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THE FIVE ADORATIONS I praise Thee, God, whose rays upstart beneath the Bright and Morning Star : Nowit asali fardh salat assobhi allahu akbar. I praise Thee, God, the fierce and swart; at noon Thou ridest forth to war ! Nowit asali fardh salat assohri allahu akbar. I praise Thee, God, whose arrows dart their royal radiance o'er the scar : Nowit asali fardh salat asasri allahu akbar. I praise Thee, God, whose fires depart, who drivest down the sky thy car: Nowit asali fardh salat al maghrab allahu akbar. I praise Thee, God, whose purple heart is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
LIBER O (1) Assumption of God-forms. (2) Vibration of Divine Names. (3) Rituals of “ Banishing” and “ Invoking.” These, at least, should be completely mastered before the dangerous Methods of Chapters V. and VI. are attempted. III 1. The Magical Images of the Gods of Egypt should be made thoroughly familiar. This can be done by studying them in any public museum, or in such books as may be accessible to the student. They should then be carefully painted by him, both from the model and from memory. 2. The student, seated in the “God” position or…
1909 · PDF PAGE 107
iI THE GARDEN OF JANUS The webs that snare them—while the knees Bend to the tyrant God—or unto Sin The lecher sunder ! Ah! came that undulant light from over or from under? XIII It matters not. Come, change! Come, woe! Come, mask | Drive Light, Life, Love into the deep ! In vain we labour at the loathsome task Not knowing if we wake or sleep; But in the end we lift the pluméd casque Of the dead warrior ; Find no chaste corpse therein, but a soft-smiling whore. XIV Then I returned into myself, and took All in my arms, God’s universe: Crushed its…
1909 · PDF PAGE 200
THE EQUINOX magnificent. She became the god, absorbed in His being; her dreadful shriek—the cry of a soul at Heaven’s gate smitten by the lightning into the abyss—changed to a marvellous laughter of love as she touched the summit of felicity. * * * * * So much I saw; yet the cloud withdrew itself; the lights redeemed their lustre. There in the midst my love awaited me—me—and I stood, as a diver that hesitates, so that he may enjoy to the full the foretaste of the plunge. I stood there, very God of very God, in the glittering green of her eyes, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
th: the god Set fighting. 2 Air: the god Sha supporting the sky. 3. Water; the goddess Auramoth, the goddess Thoum-aesh-neith. 5.6. Spirit: the rending and closing of the ve ’ 7-10. The LV X signs. P 7. + Osiris slain—the cross 8, L Isis mourning—the Svastika, 9. V Typhon—the ‘Trident. 10, X Osiris risen—the Pentagram. THE SIGNS OF THE GRADES
1909 · PDF PAGE 336
… O my spirit, from thy prison ! I match, &c. GimEL (with the crossing of the path of Teth) Hail, virgin Moon, bright Moon of Her That is God’s thought and minister! Snow-pure, sky-blue, immaculate Hecate, in Thy book of Fate Read thou my name, the soaring soul That seeks the supreme, sunless goal! And thou, great Sekhet, roar! Arise, Confront the lion in the way! Thy calm indomitable eyes Lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay! Iam past. Hail, Hecate! Untrod Thy steep ascent to God, to God! Lo! what unnamed, unnameable Sphere hangs above ins…
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
… the whole, but only to that Ove Other. For the time being (let it appear as if it were for all time to the initiate), that Oxe Other is God and Very God—the Omega of his quest, and that a// others are Devils that would tempt and seduce him. Thus it happens that until you become God, God Himself is in Reality The Tempter, Satan, and the Prince of Darkness, who, assuming the glittering robes of Time and Space, whispers in our ears: “ Millions and millions and millions of eternities are as nothingness to me; then how canst thou, thou little mote …
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
…ward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus,* and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the God Harpocrates.f 5. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 172
…ept dominion, power, angel, throne, For unimaginable ends, and hiss, And fall. The heralds trumpet ; they are gone. Tread softly—'tis in God’s house thou hast been— And fearfully—'tis God that thou hast seen. G. H. S. Pinsent. 162
1909 · PDF PAGE 305
…t is that we have never seen one ourselves!” This, it will be seen, is the Freethinkers’ * old, old conclusive argument: “There is not a God because we have no experience of a God.”+.. . “ There is not a South Pole because we have not trudged round it six times and cut our names on it with our pocket-knives !” Now what is knowledge ? Something is !—Call it Existence. What exists ? “T exist!” answers the Idealist, “I and I alone!” rather than believe in the resurrection of a dead person, but his speech was rash, for itis on the faith of universa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
