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Page 1 of 31944 · PDF PAGE 25
… It has been thought better, for the present pack, to adopt the term “Knight”, “Queen”, “Prince” and “Princess”, to represent the series Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, because the doctrine involved, which is extraordinarily complex and difficult, demands it. The Father is “Knight” because he is represented as riding on a horse. It may make it more clear to describe the two main systems, the Hebrew and the Pagan, as if they were (and had always been) con‐ crete and separate. The Hebrew system is straightforward and irreversible; it postulates Fa…
1944 · PDF PAGE 48
…vulture was supposed to reproduce her species by the in‐ tervention of the wind; in other words, the element of air is considered as the father of all manifested existence. There is a parallel in Anaximenes’ school of Greek philosophy. This card is therefore both the father and the mother, in the most abstract form of these ideas. This is not a confusion, but a deliberate identification of the male and the female, which is justified 1Note that ‘Fool’ is derived from ‘follis’, a wind‐bag. Even etymology gives the attribution to Air. Also, to puf…
1944 · PDF PAGE 129
…ly Assembly hath she poured it out for her worshippers, and they have become drunken thereon, so that face to face have they be‐ held my Father. Thus are they made worthy to become partakers of the Mystery of this holy vessel, for the blood is the life. So sitteth she from age to age, and the righteous are never weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is Truth. (“This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the in‐ toxicat…
1944 · PDF PAGE 202
… before the dis‐ covery of the Revolving Formula whereby the Daughter, seated upon the Throne of the Mother, “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father”. For the meanings of Via and Populus, refer to the “Handbook of Geomancy” (Equinox Vol. I, No.2).
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
here that Mercury and Venus are the planets between us and the sun, as if the Mother and the Son were mediators between us and the Father.) 1From The Paris Working. 2The path of Beth on the Tree of Life shows him descending from Kether, the Crown, upon Binah, the Great Sea. (See diagram). Note Christ as the Healer, and also his own expression: “The Son of Man cometh as a thief in the night.” Also this scripture (Matthew xxiv, 24‐7): “For as the lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son …
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
… wholly to lack either cogency or pertinence. The Ruach is centred in the airy Sephira, Tiphareth, who is the Son, the first‐born of the Father, and the Sun, the first emanation of the creative Phallus. He derives directly from his mother Binah through the Path of Zain, the sublime intuitive sense, so that he partakes ab‐ solutely of the nature of Neschamah. From his father, Chokmah, he is informed though the Path of Hé, the Great Mother, the Star, our Lady Nuit,1 so that the creative impulse is commu‐ nicated to him by all possibilities soever…
1944 · PDF PAGE 279
…he Secret Seed. ‘The Three Goddesses IIL, The Wife. ( (1 The Virgin, | xvit. ‘the Mother. ‘The Three Deminrges 1V. The Raler. fX The All Father 3 in x. toy. , VI. The Twins Emerging ‘The Childter. Horus and Hoor-Pa- Krast { XIX. The Sun (Playing) XVI. The Crowned and Conquering Child emerging from Womb a5 inALP ( VIL. The Graal; Chariot of Life, The Yoni geudens (The Woman XIV. The Preguant Womb preserving justified) \ ite. VIIE, The Sexually joined. [XT 256 & 666, The Slain Geds I XIE The Redeemer in the waters. XIII. The Redeeming Belly which…
1944 · PDF PAGE 262
… the number 2 and so on. The Court cards are referred to the num‐ bers 2, 3, 6 and 10 in their capacity as representative of the idea of Father, Mother, Son, Daughter. The twenty‐ two Trumps refer to the twenty‐two Paths. The same general remarks made in the description of the first Diagram, apply here also; but this Diagram must itself be studied separately. It should not be used as a table to which to refer when in doubt; it should itself be committed to memory before proceeding to the detailed study of the pack.
1944 · PDF PAGE 189
…ich indicates that one cannot establish one’s work without tact and gentle‐ ness. The wands are headed by the Ram, sacred to Chesed, the Father‐god Amoun‐Ra, as also to Aries; but at the other end of the wands are the Doves of Venus. In the symbol, the ends of the wands touch a circle, showing the completion and limita‐ tion of the original work. It is within this circle that the flames (four double, as if to assert the balance) of the Energy are seen to play, and there is no intention to increase the scope of the original Will. But this limita…
1944 · PDF PAGE 243
…all Thy play, sublime Experiment! q Witchmoon, upon thy beck of blood afloat The Midnight Beetle’s brave prophetic Boat! r The Sun, our Father! Soul of Life and Light, Love and play freely, sacred in Thy sight! w Nuit, Hadit, Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit! The Aeon Of the Twin Child! Exult, o Empyrean! t Naught becomes All to realise the span Of naught, O perfect Universe of Pan.
