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Page 88 of 1211905 · PDF PAGE 270
…hroated, mouthed as the cave-roll- ing sea ; I lift the cup : deep draughts of blue Lethean ! My wine to me. O Light of day, O torch O lamentable season of Apollo, When swoops his glory to the golden wave ! As all his children, so their lord shall follow ! The flower he slew, the maiden he would save, As Itylus,? light woven, tuned! Oh swallow, Bewail their grave! The gracious breast of Artemis may light me_ To men—yet loved I ever Artemis? Surely the vine-song and the dance delight me, The sea-blue bowers where Aphrodite is, Terrible gods and …
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
The Hierophant to friends, Nine b y nature, Naught by attainment, Five by fonction. In speech swift, subtle and secret j in thought créative, unbiassed, unboundedj in act gentle, patient and persistent. Hermes to hear, Dionysus to touch, Pan to behold. A Virgin, a Babe, and a Beast! A Liar, an Idiot, and a Master of Men! A kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! Take ten that be one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six! Thy wand to al] Cups, and thy Disk to ail Swords, but betray not thine Egg! Mo…
1947 · PDF PAGE 8
…langour, force and fire, are of us. Beware lest any force another, King against King ! Love one another with burning hearts ; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water ; a feast for life and a greater feast for death ! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture ! Aye ! feast ! rejoice ! there is no dread hereafter. Dost thou fail ? Art thou sorry ? Is fear in thine heart ? Where …
1954 · PDF PAGE 488
…ned with the Renaissance.) This time there is no civilization which can escape being involved in the totality of the catastrophe. Achievement of high aims, which tends ultimately to the well-being, the prosperity of the republic , depends on the proportion of masters to servants . The stability of a building depends on the proportion of superstructure to foundations. The rule holds good in every department of Nature. There is an optimum for every case. If there is one barber for ten thousand men, most of them will remain unshorn; if there are f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 164
… does apply pretty well the came to their infinite diversity. God help the traveller who punishes his servants unjustly! His lack of judgment show them a weak point of which they can take advantage to avenge themselves in a thousand ways. On the other hand, one is even more despised if one fails to visit intentional misbehaviour with the full penalty of the law. I was far from well. Various symptoms of malaria kept on cropping up and I was in constant pain with pityriasis versicolor, which is a form of the {281} so-called dhobi itch (a dhobi is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 377
…ssibly add anything to that small pattern of our race. I decided, in consequence, to slay him, during his sleep, so that a useless impediment be done away with. As the four men, since the wreck of our ship, were sunk in a state of torpor and only stared at me with vacant looks, it proved easy to settle this slight matter. I removed the body; and left to time and the natural dryness of the air the care of dividing its various elements. The man-whose-nose-sings-at-will was the first to notice the absence of the sailor, but he said nothing to me. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 377
…ssibly add anything to that small pattern of our race. I decided, in consequence, to slay him, during his sleep, so that a useless impediment be done away with. As the four men, since the wreck of our ship, were sunk in a state of torpor and only stared at me with vacant looks, it proved easy to settle this slight matter. I removed the body; and left to time and the natural dryness of the air the care of dividing its various elements. The man-whose-nose-sings-at-will was the first to notice the absence of the sailor, but he said nothing to me. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
… (for if there were any duplica- tion or omission, there would be no perfection in the whole). The reasonable creatures of the earth and men, let them vex and weed out one another (this is, the destruction of reason by internecine conflicts in the course of redemption). And their dwelling places, let them forget their names. (This is, the arising of Nemo.) The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. (That is, in the Great Work man must lose his personality.) His building, let it be a cave for the Beast of the Field. (“ His building ” mea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…r friend had been hanged a few days before, and that anyone who knew him might expect a similar solution to his troubles! The two Englishmen were thrown into prison, but broke out and bolted down the river. The hue and cry was raised; but, just as their pursuers were closing in on them, the managed to steal a fishing smack, with which they put out into the oúen Atlantic. Luckily, a few days later, when they were on {163} the brink of starvation, they fell in with an English steamer bound for Liverpool. The captain picked them up and took them h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 523
