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Page 80 of 2251930 · PDF PAGE 4
…nds from that prostrate position; with a thrill of holy exaltation he renews joyfully the Oath, feeling himself once again no longer the man but the Magician, yet not merely the Magician, but the chosen and appointed person to accomplish a task which, however apparently unimportant, is yet an intégral part of universal destiny, so that if it were not accomplished the Kingdom of Heaven would be burst in pièces. He is now ready to commence the invocations. He consequently pauses to cast a last glance around the Temple to assure himself of the per…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…ys be capable of precise definition. I am not sure whether you have my Little Essays Toward Truth. The first essay in the book entitled "Man" gives a full account of the five principles which go to make up Man according to the Qabalistic system. I have tried to define these terms as accurately as possible, and I think you will find them, in any case, clearer than those to which you have become accustomed with the Eastern systems. In India, by the way, no attempt is ever made to use these vague terms. They always have a very clear idea of what i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 181
…berty. We do not want “professional soldiers”, hired bravos sworn to have no souls of their own. They “dare not fight”; for how should a man dare to fight unless his cause be a love mightier than his love of life? Therefore they “play”; they have sold themselves; their Will is no more theirs; life is no longer a serious thing to them; therefore they wander wastrel in clubs and boudoirs and greenrooms; bridge, billiards, polo, petticoats puff out their emptiness; scratched for the Great Race of Life, they watch the Derby instead. Brave such may …
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
…nd, and those of Hermes on the other, at that period when initiation all over the world found it necessary, owing to the growth of the Roman empire, and the opening up of means of communication, to replace conflicting polytheisms by a synthetic faith. (This is absolutely new to me, this conception {720} of Christ as Mercury.) Some difficulty about the ... (This sentence is now quite unintelligible.) To continue the identification, compare Christ's descent into hell with the function of Hermes as guide of the dead. Also Hermes leading up Eurydic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 355
… Paris is not a stimulant to a poet of my calibre; I need to be face to face with God and see Him, and live. For when it is said that no man shall look upon His face and live, the emphasis must be on the word "man". It is the privilege of the poet that his life is fed by direct communication with nature, as a child in the womb of its mother. The man who is separate from nature, and is nourished by the gross food of his conscious impressions, produces only second-rate stuff. I feel the necessity of being absolutely shut off from the external uni…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…ing was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and shot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair? robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. And he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. And ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. ‘‘ Look,” said Death, ‘‘my sickle hath a cross-handle. See how they grow like flowers!” ‘‘Give me salt!” quo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 109
…red. O dim sleep, Over her eyelids creep! The world of dreams is shapen fair Beyond a mortal’s nod: A fragrant and a sunny air Smiles: a man’s kisses vanish there, Grow kisses of a god ; And in dreams’ darkness subtly grows No Earth-flowered bloom of rose. O dreams of love and peace, draw nigh ! Hover with shadowy wings! Let shining shapes of ecstasy Cover the frail blue veil of sky, And speak immortal things ! Dream, lady, dream through summer noon, Lulled by the sleepy tune! The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where…
1905 · PDF PAGE 6
…following fragment. Its date is 1886 or 1887.) I TERROR, and darkness, and horrid despair ! Agony painted upon the once fair Brow of the man who refused to give up The love of the wine-filled, the o’erflowing cup. “ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” No wine in death is his torment assuaging. II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Just what the parson had told me when young : Just what the people in chapel have sung : “ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” . . . . . . . Desunt cetera. (It should be noted that this fragment is of a wildly …
1913 · PDF PAGE 107
…e Abyss, this weapon is then entirely destructive: it divides Satan against Satan. It is only in the lower forms of Magick, the purely human forms, that the Sword has become so important a weapon. A dagger should be sufficient. But the mind of man is normally so important to him that the sword 95
1954 · PDF PAGE 8
56 Marriage-Property-War Politics 353 57 Beings I Have Seen with My Physical Eye 356 58 Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? 362 59 Geomancy 367 60 Knack 371 61 Power and Authority 374 62 The Elastic Mind 378 63 Fear: A Bad Astral Vision 380 64 Magical Power 391 65 Man 395 66 Vampires 397 67 Faith 403 68 The God-Letters 407 69 Original Sin 415 70 Morality (I) 419 71 Morality (2) 425 72 Education 430 73 "Monsters," Niggers, Jews 442 74 Obstacles on the Path 446 75 The A:. A :. and the Planet 453 76 The Gods:-How and Why They Overlap 464 77 Wor…
1919 · PDF PAGE 402
… he fell into a state in which the unconsciousness both of sensations and of ideas had wholly passed away.” What rubbish! Here we have a man with no experience of the states which he is trying to describe; for Prof. Rhys- Davids, many though are his virtues, is not Buddha, and this man is attempting to translate highly technical terms into a language in which those technical terms not only have no equivalent, but have nothing in the remotest degree capable of being substituted for an equivalent. This is character- istic of practically all writi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 192
… myself together and write it up. —_—- It was about five o’clock when I got to Mount Street. If Mabel wasn’t in, I could wait. A strange man answered the door. It annoyed me. I felt frightened. Why had she changed Cartwright ? I felt faint. Had something told me? It embarrassed me to ask ‘‘ Is Mrs. Black at home ? ” The man answered as if he had been asked the time. “ Mrs. Black is dead.”
