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Page 86 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 27
… I formulated the ambition to become a shining light in Christianity by doing this thing that had never yet been done. This idea, by the way, is very characteristic. I am totally unable to take any interest in doing anything which has been done before. But tell me of an alleged impossibility; and health, wealth, life itself are nothing. I am out to do it. The apparent discrepancy in the gospel narrative aroused no doubt in my mind as to the literal truth of either of the texts. Indeed, my falling away from grace was not occasioned by any intell…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…o do so, and that figures appear, let him at ail costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward ! “5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and ail his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. “6. At last there must corne a moment when his whole being is …
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
… of ail Magick. These secrets are of suprême practical importance, and are guarded in the Sanctuary with a two-edged sword flaming every way 2 y for this sacrament is the Tree of Life itself, and whoso partaketh of the fruit thereof shall never die 3. Unless he so will. Who would not rather work through incarna¬ tion; a real renewal of body and brain, than content himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth ? 1. The Lance and the Graal are fïrstly dedicated to the Holy Spirit of Life, i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…as 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 that analysis of one’s nature which the Probationer of A.-. A.*, is sworn to accomplish. But "Love i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 93
…al and opposite relation. We have thus Matter that both is and is not, Motion that both moves and moves not, interacting in a variety of ways which is infinite to manifest individuals, each of which is unlike any other, yet is symmetrically supported by its counterpart. Note that even at the centre of gravity of the cube no two rays are identical except in mere length. They differ as to their point of contact with the circle, their right ascension, and their relation with the other points of the cube. 1 [Sir Arthur] Eddington, [Space, Time and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 527
…ty. I was sitting at my desk, working. To my surprised annoyance, the Camel suddenly began to have visions. I shut off my hearing in the way I have learnt to do; but after some five minutes babbling she pierced my defences by some remark concerning an egg under a palm tree. This aroused me instantly, for the last instruction given to myself and Soror Virakam was to go to the desert and look for just that thing. I saw then a kind of continuity between those visions and these. It was as if the intelligence communicating were taking up the story a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 105
…ORUS. Surely thy tender years and gentle looks Belie such hatred to our king! I scorn To triumph on an enemy once fallen. MEDEA. Fools always! Iam tenderer than my years, And gentler than my glances. CHORUS. Sayst thou—what ? MEDEA. Ye know me a most powerful sorceress. CHORUS. So I have heard, O lotus-footed! one ! Nathless I see not any miracle. MEDEA. Last night the heavy-hearted audience Broke up, and Jason wended wearily His way, oppressed by direful bodements of The fate of this forenoon. J] saw him go | Sad, and remembered how sublime he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…s. Hail! he holloaed To the new Rahan! whom he bowed to greet Kissing the earth: O holy master, say If a fair female hath passed by this way ! Vv. The Bhikkhu blessed the irritated man. Then the slow sloka? serpentine began: ‘‘ Friend ! neither man nor woman owns This being’s high perception, owed Only to Truth ; nor beams nor stones Support the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light ; discedes From dark and deliquescent night, From futile thoughts and fatuous deeds. Your girl, your gems, your mo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 256
…ing ; but for another, and this is really more important, they fit up the inter- stices of shadow. It’s hard, I imagine, in the ordinary way, to come off one’s honeymoon back into regular life. I often wonder how a poet feels when he isn’t absorbed in the ecstasy of inspiration. That may be why so may of them go off the deep end, the interstices bore them. I may as well face the facts. We've had a pretty narrow escape. We've got out of the mess more by good luck than by good judgment. But if it weren't for that, I’m not sure that we shouldn’t b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 52
…oga to his face, one of the legion of lost souls that woman had withered; behind him groped blind Samson, disinherited Adam, feeling his way along the table where they had piled countless papyri writ with woes of kings and sages woman-wrecked, and many a map of towns and temples torn and trampled beneath the feet of Love, their ashes smouldering still, and smoky with song to witness how Astarte’s breath had kindled and consumed them. Extinguished empires owned that their doom was the device of Venus, her ven geance on virility. 1 [The mathemat…