…, delirium set upon the throne of truth, oracles which write for the salvation of the human race the word attributed to Cambronne, great men who leave the serenity of their eternal destinies to make our furniture dance, and to hold with us conversations like those which Beroalde de Verville! makes them hold, in Le Moyen de Parvenir. All this is a great pity; and yet, in America, all this is 1 Born in 1538—died in 1612, Author of Le Moyen de Parvenir. The Bibliophile Jacob suggests that Verville stole his Woyen de Parvenir from a lost book of Ra…
1913 · PDF PAGE 523
…, delirium set upon the throne of truth, oracles which write for the salvation of the human race the word attributed to Cambronne, great men who leave the serenity of their eternal destinies to make our furniture dance, and to hold with us conversations like those which Beroalde de Verville! makes them hold, in Le Moyen de Parvenir. All this is a great pity; and yet, in America, all this is 1 Born in 1538—died in 1612, Author of Le Moyen de Parvenir. The Bibliophile Jacob suggests that Verville stole his Woyen de Parvenir from a lost book of Ra…
1954 · PDF PAGE 70
… them to find their own paths and pursue them. Every man that becomes a Magician helps others to do likewise. The more firmly and surely men move, and the more such action is accepted as the standard of morality, the less will conflict and confusion hamper humanity.) Well, here endeth the First Lesson. That seems to me to cover the ground fairly well; at least, that is what I have to say when serious analysis is on the agenda:
1996 · PDF PAGE 99
100 The Law is for All the fulfilment of the Magical Formula of Hadit and Nuit. And to know Nuit is the very definition of “joy.” The next verse confirms this: “thou” (the Beast) “wast the knower” (Hadit) “and” (united with) “me” (Nuit, as in Cap. I, verse 51 and others). Finally, Nuit is indicated by two different symbols, “not” (Grk. OY) and “me” (Grk. MH). Now OY MH was my Motto in the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus; Aiwaz thus subtly reminds me that I was pledged to deny the assertions of my intellectual and moral consciousness. He combines in t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 206
… who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of …
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…s jammed ; for I flung it aboard the distressed ship in the teeth of a fearful gale, and held it there for hours while the grateful sea- men swung to land in buckets. I have also, she continued more shyly, derived some gratification of a sensual nature from its employment. But noth- ing to the P......e League ! They got there, and they stayed there : they stayed there till the poor old emotion-knob was nearly torn to shreds. The Con- servative Female is a pretty randy proposition, you bet your life ! But enough of my election ! (She broke off a…
1915 · PDF PAGE 5
…offering the breast of Germany to the ravisher. A lamb to the slaughter, indeed, with La Revanche in every mouth! What would he do, with men yet alive who remembered Jena, and the ceaseless raids and rav- ages of Bonaparte? But in a hundred crises he kept his head; he kept the peace. He had plenty of chances to smash France forever; he did not take them. An ambitious prince might have put a relative on the throne of Louis XIV while France was torn by the Boulanger affair, the Pa- nama scandal, the Dreyfus horror, when Diogenes might have gone t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 139
…rate rooms. ‘I cannot hope to depict the boiling rage which kept me awake all night. I resented ill-temperedly the attempts of the other men to be sympathetic. I think they recognised instinctively that I had got into trouble through no fault of my own, and were anxious to show kindness in their own rough way to the stranger. - The worst of the whole business was that they had searched us and removed our stand-by, the dear little gold-topped bottle! I might have got myself into a mood to laugh the whole thing off, as had so often happened befor…
1922 · PDF PAGE 287
…m any diminution in the fighting power of the individual soldiers ; its military value is not sensibly diminished by the loss of the few men at the point of attack. It has become worth- less because their regular arrangement has been thrown into disorder. “At the Battle of Waterloo,” said King Lamus, turning from the wall and going back to his coffee, ‘“‘ Napoleon sent forward the Old Guard. A few minutes later he cried, ‘They are mixed,’ and drove in despair from the field. He did not have to wait to see them destroyed.”’ Lou’s breath was comi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 87
…rlet Woman all power is given. They shall gather my children into their fold; they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. “For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.” This sacrament is the physical‐magical formula for attaining initiation, for the accom‐ plishment of the Great Work. It is in alchemy the process of distillation, operated by internal ferment, and the influence of the Sun and Moon. Behind the figures of the Beast and his Bride are ten luminous…
1996 · PDF PAGE 171
…at walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the Heaven of Urania. And all these are the excrement of Choronzon. It is this “shutting up” that is hideous, the image of death. It is the opposite of Going, which is God. Women under Christianity are kept virgin for the market as Strasbourg geese are nailed to boards till their livers putrefy. The nature of woman has been corrupted, her hope of a soul thwarted, her proper pleasure balked, and her mind poisoned, to titillate the jaded palates of senile bank…