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Page 105 of 1301930 · PDF PAGE 51
…the formula not of Abraham but of Onan. These plastic "Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man” are well enough for those who hâve heard “Know Thyself”. They are necessary, even, to assist that analysis of one’s nature which the Probationer of A.-. A.*, is sworn to accomplish. But "Love is the Law, love under Will”. And Our Lady Nuit is “divided for love s sake, for the chance of union.” These mirror-mirages are therefore not Works of Magick, according to the Law of Thelema. the true Magick of Horus requires the passionate union of opposites. No…
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…o is actually more ignorant than myself. How could such an one endure to live, with the consciousness of his infamy gnawing his liver? I know this sounds mad; but it's true. Well, then, I set myself to repair the omission with Part III; this should be a really complete treatise on the Art and Science of Magick, and it should be worked out from the beginning, a logical sequence like Euclid. Hence Axiom, Postulate and Theorems. I supposed even then that I could cover the field with another volume comparable in size with the former two. I did inde…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
…bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…night, From futile thoughts and fatuous deeds. Your girl, your gems, your mournful tones Irk not perfection with their goad. One thing I know—a set of bones Is travelling on upon this road !” 1 Arahat. 2 Stanza.
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
…me connectifan—u The Pickaxe, Crow, and Shovel," No, Bro. Crowe! Whoa, Bro. Crowe! (Blow Bro. Crowel Ed.) But for all Masons who wish to know the mysteries of how to address a V.W. P. Pres. Brd. G. Pur., and the order of precedence of a Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, this is the Book. K. S. Ι. POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By CLIFFORD BAX. Daniel. 4:. 64'. JUST the book of verse we should have expected from C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neubur…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
…me connectifan—u The Pickaxe, Crow, and Shovel," No, Bro. Crowe! Whoa, Bro. Crowe! (Blow Bro. Crowel Ed.) But for all Masons who wish to know the mysteries of how to address a V.W. P. Pres. Brd. G. Pur., and the order of precedence of a Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, this is the Book. K. S. Ι. POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By CLIFFORD BAX. Daniel. 4:. 64'. JUST the book of verse we should have expected from C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neubur…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…lso abstract questions. Thus let him connect the prevalence of water upon the surface of the globe with its necessity to such life as we know, with the spécifie gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through ail this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the school- men of old believed, making ail things for man’s benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertie. And in these méditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any spéculations sentiment…
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
THE PRACTICE OF ASTROLOGY 165 and trying to spot the rising sign of everybody you know. Look at them full-face, then profile; and note salient characteristics, pendulous lips, receding chins, bulbous noses, narrow foreheads, stuck-out ears, pimples, squints, warts, shape of face (three main types; thin, jutting, for cardinal signs; square, steadfast for kerubic; weak, nondescript, for the rest); then the stature , whether lithe, well-knit, sturdy, muscular, fat or what not; in short every bodily feature in turn; make up your mind what sign was …
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…ere is love articulate, vital! I thought that only poets, not lovers, could so speak. And that poets, poor devils, speaking, could never know. ‘©So Percy to his Angela’s distress—” Then it is not my Molly that writes this —who is this Percy >—not me, at all events, for there is no Angela that loves me. (A sound of sobbing in the trees.) Whom have we here? (Advances.) ’Fore God, the most beautiful woman in the world, except my Molly! And her scent ! O she is like some intimate tropical plant, luring and deadly! 1 See above, ‘‘’The Temple of the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 182
