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…ophet of the Gods. Thus: “ Proclaimed is the Reign of the Gods of Light.” nis the last letter of the Alphabet, the fizis, the Omega, the Universe, Saturn, the outermost Planet, and it is also xynn, Throa, the Gate of the Universe; and by Qabalah of nine Chambers it is 3, the Gateway of Initiation. Hence: “ At the Threshold of the Universe.” * The Hand of God, always the Symbol of His Power. 180
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…. MSS. Z3): ‘At the ending of the NIGHT 3 At the Limits of the LIGHT Thoth stood before the Unborn Ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe. 4 (Thea came forth the Gods thereof, The AZons of the Bornless Beyond. * x Then was the Voice Vibrated. tw Then was the Name declared. niAt the Threshold of Entrance, ” \Betwixt the Universe and the Infinite, In the Sign of the Enterer: Stood Thoth ‘las before Him the ons were proclaimed. The positions of the last two letters of the Word have been relatively changed, so as to render the meaning more …
1909 · PDF PAGE 325
…the temple of the living God!’ “This she did, following me, and then knelt down at the altar, and waving a censer adored the Lord of the Universe. “ After this was at an end, we clasped our hands (1°=10° grip), kissed, and parted; she promising me that she would dwell in the temple sometimes, and hover about me, and watch me work, and aid me when I called her. “Then I knelt before the altar, in adoration of the Lord of the Universe; but watched her upward and eastward flight, whilst she looked amorously back at me over her right shoulder, wavin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 87
…that concerns one—and all known facts concern one, if only to ask, “‘ Why do I know this fact ?” How does it all fitin? It must, for the Universe is not insane—that blackness has been passed. Who then am I? And why? And why? Reaching ecstasy or Samadhi through this channel, the riddle of Kamma is answered, and one is able to enter the realm of pure consciousness. The Universe, mastered long ere now in its effects, is at last mastered in its causes; and it is indeed a Magister of the Temple who can say: Vi Veri Vniversum Vives Vict. XVII “All th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…d that which is neither P nor p’, in logical phraseology. Here, too, we should place Shivadarshana, the Vision of the Destruction of the Universe, the Opening of the Eye of Shiva. (Which is why adepts of this stage wear an eye as a badge.) Of this vision what can one say, save that the Universe, as previously known through Atmadarshana, is annihilated? Yet the negation of this phrase is only apparent ; the sense is that all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and t…
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…ng to end thereof reflected the Voices from Kether even unto Malkuth: and 6 — 4=2 again, the Central Will, 2, Thoth, in the Heart of the Universe (as in the centre of the verse). Note, then, this perfect equilibrium of the verse, and remember that Mystery—that equilibrium is strength. Let us now look at the letters themselves. Counting them, we find that the two central ones are x», the Supernal Mother ; even as the number of letters had the dual symbol in their midst. Now their numeration is 41, yielding by Gema- tria »x = Force: Might: Power:…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the Lord Shiva” business) an expert in the Vififianam trances, and having thus created an eternal Universe and an even more eternal Absence of Universe, both of which, too, are probably mere masses of Sat—Chit—Ananda (Being—Knowledge—Bliss) while he is trying to think of Change—Sorrow—Unsubstantiality. At last, as I imagine, probably without foundation, he succeeds in seeing first the truth and then the falsity of the Three Characteristics—and that is Nibbana. 85
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A NOTE ON GENESIS of the Universe (or Magical Mirror in Man). As it were the Egg of the Black Swan of Time, the Kala Hams, the Triune a"y, or word of Power or of Seb, the Bird of Life, whose will was heard in the Night of Time. The total numeric value of the verse is u1n3= 4459, of which the Key is 22, the number of the Paths from 8 ton; and the Key of 22 is 4, the Tetractys and the Threshold of the Universe. Now to proceed to what I have termed the Time Process, the first Word of the Law then is mwxo3a. Now in the Hebrew Scriptures the first w…
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…fore the polymorphous World a Type, intellectual, incorruptible, the imprint of whose form is sent forth through the World, by which the Universe shone forth decked with Ideas all-various, of which the foundation is One, One and alone, From this the others rush forth distributed and separated through thevarious bodies of the Universe, and are borne inswarms through its vast abysses, ever whirling forth in illimitable radiation. “ They are intellectual conceptions from the Paternal Fountain partaking abundantly of the brilliance of Fire in the c…
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…e a bubble. Mystical The night comes down, a soaring wedge of flame Woven therein To be a sign to them who yet have never been. XXXI The universe I measured with my rod. The blacks were balanced with the whites ; Satan dropped down even as up soared God ; Whores prayed and danced with anchorites. So in my book the even matched the odd: No word I wrote Therein, but sealed it with the signet of the goat. XXXII This also I seal up. Read thou herein Whose eyes are blind! Thou may’st behold Within the wheel (that alway seems to spin All ways) a poin…