1996 · PDF PAGE 100
Chapter II a Verses 13—20 101 There is no contradiction here, by the way, with verses 4 and 5. The words “know me” are used loosely as is natural in a stanza; or, more likely, are used (as in the English Bible) to suggest the root Vgn, identity in transcendental ecstasy. Possibly “not” and “me” are once more intended to apply to Nuit. With “know” itself, they may be “Nothing under its three forms”1 of negativity, action, and individuality. 1 [From “Liber Trigrammaton sub figura XXVII,” The Holy Books of Thelema (The Equinox 111(9)) (1983), p. 4…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…an act commits it; but I feel that this is no place for metaphysical hair- splitting; let us prove what we have to prove in the plainest way. I would premise in the first place that to commit adultery in the Divorce Court sense is not here in question. It assumes too much proprietary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—-the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily suppose that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandon…
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
…tly need not fear the result. I have all the health, and treasure, and logic, I need; I have no time to waste. ‘‘ There is a lion in the way,” For me these practices are useless ; but for the benefit of others less fortunate I give them to the world, together with this explanation of, and apology for, them. I trust that the explanation will enable many students who have hitherto, by a puerile objectivity in their view of the question, obtained no results, to succeed; that the apology may impress upon our scornful men of science that the study o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…r this reason do we leave much herein to the right Ingenium of the Philosophus. 12. Concernlng the life of the devotee. -— First let his way of life be such as is pleasing to the particular Deity. Thus to invoke Neptune, let him go a-fishing3 but if Hades, let him not approach the water that is hateful to Him. 392
1905 · PDF PAGE 92
…- man here. Mark his lips muttering, and his meaningless Furious gestures, and indignant eyes Starting, and hard-drawn breath! Lim lead away Tenderly, as beseems the mercy shown To his repentance by this maiden queen. The Lord is merciful to them that show Mercy, and all such as are pure of heart ; Thy crown, Adulah, wears a double flower Of these fair blossoms wreathed in one device Of perfect love in perfect maidenhood. JARED [recovering himself). Nay, but my voice must fill the song of joy With gratitude, and meet thanksgiving. Me More than …
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…on of all that one is and all that one has to the Great Work, without reservation of any sort. This must be kept constantly in mind; the way to do this is to practice Liber Resh vel Helios, sub figura CC, pp. 42S-426-Magick. There is another version of these Adorations, slightly fuller; but those
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
…y—“rest.” Well, rest is better than torment or ennui; and “May he rest in peace” is, it would seem, the best that Christianity can do by way of hope for the “departed.” “Rest”; not activity of any valid kind on some further plane of being. This Book will also illuminate that extremely important human concern of what is now usually known as “Sex,” a con cern which Christianity has always, to put it very mildly, rather obscured than illuminated. Christian “morality” is in its essence anti-sexual or “sexophobic”; here, most evidently, “the praxis…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…th a lever of lath. Awake, awake only! let there be ever re- membrance that Existence is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of Desire, its Creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of Desire; nor is a task so formidable accomplished by any threepenny-bit- in-the-plate-on-Sunday morality, the '‘ deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself ” uprightness, bu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
…ot John ! shut that door. daughter is at dinner in that room. allow you to enter. BRANDON. That’s where he is, you scoundrel. Out of the way, fool! [Avwcking JOHN over, bursts the door open and enters.] There you are, you snivelling little swine. My God! to think that damned puppy’s my son! Come out of it ! : VAUu..an Lwho has entered andrung the bell for the servants). I shall have you locked up for assaulting my servant.
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…ow Nothing can part them for ever. And so, Muse, hover o’er me! Apollo, above her ! I, of the Moderns, have let alone Greek.” Out of the way Intuition shall shove her. Spirit and Truth in my darkness I seek. Little by little they bubble and leak ; Such as I have to the world I discover. Words—are they weak ones at best? They shall speak ! VOL, IL K Apology of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valu- able fact for use of lovers. Invocation. Imperfect scholastic at- tainments of author reme- died by his great spiritual insight. His intention.