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Page 97 of 1141944 · PDF PAGE 35
…rges into the her and clouds the exact definition of the images. But this, of course, is the objective. These are all blind steps on the way to the Great Light: when the Universe is perceived as one, yet with all its parts, each necessary and each distinct. The beginning of this work is, however, easy enough. One requires no more than ele‐ mentary classical knowledge. Roughly taking, for a start, the natures of the planets are de‐ scribed by those of the gods after whom the actual bodies in heaven were named, according to the old astrological i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 30
THE TALE OF ARCHAIS O gardened rosc ! The fern-fronds gird thy fragrant beauty round, Thy ways are bound With petals that unclose When the sun seeks his way Through night and sleep and love to all the dreams of day. Love, sleep, and death ! The three that melt together, mingle so Man may not know The little change of breath (Caught sigh that love desires,) When love grows sleep, and sleep at last in death expires. © lamp of love! The hissing spray shall jet thee with desire And foaming fire, And fire from thee shall move Her spirit to devour, A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
THE EQUINOX The Kerux, however, at once bars the way, as the Candidate is still unpurified. Thereupon the Goddesses of the Scales purify and consecrate him. This is the first consecration. ‘But even as there be four pillars at the extremities of a sphere when the ten Sephiroth are projected therein; so also are there four separate consecrations of the Candidate.” The reception and consecration takes place in the black portion of Malkuth ; when it is finished the Candidate is conducted to the foot of the altar, the citrine portion of Malkuth, an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
THE EQUINOX The Kerux, however, at once bars the way, as the Candidate is still unpurified. Thereupon the Goddesses of the Scales purify and consecrate him. This is the first consecration. ‘But even as there be four pillars at the extremities of a sphere when the ten Sephiroth are projected therein; so also are there four separate consecrations of the Candidate.” The reception and consecration takes place in the black portion of Malkuth ; when it is finished the Candidate is conducted to the foot of the altar, the citrine portion of Malkuth, an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 359
… Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this masterful little volume. F. THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN. By ALBERT CHURCHWARD. Swan Sonnenschein. 25s. net. The first …
1910 · PDF PAGE 359
… Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this masterful little volume. F. THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN. By ALBERT CHURCHWARD. Swan Sonnenschein. 25s. net. The first …
1906 · PDF PAGE 29
… it is called the walking in delusion, the puppet show of delusion, the writhing of delusion, the fetter of delusion, are aware that the way out of the desert is found by going into the desert. (Will you, in your lonely lamaserai, accept this hymn from me, who, in the centre of civilisation, am perhaps more isolated than you in your craggy fastness among the trackless steppes of your Untrodden Land? ALEISTER CROWLEY. PARIS, A.B. 2446. I MIGHTIEST Self! Supreme in Self-Con- tentment ! Sole Spirit gyring in its own ellipse ; Palpable, formless, i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…obe. The strain upon the surface of the globe would constantly increase. It may be remarked in parenthesis that the Laws of Magick are always exactly like those of the other natural forces. All that Magick lacks to put it on a footing with hydrostatics or electricity is a method of quantitative estimation. The qualitative work is admirably accomplished. The moon was waxen beyond her first phase; she set well after midnight. The nights were yet cold; but Iliel's cradle had been made like a nest in cloudland with fleece of camels — for they are s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 132
…unto soul may be calling When a swift meteor star Through the quick vista is falling. Loose but your soul—shall its wings find the white way so appalling? Heaven, as I understand, Nearer than some folk would make it ; God—should you stretch out a hand, Who can be quicker to take it? Then you have pacted an oath—judge you if He will forsake it ! I have had hope in the spring -- Trust that the God who has given Flowers, and the thrushes that sing Dawnwards all night, and at even Year after year, will be true now we are speaking of heaven. Breezes…
1906 · PDF PAGE 39
…l come Where blooms the sempiterne chrysanthe- mum. The wingéd Lion, that wrought dire amaze In the Dark Place, where Light was, did his ways 1 With a letter to Ceylon, sent from Mexico in duplicate for certainty by way both of Eng- land and Japan. The allusions are Hermetic or Alchemical. VOL. IT. Take fiery to enkindle a new flame: The Eagle of the High Lands yet that came By the red sunset to an eastern sky Shall plume himself and gather him and fly Even as a Man that rideth on a Beast Trained, to the Golden Dawn-sky of the Kast. Therefore h…
1919 · PDF PAGE 318
…ond part to his book dealing with the means of attainment. Mr. Klein has not exactly done this in his new volume, but he has gone a long way on the road. He is still somewhat handicapped by infelicity of expression, but a more serious drawback still is the confusion of thought caused by his early train- ing. He is a sublime initiate, but he is trying to put his quart of Champagne into the pint pot of the language of Christian Mysticism. He has not seen the neces- sity of discarding this deuce and trey. He stands pat on his three aces instead of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
