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…trayed from its course. But as to each man that keeps his true course, the more firmly he acts, the Jess likely are others to get in his way . His example will help XXV
…ak this rule, and the usual Nemesis of the half-hearted awaits you. Not only do you get inferior instruments, but you lose in some other way what you thought you were so clever to hâve saved. Remember Ananias! On the other hand, if you purchase without haggling you will find that along with your purchase the vendor has thrown in ï. “For, enduring unto the End, at the End was Naught to endure.” Liber 333, Cap Z. 2. However closely the square of any fraction approximates to 2, no fraction equals \/2. \J2 is not in the sériés; it is a different ki…
…one imperfection accurately to another, and remain con tented in the appreciation of the righteousness of the relation. This path, the “Way of the Tao,” is perfectly proper to all men. It does not attempt either to transcend or to tamper with Truth; it is loyal to its own laws, and therefore no less perfect
…ayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts? Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies, Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. throne Of the unknown Base and The! Ah! men my: How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot ‘Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fa…
…de when he becomes 8° = 30. Thus one man, throughout his career, may be essentially of the type of Netzach; another, of Hod. In the same way Rembrandt and Raphaël retained their respective points of view in ail stages of their art. The practical considération is that some aspirants may find it unusually difficult to attain certain grades; or, worse, allow their inhérent prédispositions to influence them to neglect anti- pathetic, and indulge sympathetic, types of work. They may thus become more unbalanced than ever, with disastrous results. Suc…
a favour, but I see a dollar at the end of it, and old Doc. Butcher buys a one- way ticket." Douglas grew portentous. "Are you aware of what you ask?" he thundered. "Do you understand that the ineffable and Sacrosanct Arcanum is not to be touched by profane hands? Must I inform you that Those who may not be named are even now at the Gate of the Abyss, whetting their fangs upon the Cubical Stone of the Unutterable? Oh ye magistral ministrants of the Shrine of the Unspeakable Abomination! Hear ye the Word of Blasphemy!" He spoke rapidly and thick…
…ame forth to proclaim the Aeon of Horus, the crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, 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…
…mely effective.”—7he Manchester Guardian. “Mr. Crowley (who should drop the dreadful fore-name with which he has been afflicted) sings always melodiously, if not always intelligibly and sometimes nonsensically. There is too much of the cant of a contest between earthly and heavenly love in his pages. Why any such contest? Cannot the rose and the lily bloom side by side? A book of wandering cries such as this - we cannot regard as of much significance. But we may hope that the author's indubitable singing power may gain an assured note with his …
… The magic that bridleth the Gods, the Gods in their houses of old? Art thou elder than they In their mountain 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? I…
… to her that the whole assembly, uniting in the singular gesture with which Simon Iff accompanied his words, was uplifted in some subtle way beyond her understanding. The crowd-psychology assailed her; and she gritted her teeth to curse this hypocrisy of devilry. But at that moment the crowd broke like a wave upon the beach; and she saw a girl running upon her. [99] "Oh, you were splendid, sister!" cried a voice, and two scarred arms were thrown about her neck. It was the girl of the night before! "Didn't you escape?" babbled Lisa, incoherent. …
… hâve onlv made some occasional shrewd guesses (which they naturallv remember) in the course of hundreds of forgotten failures. The onlv way to test clairvoyance is to keep a careful record of every experiment made. For example, Frater O. M. once gave a clairvoyant a waistcoat to psychometrize. He made 56 State- ments about the owner of the waistcoat ; of these 4 were notably rightj 17, though correct, were of that class of statement which is true of almost everybody. The remainder were wrong. It was concluded from this that he showed no eviden…
…when we obtain a Vision of Beauty by the use of certain colours, forms, sounds, etc.) n) “Astral” Beings may thus be defined in the same way as “material objects”; they are the Unknown Causes of various observed effects. They may be of any order of existence. We give a physical form and name to a bell but not to its tone, though in each case we know nothing but our own impressions. But we record musical sounds by a spécial convention. We may therefore call a certain set of qualities “Ratziel”, or describe an impression as “Saturnian” without pr…
…ast two sentences demand careful attention. There is an apparent contradiction with verses 59 and 60. We must seek reconcilement in this way: Do not imagine that any King can die (v. 21) or be hurt (v. 59); strife between two Kings can therefore be nothing more than a friendly trial of strength. We are all inevi tably allies, even identical in our variety; to “Love one another with burning hearts” is one of our essential qualities. :3 But who then are the “low men”, since “Every man and every woman is a star”? The casus belli1 2 is this: there…
…hat follows, Lest I should gain forbidden lore And wisdom’s dangerous store Of the black secrets of those heights and hollows. Alas! the way is over long, And weary of my song I sing who yearn to catch my love, and hold In such ten-thousandfold caress As shall annul distress, And from the iron hours bring the years of gold.
…d my life to save yours , and you tipped me half-a-crown! Here's that Book of Lies popping out its ugly mug again: "Thou hast become the Way." This is why the Ankh or "Key of Life" is a sandal-strap, borne in the hand of every God as a mark of his Godhead: a God is one who goes. (If I remember rightly, Plato derives Theos from a verb meaning 'to run' , and is heartily abused by scholars for so doing. But perhaps the dreary old sophist was not far wrong, for once.) What you need to do, then, is to knot all these ideas into a very close pattern; …
…often disastrous. The athlete who dies in his early prime is the skeleton at every Boat Supper. But in such cases the excess is almost always due to the desire to excel other men, instead of referring the matter to the only competent judge, the true Will of the body. I myself used to “go all out” on moun tains; I hold more World’s Records of various kinds than I can reckon—for pace, skill, daring, and endurance. But I never wor ried about whether other people could beat me. For this reason my excesses, instead of causing damage to health and …
…is but glory to thee. One other is left me, The light of the earth. If Fate had bereft me, Oh Muse, of thy birth, Still I had cleft me A way in her girth! | I tune the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her mirth. O mighty and glad In spring-time and summer ! O tearful and sad When the sun is grown dumber, When the season is mad, And the gods overcome her, When the sky is fulfilled of the frost and the fingers of winter numb her ! O marvellous earth Of multiple mood That givest men birth And delicate food, Red wine to make mirth Of th…
…dazzling radiance of that Light! Return, for thou canst not pass by! Hierophant: Let the Neophyte now advance by the Straight and Narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left. Hiereus and Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte) : Iam come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden Light of Occult Science. Hierophant; But the great Angel Sandalphon answered and said: ‘Iam the Reconciler for the Earth and the Soul of the Celestial therein. Equally is form invisible in total Darkness andin Blinding Light. . …
…dazzling radiance of that Light! Return, for thou canst not pass by! Hierophant: Let the Neophyte now advance by the Straight and Narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left. Hiereus and Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte) : Iam come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden Light of Occult Science. Hierophant; But the great Angel Sandalphon answered and said: ‘Iam the Reconciler for the Earth and the Soul of the Celestial therein. Equally is form invisible in total Darkness andin Blinding Light. . …
…ctly definite and précisé. It does not deal in ambiguities and abstractions. It possesses form, and con¬ fesses law, in exactly the same way and degree as any other body of truth. It is to the truth of the material and intellectual spheres of man very much what the Mathematics of Philosophy with its “infinité sériés” and “Cantorian continuity” is to schoolboy arith- metic. Each implies the other, though by that one may explore the essential nature of existence, and by this a pawnbroker’s profits. This then is the true aim of the Adept in this w…