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Page 105 of 1231929 · PDF PAGE 78
…er. But here the formula implies much more even than this. For it is his whole life that the Magus offers to Our Lady. The Cross is both Death and Génération, and it is on the Cross that the Rose blooms. The full significance of these symbols is so lofty that it is hardly fitted for an elementary treatise of this type. One must be an Exempt Adept, and hâve become ready to pass on, before one can see the symbols even from the lower plane. Only a Master of the Temple can fully understand them. (However, the reader may study Liber CLVI in Equinox …
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…’s medicine let’s draught, bolus, globule us ! Wise and succinct bids, I think, Aristobulus.15 Whether my Muse be Euterpe or Clio, Life, Death, and Love are all Batrachomyo16— Machia, what ? ho ! old extinct Alcibiades ? For me, do ut—God true, be mannikin liar !—des ! It’s rather hard, isn’t it, sir, to make sense of it ? Mine of so many pounds—pouch even pence of it ?17 Try something easier,18 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find comes in dreams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to laun…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
… material in Brixton or in Bayswater. FELIX. THE SOUL OF THE MOOR. William Rider & Son. 2:. net. “Success meant life! Failurewworse than death, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach ! Dare I attempt the experiment ? " This sounds familiar, but, if memory serves me right, Mr Dion Clayton Calthorpe’s drama continues in this strain,—“ He carefully surveyed his ashen face in the tiny glass suspended over his washhand stand, then, with hasty, trembling fingers, he dipped his leaky shaving-brush into the icy water, and proceeded, at the gha…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
… material in Brixton or in Bayswater. FELIX. THE SOUL OF THE MOOR. William Rider & Son. 2:. net. “Success meant life! Failurewworse than death, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach ! Dare I attempt the experiment ? " This sounds familiar, but, if memory serves me right, Mr Dion Clayton Calthorpe’s drama continues in this strain,—“ He carefully surveyed his ashen face in the tiny glass suspended over his washhand stand, then, with hasty, trembling fingers, he dipped his leaky shaving-brush into the icy water, and proceeded, at the gha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
…To torture! Arise! I conjure by the might of the words I have said. Megeera, thou terror, O daughter of Night Whose sight in a mirror Is death of affright, Wingéd with error, I chain thee, and cite The words that thy soul must obey if a mortal but say them aright! VOL, III. Alecto! I call thee, My words ring thee round. My spells enwall thee. My lyre is crowned With might to appal thee With terror profound. Arise! O Alecto, arise! for my song hath compelled thee and bound. Ye furies of Hell ! Ye terrors in [Ieaven ! The strength of the spell Is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 119
…firmation. 23. - This process of checking his memory should be practised 1. Freudian forgetfulness tries to shield one from the shock of death. One has to brace oneself to face it in other ways, as by risking one’s life habitually. 419 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…to himself a struggle with the whole force of the Universe. In this he is only saved by his minuteness. But in the end he is overcome by Death, who covers him with a black cross. Let his body fall supine with arms outstretched. 6. So lying, let him aspire fervently unto the Holy Guardian Angel. 7. Now let him résumé his former posture. Two and twenty times shall he figure to himself that he is bitten by a serpent, feeling even in his body the poison thereof, And let each bite be healed by an eagle or hawk, spreading its wings above his head, an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 92
…Orb; and even that whole Orb is but the garment of Me. The analogy is precise; therefore when one becomes “the knower”, it involves the “death” of all sense of the Ego. One perceives one’s personal ity precisely as I now do these printed letters; and they are forgot ten, just as, absorbed in my thought, the trained automatism of my mind and body expresses that thought in writing, without attention on my part, still less with identification of the extremes involved in the process. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the whe…
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…nd all its peace; And the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hus and cease. In the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, In the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth. Ever changing, ever growing, ever dwind- ling, ever dear, Ever worth the passion growing to distil a doubtful tear. These are with m e, these are of m e, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all…
1906 · PDF PAGE 111
…bed the bed’s disastrous side, He found a serpent, not a bride ; And scarcely daring to draw breath, He passed the dumb night-hours with death, Till in the morning cold and gray The hooded fear glided away. Which morning saw ten thousand pay The price of jesting with a king !’— JASON. Indeed these toils and dangerous pursuits, Labours and journeys, go to make one mad. Well were it to beguile our weariness With song. MEDEA. And here is the sole king of song.| ORPHEUS. My song breaks baffled on the rocks of time If thy bewitching beauty be the th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…ls hâve no hint of it. This lie is the essence of the Great Sorcery. Osirian religion is a Freudian phantasy fashioned of man’s dread of death and ignorance of nature. The partheno- 1. Her sole speech in the last Act is “Dienen: Dienen ”. 2. Note that alî these three remain for a time as neuters among women, prevenled from living the male life.
