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… tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its name!” (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom. For the Three Maries (so he said) were One: Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God, Isis! This pagan! ‘‘ Look towards the Sun”? (Quoth he), ‘‘and seek a winepress to be trod; ‘With Beauty girdled, garlanded, and shod. ‘* Thus,” riddled he, ‘‘ thy heart shall know its Peace !” Let be! I ride upon the sand instead, Look to the Cross, whereon I take mine ease ! Let be! Just so the Roman soldier said. Esaias?2 He is de…
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
…k a strange object from a locked cabinet. It had flowered chased pipes of gold, copper and platinum, coiling about an egg of crystal. The three snakes met just above the egg, as if to bite or to kiss. Rolles filled the egg with a pale blue liquid from a Venetian flask, then pressed the heads of the serpents just a little closer together. Instantly a coruscat- ing flame leapt between them, minute, dazzling, radiant. It 126
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
…k a strange object from a locked cabinet. It had flowered chased pipes of gold, copper and platinum, coiling about an egg of crystal. The three snakes met just above the egg, as if to bite or to kiss. Rolles filled the egg with a pale blue liquid from a Venetian flask, then pressed the heads of the serpents just a little closer together. Instantly a coruscat- ing flame leapt between them, minute, dazzling, radiant. It 126
1922 · PDF PAGE 233
Towards Madness 219 I made him take two or three sniffs of snow. That put him right, and now he’s gone off to the inn. I’m very glad to be alone. I always felt those servants were spying. The house is delightfully quiet. As I write there are two beautiful people looking over my shoulder. They have been sent to watch over me and guide me, and prepare me for the great destiny which is in store for me. Here comes Peter with the waiter and a tray. I must hide this book. The secrets of the spiritual life must be kept from the profane. It’s all right…
1928 · PDF PAGE 146
…rudish; if at any time I shocked her by a too amorous gesture she writhed like a victim of rape. How did that finish? said one of the three others; I did not know you were so patient. For every evil, he replied, God has ap- pointed a remedy. One day I found this Mi- nerva (an-hungered for ideal strength) en- gaged in a private interview with my servant, in a situation which compelled me to return discretely lest I should cause them to blush. That evening I discharged them both, and paid them the arrears of their wages. As for me, rep…
1944 · PDF PAGE 184
…l and particular Universe, with Demiourgos (and all the rest) complete, just as every man and every woman does. For example II’s or VI’s Three of Disks might represent the establishment of such an oracle as that of Delphi, or VIII’s might be the first formula of a Code such as Manu gave to
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…tween my father's death and my return from the funeral. Yet before that I was completely happy and in sympathy with my surroundings. Not three weeks later, Ishmael was my middle name. I cannot account for it at all satisfactorily. I had been perfectly genuine in my ambition to lead a life of holiness; the idea of intimate communion with "Jesus" was constantly present to my mind. I do not remember any steps in the volte-face. I asked one of the masters one day how it was that Jesus was three days and three nights in the grave, although crucified…
1939 · PDF PAGE 40
usually considered a sort of consolidation of the three; but that is rather an unsatisfactory way of regarding it, because if we admit the reality of the universe at all we are in philosophical chaos. However, this does not concern us for the moment. 3. When we apply these symbols to Yoga, we find that fire represents the Yogi, and water the object of his meditation. ((You can, if you like, reverse these attributions. It makes no difference except to the metaphysician. And precious little to him!) The Yod and the He combine, the Father and Moth…
1919 · PDF PAGE 43
…g Nuit. Lizer DLV. Liser HAD. An instruction for attaining Hadit. Liper DCCCXXXI. LiserIOD, formerly called VESTA. An instruction giving three methods of reducing the mani- fold consciousness to the Unity. This course is specially adapted to facilitate the Task proper to the Grade of Adeptus Minor, the Attainment of Raja-Yoga and of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. COURSE VIII Liper CCXX. Lrper L Vex Lecis Sub Figura CCXX. as delivered by XCIII. unto DCLXVI. This book is the foundation of the New Aeon, and thus of the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 157
