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THE WAKE WORLD 23 more beautiful than anything, and along it my own dear lover passes to my bridal chamber. Then there are the three ways to the Holy House of the old King, the way by which he is joined with the new Fairy Prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. And there is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 11
CONTENTS DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION . THE WAKE WORLD Au SLOPER . . . . . . . . THIEN TAO . THE STONE OF Aamcnus . . . . . . . PAGE vii 25 53
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THE WAKE WORLD A TALE FOR BABES AND SUCKLINGS (wrm EXPLANATORY norms in HEBREW AND LATIN FOR THE use 0F "rm: wrsn AND PRUDENT)
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…d—to follow them: till Konx om Pax replace Reading without Tears in every Infant School. Yet, suppose this were to happen, how would the world be advanced? In no wise. For the brilliance wherein we walk will be but thick dark ness to all those who have not become so blind that light and darkness are akin. The light wherein I write is not the light of reason; it is not the darkness of unreason ; it is the L. V. X. of that which, first master ing and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposit…
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108 KONX OM PAX THE POET BURY me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and love. They slew me for I did disparage Therefore Religion, Law, and Marriage. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! Arthur! said the big man, more tenderly than he had yet spoken, there was once a man like you. He wished your wish, not with‘tears, but with laughter; he had his wish, as you shall have yours. In spite of all, that nameless man is widely known as any in the…
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THE WAKE WORLD 21 sphinxes, one black and one white. The charioteer is a most curious person; he is a great big crab in the most lovely glittering armour, and he can just drivel His name is the mysterious name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The …
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THE WAKE WORLD 11 funny, because the girl next me thought it was Jesus Christ, till another Fairy Prince (my Prince’s brother) whispered as he kissed her: “ Hush, tell nobody ever, that is Satan, and he is the Saviour of the World.” I We were a very great company, and I can’t tell you of all the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face out wards in a great circle ever closing in on the Devil on the throne. But whenever I saw a toad or a hat, or some horrid insect, my Fairy Prince always whispered: “It is the Savi…
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…—is your natural home. You have written these essays by my pen; not on you need I bestow them; but— To all and every person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
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…ZZZAIEOZAZAEEEIIIZAIEOZOAkHO EOOOYTHOEZAOZAEZEEEZZEEZAOZAkHOZAEkHEYEIT YXAALETHYkH—This is the Name which you must speak in the interior;world. Jesus CHRIST. siwmfwziqfirqi Wimmifiqu MAHAPARINIBBANA SUTTA. {in fig? with hifitb, nutty hittfitfl: be white hen uni alien én tum nizt tnat by is: hp Ban moth Ittflt unthaileu. DANIEL HEINZ. Dianae sumus in fide Puellae et pueri integri Dianam pueri integri Puellaeque canamus. CATULLUS. Yllllfihtét¥ ‘fiiilfila2¥ TAO TEH KING (HWAINAN’S V.L.) ’Aa'rtprg per 'p-pi xaAaw o'sitawav diL oivroupu-rrrow'i oarwov r130; o'…
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20 KONX OM PAX Via '1 v. Valium and seventy-eight is six times thirteen. To get into the Wake World you must know your thirteen times table quite well. So if you take them both together that makes eleven times thirteen, and then you say “Abrahadabra,” which is a most mysterious word, because it has eleven letters in it. You remember the Houses are numbered both ways, so that the Third House is called the Eighth House too, and the Fifth the Sixth, and so on. But you can’t tell what lovely things that means till you’ve been through them all, and …
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… by a most elaborate ritual. But, on the other hand, there is perfect purity of thought in much of the avowedly Phallic symbolism of the world. For just as the sexual pleasure is entirely in a class by itself among (or rather, above) physical pleasures; so is Samadhi—union with God—in a class by itself among (or rather, above) mental pleasures. Who, therefore, would make an hieroglyph of the latter formless ecstasy can do no better than by drawing a picture of the former, under the image of its physical instruments. Hence the Rose and Cross, Sp…
