PREFACE
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in one harmonious
light ; thence
shall we travel to the
holy and humble house of the heart , wherein our God
is born , whose name
is ineffable, a Crown
of Glory ,
exalted
forever
above
the
Balance
of Righteousness
and Truth .
T.A.R.O.
As author of the following
essay to you my readers ,
I can but say with
the four beasts
of the Apocalypse :
" Come and
See . ”
“ Behold the
Lion ... hath prevailed to
open
the
Book and to loose the seven seals thereof. "
For until
now
“ No man in heaven
, nor in earth , neither under
the earth , was able to open
the Book , neither to look
thereon .”
Yet through
the astrolabe of his mind and
in the alembic of his heart Aleister
Crowley has opened
the book , breaking
not only the first six seals , but the
seventh
also .
For those who
read and understand ,
the heavens
shall depart as a scroll , and the stars shall
fall, and the mountains
be moved out of their places ;
and
they shall
become
as
kings
in a new kingdom ,
and be crowned with that Crown which passes Under
standing
I have
attempted
in
the
following
seven
chapters
to interpret the Book of the Seven Seals , and to paint
its
splendour
,
as
an
artist would incarnadine
his can
vas with the red blood
of
his mistress
,
love
-
kissed from
the bloom
of
her crimson lips
.
I
have not
,
as
Samuel
,
hacked and hewn Agag into pieces
before the Lord
in
Gilgal
;
but rather
Elijah
-
like have called upon Wis
dom
and Understanding
so
that my sacrifice
,
and even
the wood and stone
of
the altar
,
and the water which
floweth
about
it,
may
be
licked
up
by
the fire
of
the
great Coronation
.