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Page 109 of 1301930 · PDF PAGE 48
…e is served. The greater the man, the greater must be his teacher. It follows that the highest forms of communicating daemons, those who know, so to speak, the court secrets, disdain to concern themselves with matters which they regard as beneath them. One must not make the mistake of calling in a famous physician to one’s sick Pekinese. One must also beware of asking even the cleverest angel a question outside his ambit. A heart specialist should not prescribe for throat trouble. The Magician ouglit therefore to make himself master of several …
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
the children of wisdom, of whom she is justified, well know that the laws of Ethics are a chaos of confused conventions, based at best on customs convenient in certain conditions, more often on the craft or caprice of the biggest, the most savage, heartless, cunning and blood-thirsty brutes of the pack, to secure their power or pander to their pleasure in cruelty. There is no principle, even a false one, to give cohérence to the clamour of ethical propositions. Yet the very men that hâve smashed Moloch, and strewn the earth with shapeless rubbl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 58
… Stare, gape,. and splutter when they see thy colour, Reds killing roses, greens blaspheming grass, O thou art simply perfect, don’t you know ? Than thee all masters of old time are duller, O artiste of the Quartier Montparnasse! . 1 A parody on his own appreciations of Rodin’s sculpture. * An art studentin Paris at this time.
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…e take measures to transmit the influence of our work to the lady. We may for example consecrate a letter expressing our Will; or, if we know how, we may use some object connected with the person whose acts we are attempting to control, such as a lock of hair or a handkerchief
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…ce which some old gentleman had given him, and swore that the devil had promised him another if he made Dijon in two hours. (And, as you know, it is five, what horror!)." He grew afraid, saw the signals set at danger, and sprang to the lever. Then that poor crazed Dufour had thrown him off the train. The guard was new to that section of the line, and so, no doubt, too timid to take the initiative; he certainly should have applied the brakes, even at
1905 · PDF PAGE 9
…d with sweat and tears and blood. 1 Brothel. IV. I crept, a stealthy, hungry soul, to grasp Its vast edge, to look out to the beyond; To know. My eyes strained out, there was no bond, No continuity, no bridge to clasp, No pillars for the universe. Immond,? Shapeless, unstayed, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing! I was afraid. V. That was my sanity. Brought face to face Suddenly with the infinite, I feared. My brain snapped, broke; white oarage- wings ? appeared On stronger shoulders set, a carapace, A chariot. I did essay that weird Unmeasured …
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…cated words which writers use Of their fair subjects.”’ The Sonnets. I LEARNT at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thoughts immense Like this I thought: plumes of my amorous quill I tickled her withal: then grave and still Waited secure: the silence grew intense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not overbold ; quite powerless to destroy Her life’s long peac…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…e a frantic spasm, formless, insane, not to be classed as articulate thought. Yet, if he develops the faculties of his mind, the more he knows of it the more he sees that its nature is identical with his own whenever comparison is possible. The True Will is thus both determined by its équations, and free because those équations are simply its own name, spelt out fully. His sense of being under bondage cornes from his inability to read it; his sense that evil exists to thwart him arises when he begms to learn to read, reads wrong, and is obstina…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…d himself ! With soul too small to understand himself ! ELDEST PILGRIM. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! TANNHAUSER. You know not, friend, the man to whom you speak. I have lived long in miracles enough, Myself the crowning miracle of all, That Iam merely here. God speed you, sirs! I ask your blessing, not to stay therewith My soul’s own need (though that is dire enough) But—he that blesseth shall himself be blessed ! My blessing were small help to you, my friends. AN INTELLIGENT PILGRIM. For your own reason, give it to us, then…
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
