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…royally run, To spring sunshine through winter storm. Glory and worship be to Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! FIRST SEMICHORUS: MEN. Glory to thee from Gilded Tomb. SECOND SEMICHORUS: WOMEN. Glory to thee from Waiting Womb. MEN. Glory to Thee from earth unploughed! WOMEN. Glory to thee from virgin vowed! MEN. Glory to thee, true Unity Of the Eternal Trinity! WOMEN. Glory to thee, thou sire and dam And Self of I am that I am! — 358
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…eir pleasure in cruelty. There is no principle, even a false one, to give cohérence to the clamour of ethical propositions. Yet the very men that hâve smashed Moloch, and strewn the earth with shapeless rubble, grow pale when they so much as whisper among themelves, “While Moloch ruled ail men were bound by the one law, and by the oracles of them that, knowing the fraud, feared not, but were his priests and wardens of his mystery. What now ? How can any of us, though wise and strong as never was known, prevail on men to act in concert, now that…
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Crime, folly, sickness and ail such phenomena must be contem- plated with complété freedom from fear, aversion, or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelli- gentlyj in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them. Anatomists and physiologists, grappling in the dark with death, hâve won hygiene, surgery, prophylaxis and the rest for mankind. Anthropologists, archaeologists, physicists and other men of science, risking thumbscrew, stake, infamy and ostracism, hâve torn the spider-snare of superstition t…
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the curse of His grade, and the burden of His attainment, be uplifted from Him. 14. Let Him beware of abstinence from action. For the curse of His grade is that he must speak Truth, that the Faisehood thereof may enslave the soûls of men. Let Him then utter that without Fear, that the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Nature will that law be shapen, so that one may déclaré gentleness and quietness, being an Hindu- and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; and yet another ardour and manüness, bemg an Arab. Y et this ma…
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… 12 Thoth and Cynocephalus. Hanuman, Vishnu (as Parasa- Rama). 13 Ghomse. Chandra (as y). H Hathoor. Lalita (sexual aspect of Sakti). 15 Men Thu. Shiva. 16 Asar Ameshet Apis. Shiva (Sacred Bull). 17 Various twin deities, Rehkt Merti, etc. Various twin and hybrid Deities. 18 Khephra. 19 Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Pasht, Sekhet, Mau, Sekhmet. Vishnu (Nara-Singh Avatar). 310 —
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…thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpétuai radiance hearten us to continuai labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE LORD) The DEACON. Lord secret and most holy, source of light, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and mighty within us, force …
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… (who will deny it?) they hâve trained you in détermination, accuracy, introspection, and many other qualities which are valuable to ail men in their ordinary avocations, so that in no case will your time hâve been wasted. 2. That you may gain some insight into the nature of the Great Work which lies beyond these elementary trifles, however, we should mention that an intelligent person may gather more than a hint of its nature from the following books, which are to be taken as serious and learned contributions to the study of Nature, though not…
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MEN. Glory to thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One! CHORUS. Glory and worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words are to jorm the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any fart thereof shall be set to musicy which may be as elaborate as art can. But even should other mthems be authorised by the Father of the Church, this shall hold its place as the first of its kindy the father of ail other s b) VIII. Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Eléments. (The PRIEST takes the Paten between the in…
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…and gives the three penal signs. He then kneels and vsorships the Tance with both hands. Penitential music. The PRIEST. I am a man among men. He takes again the Tance and lowers it. He rises. The PRIEST. How should I be worthy to administer the virtues to the Brethren? The PRIESTESS takes jrom the chïld the water and the salty and mixes them in the font. The PRIESTESS. Let the sait of Earth admonish the Water to bear the virtue of the Great Sea. (Genujlects). Mother, be thou adored! She returns to the Westy -j~ on PRIEST with open hand doth she…
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… Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of ail that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us ail, and in one Womb wherein ail men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON. And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in his name BAPHOMET. And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is 0EAHMA. And I believe in the communion of Saints. And, forasmuch as méat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I …
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…arsh. 13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory. And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men hâve likened unto the roaring of a Lion. 14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into the divine form of Osiris upon his throne. 15. Then shalt thou repeat audibly the cry of triumph of the god re-arisen, as it shall hâve been given unto thee by thy Superior. 16. And this being accomplished, thou mayest enter again into the Vision, that thereby shall be perfected in Thee. 17…
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… of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, con- tinuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, since thou art continuous. Euring this speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, …
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…d. This is equally a defect characteristic of the Grade. 43. Concerning a notable danger of Success. — It may occur that owing to the tremendous power of the Samadhi, overcoming ail other memories as it should and does do, that the mind of the devotee may be obsessed, so that he déclaré his particular Deity to be sole God and Lord. This error has been the foundation of ail dogmatic religions, and so the cause of more misery than ail other errors combined. The Philosophus is peculiarly liable to this because from the nature of the Method he cann…
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…al properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through ail this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the school- men of old believed, making ail things for man’s benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertie. And in these méditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any spéculations sentimental or fantastic. 32. Second Method. The Practice Proper. — Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into th…
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…dept of some previous existence. Where this is possible, let it be checked by an appeal to facts, as follows : -— 22. It often occurs to men that on visiting a place to which they hâve never been, it appears familiar. This may arise from a confusion of thought or a slipping of the memory, but it is con- ceivably a fact. If, then, the adept arememberî? that he was in a previous life in some City, say Cracow, which he has in this life never visited, let him describe from memory the appearance of Cracow, and of its inhabitants, setting down their …
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…f yearning. This yearning is spon- taneous, and it shall be left to grow, whether is be sweet or bitter. For often times it is as the torment of hell in which the soûl burns and writhes unceasingly. Yet it ends, and at its end continue openly thy Method. 27. Concerning Dryness. — Another State wherein at times the soûl may fall is this dark night. And this is indeed purifying, in such depths that the soûl cannot fathom it. It is less like pain than like death. But it is the necessary death that cornes before the rising of a body glorified. This…
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…f the box suggests crowded streets, or the spirited character of the animal employed to draw it. The cushions indicate its use to convey men rather than merchandise; its hood that rain some- jmes falls, or that the sun is at times powerful. The springs would imply considérable skill in metals; the varnish much attainment in that craft. 35* Similarly, let the adept consider of his own case. Now that he is on the point of plunging into the Abyss a giant Why ? confronts him with uplifted club. 3 b. There is no minutest atom of his composition whic…
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… say “Horus is a foal” or “Horus is purple”. One may say : “Horus resembles a foal in this respect that he is the olfspring of two complementary beings”. 33. Further of this matter.— So also many hâve said truly that since earth is that One, and océan is that One, therefore earth is océan. Unto Him good is illusion, and evil is illusion 5 therefore good is evil. By this fallacy of logic are many men destroyed. Moreover, there are those who take the image for the God; as who should say, my heart is in Tiphereth, an Adeptus is in Tiphereth; I am …