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Page 184 of 2031938 · PDF PAGE 8
…a black diamond in a circlet of ruby and emerald, set in pure mother-of-pearl, so that it seems the eye of some unknown, some unknowable God. This eye has no lid. But his two human eyes are still half-closed, as if in worship or in wonder of rapture. His arms are folded on his breast: upon his corslet is the golden image of the Sun. In his right hand is a rod of amber, crowned with a ruby; in his left an amethyst lotus with a sapphire corolla. Lo! from his eyes flow tears of mingled sorrow and joy, of joy that burns up sorrow, and with these te…
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
116 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC To other hells, thou damned of God here- after, "Mid men’s contempt and hate and pitiless laughter. IT. Lust, impotence, and knowledge of thy soul, And that foreknowledge, fill the fiery lake Of lava where thy lazar corpse shall break The burning surface to seek out a goal More horrible, unspeakable. ‘The scroll Opens, and ‘‘ coward, liar, monster ” shake Those other names of ‘‘goat and ‘‘swine”’ and ‘‘snake”’ Wherewith Hell’s worms caress thee and control. Nay, but alone, intolerably alone, Alone, as here, t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
…we never tire. The one objection to Emerson is that he thinks all men know this Oversoul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great mystic to get to the bottom …
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
…we never tire. The one objection to Emerson is that he thinks all men know this Oversoul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great mystic to get to the bottom …
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
month, but hath in prayer and fasting desired of God to forgive him all his sins, etc. It is to be made on the day of Mars or Saturn (Tuesday or Saturday) at night at 12 o’clock, and written upon virgin parchment with the blood of a black cock that never trode hen. Note that on this night the moon must be increasing in light (ze. going from new to full) and in the Zodiacal Sign of Virgo. And when the seal is so made thou shalt perfume it with alum, raisins dried in the sun, dates, cedar, and lignum aloes. Also by this seal King Solomon did comm…
1906 · PDF PAGE 101
…d one ? HERACLES. What ass? ARGUS. The one that wore the lion’s skin ! THESEUS. This fellow were beneath a man’s contempt. ‘?ow should a God-born heed him ? JASON, We are here, ven, to invoke Athena, immolate 1e sacred cock upon her altar-stone, ‘hat She, who sprang in armour from the brain ‘4f the All-Father, may descend to bless ‘ar labours, since delay grows dangerous, ‘ iaply by Her power and subtlety Se please to aid the work, and to perform A prodigy to save us! Mighty Queen, That art the balance and the sword alike In cunning Argus’ brai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
into the West. This is the gift of the wielding of the thunderbolt of Zeus or Indra, the God of Air. Lamed is the Ox-goad, the driving force; and it is also the Balance, representing the truth and love of the Magician. It is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the équilibration of that fierce force which initiâtes the ceremony \ Yod is the créative energy — the procreative power ; and yet Yod is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. Mem is the letter of Water, and i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…brief account, adapted as far as may be to the average aspirant to Adeptship, or Attainment, or Initiation, or Mastership, or Union with God, or Spiritual Development, or Mahatmaship, or Freedom, or Occult Knowledge, or whatever he may call his inmost need of Truth, of our Order of A.-. A.*. It is designed principally to awake interest in the possibilités of human progress, and to proclaim the principles of the A A The outline given of the several successive steps is exact; the two crises — the Angel and the Abyss — are necessary features in ev…
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
… pain That fools reject, the dread, the searching fire That quivers in the marrow, that in vain Burns secretly The unconsuméd bush where God privily. lurks IX. This was a dream—and how may I attain? How make myself a worthy acolyte? How from my body shall my soul take flight, Being constrained in this devouring chain Ofselfishness? Tow purge the spirit quite Of gross desires That eat into the heart with their corrupting fires ? Old Buddha gave command ; Jehovah spake ; Strange distant gods that are not dead to- day Added their voices ; ITeaven’…
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
THE EQUINOX this is contrary. And the nave or axis of the wheel will be about the invisible station of Harpocrates ; as though that God stood there with the sign of Silence, and affirmed the concealment of that central atom of the wheel which alone revolveth not. The object of the Mystic Circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the Divine Light above and the Temple, and therefore the Hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the Light from beyond the Veils. Each member i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 293