…given One tithe of those fierce fires that in me dwell ! Now, after these long nights that I have striven, Farewell ! My spirit burns to know, but may not tell, Whether thy leaves, by autumn breezes driven, Fly far away beyond the immutable ; Whether thy soul shall find its home in heaven, Or dart far-flaming through the vaults of hell— To him that loveth much is much _for- given. Farewell! 1 A volume which was never issued. MSS. and proofs have been carefully destroyed. Several of the poems in this volume are taken from that, viz. pp. 6-19. TW…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…s really a wake-House, all the others had a little sleep-House about them, and the further you got the more awake you were, and began to know just how much was dream and how much wake. Via" v. Pertica Then there was the other passage where there was a narrow edge Stimulus of green crystal, which was all you had to walk on, and there was a beautiful blue feather balancing on the edge, and if you disturbed the feather there was a lady with a sword, and she would cut off your head. So I didn’t dare hardly to breathe, and all round there were thous…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…of classification are more quantitative than qualitative. The result has been to make much of their science unintelligible; we no longer know exactly what they meant by the four elements, or by the three active principles, sulphur, mercury, and salt. Some tradition has been preserved by societies of wise men, who, because of the persecutions, when to possess any other book than a missal might be construed as heresy, concealed themselves and whispered the old teaching one to another. The nineteenth century saw the overthrow of most of the old ec…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
… abide in the perfect possession of his Beloved. His most important task is thus to open his ears to the voice of his Angel, that he may know him, how he is called. For hearken! this Name, understood rightly and fully, declareth the nature of the Angel in every point, wherefore also that Name is the formula of the per¬ fection to which the Adept must aspire, and also of the power of Magick by virtue whereof he must work. He then that is as yet ignorant of that Name, let him repeat a Word worthy of this particular Ritual. Such are Abrahadabra, t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
…ND DRAMATIC To other hells, thou damned of God here- after, "Mid men’s contempt and hate and pitiless laughter. IT. Lust, impotence, and knowledge of thy soul, And that foreknowledge, fill the fiery lake Of lava where thy lazar corpse shall break The burning surface to seek out a goal More horrible, unspeakable. ‘The scroll Opens, and ‘‘ coward, liar, monster ” shake Those other names of ‘‘goat and ‘‘swine”’ and ‘‘snake”’ Wherewith Hell’s worms caress thee and control. Nay, but alone, intolerably alone, Alone, as here, thy carrion soul shall sw…
1929 · PDF PAGE 221
…ch." Cyril started back. He had not recognized his old enemy. But even at that moment he was accosted by one whom he would never fail to know, even dressed as he was in the uniform of French colonel — Douglas. On his arm was a child whose eyes were blear already with
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
… or Hadit of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, Satan, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade “Know Thyself!” and taught Initiation. He is “the Devil” of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is Baphomet, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. The number of His Atu is xv, which is Yod Hé, the Monogram of the Eternal, the Father one with the Mother, the Virgin Seed one with all-containing Space. He is therefore Life, and Love. But moreover his letter is Ayin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 47
…nk after that time you should be able to realize that, after six incarnations of uninterrupted study, you may realize that you can never know it; as Confucius said about the Yi King: "If a few more years were added to my life, J would devote a hundred of them to the study of the Yi." If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: as I walked about , I made a point of attributing everything I saw to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…f perceiving any phenomenon except by means of the arbitrary instruments of my senses; it is thus correct to say that the Uni verse as I know it is subjective, without denying its objectivity. lïî
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…the tree to the green ! [He leaps down, then pauses. O Devil! To mock With echo the roar Of a young boy’s spirit ! And yet (as before) I know I inherit The wit of the mage, The blood of the king, The age of the sage ! Ah! all these sting Through me—this rage Is the strength of my blood, The heat of my body, The birth of my wit. To hell with the flood Of words! Were I God, he Had made me as fit For all things as now, But added a brow Cool—O how cool ! Fool ! Fool! Fool! LWith a terrible laugh he springs out of sight down the crags. SCENE III. SI…
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
…halt not die, but live. Now let it be understood : if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile ? “It is a lie, this folly against itself_Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture : fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” Again and again, in words like these, He sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. ; Here is the Calendar of our Church: “But ye, O my people, rise up and awake! Let th…