…ep Waters, And my footsteps are in the Unknown. Vast before me is the Portal of Geburah : Behind it is gleaming the Fire of the Wrath of God: I cry against Thee in the name of Elohim Gibor: Open unto me, Gateway of God the Mighty! Lift up your heads, O ye Gates, &c. Iam come forth from the Path of the Waters: I stand in the World of the Power of God: I turn my face to the Right, and the Gate of the Lion is before me— Gate of the Path of the Lion, in the Sign of the Lion do thou open before my face. Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates, &c. I advance …
1909 · PDF PAGE 214
THE EQUINOX I did it. How? So great and grim The Gods are, I may never guess. Suffice it, on his mouth I swim A drowning dastard. The caress Wakes the lost life. I see him dress The godhead. Up he bounds and brays :— The wild ass of the wilderness, The soul that sees, the soul that slays ! Inhabit the untrodden ways ; Set! Thou my god and I thy priest, Thy temple hidden in the haze Of deserts death to god or beast! Thou who art both shalt foin and feast With me who am both, thy hate’s co-heir, Lord of the West and of the East— The scorpion’s ho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 192
…Unmanifest. Yet is there in them the All-potency of Life. For 2+ 2+ 1= 5, the Symbol of Power, Mother Supernal, and n also is », Lamb of God and Dawn of the Life of the Year. Wherefore in them lieth concealed and hidden, not alone the Divine White Brilliance of the Three Supernals (xin, wrtp,, W732), but even also that Gleaming Glory which partaketh of the Redness, and which cometh from the Bornless Age, which is beyond Kether. As it is writtten in Ancient Hindu Scripture, ‘In the beginning Desire, TANHA, arose in It: which was the Primal Germ …
1909 · PDF PAGE 199
…es! “ Have not I wooed Thee and awaited Thee? But Thou comest not. By what spell may I conjure Thee? AmI the mock of Thy majesty? Ah, my god, my master, my lover— nay, that Thou art not. “But I love Thee! I worship Thee!” With supreme force she cried out upon the God ; she tore at her beautiful flesh with her fingers; she writhed upon the fur; words of dreadful passion bubbled at her lips; her mouth was like a raging sea of blasphemy ; she moaned and struggled, torn by some internal force even as a woman in childbirth; she sank back into black …
1909 · PDF PAGE 222
…tranger to men Than silence, and wisdom, and kindness? Nay ! let him fashion an arrow Whose heart is sober and stout! Let him pierce his God to the marrow! Let the soul of his God flow out! Whether a snake or a sun In his horoscope Heaven hath cast, It is nothing; every one Shall win to the moon at last.
1909 · PDF PAGE 177
…w, by applying to the Text the Keys of the Qabalah, that not merely the surface meaning is contained therein. In the Beginning, created, God, the Essence of the Heavens, and the Essence, of the Earth. In the Beginning God f th In Wisdom Created j The Elohim the Essence + e In the Head* The Holy Gods. eavens of the and the Essence } marth Contained therein also are the Divine, Magical, and Terrestrial Formule of the Passage of the Incomprehensible Nothingness of the Ain Soph to the Perfection of Creation * Ie, the White Skull. Vide Idra Zuta Qad…
1909 · PDF PAGE 183
A NOTE ON GENESIS God create the Heavens and the Earth. And the total numeration of its numbers is the Perfect Number, even the Decad of the Sephiroth. (1 + 2 +3 +4 = 10) Thus can our Science teach us wherefore the Door* of ¢ ,3, is the Gateway of Initiation: that one planet whose symbol alone embraceth the 10 Sephiroth; the Entrance to the Shrine of our Father C.R.C., the Tomb of Osiris; the God Revealer, coming, moreover, by the Central Path of o through the midst of the Triangle of Light. And the Lock which guards that Door is as the Four Ga…
1909 · PDF PAGE 235
…ing if we are but as drops of water which are splashed between the wanton hands of the Sun, the Wind, and the Ocean ?—indeed the ways of God are inscrutable and past finding out. Thus the Unobtainable tempts us, and the little segments of God that we see become to us the fiercest and most terrible of the Dog- faced Demons which seduce us from the path. He is always at our elbow, whispering, tempting, jeering, advising and helping us; He it is that casts despair upon us when we have done nothing wrong, and elation when we have done nothing right…
1909 · PDF PAGE 184
…the total numeration, therefore represents Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira: Assiah made manifest—the Work of Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four Worlds. One thing is significant, indeed. Let us take the Primal Three and convert those Numbers into Colours. So we get x, the Father, the Yellow Ray of the Dawning Sun of Creation ; », the Mother, the Blue Ray of the Great Primzval Waters ; w, the Son, the Red Ray: the Ruach Elohim,{ symbol of the Red Fire of God, whi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 145
…n did I learn the lore of Earth, For mine was the light of Pan ; The barren riddle unsolved by birth Was solved as the hot fire ran. The god’s tongue flashed, and he roared with glee At each spasm he drew from the breast of me, And the mystery of Panic mirth Lay bare in the sight of a man. XIII And many a love long since I’ve known, And many a city rare ; I have sung and harped, I have fought and flown, I have wandered everywhere. But the thought of that day by the water-side, The god’s hot breath and the hidden bride, Makes me more shy as I wa…