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Page 152 of 1731905 · PDF PAGE 129
…sit at feast, and, slay- ing the crew, seeketh the high seas with the Lady Thurla. He slayeth the swiftest pur- suers, and escapeth in a great tempest ; which on the second day abating, he maketh the inside of a bar, and must await the breeze. Jarl Hungard coming with his men and two dragons, is wrecked, but a knave shooting, slayeth the Lady Thurla. Sir Godfrey forth- with sinketh the other dragon, and saileth forth into the ocean, and is not heard of ever after.! PALE vapours lie like phantoms on the sea, The tide swells slumberous beneath ou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 154
… are the ‘‘antagonisms " of the ‘‘ elements.” And pluck the young men by the robe, and take The maidens for her sacrifice, and burn With great unquenchable dead lustrous eyes Toward impossible things grown possible In Egypt. I will cleanse the land of this. Let me remember I am yet a god! Re-enter THE LEPER. THE LEPER. Thou must be brought before her presently Borne in a coffin. See thou fill it not, But take the lion’s mask and play his part Before the throne. Be ready, and be strong. S’AFI. I shall do so. Come, let us go together In hateful l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
… of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem poets, our one-picture painters, have merely failed to perfect themselves as instruments. The Genius who wrote The Ancient Mariner is no less sublime than he who wrote The Tempest; but Coleridge had some incapacity to catch and express the thoughts of his genius — was ever such wooden stuff as his conscious work? — while Shakespeare had the knack of acquiring the knowledge necessary to …
1919 · PDF PAGE 157
…d my diary, lying untouched in my drawer, is becoming like a horrible fiend. It worries me when I do not enter it; and yet it requires a great effort even to touch it or take it out, while to enter it daily appears an almost superhuman task. Why is this? I have done exercises this week as usual, but a little earlier than previously, because I have to be at the office by 8.30 A.M. instead of nine o’c. as heretofore. I think Fra. P.A. might write to me. I feel that he is testing me, and have tried to hold to that idea. I know that really it does …
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
…ed, besides magick itself. But she did not make the mistake of being in a hurry, on that account. The strength of her character was very great, in its own way; and she possessed infinite reserves of patience. She played the game with no thought of the victory; and this is half the secret of playing most games of importance. To do right for its own sake is Righteousness, though if you apply this obvious truth to Art the Philistine calls you names, and your morals in question. Cremers was a genuine artist in malice. She was not even glad when she…
1939 · PDF PAGE 56
…lty of mind which can transcend analysis, stable against all thought by virtue of its own self-evident assurance. In the language of the Great White Brotherhood (whom I am here to represent) you cross the abyss. 'Leave the poor old stranded wreck'Ruach'and pull for the shore' of Neschamah. For above the abyss, it is said, as you will see if you study
1905 · PDF PAGE 87
…, and waves A cloudy sword to heaven—I am sure He brings us eagle-wingéd victory, And tiding of no battle lost for Israel. Yes, he grows great before the sun, and stands Now in his stirrups, and shouts loud, and waves . A blade triumphant. Now the weary horse Stumbles with thundering strides along the last Furlong, and greets us with a joyous neigh As if he understood the victory. But look you, Enter Second Messenger. SECOND MESSENGER. Rejoice, O Israel, for this day hath seen Utter destruction overtake, and death Ride furious over, trampled ne…
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
…lying low On earth’s own bosom, deep, embowered, flow In wide soft waves of land: upon us sweep The mightiest rivers: in our hollows lie Great lakes: our voices hardly rise, but die In the cold streams of air: shallow and deep: Leagues by the thousand, dells a minute long; All we are children of the mighty throng That cluster where the mountains fail, and sleep In such cool peace that even thy lyre awakes Hardly a soul that tenderer music makes. Yet we arise and listen for cur own sweet sakes. THE LIVING CREATURES OF THE EARTH. The heavy hand i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 256
…p their own pros- pect of advancement in the Order for one year, that they may serve their fellows. This is then the first lesson in our great principle, the attainment of honour through renunciation, “The degree of Knights of the East and West is but a bridge between the first and second series; but it is important, for in that grade a new pledge-form must be signed, and the new Knight vowed to devote his life to the Establish- ment of the Law of Thelema. “The members of the Fifth Degree are responsible for all that concerns the Social welfare…
1929 · PDF PAGE 205
