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Page 102 of 2031954 · PDF PAGE 80
… with one's own very precise definitions, in order to handle an abstruse and technical subject like Magick. The "ordinary" words such as God, self, soul, spirit and the rest have been used so many thousand times in so many thousand ways, usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any scientific essay is almost ludicrous. That is all, just now, sister; no more of your cavilling, please; sit down quietly with your 777, and get it by heart! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally …
1905 · PDF PAGE 96
… foresee With calm impenetrable cyes The after glory that shall be ; But we, of mortal bodies born, Laugh lies consoling unto scorn. The God of Israel is strong; His mighty arm hath wrought this day A victory and a triumph-song— And now He breathes upon His clay, And we, who were as idols crowned, Lie dust upon the empty ground. She goes, our sorrow’s sacrifice, Our lamb, our firstling, frail and white, With large sweet love-illumined eyes Into the night, into the night. The throne of night shall be withdrawn ; So moveth she toward the dawn. Al…
1905 · PDF PAGE 162
…ial care for you, And given of her beauty and her peace A special dower. Your thoughts are ever pure ; Your soul in sweet communion with God ! Why, you are crying? CORA. You say this to me? O could you look within a magic glass, Holding my hand, such sights would come to you Beyond your knowledge—ay, beyond belief! I am no saintly virgin wrapped in prayer, Nor is my life one river of clear water Drawn from the wells of God. You foolish child ! My love for you you cannot understand, Nor the low motive—you have shown it me— Of this beginning of o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…pressing themselves by sheer ignorance of the technique of the act. What Nature declares as the climax of the Mass, the manifestation of God in the flesh, when the flesh is begotten, is so gross, clumsy and brutal that it disappoints and disgusts. They are horribly conscious that something is wrong. They do not know how to amend it. They are ashamed to discuss it. They have neither the experience to guide nor the imagination to experiment. Countless thousands of delicate-minded lovers turn against Love and blaspheme Him. Countless millions, not…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
…illusion 5 therefore good is evil. By this fallacy of logic are many men destroyed. Moreover, there are those who take the image for the God; as who should say, my heart is in Tiphereth, an Adeptus is in Tiphereth; I am therefore an adept. And in this practice the worst danger is this, that the love which is its weapon should fail in one of two ways. First, if the love lack any quality of love, so long is it not idéal love. For it is written of the Perfected One: “There is no member of my body which is not the member of some god.” Therefore — 3…
1898 · PDF PAGE 38
…t me foul wrong to bring thy sword And torch of rapine in my pleasant land. Between the folk of Ammon and the folk Of Israel this day be God the judge. [Exzt Second Herald. ELEAZAR. Well spoken: but the ear that will not hear Is deafer than the adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. I know it, and will not await the answer. But dawn shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, passing he…
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
… westward shod with wings of fire And find my love, and in her arms expire, Or wed her for an hour. (Not for an hour as man, but even as God Whose day is like an zon. _Love hath nor station, stage, nor period : But is at once in his inane abode Beneath the spring Dircean.) 119
1905 · PDF PAGE 16
11 Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to Gods gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the House of Fire, The Rose of Honey-in-Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulph ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future, a dream of the day When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Of sunlight shall flash and the dew die away ! Let there then be obscurity in this ! There is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music, that outpaced All time, fly off ; the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 337
…through the moon! Nay! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond: But this I know that I am gone To the heart of God’s great diamond! I match, &c. 329
1909 · PDF PAGE 337
…through the moon! Nay! I knew not what glory shone Gold from the breathless bliss beyond: But this I know that I am gone To the heart of God’s great diamond! I match, &c. 329
