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Page 109 of 1731911 · PDF PAGE 118
…een the lover of the earth, that wooed rne thus roughly. Many a night have I slept upon her naked breast, in forest and on glacier, upon great plains and upon lonely crags, in heat and cold, fair weather and foul; and my blood is the blood of the earth. My life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do I know myself to be a spark of infinite Godl Seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! Back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her wombl Wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
… 37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, flames of the hair of the Great Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, he the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand as a harlot that p…
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…een the lover of the earth, that wooed rne thus roughly. Many a night have I slept upon her naked breast, in forest and on glacier, upon great plains and upon lonely crags, in heat and cold, fair weather and foul; and my blood is the blood of the earth. My life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do I know myself to be a spark of infinite Godl Seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! Back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her wombl Wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
…u canst command me by the power of the Most High, know that I did indeed tempt thee, and it repenteth me. I bow myself humbly before the great and terrible names whereby thou hast conjured and constrained me. But thy name is mercy, and I cry aloud for pardon. Let me come and put my head beneath thy feet, that I may serve thee. For if thou commandest me to obedience in the Holy names, I cannot swerve therefrom, for their first whispering is greater than the noise of all my tempests. Bid me therefore come unto thee upon my hands and knees that I …
1911 · PDF PAGE 135
…her nor father, nor sister nor brother, nor wife nor child, who hast made thyself lonely as the hermit crab that is in the waters of the Great Sea, behold! when the sistrons are shaken, and the trumpets blare forth the glory of Isis, at the end thereof there is silence, and thou shalt com- mune with Nephthys. And having known these, there are the wings of Maut the Vulture. Thou mayest draw to an head the bow of thy magical will; thou mayest loose the shaft and pierce her to the heart. Iam Eros. Take then the bow and the quiver from my shoulders…
1912 · PDF PAGE 17
…o have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that the first and most necessary acquirement of the new disciple is that he will keep silent in regard to all that concerns the society to which he is admitted. Not that there is anything in that Society which needs to be afraid of being known to the virtuous and good ; but it is not necessary that things which are elevated and xn
1912 · PDF PAGE 17
…o have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that the first and most necessary acquirement of the new disciple is that he will keep silent in regard to all that concerns the society to which he is admitted. Not that there is anything in that Society which needs to be afraid of being known to the virtuous and good ; but it is not necessary that things which are elevated and xn
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…o have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that the first and most necessary acquirement of the new disciple is that he will keep silent in regard to all that concerns the society to which he is admitted. Not that there is anything in that society which needs to be afraid of being known to the virtuous and good ; but it is not necessary that things which are elevated and xi
1913 · PDF PAGE 539
…f Hermes are one and all obedient to him who knows how to pronounce duly the incommunicable name of Agla. In order to pronounce duly the great words of the Qabalah, R 241
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…o have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that the first and most necessary acquirement of the new disciple is that he will keep silent in regard to all that concerns the society to which he is admitted. Not that there is anything in that society which needs to be afraid of being known to the virtuous and good ; but it is not necessary that things which are elevated and xi
1913 · PDF PAGE 539
…f Hermes are one and all obedient to him who knows how to pronounce duly the incommunicable name of Agla. In order to pronounce duly the great words of the Qabalah, R 241
1919 · PDF PAGE 102
…quarried in the distant land? 52. There was also an humming-bird that spake unto the horned cerastes, and prayed him for poison. And the great snake of Khem the Holy One, the royal Urzeus serpent, an- swered him and said: 53. I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions- of-Years, and I saw not any creature upon Seb that was equal to me. The venom of my fang is the inheritance of my father, and of my father’s father; and how shall I give it unto thee? Live thou and thy children as I and my fathers have lived, even unto an hundred mill…
1909 · PDF PAGE 353
…r offices.” In the Hebrides, as in Orkney, the seal is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. One of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. The seal was credited with being able to assume human form. While in human guise, he contracted marriages with human beings, and if we are to credit tradition, the Mac- Codrums of North Uist are the offspring of such a union. In former times the MacCodrums were known in the Western Islands as Stie…
1909 · PDF PAGE 353
…r offices.” In the Hebrides, as in Orkney, the seal is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. One of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. The seal was credited with being able to assume human form. While in human guise, he contracted marriages with human beings, and if we are to credit tradition, the Mac- Codrums of North Uist are the offspring of such a union. In former times the MacCodrums were known in the Western Islands as Stie…
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
…Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistically the aspirant enters Daath. VI. Right Effort. Man is now Master of Virtue and Vice and no longer their slave, servant, enemy or friend. The LVX has descended upon him, and just as the dew of the moon within the Sahasara Chakkra falling upon the two-petalled Aj…
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
…Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistically the aspirant enters Daath. VI. Right Effort. Man is now Master of Virtue and Vice and no longer their slave, servant, enemy or friend. The LVX has descended upon him, and just as the dew of the moon within the Sahasara Chakkra falling upon the two-petalled Aj…
1911 · PDF PAGE 27
…o the stone like a warrior clad in chain-armour. Upon his head are plumes of gray, spread out like the fan ofa peacock. About his feet a great army of scorpions and dogs, lions, elephants, and many other wild beasts. He stretches forth his arms to heaven and cries; In the crackling of the lightning, in the rolling of the thunder, in the clashing of the swords and the hurling of the arrows: be thy name exalted! Streams of fire come out of the heavens, a pale brilliant blue, like plumes. And they gather themselves and settle upon his lips. His li…
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
…s. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms! Oh, blue! blue! blue! whose reflection in the Abyss is called the Great One of the Night of Time; between ye vibrat- eth the Lord of the Forces of Matter. O Nox, Nox, qui celas infamiam infandi nefandi, Deo solo sit laus qui dedit signum non scribendum. Laus virgini cuius stuprum tradit salutem. O Night, that givest suck from thy paps to sorcery, and theft, and rape, and gluttony, and murder, and tyranny, and to the nameless Horror, cover us, cover us, cover us from the Rod …
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
…nares in December 1911 and insisted on an absolute separation of the boys from Mr. Leadbeater. But for the first time, to the plaintiff’s great surprise, the defendant refused to adOpt any such course, and alleged that the bOys and Leadbeater had lived together 'for several lives past, and that Leadbeater was an Arhat or Saint, “who is on the "verge of divinity.” The plaintiff stated that he could not accept any such position, and- that unless the separation took place he would take action in the matter. 7. The plaintiff returned from Benares to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
… story-teller Alexander Dumas dramatized this magical anecdote in the magnificent epitome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel, The Wandering Jew.‘ The scene takes place at Corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of Catullus. The bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient Polyhymnia; she is amorous and deliciously provoking in her modesty, like a Ve…