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…ts, but he is at least a pleasant con trast to Gladstone and Kensit. If my truth is not the truth of the Divorce Court, it is because my world (thank God i) is not the Divorce Court. I prefer Christ to Sir Gorell Barnes as an authority on the Seventh Commandment; and the Spiritual Interpretation of facts is the formula “ Solve ” of the Theurgic Alchemist. What is a poet? What are his powers? He can watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom ; Nor heed, nor see, what things they be . . . Let Mr. Straig…
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…ILBERT. I Q g (“THE DECAY or MANNERS.”) INCE nobody can have the presumptiop to doubt the demonstra tion of St. Thomas Aquinas that this world is the best of all possible worlds, it follows that the imperfect condition of things which I am about to describe can only obtain in some other universe; prob ably the whole affair is but the figment of my diseased imagination. Yet if this be so, how can we reconcile disease with perfection? Clearly there is something wrong here; the apparent syllogism turns out on examination to be an enthymeme with a …
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…ke a white pyramid with a huge red cross on the top of it, which made me ever so glad, because now I knew I should be the Saviour of the World, which is what one wants to be, isn’t it? Only sometimes the world means all the other children in the dream, and sometimes the dream itself, and sometimes the wake-things one sees before one is quite, quite awake. The prince tells me that really and truly only the First House where his Father lived was really a wake-House, all the others had a little sleep-House about them, and the further you got the m…
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…t, “joy! Joy! joy!" There are violet flames darting through the air, each one a little sob of happy love. One began to see what the dream~world was really for at last; every time any one kissed any one for real love, that was a little throb of violet flame in this beautiful House in the Wake-World. And we bathed and swam in the pool, and were so happy you can’t think. But they said: “Little girl, you must pay for the entertainment.” [I forgot to tell you there was music like fountains make as they rise and fall, only of course much more wonderful…
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THE WAKE WORLD 7 beautiful Palace that ever was. On the sunset side were all the baths, and the bedrooms were in front of us as we were. The baths were all Of pale olive-coloured marble, and the bedrooms had lemon-coloured everything. Then there were the kitchens on the sunrise side, and they were russet, like dead leaves are in autumn in one’s dreams. The place we had come through was perfectly black everything, and only used for offices and such things. There were the most horrid things everywhere about; black beetles and cockroaches, and goo…
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THE WAKE WORLD 5 I saw the image of the One: I came from darkness into L.V.X. I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I.N.R.l.—me crucified, Me slain, interred, arisen, inspire! T.A.R.O.—me glorified, Anointed, fill with frenzied A! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I eat my flesh: I drink my blood I gird my loins: l journey far: For thou hast shown 0, +, j], 777, mpfihov, I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. Prostrate I wait upon Thy will, Mine Angel, for this grace of union…
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…nes, said the big man, is the Unutterable Tao. Mr. Jones, said the doctor, is (on this illusory plane of Maya) one of the wonders of the world. He is never seen or heard, felt or smelt. Nor hath he been at any time tasted of any. Yet he is everywhere; in all, and causer of all, and apart from all. By profession he is a curator in the British Museum; but that is going very low indeed upon the plane of Maya. I have already told you, said the big man, that Mr. Jones is the Unutterable Tao. Why not leave it at that? I will, said Basil, if Arthur wi…
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…, doth the great angel Metatron arrest him with the words: “I am the angel of the Presence divine. The wise man gazeth upon the material world; and he beholdeth therein the luminous image of the Creator. Not as yet canst thou bear the dazzling brilliance of that Light. Retuml for thou canst not pass by I” These commonplaces of the bastard mystic ism of mountebanks, crude and imbecile as they seem to one who has “passed by,” are curiously apt to mine intention of the moment. Essays in Light! I hear somebody exclaim. This man was obscure enough b…
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…pose, for such an one to play the wizard. In any case he took the risk, and left off things like soap and eating, Till he could give the world a bisque, ten spells in thirty, and a beating. Well, at the age of eighty-eight he found himself the One-horse Wire For the Iehannum Maiden Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the mom was dewy wet An hog for the Muezzin upstood, and…