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…ng in the City of Guadalajara, in the Hotel Cosmopolita, I do begin to set down all that I accomplish in this work: And may the Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep my heart and mind through Christ Jesus our Lord. Let my mind be open unto the Higher: Let my heart be the Centre of Light: Let my body be the Temple of the ROSY CROSS. Ex Deo Nascimur In Jesu Morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus. We must now digress in order to give some account of the Eastern theories of the Universe and the mind. Their study will clarify our vi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…ng in the City of Guadalajara, in the Hotel Cosmopolita, I do begin to set down all that I accomplish in this work: And may the Peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep my heart and mind through Christ Jesus our Lord. Let my mind be open unto the Higher: Let my heart be the Centre of Light: Let my body be the Temple of the ROSY CROSS. Ex Deo Nascimur In Jesu Morimur Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus. We must now digress in order to give some account of the Eastern theories of the Universe and the mind. Their study will clarify our vi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…ry profound allegory. Laila being the Jinn, this passage means that since the revelation of the Method of true communion between man and God, magic or dealing with Jinn should be left to Jews (and other heathen), stigmatized as goat- faced because of their materialistic or gross views of the universe. The Haji was however accused of Christianizing tendencies on account of this pas- sage, since Christians repressed magic so severely, and in spite of his stout denials. To this day many singer “ mak’ siccar ” of the approval of the ortho- dox by a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 216
…t forget That thou hadst walked that way . But yet if e'er I durst to look Into some strange man 's eyes, Thou wouldst be just as Jewish God , Impassive as the skies . * TWO THINGS. TWO things I ask of you , and they are these, When all my little deeds and I are dead , And life's last wave has gathered o'er my head , Forget me, as you would forget the breeze That sudden stirs at nightfall in the trees And with the first bright peep of stars is Aled. My soul starts out alone without a dread And longs to drink oblivion to the lees . But if from o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 59
…emen, light and truth to bring Through their untrodden fields of black, A victor king. I know all must be well, all must be free; I know God: as I knowa friend ; I conquer, and most silently Await the end. VESPERS. THE incense steams before the Christ ; It wraps His feet with grey, A perfumed melancholy mist, Tears sacred from the day ; An awe, a holiness, I wist, More sweet than man may say. I bend my head to kiss the brow, Scarred and serene and wide, The bosom and the loin-cloth now And where the blood has dried, The blood whose purple tide …
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…the danger is not so great, as the Circle forms a protection j but the circle in such a case must be protected, not only by the names of God and the Invocations used at the same time, but by a long habit of successful defence.s If you are easily disturbed or alarmed, or if you hâve not yet overcome the ten- dency of the mind to wander, it is not advisable for you to perform vessel; and it issues in due season refreshed and modified, but still essen- tially itself. The idea is the transmission of life and wisdom from a vehicle which has fulfille…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
…ms useless nowadays to call for a draught of the right Wine of Tacchus. The Evangelicals object to the wine, and the Rationalists to the God. We had filed off the fetter, and while the sores yet burn, find another heavier iron yet firmer on the other foot—as Stevenson so magnificently parabled unto us. Then how this nauseous stinkard quibbles ! This defender of truth! How he delights with apish malice to write “in England,” wishing his hearers to understand “Great Britain” ; and when taxed with the malignant lie against his brother which he had…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
…ms useless nowadays to call for a draught of the right Wine of Tacchus. The Evangelicals object to the wine, and the Rationalists to the God. We had filed off the fetter, and while the sores yet burn, find another heavier iron yet firmer on the other foot—as Stevenson so magnificently parabled unto us. Then how this nauseous stinkard quibbles ! This defender of truth! How he delights with apish malice to write “in England,” wishing his hearers to understand “Great Britain” ; and when taxed with the malignant lie against his brother which he had…
1929 · PDF PAGE 199
round a triangle and draw it, god, shrine, and worshippers, into the blackness of the spider's bloated belly. Then they were thrown out violently again, in some slightly altered form, to repeat the same uncanny ritual. With a strong shudder she broke away from that infernal contemplation. Where was the kindly earth, with all its light and beauty? In God's name, why had she left Lavinia King to explore these dreadful realms — of illusion? of imagination? of darker and deadlier reality than life? It mattered little which; the one thing needful wa…