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Page 197 of 2031904 · PDF PAGE 88
…ays and twenty days :3 and she gave him gifts. 1 Lamed means ox-goad; Aleph, an ox. Lamed Aleph means No, the denial of Aleph Lamed, El, God. 2 Read reverse, the Star [= the Will and the Great Work] is to fold up the Sephiroth; i.e. to attain Nirvana. 3 The houses of the Moon. All the gifts are lunar symbols. Sapientiae Lux Viris Baculum. Femina Rapta Inspirit Gaudium. Pleiades. Dignitates. Amicitia. Amor. Sophia.
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…he other, floats Mr. G. K. Chesterton in the position Padmasana,! singing ‘‘ Beneath the Cross of Jesus” with one voice, and attempting ‘God save the (Jueen!” with the other in a fashion calculated to turn any marine, if but he be filled with honourable ambition to excel in the traditional exploits of his corps, green with envy. Behind, and for this reason not previously observed by the vigilant eye of the reader, are Sir Percy Percivale and Molly Tyson. Near the ‘‘ Lord’s Table” a brother is standing and praying; he intersperses his prayer wit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…les against the stupid, selfish sectaries with their petty pique, their treacherous trickeries, their slanders and squabbles. Ah me! the Gods were at their grim game; they had another dagger ready to slip between my ribs. Fidelis was now a married woman. She was still playing at Magick, as another might play at bridge. But her true life was dresses, dinners and dances; and her thought were taken up by her husband and her lover. (In hot countries, white men being relaxed by the climate, European women, over- stimulated for the same reason, almos…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
… celestial sphere itself, issue the curled rays of spiritual light. Heaven itself is no more than a veil before the face of the immortal goddess. It will be seen that every form of energy in this picture is spiral. Zoroaster says, “God is he, having the head of a hawk; having a spiral force”. It is interesting to notice that this oracle appears to anticipate the present Aeon, that of the hawk‐headed Lord, and also of the mathe‐ matical conception of the shape of the Universe as calculated by Einstein and his school. It is only in the lower cup …
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…ere is only one complement, always different in form, and always identical in es‐ sence. This is the signification of the Picture of the God; it is shown more clearly in His adult form as the Fool of the Tarot and as Bacchus Diphues, and without equivocation when He ap‐ pears as Baphomet. 1From Little Essays toward Truth. When we enquire more closely into His symbolism. the first quality which engages our attention is doubtless His innocence. Not without deep wisdom is He called Twin of Horns: and this is the Aeon of Horus: it is He who sent fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…lf squandered a lot of cash in one way or another. But he never fell so far as to waste a farthing on the three-card trick, or the three-God trick. He has also the clearest visualization of some of the people who surrounded him in the first six years of his life, which were spent in Leamington and the neighborhood, which he has never revisited. In particular, there was an orange-coloured old lady named Miss Carey who used to bring him oranges. His first memory of speech is his remark. "Ca'ey, onange"1; this, however, is remembered because he wa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…threadbare tinsel which they throw over the nakedness of their idleness, immorality and imbecility. Indians plausibly maintain that some god got all the worst devils into Ceylon, and then cut it off from the continent by the straits. But then, how rich, how soft, how peaceful is Colombo! One feels that one needs never do anything any more. It invites one to dream deliciously of deciduous joys --- and insists, with velvet hand, light and bright as a butterfly's wing, on the eyelids. The palms, the flowers, the swooning song of the surf, the dim …
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…rile apologists of your detestable religion you hold a reasonably mystic head above the tides of criticism. You are the last champion of God; with you I choose to measure myself, Others I can despise; you are a force to be reckoned with, as Browning your wetellectual father was before you. Whether we are indeed friends or enemtes it is perhaps hard to say: it has sometimes seemed to me that human freedom and hap- piness are our common goal, but that you found your muddied oafs in Gods, ministers, passive resisters, and all the religious team— t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…except the work of the moment. It was "Take not thought for the morrow" carried out in its most literal sense. I made a point of putting God on His honour, so to speak, to supply anything I might need by demonstrating to {147} him that I would not keep back the least imaginable fraction of my resources. I acquired this custom later on, when I had definitely discovered the direction of my destiny; but the moral basis of my attitude was already present. The first important indication of its incidence is given by the outcome of my friendship with …
