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Page 1 of 11910 · PDF PAGE 15
…UPITER 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26th. THE RITE OF MARS 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2nd. THE RITE OF SOL 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9th. THE RITE OF VENUS 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16th. THE RITE OF MERCURY 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23rd. THE RITE OF LUNA 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30th. Tickets will not be sold separately ; the rent for the series is Five Guineas. Tickets are, however, transferable. Doors will be open at 8.30 ; they will be closed and locked at Nine o’clock pre- cisely. The ceremonies occupy from 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours. ONLY ONE HUNDRED TICKETS WILL BE I…
1910 · PDF PAGE 14
…mphant Lord of Heaven, the beloved of Apollo and the Muses is brought down into the dust, and who shall mourn him but his Mother Nature, Venus, the lady of love and sorrow ? Well is it if she bears within her the Secret of Resurrection ! But even Venus owes all her charm to the swift messenger of the Gods, Mercury, the joyous and ambiguous boy whose tricks first scandalize and then delight Olympus. But Mercury, too, is found wanting. Not in him alone is the secret cure for all the woe of the human race. Swift as ever, he passes, and gives place…
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
… Sol the man who has still something of his youth left, and is gay betimes and serious betimes, the man who loves and the man who works. Venus explains itself in Shakespeare’s words, “ the lover with a woeful ballad.” Mercury the schoolboy, happy, careless and gay, mischievous and full of animal life. Luna the age of childhood and innocence, unsmirched and white as the planet herself. Each will have its own ritual, arranged for the purpose of illustrating the particular deity to which it is devoted ; each ritual will be both poetic and musical.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
…elancholy which we call Saturn, or with the idea of force and fire which we call Mars, or with the idea of nature and love which we call Venus, and so for the others, if he becomes identified with this idea the union is one of ecstatic bliss, and its only imperfection is due to the fact that the idea in question, whatever it may be, is only partial. Ecstasy is therefore progressive. Gradually the adept unites himself with holier and higher ideas until he becomes one with the Universe itself, and even with That which is beyond the Universe. To h…