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Page 77 of 1001996 · PDF PAGE 89
…e must proceed either to the identity which means ultimately “Nothing,” or to divergent diversities which only seem to mean something so long as we refrain from pushing the analy sis of any term to its logical elements. For example, “Sugar is sugar” is obviously not knowledge. But no more is this: “Sugar is a sweet white crystalline carbohydrate.” For each of these four terms describes a sensory impression on ourselves; and we define our impressions only in terms of such things as sugar. Thus “sweet” means “the quality ascribed by our taste to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
… Jean de Luz?" "All that, and the whole story of the Homunculus!" "Whatever is that?" "After lunch." But as it turned out, it was a very long while before lunch. The bell of the studio rang brusquely. Cyril Grey went to the door; and once again Lisa had the impression of a duellist. No: it was a sentinel that stood there. Her vivid power of visualization put a spear in his hand. It was his own studio, but he announced his visitors as if he had been a butler. "Akbar Pasha and Countess Helena Mottich." Simon Iff sprang to the door. It was not his…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…nk themselves into delirium and dementia before His eyes, or repaie! His passionate dévotion with toad-cold treachery at the moment when long years of loyalty had tempted Him to trust them. His friend, that bore the bag, stole that which was put therein, and betrayed his Master as thoroughly as he was able. At the first distant rumour that the Pharisees were out, his disciples “ail forsook Him and fled”. Elis mother nailed Him with lier own hands to the cross, and reviled Him as nine years He hung thereupon. Now, having endured to the end, bein…
1996 · PDF PAGE 13
…re begins with 31—the secret “Key of it all”—and ends with 93, the esoteric key of the whole Book.2 The squaring of the circle is an age-long tradi tional symbol of the accomplishment of the Great Work. It may be added that from this starting-point many other Qabalistic mysteries are to be found—so numerous and so significant that no human mind such as we know could pos sibly have woven the whole series into this Book, which was dictated and scribbled at lightning speed.
1996 · PDF PAGE 146
…to master their circumstances, that they are fit to pull their weight in the Noah’s Ark of mankind. 73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. Commentary: There is a connection between Death, Sleep and Our Lady Nuit. (This is worked out, on profane lines, by Dr. Sigmund Freud, and his school, especially by Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious? which the reader should consult.) The fatigue of the day’s toil creates the toxins whose accumulation is the “Will to Die.” All mystic attainment is of this …
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
74 A DRAMATIC VERSION OF DENys trregular intervals, whtle DENYS clears his Sir! pray let 2k I knov | throat repeatedly. This continues long, not pray jet me speak. VY YOU Denys fidgeting more and more. DENYS, ALAIN politely :| The wind has gone down some- ° what. We know you. [ALAIN falls into a fit of silent D laughter. DENYS rtses and puts ENYS. [Lronicadly.| I am too honoured. ALAIN. Well? DENYs. You speak of a lady tome. You mistake me ALAIN. [I hope so. DENYS. Do not entrust a stranger with your family secrets, is my advice—as a man of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 163
… place. Why did you bring us here? Surely you know that to touch the cone is certain death to us?" Iliel understood. The human souls had long since made themselves perfect, true images of the cosmos, by accepting the formula of Love and Death; they had made the great sacrifice again and again; they were veterans of the spiritual world-war, and asked nothing better than to go back to the trenches. But these others were partial souls; they had not yet [230] attained humanity; they had not understood that in order to grow one must assimilate onese…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
… tion as far as possible. He must observe with ail the subtletv at his command whether it pains him to abandon any of these thoughts. So long as his mind is stirred, however slightly, by one single aspect of the subject, he is not fit to begin to form the figure. He must sink his persouality in that of the intel¬ ligence hearing the question propounded by a sîrarager to whom he is indifferent, but whom it is his business to serve faithfully. He must now run over the whole affair in his mind, making sure of his utter aloofness therefrom. He must…
1996 · PDF PAGE 65
…sus, offer oneself loveless to every love like Catherine, or find the body so vain as to enclose one’s lust in the soul and make one lifelong spinthria1 unassuaged in the imagination like Aubrey Beardsley, the means matter no whit. Bach takes one way, Keats one, Goya one. The end is everything: that by the act, what ever it is, one worships, loves, possesses, and becomes Nuit. 1 [“Seeing stars,” or spintherism, from omi^rip, “sparks.”] 2 [Shakespeare, Macbeth i, 7.] The act of love can no more “trammel up the consequence”1 2 than any other act…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…ck." "True." "Then you are an ass. I am talking magick. If you had only ears to hear!" "How?" "Everything's a magical phenomenon, in the long run. But war's magick, from the word jump. Come now therefore and let us reason together, saith the
