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… burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple‐To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love‐chant. “Sing the rapturous love‐song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! “I am the blue‐lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night‐sky. “To me! To me! “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”
1944 · PDF PAGE 251
III This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love unites the Will to create with the Understanding of that Creation: understand thou thine own Will. Love and let love. Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof Love, beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, completion, good fortune, graciousness, elegance, luxury, idleness, dissipation debauchery, friendship, gentleness, delight. IV Pour water on thyself thus shalt thou be a Fountain to the Universe. Find thou thyself in every Star. Achieve thou every possibil…
1944 · PDF PAGE 79
…hands; they hold the hilt of the Phallic sword of the magician. She holds the blade be‐ tween her thighs. This is again a hieroglyph of “Love is the law, love under will”. Every form of energy must be directed, must be applied with integrity, to the full satisfaction of its destiny.
1944 · PDF PAGE 100
… is a direct reference to this card in the Book of the Law. In Chapter I, verse 57, the goddess Nuith speaks: “Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God”.1 The dominating feature of this card is the Eye of Horus. This is also the Eye of Shiva, on the opening of which, according to the legend of this cult,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 198
LOVE TWO OF CUPS The Two always represents the Word and the Will. It is the first manifestation. There‐ fore, in the suit of Water, it must refer to Love, which recovers unity from dividuality by mu‐ tual annihilation. The card also refers to Venus in Cancer. Cancer is, more than any other, the receptive Sign; it is the House of the Moon, and in that Sign Jupiter is exalted. These are, superficially, the three most friendly of the planets. The hieroglyph of the card represents two cups in the foreground, overflowing upon a calm sea. They are fe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 252
… of fortune. (This generally means good fortune because the fact of consultation implies anxiety or discontent.) XI Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things. Worship the name , foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of His House 418.
1944 · PDF PAGE 253
…hment, loss, fatal or voluntary, suffering, defeat, failure, death. XIII The Universe is Change; every Change is the effect of an Act of Love; all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die daily. Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: be hold all Opposites as necessary complements, and rejoice. Transformation, change, voluntary or involuntary, in either case logical development of existing conditions, yet perhaps sudden and unexpected. Apparent death or destruction, but such interpretation is illusion. XIV Pour thine all freely from the Va…
1944 · PDF PAGE 69
…five petals is in blossom. The symbolism of the snake and dove refers to this verse of the Book of the Law—chap. I, verse 57: “there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent”. This symbol recurs in the trump numbered XVI.
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…he Highest. And it is an ecstasy in which there is no trace of pain. Its passivity (=passion) is like the giving‐up of the self to the beloved.) 1From The Vision and The Voice. “The voice continues: This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of Abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries1, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. And because she hath made herself the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. Not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory. “…
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…consciousness that every breath we draw swells the sails which bear our frail vessels to the Port of the Grave. We must cast out Fear by Love; seeing that every Act is an Orgasm, their to‐ tal issue cannot be but Birth. Also, Love is the law: thus every act must be Righteousness and Truth. By certain Meditations this may be understood and established; and this ought to be done so thoroughly that we become unconscious of our Sanctification, for only then is Inno‐ cence made perfect. This state is, in fact, a necessary condition of any proper con…
1944 · PDF PAGE 161
… and the issue is compensated by the feeling that the right (however unfortu‐ nate) course has been adopted. Such people acquire intense love and devotion from the most unexpected quarters.
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…speakable. Let not this deceive thee, for its Existence proveth its Imperfection, and thou must call forth its Mate, and destroy them by Love, as with the former. This method is continuous, and proceedeth ever from the Gross to the Fine, and from the Particular to the General, dissolving all Things into the One Substance of Light. CONCLUSIO DR HOC MODO SANCTITATIS Learn now that Impressions of Sense have Opposites readily conceived, as long to short, or light to dark; and so with Emotions and Perceptions, as Love to Hate, or False to True; but …
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…n earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” “But to love me is better than all things: if under the night‐stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be will‐ ing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wea…
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
…de 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 Chariot! Through the water floods The Sangraal, life and rapture, Wine’s and Blood’s! e The Lion‐Serpent begets Gods! Thy thro…
1944 · PDF PAGE 243
…! 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 276
…Tithes and Attributions of the Cup Suit (Hearts) ‘The Root of the Powers af Fire . ‘The Root ol the Powersof Water 1 in Dominion @ in ow Love a © in © Virtue & in as Abundance 2 3 in » Completion we in so Luxury 4 h in & Strife in M Disappointment 5 2) in Q Victory © in M Pleasure € Sin & Valour 9 in M Debauch 3 Yin £ Swittness hin ¥ Indolence é w in f Strength 2 in Happiness ‘ hh in # Oppression gin x Satiety x Titles and Attribution of the Titles and Attribution of the Swrord Suit (Spades) Coin, Disk, of Pantacte Swit The Root of the Powers o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 84
…ut the joy of strength exercised. It is vigour, and the rapture of vigour. “Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” “I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It…
1944 · PDF PAGE 64
The Brothers of A A are one with the Mother of the Child. The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many. This is the Love of These; creation‐parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition‐dissolution is the Bliss of the Many. The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss. Naught is beyond Bliss. The Man delights in uniting with the Woman; the Woman in parting from the Child. The Brothers of A A are Women; the Aspirants to A A are Men. It is important to reflect that this card is wholly feminine, wholly virginal, for it repre‐ s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 254
… truth, shamelessness, arrogance, van‐ ity, manifestation, recovery from sickness, but sometimes sudden death. XX Be every Act an Act of Love and Worship. Be every Act the Fiat of a God. Be every Act a Source of radiant Glory. Final decision in respect of the past, new current in respect of the future; always repre‐ sents the taking of a definite step.
1944 · PDF PAGE 175
…Seven of Wands; SwiftnessEight of Wands; StrengthNine of Wands; OppressionTen of Wands. The Root of the Powers of WaterAce of Cups; LoveTwo of Cups; AbundanceThree of Cups; LuxuryFour of Cups; DisappointmentFive of Cups; PleasureSix of Cups; DebauchSeven of Cups; IndolenceEight of Cups; Happiness Nine of Cups; SatietyTen of Cups. Ace of Swords; PeaceTwo of Swords; SorrowThree of Swords; TruceFour of Swords; Defeat Five of Swords; ScienceSix of Swords; FutilitySeven of Swords; In terferenceEight of Swords; CrueltyNine of S…