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elementary purposes by taking as the basis of our illustration the solar system as conceived by the astrologers. I do not know whether the average student is aware that in practice the significations of the planets are based generally upon the philosophical conceptions of the Greek and Roman gods. Let us hope for the best, and go on! 8. The planet Saturn, which represents anatomy, is the skeleton: it is a rigid structure upon which the rest of the body is built. To what moral qualities does this correspond? The first point of virtue in a bone i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 23
…s power.” But Charicles: “Shall I for one short hour Fly from his tyranny? Am I such man As should flee from him? Let the pale and wan Women have fear—in strength of justice, I {lis vain fierce fury do this hour defy !” There shot through Heaven an awful tongue of fire, Attended by its minister, the dire Black thunder. In clear accents, cold and chill, There sounded: ‘‘ Boldest mortal, have thy will! I do reverse the doom of Archais And lay it on thyself; nor ever this Shall lift its curse from off thee, this I swear.” And Cypris looked upon hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 311
…st explain. All these seven years, especially when in the East, I had discussed religion and philosophy with all sorts and conditions of men. Further, I had studied the sacred books of all religions of antiquity. My experiences all tended to the uniform conclusion that one could go all round the circle in any argument. Christian philosophers have seized on this fact to urge that our only hope of arriving at truth is through faith; but it is the bankruptcy of faith that originally drove us to test it by reason. I saw that the true solution was, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 355
…ways excepting Charles Drysdale—who in any way saw the modern London hetaira as she really is. Drysdale in his courageous work, “ The Elements of Social Science,” also points out that the life of the ordinary prostitute is a very much healthier one than that of the average factory girl. The authoress of this work seems to understand this in a way, for in spite of “the awful degradation” which she harps upon, she contradicts her- self by writing: “I may here remark that the girls I come in contact with, if they marry happily, make excellent wive…
1910 · PDF PAGE 355
…ways excepting Charles Drysdale—who in any way saw the modern London hetaira as she really is. Drysdale in his courageous work, “ The Elements of Social Science,” also points out that the life of the ordinary prostitute is a very much healthier one than that of the average factory girl. The authoress of this work seems to understand this in a way, for in spite of “the awful degradation” which she harps upon, she contradicts her- self by writing: “I may here remark that the girls I come in contact with, if they marry happily, make excellent wive…
1919 · PDF PAGE 163
…EMPLE However, on The DAY, the 12th of October, when he came actually to use his Invocation (prepared and illumi- nated during his retirement) expecting the Result might occur, he writes as follows: At precisely 6.50. I entered the Temple, lit the incense and robed. All being in order I knelt in prayer and at 7 P.M. I arose and performed the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, then, taking the ritual in my left hand and raising the wand in my right, I slowly and clearly read the Oath and the Invocation. Afterwards, I was impressed to make a cert…
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
…eful description. In the Hindu system are three Gunas‐Sattvas, Rajas and Tamas. The word “Guna” is untranslatable. It is not quite an element, a quality, a form of energy, a phase, or a potential; all of these ideas enter into it. All the qualities that can be predicated of anything may be ascribed to one or more of these Gunas: Tamas is darkness, inertia, sloth, ignorance, death and the like; Rajas is energy, excite‐ ment, fire, brilliance, restlessness; Sattvas is calm, intelligence, hicidity and balance. They cor‐ respond to the three princi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 108
…urse | Of the bright moon, due path of pestilence And terror. Ere the last bone fell to earth The accurséd harvest sprang to life. Armed men, Fiery with anger, rose upon the earth While Jason stood, one witnessing a dream, Not one who lives his life. The sword and spear | Turn not to him, but mutual madness strikes The warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades Their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged They fell upon each other silently | And slew, and slew. As in the middle seas A mirage flashes out and passes, so The phantoms faded, and the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
… bark Lingers, we raise no silk to meet the gale. The bank slips by, we gather not its fruit, We plant no seed, we irrigate no root True men have planted ; and the tare and thorn Spring to rank weedy vigour ; poisons shoot Into the overspreading foliage ; So as days darken into weary age The flowers are fewer; the weeds are stronger born And hands are grown too feeble to assuage Their venom ; then, the unutterable sea ! Is she green-cinctured with the earlier tree Of Life? Do blossoms blow, or weeds create A foul rank undergrowth of misery? Fro…
1944 · PDF PAGE 21