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…wear thou as aforesaid. (50.) Furcas.—The Fiftieth Spirit is Furcas. He is a Knight, and appeareth in the Form of a Cruel Old Man with a long Beard and a hoary Head, riding upon a pale-coloured Horse, with a Sharp Weapon in his hand. His Office is to teach the Arts of Philosophy, Astrology, Rhetoric, Logic, Cheiromancy, and Pyromancy, in all their parts, and perfectly. He hath under his Power 20 Legions of Spirits. His Seal, or Mark, is thus made, etc. (51.) Batam.—The Fifty-first Spirit is Balam or Balaam. He is a Terrible, Great, and Powerful…
1912 · PDF PAGE 297
…orm the ceremonies with decorum ! Your reviewer is personally a staunch Tory, and cannot help preferring the “ Emulation " working which long years have endeared to him. But never will he consent to the foul hash of the 23rd Psalm (Milton’s, I suppose) here still printed. Colonel Forman shows a good deal of insight into the true meaning of Masonry,Iand a real understanding of the symbolism. He appears a suitable candidate for some more serious order, such as the M M M or even the O.T.O. H. Κ. Τ. TENTERHOOKS. By ADA LEVERSON. δε. MRS, LEVERSON i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 297
…orm the ceremonies with decorum ! Your reviewer is personally a staunch Tory, and cannot help preferring the “ Emulation " working which long years have endeared to him. But never will he consent to the foul hash of the 23rd Psalm (Milton’s, I suppose) here still printed. Colonel Forman shows a good deal of insight into the true meaning of Masonry,Iand a real understanding of the symbolism. He appears a suitable candidate for some more serious order, such as the M M M or even the O.T.O. H. Κ. Τ. TENTERHOOKS. By ADA LEVERSON. δε. MRS, LEVERSON i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…g every available force to bear upon the objective of the assault. It does not matter what the force is (by any standard of judgment) so long as it plays its proper part in securing the success of the general purpose. Thus, even laziness may be used to increase our indifférence to interfering impulses, or envy to counteract carelessness. See Liber CLXXV, Equinox I, VII, P. 37- This is especially true, since the forces are destroyed by the process. That is, one destroys a compiex which in itself is “evil” and puts its éléments to the one right u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
…DENYS. Is this Ovid or Horace? ALAIN, To business, then, if you will affect igno- rance. [Strikes gong; enter PRIEST, who gtves. DENYS a long keen glance and speaks in an undertone to ALAIN.] Is she in a better frame of mind? PRIEST. She is more resigned, my lord. ALAIN. Now a murrain o’ these languishing wenches in their green-sickness! By’r Lady, she is hard to please. A likely stripling, not ill-born, and the one of her own choosing. Why, what more would she have? PRIEST. The situation is not usual to a young damsel, and somewhat trying to h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…tion of the Magical Link arises! No matter how mighty the truth of Thelema, it cannot prevail unless it is applied to and by mankind. As long as the Book of the Law was in Manuscript, it could only affect the small group amongst whom it was circulated. It had to be put into action bv 112
1905 · PDF PAGE 9
…y That beams its torture, whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head, to wither Love’s desire? III. I was a child long years ago, it seems, Or months it may be—I am still a child ! They pictured me the stars as wheeling wild In a huge bow] of water; but my dreams Built it of Titan oak, its sides were piled Of fearful wood Hewn from God’s forests, paid with sweat and tears and blood. 1 Brothel. IV. I crept, a stealthy, hungry soul, to grasp Its vast edge, to look out to the beyond; To know. My eyes strained out, there was …
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
168 ORPHEUS And there [ 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. (Lavoking Aphrodite) Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the I'ather of all, the A2gis-bearing King ! Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering. Sweet sister unto me, I cry aloud to thee! I laugh upon thee laughing, O dew caught up from sea! Drawn by sharp sparrow and dove And swan’s wide…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…to measure fellow-parabolas, ellipses that cross his path, hyperbolas that span ail space with their twin wings. Perhaps he may corne at long last, leaping beyond the limits of his own law, to conceive that sublimely stupendous outrage to Reason, the Cône! Utterly inscrutable to him, he is yet well aware that he exists in the nature thereof, that he is necessary thereto, that he is ordered thereby, and that therefrom he is sprung, frcm the loins of so fearful a Father! His own infinity becomes zéro in relation to that of the least fragment of t…
1938 · PDF PAGE 8
…o had only felt the fear of that figure, feel the fascination. I understand that Hewhoever, whatever He may beis He for whom we all so long had waited. As I fix my eyes upon it, I become aware that its blackness against the light of the Star is only relative; and as I gain confidence in my sight, that darkness goes. The figure is a prism of pure crystalit is the distortion and interference with the Light it transmits which caused those phantoms of terror to dance their Witches' Sabbath on the moving miasma. And now I am drawn swiftly up by s…