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Page 140 of 1731905 · PDF PAGE 160
…hting, Gc. ; above this after a while rises a shrill laughter, terrify- tng to hear. Then cries of victory and the triumphant laugh of a great conqueror. Hts heavy step, and that of his staff, Gec., ts next heard com- ing masterfully dowit the corridor. | Lhe soldier gives a shriek. THE LEPER. The Syrian must not see a cur like this Cower at death. For Egypt’s honour, | then ! Give me that spear. [Aszée.] That royalty’s own hand Should send this thing to his long misery ! [Zaking a spear, he runs through the soldter. The KING OF SYRIA, attended…
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…e forefront of the battle. As I told you yesterday, the first essential is the dedication of all that one is and all that one has to the Great Work, without reservation of any sort. This must be kept constantly in mind; the way to do this is to practice Liber Resh vel Helios, sub figura CC, pp. 42S-426-Magick. There is another version of these Adorations, slightly fuller; but those
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
…the various Christian sects have succeeded in dispelling the fear of death can be judged by the prevailing attitude towards death of the great majority of professing Christian persons. When they are not refusing to think about it, they are terrified of it. They speak of one who has died as “poor,” which must mean that they regard him as having suf fered a calamity. The old Christian conceptions of life after death as either eternal combustion or eternal harp-strumming are no longer at all generally believed; indeed, it may be questioned whethe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
… cloak of madness and depravity, the true heart of genius burns. No more terrible period than this is to be found in literature; so many great minds, of which hardly one comes to fruition ; such seeds of genius, such a harvest of—whirlwind! Even a barren waste of sea is less saddening than one strewn with wreckage. In England such wild song found few fol- lowers of any worth or melody. Swinburne stands on his solitary pedestal above the vulgar crowds of priapistic plagiarists; he alone caught the fierce frenzy of Baudelaire’s brandied shrieks, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
60 THE POEM Percy [as ¢f tn padi). Ah! my poem. I am in despair! It is so great, and I am so little; it is so pure, and Iam so dull of understanding. When I write I feel as it were the breath of an angel covering me with holiness, and I know —then! But now—I only write mechani- cally. I force myself. To-day I tore up all I wrote last night. USME. Let us ask God to send you the angel, shall we ? [ They kneel, with arms intertwined; al the ofen window, and bow their heads silently, VAUGUAN also prays, with arms outspread tm Oolessing. Curtain, SC…
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valu- able fact for use of lovers. Invocation. Imperfect scholastic at- tainments of author reme- died by his great spiritual insight. His intention.
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…ry 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 hexagrams as best he can. The Yi King is mathematical and philosophical in form. lîs structure is cognate with that of the Qahalah $ the identity is so intimate that the existence of two such superficially different Systems is transcendent testimony to th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 259
… thus we gather up all the threads of human passion and interest, and weave them into an harmonious tapestry, subtly and diligently with great art, that our Order may seem an ornament even to the Stars that are in the Heavens at Night. In our rainbow-coloured texture we set forth the glory of the whole Universe—See thou to it, brother Magician, that thine own thread be strong, and pure, and of a colour brilliant in itself, yet ready to mingle in all beauty with those of thy brethren !”
