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Page 130 of 1541996 · PDF PAGE 162
… particular star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of Him, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani mal kingdom is His cognate symbol the Phallus, representing Love and Liberty. Ra-Hoor-Khuit, like all true Gods, is therefore a Solar-Phallic deity. But we regard Him as He is in truth, eternal; the Solar-Phallic deities of the old /Eon, such as Osiris, “Christ,” Hiram, Adonis, Hercules, etc., were supposed, through our igno rance of the Cosmos, t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…e of the Word, by constructing and charging a Pantacle appropriate to the object; this Pantacle should then cause a strain in the Astral Light such that the vibrations would compel some alien consciousness to restore equilibrium by bringing the book. Suppose a severer and more serious aim; suppose that I wish to win a woman who dislikes me and loves somebody else. In this case, not only her Will, but her lover’s must be overcome by my own. I hâve no direct control of either. But my Will is in touch with the woman’s by means of our minds; I hâve…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…ersal homogeneity, and use the same means to prolong life as to bewitch cattle. One does not invoke “Electricity77 indiscrimi- nately to light one7s house and to propel one’s brougham; one Works by measured application of one7s powers to intelligent analytical compréhension of the conditions of each separate case. There is a Eucharist for every Grâce that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select suitable Eléments, and devise proper processes. To consider the classical problems of Alchemy: the Medicine of Meta…
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…ct. Each person is responsible to himself, being a star, to travel in his own orbit, composed of his own elements, to shine with his own light, with the colour proper to his own nature, to revolve and to rush with his own inherent motion, and to maintain his own relation with his own galaxy in its own place in the Universe. His existence is his sole and sufficient justification for his own matter and manner. 2. His only possible error is to withdraw himself from this consciousness of himself as both unique in himself and necessary to the norm o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 75
TIIk TIIRTEENTILT DAY 69 O fearful firstling dove ! My dawn and spring of love, Love’s light and lure ! Look (as I bend above) Through bright lids filled thereof Perfect and pure, Thy bloom of maidenhood. I could not: if I could, I weuld not: being good, Also endure ! Cruel, to tear or mar The chaliced nenuphar; Cruel to press The rosebud 3 cruel to scar Or stain the flower-star With mad caress. But crueller to destroy The leaping life and joy Born in a careless boy From lone distress. More cruel then art thou The calm and chaste of brow, If th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 290
…ca: Thelema Publishing Co., 1953. 13 ------------. The Holy Books of Thelema. See (29) and (30). 14 ----------- . Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light. London and New York: Walter Scott, and Foyers, uk: sprt, 1907; facs. ed., Chicago: Teitan, 1990. “Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysti cism and Magick.” 15 ------------ . The Law is for All, ed. I. Regardie. St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1975; rpt. Scottsdale, az: New Falcon, 1991. 16 ------------ . [Liber 418.] Liber XXX /Ervm vel Sceculi Sub Figura CCCCXVIII. Being of the Angels of the Thirty /Eth…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…habet hâve no limit. This System is so sublime that it is unsuited to the solution of the petty puzzles of our earthly existence. In the light'of the Qabalah, the shadows of transitory things are instantly banished. Xhe Y i King is the most satisfactory System for general work. The Master Therion is engagea in the préparation of a treatise on the subject, but the labour involved is so great that He cannot pledge Himself to hâve it ready at any definite time. The ôtudent must theiefoie make his own investigations mto the mean- ing of the 64 hexa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
Lastly, Magick is a Pyramid, built layer by layer. The work of the Body of Light — with the technique of Yoga — is the foundation of the whole. One’s appréhension of the Astral Plane must be accurate, for Angels, Archangels, and Gods are derived therefrom by analysis. One must hâve pure materials if one wishes to brew pure beer. If one hâve an incomplète and incorrect view of the uni verse, how can one find out its laws? Thus, original omission or error tends to extend to the higher planes. Suppose a Magician, invoking Sol, were persuaded by a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…on, which further déclarés the nature of human existence in the following manner. The moon is in itself a dark orb; but an appearance of light is communicatec! to it by the surij and it is exactly in this way that successive incarnations create the appearance, just as the individual star, which every man is, remains itself, irrespective of whether earth perceives it or not. Now it so happens that the root GN signifies both knowledge and génération combined in a single idea, in an absolute form independent of personality. The G is a silent lette…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…respond- ing no longer to her lover. Unless they diagnose the cause, a quarrel may resuit, and the woman’s bewildered and hungry Body of Light may turn in its distress