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…ly a hand energized by him. “And now it is the dance of Shiva. I lie beneath his feet, his saint, his victim. My form is the form of the god Phtah, in my essence, but the form of the god Seb is my form. And this is the reason of existence, that in this dance which is delight, there must be both the god and the adept. Also the earth herself is a saint; and the sun and the moon dance upon her, torturing her with delight.”
1944 · PDF PAGE 56
…this ap‐ pears to mean more bisexual than hermaphroditic. His madness is also a phase of his intoxica‐ tion, for he is pre‐eminently the god of the vine. He goes dancing through Asia, surrounded by various companions, all insane with enthusiasm; they carry staffs headed with pine cones and entwined with ivy; they also clash cymbals, and in some legends are furnished with swords, or twined about with serpents. All the half‐gods of the forest are the male companions of the Maenad women. In his pictures his drunken face, and the languid state of h…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
strong, O man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” “Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times gr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 108
…ard therefore represented the destruction of the world by Fire. This was accomplished in the year of the vulgar era 1904, when the fiery god Horus took the place of the airy god Osiris in the East as Hierophant (see Atu V). At the begin‐ ning, then, of this new Aeon, it is fit to exhibit the message of that angel who brought the news of the new Aeon to earth. The new card is thus of necessity an adaptation of the Stélé of Re‐ vealing. Around the top of the card is the body of Nuith, the star‐goddess, who is the category of unlimited possibility…
1944 · PDF PAGE 243
l Adjustment! Rhythm writhes through every act. Wild is the dance; its balance is exact. m In Mother‐Deeps of Ocean the GodMan Hangs, Lamp of the Abyss Aeonian. n Eagle, and Snake, and Scorpion! The Dance Of Death whirls Life from Trance to Trance to Trance. s Solve, coagula! By V.I.T.R.I.O.L. shewn, The Tincture, the Elixir, and the Stone. y Ιο παν! upon the summits the God‐goat Leaps in wild lust of ecstasy afloat. p Bellona, scream! Unhood the Hawks! The roar Of Universes crashing into War! h Nuit, our Lady of the Stars! Event Is all Thy pl…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
… the innumerable leapings of the sap; before it stands the Himalayan goat, with an eye in the cen‐ tre of his forehead, representing the god Pan upon the highest and most secret mountains of the earth. His creative energy is veiled in the symbol of the Wand of the Chief Adept, crowned with the winged globe and the twin serpents of Horus and Osiris. 1The Early Christians also were accused of worshipping an Ass, or ass‐headed god. See Browning, The Ring and the Book (The Pope). “Hear me, Lord of the Stars, For thee have I worshipped ever With sta…
1944 · PDF PAGE 105
…te and smell.1 Such light as there may be is deadlier than dark‐ ness, and the silence is wounded by the howling of wild beasts. To what god shall we appeal for aid? It is Anubis, the watcher in the twilight, the god that stands upon the threshold, the jackal god of Khem, who stands in double form between the Ways. At his feet, on watch, wait the jackals themselves, to devour the carcasses of those who have not seen Him, or who have not known His Name. 1See the Book of Lies Cap. πβ, Bortsch. This is the threshold of life; this is the threshold …
1944 · PDF PAGE 52
…m is invoked to fulfil the function of fathering the re‐ deemer. On the banks of the Euphrates men worshipped Oannes, or Dagon, the fish god. The fish as a symbol of fatherhood, of motherhood, of the perpetuation of life generally, constantly recurs. The letter N. (Nun, N, in Hebrew means Fish) is one of the original hieroglyphs stand‐ ing for this idea, apparently because of the mental reactions excited in the mind by the con‐ tinual repetition of this letter. There are thus a number of gods, goddesses, and eponymous heroes, whose legends are …
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…according to a certain long‐ hidden tradition. One of the shocks for candidates in the “Mysteries” was the revelation “Osiris is a black god”. Saturn, therefore, is masculine; he is the old god, the god of fertility) the sun in the south; but equally the Great Sea, the great Mother; and the letter Tau upon the Tree of Life ap‐ pears as an emanation from the moon of Yesod, the foundation of the Tree and representative of the reproductive process and of the equilibrium between change and stability, or rather their identification. The influence of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 137
…he standeth in the lake of crystal, in the sea of glass. “This is she that hath bedecked her hair with seven stars, the seven breaths of God that move and thrill its excellence. And she hath tired her hair with seven combs, whereupon are written the seven secret names of God that are not known even of the Angels, or of the Arch‐ angels, or of the Leader of the armies of the Lord. “Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be thy name for ever, unto whom the Aeons are but the pulsings of thy blood.”