and again she turned her eyes away; but they always returned to the gaze, and every gesture shot a pang of agony to her soul. She understood the ambiguities of her lover; his strange behaviour seemed like an open book to her; and the malice of Sister Cybele, her elfin laughter, her satanic sneer, sank into her bleeding heart like acid, burning, fuming. The revel did not diminish; instead, it took novel and more atrocious forms. All that she had ever conceived of sensuality of bestiality, was a thousandfold surpassed. It was an infinite refineme…
1919 · PDF PAGE 309
THE TANK spiritual does not destroy their reality and the truth of their mutual relation, but rather confirms it. Shallow thinkers always seem to be obsessed by the stupidity that if anything is a shadow, dream, illusion, it ceases to exist. The rules of dreams are just as rigid as the rules of mathematics. You cannot do anything you like with a surd merely because it is an ‘impossible’ or ‘imaginary’ quantity. It is such booby traps that catch such asses in lion’s skins as Mr. Bragdon. O. M. Oertviz’s AstrotocicAL Birtupay Boox. By Leo Bernarr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 197
…ything you like you must pretend not to like; and anything that is there you must pretend is not there — in that country. And you must always say that you are sacrificing yourself in the cause of religion, and morality, and humanity, and liberty, and progress, when you want to cheat your neighbour — in that country." "Good heavens!" cried Iliel, "are we going to England?" [278] "They call the place Stonehenge — in that country." And without another word the Old Lady dragged Iliel into the cleft of the rock. It was very, very dark inside, and sh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
…e, cling closer to my hand. We understand. We must go forth together, not to part. O perfect heart ! O little heart that beats to mine, away Before the day Ring out the tocsin for our flight ! Ts keen to dip Her plunging forehead in the silvering sea. ‘To-morrow we Shall be so far away, and then to-morrow Shall shake off sorrow And be to-morrow and not change for ever : No dawn shall sever The sleepy eyelids of the night, no eve Shall fall and cleave The blue deep eyes of day. queen ! My ship Your hand, my Look down and lean Your whole weight o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 144
…wild and patient as the steep strong sea ? What matter that some strive to waken hate, Traitors to either state, Hang them inchains! Our way to Freedom cannot wait ! The petty partisans of party war, The hireling quillmen, and the jingo crowd, The well-paid patriots, scenting from afar Silence, their doom—shall they eclipse the Star Now crescent in the sky, whose music loud Rejoices humble hearts and true men all, And sounds the funeral Dirge of slave, tyrant, priest, that snarl, and snarling fall ? These we forget—remembering only this : Ye ar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
48 WHY JESUS WEPT SIR GRABSON J, He is away to Windsor—the King (they beat their foreheads eighty-seven times upon the ground) knights him to-day. Sir HERPEs Z. I knew he had the O.M. and the F.Z.S.; but this knighthood? StR GRABSON J. He has taken up political economy. He will marry a duchess, Greumoch, too, is doing well. After the—ah—event we all deplored so, he entered the Benedictines at Fort Augustus; and to-morrow they instal him as Lord Abbot. Sir HERPES Z, What? And he a Highlander? S1R GRABSON J. It seems that was a mere disguise; his…
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
…nestness, Right Knowledge hath Brought into liberty their minds, that Mara findeth not their path. As on a heap of rubbish thrown by the way- side the Lotus flower Will bloom sweet scented, delicate and ex- cellent to think upon; So ’mid the slothful worthless ones, the Walkers in Delusion’s power, In glory of Wisdom, light of Buddh forth hath the True Disciple shone. Desunt cetera ST. PATRICK’S DAY, 1902. Written at Dethi. O coop St. Patrick, turn again Thy mild eyes to the Western main ! Shalt thou be silent? thou forget? Are there no snakes …
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…o stands embarrassed and ashamed] to be the man ? ALAIN. Frankly, I do. But let me explain to you once for all, Blanche de Malétroit, my way of thinking about this affair. [Sversly.] When you took it upon yourself to dishonour my family [BLANCHE sizdes to floor and sobs] and the name I have borne stainless in peace and war for more than threescore years, you forfeited not only the right to question my designs, but that of looking me in the face. I ama tenderer man than your father —he would have spat on you and thrust you from his door. But mar…
1919 · PDF PAGE 170
…ave dwindled till they are somewhat short, but for all that, the main idea has never become clouded. I feel far more determined in every way than I did, although less certain of any fixed goal. I know also that I have problems to face, now, or in the future, but have learnt to keep doing what comes to hand, without wa- vering or despairing. I do not seem to have made much definite progress, yet there are signs which give me to understand that all is as it should be; perhaps Iam more in tune and so do not notice such vivid changes. I have found …