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Page 92 of 1231910 · PDF PAGE 337
… like arrows barbed with gall into the ravished brains of her adorers. One I sent to America, and another to pick out the green glint of Death’s eye in the lustre of a glass of poison. I tore husband from wife with my wingéd scented words, redo- lent of the very nudity and flesh of love, yellow, crocus-tinted, opalescent, murderously sweet. “T pricked the souls of little children with the crystal toys of speech that fell from the melting coral of my curved lips. “Twas East and West, and North and South, and sun and moon, and shuddering flight o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 337
… like arrows barbed with gall into the ravished brains of her adorers. One I sent to America, and another to pick out the green glint of Death’s eye in the lustre of a glass of poison. I tore husband from wife with my wingéd scented words, redo- lent of the very nudity and flesh of love, yellow, crocus-tinted, opalescent, murderously sweet. “T pricked the souls of little children with the crystal toys of speech that fell from the melting coral of my curved lips. “Twas East and West, and North and South, and sun and moon, and shuddering flight o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…useous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the TS, the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, a thousand times N0! Let our Rite, the heir of all secular glory, be soiled and degraded by this creature as she will; I for one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it then tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…eous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S., the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, athousand times No! Let our Rite, the heir of all secular glory, be soiled and degraded by this creature as she will; I for one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it then that…
1913 · PDF PAGE 485
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES passive; the woman sympathizes with death, and draws Adam with her in her fall. They are then driven out from the sanctuary of truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx, vide the hieroglyphs of Assyria, of India and of Egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the pro- fane from destroying the tree of life. Here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. The idol has replaced God, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up …
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…eous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S., the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, athousand times No! Let our Rite, the heir of all secular glory, be soiled and degraded by this creature as she will; I for one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it then that…
1913 · PDF PAGE 485
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES passive; the woman sympathizes with death, and draws Adam with her in her fall. They are then driven out from the sanctuary of truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx, vide the hieroglyphs of Assyria, of India and of Egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the pro- fane from destroying the tree of life. Here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. The idol has replaced God, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up …
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
…batery of the Bourgeois. Vir-tus has become "virtue. " The qualities which have made a man, a race. a city. a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty oj failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. All moral codes are worthless in themselves; yet in every new code there is hope. Provided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because it is fulfilled.
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (’tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede Christ did attain in every deed ; Yet, being an illiterate man, Not his to balance or to scan, To call God stupid or unjust ! He took the universe on trust : He reconciled the world below With that above ; rolled eloquence Steel-tired58 o’er…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
… And seek the gloomy thrones of majesty, Where I may pledge my last despairing call Unto the mightiest of the House of Dread, And loosen Death’s inexorable thrall
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…ve been human ? ” I see you point through the drizzling night to a cramped and shivering form . Can that have been a woman ? That living death , de graded by crime , brutalized by vice , vitiated , unsouled ; lower than a slave , worse than a dog ; spurned by man , shunned by woman , a human wreck , a growing horror ? Even so , once a smiling girl , sweet as a rose , pure as a lily ; now the bedraggled gin -sodden har ridan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human mind , be trayed thy trust , s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
…rganism . Waite tells us : “ These excretions also serve as a manure to the earth , which brings forth fruits to nourish the body ; thus death reverts always to life , and evil itself serves for the renewal and nourishment of good .” ? The most important of all the arcana of the Magnum opus was the transformation of darkness into light . Again , we have the white and black triangles , the unique Athanor of moral alchemy , the transmutation of i Hermes . ? The Mysteries of Magic , p . 150 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 41
… She had mentally emasculated him; and, in his fits of understanding, he cursed her with no mean-spirited lips. He never forgave her the death of his 29
1910 · PDF PAGE 41
… She had mentally emasculated him; and, in his fits of understanding, he cursed her with no mean-spirited lips. He never forgave her the death of his 29
1922 · PDF PAGE 45
…loor of that palace is of silver and gold ; lapis-lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in tum or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace.” I was unfathomably angry. Why must the man always act like a cad or a clown? But there was nothing to do but to accept the situation and walk in politely. He shook hands with me formally, yet with greater intensity than is customary between well-bred strangers in England. And as he did so, he looked me straight in…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…e, but one is the Serpent of Wisdom; ten are the ineffable emanations, but one is the Flaming Sword. Behold! There is an end to life and death, an end to the thrusting forth and the withdrawing of the breath. Yea, the House of the Father is a mighty tomb, and in it he hath buried everything whereof ye know. All this while there hath been no vision, but only a voice, very slow and clear and deliberate. But now the vision returns, and the voice says: Thou shalt be called Danae, that art stunned and slain beneath the weight of the glory of the vis…
1919 · PDF PAGE 231
ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS fear of death which is deep-seated as instinct in us will gradually be rooted out. It is a legacy from the dead zon of Osiris, and it is our duty to kill it in ourselves that our chil- dren and our children’s children may be born free from the curse. NINTH HOUSE 35. Every Brother is expected to spend a great part of his spare time in the study of the principles of the Law and of the Order, and in searching out the key to its great and manifold mysteries. 36. He should also do all in his power to spread the Law, especially t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 133
…s ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm. Commentary: This verse conceals a certain Magical Formula of the loftiest initiation. It refers to a method of using the breath, in connection with the appropriate series of ideas, which is perhaps not to be taught directly. But it may be learnt by those who have attained the necessary degree of magical technique, suggested automatically to th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 87
…e spilling of the blood of the Lamb being a ritual of the Dark Brothers, for they have sealed up the Pylon with blood, lest the Angel of Death should enter therein. Thus do they shut themselves off from the company of the saints. Thus do they keep themselves from compassion and from under- standing. Accurséd are they, for they shut up their blood in their heart. They keep themselves from the kisses of my Mother Babylon, and in their lonely fortresses they pray to the false moon. And they bind themselves together with an oath, and with a great c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 91
… his servants. Behold! it entereth not into the heart, nor into the mind of man to conceive this matter; for the sickness of the body is death, and the sickness of the heart is despair, and the sick- ness of the mind is madness. But in the outermost Abyss is sickness of the aspiration, and sickness of the will, and sickness 89