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Page 95 of 1231929 · PDF PAGE 376
…by the certainty that however petty, futile, baroque and contemptible its career may {603} be, it must close in the sublime sacrament of death. As it is written in The Book of the Law, "-death is the crown of all." The supplement to the first number of The Equinox is a plain reprint of my Magical Record in Paris, mentioned above. I have omitted no detail of my doings. My dinners, my dalliance and my other diversions are described as minutely as my Magick, my mantras and my meditations. Nothing of the sort had ever been published before. It is a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
…ur God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation, For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteme the Nazarene. Where’s the wet towel ? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascension’s self rehearsed Christ’s Godhead by its miracle. Grand !—but the power is mine as well ! In India levitation counts No tithe of the immense amounts Of powers demanded by the wise From Chela ere the Chela rise To knowledge. Fairy-tales ? Well…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…s its savour catches him and lifts His soul (beyond the mind that drifts) into the Treasure House of Pearls. Even to the icy solitude of death a gust of scent is borne An herald of the awaking morn to that unhappy brotherhood; An herald of the healing kiss of maids with eyes of white and black Whose heavenly lips shall woo them back into a bright eternal bliss. O laughter of delicious boys that bring the cup and pour the wine And with their rosy limbs entwine fresh garlands of mirific joys! The boy is prone upon the sand; he lies as one who nest…
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…s the Holy Ghost) abiding upon us and within us for ever and ever. Shall I find you there, my lost darling ? As I pass from the swoon of death to feel the fresh wind of Heaven blowing on my cheek, shall I find you first to meet me in those Elysian glades ? “ In what etherial dances ? By what eternal streams ? ” shall I find you, sweet acolyte of Salmacis or of Terpsichore, of Bacchus or Sabrina ? Will it be you on yonder bank of yellow moss by the sunspangled rivulet that tumbles noisily from the throne of God ? Will it be you with your fine go…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
… both are combined, then the Yogi reaches the state of success, and his body be- comes brilliant and divine. 60. Ejaculation of semen is death, preserving it within is life ; therefore, let the Yogi preserve his semen with great care. 61. Verily, verily, men are born and die through semen ; knowing this, let the Yogi always practise to preserve his semen. 62. When through great efforts success in the preservation of the semen is obtained, what then cannot be achieved in this world ? Through the
1911 · PDF PAGE 137
…the Green Serpent, the Serpent of Delight. It is shown me that this heart is the heart that rejoiceth, and the serpent is the serpent of Death, for herein all the symbols are interchangeable, for each one containeth in itself 135
1919 · PDF PAGE 54
… creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.” It is shown later how this can be, how death itself is an ecstasy like love, but more intense, the reunion of the soul with its true self. And what are the conditions of this joy, and peace, and glory? Is ours the gloomy asceticism of the Christian, and the Buddhist, and the Hindu? Are we walking in eternal fear lest some “sin” should cut us off from “grace”? By no means. “Be ye goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and dri…
1919 · PDF PAGE 56
…who sorroweth is not of us.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” Later, concerning death, He says: “Think not, O king, upon that lie: That Thou must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile? “It is a lie, this folly against self{—Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any Go…
1910 · PDF PAGE 336
THE EQUINOX the sweet process of life is at work in every cell and particle of the dead. Truly, there is no such thing as death. Lips grown tired of speech, and outhonied of the honey of all kisses fade and whisper away into something else. The crude utterances of human language fail them, and they win instead the subtle perfumed conversation of flowers and vegetation. Thus their dust comes to lie about a rose-root, and with the lovely chemistry of earth they tremble back to the surface once more as crinkled and crimson perfume, or a frail flut…
1910 · PDF PAGE 336
THE EQUINOX the sweet process of life is at work in every cell and particle of the dead. Truly, there is no such thing as death. Lips grown tired of speech, and outhonied of the honey of all kisses fade and whisper away into something else. The crude utterances of human language fail them, and they win instead the subtle perfumed conversation of flowers and vegetation. Thus their dust comes to lie about a rose-root, and with the lovely chemistry of earth they tremble back to the surface once more as crinkled and crimson perfume, or a frail flut…
1911 · PDF PAGE 38
