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Page 10 of 911910 · PDF PAGE 214
204 LALCHIMIE DE DOULEUR ONE with his ardour makes thee tender, Another clothes thee in his grief, Nature ! Saith one : The falling leaf ! The other : Praise October splendour ! Thou unknown Hermes that assists Me, before whom I crouch and tremble ; Thou makst me Midas to resemble, The saddest of all alchemists ! For gold within my crucible Turns iron ; and heaven turns to hell In cloudlands ghostly napery I find a corpsethat I loved well And in celestial gardens I Build mightiest sarcophagi
1913 · PDF PAGE 183
…Whether they are hypocrites or morally insane is a matter which we can leave to their own consideration. All these phantoms, of whatever nature, must be evoked, examined, and mastered; otherwise we may tind that just when we want it there is some idea with which we have never dealt; and perhaps that idea, springing on us by surprise, and as it were from behind, may strangle us. This is the legend of the sorcerer strangled by the Devil !
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
CHAPTER XIV Of the Consécrations : WlTH AN ACCOUNT OF THE Nature and Nurture of the Magical Link. I Consécration is the active dedication of a thmg to a single purpose. Ranishing prevents its use for any other purpose, but it remains inert until consecrated. Purification is performed by water, and banishing by air, whose weapon is the sword. Consécra¬ tion is performed by fire, usually symbolised by the holy oil.1 In most extant magical rituals the two operations are per¬ formed at once; or (at least) the banishing has the more important place,…
1961 · PDF PAGE 159
…ation, that these Words were hidden from his Understanding. For there is a Balance in all Things and the Body hath Charter to fulfil his Nature, even as the Mind hath. So to repress one Function is to destroy that Proportion which is wholesome, and wherein indeed all Health and Sanity have Consistency. Verily, it is the Art of Life to develop each Organ of Body and Mind, or, as I may say, each Weapon of the Will to its Perfection, neither distorting any Use, nor suffering the Will of one Part to tyrannize over that of another. And this Doctrine…
1903 · PDF PAGE 85
…earth’s deep greenery. All elemental love closes and covers Both you and me. All shapes of silence and of sound and seeing, All lives of Nature molten into this, The moonlight waking and the shadows fleeing, Strange sorcery of unimagined bliss, All breath breathing in ours ; mingled all being Into the kiss. 65
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…not The Good Young Man That Died. Ido not remain in holy meditation, balanced on my left eyelash, for forty years, restoring ex- hausted nature by a single grain of rice at intervals of several months. You will perceive in these pages a man with all his im- perfections thick upon him trying blindly, yet with all his force, to control the thoughts of his mind, 50 that he shall be able to say ”I will think this thought and not that thought” at any moment, as easily as (having conquered Nature) we are all able to say “I will drink this wine, and n…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…poison of the mind. All this is true enough in the merest exoteric necessity of adult civilisation. But if we are to go further into the nature of things, to dive deeper than the chemist, soar higher than the poet, look wider than the astronomer, we must furnish ourselves with a blade of still better temper. VIII “It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far-reaching Mind, measuring all things except that Intelligible. But it is requisite to understand this; for if thou inclinest thy Mi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
…poison of the mind. All this is true enough in the merest exoteric necessity of adult civilisation. But if we are to go further into the nature of things, to dive deeper than the chemist, soar higher than the poet, look wider than the astronomer, we must furnish ourselves with a blade of still better temper. VIII “It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far-reaching Mind, measuring all things except that Intelligible. But it is requisite to understand this; for if thou inclinest thy Mi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…at Word containeth All. Into this prepared Pyramid of divine Light there cometh a certain darkling wight, who knoweth not either his own nature, or his origin or destiny, or even the name of that which he desireth. Before he can enter the Pyramid, therefore, four ordeals are required 01 him. So, bound and blinded, he stumbles forward, and passes through the wrath of the Four Great Princes of the Evil of the World, whose Terror is about him on every side, Yet since he has followed the voice of the Officer who has prepared him, in this part 01 the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…ttributes to God are not contrary to the very laws of Being. For, if it is so, God could not have made them, for He could not contradict Nature with- out denying Himself. ... God being eternal, it is of the nature of necessity that His orders should be immutable as He.” So spake that apostate, that man of impiety! Vet, later, a Christian doctor, become the oracle of the theological schools, taking his inspiration perhaps from these splendid words of the misbeliever, found himself obliged to bridle superstition by writing that beautiful and brav…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…ttributes to God are not contrary to the very laws of Being. For, if it is so, God could not have made them, for He could not contradict Nature with- out denying Himself. ... God being eternal, it is of the nature of necessity that His orders should be immutable as He.” So spake that apostate, that man of impiety! Vet, later, a Christian doctor, become the oracle of the theological schools, taking his inspiration perhaps from these splendid words of the misbeliever, found himself obliged to bridle superstition by writing that beautiful and brav…
