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Page 92 of 1541909 · PDF PAGE 12
…lierly, the disenchanted Sceptic is too prone to think! Well, shall we define Him as a loving Father, as a jealous priest, as a gleam of light upon the holy Ark? What does it matter? All these images are of wood and stone, the wood and stone of our own stupid brains! The Fatherhood of God is but a human type; the idea of a human father con- joined with the idea of immensity. Two for One again! No combination of thoughts can be greater than the think- ing brain itself; all we can think of God or say of Him, so long as our words really represent …
1911 · PDF PAGE 231
…rolled by: the Deep uttered his Voice; and lifted up his hands on high, 3, The Sun and the Moon stood still in their habitations. At the light of thine arrows they went, at the shaking of thy glittering spear ! 4. Thou didst march through the Land in thine indignation: thou didst thresh the Heathen in thine anger. 54 Thou didst march through the sea with thine Horses: through the Depth of the Mighty Waters! [CAPRICORNUS starts up wildly and dances the dance of MARS] [CAPRICORNUSfalls !(%/7007 near hisplace. SOR. SCORPIO. Brother Aries, let us c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 237
…o see The Disk in peace and victory! Let him adore the splendid sight, The radiance 01 the Heaven of Nu ; Soar like a bird, laved by the light, To pierce the far eternal blue! [He turns la ARIES and SCORPIO. Hail! Hermes! thou the wands 01111 Hast touched with strength, and they are shivered ! The way is open unto will! The pregnant Goddess is delivered ! [He knee/5 to SOL. Happy, yea, happy! happy is he That hath looked forth upon the Bier That goeth to the House of Rest! His heart is lit with melody; Peace in his house is master of fear; His …
1911 · PDF PAGE 231
…rolled by: the Deep uttered his Voice; and lifted up his hands on high, 3, The Sun and the Moon stood still in their habitations. At the light of thine arrows they went, at the shaking of thy glittering spear ! 4. Thou didst march through the Land in thine indignation: thou didst thresh the Heathen in thine anger. 54 Thou didst march through the sea with thine Horses: through the Depth of the Mighty Waters! [CAPRICORNUS starts up wildly and dances the dance of MARS] [CAPRICORNUSfalls !(%/7007 near hisplace. SOR. SCORPIO. Brother Aries, let us c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 237
…o see The Disk in peace and victory! Let him adore the splendid sight, The radiance 01 the Heaven of Nu ; Soar like a bird, laved by the light, To pierce the far eternal blue! [He turns la ARIES and SCORPIO. Hail! Hermes! thou the wands 01111 Hast touched with strength, and they are shivered ! The way is open unto will! The pregnant Goddess is delivered ! [He knee/5 to SOL. Happy, yea, happy! happy is he That hath looked forth upon the Bier That goeth to the House of Rest! His heart is lit with melody; Peace in his house is master of fear; His …
1912 · PDF PAGE 61
…ll these powers of mine. Yet after, by a strong effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my surroundings, and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which a cruciform table was spread, a naked man being nailed thereto. Many venerable men sat around, feast- ing on his living flesh and quaffing his hot blood. These (I was told) were the Adepts, whom I might one day join. This I understood to mean that I should get the power of taking only spiritual nourishment—but probably it means much more than this. Next I came into an apparently em…
1912 · PDF PAGE 61
…ll these powers of mine. Yet after, by a strong effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my surroundings, and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which a cruciform table was spread, a naked man being nailed thereto. Many venerable men sat around, feast- ing on his living flesh and quaffing his hot blood. These (I was told) were the Adepts, whom I might one day join. This I understood to mean that I should get the power of taking only spiritual nourishment—but probably it means much more than this. Next I came into an apparently em…
1961 · PDF PAGE 171
…rs are of equal power) Y Gnana Yoga cometh thy Man to Knowledge; by Karma Yoga thy Bull to Will; by Raja Yoga is thy Lion brought to his Light; and to make perfect thy Dragon, thou hast Bhakta Yoga for the Eagle therein, and Hatha Yoga for the Serpent. Yet mark thou well how all these interfuse, so that thou mayst accomplish no one of the Works separately. As to make Gold thou must have Gold (it is the Word of the Alchemists), so to become the Sphinx thou must first be a Sphinx. For naught may grow save to the Norm of its own Nature, and in the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…mself with effort.) I I must be. Ha! [Goes to altar, opens it, takes out a flask filled with a clear pale blue liquor with rosy stars of light in 7t, pours it into a long vial, and holds 7t to the light. The room ts lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculplurea stone beasts on the walls. So far the story is true. [Drinks a little. Why, that is better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape o’ the time !— cold, logical to a fault !--Ay! and a crime, a crime at which the stars…
1906 · PDF PAGE 181
