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Page 24 of 911902 · PDF PAGE 109
…eless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb withheld That spiritual fire, and brooded still : Nature and Time, their soleness undispelled. Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight ; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath of the Eternal and the Vast, Softer than dawn, and closer than a kiss— And lo ! the chaos and the darkness passed ! At the creative sigh the Light became. Chaos…
1961 · PDF PAGE 85
…ord is itself a Plan of the Fabrick of the Universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the Holy Qabalah, whereby we have Knowledge of the Nature of all Things soever upon every Plane of By-coming, and of their Forces and Tendencies and Operations, with the Keys to their Portals. Nor did He leave any Part of His Work unfinished, unless it be that accomplished three hundred Years ago by Sir Edward Kelly, of whom I also come, as thou knowest. t
1906 · PDF PAGE 24
…nd. Across the city, as in closéd meres, Making the pavements isles, it disappears ; In it all creatures’ thirst relief hath found ; All nature in its scarlet hue is drowned. I have often prayed these fickle wines to weep For one day Lethe on my threatening fear— Wine makes the ear more sharp, the eye more clear. I have sought in Love forgetfulness- and sleep— My love’s a bed of needles made to pierce, That drink be given to these women fierce ! LA BEATRICE. AS I one day to nature made lament In burnt-up lands, calcined of nutriment, Asin my mu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
… whose error has caused them to wander across his path. In the course of this Training, he will learn to explore the Hidden Mysteries of Nature, and to develop new senses and faculties in himself, whereby he may communicate with, and control, Beings and Forces pertaining to orders of existence which 2. Prof essor Sigmund Freud and his school hâve, in recent years, discovered a part of this body of Truth, which has been taught for many centuries in the Sanctuaries of Initiation. But failure to grasp the fullness of Truth, especially that implied…
1954 · PDF PAGE 259
…t are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. I guess that's about what I think. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1899 · PDF PAGE 161
…ell Brings for a moment peace, Till weariness and her infernal load Of phantom memory-shapes return to quell The shaken fortresses. Till nature reassert her empery, And the full tide of wakefulness at last Foam on the shore of sleep To beat the white cliffs of reality In vain, because their windy strength is past And only memories weep. Why is the Finite real? And that world So larger, and more beautiful, and fleet, So free, so exquisite,
1905 · PDF PAGE 59
…elly rank with exhalations foetid. Upon this rottenness the sun shone deadly straight As if to cook it to a turn, And give back to great Nature hundredfold the debt That, joining it together, she did earn. The sky beheld this carcase most superb outspread As spreads a flower, itself, whose taint Stank so supremely strong, that on the grass your head You thought to lay, in sudden faint. The flies swarmed numberless on this putrescent belly, Whence issued a battalion Of larvæ, black, that flowed, a sluggish liquid jelly, Along this living carrion…
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
CHAPTER XII THE ROBE THE Robe of the Magician may be varied according to his grade and the nature of his working. There are two principal Robes, the white and the black; of these the black is more important than the white, for the white has no hood. These Robes may be varied by the addition of various symbols, but in any case the shape of the Robe is a Tau. The general symbolism which we have adopted leads us, however, to prefer the description of a Robe which few dare wear. This Robe is of a rich silk of deep pure blue, the blue of the night s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 412
FIRST BOOK MAGNETIC MYSTERIES CHAPTER I THE KEY OF MESMERISM MeEsme_Er rediscovered the secret science of Nature; he did not invent it. The first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by Hermes and Pythagoras. Synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the Platonistic records of the School of Alexandria: Mia raya, pia ila Tpupdns Braye poppe Tepi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 412
FIRST BOOK MAGNETIC MYSTERIES CHAPTER I THE KEY OF MESMERISM MeEsme_Er rediscovered the secret science of Nature; he did not invent it. The first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by Hermes and Pythagoras. Synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the Platonistic records of the School of Alexandria: Mia raya, pia ila Tpupdns Braye poppe Tepi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself in…
1961 · PDF PAGE 16
…lah. For Love were to them the eternal Eden, save for the Repression signified by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thus their Nature of Love was perfect; it was their Fall from that Innocence which drove them from the Garden. In the Love of Romeo and Juliet was no Flaw; but family Feud, which imported nothing to that Love, was its Bane; and the Rashness and Violence of their Revolt against that Repression, slew them. In the pure Outrush of Love in Desdemona for Othello was no Flaw; but his Love was marred by his consciousness of his …