1954 · PDF PAGE 377
…the Magical Path and the Mystical; we may therefore say fearlessly that all forms of progress, although they make use of the formulae of nature which have brought them to their present situation , are attempts to proceed further on the way of the True Will. It is particularly important to understand this at the present time when the Aeon of Horus is just getting under way. For the Aeon of Isis, that of the Mother, appears to have regarded the whole of Nature as a spontaneous growth of universal scope. In the aeon of Osiris, the restriction of F…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…a moment upon the difficulties of our task. The question of sacred alphabets has been abandoned as hopeless. As one who should probe the nature of woman, the deeper he goes the rottener it gets; so that at last it is seen that there is no sound bottom. All is arbitrary ;! with- drawing our caustics and adopting a protective treatment, we point to the beautiful clean bandages and ask the clinic to admire! To take one concrete example: the English T is clearly equivalent in sound to the Hebrew n, the Greek 71, the Arabic ~, and the Coptic "J, but…
1913 · PDF PAGE 422
THE EQUINOX anyone who is well acquainted with the analogies of Nature. It is certain that in diluting beyond measure, or in coagulating suddenly, the plastic medium of a subject, it is possible to loose the body from the soul. It is sometimes sufficient to arouse a violent anger, or an overmastering fear in anyone, to kill him suddenly. The habitual use of magnetism usually puts the subject who abandons himself to it at the mercy of the magnetizer. When communication is well-established, and the magnetizer can produce at will slumber, insensib…
1913 · PDF PAGE 422
THE EQUINOX anyone who is well acquainted with the analogies of Nature. It is certain that in diluting beyond measure, or in coagulating suddenly, the plastic medium of a subject, it is possible to loose the body from the soul. It is sometimes sufficient to arouse a violent anger, or an overmastering fear in anyone, to kill him suddenly. The habitual use of magnetism usually puts the subject who abandons himself to it at the mercy of the magnetizer. When communication is well-established, and the magnetizer can produce at will slumber, insensib…
1922 · PDF PAGE 288
…ed me of the possibilities of love and peace. All this was familiar to me, familiar in the most intense and alluring form. That was what nature had to offer; this pure and ecstatic rapture was the birthright of mankind. But I, instead of being content with it as it was, had sought an artificial Paradise and bartered the reality of heaven for it. In nature, even melancholy is subtly enthralling. I thought of Keats’ ode to her, and even of James Thomson’s “ Melancholia that transcends all wit,’’ whom he adored, and on whose altar lay his bleeding…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
according to the supposed nature of the stars beyond her was her influence in that phase, or, as they called it, mansion. It was in order to bring Iliel into harmony with every quality of the moon that her daily routine was ordered. But beyond such minuteness of detail is the grand character of the Moon, which is threefold. For she is Artemis or Diana, sister of the Sun, a shining Virgin Goddess; then Isis-initiatrix, who brings to man all light and purity, and is the link of his animal soul with his eternal self; and she is Persephone or Prose…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…ngs move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.” So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl- * Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his Essay ‘Eleusis,’ Crowley suggests that the world’s history may roughly be divided into a continuous succession of periods, each embracing three distinct 1…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
…ngs move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and so its own selfishness proves its destruction. “We cannot call Nature evz/: Fatal is the exact word; for Necessity implies stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.” So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva had started whirl- * Cf. Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West,” pp. 287, 288. “In his Essay ‘Eleusis,’ Crowley suggests that the world’s history may roughly be divided into a continuous succession of periods, each embracing three distinct 1…
1961 · PDF PAGE 201
…, though it be the Essence of Omniscience and Omnipotence, informeth and moveth the Material World (so to call it) only according to the Nature of that which is herein. For the Light of the Sun (by His very Wholeness itself) sheweth a Rose Red, but a Leaf Green; and His Heat gathereth the Clouds, and disperseth them also. So I then, though I were perfect in Magick, might not work in Metals as a Smith, or become rich by Commerce as a Merchant; for I have not in my Nature the Engines proper to these Capacities, and herefore it is not of my will t…