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
… LIES. WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS By Frater Perdurabo. (Wieland & Co., 21s.) Poetry and Drama says: Creation and destruction of Gods has been for centuries mankind’s favourite religious mania and philosophical exercise. ‘The Book of Lies’ is a witty, instructive, and wholly admirable collection of paradoxes, in themselves. Contradictory, summing up and illustrating various experiments in God-making. Frater Perdurabo, however, has not written a Philosophical or mystical treatise; on the contrary, his book leaves one witha feeling of int…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
… LIES. WHICH IS ALSO FALSELY CALLED BREAKS By Frater Perdurabo. (Wieland & Co., 21s.) Poetry and Drama says: Creation and destruction of Gods has been for centuries mankind’s favourite religious mania and philosophical exercise. ‘The Book of Lies’ is a witty, instructive, and wholly admirable collection of paradoxes, in themselves. Contradictory, summing up and illustrating various experiments in God-making. Frater Perdurabo, however, has not written a Philosophical or mystical treatise; on the contrary, his book leaves one witha feeling of int…
1919 · PDF PAGE 458
…nown riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing, the Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . Rosert Rossin The Bystander, “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg’s verse... . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.”—Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to say ‘morbid, a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 65
… to go.” ‘‘ There is America,” I said. I had to say something. ‘Where the disappearance of man has followed that of manners: the exit of God has not wished to lag behind that of grammar. I have no use for American men, and only one use for American women.” ‘“*Of a truth,” I said, ‘‘the continent is accursed—a very limbo.” ‘‘Tt is the counterfoil of evolution,” said the man wearily. There was silence. ‘* What can I do for you?” I asked. “* Are you indeed ill?” ‘* Four days more,” he answered, thrilling with excitement, ‘‘and all my dreams will c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 284
…f the results pre- sented to it by (4). A state which can be summoned at will Myst. What then is ‘‘ will” ? Scept. You know what I mean. God knows I am bothered enough already without being caught up on a word! Which can be summoned at will: which in a succession of simple, though highly abstract states, ob- serves the results (forgive the repetition !) presented to it by (4). But if we turn the consciousness upon itself, if we add a sixth sense to the futile five? Myst. It is resolved after all into a simple impression, indistinguishable, so f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
412 message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called? The only argument for surrounding publication with any conditions is that the message may be better understood in some circumstances than in others. I can imagine a series of syllogisms on which one might base an apology for many of the actual principles of publishing. The {655} point, however,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoBert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to say ‘mo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoBert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to say ‘mo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…at this intelligence is discarnate. The existence of true religion presupposes that of some discarnate intelligence, whether we call him God or anything else. And this is exactly what no religion had ever proved scientifically. And this is what The Book of the Law does prove by internal evidence, altogether independent of any statement of mine. This proof is evidently the most important step in science that could possibly be made: for it opens up an entirely new avenue to knowledge. The immense superiority of this particular intelligence, AIWAS…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…hy ?”’) Which eyes are mine, which thine, poor ape, discover, And even yet thou hast not lost thy lover. II. Khephra, thou Beetle-headed God ! Who travellest in thy strength above The Heaven of Nu, with splendour shod Of Thoth, and girt about with Love ! O Sun at midnight! in thy Bark The cynocephali proclaim Thy effulgent deity, and mark The adorations of thy name In seemly stations one by one, As thou encirclest blinder poles Than Khem or Ammon showed the sun In one-eyed sight of secret goals. So I adore, and sing: for I This magic monocle av…
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
… overturned an age by uttering his word, Allah. But to us, practically, the most important case of the kind is that connected with such "gods" as Dionysus, Osiris, Baldur, Marsyas, Adonis, Jesus, and other deifications of the unknown Magus concerned. The old pagan worship of the Mother-idea was superseded by the word IAO or its equivalents, which asserted the formula of the Dying God, and made the Male, dying to himself in the act of love, the engineer of the continued life of the race. This revolution cut at the root of all previous custom. Ma…