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Page 123 of 1971903 · PDF PAGE 20
18 by superior power—a task from which almightiness might well recoil baffled !—I much fear that eternal life, and con- sequently eternal suffering, joy, and change of all kinds, will be their melancholy fate! Such persons are in truth their own real enemies. Many of them, however, believing erroneously that they are being “unselfish,” do fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
… left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ he cried, pointing to the great statue of St. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
THE DREAM CIRCEAN a dog-faced demon that seduceth thy soul from the sacred Mysteries ; the Mysteries of Life and Duty.’ “* Let me tell my story!’ I replied, ‘and you shall judge— for, whoever you may be, I feel your power and truth.’ “*T am Eliphaz Levi Zahed—men call me the Abbé Constant,’ returned the other. “©The great magician?’ “«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
… left an uneasy sense of bewilderment; what mattered was that here we were fighting in semi-darkness—the dawn was not fairly lifted— for life and death. “Ten thousand crowns, Monsieur Jean,’ I cried, ‘and my service!’—I gave him my style—‘I see you can be a faithful servant.’ “* Faithful to death!’ he retorted, and I was sorry to have to kill him. “We fenced grimly on. “«But,’ I urged, ‘your mistress is dead. Your duty is to her child, and I am her child’s-——’ “He looked up from my eyes. ‘An omen!’ he cried, pointing to the great statue of St. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
THE DREAM CIRCEAN a dog-faced demon that seduceth thy soul from the sacred Mysteries ; the Mysteries of Life and Duty.’ “* Let me tell my story!’ I replied, ‘and you shall judge— for, whoever you may be, I feel your power and truth.’ “*T am Eliphaz Levi Zahed—men call me the Abbé Constant,’ returned the other. “©The great magician?’ “«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 47
Over the Top | 33 embarrassed. For the first time in my life I didn’t know how to behave. A thought popped into my mind: it was simply fatigue—I needn’t bother about that. As if in answer to my thought, Lou took a small cut-glass bottle with a gold-chased top from her pocket, unscrewed it and shook out some cocaine on the back of her hand. She flashed a provocative glance in my direction. The studio suddenly filled with the reverberation of her chant :— ‘“O Thou naked virgin of love, that art caught in a net of wild roses! I adore Thee, Evoe! I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…t characteristic formula of Osiris, of the Rédemption of Mankind. I is Isis, Nature, ruined by A, Apophis the Destroyer, and restored to life by the Redeemer Osiris.1 The sanie idea is expressed by the Rosicrucian formula of the Trinity: Ex Deo nas ci mur. In Je su morimur. Per Sfiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. This is also identical with the Word Lux L.V.X., which is formed by the arrns of a cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modem monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the Saviour of the World. The doctrine …
1961 · PDF PAGE 120
…f practical Wisdom in our Magick Art. And this is the Wonder and Beauty of this Work, that for every Man is his own Palace. Yea, this is Life, that the Secrets of our Order are not fixed and dead, as are the Formulae of the Outer. Know that in the many thousand Times that I have performed the Ritual of the Pentagram or the Invocation of the Heart girt with a Serpent, or the Mass of he Phoenix, or of the Holy Ghost, there has not been one Time wherein I did not win new Light, or Knowledge or Power or Virtue, save through mine own Weakness or Err…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
… a hip bath instead of a soup plate, or rode the Wheel of Samsara in preference to a bicycle. Once more, the irrational incidents of the life of Christ become entirely normal when understood as the rubric of a ritual of initiation. I claim that my book establishes the outline of an entirely final theory of the construction of Christianity. The subject is far too vast and complex to be adequately discussed in this autohagiography. But I have no hesitation in referring the student to my essay for the solution of any and every difficulty which he …
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
…! Man is made one with God , an equal soul . For he shall know The harmony , the oneness of the Whole. This was my purpose . Remains the life of earth , which is but hell , Destiny's web , and my immense despair . And this despair -as sorrow so frequently does creates in him a deep cynical disgust for the world : Man , a bad joke ; and God , mere epigram ! If we must come to that . And likewise love .? Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle.3 He taunts them , insults God ; and tells all , shouting it far and broad , that his road wa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
… shape of some negative creed or scepticism , teaching the maxim that man lives for the pleasure of living , and that the purpose of our life is merely to enjoy ourselves ." ? Even as early as the middle of the seventeenth century , Adrian Beverland in his Justinianæi de stolatae Virginitatis [ sic ] noticed this social collapse : “ dum puellas nostrates adeo 1 i Conventional Lies . Max Nordau . ? Fundamental Problems , p . vii .
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
…eams and broken into short lengths. I ought to observe that this is a very striking result of forging this magic chain; for in my normal life I am one of the soundest sleepers imaginable. Nine solid hours without turning once is my irreducible minimum. Having done an hour’s illumination of the New Ritual, will go and break my fast with coffee and a brioche, and thence proceed to Michael Brenner’s studio. I have spent the morning in modelling Siddhasana— a more difficult task than appeared. Rather like THE taskl But I went on with the mantra, and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
THE EQUINOX 66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is help & hope in other spells…
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
THE EQUINOX 66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is help & hope in other spells…
1961 · PDF PAGE 183
… or by Drunkenness, or by Idleness, she hath no Standard whereunto she may rally her Forces. In this see thou her Need of a well-guarded Life, and of a True Man for her God. i
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
… millennium seems to have been thought of as a fulfilment of god's promise to Abraham; but apparently it had nothing to do with "eternal life". However, even this modified beatitude as not open to Gentiles who had rejected Christ. The child was consequently very much relieved by the reappearance of some of the inmates of the house whom he could not imagine as having been lost eternally. The lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them that love God and are cal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…rning". In October I entered the university, taking rooms at 16 St. John's Street. From that moment begins an entirely new chapter in my life. {106} 12 When I went up to Cambridge in the October term of 1895, I had the sensation of drawing a long deep breath as one does after swimming under water or (an even better analogy) as one does after bracing oneself against the pain inflicted by a dentist. I could not imagine anything better in life. I found myself suddenly in an entirely new world. I was part of the glories of the past; and I made a fi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 169
… and I are disagreed. There! I have let my feelings go This once. Again? I deem not so. Once for my fellow-creature’s need ! The rest of life, for self-control,®! For liberation of the soul! ® This once, the truth! In future, best Dismissing Jesus with a jest. Ah! Christ ascends?* Ascension day? The Jest. Old wonders bear the bell ®! away? Santos-Dumont, though! Who can say?
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…aces of the great laureate's work in these poems , such as the idea contained in the following verse of “ De Profundis ”: I have dreamed life a circle or a line , Called God, and Fate , and Chance , and Man, divine . I know not all I say , but through it all Mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine !? which is almost identical with that in Canto LIV of “ In Memoriam .” A poem written in the metre of Tenny Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 53 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 113 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…e geese are gabbling .' Or again , in “ The Nameless Quest ," God's heart ! the antics , as they toil and shove ! One grabs a coin , one life , another love . All shriek .2 Cora Vavasour made a pretty just estimate of society when she called its stulti “ prurient licksores of society ,” for that is exactly what they are ; when poor , squalid ; when rich , vulgar ; the men fond of kitchen - maids , and the women painted and cosmetic ized , not only to hide the ravages of debauchery , but to catch new lovers ; the boys a breed of cads , and the g…