to that of the Magician who has mastered it. Take a third case of this class 2. I wish to recover my watch, snatched from me in a crowd. Here I hâve no direct means of control over the muscles that could bring back my watch, nor over the mind that moves these muscles. I am not even able to inform that mind of my Will, for I do not know where it is. But I know it to be a mind fund…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…on the moss for the warrior’s feet. Be done with the paltry defences! She sleeps. O be done With the mists of the mountain! Awake to the light of the sun! Awake! Let the wave of emotions conflict- ing retire, Let fear and despair be engulfed in delight and desire. There is one thing of all that remains: that the sword may not bite: It is love that is true as itself; and their scion, delight. Jiue flower of the flame of love: true bloom of the ray of the sword ! ‘he lady is lost if she wit not the name of her lord. Awaken and hither, O warrior m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…e Temple, that it is here hinted at in order to blind the presumptuous who may, unworthy, seek to lift the veil, and at the same time to lighten the darkness of such as may be requiring only one ray of the Sun in order to spring into life and light. Il Abrahadabra is a Word to be studied in Equinox I, V., aThe Temple of Solomon the King”. It represents the Great Work complété, and it is therefore an archétype of ail lesser magical operations. It is in a way too perfect to be applied in 1. Chaos is a general name for the totality of the Units of…
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
…smans of the planets, signs and éléments appropriate. But these should be made according to the right Ingenium of the Philosophus by the light of the book 777 during the course of his Dévotion. It is also well, nevertheless, if a magick circle with the right signs and names be made beforehand. 6. Concerning the Ceremonies: — Let the Philosophus préparé a powerful Invocation of the particular Deity according to his Ingenium. But let it consist of these several parts: — First, an Imprécation, as of a slave unto his Lord. Second, an Oath, as of a …
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
…h into the world, Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men—might hear, might come ! The kind, grave face of you—that light out- shone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me cf our old baby-love, And—marriages are made in heaven, you know! Besides—Our Lady showed me in a dream How you would come. TANNHAUSER. And now? So sure are you The loving word you spoke an hour ago Came from the heart—who called me by mistake ? ELIZABETH. So sure? You want me to confess again The deep pure love, the love indicible. TANNIAUSER (¢o …
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…d & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. Commentary: There is here suggested the Image of “the Star n:2i and the Snake.”
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
…EAL. THE mind with visions clouded, (Asleep? Awake ?) By bloodless shades enshrouded, (By whom, and for whose sake ?) With visions dimly lighted, By its own shade affrighted, In its own light benighted, The doors of hell may shake. Unbidden spring the spectres (Whence come, where bound ?) To baffle those protectors Whose wings are broad around. Uprise they and upbraid, Till life shrinks back afraid, And death itself dismayed Sinks back to the profound. Unholy phantom faces (Of self? Of sin?) Grin wild in all the places Where blood is trodden in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…e say that any magical recollection is genuine if it gives the explanation of our external or internai conditions. Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. As our record extends into the past, the evidence of its truth is cumulative. Every incarnation that we remember must increase
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
…ur souls are not Of beastliness: I have drawn my father’s sword, Hard as your virtue is the easy sort, Heavy to handle as your loves are light, Smooth as your lies, and sharper than your hates ! I know you! Cowards to the very bone! [Driving them out. Who fights me, of this sworded company? Cannot my words have sting in them enough, Now, to make one of you turn suddenly And stab me from behind? Out, out with you ! Fling-to the doors! So, Iam master ! A murrain on the curs! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL, Well and merrily done ! But look you to the lady ;…
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
… of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882—3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, which he arranged throughout the world. Hon. Grand Master of the Sovereign Grand Council of Iberico, October 5th, 1889. Rite of Swedenborg: In 1876 he was appointed Supreme Grand Master for the United Kingdom under the Charter of T. G. Harrington, P.G. Master of Craft Grand Lodge of Canada; Colonel W. Bury M’L…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…o represent his consciousness exalted into music. To strike with the wand is to utter the fiat of création ; the cup vibrâtes with his delight in receiving spiritual wine. A blow with the dagger is like the signal for battle. The disk is used to express the throwing down of the price of one’s purchase. To stamp with the foot is to déclaré one’s mastery of the matter in hand. Similarly, any other form of giving knocks has its own virtue. From the above examples the intelligent student will hâve perceived the method of interpreting each individua…