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Page 93 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 126
…vas, and not produced a Rembrandt, it was evident that the pictures attributed to his painting were really produced in quite a different way. You do not see why the skull of a parricide should help you to raise a dead man, as you do not see why the mercury in a thermometer should rise and fall, though you elaborately pretend that you do; and you could not raise a dead man by the aid of the skull of a parricide, just as you could not play the violin like Kreisler; though in the latter case you might modestly add that you thought you could learn.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 35
… of the Southern Signs, in a Human Shape, going before Four Great and Mighty Kings, as if he were a Guide to conduct them along on their way. His Office is to make men Insensible or Ignorant; as also in Philosophy to make them Knowing, and in all the Liberal Sciences. He can cause Love or Hatred, also he can teach thee to consecrate those things that belong to the Dominion of AmMaymon his King. Hecan deliver Familiars out of the Custody of other Magicians, and answereth truly and perfectly of things Past, Present, and to Come. He can carry and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 71
…E SECOND DAY. ‘* Keep you in the rear of your affection Out of the shot and danger of desire."’ Hamlet. I wAs so hopeless that I turned away And gave my love to foul oblivion, . Shuttered my bosom’s window from the sun, Kindled a corpse-light and proclaimed ‘*The day!” ; Lurked in Aeaean! fens to elude the ray Whose beauty might disturb me: I did shun. The onyx eyes that saw me not as one Possible even for a moment’s play. Thus I was tangled in some house of hell, Giving mine own soul’s beauty up to lust, Hoping to build some fort impregnable A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…he Law is for All I will here add one further pillar to my temple. It happens only too often that two people, absolutely fitted in every way to love each other, are totally debarred from expressing themselves by sheer ignorance of the technique of the act. What Nature declares as the climax of the Mass, the manifestation of God in the flesh, when the flesh is begotten, is so gross, clumsy and brutal that it disappoints and disgusts. They are horribly conscious that something is wrong. They do not know how to amend it. They are ashamed to discus…
1943 · PDF PAGE 6
…of Life he worshipped the Sun as a visible symbol of the Supreme, the Author of all Life, Heat and Energy. In our frivolous ego- centric way of living we have lost much of this essential realization. But that we may once more move toward the Awareness of Life and Beauty, what more appropriate than that we celebrate the Sun in song and ritual? Therefore, four times daily we perform "The Adorations" (Equinox I, VI.) LIBER RESH At Dawn, facing East: Hail unto Thee who art Ra in Thy rising, even unto Thee who art Ra in Thy strength, who travellest …
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
… may be), that, asking for bread, one man gives us the stone of Homoiousios and another the half-baked brick of Amphioxus. Both are in a way rationalists. Wolff gives us idea unsupported by fact, and argues about it for year after year; Treacle does the same thing for fact unsupported by idea. Nor does the one escape the final bankruptcy of reason more than the other. While the theologian vainly tries to shuffle the problem of evil, the Rationalist is compelled to ascribe to his perfect monad the tendency to divide into opposite forces. The éi8…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
… may be), that, asking for bread, one man gives us the stone of Homoiousios and another the half-baked brick of Amphioxus. Both are in a way rationalists. Wolff gives us idea unsupported by fact, and argues about it for year after year; Treacle does the same thing for fact unsupported by idea. Nor does the one escape the final bankruptcy of reason more than the other. While the theologian vainly tries to shuffle the problem of evil, the Rationalist is compelled to ascribe to his perfect monad the tendency to divide into opposite forces. The éi8…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…uses as syncope? If we understood the ultimate physics and chemistry of the brief moment of death we could get hold of the force in some way, supply the missing element, reverse the electrical conditions or what not. Already we prevent certain kinds of death by supplying wants, as in the case of Thyroid. I. One can become actually drunk on oysters, by chewing them completely. Rigor seems to be a symptom of the loss of what I may call the Alpha-energy and makes a sharp break in the curve. The Beta and other energies dissipate more slowly. Physio…
1905 · PDF PAGE 254
…ughed, was cruel. So I said at last: ‘*Tannhauser only!” Was this modesty? Listen. You loved me when I was a child ; And, in my childish way, I looked to you, Loved sitting at your knee and toying with The great cross-hilt, or watching how the steel Outshone the jewelled scabbard when you drew (You would not Jet me touch) the delicate blade Half out: and also fingering your harp, Picking child’s tunes out, while you curled my hair Between two fingers, dreamily enough ! Then, too, you went away out of my life! You see the symbol you have been to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…counters, and ohl dear me, how they do cheat and quarrel. When any one gets a million counters, he is so glad you can’t think, and goes away and tries to change some of the counters for the things he really wants, and he can’t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. But I was telling you about the ways to the Fourth House, and the third way is all full of lions, and a person might be afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…gn emblematic of the soul. The scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of Test and Trial, and between the Balance is the porch way of the Immeasurable Region. The twin lights which flare on the summits are the “ Declarers of Eternal Truth.” The pillars are really obelisks with tetrahedronal capitals slightly flattened at the apices so as to bear each a lamp. At the Eastern part of Malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of n, is placed the altar in the form of a double cube. Its colour is black to represent to the Neophyte the co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 254