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… 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 black juice out, while His anger shook His dumbness pregnant with a curse. I made me ink, and in a little book I wrote one word That God himself, the adder of Thought, had never heard. XV It detonated. Nature, God, mankind Like sulphur, nitre, charcoal, once G 97
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…keth with me shall rise with me. I am the manifester in Matter of those whose abode is in the Invisible. Iam purified ; I stand upon the Universe: I am the Reconciler with the Eternal Gods : I am the Perfecter of Matter: And without me the Universe is not !” 260
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… completed, the members and remaining officers remain standing whilst the Hierophant repeats the Adoration : “HOLY ART THOU, LORD OF THE UNIVERSE! HOLY ART THOU, WHOM NATURE HATH NOT FORMED! HOLY ART THOU, THE VAST AND THE MIGHTY ONE! LORD OF THE LIGHT AND OF THE DARKNESS!” (At each of these sentences all bow and give the sign, the officers raising their banners, sceptres, sword and wand on high, and then sink them in salutation.) The Hierophant then orders the Kerux to declare the Hall of the Neophytes opened by him, which he does in the follo…
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…space and wrapped it in a robe Of glory; of how One most white Withdrew that Whole, and hid it in the lobe Of his right Ear, So that the Universe one dewdrop did appear. XI Yea! and the end revealed a word, a spell, An incantation, a device Whereby the Eye of the Most Terrible Wakes from Its wilderness of ice To flame, whereby the very core of hell Bursts from its rind, Sweeping the world away into the blank of mind. XII So then I saw my fault; I plunged within The well, and brake the images That I had made, as I must make—Men spin
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…he Knowledge and unto the Name— Hide it, O hide it, in flowers of flame! Now in the balance of infinite things Stirs not a feather ; the universe swings Poised on the stealth of ineffable wings. Surely the sable Osirian bird Sole in the zether shall utter the Word Now that its crying can never be heard!
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II THE OPIUM-SMOKER IV See how the Star of the Universe blazes! Millions of meteors in marvellous mazes Mingle their magic of peony praises. Oh! the dark streak on the heart of its flood ! Smitten is the Star, and its poisonous blood Drips through the race of the luminous scud. Poison and poison and poison! I quiver, Drenched with the hate of the horrible river— O but the stars of it stagger and shiver! Leave me in peace, O disaster of light! Leave me to solitude, leave me to night! Is there no moon to enkindle the height? Vv See how the moon w…
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… Unbalanced Mercy is but weakness: Unbalanced Severity is but oppression. Thou hast known me; pass thou on unto the Cubical Altar of the Universe.” Thus formulating the Force of the Hidden Central Pillar. The Hierophant then leaveth his throne and passeth between the pillars, halting at either the station of Har- pocrates, the place of the Evil Triad, or at the East of the Altar. The Hiereus standeth on the left of the Candidate, and the Hegemon on hisright. Thus again completing the formulation of the Triad of the Three Supernals. The Hieropha…
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…er, 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 Gates of the Universe. And the Key is The Ankh, Immortal Life—the Rose and Cross of Life; and the Symbol of Venus ¢. 3. 6. 3. 4 4 . 7. Fic. I1I.—THIRD SYMBOL. By producing the Paths whereby the Forces of the Three (see Second Symbol) were concentred into four, we find they * As above, so below; wherefore saith the Holy Qabalah that alone amongst the Shells is Nogah, the Sphere of Venus, exalted unto Holiness. (Venus is the…
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…d from the planets when placed at the angles of the Heptagram. =@ @ “ .. The lamp within the centre re- presents the Astral Light of the Universe concentrated into a focus by the Planets. .. .” } The Hierophant then resumes: “ Within DIAGRAM 19. the mystic veil which separated the Holy ‘The Altar of Incense. Place from the Holy of Holies stood the Ark of the Covenant. Before the veil stood the altar of Incense, of which this altar is a symbol. It was in the form of a Double Cube, thus representing material form as the reflection and the duplica…
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…ralysed without visible weapon, as if blasted by the lightning flash!* (Hiereus here suddenly applies sword.) So help me THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE and my own Higher Soul.” As the Candidate affirmeth his own penalty should he prove a traitor to the Order, the evil triad riseth up in menace, and the avenger of the Gods, Horus, layeth the blade of his sword on the point of the Daath junction (i.e., of the brain with the spine) thus affirming the power of Life and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its…