…of this Ritual ; never eres A to use his practical Occult Knowledge for wy Es i Evil; to use his influence only for the nonrws honour of God, not to stir up strife ; and whe | 77 y to uphold the authority of the Chiefs of oa the Order. After which he confirms his obligation by saying, “I undertake to maintain the Vel peteeen the First and Second Orders DIAGRAM 53. Arrangement of the Temple for the 24th, 25th, and may the powers of the elements bear and 26th Paths in the Portal Ritual. witness to my pledge.” The Associate Adept then explains to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 260
THE EQUINOX this is contrary. And the nave or axis of the wheel will be about the invisible station of Harpocrates ; as though that God stood there with the sign of Silence, and affirmed the concealment of that central atom of the wheel which alone revolveth not. The object of the Mystic Circumambulation is to attract and make connection between the Divine Light above and the Temple, and therefore the Hierophant quitteth his throne to take part therein, but remaineth there to attract by his sceptre the Light from beyond the Veils. Each member i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 293
…of this Ritual ; never eres A to use his practical Occult Knowledge for wy Es i Evil; to use his influence only for the nonrws honour of God, not to stir up strife ; and whe | 77 y to uphold the authority of the Chiefs of oa the Order. After which he confirms his obligation by saying, “I undertake to maintain the Vel peteeen the First and Second Orders DIAGRAM 53. Arrangement of the Temple for the 24th, 25th, and may the powers of the elements bear and 26th Paths in the Portal Ritual. witness to my pledge.” The Associate Adept then explains to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…hich the wise men of old hid in that hieroglyph. The final "EL" signified the divinity of her new being; for this is the Hebrew word for God, and is commonly attached by the sages to divers roots, to imply that these ideas have been manifested in individuals of angelic nature. This instruction had been given to Lisa in advance; now that it was ceremonially conferred upon her, she was struck to the heart by its great meaning. Her passion for Cyril Grey had been gross and vehement, [146] almost vulgar; he had translated it into terms of hunger af…
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…pt the corruption of Body, delight to bring Death to the world. In measureless madness I bask, I gloat upon carrion flesh. I wallow with God in the mire, and of mire I create Him afresh. There is naught, nor shall be, that my love cannot gnaw with insatiate tooth: I will wring forth the Truth from the lies as I once found the lies in the Truth. Astarte, I know thee for rotten as others have seen thee for pure; I tear off the mask that smiled false on the slaves who would have them endure. But Thou and Thy masks are but one, Thy corruption the E…
1996 · PDF PAGE 64
…the Host, broken by you, the Priest, into Her golden chalice. You, Knight and Priest of the Order of the Temple, saying Her mass, become God in Her, by love and death. This act of love, though in its form it be with a horse like Caligula, with a mob like Messalina, with a giant like Heliogabalus, with a pollard like Nero, with a monster like Baudelaire, though with de Sade it gloat on blood, with Sacher-Masoch crave for whips and furs, with Yvette Guilbert1 2 crave the glove, or dote on babes like E. T. Reed of Punch; whether one love oneself d…
1905 · PDF PAGE 242
…aid, I also, I myself! Help! lover, Venus, mistress of my life ! I cannot bear the glory of the gaze. No man shall look upon the face of God! Where art thou? Save me from scorpion ! 1 I am—alone ! the HATHOOR. Light, Truth, arise, arise ! TANNHAUSER. All blinded by the Light— Life, the I see—I see ! Thou art the Way, the Truti. Love ! Thou, Whom I sought through ages of deep sleep 1 Lilith, among other shapes, can assume that of a scorpion. Forgotten when I died. There is no death: Change alternating ; and forgetfulness Of one state in the othe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…there was another passage which was really too secret Via r v. Hamus for anything; all I shall tell you is, there was the most beautiful God dess that ever was, and she was washing herself in a river of dew. If you ask what she is doing, she says: “ I’m making thunderbolts.” It was only starlight, and yet one could see quite clearly, so don’t think I’m making a mistake. The third path is a most terrible passage; it’s Via 9 v. Os all a great war, and there’s earthquakes and chariots Of fire, and all the castles breaking to pieces. I was glad when…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…trength, that, abolishing future and past, Makst the Present an infinite length, my soul all-One with the Vast, The Lone, the Unnamable God, that is ice of His measureless cold, Without being or form or abode, without motion or matter, the fold Where the shepherded Universe sleeps, with nor sense nor delusion nor dream, No spirit that wantons or weeps, no thought in its silence supreme. I sit, and am utterly still; in mine eyes is my fathomless lust Ablaze to annihilate Will, to crumble my being to dust, To calcine the dust to an ash, to burn …
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coïncide with the utterance of the most sublime and secret name of the God whom he wishes to invoke. Properly performed, it never fails of its effect. But it is difficult for the beginner to do it satisfactorily, because it is a great effort for the mind to remain concentrated upon the purpose of the ceremony. The overcoming of this difficulty lends most powerful aid to the Magician. It is unwise for him to attempt it until he has received regular initiation in the true 2 Order o…