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
… [Aloud.] I will not ruin your life—and I can commit suicide by merest idleness, a talent I am master of, and one most agree- able to my nature. BLANCHE, Oh! Monsieur Denys, but I love you. [Comes and clings to hts knees.) I dot I do! I will not kill myself, but I will make you love me—— DENYS. A harder task than you think, little one. BLANCHE. Or tolerate me at least. [ Crees. DENYS. O bother ! I shall cry too in a minute. BLANCHE. You are very unkind. I hate you. DENYS. How much of all this is truth? What with pity and drawing-room manners an…
1944 · PDF PAGE 44
…g for trouble.” All this is here written in defence of the system of the makers and users of the Tarot, of their methods of dealing with Nature, of making experiments without undue attention to the wish to get things done quickly. They would expose a mixture to the rays of the sun or moon for weeks or months, thinking that everything would be spoilt if they boiled it up violently. The processes of Nature (they would say) are slow and temperate; let us copy them! There may have been good grounds for these views. Experience leads to that conclusi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
Unripe, are blasted in the blossoming spring— This is a miracle, not the other thing! Nature insults herself, blasphemes her God, Thus cutting short the life’s hard happening. Nor would I suffer thus, nor she repine Had my wife faded (as rose-tinted wine Bleached in the sunlight) reached her period And fallen gently in the arms divine, Caressing arms of pale Persephone, And bathed her in death’s river tenderly, Washing the whole bright body, the long limbs, The clothing hair, the face, the witchery Of all the smiling shape in the dark stream, A…
1912 · PDF PAGE 207
… THE TAROT XII THE PRINCESS OF THE WATERS; THE LOTUS OF THE PALACE OF THE FLOODS {ἔπαυε of Cuþs A BEAUTIFUL Amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the Princess of Wands. Her attire is similar. She stands on a sea with foaming spray. Away to her right a Dolphin She wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. She bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues Her mantle is lined with swansdown, and is of thin floating material. Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 207
… THE TAROT XII THE PRINCESS OF THE WATERS; THE LOTUS OF THE PALACE OF THE FLOODS {ἔπαυε of Cuþs A BEAUTIFUL Amazon-like figure, softer in nature than the Princess of Wands. Her attire is similar. She stands on a sea with foaming spray. Away to her right a Dolphin She wears as a crest a swan with opening wings. She bears in one hand a lotus, and in the other an open cup from which a turtle issues Her mantle is lined with swansdown, and is of thin floating material. Sweetness, poetry, gentleness and kindness. Imaginative, dreamy, at times indolent,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…are only aware of them as the conclusion to a colossal sorites. The evidence for ghosts is as strong as that for any other phenomenon in nature; and the only argument, for a horse-laugh is not argument, which has been adduced against their existence is that you cannot catch them. But, just as one can catch the fly by accommodating oneself to the conditions of its world, one might (conceivably) catch the ghost by conforming with its conditions. [217] It is one magical hypothesis that all things are made up of ten different sorts of vibrations, e…
1944 · PDF PAGE 30
III THE TAROT AND THE UNIVERSE THE TAROT is a Pictorial representation of the Forces of Nature as conceived by the Ancients according to a conventional symbolism. The Sun is a star. Around him revolve a number of bodies called planets, including the Moon, a satellite of the Earth. These bodies revolve in one direction only. The Solar system is not a sphere, but a wheel. The planets do not remain in exact alignment but swing to a certain (comparatively small) extent from one side of the true plane to the other. Their orbits are elliptical. The A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 405
STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM “Dragons of the prime That tare each other in their slime” sounds less terrible than a dog-fight. “Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d——” is but a termagant. “ Ring out, wild bells” suggests no tocsin (as it might, for they symbolise the stupendous world-tragedy of the Atone- ment) but at most the pastoral summons to a simple worship, at least the dinner-gong—a dinner whose Turkey cooed, not gobbled; a Plum Pudding innocent of brandy. Yet these lines are the most forcible one can remember; and if these th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 405
STEWED PRUNES AND PRISM “Dragons of the prime That tare each other in their slime” sounds less terrible than a dog-fight. “Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d——” is but a termagant. “ Ring out, wild bells” suggests no tocsin (as it might, for they symbolise the stupendous world-tragedy of the Atone- ment) but at most the pastoral summons to a simple worship, at least the dinner-gong—a dinner whose Turkey cooed, not gobbled; a Plum Pudding innocent of brandy. Yet these lines are the most forcible one can remember; and if these th…