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Page 3 of 911922 · PDF PAGE 279
…. As I returned, I noticed that Lamus was watching with a smile of singular amusement. I know now that it was due to his recognising the nature of my annoyance. He finished his story in a few words, and then asked me point-blank how the cure was going. I said I didn’t see how I could even begin to be cured, and pointed out the nature of the deadlock. “Well,” he said, “ you aren’t' making any allowance for something that the doctors all talk about and forget nine-tenths of the time, which is yet the only thing that saves them from being found ou…
1961 · PDF PAGE 171
…(it is the Word of the Alchemists), so to become the Sphinx thou must first be a Sphinx. For naught may grow save to the Norm of its own Nature, and in the Law of its own Law, or it is but Artifice, and endureth not. So therefore is it Folly, and a Rape wrought upon Truth to aim at aught but the Fulfilment of thine own True Nature. Order then thy Workings in Accord with thy Knowledge of that Norm as best thou mayst, not heeding the Importunity of them that prate of he Ideal. For this Rule, this Uniformity, is proper only to a Prison, and a Man …
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
48 THE ALPS Oh ! heavenly frozen fountains ! O! Nature! vastly grand! Come! sing upon the mountains The song of Freedom’s land!
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (3) 89 unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfil them, and rejoice therein. This process is what is really meant by initiation; that is to say, the going into oneself, and making one's peace, so to speak, with all the forces that one finds there. It is forbidden here to discuss the nature of The Book of the Law, the Sacred Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty years of close expert examination, it remains to a great extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to …
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
112 Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. XXX THE SCRIBE Wherefore, O Zahid, so afraid To see the Maker in the Made ? Some one-eyed cripple hunchback built Yon marble tower whose coolth and shade Gladdens the lover. Take the fact And leave the cause ! What joy or aid Springs form thy searches for the cause ? Thy cause thou dost to earth degrade, Bounding its nature ; shall Habib’s Delicious podex be displayed To weaklings whose erections lags For them to prate and make parade Of tedious knowledge…
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
… yearning than the wind among the pines. The weary pilgrim struggles on; the satiated pilgrim stops. The road winds uphill: all law, all nature must be overcome. Do this by virtue of THAT in thyself before which law and nature are but shadows.
1905 · PDF PAGE 22
TO OSCAR ECKENSTEIN, WITH WHOM I HAVE WANDERED IN SO MANY SOLITUDES OF NATURE, AND THEREBY LEARNT THE WORDS AND SPELLS THAT BIND HER CHILDREN.
1961 · PDF PAGE 169
…OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 157 #a De Dracone quæ est Aquila, Serpens, Scorpio (Of the Drragon which is Eagle, Serpent, Scorpion) HREEFOLD is the Nature of Life, Eagle, Serpent, and Scorpion. And of these the Scorpion is he that, having no Lion of Light and of Courage within him, seemeth to himself encircled by Fire, and, driving his Sting into himself, he dieth. Such are the Black Brothers, that cry: I am I, they that deny Love, restricting it to their own Nature. But the Serpent is the secret Nature of Man, that is Life and Death, and maketh his Way t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 146
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 134 Ed De Natura Feminæ (Of the Nature of Woman) HE Nature of Woman, o my Son, is as thou hast learned in our most Holy Qabalah; and she is the Clothing in Sex of Man, the Magical Image of his Will to Love. Therefore was it said by thine Uncle Wolfgang von Goethe: Das Ewigweibliche zieht uns hinan. But therefore also hath she no Nature of Truth, because she is but the Eidolon of an Excitement and a Going of thy Star, and appertaineth not unto its Essence and Stability. So then to thee she is but Matter and to her thou art bu…
1961 · PDF PAGE 217
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 205 Zf De Natura hujus Epistolae (Of the Nature of this Epistle) MY Son, in this Letter have I written the Name of my own Nature, its Law, its Quality, its Will and its Appurtenance or Ornament. For it is the Child of my Love toward thee, and the Expression through mine Art of my Will so far as that regardeth thee. Now every Child is made of the Essence of his Father, so that every Creation is a Likeness or image of the Creator, but modified by the Mother, that is to say, the Material whereon he begetteth it. So then…
1919 · PDF PAGE 351
THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE 56. Desire nothing. Chafe not at Karma, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable. The words “desire nothing” should be interpreted posi- tively as well as negatively. The main sense of the rest of the verse is to advise the Disciple to work, and not to com- plain. 57. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance. Although the object of the Disciple is to transcend Law, he must work th…
