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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES her forces towards death. She drags those who will not walk. A man whom one may call the great prophet of drunkards, Edgar Poe, that sublime madman, that genius of lucid extravagance, has depicted with terrifying reality the night- mares of perversity. ... “T killed the old man because he squinted.” “I did that because I ought not to have done it.” There is the terrible antistrophe of Tertullian’s Credo guia absurdun.. To brave God and to insult Him, is a final act of faith. “The dead praise thee not, O Lord,” said the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON brown-bronze hair, as if a great sculptor had wished to immortalise the sea in storm. ”Anoint me first,” he added, with a low sob, suddenly clairvoyant of some vision of Christ and Magdalene. " Need you die?" They were seated, and her hand fell on his lap. “ Great men die never,” “ Nor kind words," he retorted, “ You have flattered me; tu veux me perdre." His English had no equivalent She gave a little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “You…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON brown-bronze hair, as if a great sculptor had wished to immortalise the sea in storm. ”Anoint me first,” he added, with a low sob, suddenly clairvoyant of some vision of Christ and Magdalene. " Need you die?" They were seated, and her hand fell on his lap. “ Great men die never,” “ Nor kind words," he retorted, “ You have flattered me; tu veux me perdre." His English had no equivalent She gave a little shiver. "What do you want?" he said, with the man’s alarm when he at last meets the woman he may be able to love. “You…
1919 · PDF PAGE 343
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE 32. This light shines from the jewel of the Great En- snarer (Mara). The senses it bewitches, blinds the mind, and leaves the unwary an abandoned wreck. Iam inclined to believe that most of Blavatsky’s notes are intended as blinds. “Light” such as is described has a tech- nical meaning. It would be too petty to regard Mara as a Christian would regard a man who offered him a cigarette. The supreme and blinding light of this jewel is the great vision of Light. It is the light which streams from the threshold of Nirvana, a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 424
…The volumes here listed are all of definite occult and mystical interest and importance. The Trade may obtain them from “The Equinox,” 3 Great James Street, W.C. (Tel.: City 8987) and Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,23 Paternoster Row, E.C. The Public may obtain them from “The Equinox,” 3 Great James Street, W.C. Mr. Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W. The Walter Scott Publishing Co,, Paternoster Square, E.C. Mr. F. Hollings, Great Turnstile, Holborn. And through all Booksellers. ACELDAMA. Crown 8vo, 29 pp, £2 25. net. _OF this rare …
1912 · PDF PAGE 424
…The volumes here listed are all of definite occult and mystical interest and importance. The Trade may obtain them from “The Equinox,” 3 Great James Street, W.C. (Tel.: City 8987) and Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,23 Paternoster Row, E.C. The Public may obtain them from “The Equinox,” 3 Great James Street, W.C. Mr. Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W. The Walter Scott Publishing Co,, Paternoster Square, E.C. Mr. F. Hollings, Great Turnstile, Holborn. And through all Booksellers. ACELDAMA. Crown 8vo, 29 pp, £2 25. net. _OF this rare …
1913 · PDF PAGE 23
CHAPTER II THE CIRCLE THE Circle announces the Nature of the Great Work. Though the Magician has been Umited in his choice of room, he is more or less able to choose what part of the room he will work in. He will consider convenience and possibility. His circle should not be too small and cramp his movements; it should not be so large that he has long distances to traverse. Once the circle is made and consecrated, the Magician must not leave it, or even lean outside, lest he be de- stroyed by the hostile forces that are without. He chooses a ci…
1910 · PDF PAGE 222
…he bore the Sword and balance of Justice. Mighty and golden were his wide-flashing wings! Terrible in his might, he bowed low before the Great White Spirit, and proceeded to carry out the order. For five and twenty years he toiled at the so easy task; then, flinging down his weapons in a rage, he returned before the face of his Master and, trembling with passion, cast him- self down in wrath and despair. “Pah!” said the Great White Spirit with a smile; “I might have known better than to employ a low material creature like yourself. Send Graphie…
1910 · PDF PAGE 222
…he bore the Sword and balance of Justice. Mighty and golden were his wide-flashing wings! Terrible in his might, he bowed low before the Great White Spirit, and proceeded to carry out the order. For five and twenty years he toiled at the so easy task; then, flinging down his weapons in a rage, he returned before the face of his Master and, trembling with passion, cast him- self down in wrath and despair. “Pah!” said the Great White Spirit with a smile; “I might have known better than to employ a low material creature like yourself. Send Graphie…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…ems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your childrenor, can humanity ever solve the great secret ? Is progress a delusion ? Are men mad ? Is the great secret truly transcendental ? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself ? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, being as dust ? Who givest his fame to the poet, his bankruptcy to the rich man ? Who dost distinguish between the just and the unjust…
