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Page 88 of 1041996 · PDF PAGE 182
…nd our staff to stay us as we ascend our mountain-ridge; and it is only if we go down into the dark ness of mines to dig us treasure of earth that we need fear to choke on their poisonous breath. 58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers! Commentary: “the keen”: these are the men whose Will is as a sword sharp and straight, tempered and ground and polished its flawless steel; with a Wrist and an Eye behind it. “the proud”: these are the men who know themselves to be stars, and bend the knee to none. True pride pr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…I command thee, at the which being heard the elements are overthrown, the air is shaken, the sea runneth back, the fire is quenched, the earth trembleth, and all the hosts of the celestials, terrestrials, and infernals do tremble together, and are troubled and confounded. Wherefore come thou, O Spirit N., forthwith, and without delay, from any or all parts of the world wherever thou mayest be, and make rational answers unto all things that I shall demand of thee. Come thou peaceably, visibly, and affably, now, and without delay, manifesting tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 56
36 KONX OM PAX earth-rise! How wonderful are the dark shadows on yon silver globe! They are like a hare, like a dog, like a bally great rabbit with its tail in its mouth. One would say a young virgin in pink sandals with her hair in curl papers.” (For the man in the moon has read Maeterlinck and the divine Oscar.) The Angel replied: “0 Man in the Moon, this is an error which is spoken concerning silver globes, hares, dogs, rabbits, Virgins, pink slippers, and the ubiquitous products of the immortal Hinde. Let us examine more closely l” Tucking …
1909 · PDF PAGE 253
…d Severity, the one . former being white and in Netzach, the latter black and in Hod. Their bases are cubical and black to represent the Earth Element in Malkuth; the columns are respectively white and black to manifest eternal Balance of the Scales of Justice. [Concatari [Hicroppert |[ Pose ][Promenstval Thoth || Oscees | |'sarebpant] [tow toes * Stands for Chokmah, and 77 for Binah, } for the rest except Malkuth which is the final 7. } Father, and (Glorified) Mother. } The Theosophical term ‘Higher Self,” is usually termed in the G.+. D.-. “G…
1909 · PDF PAGE 253
…d Severity, the one . former being white and in Netzach, the latter black and in Hod. Their bases are cubical and black to represent the Earth Element in Malkuth; the columns are respectively white and black to manifest eternal Balance of the Scales of Justice. [Concatari [Hicroppert |[ Pose ][Promenstval Thoth || Oscees | |'sarebpant] [tow toes * Stands for Chokmah, and 77 for Binah, } for the rest except Malkuth which is the final 7. } Father, and (Glorified) Mother. } The Theosophical term ‘Higher Self,” is usually termed in the G.+. D.-. “G…
1954 · PDF PAGE 481
… hide under the broad skirts of the Qabalah! It's Disk, Sword, Cup and Wand again! Sorry, but c'est trap fort pour moi. Disks. To master Earth, remember that the Disk is always spinning; fix this idea, get rid of its solidity. Commonly, the first tests of the young Aspirant refer to cash-"that's God's sole solid in this world." The proper magical attitude is very hard to describe. (I'm not talking of that black hen's egg any mbre; that is simple.) Very sorry to have to say it, but it is not unlike that of the spendthrift. Money must circulate, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
… the mere utilitarian. ‘ A Sonnet of Blasphemy ’ may be given as an average specimen of our poet’s verse and sentiments:— ‘ Exalted over earth, from hell arisen, There sits a woman, ruddy with the flame Of men’s blood spilt, and her uncleanly shame, And the thrice-venemous vomit of her prison. She sits as one long dead ; infernal calm, Chill hatred, wrap her in their disdainly cold. She careth not, but doth disdainly hold Three scourges for man’s soul, that know no balm. They know not any cure. The first is Life, A well of poison. Sowing dust a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…ose ail in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour and pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye corne to my joy. I charge you earnestly to corne before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am ail pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: corne unto …
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…ations by introduction of the movements of the whole system as such. And for this purpose the Sun is a more convenient standard than the Earth.) 1 [Actually a million billion (British) or a million trillion (American).] 2 [A Buddhist concept, Pali sammasati.] There is another Way that we may take, if we will; I say “another,” though it seems perhaps to some no more than a development of the other which happens to be proper to some people. Even in the first Way, it is of all things necessary to begin by exploring one’s own Nature, so as to disco…
1954 · PDF PAGE 245
…n point of view. Exhibit No.1: Galileo and that lot. What could it possibly matter to the Gospel story that people should think that the Earth moves round the Sun? (Riemann, and oh! such a lot of things, have shown that it didn't and doesn't! This sort of "Truth" is only a set of conventions.) "Oh, don't gas away like this! I want to know what to do about it. Am I to accept this 'caterwauling Gamut, and enlarge my Mind, and call it an Initiation? Or am I to nail my own of-all-Truth Tonic Solfa to the Mast, and go down into the Maelstrom of Insa…
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
… letting the speaking self deny the purpose which produced it. If one’s true Will, the reason of one’s incarnation, be to bring peace on earth, one must not perform an act of love with motives of jealousy or emulation.
