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Page 92 of 1041906 · PDF PAGE 21
…ne Laid sufficient woes of toil. Seed of Abel, this thy shame— To the boar-spear yields the sword. Seed of Cain, to heaven flame, And to earth cast Heaven’s Lord ! THE LITANY OF SATAN. O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, God by Fate’s treachery shorn of liturgies ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! O Prince of Exile, Sufferer of wrong, Whose vengeance, conquered, rises triply strong ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery !
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…is black to represent to the Neophyte the colour of Malkuth; but to the adept there lies hidden in the blackness the four colours of the Earth, in their appropriate positions on the sides. The base only is wholly black ; whilst the summit will be of a brilliant whiteness although invisible to the material eye, “The symbols upon the altar represent the forces and manifestations of the Divine Light concentrated in the white triangle of the Three Supernals. Wherefore upon this sacred and sublime symbol is the obligation of the Neophyte taken as ca…
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…is black to represent to the Neophyte the colour of Malkuth; but to the adept there lies hidden in the blackness the four colours of the Earth, in their appropriate positions on the sides. The base only is wholly black ; whilst the summit will be of a brilliant whiteness although invisible to the material eye, “The symbols upon the altar represent the forces and manifestations of the Divine Light concentrated in the white triangle of the Three Supernals. Wherefore upon this sacred and sublime symbol is the obligation of the Neophyte taken as ca…
1905 · PDF PAGE 159
…of the Holy Ones, Spirit of the Gods ! Enter MESSENGER. MESSENGER. The battle rages: even now the shock Of hostile spears makes the loud earth re- sound, The wide sky tremble. AMENHATEP. Here lies Ilorus dead, There Isis slain. We have no leader left. MESSENGER. The fight is doubtful. We may conquer still. AMENHATEP. By this shed blood and desecrated shrine And horrible hour of madness, may it be That all the evil fortune of the land, Created of these dead iniquities, Burn its foul flame out. Are ye not appeased, Even ye, O Powers of Evil, at t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…ven when he died, there could be no serious objection to murder or suicide, as it is generally conceded—by those who know neither — that earth is not such a pleasant place as heaven. However, there is a mystery concealed in this theory of the bloody sacrifice which is of great importance to the student, and we therefore make no further apology. We should not hâve made even this apology for an apology, had it not been for the solicitude of a pious young friend of great austerity of character who insisted that the part of this chapter which now f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 193
…utters by their mouths foulness and imbecility when the whim takes him. True souls would never seek so ignoble a means of manifesting in earth-life; their ways are holy, and in accord with Nature. While the true soul reincarnates as a renunciation, a sacrifice of its divine life and ecstasy for the sake of redeeming those who are not yet freed from mortal longings, the demon seeks incarnation as a means of gratifying unslaked lusts. Like a dumb beast in pain, the wife of Douglas watched her husband go through his ghastly ritual, with averted fa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…fect that “ no man can contrive to be agnostic about Christianity.” This is very blank cartridge. Who is agnostic about the shape of the earth ? Who prides himself upon a profound reserve about the colour of a blue pig, or hesitates to maintain that grass is green ? Unless under the reservation that both subject and predicate are Unknowable in their essence, and that the copula of identity is but a convention — a form of Agnosticism which after all means nothing in this connection, for the terms of the criticism require the same reservation. Ou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 70
…cles of mist, Gray shadows on blue skies ; And on her whole face sunrise-kissed, Child-wonderment most wise. The whitest arms in all the earth Blush from the lilac bed. Like a young star even at its birth Shines out the golden head. Sad violets are the maiden girth, Pale flames night-canopied. O gentlest lady! Lift those eyes, And cur] those lips to kiss ! Melt my young boyhood in thy sighs, A subtler Salmacis ! Hide, in that peace, these ecstasies ; In that fair fountain, this! She fades as starlight on the stream, As dewfall in the dell ; All…
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
…f famine long And supplication strong Demeter won the swift Hermetic word : In bitter days of eld Thus by great force compelled The glad earth saw me, careless of my lord, Rise to her crystal streams and sapphire seas, And Theseus thus owed life to Heracles. Thou mockest me with power ; Thy sceptre’s awful dower Avails me nothing. Shall a mortal bring Such pity wrapped in song And Echo’s choral throng Of all things live and dead to hear me sing ;— And I by pity moved and love Have not thy voice to grant him grace thereof ? Inexorable Lord ! Acc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…proved that it was impossible, the question would properly arise as to whether a ball had jumped, anyhow. "Isn't it the dullest thing on earth?" droned Cyril. But, even without what he had said in the garden, she would have known that he was lying. For all his nonchalance, he was watching very acutely; for all his bored, faded voice, she could feel [39] every tone tingling with suppressed excitement. It was certainly not the seance that interested him; but what was it? The medium began to moan. She complained of cold; she began to twist her bod…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
