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Page 134 of 2031907 · PDF PAGE 47
…self should not pass it, though in the following I should : Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan5 In the last line of the succeeding verse the metre ( I should say) is not unimpeachable : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 205. Ibid . vol . i, p. 209. : Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p. 107. 4 Ibid . vol . i, p. 98. 5 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 210.
1909 · PDF PAGE 89
…readily and visibly; Thoth in particularas friendly as ever—I fancy He takes this record as a compliment to Him—He’s welcome to it, poor God! The L.V.X. came, too; but not enough to pierce the awful shroud of darkness that by my folly I have woven for myself. So at the end I found myself on the floor, so like Rodin’s Cruche Cassée Danaide girl as never was . . . As I ought to have been in the beginning] Well, one thing I got (again !), that is, that when all is said and done, I am that I am, and all these thoughts of mine, angels and devils both…
1912 · PDF PAGE 38
…e case of absolute neces— 1 Here are four: 1. Sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. (“The God.”) 2. Kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. (“ The Dragon.’ ’) _ 3. Stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand, etc.), free forefinger on lips. (“ The Ibis”) 4. Sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretched out over the knees: head and back…
1913 · PDF PAGE 218
…prang Love and Fire Who made the world, and made all suns and worlds, Tearing the thing I now make manifest From the heart of the silent god? Oh, wherefore strive? Art thou not still content to die, sweetheart? Or wilt thou seek me still through all the lives
1913 · PDF PAGE 218
…prang Love and Fire Who made the world, and made all suns and worlds, Tearing the thing I now make manifest From the heart of the silent god? Oh, wherefore strive? Art thou not still content to die, sweetheart? Or wilt thou seek me still through all the lives
1919 · PDF PAGE 348
…ention to it is a blind intended to prevent the reader from looking for something else. 46. Before the “mystic Power” can make of thee a God, Lanoo, thou must have gained the faculty to slay thy lunar form at will. It is now evident that by destroying or slaying is not meant a permanent destruction. If you can slay a thing at will it means that you can revive it at will, for the word “faculty” implies repeated action. 47. The Self of Matter and the SELF of Spirit can never meet. One of the twain must disappear; there is no place for both. This …
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
EPILOGUE For fear of such a God! O blind! O fool! To heed these strangers, and to be the tool Of their smooth Hes and monstrous miracles! O break this bondage and cast off their spells ! Five righteous! Thou a righteous man! A jest ! A righteous man-—you always loved me best, And even when lured by lips of wanton girls Would turn away and sigh and touch my curls And slip half-conscious to the old em- brace: And now you will not let me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah! the hour! Fle moves. Come back, come back, my life’s one flo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 125
…tl The torture of it! I slept in patches as a man sleeps that is deadly ill. I am only afraid of failing to wake for the End of the day. God! what a day! . . . I dare not trust my will to keep me awake; so I rise, wash, and will walk about till time to get into my Asana. Thirst! Oh how I thirst! I had not thought that there could be such suffering. The Eleventh Day It seems a poor thing to be proud of, merely to be awake. Yet I was flushed with triumph as a boy that wins his first race. The powers of Asana and Pranayama return. I did 21 Breath-cy…
1913 · PDF PAGE 78
…pantacle — not straight like the wand and the dagger. Reception, not projection, is its nature.^ 1 As the Magician is in the position of God towards the Spirit that he evokes, he
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…ather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at ‘“‘Au Chien qui Fume.” - HIMOG is a Notariqon of the words Holy Illumi- nated Man Of God. . 2.@., Food suitable for Americans, . Turbulence is here specially used to suggest ‘‘tour- billon.” . ‘The méme raths outgrabe.”—Lewis Carrol. But ‘“‘méme” is Parisian slang for a young girl, and ‘‘rathe” O. E. for early. ‘The rathe prim- rose.” —Milton. . L=30, O=70, V=6, E=5=111. . A=1, M=40, O=70=111. . The Trowel is shaped like a diamond or Yoni. L=30, A=1, P=80=111. . N=s0, I=10, N=50, A=1=111. . Ch…