1929 · PDF PAGE 545
…o. They must be forced to find out for themselves how to meet any possible emergency. It is important to give them from the beginning as great a variety of crags as possible; smooth slabs, rough ridges, narrow chimneys, shallow gullies, straight faces, some with ample holds that they may select the best from the abundance; scanty holds to teach them to make the best use of what scarcely suffices; sound rocks to measure their full strength; smooth faces to teach them the value of friction, and rotten or loose cliffs to exercise their judgment as…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…ail is Fatima. They bathe the Gods with stinging tears. They weave another thread within the mystic veil. They are drawn up anon in some great hand. They shudderand murmur in the web of Kama. They hear no music in the white word Rama. They rush, colossi, liquid swords of life Strident with spurious desire and strife. Mocked! I am dumb: I await the gray command : I wait for Her : 1 Written in collaboration with S, M,
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…h absolute correctness. Considering that he saw something like one hundred symbols in ail, the odds against coincidence are incalculably great. Such an expérience (and the records of the A.’. A.*, contain dozens cf similar cases) alfords proof as absolute as any proof can be in this world of Illusion that the correspondences in Liber 777 really represent facts in Nature. It suggests itself that this “straightforward” System of magick was perhaps never really employed at ail. One might maintain that the invocations which hâve corne down to us ar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…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 Existence; it is thus a name féminine in form. Each unit of Chaos is itself All- Father. 42
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…ing the carbonized products with the soot of the magic dark-lantern, whose candles were prepared with human fat. But the Grimoire of any great operation must be thought out and composed; according to elaborate rules, indeed, but with the purpose of the work constantly in mind. Even when all this is done, the Grimoire is hardly begun; for it must be copied out in the way above indicated; and it should be illuminated with every kind of appropriate design. This was an ideal task for Arthwait; he was able to wallow in dog-latin and corrupt Greek-Co…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…ic of Abramelin the Mage”, immediately after attaining to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, must evoke the Four Great Princes of the Évil of the World. “Obedience and faith to Him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above yon in your palaces as the Balance of Righteousness and Truth” is your duty to your Holy Guar¬ dian Angel, and the duty of the démon world to you. These powers of “evil” nature are wild beasts; they must be tamed, trained to the saddle and the bridle; they will bear you well. There is nothing use…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
number of the Great Work, in 1901 e.v. He only discovered that 418 was the number of his house in conséquence of AIWAZ mentioning the fact. (b) His power to conceal a cohérent System of numbers and letters in the text of a rapidly-written document, containing ridelles and ciphers opening to a Master-Key unknown to the scribe, yet linked with his own System ; this Key and its subordi - nates being moreover a comment on the text. as the communication from Amalantrah. The letter ends as fallows: “Please inform your readers that I, Samuel bar Aiwaz…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
… wreckage of the Mystic Armada. Bigotry, Arrogance, Éewilderment, ail fcrms of mental and moral disorder, so often observed in people of great spiritual attainment, hâve brought the Path ’tself into discrédit; almost ail such catastrophes are due to trying to build the Temple of the Spirit without proper attention to the mental laws of structure and the physical necessities of foundation. The mind must be brought to its utmost pitch of perfection, but according to its own internai properties; one cannot feed a microscope on mutton chops. It mus…
1996 · PDF PAGE 69
…r round himself with beautiful forms, and, if possible, live in a place where nature herself testifies to the touch of the thumb of the Great Architect. He will choose the object of his passion at the nod of his Silent Self. He will not allow the prejudice, either of sense, emotion, or rational judgment, to obscure the Sun of his Soul. In the first place, mutual magnetism, despite the masks of mind, should be unmistakable. Unless it exists, a puissant purity of passion, there is no Magical basis for the Sacrament. Yet, such magnetism is only t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
… yet thou comest not to answer these my propositions here made unto thee. For the which thine averseness and contempt thou art guilty of great disobedience and rebellion, and therefore shall I excommunicate thee, and destroy thy name and seal, the which I have enclosed in this box; and shall burn thee in the immortal fire and bury thee in immortal oblivion; unless thou immediately come and appear visibly and affably, friendly and courteously here unto me before this Circle, in this triangle, in a form comely and fair, and in no wise terrible, h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
… of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valuable fact for use of lovers. Invocation. Imperfect scholastic at- tainements of author reme- died by his great spiritual insight. His intention.
1911 · PDF PAGE 176
…nd within. This, with the single exception of the "Bagh-i-muattar"(Probsthain& Co., 19w, 3 gh, and therefore difficult of access), is the greatest of Persian mystic treatises, though it is rather elementary- But we can recommend no better volume for those who know but a little. Dr Bricteux has no experience of mysticism, and so makes mistakes, This was to be expected, but I am surprised at the scholar’s error of asserting that the Hindu system lacks the method of love. As ninety-five Hindus practise Bhakti-Yoga for five that practise any other kin…