1954 · PDF PAGE 245
…ely, or at worst, by his training and experience, what sort of assertion, harmless enough on the surface, may be "dangerous thinking," a death-blow to his own idea of what is "of all Truth," and strikes out wildly in a panic entirely justifiable from his own point of view. Exhibit No.1: Galileo and that lot. What could it possibly matter to the Gospel story that people should think that the Earth moves round the Sun? (Riemann, and oh! such a lot of things, have shown that it didn't and doesn't! This sort of "Truth" is only a set of conventions.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
…ome, where bound ?) To baffle those protectors Whose wings are broad around. Uprise they and upbraid, Till life shrinks back afraid, And death itself dismayed Sinks back to the profound. Unholy phantom faces (Of self? Of sin?) Grin wild in all the places Where blood is trodden in : The ground of night enchanted With deadly blooms is planted, Where evil beasts have panted And snakes have shed their skin. With poison steams the air, And evil scent Is potent everywhere ; Creation waits the event: In silence, without sighing, The living and the dyi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 97
…y sacred seat Until I come again. PELIAS. The Gods thy speed. MEN. The hardy hero goes to find The living Fleece of Gold ; Or else, some death may chance to bind Those limbs of manly mould. In sooth, I doubt if I shall earn The singer’s fee for his return. PELIAS. Think now—I feared that fool. It must be true That guilt is timorous, Ay! when danger’s none! Let but swords flash—and guilt grows God for might ! Indeed I rule—until he come again. Ay, when the stars fall, Jason shall be king! EXPLICIT ACTUS PRIMUS,
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
…he will; it must transform itself completely to be the Will. Last of all, the act must be supreme. It must do and it must die. From that death it must rise again, purged of that Will, hav ing accomplished it so perfectly that nothing is left thereof in its elements. It must have emptied itself into the vehicle. So shall the child be whole of spirit. But this is not enough. The ground in which the seed is cast must be suitable for its reception. The climate must be favourable, the soil must be prepared, and the enemies of the young child that s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
…cter will be determined, partly by the environment in which it is bred to manifestation, lives, and ulti mately changes in what we call death, and partly by the inmost will of the father, perhaps modified to some extent by his con scious will at the time of his slipping the leash. This being so, it becomes tremendously important to a man that he should become conscious of his true inmost Will, of his essential nature. This is the Great Work whose attainment consti tutes adeptship, provided that the consciousness recognizes that its own depen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
… the termination of this process. It is the Hanged Man of the Tarot ; the formation of the individual from the absolute is closed by his death. We see accordingly how AUM is, on either System, the expres¬ sion of a dogma which implies catastrophe in nature. It is cognate with the formula of the Slain God. The “résurrection” and “ascension” are not implied in it. They are later inventions without basis in necessity; they may be described indeed as Freudian phantasms conjured up by the fear of facing reality. To I. The Sun being 6, a square 6X6 c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…stless reiteration. "You'll certainly have thirteen birthday presents," she said, for the hundred and thirteenth time, "and that means a death in the family. Then there's a letter about a journey; and there's something about a dark man connected with a large building. He is very tall, and I think there's a journey coming to you — something about a letter. Yes; nine and three's twelve, and one's thirteen; you'll certainly have thirteen presents." "I've only had twelve," complained Lisa, who was tired, bored, and peevish. "Oh, forget it! "snapped…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
…m come Across the foam With a bang and a boom. The winds, hum, hum. The billows comb. Ho! Ho! the doom! Ho! Ho! I have won. I shall win. Death to the sun ! Life to sin ! They reap who sow. Ho! Ho! [4 boat driftsin, L. In it the aged CRIOSDA, Azs white hatr afloat in the storm, 7s standing with folded arms. His eyes are dull, as seeing wnward. RupHA. Ela! Ha! Tis the priest. Dost think O’ the feast ? Criosda. shrink ! The rune is woe. Ho! Ho! Criospa. Mother of Sin! RUPHA. Ho! Ho! Criospa. Thus then at last the Luck of Maurya throws A double-six…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
… strong: wound up as his muse is to tragedy, he retains in Edmund the sublime heroism, the simple honesty, of the true Christian; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, **T was contracted to them both: all three Now marry in an instant At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“‘ I pant for life: some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature.! Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear…