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Page 114 of 1541910 · PDF PAGE 132
…angels chained together, and amongst them stood Archangels of a pale silver which flashed forth rays of gold. Above all was the Formless Light. The Archangels showed me curious types of horned beings riding along a circle in different directions. Concentration on This resulted in many strange dreams, Position 1.+ Concentration on 32m. Ten breaks. Better towards theend; but Position 1. best after tenth break. Concentration must have then lasted quite 6 or 7 minutes. Position 1. 15m. Three breaks, but end very doubtful having become very sleepy. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 132
…angels chained together, and amongst them stood Archangels of a pale silver which flashed forth rays of gold. Above all was the Formless Light. The Archangels showed me curious types of horned beings riding along a circle in different directions. Concentration on This resulted in many strange dreams, Position 1.+ Concentration on 32m. Ten breaks. Better towards theend; but Position 1. best after tenth break. Concentration must have then lasted quite 6 or 7 minutes. Position 1. 15m. Three breaks, but end very doubtful having become very sleepy. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 394
… in the name of Him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of Him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? Say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth. But also, to how many virtues has it not given birth ? How many are the devotions, how many the sacrifices, of which we do not know! Have you counted those noble hearts, both men and women, who renounced all joys to enter the serv…
1913 · PDF PAGE 394
… in the name of Him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of Him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? Say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth. But also, to how many virtues has it not given birth ? How many are the devotions, how many the sacrifices, of which we do not know! Have you counted those noble hearts, both men and women, who renounced all joys to enter the serv…
1919 · PDF PAGE 384
…or rather is flung forth, and appears in the Heaven of Jupiter—or sphere of another planet—as a morning Star or an evening Star to bring light to them that dwell upon the earth. On the left hand Path, the Adept, wishing to keep all that he has, shuts himself up in a Tower of Silence, there to suffer the progressively degrading agony of slow dispersion. For on the right hand Path the Master of the Temple is—momentarily—after a fashion—at rest. His intellectual and physical forces are acting in the world, but his blood is in the Cup of Babalon, a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 451
…y divine COMPASSION? Compassion is no attribute. It is the Law of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love eternal. Here again is apparently a serious difficulty. The idea of Klesha, here identified with Love of worldly enjoyment, seems to put one back almost before the beginning. Is it now only that the almost-Arhat no longer wants to go to the theatre? It must not be interpreted in this low sense. At the same time, it is difficult to discover …
1922 · PDF PAGE 45
…or she showed no embarrassment in pressing the electric bell. The door opened immediately. I was snowed under by an avalanche of crimson light that poured from a vast studio. Lou’s voice soared high and clear :— ‘“‘O Thou scarlet dragon of flame, enmeshed in the web of a spider! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” A revulsion of feeling rushed over me like a storm ; for in the doorway, with Lou’s arms round his neck, was the tall, black, sinister figure of King Lamus. “I knew you wouldn't mind our dropping in, al- though it is so late,” s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
…t. She then got down to busi- ness, and her birch flashed in the air. Above the girl, the birch-rod bright Was brandishing like gleam of light ; The arse was dark below ; When with the oceans mighty swing When heaving to the tempests wing She hit that open O : As Scott so narrowly escaped singing. Ah ! she yelled, in a perfect transport of furious lust, I will whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip whip w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…who should call on God. Instead, arose a shining form, sweet as a whisper of soft air kissing the brows of a great storm ; his face with light was molten, musical with waves of his delight moving across : his countenance utterly fair ! then was my philosophic vision shamed : conjecture at a loss ; and my whole mind revolted ; then I blamed the vision as a lie ; yet bid that vision speak how he was named, being so wonderfully desirable. Whereat he smiled upon me merrily, answering that whoso named him well, being a poet, called him Love ; or els…
1909 · PDF PAGE 80
…! Ten bob. — Vulgarity must always go with wickedness, Christ is not only a saving but a refining influence. Wolf’s tail. — The Zodiacal Light, seen before dawn. I suppose that such a mixture of ribaldry, blasphemy, vulgarity, and obscenity, as this series of sonnets has never been known. But worse is to follow! THE BLACK MASS A reference to the Bacchae of Euripides,
1909 · PDF PAGE 315
…ut the lips and then entered the great mouth. “Up! up! I rise. I am in a chamber with two square pillars and an eye . . . I bathe in the light of this eye and the intense brilliancy of the whole room, which swallows me up. “ Bigger and bigger do I grow... I fill the room... I emerge from the top of the mighty head, and kissing once again the lips, swerve downwards and unite with the red figure below me. 307
1909 · PDF PAGE 315
…ut the lips and then entered the great mouth. “Up! up! I rise. I am in a chamber with two square pillars and an eye . . . I bathe in the light of this eye and the intense brilliancy of the whole room, which swallows me up. “ Bigger and bigger do I grow... I fill the room... I emerge from the top of the mighty head, and kissing once again the lips, swerve downwards and unite with the red figure below me. 307
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…ets will accuse him for a fool and worse . Dryden chooses to be bolder yet , and pays our admission to his high discourse with a foolish light coin that passes current wherever men and women have nothing more serious on hand than to dine and chat and make themselves agreeable . For Howard 's pleasantry ( as old as Juvenal , and older ) has in truth very little sense to commend it. I am writing this by a window which stands open above a two - mile beach , along which the tide has for some three hours been advancing . Parables , analogies , have …
1909 · PDF PAGE 257
… at the borders of the Qliphoth. He is throned DiaGRaM 7. upon Matter and robed in Darkness ; and about his feet are the thunder and the lightning, which two forces are symbolised by the impact of the paths of W and P (Fire, Pisces), terminating respectively in the russet and olive quarters of Malkuth. There, therefore, is he placed as a mighty and avenging guardian unto the Sacred Mysteries. His symbols and insignia are : The throne of the West at the limits of Malkuth; the robe of Darkness ; the sword; the Banner of the West; the Lamen. “* Av…
1909 · PDF PAGE 257
… at the borders of the Qliphoth. He is throned DiaGRaM 7. upon Matter and robed in Darkness ; and about his feet are the thunder and the lightning, which two forces are symbolised by the impact of the paths of W and P (Fire, Pisces), terminating respectively in the russet and olive quarters of Malkuth. There, therefore, is he placed as a mighty and avenging guardian unto the Sacred Mysteries. His symbols and insignia are : The throne of the West at the limits of Malkuth; the robe of Darkness ; the sword; the Banner of the West; the Lamen. “* Av…
1911 · PDF PAGE 59
…pace-marks confounded. And now the Angel is but a shining speck of blackness in the midst of a tremendous sphere of liquid and vibrating light, at first gold, then becoming green, and lastly pure blue. And I see that the green of Libra is made up of the yellow of air and the blue of water, swords and cups, judgment and mercy. And this word TAN meaneth mercy. And the feather of Maat is blue because the truth of justice is mercy. Anda 57
1911 · PDF PAGE 91
THE VISION AND THE VOICE Behold, the foundation of the Holy City, the towers and the bastions thereof! Behold the armies of light that are set against the outermost Abyss, against the horror of emptiness, and the malice of Choronzon. Behold how worshipful is the wisdom of the Master, that he hath set his stability in the all- wandering Air and in the changeful Moon. In the purple flashes of the lightning hath He written the word Eternity, and in the wings of the swallow hath He appointed rest. By three and by three and by three hath He made fir…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…niversal necessity, and not to be shirked on account of any casual circumstances of the moment which may seem to put such conduct in the light of inconvenience or even of cruelty. I hope that the principles outlined above will help them to understand this book, and prevent them from being deterred from its study by the more or less technical language in which it is written. The essence of MAGICK is simple enough in ail conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government. The Aim is simply prosperity; but the theory is tangled, and the pr…
1938 · PDF PAGE 9
…ster is the Innocence of Liberty. Also, a Golden Eagle, bearing a Chalice of Wine, crying aloud: The Woe of the Master is the Rapture of Light. Last, in their midst, above His head, there whirls a wheel of many-coloured radiance, so that thereby all deeds are harmonized in one. And the whirring of the wheel declares: The Wisdom of the Master is the Justice of Time. Attend to the Will of the Master! At this there cometh forth from the heart of the Wheel a Serpent with the head of a Sphinx, and toucheth the mouth of the Master, so that His voice …
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
…of God. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and brigh t glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, 0 man! lust, enjoy al/ things of sense and rapture! fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. Behold! these be grave mysteries; …