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… is like a fence in front of him. And he cries: O man, who art thou that wouldst penetrate the Mystery? for it is hidden unto the End of Time. And I answer him: Time is not, save in the darkness of Her womb by whom evil came. And now the wheel breaks away, and I see him as he is. His garment is black beneath the opal veils, but it is lined with white, and he has the shining belly of a fish, and enor- mous wings of black and white feathers, and innumerable little legs and claws like a centipede, and a long tail like a scorpion. The breasts are h…
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…y mind. There is another forcing my head down in sleep. (It’s very difficult to talk at all, because an impression takes such an immense time to travel from the will to the muscles. Naturally, I’ve no idea of time.) I have gone up again to the child, led by two Angels, abasing my head. This child seems to be the child that one attempted to describe in ‘The Garden of Janus.” Every volition is inhibited. I have tried to say a lot, and it has always got lost on the way. Holy art thou, O more beautiful than all the stars of the Night! There has nev…
1911 · PDF PAGE 73
…uch darkness before the Aethyr that it seems impossible to pierce it. But there is a voice saying: Behold, the Great One of the Night of Time stirreth, and with his tail he churneth up the slime, and of the foam thereof shall he make stars. And in the battle of the Python and the Sphinx shall the glory be to the Sphinx, but the victory to the Python. Now the veil of darkness is formed of a very great number of exceedingly fine black veils, and one tears them off one at a time. And the voice says, There is no light or knowledge or beauty or stab…
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
…ereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. Truth itself is but illusion. Yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. Let thy lips blister with my words! Are they not meteors in thy brain? Back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am I; back into the night of my father, into the silence; for all that ye deem right is left, forward is backward, upward is downward. I am the great god adored of the holy ones. Yet am I the accursed one, child of the elements and not their father. O my mother! wilt thou not have pity…
1911 · PDF PAGE 156
… name of God, summarized in the letter cheth; for which see the Aethyr which correspondeth to that letter, the twelfth Aethyr.) Now from time to time I have looked into the Stone, but 154
1911 · PDF PAGE 19
…nothing that one can describe, but the suggestion is like lignum aloes. And now all these things are there at once in the same place and time. Now a veil of olive and silver is drawn over the stone, only I hear the voice of the angel receding, very sweet and faint and sorrowful, saying: Far off and lonely in the secret stone is the unknown, and interpenetrated is the knowledge with the will and the understanding. Iam alone. I am lost, because I am all and in all; and my veil is woven of the green earth and the web of stars. I love; and I am den…
1911 · PDF PAGE 5
…and flee away: for the Eye of My Father is open, and the Book of the Aeons is fallen. Arise! Arise! Arise! Let the Light of the Sight of Time be extinguished: let the Darkness cover all things: for my Father goeth forth to seek a spouse to replace her who is fallen and defiled. Seal the book with the seals of the Stars Concealed: for 3
1911 · PDF PAGE 104
…ere in spite of himself, remembering afterwards scarcely a word of his speeches, some of which were long and seemingly eloquent. All the time he had a sense of being protected from Choronzon, and this sense of security prevented his knowing fear. Several times did the Scribe threaten to put a curse upon the demon; but ever, before he uttered the words of the curse, did the demon obey him. For himself, he knoweth not the words of the curse. Also is it meet to record in this place that the Scribe several times whistled in a Magical manner, which …
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
…t be a potent spell, whereby thou mayest lay bare the womb of thine understanding to the violence of CHAOS. Now, therefore, for the last time, let the veil of the Aethyr be torn. Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! A ka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. This Aethyr must be left unfinished then until the half moon. HAMMAM SALAHIN, December 18, 3.10-4.35 p.m. An olvah nu arenu olvah. Diraeseu adika va paretanu poliax poliax in vah rah ahum subre fifal. Lerthexanax. Mama ra-la hum fifala maha. All this is the melody of a flute, ver…
1911 · PDF PAGE 152