…umerical sys‐ tem which is not merely mathematical, but philosophical. It is necessary, at this point, to in‐ troduce the “Naples Arrangement”. But first of all, one must understand the pictorial repre‐ sentation of the Universe given by the Holy Qabalah. (See diagram.) This picture represents the Tree of Life, which is a map of the Universe. One must be‐ gin, as a mathematician would, with the idea of Zero, Absolute Zero, which turns out on ex‐ amination to mean any quantity that one may choose, but not, as the layman may at first sup‐ pose, N…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…hy mantle, and thy lyre, A double portion of thy spirit to render, That yet the banner may fling out on high, And yet the lyre teach freemen how to die! Master, the night is falling yet again. I hear dim tramplings of unholy forces : I see the assembly of the foully slain : The scent of murder steams: riderless horses , Gallop across the earth, and seek the inane : The sun and moon are shaken in their courses : The kings are gathered, and the vultures fall Screaming, to hold their ghastly festival. Master, the sons of Freedom are but few— Yea, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
…death. How lucky that we had with us a distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine! There was only one slight hitch in the programme. The moment that I told him that the Consul was dead, he turned his donkey and bolted for safety. Holy Kali, it might be an infectious disease! There was no point in chasing the creature at the moment. The matter could wait our return. We brought the Consul to his house and Forrest asked me to bring the doctor round. It was necessary to make an official report of the death, and the cause of the death. I went round to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…orror knows no gate of any escape. This tragedy is terrible to me. Even I, its spirit, shudder as I see ; I, passionless, the moulder of men’s hope, The slayer of them, cast no horoscope Divining what befell. And I am moved: Both love, and both are worthy to be loved. Ah Fate ! if thou hadst cast the dies Whence no appeal, in any other wise! I am the soul of the grim face of things : Mine are the Sphinx’s wings; Mine own life lives with this event ! Yet even I, its very self, lament The execrable tyranny, The rayless misery Of this wild whirlpo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 217 Long after (to men: but a moment To'me in my mansion of rest) Is a sundawn to blaze what the glow meant Seen long after death in the west ; A magical zeon ! Nor love-song nor pzean, But a flame with a silvery crest. There shall rise a sweet song of the soul Far deeper than love or distress ; Beyond mortals and gods shall it roll ; It shall find me, and crave, and caress. Ah! me it shall capture In torrents of rapture ; It shall flood me, and fill, and possess. For brighter from age unto age The weary old world shall…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
… to a further death. This experience lasted throughout the night, and I describe the dawn, the awakening of the world and myself to what men call reality. The trout leap in the shingly shallows. Soared skyward the great sun, that hallows The pagan shrines of labour and light As the moon consecrates the night. Labour is corn and love is wine, And both are blessd in the shrine; Nor is he for priest designated. Who partakes only in one kind. I suited the action to the word. There was also the poem "A Birthday", written on August 10th for Leila Wa…
1939 · PDF PAGE 12
…udience may possibly be thinking that there is a catch in it somewhere. They are perfectly right. (16) The snag is simply this. Every element of which we are composed is indeed constantly occupied in the satisfaction of its particular needs by its own particular Yoga; but for that very reason it is completely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consider as the Be-All and End-All of its existence. For instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 90
…a Tree, by shape sug‐ gesting the letter Daleth (d) Venus, Love. His background is an unbounded grill of small squares; these are the Elemental Tablets which exhibit the names and sigilla of all the energies of Nature. Through his Work a Child is begotten, as shewn by the Serpent stirring in the Darkness of the Abyss below him. Yet the card in itself is essentially a glyph of Water; Mem is one of the three great Mother Letters, and its value is 40, the might of Tetragrammaton fully developed by Malkuth, the symbol of the Universe under the Demi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…that I, Am brose, called I.A.O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journey s he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,1 the S tar Suaconch2 being in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug 3 to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark and the Golden Dawn at hand, he did call forth four se rvants to keep h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…e air. The poet woke and was aware Of property and children. Claims His breech a vesta. Up the flames Leap ; he stalks forth, free among men, With just a notebook and a pen. fool ! AU CAVEAU DES INNOCENTS. Oct, 28, 1904. NiGut, like a devil, with lidless eyes, Stands avenging over the Halls. Sleep there is none, for day awaits Tokens of toil; there is none that dies, Death being rest; there is none that calls, Voice being human; only the Fates Rattle the dice at a sombre game, Game without goal of peace or fame. Sinister, sombre, horrors and ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 175
…L AMORIS 169 I caught the lavish lyre, and sate Hard by the waterfall, Twisting its sweetness intimate Into the solemn call Of many dead men that were great, The plectron’s wizard thrall. Thus as she danced, nor ceased, nor cared, I set the sacred throng Of heroes into acts that fared In Argo light and long, The foes they fought, the feats they dared, In shadow-show and song. (The play of Argonautae is sha- dowed before them by Or- pheus’ magtcal might.) So faded all the dream: so stole Some fearful fondness in her soul ; Even as a cloud thrill…