…it; eating, drinking, reading, music, whatever she did, all must be done under spirit control; and one day they told her that they had a great and wonderful work for her to do — the regeneration of humanity and so forth, I think it was; anyhow, something perfectly dotty. She was now quite without power to criticize her actions by reason or good sense; the voice of the 'Spirits' was for her the voice of God. So they sent her to the Bank for money, and to the Steamship office for a passage to Europe; and when she got to Liverpool they sent her to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…n Of high things ever holy ; this the throe Of swiftly-comprehended motherhood Once taught her. Now the whisper of the child Bids her be great, who was supremely good. For, mark you! babes are ware of wiser things, And hold more arcane matters in their mild Cabochon eyes than men are ware of yet. VOL. IIT. Therefore have poets, lest they should forget, Likened the little sages unto kings. But look! the baby whispers—hush| nay| We shall disturb them loving—come away| Nay | L?’,AMOUR QUI PASSE, LOVE comes to flit, a spark of steel Struck on the f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 40
…them slip—-nay, fall On the stern hill of war. Thou art appointed, 1 This voice is again heard, using the identi- cal words, at the last great crisis of his life. VOL. I. Being the wisest man in all the realm, (So spake the king) the second to him- self. Ph. Thy vessel waits? Aless, For dawn. Ph. Then hasten thee To tell them Iam ready. The meanwhile I will devote to prayer. Afess. At dawn, my lord. [Avee Messenger. Lh. [Turns to window.) O Maker and O Ruler of all worlds, Illimitable power, immortal God, Vague, vast, unknown, dim-looking, scar…
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
…, Whose double incarnation is divine Beyond the old stories. Yes, Iam a god. AMENTATEP. Beware the fatal magic of her heart ! For she is great and evil, and her voice Howls blasphemy against yet living gods. Thou knowest not the story of thy birth, The truth. S’AFI. Then speak the truth, if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies. AMENHATEP. Sixteen strange seasons mingle gold and grey Since in this very temple she, the Queen, Spake, and threw open to our reverent gaze A royal womb made pregnant with that seed Of which thou art the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 158
…ious night in mind. Yes- terday, I read the article on the subject (Training of the Mind) carefully, also learnt the formula of the four great meditations on Love, Pity, Happiness and Indifference. At night, I again attempted “thinking backwards,” but experienced rather more difficulty as conditions were bad. However, once started, I got back through Sunday and very nearly, if not quite as fully, over the two previous 1 Observe how the least slackness in writing up the Record avenges itself. The Record is both chart and log to the bold Sea-Capt…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ount the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and six. TO ME! A 0HPION, the Great Wild Beast, has the value, according to the Greek System, of 666. It is, of course, the title of the Master Therion. The Master H herion was, about this time, in communication with an intelligence who gave the name of Amalantrah. On Sunday, February 24, 1918, at 9*3° P* m-, The Master Therion asked Amalantrah if he could use the Word OHPION as if it were Hebrew, with the idea of gettins; further informat…
1944 · PDF PAGE 246
…ke the cards in your left hand. In the right hand hold the wand over them, and say: I invoke thee, I A O, that thou wilt send H R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hidden things, to the glory of thine ineffable Name. Amen. 3. Hand the cards to Querent, and bid him think of the question attentively, and cut. 4. Take the cards as cut and hold as for dealing.
1905 · PDF PAGE 272
…th. Second is Without Limit 5) ]&, z.2., Infinite Space. This is the primal Dualism of Infinity; the infinitely small and the infinitely great. The Clash of these produces a finite positive Idea which happens (see MUNI, 22/ra, vol. ii., for a more careful study, though I must not be understood to indorse every Word in our Poet-Philosopher’s Thesis) to be Light, WW. This word “N& is most important. It symbolises the Universe immediately after Chaos, the Confusion or Clash of the infinite Opposites. is the Egg of Matter; is &, the Bull, or Energy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
… the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched forth their wings over the form of Osiris to restore him again unto life, The Mystic Circumambulation then followeth in the Path of Light to represent the rising of the Light in the Candidate through the operation of self-sacrifice ; as he passeth the Throne of the East, the red Cavalry Cross is astrally formulated above the astral Whi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
… the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched forth their wings over the form of Osiris to restore him again unto life, The Mystic Circumambulation then followeth in the Path of Light to represent the rising of the Light in the Candidate through the operation of self-sacrifice ; as he passeth the Throne of the East, the red Cavalry Cross is astrally formulated above the astral Whi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
…r her limbs about her for the chase Through starry space, And, while the lilies sway their heads, to bend Her bow, to send 1 Sappho, the great lyric poet of Greece, plunged from a rock into the sea, according to later tradition. 2 A stream into which a man plunged, and was united, as a Hermaphrodite, with its attendant nymph. ‘The reference is connected with Sappho’s loves. See her Ode to Aphrodite and Swinburne’s Anactoria and Hermaphro- ditus. The sea is far Dropped in the hollows of the swooning land. Oh! hold my hand! Lift up thy deep eyes …