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Page 171 of 2031929 · PDF PAGE 65
…it must be exactly equal in quantity and quality to that good. On the Christian hypothesis, the reality of evil makes the devil equal to God. This is the heresy of Manes, no doubt. But those who condemn Manes must, despite themselves, implicitly affirm his theorem. I seem to have understood this instinctively; and since I must take sides with one party or the other it was not difficult to make up my mind. The forces of good were those which had constantly oppressed me. I saw them daily destroying the happiness of my fellow-men. Since, therefore…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
… royal patient. Ten minutes later he was able to announce to the joyful crowd that the temperature had not risen further, and that under God England might owe the restored health of the nymphomaniac to the attentions of the hith- erto despised Frenchman. The news was flashed over the country, and the people breathed again. But the issue hung long in doubt. With what care did I husband the spunky torrent I lavished in such wanton profusion upon my first love, the dropsical Negress ! Drop by drop I distilled loves essence into that clinging carn…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…o depart, thou art not to go out of the circle until he or they be gone, and until thou shalt have made prayers and rendered thanks unto God for the great blessings He hath bestowed upon thee in granting thy desires, and delivering thee from all the malice of the enemy the devil. Also note! Thou mayest command these spirits into the Vessel of Brass in the same manner as thou dost into the triangle, by saying: “that thou dost forthwith appear before this Circle, in this Vessel of Brass, in a fair and comely shape,” etc., as hath been shown in th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 92
…m us! WOMEN. ‘*O! when the arméd hand is nigh, Tolchus shall not see Peace shining from Athena’s sky Until the Fleece be free; Until the God of War shall scorn The sting, and trust him to the horn. ‘Until the Sun of Spring forsake His eastern home, and rise Within our temple-walls and make One glory of the skies— Until the King shall die and live, Athena never shall forgive.” MEN, Surely, O friends, at last ’tis clear The man was mad indeed ! Such nonsense we did never hear As this prophetic screed ! More, as ’tis never like this land Should ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 203
…s, [285] In silence of all deed, or word, or thought, So that we name It not, or name It Naught. This is the Truth behind the lie called God; This blots the heavens, and indwells the clod. This is the centre of all spheres, the flame In men and stars, the Soul behind the name, The spring of Life, the axle of the Wheel, All-mover, yet the One Thing immobile. Adore It not, for It adoreth thee, The shadow-shape of Its eternity. Lift up thyself! be strong to burst thy bars! For lo! thy stature shall surpass the stars." Cyril put away his book. "Lan…
1954 · PDF PAGE 309
276 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS God peculiar to yourself, who appears in one of the Darshanas; some Individual constructed from the material listed above; are these all one? If not, is the difference between them more than a quibble? Really, all these speculations are based on a priori considerations; we had better drop the whole argument as little better than a waste of time; nay, as worse, for it encourages one in loose thinking, and especially in clinging to names which have no counterpart in things. There is only one point of theory which matters …
1954 · PDF PAGE 445
… the Hebrew for man. (Mankind is ADM, Adam, Sanskrit Admi , the Father and Mother conjoined . "Male and Female created They Man.") The S-gods are innumerable. Asar (Asi, Isis, is his female twin) Astarte , Ishtar or Ashtoreth , Set, Saturn , Shu, Zeus, (into whom the D intrudes , because S is the male as N the female, and D the father as M the mother) and the Jesus group. Here is the idea of the South, or East, both quarters referring, in ways very slightly divergent, to the element of Fire, the Sun, the Father-God in his aspect as the Holy Gho…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…ost reasonable opinion is that ail these objects formed the pre-occupation of the alchemists in varying proportions. Hermes is alike the God of Wisdom, Thau- maturgy, therapeutics, and physical science. Ail these may con- sequently claim the title Hermetic. It cannot be doubted that such writers as Fludd aspired to spiritual perfection. It is equally sure that Edward Kelly wrote primarily from the point of view i. This etymology differs from that given by Skeat; I can do no more than présent my submission.