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
Ax. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A.". Vost I PRICE SIX SHILLINGS Numam VI LONDON 3 GREAT JAMES STREET, GRAY’S INN, W.C. SEPTEMBER 1911 0.84 WSINIWH’I’H OIHILNHIOS ΞΟ ΔΔΞΙΛΞΠΙ EIHL
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
Ax. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE A.". Vost I PRICE SIX SHILLINGS Numam VI LONDON 3 GREAT JAMES STREET, GRAY’S INN, W.C. SEPTEMBER 1911 0.84 WSINIWH’I’H OIHILNHIOS ΞΟ ΔΔΞΙΛΞΠΙ EIHL
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…thought of it ! For nowwhere is the ship ? where is my man ? The blood is bursting from my brow ; my choked shrieks prostitute to Pan ! Great Pan it is that thrusts his sword into my throat and strangles me ! Great Pan that clubs me on the sward with his robust brutality ! Ah no ! ah no ! Let me go blind rather than let that face of fear Swollen, its black indenture signed with blood, most maculate, appear ! Come then, O ship, the dream is past ! Could not I watch and wait an hour ? Nay, by the Gods, what gallant mast cuts yon horizon like a t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…ECH “Sir,” he cried strongly, “this is a task for Kamael the mighty and all his host of Seraphim !” “T will employ them on it,” said the Great White Spirit. Then the skies flamed with wrath ; for Kamael the mighty and his legions flew from the South, and saluted their Creator. Behold the mighty one, behold Kamael the strong! His crownless head was like a whirling wheel of amethyst, and all the forces of the earth and heaven revolved therein. His body was the mighty Sea itself, and it bore the scars of crucifixion that had made it two score time…
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…ECH “Sir,” he cried strongly, “this is a task for Kamael the mighty and all his host of Seraphim !” “T will employ them on it,” said the Great White Spirit. Then the skies flamed with wrath ; for Kamael the mighty and his legions flew from the South, and saluted their Creator. Behold the mighty one, behold Kamael the strong! His crownless head was like a whirling wheel of amethyst, and all the forces of the earth and heaven revolved therein. His body was the mighty Sea itself, and it bore the scars of crucifixion that had made it two score time…
1928 · PDF PAGE 21
VI EVERYONE HAS HIS CHIMERA BENEATH the great gray sky, in a vast and dusty plain that hath no road nor grass, with- out one thistle, without one nettle, I met sev- eral men walking, bowed over. Each of them bore upon his back an enor- mous chimera, as heavy as a sack of corn or coal, or the heavy marching of a Roman infan- tryman. But the monstrous brute was not a dead weight. On the contrary, it wrapped round and oppressed the man with its powerful and elas- tic muscles. It clutched with its two great claws at the breast of its mount, and its…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
…He commandeth 50 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, etc. (44.) SHax.—The Forty-fourth Spirit is Shax, or Shaz (or Shass). He is a Great Marquis and appeareth in the Form of a Stock-Dove, speaking with a voice hoarse, but yet subtle. Huis Office is to take away the Sight, Hearing, or Understanding of any Man or Woman at the command of the Exorcist; and to steal money out of the houses of Kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. If commanded he will fetch Horses at the request of the Exorcist, or any other thing. But he must first be c…
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
JOHN ST. JOHN 8.40. Adonai. It is near the night of the Full Moon ; in my life the Full Moon hath ever been of great augury. But to—night I am too poor in spirit to hope. Lol I was travelling on the paths of Lamed and of Mem, of Justice and the Hanged Man, and I fell into both the pitfalls thereof. Instead of the Great Balance firmly held, I found only Libra, the house of Venus and of the exaltation of Saturn ; and these evil planets, smiling and frowning, overcame me. And so for the sublime Path of Mem ; instead of that symbol of the Adept, his…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…d a really beautiful ceremony—beautifully conceived and beautifully carried out. If there is any higher form of artistic expression than great verse and great music I have yet to learn it. I do not pretend to understand the ritual that runs like a thread of magic through these meetings of the A∴ A∴ I do not even know what the A∴ A∴ is. But I do know that the whole ceremony was impressive, artistic, and produced in those present such a feel- ing as Crowley must have had when he wrote : So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of T…
1912 · PDF PAGE 229
DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT XXXIV THE LORD OF GREAT STRENGTH [Vim of Wmm’s or Tart/les FOUR hands, as in the previous symbol, holding eight wands crossed four and four; but a fifth hand at the foot of the card holds another wand upright, which traverses the point of junction with the others : flames leap herefrom. Above and below are the symbols?שand :. Tremendous and steady force that cannot be shaken. Herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. Great success, but with strife and energy. Victory, preceded by apprehension a…