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Page 10 of 871911 · PDF PAGE 157
…e I was doing the translation of the Call of the Aethyrs, the soles of my feet were burning, as if I were on red hot steel.) And now the fire has spread all over me, and parches me, and tortures me. And my sweat is bitter like poison. And all my blood is acrid in my veins, like gleet. I seem to be all festering, rotting; and the worms eating me while I am yet alive. A voice, neither in myself nor out of myself, is saying: Remember Prometheus; remember Ixion. Iam tearing at nothing. I will not heed. For even this dust must be consumed with fire.…
1928 · PDF PAGE 28
cute the most absurd and even the most dan- gerous acts. One of my friends, the most inoffensive dreamer that ever lived, once set fire to a for- est to see, he said, if it would catch fire as eas- ily as people generally say, Ten times running the experiment failed, but at the eleventh it succeeded much too well. Another will light a cigar close to a barrel of gunpowder in order to see, to know, to tempt Fate, to force himself to give proof of his en- ergy; to ape the gamester, to know the pleas- ures of anxiety; and this incited by caprice, b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 113
… and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken ; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, harlot, coward, that make human feast Before the desecrated god, in hells Of darkness, where the mitred vampire dwells, Where still death reigns, and God and priests are fed, Man’s blood for wine, man’s flesh for meat and bread, The lands of murder, of the obscene things That snarl at freedom, broken by her wings, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…avens around the North Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Ele‐ ments rule, going Eastward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Thus, roughly, Aces‐Princesses Wands cover Asia, Cups the Pacific Ocean, Swords the Americas, Disks Europe and Africa. To make this relationship clear, one may go a little into the symbol of the pentagram, or Shield of David. It represents Spirit ruling the four elements, and is thus a symbol of the Triumph of Man. The idea of the element of Spirit is very difficult to grasp. The lette…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…re shall I excommunicate thee, and destroy thy name and seal, the which I have enclosed in this box; and shall burn thee in the immortal fire and bury thee in immortal oblivion; unless thou immediately come and appear visibly and affably, friendly and courteously here unto me before this Circle, in this triangle, in a form comely and fair, and in no wise terrible, hurtful, or frightful to me or any other creature whatsoever upon the face of earth. And thou shalt make rational answers unto my requests, and perform all my desires in all things, t…
1902 · PDF PAGE 45
Venus. Explain, explain ! Tannhauser. As if were kindled into gold and fire The East ! Venus. The East ! Tannhauser. As if a flowerless moss Suddenly broke in passionate primroses ! Venus. Violets, violets ! Tannhauser. Or as if a man Lay in the fairest garden of the world, In the beginning : and grew suddenly A living soul at that caressing wind ! Venus. A living soul ! Tannhauser. So is Thy shade to me When sleep takes shape. 43
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
… East of the Altar see me stand With light and musick in my hand! He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell 333 - 55555 - 333 an^ places the Fire in the Thurible. I strike the Bell: I light the Flamej I utter the mysterious Name. ABRAHADABRA He strikes eleven times upon the Bell. Now I begin to pray: Th ou Child, Holy Thy name and undefiled ! Thy reign is corne ; Thy will is done. Here is the Bread; here is the Blood. Bring me through midnight to the Sun! Save me from Evil and from Good! That Thy one crown of ail the Ten Even now and here be mine. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 75
…ar Crystalline, fixed, forgotten (as a star Forgets its nebulous virginity) Are set in all the sky and earth and sea. Shining with solar fire, The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns ; and so fallen from the heights above Immeasurable, the influence u…
1913 · PDF PAGE 234
…l throbbing through my head In dreams of desert valleys, mountains steep, With winding paths ; hot suns and scorching plains. There is a fire unquenched within my brains. Because I sing in unknown cadences, Because I strive so hotly to recall Some murmur I have heard on sunken seas, Some vision I have seen beyond the wall, Now sombrely I await the secret rime, Known of the poet—and the Ghost of Time! And so before the bloom has left the Rose, While life's strong youth is surging through me still, I end the songs here wrought; the loves and woes…
1913 · PDF PAGE 234
…l throbbing through my head In dreams of desert valleys, mountains steep, With winding paths ; hot suns and scorching plains. There is a fire unquenched within my brains. Because I sing in unknown cadences, Because I strive so hotly to recall Some murmur I have heard on sunken seas, Some vision I have seen beyond the wall, Now sombrely I await the secret rime, Known of the poet—and the Ghost of Time! And so before the bloom has left the Rose, While life's strong youth is surging through me still, I end the songs here wrought; the loves and woes…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
