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Page 27 of 831913 · PDF PAGE 142
… insistent call Of the constant waterfall! There, to such a setting be Its carven gem of deity, A central flawless fire, enthralled Like Truth within an emerald ! Thou shalt have a birchen bark On the river in the dark: And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream’s smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit’s call; then say the spell: “ Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!” Making the Sign of Magistry With wand of lapis lazuli. Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 405
…ndon, those nonentities who proclaim tirelessly at the top of their voices how great they are, and how their pedantic principles are the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They theorize tediously in obscure cafs and produce either meaningless monstrosities or nothing at all. Cubism, vorticism, dadaism, and such sectarian sillinesses all come to the same thing; they are embalmed intellectual fads, invented in order to prove that the imbecility of their adherents is sublime. Conscious of their incapacity they try to prove its perf…
1902 · PDF PAGE 98
… pure, and true, Your great heart beat ! TannhAuser {with bitterness). I hardly knew, myself! {Aside.) Here is the virgin insight of the truth ! Or—cannot purity be brought to know Aught but itself? Some poets tell us that ! {Aloud.) I am unworthy even to speak to you. 96
1911 · PDF PAGE 210
…MANUBIS l. O coiled and constricted and chosen ! Ο tortured and twisted and twined! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind! As a bright snake curled Round the Vine of the World !
1911 · PDF PAGE 210
…MANUBIS l. O coiled and constricted and chosen ! Ο tortured and twisted and twined! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind! As a bright snake curled Round the Vine of the World !
1954 · PDF PAGE 158
…h all that row going on. Then again, the Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; on this subject I must refer you to Little Essays Toward Truth (No. 14, p. 75). We are really trying to discuss something totally different; something practical in daily life. Very well, then; you remark that Goetia actually means "howling," that we use officially the Bell, the Tom-Tom, the Incantations, the Mantras, and so on. All quite true, about Magick; but none of it applies to Yoga, for even with the Mantra the practice is to go faster and more quietly as one …
1904 · PDF PAGE 84
…, with few, few exceptions, you would not only cease to talk of the wickedness of causing death, but y ou would perceive the First Noble Truth, that no existence can be free from sorrow ; the second, that the desire for existence only leads to s orrow ; that the ceas ing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third) ; and you would seek in the fourth the Way , the Noble Eightfold Path. “I know, O Arahats, that y ou do not need this instruction : but m y words will not stay here : they will go forth and illum inate the whole system of ten …
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
… are weary of Life, for with them, even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, we know ; let, then, the writing go ! That, in the very truth, we do not know. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love. Some rosebud in the garden of spices blows, Some offshoot from the Rose Of the World, the Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night, The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things
1901 · PDF PAGE 29
…now it is no more a man, But walks with God, and sees the Lady sweet Whose body was the vehicle of grace. III. Eternal beauty in eternal truth, Isis ! And Thoth, the scribe of destiny, And Mary’s excellent virginity ! Ye are the witness of the ageless youth That crowns the sonnet. In your wondrous eyes Lie hidden all the secrets of the world, And as the lightning of your look is hurled So glean I something of life’s harmonies. Look then upon me ! Let my insight pierce The clouds of this material universe Unto your splendour that no mortal eye M…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…s io (Malkuth) but spelt in fui! 20 (Jupiter). This Yod in the Virgin expands to the Babe in the Egg by formulating the Secret Wisdom of Truth of Hermes in the Silence of the Fool. He acquires the Eye-Wand, beholding and acting and being adored. The Inverted Pentagram — Baphomet — the Hermaphrodite fully grown — begets himself on himself as V again. Note that there are now two sexes in one person throughout, so that each individual is self-procreative sexually, whereas Isis knew only one sex, and Osiris thought the two sexes opposed. Also the f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 53
… their face, nor loose their hold upon the perfect prize. My hands no longer write: Communion with the night Is built, a bridge of fiery truth across the subtle mind. God’s angels, and His fire, Consume the soul’s desire, And strike a lighter lyre. I seek; the angels lead me on, all light and truth to find. THE INITIATION. THERE is a bare bleak headland which the sea Incessantly devours, A rock impregnable, where herb and tree Are not. A vision of it came to me In night’s most ghastly hours. I who desire, beyond all named desire, To pass the en…
1899 · PDF PAGE 162
140 MYSTERIES: The world of dreams and shadows, not impearled With solitary shaft of Truth. Too sweet, O children of the Night, Are your wide realms for our philosophers, Who must in hard gray balance-shackles bind The essence of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the poor sense of touch they judge that this Or that is real or not. Have they divined This simplest spirit-bond, The joy of some bad woman’s deadly kiss ; The thought-flash that well tunes a lover’s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 46
…he strumpet’s carwheels splash the starving maiden In Piccadilly, deadlier than Aden. “ England expects a man to do his duty. ” He calls truth lies, and sneers at youth and beauty, Pays cash for love and fancies he has won it — Duty means church, where he thanks God he’s done it ! Morley’s Hotel is the one stance to see Our Nelson from ! — Oh God ! that I should be Alone among this slime ! — I saw Thy Graal : Show me the men that have not bowed to Baal !