…ains steady stand, O sun of glory, in the skies Alone, above, unmoving! Brand Thy sigil, thy resistless might, The abundant imminence of light! Ah! O in the silence, in the dark, In the intangible, unperfumed, Ingust abyss, abide and mark The mind’s magnificence assumed In the soul’s splendour! Here is peace ; Here earnest of assured release. Here is the formless all-pervading Spirit of the World, rising, fading Into a glory subtler still. Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates. and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival. Peace! Peace…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…s deeper than the night. I then consecrated myself to the Operation; cutting the Tonsure upon my head, a circle, as it were to admit the light of infinity: and cutting the cross of blood upon my breast, thus symbolising the equilibration of and the slaying of the body, while loosing the blood, the first projection in matter of the universal Fluid. The whole formulating the Ankh—the Key of Life! Igave moreover the signs ofthe grades from 0° =o°to7": 4°. Then did I take upon myself the Great Obligation as follows : I. I, O.M. &c., a member of the B…
1911 · PDF PAGE 137
… joined his. The lips hardly moved; it was as if an interior voice spoke in her heart. Yet the room was suddenly filled with a pale green light—or was it rosy ?—or was it golden P—or was it like the moon? That was the strange thing about it. To every name one put to it an inward voice answered: No, not that; like that, but not quite that. Luminous, spectral, cloudy, shimmering—it was all these, and something more. He placed his hand upon the girl’s forehead. " Are you perfectly awake ? " “I am awake, frater." “ Can you give me the sign of your g…
1911 · PDF PAGE 137
… joined his. The lips hardly moved; it was as if an interior voice spoke in her heart. Yet the room was suddenly filled with a pale green light—or was it rosy ?—or was it golden P—or was it like the moon? That was the strange thing about it. To every name one put to it an inward voice answered: No, not that; like that, but not quite that. Luminous, spectral, cloudy, shimmering—it was all these, and something more. He placed his hand upon the girl’s forehead. " Are you perfectly awake ? " “I am awake, frater." “ Can you give me the sign of your g…
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
…ght not often reached.” —Pudlishers’ Circular. The Sword of Song. Ios. ‘The Sword of Song” is a masterpiece of learn- ing and satire. In light and quaint or graceful verse all philosophical systems are discussed and dismissed. The second part of the book, written in prose, deals with possible means of research, ye) that we may progress from the unsatisfactory state of the sceptic to a real knowledge, founded on I2I
1944 · PDF PAGE 152
…om which issues a crayfish, and she bears also the Lotus of Isis, of the Great Mother. She is robed in, and veiled by, endless curves of light, and the sea upon which she is enthroned con‐ veys the almost unbroken images of the image which she represents. The characteristics associated with this card are principally dreaminess, illusion and tranquillity. She is the perfect agent and patient, able to receive and transmit everything with‐ out herself being affected thereby. If ill‐dignified, all these qualities are degraded. Everything that passe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
…e breath Of Satyrs wantoning at noon with Death Strained it, and all but cast it loose; the night Drew on the outer world ; no change of light Was known within those depths, but vermin knew By some strange instinct; forth the unholy crew Of vampires and swamp-adders drew them out. Alone amid the pestilential rout Charicles’ crest did glimmer red with wrath, And, stealing from the barge, he drew him forth And writhed into the hut, for latterly So dark his soul had grown that never he For shame and sorrow wore the form of man. So to the hut on wr…
1901 · PDF PAGE 46
…r These olive shoulders with an old-time kiss, And fix thy mouth upon me for such bliss Of sudden rage rekindled. Turn again, And make delight the minister of pain, And pain the father of a new delight, And light a lamp of torture for the night Too grievous to be borne without a cry To rend the very bowels of the sky And make the archangel gasp—a sudden pang, Most like a traveller stricken by the fang Of the black adder whose squat head springs up, A flash of death, beneath a cactus cup.
1913 · PDF PAGE 222
…et spring, I hear the call again: I bear the chalice of lilies under the moon, I bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon. And the blue light is merged into the flame Unquenchable of matter. We are sunk to sleep In the clods of earth, . . . and now we have forgotten, And the moods break upon us as they list From all the quarters of the lower worlds, Calling us hither and thither; where, we know not, We know not, O my silent one, but still The sorrowfulness of Eld, the romance of sorrow, Are ours; we are parted, but the searchis still Though al…
1913 · PDF PAGE 222
…et spring, I hear the call again: I bear the chalice of lilies under the moon, I bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon. And the blue light is merged into the flame Unquenchable of matter. We are sunk to sleep In the clods of earth, . . . and now we have forgotten, And the moods break upon us as they list From all the quarters of the lower worlds, Calling us hither and thither; where, we know not, We know not, O my silent one, but still The sorrowfulness of Eld, the romance of sorrow, Are ours; we are parted, but the searchis still Though al…
1919 · PDF PAGE 275
…CATHOLICAE an holy bard; Apollonius Tyanaeus, Simon Magus, Manes, Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytus, that transmitted the Light of the Gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen; and these also, Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr, Christian Rosencreutz, Ulrich von Hutten, Para…