1944 · PDF PAGE 134
…ark. That which was a blazing sun is like a speck of ash. And in the midst the Arrow burns! the I see that the crown of the Arrow is the Father of all Light, and shaft of the Arrow is the Father of all Life, and the barb of the Arrow is the Father of all Love. For that silver wedge is like a lotus flower, and the Eye within the Ateph Crown crieth: I watch. And the Shaft crieth: I work. And the Barb crieth: I wait. And the voice of the Aethyr echoeth: It beams. It burns. It blooms. And now there cometh a strange thought; this Arrow is the source…
1944 · PDF PAGE 200
…he card is referred to the influence of Mercury in Cancer; this carries further the above thesis. Mercury is the Will or Word of the All‐Father; here its influence descends upon the most receptive of the Signs. At the same time, the combination of these forms of energy brings in the possibility of somewhat mysterious ideas. Binah, the Great Sea, is the Moon in one aspect, but Saturn in an‐ other; and Mercury, besides being the Word or Will of the All‐One, is the guide of the souls of the Dead. This card requires great subtlety of interpretation…
1944 · PDF PAGE 80
…ch are merely combinations of it in various ways. The letter Yod is the first letter of the name Tetragrammaton, and this symbolizes the Father, who is Wisdom; he is the highest form of Mercury, and the Logos, the Creator of all worlds. Accordingly, his representative in physical life is the spermatozoon; this is why the card is called The Hermit. The figure of the Hermit himself recalls the shape of the letter Yod, and the colour of his cloak is the colour of Binah, in whom he gestates. In his hand he holds a Lamp whose centre is the Sun, port…
1944 · PDF PAGE 238
…ll the ele‐ mental forces. At the end of matter must be complete stagnation, were it not that in it is al‐ ways inherent the Will of the Father, the Great Architect, the Great Arithmetician, the Great Geometer. In this case, then, Mercury will represent the Logos, the Word, the Will, the Wis‐ dom, the Eternal Son, and Virgo the Virgin, in every implication of that symbol. This card is in fact a hieroglyph of the cycle of regeneration.
1944 · PDF PAGE 211
…ement, Earth. There is indeed, a notable passivity in its nature; evidently, it has no self‐generated impulse. But, set in motion by its Father and Mother, its power is mani‐ festly terrific. It visibly attacks its objective, as they, being of subtler and more tenuous charac‐ ter, can never do. Its “all‐embracing, all‐wandering, all‐penetrating, all‐consuming” qualities have been described by many admirable writers, and its analogies are for the most part patent to quite ordinary observers.
1944 · PDF PAGE 62
…irst card which connects the Supernal Triad with the Hexad; and her path, as shown in the diagram, makes a direct connection between the Father in his highest aspect, and the Son in his most perfect manifestation. This path is in exact balance in the middle pillar. There is here, therefore, the purest and most exalted conception of the Moon. (At the other end of the scale is Atu xviii, q.v.) The card represents the most spiritual form of Isis the Eternal Virgin; the Artemis of the Greeks. She is clothed only in the luminous veil of light. It is…
1944 · PDF PAGE 59
…e Gospel according to St. John, chapter I.) It represents the Will. In brief, he is the Son, the manifestation in act of the idea of the Father. He is the male correlative of the High Priest‐ ess. Let there be no confusion here on account of the fundamental doctrine of the Sun and Moon as the Second Harmonics to the Lingam and the Yoni; for, as will be seen in the citation from The Paris Working, (see Appendix) the creative Mercury is of the nature of the Sun. But Mercury is the Path leading from Kether to Binah, the Under‐ 1Variant: LE PAGAD. …
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…rything that liveth is gathered therein, and the wine thereof laid up and matured and consecrated, and worthy to gladden the heart of my Father. For my Father is weary with the stress of eld, and cometh not to her bed. Yet shall this perfect wine be the quintessence, and the elixir; and by the draught thereof shall he renew his youth; and so shall it be eternally, as age by age the worlds do dissolve and change, and the Universe unfoldeth itself as a Rose, and shutteth itself up as the Cross that is bent into the Cube. “And this is the comedy o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 77
…er, redeemed by her marriage with the Son, is thereby set up on the throne of the mother; thus, finally, she “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father.” In the greatest symbolism of all, however, the symbolism beyond all planetary and Zo‐ diacal considerations, this card is the feminine complement of the Fool, for the letters Aleph Lamed constitute the secret key of the Book of the Law, and this is the basis of a complete qa‐ balistic system of greater depth and sublimity than any other. The details of this system have not yet been revealed. It has be…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
…tion; all the legends of god‐men were founded upon some symbolic story of that kind. The essential of all such stories was to deny human fatherhood to the hero or god‐man. In most cases, the father is stated to be a god in some animal form, the animal being chosen in accordance with the qualities that the au‐ thors of the cult wished to see reproduced in the child. Thus, Romulus and Remus were twins begotten upon a virgin by the god Mars, and they were suckled by a wolf. On this the whole magical formula of the city Rome was founded. Reference …