allahu alazi lailaha ilia Hua. Let him repeat this day and night without cessation mechanically in his brain, which is thus made ready for the Advent of tha…
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
248 TANNHAUSER The living purpose and the mystic life Of lonely seeking for the Grail of God ! I—call you husband? When I said your name, It was to set the task impossible, Ifad they but known it—just as one should say : ‘* Bring down St. Michael: let me marry him !” They knew the angels were too pure; but you, They guessed not how exalted were your hopes; How utterly unselfish, pure, and true, Your great heart beat ! TANNHAUSER (w¢7th bitterness). I hardly knew, myself! (Aszde.) Here is the virgin insight of the truth | Or—cannot purity be bro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…roblems to solve? Come tome! Come tome! Here is my life! Thee have I sought ! My secret is told— Thou that wast dumb to me, What is your name, Come—I am nought ! O fairest of women? [Striving ever to follow her, he Bosom of gold! faints and falls, The girl Faultless your fame ! stops. An aeon were shame Your beauty to hymn in! MOLLY. Will you be mine, Dear me! The young gentleman’s ill ae and aed only | . a 3eauty divine, too, Whata nice boy it is! I must go and How I was lonely! help him. Why did he call to me? (Goes How L w He back.) I was af…
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
…ible to all who have passed that way. But there is good wine there ; he must be reckoned with. If he progresses, his will become a great name. If he has arrived at his limits we shall hear no more of him. But from the power and earnestness of the book before us we are inclined to favour his chances in the future. He has shown at least the foot of Hercules.” —Birmingham Gazette. The Mother’s Tragedy, etc. 5s. The two dramas in this volume are of a nature to freeze the blood in the veins of the most sanguine of mankind. Also a short collection of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…by experience; for since every event of life is a sym bol of part of the structure of the Soul, the totality of experience must be the “Name” of the whole of that part of the Soul which
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…d grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre; lake, rise up in mist to sun; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Master’s work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed! Open wide the my stic portals, and be altogether lost!
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
…lips Some cooler kiss, from shame Washed clean by God’s desire, To save me from their fire— Those kiss me and respire The perfume of the Name.} Remorse and terror banished By pitying lovers, Who from my eyes have vanished, (The Lidless Eye ° discovers), Repenting souls that turn, Whose hearts with pity burn For me, who now discern Their love around me hovers. Their love wards from my head. The furious hate Of those loves doubly dead That may not pass the gate: By their entreating prayer The angels fill the air To guard my steps, to bare The vei…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…ly wrote a song, and produced the desired resuit. This is the most notorious example in recent times of the power exerted by a barbarous name of évocation. A few words may be useful to reconcile the general notion of Causality with that of Magick. How can we be sure that a person waving a stick and howling thereby produces thunderstorms ? In no other way than that familiar to Science ; we note that whenever we put a lighted match to dry gunpowder, an unintelligibly arbitrary phenomenon, that of sound, is observedj and so forth. We need not dwel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
…by a method which I cannot explain, for that it pertaineth to a grade so much more exalted than yours that you have never even heard the name of it; and I know the plans of the German General Staff in detail." Cyril's tone transformed his asinine utterance into something so Sybilline, Oracular, Delphic, Cumaean, that his interlocutor almost trembled. Verus incessu patuit Deus — when Cyril thought it necessary to impress the uninitiate. To the majority of mankind gold looks like dross unless it be wrapped up in tinsel, and tenfold the proper pri…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…y public scribes for a few pice in the native bazaar. As to “Babus” (Babu, I may mention, is the equivalent to our “Mister,” and not the name of a savage tribe), Mr. Chesterton, from his Brixton Brahmaloka, may look forth and see that the “Babu” cannot understand Western ideas; but a distinguished civil servant in the Madras Presidency, second wrangler in a very good year, assured me that he had met a native whose mathematical knowledge was superior to that of the average senior wrangler, and that he had met several others who approached that s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
…all the turmoil, ridiculing it ? | You knew the secret symbol of my life, You forced me to that miserable song. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. My name, sir, at your service, is Sefchift. TANNHAUSER. Sent? And the purpose of your coming here? You must. wield power to keep them silent so, When the first word had culminated else In twice the tempest echoed to the last! VOL. I. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. It was most necessary for yourself To formulate your thought in Fnough— The thought transmuted in the very act. word. TANNHAUSER. You know? You know! The new il…
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
…h and shame.”’ For each kiss leaps, a more insistent breath, And adds fresh fuel to the amorous flame, Not quells it—Is not honour but a name? THE FIFTEENTH DAY. ‘* Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.” Sonnets to Sundry Notes of ALuste. ANOTHER day rose of unceasing fire: Kisses made monstrous for their sterile storm Maddening with sea-sounds, as of lute or shawm Fluting and clashing in extreme desire ; The silly ‘* Thus far and no farther,” nigher Each hour to break (poor arbitrary form !) As each kiss bade our bodies…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
… proud of it. It is well known that many men are embarrassed in the presence of a monkey. i. It is perhaps signifïcant that although the name of the woman has been familiar to him since 1898, he has never been able to commit it to memory. 54
1929 · PDF PAGE 171
… understand that the ineffable and Sacrosanct Arcanum is not to be touched by profane hands? Must I inform you that Those who may not be named are even now at the Gate of the Abyss, whetting their fangs upon the Cubical Stone of the Unutterable? Oh ye magistral ministrants of the Shrine of the Unspeakable Abomination! Hear ye the Word of Blasphemy!" He spoke rapidly and thickly in a tongue unknown to Butcher, who became alarmed, and even took his legs off the table. "Say!" he cried. "Have a heart! Can the rough dope, Count! This is a straight p…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…ally as Thrace: no town So gladdens the toil-weary mind As brave Athenae: no renown Stands so divine in war and peace As the illustrious name of Greece. This island of the subtle song Shall vanish as the shaken spray Tossed by the billow far and strong On marble coasts: we will not stay ! Dreams lure not those who ply the sail Before, the home! behind, the gale! JASON. Ah ! Iam torn, I am torn! MEDEA, God’s poet, hail ! Help us, Apollo! Light of Sun, awake ! This is the desperate hour. JASON. I have no strength. MEDEA. Beware the third, the awf…