… and to carry or re-carry anything whither thou wouldest have it to go, or whence thou wouldest have it from. He can pass over the whole Earth in the twinkling of an Eye. He giveth a True relation of all sorts of Theft, and of Treasure hid, and of many other things. He is of an indifferent Good Nature, and is willing to do anything which the Exorcist desireth. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits. And this his Seal is to be worn, etc. (71.) Danration. —The Seventy-first Spiritis Dantalion. He is a Duke Great and Mighty, appearing in the Form of a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 222
…ixth day, a refusal; ‘The twenty-seventh day, a consent ; and the last night she gave him all herself, so that the moon was eclipsed and earth was utterly darkened. And the marriage of that virgin was on this wise: She had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,! should know three was cight,” if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my Brethren! And she gave him the great and perfect gift of Magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. Now at that great we…
1996 · PDF PAGE 170
… On the other hand, there seems to be a Sealing Up, for a def inite period, in order to allow the Change to proceed undis turbed. Thus Earth lies fallow; the womb is closed during gestation; the Osiris is plugged with talismans. But it is vital to consider this as a strictly temporary device; and to cut out the idea of Eternal Rest. This »/¿¿ana-idea is the coward- “Mother’s Boy” idea; one ought to take a refreshing dip in the tao, no more. I think this must be brought forward as the Cardinal Point of Our Holy Law. Thus though Nuit cries “To …
1905 · PDF PAGE 167
…ely). I am a dancer and a prostitute ! ULRIC smzles contemptuously. Why trick me with so pitiful a lie? Were you the vilest woman on the earth, Mere scum of filth shed off the city’s dregs— Were you the meanest and most treacher- ous-— Were you the sordid soul that most con- trasts With your true, noble, and unselfish self— Were you the synthesis of all I hate, In mind and body leprous and deformed— Did every word and gesture fill my soul With hatred and its parody, disgust— It touches not my question! This one fact O’ermasters all eccentric ci…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…slain or mutilated and enslaved, their women butchered, their virgins ravished; how miracle testified to the power of the evil ones, the earth opening to swallow heretic priests, the sun stopped in the sky that the hours of massacre might be prolonged. It was in short one interminable recital of treachery and murder and revenge; never a thought of pity or of kindliness, of common decency or common humanity, struck a false note in that record of vileness; and it culminated in the ghastliest atrocity of human history, when the one man in all that…
1905 · PDF PAGE 260
…ife stands up, unbroken citadel, Beyond my sight, vague, far, intangible. Broken are will, and witchery, and prayer. Remains the life of earth, which is but hell, Destiny’s web, and my immense despair. LANDGRAVE. Your words are terrible! We knew them true Even while you sang. But see! the light of day ! Beauty in all things and—-for you—true love! All the blind horror of the song recedes. There is a sequel; is there not, my friend? Of love, your theme, we have not heard a note. TANNHAUSER. That is a question. I am not so sure My song was not en…
1929 · PDF PAGE 420
…4. After the fourth foot: Serene, august, untroubled, cold, her prayers are worth More than our steel, more than our gold, that bind the earth. 5. After the first foot: Bow down to the Cross! His love purge thee! His Passion save thee! {670}
1943 · PDF PAGE 3
…fect." Book of the Law, I, 44. To-day practically all men must realize that humanity has arrived at a cross road. Society over the whole earth is being rocked to its foundations, and change of great magnitude is facing all established human institutions. Years ago some few foresaw the approaching cataclysm, and a small minority saw the import thereof. In a poem written in 1900 and published in 1906, it is stated: "This is the birth hour of the age of gold, The false gold pales before the gold divine." And we read: "Perfection abideth not in the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 183
…e in the sad funereal ground With faces turnéd back, My face averted ! I shall consummate The awful act of worship, O renowned Fear upon earth, and fear in hell, and black | Fear in the sky beyond Fate! I hear the whining of thy wolves! I hear The howling of the hounds about thy form, Who comest in the terror of thy storm, And night falls faster ere thine eyes appear Glittering through the mist. O face of woman unkissed Save by the dead whose love is taken ere they wist ! Thee, thee I call! Odire one! O divine! I, the sole mortal, seek thy dead…
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
…the kiss of tender lovers— Let mingle also the sun’s kiss to sea, Also the wind’s kiss to the bird that hovers, The flower’s kiss to the earth’s deep greenery. . All elemental love closes and covers Both you and me. All shapes of silence and of sound and seeing, All lives of Nature molten into this, The moonlight waking and the shadows fleeing, Strange sorcery of unimagined bliss, All breath breathing in ours; mingled all being Into the kiss, THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘* The ship is in her trim; the merry wind Blows fair from land.” Comedy of Err…