…se. And a voice comes: there shall be no more red roses, for she hath crushed all the blood of all things into her cup. It seemed at one time as if the rose was in the breast of a beautiful woman, high-bosomed, tall, stately, yet who danced like a snake. But there was no subsistence in this vision. And nowI see the white Rose, as if it were in the beak of a swan, in the picture by Michael Angelo in Venice. And that legend too is the legend of BABALON. But all this is before the veil of the Aethyr. Now will I go and make certain preparations, an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…; consume the Sacrament; cover the Altar; veil the shrine; shut up the Temple and spread booths in the market place; until the appointed time come when the Holy One shall declare unto thee the Mystery of the Third Aethyr. Yet be thou wake and ware, for the great Angel Hua is about thee, and overshadoweth thee, and at any moment he may come upon thee unawares. The voice of PAZ is ended. BISKRA, ALGERIA. December 16, 1909. 9-10.30 a.m. THE CrY OF THE 3RD AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZON There is an angry light in the stone; now it is become clear. In …
1911 · PDF PAGE 99
…in the tenth Aethyr like unto the other Cries, for Choronzon is Dispersion, and cannot fix his mind upon any one thing for any length of time. Thou canst master him in argument, O talkative one; thou wast commanded, wast thou not, to talk toChoronzon? He sought not to enter the circle, or to leave the triangle, yet thou didst prate of all these things. (Here the Scribe threatened the demon with anger and pain and hell. The demon replied:) Thinkest thou, O fool, that there is any anger and any pain that I am not, or any hell but this my spirit? …
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
…XENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELU- CORSAPAX. And the voice of the aeon cried: Return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles in the throat of the mighty dragon of eld. Thou canst not pass by me, except thou have the mystery of the word of the abyss. Now the angel putteth back the sapphire stone into his breast; and I spake unto him and said, I will fight with thee and overcome thee, except thou expound unto me the word of the abyss. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…s mine, who sought to be my naked self. Knowest thou that in my soul is utmost fear? And such is my force and my cunning, that a hundred times have I been ready to leap, and for fear have missed. And a thousand times am I baulked by them of the City of the Pyramids, that set snares for my feet. More knowledge have I than the Most High, but my will is broken, and my fierce- ness is marred by fear, and I must ever speak, speak, speak, millions of mad voices in my brain. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am Commander, With a burning spear…
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
… my burden even unto the borders of the universe. They that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. Now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue- gray plumes. And the noise is confused, thousands of battle- cries harmonizing to a roar, like the roar of a monstrous river in flood. And all the stone is dull, dull gray. The life is gone from it. There is no more to see. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
…otch, it mattereth little what may be written by the sea-green incorruptible Scribe. The horror of it will be given in another place and time, and through another Seer, and that Seer shall be slain as a result of his revealing. But the present Seer, who is not P...., seeth not the horror, because he is shut up, and hath no name. (Now was there some further parleying betwixt the demon and the Scribe, concerning the departure and the writing of the word, the Scribe not knowing if it were meet that the demon should depart. Then the Seer took the H…
1911 · PDF PAGE 80
…ther, and gorse, and bracken. And he waved his hand yet again, and there was a park, and a small house therein, surrounded by yews. This time 78
1911 · PDF PAGE 123
… understood that “the word of sin is restriction.” It is very curious; they seem to be looking for one another or for something, all the time, constantly hurrying about. But they knock up against one another and yet will not see one another, or cannot see one another, because they are so shut up in their cloaks. And a voice sounds: It is most terrible for the one that hath shut himself up and made himself fast against the universe. For they that sit encamped upon the sea in the city of the Pyramids are indeed shut up. But they have given their …
1911 · PDF PAGE 108
…e borne her. This is the Daughter of the King. This is the Virgin of Eternity. This is she that the Holy One hath wrested from the Giant Time, and the prize of them that have overcome Space. This is she that is set upon the Throne of Under- standing. Holy, Holy, Holy is her name, not to be spoken among men. For Koré they have called her, and Malkah, and Betulah, and Persephone. And the poets have feigned songs about her, and the prophets have spoken vain things, and the young men have dreamed vain dreams; but this is she, that immaculate, the n…
1911 · PDF PAGE 18
…en eyes, whose sword is of vegetable fire. That shall avail me. My son is he,—and how shall I bear him that have not known man? All this time intolerable rays are shooting forth to beat me back or destroy me; but I am encased in an egg of blue- violet, and my form is the form of a man with the head of a golden hawk. While I have been observing this, the goddess has kept up a continuous wail, like the baying of a thousand hounds; and now her voice is deep and guttural and hoarse, and she breathes very rapidly words that I cannot hear. I can hear…