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…inter- vais of some centuries ; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make Personal progress équivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living. The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will is en…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…bjectively, it is not true for him, because not useful for him. (Said we not a while ago that Truth was no more than the Most Convenient Manner of Statement?) . ^ may intoxicate and exalt the Seer, it may inspire and fortify him in every way, it may throw light upon most holy mysteries, yet withal be no more than an interprétation of the individual to himself, the formula not of Abraham but of Onan. These plastic "Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man” are well enough for those who hâve heard “Know Thyself”. They are necessary, even, to assist…
1906 · PDF PAGE 105
… AEETES. I love him little. Yet my words were true, Nor would it skill him aught if myriad mén Bucklered his back and breast. For when a man Batters with sword-hilt at the frowning gates That lead to the Beyond, not human force— Hardly the favour of the gods themsel ves— Shall stead him in that peril. CHORUS. Yet we know Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods ! CHORUS. If only he Know who he is—that all these gods and men And things are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you hope. Await the en…
1899 · PDF PAGE 183
…So calm and still and far, that never more Thy silken song shall quiver through the land ; Only by coral isle, by lonely strand Where no man dwells, thy voice re-wakens wild and grand. Thou artan Aphrodite. From the foam Of golden grape and red thou risest up Immaculate ; thou hast an ebon comb Of shade and silence, and a jasper cup Wherein are mingled all desires. Thine home Is in the forest shade. M
1902 · PDF PAGE 53
…king ! Hail to Thee ! I am afraid, I also, I myself ! Help ! lover, Venus, mistress of my life ! I cannot bear the glory of the gaze. No man shall look upon the face of God ! Where art thou } Save me from the scorpion ! I am — alone ! Hathoor. Light, Truth, arise, arise ! TannhAuser. I see— I see ! All blinded by the Light — Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life, the Love ! Thou, Whom I sought through ages of deep sleep Forgotten when I died. There is no death : Change alternating ; and forgetfulness Of one state in the other—easy truth I could…
1903 · PDF PAGE 64
THE SIXTEENTH DAY “ My chastity’s the jewel of our house Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i’ th’ world For me to lose.” All’s Well. There was no secret cave of the wood’s womb Where we might kiss all day without a start Of fear that meant to stay and must depart, Nor any corner where the sea’s perfume Might shelter love in some wave-carven tomb. But Maytime shone in us ; with words of art I drew her down reluctant to my heart, When night was silence and my bed the gloom. So without sin we took strange sacrame…
1905 · PDF PAGE 89
…are loud to herald thee : my prayers Keener to follow. I do aspire, as thy long sunbeam slants Upon my crown ; I do aspire to thee As no man yet—I am in ecstasy ! Hear me, Apollo ! My chant wakes elemental flakes of light Flashing along the sandal-footed floor. All listening spirits answer and adore Thee, the amazing ! I follow to the eagle-baffling sight, Limitless oceans of abounding space ; Purposed to bind myself, but know thy face, Phœbus, in gazing.
1911 · PDF PAGE 56
…ke spurs in the flanks of a weary horse? Nor heart nor clock could feel remorse, But kept their definite deadly course, Jeanne I Alas! for man, for his life’s disaster: The clock beats fast, but a heart beats faster.