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…r Me :— IEOU “Indwelling Sun of Myself” PUR “Thou Fire! Thou Sixfold Star initia- tor compassed about with Force and Fire! ” “Indwelling Soûl of Myself” (Vide Supra) “Sun-lion Serpent, hail! Ail Hail, thou Great Wild Beast, thou I AO!” “Breaths of my Soûl, breaths of mine Angel.” “Lust of my Soûl, lust of mine Angel!” (Vide Supra). “Ho for the Sangraal! Ho for the Cup of Babalon! Ho for mine Angel pouring Himself forth within my Soûl!” “The Eye! Satan, my Lord! The Lust of the Goat! ” “Mine Angel! Mine initiator! Thou one with me — the Sixfold …
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
… to be criticised as incomplète self- control. Silence is nobler. In any case the Adept must be in communion with his Angel, so that his Soûl is suffused with sublimity, whether intelligible or not in ternis of intellect. It is évident that the stress of such spiritual possession must tend to overwhelm the soûl, especially at first. It actually suffers from the excess of its ecstasy, just as extreme love produces vertigo. The soûl sinks and swoons. Such weakness is fatal alike to its enjoyment and its appréhension. “Be strong! then canst thou b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…ental and astral consciousness is indeed cardinal to success, for it is their usurpation of his attention which has made him deaf to his Soûl, and his préoccupation with their affairs that has prevented him from perceiving that Soûl. — 294 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
Line i. Line 2. Line 3. Line 4. Section G. surface of the dew, where his Soûl hides trembling. He takes them to be the first formulation in his consciousness of the nature of His Holy Guardian Angel. The “Gods” include ail the conscious éléments of his nature. The “Universe” includes ail possible phenomena of which he can be aware. The “Winds” are his thoughts, which hâve prevented him from attaining to his Angel. His Angel has made “Voice”, the magical weapon which produces “Words”, and these words hâve been the wisdom by which He hath created…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…sés every breath, everv word of his Angel as charged with Creative fire. Tiphereth is the Sun, and the Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soûl of the Adept. Here is summed the entire process of bringing the conditioned Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their Inmate, and thus to partake of its own conscious- ness of the Light. “Grâce” has here its proper sense of “Pleasant- I. That is, Yod Hé realizing Themselves, Will …
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…e canon to which things conform, is builded the Temple of Being, whose materials are themselves perfectly mysterious, inscrutable as the Soûl, and like the Soûl imagining themselves by symbols which we may feel, perceive, and adapt to our use without ever knowing the whole Truth about them. The Adept sums up ail these items by claiming authority over every form of expression possible to Exis¬ tence, whether it be a “spell” (idea) or a “scourge” (act) of “God”, that is, of himself. The Adept must accept every “spirit”, every “spell”, every “scou…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…, babe hidden from hâte in the most holy of holies, the secret of thy sire, in the Channel of the Star-Spate, Whereof one Serpent is thy Soûl! Bacchus, twy-formed, man-woman, Bacchus, whose inno¬ cence tames the Figer, while yet thy horns drip blood upon thy mouth, and sharpen the merriment of wine to the madness of murder! Bacchus, Thy thyrsus oozes sap; thine ivy clings to it; thY Lion-skin slips from thy sleek shoulders, slips from thy lissome ioins; drunk on delight of the godly grape, thou knowest no more the burden o£ the body and the vex…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…ion as to those who are suitable for the same. Equinox VI, p. 17. Liber XCV. The Wake-World. A poetical allegory of the relations of the soûl and the Holy Guardian Angel. Konx Om Pax, p. 1. Liber XCVI. Liber Gaias. A Handbook of Geomancy. Equinox II, p. 137. Liber CVL A Treatise on the Nature of Deathy and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. Published in “The International”, New York, 1917. Liber CXI (Aleph). The B00k of Wisdom or Folly. An extended and elaborate commentary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master…
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…Sériés.) Gives the initiated Chinese System of Mysticism. Fannhanser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soûl; the Tannhauser story slightly remodelled. The Upanishads. (S.B.E. Sériés.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism. The Rhagavad-Gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu “Christ”, expounds a System of Attainment. The Yoice of the Silence, by H. P. Blavatsky, with an elaborate commentary by Frater O. M. The Goetia. The most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of Evoc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…ymbolizing the whole course of spiritual life. A is the formless Hero; U is the six-fold solar sound of physi- cal life, the triangle of Soûl being entwined with that of Body; M is the silence of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identical Point!” “Nuith ! Hadith ! Ra-Hoor-Khuit ! ” “Hail, Great Wild Beast!” “Hail, I A O ! ” I. Sacred to AHAThOOR. The idea is that of the Female conceived as invulnérable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity etc. — 270 — obedient unto Me. Sec lion F. Hear Me: AFT ABAFT BAS-AUMGN. I…
