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… of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to y ou, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. F or alway doth this Arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the Not and the Amen,1 passing, are void either on the one side or the other, and Who shall tell their ways ? So our Father, having won the Serpent Crown, …
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APPENDIX II 84 Our Father : And she answered him : I am in the place of the bridge. Go thou up higher : go thou where these are not. Thereat was commotion and bitter wailing, and the eighth virgin cam e forth with rent attire and cried the eighth riddle : The sea hath conceived. Our Father raised his head, and there was a great darkness. The ninth virgin, sobbing at his feet, the ninth riddle : By wisdom. Then our Father touched his crown and they all rejoiced : but laughing he put them aside and he said : Nay ! By six hundred and twenty 1 do y…
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…e world; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to s erve as a s hrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K ., C., B., C., G ., T., N ., H ., I., and M ., hi…
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…the Adept. “ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—” There was silence. And under the Goat’s throne was a rainbow 2 of seven colours: our Father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and s hot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair 3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. And he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, 4 wh…
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…BROSII MAGI HORTIS ROSARUM 87 With the poison he gave also in offering a stag and a maiden. But about the noon came one shining unto our Father and gave him to drink from a dull and heavy bowl. And this was a liquor potent and heavy, by’r lady ! So that our Father sank into deep sleep and dreamed a dream, and in that m irific dream it seemed unto him that the walls of all things slid into and acros s each other, s o that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- lasting, saith Adhou Bi…
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…er-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho ! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded with gem s, one on each knee. Dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. A horn g rew from her forehead; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, y et our F ather bowed down flat on his face to the earth. “ Holy Virgin of God,” said he, “what dost thou h…
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…dazzled her; so that with a s hriek she fell. But the beasts flung them selves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Som e say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew s o mighty a blas t that the dead rose all from their tombs, and our Father among them. “Now away !” he cried. “I would look upon the sun !” And with that the fire hissed like a my riad of serpen…
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… great wedding was a Suggler, 3 a riddler : for he said, “Thou hast beasts : I will give thee weapons one for one.” For the Lion did our Father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his Eagle a cup of ever flowing water : for his Man the Suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but h im- self only), while for a curious coin he bartered his good Bull. Alas for our Father! Now the Suggler mocks him a nd cries: “Four fool’s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit …
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…: he delighted. Therefore he is not, having become that which he was not. Mark ye all : it is declared. Now of the last adventure of our Father and of his going into the land of Apes, that is, England, and of what he did there, it is not fitting that I, the poor fool who loved him, shall now dis- course. But it is most necessary that I should speak of his holy death and of his funeral and of the bruit thereof, for that is gone into diverse lands as a false and ly ing report, whereby much harm and ill-luck com e to the Brethren. In this place, t…
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…IS ROSARUM 81 and he went on. “Leave thine ox-goad,” 1 quoth he, “till I com e back an ox!” And she laughed and let him pass. Now is our Father come to the Unstable Lands, ’Od wot, for the Wheel whereon he poised was ever turning. Sworded was the Sphinx, but he out-dared her in riddling : deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. But that would he not, my Brethren; to the centre he clomb ever: and having won thither, he vanished. As a hermit ever he travelled and the lam p and wand were his. In his path a lion ro ared,…
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…aketh he nothing : let him be cast out on the dunghills bey ond Jordan; let him pass into the S. P. P., and that utterly ! With that our Father sighed deep and laid back his reverend head, and was silent. But from his heart cam e a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not , but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his bo…
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… the Three Keys in Nags-Head Court, Gracechurch St. IT is fitting that I, Am brose, called I.A.O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journey s he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,1 the S tar Suaconch2 being in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug 3 to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark and t…
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…ive birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu. 4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to the rhy thm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his hands, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him . But it is written that m isfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the s eed of the Bany a…
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… placed her portfolio at my service. A letter dated O ctober 15, 1866, indicates that our author was born on the 23rd of that month. The father and mother of George, were, at least on the surface, of an extraordinary re- ligious turn of mind. Mathilde’s version of the story, which has its source in our friend himself, agrees almost word for w ord w ith a letter of the R ev. Edw . Turle to Mrs. Cope, recommending the child to her care. The substance of the story is as follows. The parents of George carried their religious ideas to the point of n…
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… selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby each life laments and hangs, (Now as I speak a lizard71 lies In wait for light-bewildered flies) 580 585 590 595 600 605 610 615 heaven suffers Hell’s pangs, owing to re- proaches of bard. Ethical and eloquent de- nunciation of Christian Cos- mogony.
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…found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground, Pistols, and coffee—three in one, (Alas, O Rabbi Schimeon !) But never a duellist—no Son, No Father, and (to please us most) Decency pleads—no Holy Ghost! All vanish at the touch of truth, A cobweb trio—like, in sooth, 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 740 Mystical mean-ing o f “Ascen-sion Day.” Futility of whole discus- sion, in view o f facts.
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…eturn ? What ho ? What ho ! What ? What ? “He meditates above Still with his Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles ! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff ! You see, when I was young, they said : “Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make the rest of Scripture mean, You can’t evade John iii. 16.” * “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” 340 345 350 355 360 365 370 375 Former com- pared to Keru- bim; as it is written, Running a…
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…vil in, by a divine thrusting on ; an admirable evasion of w horemaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon’s tail, and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. ’Sfoot ! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.” If there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this. (I am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century.) It is one we can test. O…
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…eth. plainest sense we are likely to here for the rest of our lives ; then, w ith the prettiest humour in the world takes the cue of his father’s ab- surdity, and actually plays it on his enemy. Edgar’s leg is not so easily pulled—(“How long have you been a sectary astronomical ?” ll. 169, 170)—and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. In Scene iii. we find Lear’s senile dementia taking the peculiarly loathesome form familiar to alienists—this part of my subj ect is so un- pleasant that I must skim over it ; I only mentio…
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…tfold Path. 101-105. Theres one. . . Six Six Six.31— This opinion has most recently (and most oppor- tunely) been confirmed by the Rev. Father Simons, Roman Catholic Missionary (and head of the Corner in K ashmir Stamps), Baramulla, Kash- mir. 106. Gallup.32—For information apply to Mr. Sidney Lee. 111. “It is the number of a Man.”33—Rev. xiii. 18. 117. Fives.34—Dukes. 122. ( Elsewhere.)35—See “Songs of the Spirit” and other works. 128. The Qabalistic Balm.36—May be studied in “The Kabbalah ( sic) Unveiled” (Redway). It is much to be w ished t…