…gn emblematic of the soul. The scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of Test and Trial, and between the Balance is the porch way of the Immeasurable Region. The twin lights which flare on the summits are the “ Declarers of Eternal Truth.” The pillars are really obelisks with tetrahedronal capitals slightly flattened at the apices so as to bear each a lamp. At the Eastern part of Malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of n, is placed the altar in the form of a double cube. Its colour is black to represent to the Neophyte the co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…r, though there was nobody within earshot. "Oh, Dr. Balloch, Dr. Balloch! do try to understand! It was impossible. We tried all sorts of ways." The doctor's voice had a soft suavity. Though a licensed physician, he had long since abandoned legitimate practice, and under the guise of homeopathy pursued various courses which would have been but ill regarded by more regular practitioners. His reply was horrible, uttered as it was in feline falseness, like a caress. "You foul ass!" he said. "I have to take this up with S.R.M.D., you know! What will…
1929 · PDF PAGE 173
… Bowling was being eentertained at dinner by Simon Iff, and their conversation turned upon the favourite subject of the old mystic — the Way of the Tao. "In view of what you have been saying about the necessity of dealing with mediums on their own ground," remarked the host, "let me tell you of a paradox in magick. Do you remember a certain chapter in the Bible which tells one, almost in consecutive verses, firstly to answer a fool according to his folly, and secondly, not so to answer him? This is the Scriptural version of a truth which we phr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 30
…d particular attention to the imaginary rim. Within the limits of this rim, they conceived that the Fixed Stars beyond were in a special way connected with the apparent motion of the Sun. This rim or belt of the wheel they called the Zodiac. The constellations out‐ side this belt did not seem to them to matter so much to mankind, because they were not in the direct line of the great whirling force of the wheel. (T.A.R.O. = R.O.T.A. = wheel.) THEORIES OF THE ANCIENTS 1. In old times, it was supposed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 34
…it can only be understood in terms of the others. This is exactly the conclusion which appears earlier in this essay, with regard to the way in which the planets, elements and signs were all dependent on each other, and composed of each other. But the further attempt to reach Reality led the Qabalists to sum up the qualities of these rather vague and literary ideas by referring them all to the numbers of the decimal scale. Numbers, then, are the nearest approach to Reality which is shown in this system. The number 4, for instance, is not so spe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 174
… sight ! See! the black gibbet and the murderer swinging! Come, child of wonder and the innocent eyes ! Come where the toad his stealthy way is taking. Flaps the bat’s wing upon thy cheek? How wise, How wicked are those faces! And the skies Are muffled, and the firmament is quaking. Spectres of cats misshapen nestle close, And rub their phantom sides against our dresses. Come, child of wonder! in these souls morose Keen joys may shudder—how the daylight goes !— Night shall betray thee to the cold caresses ! Yes; it is nigh the hour of subtlety …
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…s complaint; I think that He, Twitching his fearful fingers, may let loose This answer: Thus a kiss I brought to being Which by no other way were possible. Measure, O man! Balance with eyes true- seeing If I were right or no to have made Hell ! Then would He stand forgiven — nay ! acquitted ! I, as I look on this tight coil of bliss,
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
… | All on a sudden silence came Athwart some avenue Where through the trees arrowed the flame From the exultant blue ; And all the water-way became One heart of glittering dew. The waters narrowed for a space Between twin rocks confined, Carven like Gods for poise and grace, Like miracles for mind: K’ach fashioned like a kissing face, The eyes for joy being blind. The waters widened in a pool, Broad mirror of blue light. The surface was as still and cvol As the broad-breasted night. Engraven of no mortal tool, The granite glistened white. As if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 159
… very similar in the character of his radiations; but they were colder, and duller, and less clear and energetic. [225] And now all gave way to a most enigmatic figure[3]. It was an insignificant face and form; but the attributions of him filled all heaven. In his sphere was primarily a mist which Iliel instinctively recognized as malarious; and she got an impression, rather than a vision, of an immense muddy river rushing through swamps. And then she saw that from this man's brain issued phantoms like pigeons. They were neither Red Indians nor…