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Page 9 of 1051910 · PDF PAGE 24
…the Magician at the Right Hand Gateway of the Crown? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. a. Avoid using some common word, such as “and” or “the” or “but”; use a paraphrase. &. Avoid using some letter of the alphabet, such as “t” or ” or “m”; use a paraphrase. y. Avoid using the pronouns and adjectives of the first person; use a paraphrase. Of thine own ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into saying that thou art sworn to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor; even …
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
…oken In this one horror where a man may fall. I am alive, and live not: I am dead, And die not: on my desolated head No dew may drop, no word of God be spoken, None heard, if by some chance some word be said. : 12]
1914 · PDF PAGE 15
…y would smile and say : How this young satirist exaggerates! If they could see me, they would all go gray ‘With horror, know there is no word in hate’s Roll to speak hate, just as in all love's lore There is no word for love—oh, snore, sow, snore! 1 am rigid with my hate; the brain stands still, Frozen in hate, the eyes one frightful glare. ‘Oh, may sleep save me—or the twitch and thrill Of ecstasy—and yet I hardly dare. Anything but to wake (dear God, I pray!) To the mad maulings of Chicago May.
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
…and Darkness, and Nothing. But in this, as in all other effort to name it, is the root of every fal- sity and misapprehension, since all words imply some dual- ity. Therefore, though I call it Light, it is not Light, nor absence of Light. Many also have sought to describe it by contradictions, since through transcendent negation of all speech it may by some natures be attained. Also by images and symbols have men striven to express it: but always in vain. Yet those that were ready to apprehend the nature of this Light have understood by sympath…
1944 · PDF PAGE 75
…h—Cheth 8—Yod 10—Tan 400—has the value of 418. This is one of the most important of the key numbers of Liber AL. It is the number of the word of the Aeon, ABRAHADABRA, the cypher of the Great Work. (See The Equinox of The Gods, p. 138. Also The Temple of Solomon the King.) On this word alone a complete volume could, and should, be written. Cancer is the cardinal sign of the element of Water,2 and represents the first keen on‐ rush of that element. Cancer also represents the path which leads from the great Mother Bi‐ nah to Geburah, and is thus …
1961 · PDF PAGE 128
…ersecute him, as he Case may be. But consider moreover that the Mysterious is always the Terrible, for Vulgar Minds. How then when a New Word is spoken? Either it is not heard, or it is misunderstood; and it evoketh Fear and Hate as a Reaction against Fear. Then Men take him and set him at naught, and spit upon him and scourge him, and lead him away to crucify him; and the third Day he riseth from among the Dead, and ascendeth into Heaven, and sitteth at the right Hand of God, and cometh to judge the Quick and the Dead. This, o my son, is the H…
1909 · PDF PAGE 36
…tom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
THE GREY NIGHT. I29 AGRIPPA What was that cry ? IST SOLDIER I hardly heard it. 2ND SOLDIER I heard, sir, but I could not word it. MAGDA I understood, my lord. AGRIPPA Well, slattern ? MAGDA He called for a prophet. PUBLIUS A Priest of Saturn That is, I fancy. These barbarians Are really like our Unitarians.