1961 · PDF PAGE 84
…iticism and by recorded Memory Man avoideth Error. But the true Word of Tahuti was AMOUN, whereby He made Men to understand their secret Nature, that is, their Unity with their true Selves, or, as they then phrased it, with God. And He discovered unto them the Way of this Attainment, and its Relation with the Formula of INRI. Also by His Mystery of Number He made plain the Path for His Successor to declare the Nature of the whole Universe in its Form and in its Structure, as it were an Analysis thereof, doing for Matter what the Buddha was decr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
… man ma y think it his duty to act in a certain way, through having made a fancy picture of himself, instead of investigating his actual nature. For example, a woman may make hei self misérable for life by thinking that she prefers love to social considération, or vice versa. One woman may stay with an unsympathetic nusband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romande elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy’s instinct may tell …
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
… able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man, cannot pray to God to cause them, for the Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves* But, as a Mystic, he knows that ail things are phantoms of One Thing, and that they may be withdrawn therein to reissue in other attire. He knows that ail things are in himself, and that he is All-One with the Ail. There is therefore no theoretical difficulty about converting the illusion of a clear sky into that of a tempest. On the other hand, he is aware, as a Magiciany that illusions are…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
true man of science learns from every phenomenon. But Nature is dumb to the hypocrite; for in her there is nothing false.1) (21) There is no limit to the extent of the relations of any man with the Universe in essence; for as soon as man makes himself one with any idea the means of measurement cease to exist. But liis power to utilize that force is limited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 77
…called Justice. This word has none but a purely human and therefore relative sense; so it is not to be considered as one of the facts of Nature. Nature is not just, according to any theological or ethical idea; but Nature is exact. This card represents the sign of Libra, ruled by Venus; in it Saturn is exalted. The equi‐ librium of all things is hereby symbolized. It is the final adjustment in the formula of Tetra‐ grammaton, when the daughter, redeemed by her marriage with the Son, is thereby set up on the throne of the mother; thus, finally, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…cadences outrunning song, And clear sweet clean-chiselled English, sharp and strong, Of the one man! among the latter men Who lived with Nature, saw her face to face, And died not : here in this consummate place, Immortal now, though the Antarctic sent Its mightiest coldest wave and rose and rent The coral and annihilated land, Or though the swarthy hand Or foot misshapen of the Hephaestian, (Hating the air-breathing man, In such sweet love as dwells, above all other places Ilere, in our hearts and faces, Nature’s and man’s) if his coarse hand …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
… to ail men in their ordinary avocations, so that in no case will your time hâve been wasted. 2. That you may gain some insight into the nature of the Great Work which lies beyond these elementary trifles, however, we should mention that an intelligent person may gather more than a hint of its nature from the following books, which are to be taken as serious and learned contributions to the study of Nature, though not necessarily to be implicitly relied upon. aThe Yi King” (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press.) “The Tao Teh King” (S.B.E. Sér…
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
… in the meshes Of the fate that means to catch and crush him, Pentheus going forth with dance and revel, Soon by Bassarids (wild joys of Nature) To be hunted. Ai ! the body mangled By the fatal fury of the Maenads Led by Agave his maddened mother (Nature’s self). But this the people guess not, Only see the youth in woman’s raiment, Feignèd tresses drooping from his forehead, Awkward with unwonted dress, rude waving Aye the light spear tipped with mystic pine-cone ; Hear his boast who lifts the slender thyrsus : “ I could bear the mass of swart …
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…onfusion. Below this abyss we find the moral qualifies of Man, of which there are six. The highest is symbolised by the number Four. Its nature is fatherly s; Mercy and Authority are the attributes of its dignity. The number Five is balanced against it. The attributes of Five are Energy and Justice. Four and Five are again combined and harmonized in the number Six, whose nature is beauty and harmony, mortality and immortality. In the number Seven the féminine nature is again prédominant, 1. Ail advance in understanding demands the acquisition o…