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Page 86 of 1541911 · PDF PAGE 279
…d! Bid thy pale Hermit bleed, Yet life exude; And Wisdom and the Word of Him Drench the mute mind grown dim With quietude! Fix thy sharp lightnings in my night! My spirit free! Mix with my breath and life and name thy mood And self of Thee. [SOR. GEMINI plays meow’z'nglyf [A short fame. FR. GEMINI. Master, be it thy pleasure to perform the In- vocation of Mercury. [All PROBATIONERS rise and/27in the four others m from of the alta;/.] MERCURY. [Lem/es throne] Majesty of the Godhead, Wisdom-crowned Thoth, Lord of the Gates of the Universe: Thee, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
…d, My excellent lord ! and soto part. MORTADELLO. Draw out my sword ! [She does so. So, sweet, while faintest fear can threat my troth-plight wife Shall its blade quiver and ache and fret to have her life. Be reassured. MAGDALENA. Death sits, your vassal, in your eyes. MORTADELLO. I swear by Mary and the Mass, your rival dies. MAGDALENA. Then go, my knight and king. I love you. MORTADELLO. Queen, good-night ! [He steps from the gondola. MAGDALENA. God and his angels watch above you. MORTADELLO. At the light You may expect my news. MAGDALENA. S…
1944 · PDF PAGE 170
… Aries to the 20th degree of Taurus. The figure of this Prince is meditative. He is the element of Earth become intelligible. Clothed in light armour, his helmet is crowned with the head of a bull; and his chariot is drawn by an ox, this animal being peculiarly sacred to the Element of Earth. In his left hand he holds his disk, which is an orb resembling a globe, marked with mathematical symbols as if to imply the planning involved in agriculture. In his right hand he bears an orbed sceptre sur‐ mounted by a cross, a symbol of the Great Work ac…
1899 · PDF PAGE 16
…ce, Ye Gadarean swine, too foul to fling Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back, to your mother filth! With hope, and youth Love, light, and power, and mastery of truth
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
… song joins the crowd. We need not (to be heard) to thunder loud. Our hearts are lifted up, our heads with love low bowed. The tenderest light, the deepest hidden, is shed Up through dark earth—your home, O happy dead !— Crusted in darkness lie the secret lights. Formed in the agony of earth as tears, Clothed in the crystal mirror of the years, We dwell, sweet-hearted nun-like eremites ! Diamond and ruby, topaz and sapphire, Emerald and amethyst, one clear bright fire, We are earth’s stars below, as she above hath Night’s. Our sweet clean song …
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…invocation, June 9-10, 1910 O.S.) ALL the hot summer I lay in the darkness, Calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, Slay me with light in the heat of the summer; But the winds had no answer for one who was fallen Asleep by the wayside, with no lyre to charm them, No voice of the lyre, and no song to charm them. Late as I lay there asleep by the wayside, I heard a voice call to me, low in the silence, There in the darkness the summer called to me: “Thou who art hidden in the green silence, Let a time of quietness come now upon thee. Lay …
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…invocation, June 9-10, 1910 O.S.) ALL the hot summer I lay in the darkness, Calling on the winds to pass by me and slay me, Slay me with light in the heat of the summer; But the winds had no answer for one who was fallen Asleep by the wayside, with no lyre to charm them, No voice of the lyre, and no song to charm them. Late as I lay there asleep by the wayside, I heard a voice call to me, low in the silence, There in the darkness the summer called to me: “Thou who art hidden in the green silence, Let a time of quietness come now upon thee. Lay …
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
…ty squirms. MONICA. Then Mortadello has not slipped off to the worms ? No ? All the better in the end ! Your eyes shall blaze With a new light. Ay ! foe and friend in stunned amaze Shall see a slight not Christendom saw yet ! Now then, Where is Orlando ? Will he come, black pearl of men ? LUCREZIA. He comes to greet your Highness. MONICA. Now ? LUCREZIA. He is on the way. MONICA. Then theres good hope. Not vain the vow ! LUCREZIA. Oh !if I may ! While we await him, let me ask your aid in turn. MONICA. Could I refuse you aught ? LUCREZIA. The…
1912 · PDF PAGE 58
…lean over by fever; spent pm. in bed drunk with Dover’s Powder. Quite sufficiently ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read a light novel. 8. Feeble but convalescent. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, save where politeness calls, and calls loud. ΙΗ take life too easy, the Great Retirement will be harder: on the other hand an asceticism to no instant purpose may exhaust me for the struggle when it comes. One of those rare cases w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 58
…lean over by fever; spent pm. in bed drunk with Dover’s Powder. Quite sufficiently ill to excuse slackness: e. g. I could not even read a light novel. 8. Feeble but convalescent. A . '. nevertheless pretty good for concentration and sincerity; not notable for result. I think I had better begin to renounce idle things, save where politeness calls, and calls loud. ΙΗ take life too easy, the Great Retirement will be harder: on the other hand an asceticism to no instant purpose may exhaust me for the struggle when it comes. One of those rare cases w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 144