1926 · PDF PAGE 35
…tom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1961 · PDF PAGE 114
…ot take this Vampire, if she be such, and master her and turn her o the Great End? Am I such a Man as should flee? Is not all Fear the Word of Failure? Shall I distrust my Destiny? Am I that am the Word of the Æon of so little avail that even the whole Powers of Choronzon can disperse me? Nay, o my Son, here is Courage of Ignorance and Discretion of Knowledge, and by no less Virtue will I win through unto mine End. As it is written: with Courage conquering Fear will I approach thee. Aumgn. w
1954 · PDF PAGE 244
… all Truth." What Hermes means by this it will be well to enquire. May we call it "a truth of Religion"? (Don't be shocked! The original word implies a binding-together-again, as in a "Body of Doctrine"; compare the word Ligature. It was only later, by corruption, that the word came to imply "piety"; re-ligens, attentive [to the gods] as opposed to neg-ligens, neglectful.) I think that Hermes was contemplating a Ruach closely knitted together and anchored by incessant Aspiration to the Supernal Triad; just such an one, in short, as appears in t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 239
… at once with "Not that! Not that! " And the Buddhists won't admit any God at all in anything at all like the sense in which you use the word. 3 What's worse, whatever you may mean by 'God' conveys no idea to me: I can only guess by the light of my exceedingly small knowledge of YOH and your general habits of thought and action . Then what sense was there in chucking it at my head? Half a brick would have served you better. You think you can explain to me viva voce, perhaps? Don't you dare try! Whatever you said, I should prove to be nonsense, …
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…d Adown invisible waterways ! Speak! Did I wound you then unguessed ? What is the sorrow unexpressed That shadows those ecstatic lids? A word in season subtly rids The heart of thoughts unseasonable. You are silent. Do they speak in hell ? 10
1901 · PDF PAGE 109
…hand seeks the lamen. Once again Fearless I front the awful shape before me, Fearless I speak his Name. My trembling brain Vibrates that Word of Power. I cry amain : “ Down, Dweller of the Darkness, and adore me ! I am thy Master, and thy God ! Behold The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold ! “ I am thy Saviour ! ” At the kindling word Up springs the dawn-light in the broken bowls ; Up leaps the glittering circle. Then I heard A hoarse shrill voice, as if some carrion bird Shrieked, mightier than the storm that rocks and rolls Through desolation…
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…ng! Who art thou, love, by what sweet name I quicken ? By whom, O love, my soul is subtly stricken? O Love, O Love, I linger On the dear word and know not any meaning, Nor why I chant; there is a whisper weaning My soul from depths I knew to depths I guess, Centred in two words only: ‘“‘ Love” and “ Yes.” What lyrist’s gentle finger Strikes out a note, a key, a chord unheard of? What voice intones a song I know no word of ? Who am I, Love, and where? What is the wonder of this troublous singing? What is the meaning of my spirit’s clinging Still…
1913 · PDF PAGE 387
ARTICLE V SOLUTION OF THE LAST PROBLEM TO SEPARATE RELIGION FROM SUPERSTITION AND FANATICISM SUPERSTITION, from the Latin word suerstes, surviving, is the sign which survives the idea which it represents; it is the form preferred to the thing, the rite without reason, faith become insensate through isolating itself. It is in consequence the corpse of religion, the death of life, stupefaction substituted for inspiration. Fanaticism is superstition become passionate, its name comes from the word fanum, which signifies “temple,” it is the temple p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 387
ARTICLE V SOLUTION OF THE LAST PROBLEM TO SEPARATE RELIGION FROM SUPERSTITION AND FANATICISM SUPERSTITION, from the Latin word suerstes, surviving, is the sign which survives the idea which it represents; it is the form preferred to the thing, the rite without reason, faith become insensate through isolating itself. It is in consequence the corpse of religion, the death of life, stupefaction substituted for inspiration. Fanaticism is superstition become passionate, its name comes from the word fanum, which signifies “temple,” it is the temple p…
1938 · PDF PAGE 26
With that word, the walls of the little chamber in the Temple upon the Mountain-top fell suddenly away from about me, and I found myself alone in a desert place, strange and remote. And of that which befell me there may I not now speak. For there is a Beauty which hath no fitter ornament than Silence.
1996 · PDF PAGE 38
…u-it. [See The Comment on page 284.] 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. Commentary: Each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the cornerstone of my teaching, to have no stan dard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. The stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! I decline to be bellwether, who am born a Lion! I will not be collie, who am quicker to bite than to bark. I …
1961 · PDF PAGE 79
…the Hidden Will of Man in many a matter, some light, some deep, as it may be given unto him to do. Moreover, it is not altogether in the Word of any Poem, but in the quintessential Flavour of the Poet, that thou mayst seek this Prophecy. And this is an Art most necessary to every Statesman. Who but Shelley foretold the Fall of Christianity, and the Organisation of Labour, and the Freedom of Woman; who but Nietzsche declared the Principle at the Root of the World-War? See thou clearly then that in these Men were the Keys of the Dark Gates of the…