1913 · PDF PAGE 221
…e luminous, yielding me her heart. For I have chosen: it is over now. We are one for ever, O my secret Rose, Pale phantom of the vastest god of rest, His wandering ghost, obsessed by space and time, Set free, a torment to the rolling worlds. And Life, a foe for ever more of Time Springs still, the ghost of No Thing. Oh, sweet hour 183
1913 · PDF PAGE 221
…e luminous, yielding me her heart. For I have chosen: it is over now. We are one for ever, O my secret Rose, Pale phantom of the vastest god of rest, His wandering ghost, obsessed by space and time, Set free, a torment to the rolling worlds. And Life, a foe for ever more of Time Springs still, the ghost of No Thing. Oh, sweet hour 183
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…ussia; I wanted to make love to her, and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible god. Consider now: The Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the body of our Lady Nuith. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No. VII. Jane Chéron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, then, I was in her apartment. I had attained none of my objectives in calling on her and was about to depart. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…compounded of four substances. The basis of all is the oil of the olive. The olive is, traditionally, the gift of Minerva, the Wisdom of God, the Logos. In this are dissolved three other oils; oil of myrrh, oil of cinnamon, oil of galangal. The Myrrh is attributed to Binah, the Great Mother, who is both the understanding of the Magician and that sorrow and compassion which results from the contemplation of the Universe. The Cinnamon represents Tiphereth, the Sun — the Son, in whom Glory and Suffering are identical. The Galangal represents both …
1913 · PDF PAGE 210
… longer Mother there ? " Then gathered I my strength and fashioned it To prayer , and took my love and made it wings Wherewith to fly to God 's far - distant throne . I felt that with the gift of that one prayer I surely gave my children all I had . While lower , swifter sped the drowsy stream While yet the angel stood all hooded , by my bed . And here , there , with anxious decided steps , The doctors walked . My left hand lay in yours . The day broke , and the pale light all unreal , Came creeping in my room . Then all the birds Chorused with…
1913 · PDF PAGE 72
…e lofty; ye are brothers! 59. As brothers fight ye! 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 72
…e lofty; ye are brothers! 59. As brothers fight ye! 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its com- ment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fou…
1928 · PDF PAGE 120
…. Finally the fourth said, You know that I hardly ever play in the house, they never take me to the theatre; my governor is too stingy. God takes no trouble over me and my weari- ness, and I have not a pretty nurse to cuddle me. It has often seemed to me that my pleas- ure would be in going always straight in front of me without knowing where, without any person troubling themselves about it, and see- ing always new countries. I am never comfort- able anywhere, and I always believe that I should be better anywhere else but where I am. Well, le…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…sere sin cogl . . .) Reign ! Love ! Be fruitful ! Live ! Out of the citizen desire goes to thee. We will give grateful mutual thanks to God if I shall . . . (I do not know what futuam can mean. (Look up your Latin Dic., though I admit it is an unusual word in this con- nection, and may seem unjustifiable to those who have not seen my cl... O.C. (MS. illegible. Printer))) . . . thee in bed. I will not be a bad Cassandra. (i.e. a prognosticatress of calamity.) Alexan- dra ! Alexandra ! 2. Cancelled passage : verse III. Will not some hero, loya…
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
…oaching Adonai that for six days I had evoked Him in vain. . . . I got the reply, “ The Seventh Day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” So mote it be! T/æ Seven/ll Day. I began this great day with Eight breath—cycles; was stopped by the indigestion trouble in its other form. (P.S.—Evidently the introduction of the Cascara into my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous.) My breathing passages were none too clear, either ; I have evidently taken a chill. Now, O my Lord Adonai, thou Self-Glittering One, wilt Thou not manifest unto Thy…