…ams of men . At dawn the sun called forth the hosts of leaves Marshalled to hail him in bright green and gold , Paling before him in the light of noon , Rich - clad in evening , as though each still leaf Spoke strange dreams to the sky and setting sun In speech to men and beasts inscrutable . Then night , hushing the day , brought them to sleep , And , haunted , woke the phantoms of still shapes Tossing their muted shadows ' gainst the sky In wild - haired phantasy of plaint unseen . Mighty and stern the earthborn trunks beneath Bore up the mys…
1944 · PDF PAGE 126
…, for they all gather themselves into a wheel that spins with incredible velocity. It hath many colours, but all are thrilled with white light, so that they are transparent and luminous. This one wheel is forty‐nine wheels, set at different angles, so that they compose a sphere; each wheel has forty‐nine spokes, and has forty nine concentric tyres at equal distances from the centre. And wherever 1Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici, the motto of the Master Therion as an 8°=3° 2The Vision and the Voice (4th Aethyr.) the rays from any two wheels meet, t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 160
…ody is naked, but she wears a gleaming belt and a sarong. Her helmet is crested by the head of a child, and from it stream sharp rays of light, illuminating her empire of celestial dew. In her right hand, she bears a sword; in her left hand, the newly severed head of a bearded man. She is the clear, conscious perception of Idea, the Liberator of the Mind. The person symbolized by this card should be intensely perceptive, a keen observer, a subtle interpreter, an intense individualist, swift and accurate at recording ideas; in action confident, …
1961 · PDF PAGE 170
…attuor Virtutibus S#inu (Of the Four Powers of the Sphinx) EE now our Sphinx, with what Subtility and Art is She made Whole! Here is thy Light, the Lion, the Necessity of thy Nature, fortified by thy Life, the Bull, the Power of Works, and guided by thy Liberty, the Man, the Wit to adapt Action to Environment. These are three Virtues in One, necessary to all proper Motion, as I may say in a Figure, the Lust of the Archer, the propulsive Force of his Arm, and the equilibrating and directing Control of his Eye. Of these three if one fail, he Mark…
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
…he roar of blazing cressets that environ The form that fuses in the perfect pang. A blast of air thorough the molten iron— One scream of light. Creating silence drops Into that silence when creation — stops. -— 112 — XIII So — é finita la commedia. ‘ And if the King lke not the comedy ” (Twine in your hair the fallen gardenia!) ‘“ Why then, belike he likes it not, pardie! " What will the “ King’’ — the British Public — say When they perceive their sorrow was my fun, Their Hecuba my mocking Brinvilliers? * I neither know nor care. What we have d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 93
…The foundation, because the elementary practices recommended in the book are the foundation of all the work. X. Porta Lucis, the Gate of Light, is one of the titles of Malkuth, whose number is X. XI. Avconcentration of the title N V, whose value is 56, and 6 and 5 are 11. (See CCXX. I, i. and II, i.) XIII. The number of Achad= Unity, and the title is perhaps intended to show that all paths of attainment are essential. XVI. The key of the Tarot numbered XVI is the Lightning Struck Tower. XVII. IA O adds up to 17. XXV. The square of 5, this being…
1913 · PDF PAGE 517
…ne could not see what does not exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina- tions. If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they receive them? These images projected by the complete nervous organism of the medium, can they not affect the complete organism of those who, voluntarily or no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 93
…The foundation, because the elementary practices recommended in the book are the foundation of all the work. X. Porta Lucis, the Gate of Light, is one of the titles of Malkuth, whose number is X. XI. Avconcentration of the title N V, whose value is 56, and 6 and 5 are 11. (See CCXX. I, i. and II, i.) XIII. The number of Achad= Unity, and the title is perhaps intended to show that all paths of attainment are essential. XVI. The key of the Tarot numbered XVI is the Lightning Struck Tower. XVII. IA O adds up to 17. XXV. The square of 5, this being…
1913 · PDF PAGE 517
…ne could not see what does not exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina- tions. If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they receive them? These images projected by the complete nervous organism of the medium, can they not affect the complete organism of those who, voluntarily or no…
1901 · PDF PAGE 101
…without a plan To fill his belly. Wretched did he roam Begging through London. On a winter's night His daughter found him, frozen in the light Of some cold lamp: her wheels triumphant roll. She laughed with Hell, and cursed him from her soul. Then suddenly came pity. She commands The carriage to stay still. For nigh an hour She set her teeth and clenched her gauded hands. Alternate gusts her swaying soul devour.