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
… deed should be consciously devoted to the service of the great work. "Whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God." One night in Granada I met one of these gypsies. The setting was supremely romantic. The burden of his life fell from the shoulders of the poet. I experienced that spontaneous and irresistible stroke of love which only exists when the beauty of the human form and the beauty of the rest of nature are harmonized automatically. It was one of those experiences which come even to the most romantic poets, and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…could receive no gratification from anything smaller than a village pump-handle. It is a singular circumstance that my relations with my god-mother (who had ad hoc taken an in- terest in me) were apparently of a character as pure as remote. From years end to years end I saw her but some half-dozen times, and on these occasions her demeanour was frigid in the ex- treme. It was not till later that I discovered the se- cret of this debauched old voluptuary. The victim [22]
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…UPON ABRAC! ABEOR COMING UPON ABERER!? THEN he or they will be obedient, and bid thee ask what thou wilt, for he or they be subjected by God to fulfil our desires and commands. And when he or they shall have appeared and showed himself or themselves humble and meek, then shalt thou rehearse : THE WELCOME UNTO THE SPIRIT. WELcomME Spirit N., O most noble king’ (or kings)! I say thou art welcome unto me, because I have called thee through Him who hast * In the Latin, “ Bathal vel Vathat super Abrac ruens! Abeor veniens super Aberer !” ? Or whatev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…to be consec rated the suprême symbol of the force to which y on dedicate it. Confirm this dedication in words, invoking the appropriate God to indwell that pure temple which you hâve prepared for Him. Do this with fervour and love, as if to balance the icy detachment which is the proper mental attitude for banishing.1 The words of purification are: Asperges me, Therion, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. Those of consécration are: Accendat in nobis Therion ignem sui amoris et flammam aeternae caritatis. 2 These, as ini…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…y the soul of your dead mother. My mother is alive, returned Bevan. I knew it, exclaimed his companion, a great and strange look of god-like pity illuminating his sunburnt face. It was such a look as one sees upon many statues of Buddha, a look of divine, of impersonal compassion. Then swear by the Lord Chancellor. Bevan was more than ever persuaded that the stranger was a Frenchman. However, he readily gave the required promise.
1954 · PDF PAGE 114
…th Blackness. There have been, however, certain Christian thinkers who have taken the bold logical step of regarding evil as a device of God for exercising the joys of combat and victory . This is, of course, a perfectly White doctrine; but it is regarded as the most dangerous of heresies. (Romans VI: I, 2, et al.) For all that, the idea is there. The Mass itself is essentially a typical White ritual. Its purpose is to transform crude matter directly into Godhead. It is thus a cardinal operation of Talismanic Magick. But the influence of the Bl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 312
…r ever all that one has and is. (In unscientific mysticism the act is represented sentimentally as the complete surrender of the self to God.) In unsectarian English, the act implies first of all the silencing of the human intellect so that one may hear the voice of the Neschamah. We may now consider further what is meant by Neschamah. It is the human faculty corresponding to the idea Binah. Understanding; which is that aspect of the divine consciousness which corresponds to the Female Idea. It receives, formulates and transmits the pure divine…
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
…nd sensuality , that we shall become initiates in the code of the Essential and ameliorate our lot . To this poem indeed we trust , that God will write a fitting end . If at one end of a sequence we find abuse , then at
1922 · PDF PAGE 43
…ke about the bounds of space. Of course, it was really the taxi— but I didn’t know it then, and I’m not quite sure of it now. “T wish to God,” I said to myself in a fury, “ I had one more sniff of that Snow. I’d show her!” At that moment she threw me off as if I had been a feather. I felt myself all of a sudden no more good. Quite unaccountably I had collapsed, and I found myself, to my amazement, knocking out a little pile of cocaine from a ten-gramme bottle which had been in my trousers’ pocket, on to my “and, and sniffing it up into my nostr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 215
…r out of pity; but for all that he was bound by his sense of right feeling, and above all by realising that to give rein to his passion, God-given though it was, would mean social ruin for me, for the woman he loved. He went on to talk about affinities and soul-mates and love at first sight. He reproached himself for having told me the truth, even now, but it had been too strong for him. The irony of fate! The tragic absurdity of social restrictions!
1954 · PDF PAGE 40
…y legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar character . It would be better for you to get a copy of The Equinox of the Gods and study it. The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego-or what not . By "love under will" one refers to the fact that the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
…f view (bless your heart!) you are nothing at all but a bundle of memories. When you say "this is happening now," you are a falsifier of God's sacred truth! When I say "I see a horse," the truth is that "I record in those terms my private hieroglyphic interpretation of the unknown and unknowable phenomenon (or 'point-event') which has more or less recently taken place at the other end of my system of receiving impressions." Well, then! You realize, of course, how many millions or billions of memories there must be to compose any average well-tr…