1954 · PDF PAGE 6
…138 17 Astral Journey-How to Do It: 141 How to Verify Your Experiences 18 The Importance of Our Conventional Greetings 149 19 The Act of Truth 152 20 Talismans: The Lamen: The Pentacle ISS 21 My Theory of Astrology 159 22 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology 163 23 Improvising a Temple 167 24 Necromancy and Spiritism 178 25 Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, 184 Transmutations, Kinks in Time 26 Mental Processes-Two Only Are Possible 194
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…INOX 6. We are Philanthropists, ever eagerly transmitting our knowledge of those facts to others. 7. Further, we are Syncretists, taking truth from all systems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly dis- carding the inessential factors in any one system, however perfect. IV 1. Faith, Life, Philosophy have failed. 2. Science is already established. 3. Mysticism, being based on pure experience, is always a vital force; but owing to the lack of trained observation, has always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted in the te…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…INOX 6. We are Philanthropists, ever eagerly transmitting our knowledge of those facts to others. 7. Further, we are Syncretists, taking truth from all systems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly dis- carding the inessential factors in any one system, however perfect. IV 1. Faith, Life, Philosophy have failed. 2. Science is already established. 3. Mysticism, being based on pure experience, is always a vital force; but owing to the lack of trained observation, has always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted in the te…
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…he was dying of that love for Alice, whose marvellous beauty it was his mission (who may doubt it ?) to reveal. For the burning torch of truth may smoke, but it is our one sure light in passion and distress. The jewelled silence of the star is, indeed, the light of a serener art ; but love is human, and I give nothing for the tawdry gems of style when the breast they would adorn is that of a breathing, living beauty of man’s love, the heart of all the world. Nor let us taint one sympathy with even a shadow of regret. Let us leave him where “ Si…
1909 · PDF PAGE 401
… so deep into the tumulus of oblivion to: rescue (though but for execration) the bones of so very dead a dog as Alfred Tennyson. But the truth is not so near the surface. He can hardly be called dead who never lived; and a trodden worm writhes longer than a felled ox. So therefore Tennyson succumbed to contempt, not to hatred; men twitched their robes away from the contamination of the unclean thing—there was no fight, no bloodshed. Now therefore the smirking approval of the neuters of England continues unashamed, until the younger generation (…
1909 · PDF PAGE 401
… so deep into the tumulus of oblivion to: rescue (though but for execration) the bones of so very dead a dog as Alfred Tennyson. But the truth is not so near the surface. He can hardly be called dead who never lived; and a trodden worm writhes longer than a felled ox. So therefore Tennyson succumbed to contempt, not to hatred; men twitched their robes away from the contamination of the unclean thing—there was no fight, no bloodshed. Now therefore the smirking approval of the neuters of England continues unashamed, until the younger generation (…
1961 · PDF PAGE 59
…gs, and the Nature of Necessity, and come to the Knowledge of Form. For this Mathematics is as it were the last Veil before the Image of Truth, so that there is no Way better than our Holy Qabalah, which analyseth all Things soever, and reduceth them to pure Number; and thus their Natures being no longer coloured and confused, they may be regulated and formulated in Simplicity by the Operation of Pure Reason, to thy great Comfort in the Work of our Transcendental Art, whereby the Many become One. n