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Page 89 of 1041906 · PDF PAGE 277
TIME 271 Scept, 1? soul, no! Myst. Then how do you know all. this about the earth? Goodness gracious bless my How few among us can reach the supreme sanity of Dr. Henry Maudsley in such a book ‘¢ Life in Mind and Conduct ”! ” Hence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived —if he li…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…he seventh heaven”. This may not apply to the sixth. The Adept must keep himself in hand, however tempted to make a new heaven and a new earth in the next few davs by trumpeting his triumphs. He must give time a chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it informs and fortifies his mental and moral qualifies instead of obscuring and upsetting them. He w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
…capture | _ In the strong prison of his silences! | Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture ! Twin souls are Heaven ! Twin souls on earth by earthly bars divided ! But, did thy spirit glide as mine has glided Straight to That Star—no rose-leaves ask to leaven The manna that the Moon of Love pro- vided ! Twin souls are we, to one Star bound in Tleaven! we, to one Star bound in Not to thy presence in the veil and vision Of solemn lies that men miscall the world ; Not to thy mind the lightnings truthward hurled Tturn. IT laugh dead distance t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 237
…’s soul. Lift, shake the subtle censer That hides the cruel coal! Still sweeter when the Bowman! Ifis silky shaft of frost Lets loose on earth, that no man May linger nor be lost. The barren woods, deserted, Lose echo of our sighs— Love—dies ?-— Love lives--in granite skirted, And under oaken skies. But best is grim December, * The Goatish God? his power; The Satyr blows the ember, And pain is passion’s flower; When blood drips over kisses, And madness sobs through wine : Ah, mine !— The snake starts up and hisses and strikes and—I am thine! VE…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…. The card is XX, and 20 is the value of Yod (the Angel or Herald) expressed in full as IVD. S h is the Spiritual congress of Heaven and Earth. But T is the Holy Spirit in action as a “roaring lion” or as the uold Serpent” instead of as an “Angel of Light”. The twins of Set-Isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as m the cases of Mary and the Dove; Leda and the Swan, etc. The card is XI, the number of Magick AVD : Aleph the Fool impregnating the woman ac…
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
…ss before all men! 45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit.
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…ng flame with the lightnings of mine eye: ever rushing on in the splendour of the daily glorified Ra — giving my life to the treaders of Earth ! ” This thought gives the relation of God and Man from the divine point of view. The magician is only recalled to himself at the conclusion of the — 18 —
1905 · PDF PAGE 257
…od. Our court loves not these wastrel troubadours, Loose locks, flushed faces, —»ul’s unseemli- ness. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL (sizg5). Amid earth’s motley, Gaia’s cap and bells, This too material, too unreal life, Sing, sing the crown of tender miracles, The pure true wife ! Sing not of love, the unutterable one, The love divine that Mary has to men. Seek not the winepress and the rising sun Beyond thy ken! TANNHAUSER (aside). Who is this man that reads my inmost thoughts? THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. I sing of love, most delicate and pure, Surely the cr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…ole Order. They must accept the Crowned and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowledge that “The Word of the Law is 0EAHMA and that “Love is the Law, love under Will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. 2 He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with ail the ener…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
career on earth is his kingdom, that even the Master Therion is no more than a fellow man in another valley, and that he must explore and exploit his own inheritance with his own eyes and hands. The Magician must not accept the Master Therion’s account of the Astral Plane, His Qabalistic discoveries, His instructions in Magick. They may be correct in the main for most men; yet they cannot be wholly true for any save Him, even as no two artists can make identical pictures of the same subject. More, even in fundamentals, though these things be Tr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…us’ own thunder? What wonder if our peace Broke, and our mysteries Quaked at the prescience of these solemnities ? AE ACUS. Child of the earth and heaven, Our spirits thou hast riven With