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
…ery least, his mother must be a virgin; and, to match this wonder, his father cannot be an ordinary man; therefore, his father must be a god. But as a god is a gaseous vertebrate, he must be some materialisation of a god. Very good! Let him be the god Mars under the form of a wolf, or Jupiter as a bull, or a shower of gold, or a swan; or Jehovah in the form of a dove; or some other creature of phantasy, preferably disguised in some animal form. There are innumerable forms of this tradition, but they all agree on one point: the saviour can only …
1944 · PDF PAGE 90
…ion and perhaps renovation of life. The legend of the Gospels, dealing with the Greater Mysteries of the Lance and the Cup (those of the god Iacchus Iao) as superior to the Lesser Mysteries (those of the God Ion=Noah, and the N‐gods in general) in which the Sword slays the god that his head may be offered on a Plate, or Disk, says: And a soldier with a spear pierced his side; and thereforth there came out blood and water. This Wine, collected by the Beloved Disciple and the Virgin‐Mother, waiting beneath the Cross or Tree for that purpose, in a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 98
… things and most remote. Even the horns of the goat are spiral, to represent the movement of the all‐pervading energy. Zoroaster defines God as “having a spiral force”. Compare the more recent, if less profound, writings of Einstein1. 1Compare Saturn, at one end of the Seven Sacred Wanderers, with the Moon at the other: the aged man and the young girl—see “The Formula of Tetragrammaton”. They are linked as no other two planets, since 32=9, and each contains in itself the extremes of its own idea. (See also Appendix: Atu xxi.)
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…he is crowned with the crown of Osiris; he represents Osiris in the waters of Amennti. Yet more, he is the original secret male creative God: see Atu XV. “Redeunt Saturnia regna.” It was only the cor‐ ruption of the Tradition, the confusion with Set, and the Cult of the Dying God, misunderstood, deformed and distorted by the Black Lodge, that turned him into a senile and fiendish symbol. With the sweep of his scythe he creates bubbles in which are 1The Qabalists embodied in the Book of Genesis, Caps I and II, this doctrine of regeneration. NChS…
1944 · PDF PAGE 54
equivalent of initiation; as the mystic would say, “My soul is swallowed up in God”. (Compare the symbolism of Noah and the Ark, Jonah1 and the Whale, and others.) One must constantly keep in mind the bivalence of every symbol. Insistance upon ei‐ ther one or other of the contradictory attributions inherent in a symbol is simply a mark of spiritual incapacity; and it is constantly happening, because of prejudice. It is the simplest test of initiation that every symbol is understood instinctively to contain this contradictory mean‐ ing in itself…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
The Rich Fisherman: Percivale. The legend of Percivale, integral of the mystery of the Saviour Fish‐God, and of the Sangraal or Holy Grail, is of disputed origin. It appears certainly, first of all, in Brittany, the land best beloved of Magick, the land of Merlin, of the Druids, of the forest of Broceliande. Some scholars suppose that the Welsh form of this tradition, which lends much of its impor‐ tance and its beauty to the Cycle of King Arthur, is even earlier. This is in this place irrelevant; but it is vital to realize that the legend, l…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…cted with the forty‐two Assessors of the Dead, for they are the Accusers, whom the soul must baffle; and with the forty‐two‐fold name of God, for this is the Mystery of Inquity, that there was ever a beginning at all. And this Magus casteth forth, by the might of his four weapons, veil after veil; a thousand shining colours, rip‐ ping and tearing the Aethyr; so that it is like jagged saws, or like broken teeth in the face of a young girl, or like disruption, or madness. There is a horrible grinding sound, maddening. This is the mill in which th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 189
…icates 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 limitation be…
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
… enlightenment. b The Word of Wisdom weaves the web of lies, Weds irreducible Infinities. g Mother, moon‐maiden, playmate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each his Understanding sooth discovers Wordless: your mode, immortal Twins and Lovers! h Behold, the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 72
…row, which is the mark of the Beast spoken of in the Apocalypse, and is the sign of Initiation. “The shedding of blood is necessary, for God did not hear the children of Eve until blood was shed. And that is external religion; but Cain spake not with God, nor had the mark of initiation upon his brow, so that he was shunned of all men, until he had shed blood. And this blood was the blood of his brother. This is a mystery of the sixth key of the Tarot, which ought not to be called The Lovers, but The Brothers. “In the middle of the card stands C…