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Page 13 of 2031910 · PDF PAGE 61
THE PRINCESS OF PANORMITA 51 Let him pierce his God to the marrow ! Let the soul of his God flow out ! Whether a snake or a sun In his horoscope Heaven hath cast, It is nothing ; every one Shall win to the moon at last. The mage hath wrought by his art A billion shapes in the sun. Look through to the heart of his heart, And the many are shapes of one ! An end to the art of the mage, And the cold grey blank of the prison ! An end to the adamant age ! The ambrosial moon is arisen. I have bought a lilywhite goat For the price of a crown of thorns,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
170 THE STAR IN THE WEST and Light , beneficent and malevolent as the ancient gods of Babylonia . The unique Athanor of philosophic and moral alchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light . “ Quand l'homme grandit Dieu s'éleve " ; - it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in Exodus , xxxiii , Moses was unable to look at God face to face ; it was also the same idea as held by Charles Darwin -- the theory of Evolution . The growth of the protoplast into man , of evil into good . Khephra , god of the morning emerging from the b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
THE OLD BOTTLE 161 But man the father of God did , for he was naturally bloodthirsty , avaricious , and cruel , and man to -day is but a veneered representative of his forefathers , still suppliant at the feet of the phallic Jahveh : That man to -day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun.2 66a But so it is , and so it will be for many a generation yet to come ; cause and effect are but replicas of each other , and if the cause be ignorance , it is useless to look for the wisdom of Solomon in the effec…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
68 JEPHTHAH PROPHET. I see a dove departing to the hills: CHORUS, I pray it bring an olive-branch to us. PROPHET. The god has overcome me; I am silent. CHORUS. He lies as one lies dead; none wakens him. Nor life nor death must touch him now: beware! ELEAZAR. Beware now, all ye old wise men, of this. For high things spoken and unjustly heard, Or heard and turned aside, are fruitless words, Or bear a blossom evil and abhorred, Lest God be mocked. Consider well of this. CHORUS. A sword, a sword, to smite our foes withal ! ELEAZAR. A help shall com…
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
… is certainly a perfection ; but to endure , or suffer , or feel anything by sense , is an imperfection . The former , I say , agrees to God , but not the latter . God knows or hath ideas ; but the ideas are not conveyed to Him by sense as ours are . . 2 God to him is a mahayogi . It is absolutely true of Hume , but Hume , studiously avoiding the word God , could find no helpmeet to fill his place : For my part , when I enter most intimately into what I call myself , I always stumble on some particular percep tion or other , of heat or cold , l…
1913 · PDF PAGE 339
…great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying: ‘‘ Bread of God, do thou make bread for all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” And they thought that he blasphemed. No; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. He said again in the madness of his wounded charity: “The liabilities of all men are common, and they expiate each other’s faults, as they make meri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 339
…great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying: ‘‘ Bread of God, do thou make bread for all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” And they thought that he blasphemed. No; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. He said again in the madness of his wounded charity: “The liabilities of all men are common, and they expiate each other’s faults, as they make meri…
1909 · PDF PAGE 30
…bark in the mid-career of Day. For all these thoughts are vain; there is but One thought, though that thought be not yet born—He only is God, and there is none other God than Hel Walking home with mantra; suddenly a spasm of weeping took me as I cried through the manna—" My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”—and I have to stop and put it down I A good thing; for it calms me. At the Dome, master of myself. The Mantra goes just 30 times a minute, 1800 times an hour, 43,200 times a day. To say it a million times would take longer than Mrs. G…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…ce on earth, however great, can pull a chord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I dare- say I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. I hardly expect to be asked, somehow. The resulting equilibrium of God and man, des- tructive of worship, is of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Material- ism, or somethi…
1903 · PDF PAGE 4
…o opinion. Let us consider the force-quality in the existences conceived of by these two religions ‘respectively, remem- bering that the God of the Christian is infinite, and yet discussing the alternative if we could suppose him to be a finite God. In any equilibrated system of forces, we may sum and represent them as a triangle or series of triangles which again resolve into one. In any moving system, if the resultant motion be applied in a contrary direction, the equilibrium can also thus be represented. And if any one of the original forces…
1913 · PDF PAGE 69
KE®AAH N THE VIGIL OF ST. HUBERT In the forest God met the Stag-beetle. ‘‘ Hold! Worship me!” quoth God. ‘‘For I am All- Great, All-Good, All-Wise The stars are but sparks from the forges of My smiths ‘Yea, verily and Amen,” said the Stag-beetle, ‘“all this do I believe, and that devoutly.” ‘*Then why do you not worship Me?” ‘Because lam realand you are only imaginary.” But the leaves of the forest rustled with the laughter of the wind. Said Wind and Wood: ‘They neither of them know anything!”
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
…ward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus,* and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the God Harpocrates.f 5. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
…ward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus,* and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Allthis must be done with all the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the God Harpocrates.f 5. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…st heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.t And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more p…
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
THE EQUINOX This is the Magic Mirror of the Soul; if you see God in everything, it is because you are God and have made the universe in your image; if you see Sex in everything, and think of Sex as something unclean, it is because you are a sexual maniac. True, it is, of course, that the soul must not unite herself to every symbol, but only to the God which every symbol veils. And Lake Harris is perfectly clear on the point. The “ counterpart ” is often impersonated, with the deadliest results. But if the Aspirant be wise and favoured, he will …
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…st heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.t And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more p…
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
THE EQUINOX This is the Magic Mirror of the Soul; if you see God in everything, it is because you are God and have made the universe in your image; if you see Sex in everything, and think of Sex as something unclean, it is because you are a sexual maniac. True, it is, of course, that the soul must not unite herself to every symbol, but only to the God which every symbol veils. And Lake Harris is perfectly clear on the point. The “ counterpart ” is often impersonated, with the deadliest results. But if the Aspirant be wise and favoured, he will …
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
LIBER CAVS knew that the true way to attract the notice of such was to equilibrate the symbols. The temple must be builded before the God can indwell it. 22. Therefore by the order of D.D.S. did P. prepare all things by his arcane science and wisdom, choosing only those symbols which were common to all systems, and rigorously rejecting all names and words which might be supposed to imply any religious or metaphysical theory. To do this utterly was found impossible, since all lan- guage has a history, and the use (for example) of the word “spiri…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
THE POET AT BAY 127 Life was, and laughter. Take the odds Offered us by the gambling gods ! I saw a painted dancing-girl Writhe, jerk, shake, snap her fingers, curl Her lips into a lecherous leer All night for sixpence and her beer. I met her eyes. We knew each other, In Gods womb sister and twin brother ! She blazed. Each belly-twitch set swinging The censers of the stars, set singing The myriad choirs of cherubim. All nature dived from sense, to swim In that past-space past-period Infinite ocean that is God. Such luck be yours ! You cannot t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 334
…ore the moon and the stars , and go into the London streets at midnight seeking Their kisses as our birthright . We are the Greeks - and God grant ye all , my brothers , to be as happy in your loves ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open the door of Heaven , and we shall enter and see God face to face . Under the stars I go forth , my brothers , and drink of that lustral dew : I will return , my brothers , when I have seen God face to face , and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free . Then will I choose you an…