… one be sure of anything? One can’t. The more one thinks of it, the more one sees it must be so. Look how Feccles let us down. For all I know, there may be some motive at the back of even a really nice -woman. like Gretel—or Mabel Black. I’m really suspicious of myself. I think that’s it. | I must go home. I hope to God Cockie’s found some somewhere! ... I met Mabel Black coming out of the Burlington Arcade. She looked fine, all over smiles, a very short, white skirt and a new pair of patent leather boots almost up to her knees. She must find t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…lecting our vehicles of Force. In 777 we find “correspondences” of many classes of being with the various types of operation, so that we know what weapons, jewels, figures, drugs, perfurnes, names, etc. to employ in any particular work. But it has always been assumed that the invoked force is intelligent and competent, that it will direct itself as desired without further ado, by this method of sympathetic vibrations. The necessity of timing the force has been ignored; and so most operations, even when well performed as far as invocation goes, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…rds are jests, [213] and all the jokes are earnest. This, oh my brother, is the key to my light and sparkling conversation." "But — " "I know what you are going to say. You can reverse it again. That is precisely the idea. You keep on reversing it; and it gets funnier and more serious every time, and it spins faster and faster until you cannot follow it, and your brain begins to whirl, and presently you become That Spiral Force which is of the Quintessence of the Absolute. So it is all a simple and easy method of attaining the summit of perfect…
1954 · PDF PAGE 146
…ust of light. i am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy , and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the Neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. But up…
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
…e Body, and breathe upon it with thy Spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with Lust of they Manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be One Flesh. Now at last in the Reinforcement and Ecstasy of this Consummation thou shalt with by what Inspiration thou didst choose thy Name in the Gnosis, I mean PARZIVAL, der reine Thor, the True Knight that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered Kundry to right Service, and regained the Lance, and revived the Miracle of the Sangral; yea also upo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
…ect of worship; the others are secret; for the Beast & his Bride are they: and for the winners of the Ordeal x. What is this? Thou shalt know. Commentary: There are to be no regular temples of Nuit and Hadit, for They are incommensurables and absolutes. Our reli gion therefore, for the People, is the Cult of the Sun, who is our particular star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of Him, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani mal kingdom is His c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
a System similar to his own. That is, they can be compelled naturally by cognate consciousness. For instance, one may wish to obtain the knowledge put forth in this book. Not knowing that such a book exists, one might yet induce some one who knows of it to offer a copy. Thus one’s operation would consist in inflaming one’s Will to possess the knowledge to the point of devoting one’s life to it, in expressing that will by seeking out people who seem likely to know what is needed, and in imposing it on them by exhibiting such enthusiastic earnest…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
… they could. To divine concerning a matter is little more than to calculate probabilities. We obtain the use of minds who hâve access ro knowledge beyond ours, but not to omniscience. Hru; the gréai angel set over the Tarot, is beyond us as we are beyond the antj but, for ail we know, the knowledge of Hru is excelled by some mightier mind in the same proportion. Nor hâve we any warrant for accusing Hru of ignorance or error if we read the Taroi to our own delusion. He may hâve known, he may hâve spoken trulyj the fault may lie with our own insi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
… they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other. Suppose a + b + c = d, a = d - b - c, just as much as b = d - c - a. It is sen…
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
… it is so pure, and Iam so dull of understanding. When I write I feel as it were the breath of an angel covering me with holiness, and I know —then! But now—I only write mechani- cally. I force myself. To-day I tore up all I wrote last night. USME. Let us ask God to send you the angel, shall we ? [ They kneel, with arms intertwined; al the ofen window, and bow their heads silently, VAUGUAN also prays, with arms outspread tm Oolessing. Curtain, SCENE III. Six months later. The dining-rooin. PERCY, VAUGHAN, ESME af dtnner. /-ntler BUTLER. BUTLER.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…Love’s at its height in pure love? Nay, but after When the song’s light dissolves gently in laughter ! Then and then only the lovers may know Nothing can part them for ever. And so, Muse, hover o’er me! Apollo, above her ! I, of the Moderns, have let alone Greek.” Out of the way Intuition shall shove her. Spirit and Truth in my darkness I seek. Little by little they bubble and leak ; Such as I have to the world I discover. Words—are they weak ones at best? They shall speak ! VOL, IL K Apology of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valu- able fact for use o…