words we must admit, with power of song—whence given? Neither of God nor man, Thy song’s amazing span Hath caused strange joy among the woes Tartarean. RHADAMANTHUS. Never in the centuries Till godlike Heracles Burst the wild bonds, hath mortal found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…he god. The third part is air, the marriage of fire and water; the god and the man hâve become one; while the fourth part corresponds to earth, the condensa¬ tion 01 matenalization of those three highcr principles. With regard to the Hebrew formulae, it is doubtful whether inost magicians who use them hâve ever properly grasped the principles underlying the method of identity. No passage which împlies it occurs to mind, and the extant ntuais certainly give no hmt of such a conception, or of any but the most personal and material views of the na…
1905 · PDF PAGE 14
… poet prayed, And look to Heaven, an hour to spend Before Ilis throne who spake and bade The fountains of the deep descend, And bade the earth uproot and rend To pitch like tents the mountains high, And gave him language who hath penned This pleasant tale of Thessaly. ENVOI. Fair maiden. who hast rightly weighed The message of the morning sky, Think kindly of the man who made | This pleasant tale of Thessaly. 7 ENS OF ENGLAND ECE IS DEDICATED. THE TALE OF ARCHIAITS. Part I. SHE lay within the water, and the sun Made golden with his pleasure eve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
… and indifferent to, man’s affairs. A storm is caused by atmospheric conditions on a scale so enormous that the United efforts of ail us Earth-vermin could scarcely disperse one cloud, even if we could get at it. How then can any Magician, he who is above ail things a knower of Nature, be so absurd as to attempt to throw the Hammer of Thor? Unless he be simply insane, he must be initiated in a Truth which transcends the apparent facts. He must be aware that ail Nature isa continuum, so that his mind and body are consubstantial with the storm, a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 65
…substance should lose by being transformed. It is contrary to Nature that a man, with potentialities which can transform the face of the earth, should become nothing but inert carrion when he happens to die. Every thing that he was must inevitably persist; and if the manifestation be not to one set of senses, why then, to another! The idea of
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…o-lape, tol-toregi, q-tofajilo poresa adoianu cadsago, Dorebesa terror of the sons of men the creatures or all things on the face of the earth. Obey na-e-el, marebe koredazodiz00a, Dorebesa jijipabe, oborela Das gobus. my power like reasoning creatures ; obey the living breath, the law which I speak. 61
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…is this Angel whose nature is doubly double, that He may partake of every sacrament. He is at once a God who is drunken with the wine of earth, and the mammal who quaffs the Blood of God to purge him of mortality. He is a woman as he accepts ail impulses, are they not His? He is a man to stamp Himself upon whatever would hallow itself to Him. He wieJds the Wand, — 263 —-
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…the persecutor. His infinité pain must thrill his heart with joy, since every pang is but the écho of some new flame that leaps upon the earth lit by his crime. For the Gods are the enemies of Man; it is Nature that Man must overcome ere he enter into his kingdom. 2 The true God 1. TEITAN — 300+5+ 10+300+1+50 = 666. 2. In another sense, a higher sense, Nature is absolutely right through- out* The position is that the Magician discovers himself imprisoned in a distorted Nature of Iniquity; and his task is to disentangle it. This is ail to be stu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 279
…he left-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame: I am Fire, Volcanic and Terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of Earth: Fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of Matter ; fire constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame. I am Fire, Astral a and Fluid, winding through the firma- ofAte ment of Air. I am the life of Being, the rome Pact vital heat of Existence.” i \…
1909 · PDF PAGE 279
…he left-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame: I am Fire, Volcanic and Terrestrial, flashing and flaming through the deep abysses of Earth: Fire rending, fire penetrating, tearing asunder the curtains of Matter ; fire constrained ; fire tormenting ; raging and whirling in lurid storm!” And lastly, Axiokersa, the third Kabir, says: ft fri ft «I am the right-hand basal angle of the Triangle of Flame. I am Fire, Astral a and Fluid, winding through the firma- ofAte ment of Air. I am the life of Being, the rome Pact vital heat of Existence.” i \…