ACTUS QUARTUS 109 ORPHEWUS. The hearts of Greeks with sharper flames Burn than with one fire of all fire, We have the Races and the Games, The song, the chisel, and the lyre ; We have the altar, we the shrine, . And ours the joy of love and wine. Why take one pleasure, put aside The myriad bliss of life diverse? Unchanging joy will soon divide Into the likeness of a curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far ! What love as sweet as theirs is lies In…
1901 · PDF PAGE 91
…ther is drunk on the life that stirs your hair : Every hair was alive with a spark of midnight’s delicate flame, Or a glow of the nether fire, or an old illustrious shame. Many, so many, were ye to make one Womanhood— A thing of fire and flesh, of wine and glory and blood, In whose rose-orient texture a golden light is spun, A gossamer scheme of love, as water in the sun Flecked by wonderful bars, most delicately crossed, Worked into wedded beauties, flickering, never lost— That is the spirit of love, incarnate in your flesh ! Your bodies had w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 339
…of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance over the Path of Primal Flame: And about me the Glory of the Fire is established. Vast before me in the distance looms the Portal of the Glory. I am come before the Gates of the Glory of God: I cry against them in the Name of Elohim Tzebaoth. Lift up your Heads, O ye gates, &c. Behind me is the Portal of the Primal Fire: Behind me is the Golden Path of Sol: At my right hand is the Ruddy Light of Mars: And before me is the Gateway of the Waters of the Primal Sea. In the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 339
…of Glory shall come in. I am come forth from the Gates of Matter: I advance over the Path of Primal Flame: And about me the Glory of the Fire is established. Vast before me in the distance looms the Portal of the Glory. I am come before the Gates of the Glory of God: I cry against them in the Name of Elohim Tzebaoth. Lift up your Heads, O ye gates, &c. Behind me is the Portal of the Primal Fire: Behind me is the Golden Path of Sol: At my right hand is the Ruddy Light of Mars: And before me is the Gateway of the Waters of the Primal Sea. In the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
THE VISION AND THE VOICE and to the Neophyte the voice of the Zelator is called silence. And so ever is it. Sight is fire, and is the first angle of the Tablet; spirit is hearing, and is the centre thereof; thou, therefore, who art all spirit and fire, and hast no duller elements in thy star; thou art come to sight at the end of thy will. And if thou wilt hear the voice of the Aethyr, do thou invoke it in the night, having no other light but the light of the half moon. Then mayest thou hear the voice, though it may be that thou understandeth it…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
… 145 CHORUS. Slow wheels of unbegotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains of ungathered fire, The misty counterpoise of time, Dim winds of ocean and sublime Pyramids of forgotten foam Whirling, vague cones of shapeless sleep And infinite dreams, and stars that roam, And comets moving through the deep Unfathomable skies, Darker for moonlight, and the glow-worm eyes Of dusky women that were stars, And paler curves of the immutable bars That line the universe with light, Great eagle-flights of mysti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 283
…o the grade of 4°=7°. RITUAL OF THE 4° = 7° GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS The First Part This Ritual is particularly attributed to the Element of Fire, and refers to the planet Venus, and the Twenty-ninth, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-seventh paths of Qoph, Tzaddi and Pé. The Adoration commences by the Hicrophant saying: “TETRAGRAM- MATON TZEBAOTH! BLESSED BE THOU! THE LORD OF ARMIES IS THY NAME!” To this all answer “ Amen.” The Hierophant then orders all present to adore their Creator in the Name of Elohim, mighty and tuling, in the Name of Tetragrammaton…
1909 · PDF PAGE 283
…o the grade of 4°=7°. RITUAL OF THE 4° = 7° GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS The First Part This Ritual is particularly attributed to the Element of Fire, and refers to the planet Venus, and the Twenty-ninth, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-seventh paths of Qoph, Tzaddi and Pé. The Adoration commences by the Hicrophant saying: “TETRAGRAM- MATON TZEBAOTH! BLESSED BE THOU! THE LORD OF ARMIES IS THY NAME!” To this all answer “ Amen.” The Hierophant then orders all present to adore their Creator in the Name of Elohim, mighty and tuling, in the Name of Tetragrammaton…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…o bring salvation unto Hell. O angel of my spiritual desire ! O luminous master of the silver feet ! O passionate rose of infinite white fire ! O cross of sacrifice made bitter-sweet ! O wide-wing, star-brow, veritable lord ! O mystic bearer of the flaming sword ! O brows half seen, O visionary star Seen in the fragrant breezes of the East ! O lover of my love, O avatar Of the All-One, O mystical High Priest ! O thou before whose eyes my weak eyes fail, Wonderful warden of the Holy Grail ! O thou, mine angel, whom these eyes have seen, These ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 195
… Set ’twixt the limbs of the world, hate and desire. I will make me foul as thou that I may be A citizen of the world! I will quench the fire Immortal in me! I will be as thou, Prostitute unto Pan and unto Time.— I will live upon the dreams thou givest me In fee for sated passion! Yea! I will be A vanquisher of genius, a dream palled With life and time, knowing naught else there be But thou, who art slime, whose fingers through the veil Transform the world to dust, the sun to fire, Life unto lust, love to polluted dreams Of rose-buds ruined by …