THE VISION AND THE VOICE never is there any image therein, or any hint thereof; but now there are three arrows, arranged thus: This is the letter Aleph in the Alphabet of Arrows. (I want to say that while I was doing the translation of the Call of the Aethyrs, the soles of my feet were burning, as if I were on red hot steel.) And now the fire has spread all over me, and parches me, and tortures me. And my sweat is bitter like poison. And all my blood is acrid in my veins, like gleet. I seem to be all festering, rotting; and the worms eating me …
1954 · PDF PAGE 130
… a masterpiece, pick out a page at random, translate it into French or German or whatever language you like best, walk around your chair three times (so as to forget the English) and then translate it back again. You will gather a useful impression of the value of the masterpiece by noticing the kind of difficulty that arises in the work of translation; more, by observing the effect produced on you by reading over the result; and finally, by estimating the re-translation: has the effect of the original been enhanced by the work done on it? Has …
1898 · PDF PAGE 37
…ill possess. And thou, O king, Art thou now better than that bloody Balak Whose iron hand was upon Moab? He, Fought he against us, while three hundred years We dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and Aroer And her white cities, and by Ammon’s coast? D 33
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
THE NEW WINE 243 follows that if it be not perceived it exists not ;” and in the “ Three Dialogues ” he again maintains this indisputable fact : Phil . And is not time measured by the succession of ideas in our mind ? Hyl. It is. Phil . And is it not possible ideas should succeed one another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine , or in that of some spirit of another kind ? Hyl . I own it.2 This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before e…
1914 · PDF PAGE 25
…ine all-availing breast | Bring me to the intolerable bliss ‘Whose recrudescence is eternal rest— Laylah! I come to you, I come to you— ‘Three thousand miles, what are they to a soul ‘Whose insight bafiles the blind blaze of blue With single effort to a single goal? Laylah! 1 charge you by the love, the love ‘That you and I bear to each other, come
1903 · PDF PAGE 11
…in my enquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the past ceases to intrude its problems upon my mind. Here you are! Three shies a penny! Change all bad arguments! ] ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE Qanatistic Zino. ‘When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what kind of0 do we mean? By 0 in the ordinary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.”
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
…essenger? [FATMA goes to corpse ana’ mutter: over it. LEDMIYA [ut window]. There are many that make hither. Some bear the dead away—two, three, five, eight, oh 50 many! Some ride weary or wounded . . . LAYLAH. Some ride like messengers? LEDMIYA. No. Yes, one. Nο, he has fallen from his horse, and lies still, [Wailing without. LAYLAH. Go, bid those fools be quiet. Is there not enough woe in this house but that their shrieks should edge it? [LEDMIYA goes out. The waiting stoþs. Then suddenly it begins again more loudly thun before. FATMA. More dea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
…essenger? [FATMA goes to corpse ana’ mutter: over it. LEDMIYA [ut window]. There are many that make hither. Some bear the dead away—two, three, five, eight, oh 50 many! Some ride weary or wounded . . . LAYLAH. Some ride like messengers? LEDMIYA. No. Yes, one. Nο, he has fallen from his horse, and lies still, [Wailing without. LAYLAH. Go, bid those fools be quiet. Is there not enough woe in this house but that their shrieks should edge it? [LEDMIYA goes out. The waiting stoþs. Then suddenly it begins again more loudly thun before. FATMA. More dea…
1912 · PDF PAGE 77
… It continues with a jungle inhabited by savages, naked, armed with bows and arrows, ignorant even of any language containing so many as three C2 35
1912 · PDF PAGE 77
… It continues with a jungle inhabited by savages, naked, armed with bows and arrows, ignorant even of any language containing so many as three C2 35
1919 · PDF PAGE 83
…oils of the old serpent, lift up thyself unto the mountain of initiation! 4. But I remembered. Yea, Than, yea, Theli, yea, Lilith! these three were about me from of old. For they are one. 5. Beautiful wast thou, O Lilith, thou serpent-woman! 6. Thou wast lithe and delicious to the taste, and thy perfume was of musk mingled with ambergris. 7. Close didst thou cling with thy coils unto the heart, and it was as the joy of all the spring. 8. But I beheld in thee a certain taint, even in that wherein I delighted. 9. I beheld in thee the taint of thy…