THE EQUINOX not suffer death. Bind up your girdles of gold! Wreathe yourselves with garlands of my unfading flowers! In the nights we will dance together, and in the morning we will go forth to war; for, as my Father liveth that was dead, so do I live and shall never die. And now the table comes rushing back. It covers the whole stone, but this time it pushes me before it, and a terrible voice cries: Begone! Thou hast profaned the mystery; thou hast eaten of the shew-bread; thou hast spilt the consecrated wine! Begone! For the Voice is accompli…
1911 · PDF PAGE 74
…the black bean. And another voice answers it: Not otherwise could he plant the Rose. And the first voice: He hath drunk of the waters of death. The answer: Not otherwise could he water the Rose. And the first voice: He hath burnt himself at the Fires of life. And the answer: Not otherwise could he sun the Rose. And the first voice is so faint that I cannot hear it. But the answer is: Not other- wise could he pluck the Rose. And still I go on, struggling with the blackness. Now there is an earthquake. The veil is torn into thousands of pieces th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 581
… miscarries, and we are born before our time for eternity, which exposes us to that terrible dissolution which St. John calls the second death. According to the constant tradition of ecstatics, the abortions of human life remain swimming in the terrestrial atmosphere which they are unable to surmount, and which 283
1913 · PDF PAGE 581
… miscarries, and we are born before our time for eternity, which exposes us to that terrible dissolution which St. John calls the second death. According to the constant tradition of ecstatics, the abortions of human life remain swimming in the terrestrial atmosphere which they are unable to surmount, and which 283
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…iful thing, whiter than a woman in the column of this vibration. “I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above. “But it is death, and the flame of the pyre. “Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my Soûl ! “Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light. “When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in thy great N.O.X.” Liber Lapidis Lazuli. i. 36- 40. o. Be seated in thine Asana, preferably the Thunderbolt. It is essential that the spine be vertical. 1. In t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…, Isay _ that shall be the balance of justice poresa nore jifipabe od telokake od caosagi, Do-perefst. over the sons of living breathand death andthe world, by fire. YE ADDRESSE UNTO YE SPIRIT ON HYS COMING. gwicama! Ol DO wvaukahbo tlasa ta iehe tot3a Das ge-Darebesa! Behold ! I confound thee as thouart he that obeys not! gpicama kikale emetajisa Solomon Das ol polakame pujo ji-mi- Behold the mysteries of the seal of Solomon which I bring forth unto thy power and caclazon! gBicama go-a-al, elzodape komeselaké jijipabe; totza das presence ! Beh…
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…m consider his Self no more as one seg- ment of the Serpent, but as the whole. Let him extend his consciousness to regard both birth and death as incidents trivial as systole and diastole of the heart itself, and neces- sary as they to its function. To fix the mind in this apprehension of Life, two modes are preferred, as preliminary to the greater realizations to be discussed in their proper order, experiences which tran- scend even those attainments of Liberty and Love of which Ihave hitherto written, and this of Life which I now inscribe in …
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
… him, and went away automati- cally. I found myself at home without knowing how I got here. Something told me that the real cause of her death was heroin, though, as a matter of fact, septic pheumonia can happen to any one at any moment. I’ve known two or three people go off like that. As my Uncle John used to say, conscience makes cowards of us all. King Lamus was always saying that as long as one has any emotion about any thing, love or fear or any- thing else, one can’t observe things correctly. That’s why a doctor won't attend his own famil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 443
…ate, and our birth certificates are with our bankers. We do not have to worry about these matters, and we cannot alter them if we would; death, and what follows death, are equally certain, and equally able to take care of themselves. Our sole preoccupation is how best to make use of our lives. Now the O.T.O. is in possession of one supreme secret. The whole of its system at the time when I became an initiate of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis (IX°) was directed towards communicating to its members, by progressively plain hints, this all-important i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 91
…ove-sick courtesan of Corinth. I have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. To-day I am the slave of the little asp of death; and who shall loosen our love? 28. Weary, weary! saith the scribe, who shall lead me to the sight of the Rapture of my master? 29. The body is weary and the soul is sore weary and sleep weighs down their eyelids; yet ever abides the sure 85