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…in Lust, thou Snake ex- tended upon Earth in Life! Spirit most hoiy! Seed most Wise! Inno¬ cent Babe. Inviolate Maid! Begetter of Being! Soûl of ail Soûls! Word of ail Words, Corne forth, most hidden Light!” “Devour thou me!” “Thou dost devour Me!” ANGELOS TON ThEON “Thou Angel of the Gods!” ANLALA “Arise thou in Me, free flowing, Thou who art Naught, who art Naught, and utter thy Word! ” EAI “I also am Naught! I Will Thee! I behold Thee! My nothingness!” GAIA “Leap up, thou Earth!” (This is also an agonising appeal to the Earth, the Mother; fo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
…he Brah- marandra-Cakkra, at the junction of the cranial sutures) and exudes a drop of clear crystalline dew, and that this pearl is his Soûl, a virgin offering to his Angel, pressed forth from his being by the intensity of his Aspiration. With these words the Adept does not withdraw his will within him as in the previous Sections. He thinks of them as a reflection of Truth on the 283
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…the night-wind. It shall at once be inarticulate, and mean more than he hath ever heard. Now let him strive with ail the strength of his Soûl to withstand the Will of his Angel, con- cealing himself in the closest cell of the citadel of consciousness. Let him consecrate himself to resist the assault of the Voice and the Vibration until his consciousness faint away into Nothing. For if there abide unabsorbed even one single atom of the false Ego, that atom should stain the virginity of the True Self and profane the Oath; then that atom should be…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
the True WiJl of the seer; if not, though it be never so true objectively, it is not true for him, because not useful for him. (Said we not a while ago that Truth was no more than the Most Convenient Manner of Statement?) . ^ may intoxicate and exalt the Seer, it may inspire and fortify him in every way, it may throw light upon most holy mysteries, yet withal be no more than an interprétation of the individual to himself, the formula not of Abraham but of Onan. These plastic "Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man” are well enough for those who…
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
…itual has been (a) to keep them so busy with their own work that they cease to distract him; (b) to separate them so completely that his soûl is stripped of its sheaths ; (c) to arouse in him an enthusiasm so intense as to intoxicate and anaesthetize him, that he may not feel and resent the agony of this spiritual vivisection, just as bashful lovers get drunk on the wedding night, in order to brazen out the intensity of shame which so mysteriously coexists with their desire ; (d) to concentrate the necessary spiritual forces from every element,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… are only too likely to do so; and if one’s respect for Him induces one to accept such visions as authentic, one is being false to one’s soûl; the visions themselves will avenge it. The true Guide being gone, the seer will stray into a wilderness of terror where he is tricked and tortured; he will invoke his idol the Master Therion, and fashion in His image a frightful phantasm who will mock him in his misery, until his mind stagger and fall; and, Madness swooping upon his carrion, blast his eyes with the horror of seeing his Master dissolve in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
… intellect is incapable of these functions; a superior faculty must hâve been developed. As Zoroaster says: “Extend the void mind of thy soûl to that Intelligible that thou mayst learn the Intelligible, because it subsisteth beyond Mind. Fhou wilt not understand It as when understanding some common thing.” 298 —
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…ht be first-rate at grammar, syntax, and prosody without being able to write a single line of good poetry, although the greatest poet in soûl is unable to express himself without the aid of those three éléments of literary composition. 3. This is not in contradiction with the absolute right o f every person to do his own true Will. But any True Will is of necessity in harmony with the facts of Existence; and to refuse to accept the Book of the Law is to create a conflict within Nature, as if a physicist insisted on using an incorrect formula of…