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
… Is potent everywhere ; Creation waits the event: In silence, without sighing, The living and the dying, Oppressed and putrefying, Curse earth and firmament. What dreams disturb my slumber, Or what sights seen? Foul orgies without number In dens and caves obscene, Accurst, detestable, Ah God ! the shapes that throng! Ah God! what eyes! The souls grown sharp and strong That my lips made their prize, The ruined souls, the wrecks Of bodies fair of flecks Long since, ere God did vex My soul with sacrifice. These press upon my lips What lips of flam…
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…tant Knowledge ; 3 that no Art offers such opportunités to the ambi- 1. If it did so, how could we call it duplex? 2. The history of the Earth is included in the period of some such relation; so that we cannot possibly be sure that we may deny: Malarial fever is a function of the présent precession of the Equinoxes”. 3. Magick is less liable to lead to error than any other Science, because its terms are interchangeable, by définition, so that it is based on relativity from the start. We run no risk of asserting absolute propo¬ sitions. Furtherm…
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…t, nor is reborn, but goeth radiant ever upon His Way. Even so goeth the Sun: for as it is now known that night is but the shadow of the Earth, so Death is but the shadow of the Body, that veileth his Light from its bearer. Of this Prophet the Word is ¸ µ»· ¼± Many and marvelous are the mysteries of this Word, and of the Numeration thereof! Nor may I declare them, save this the simplest, for the sake of little children: Love is the law, love under will. The chart was suddenly furled close, and mine Instructor bade me turn: for there had come …
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…eeling that the physical spasm is symbolic of that mir acle of the Mass, by which the material wafer, composed of the passive elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the sub stance of the Body of God, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. It is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half-intellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, which has driven him to fence the act about with tabus. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. His fear has created phantoms, and his malob…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
…nceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. I take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. Such a child must partake of its father’s nature; and its character will be determined, partly by the environment in which it is bred to manifestation, lives, and ulti mately changes in …
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…who cast thee out of heaven with all other infernal spirits; and by all the most powerful and great names of Gop who created Heaven, and Earth, and Hell, and all things in them contained; and by their power and virtue; and by the name PRimMEuMATON who commandeth the whole host of Heaven; that thou mayest cause, enforce, and compel the Spirit N. to come unto me here before this Circle in a fair and comely shape, without harm unto me or unto any other creature, to answer truly and faithfully unto all my requests ; so that I may accomplish my will…
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…omradeship that quickens to abide, To own an Emperor where she mocked a A bond of justice, light, and liberty, king : | To make the wide earth free 1 This poem was written shortly after the. As the wild waves that slake the passion of Spanish war. ; the sea. 136
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…untain of light? Is thy fugitive way Lost in uttermost night? Shalt thou not obey, Or my lyre not affright, If I call thee by Heaven and Earth with a God’s tumultuous might? If I curse thee or chide Shalt thou tremble not, Thou? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my arrows divide Not the heart of thee now? Art thou cased in strong iron to mock the spells that all others avow? Art thou muffled or hidden In adamant brass? Is my music forbidden In Orcus to pass? Have I cursed thee and chidden? My flesh being grass, I curse not…
1907 · PDF PAGE 207
…lory shall shed Respite, deserve her From gulfs of the dead. Ah me! let it nerve her These conduits to tread That lead to the fervour Of earth overhead ! Fire, thou dear splendour Of uppermost space, Turn to me tender Thine emerald face ! Thy rubies be blended With diamond light ! Thy sapphires be splendid, Extended to sight ! The portals be rended That govern the night, And the guardians bended To magical might ! O air of the glorious Garb of the globe, Don thy victorious Glittering robe ! The sun is before us; The moon is above. Rise and ador…