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Page 35 of 841906 · PDF PAGE 225
…day came his Mother, his Redeemer, and Himself; and joining together they were even as I am who write unto you. Seventeen they were, the three Fathers: with the three Mothers they were thirty-two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion isa great Mysterium of our art. Whence a light hidden ina Cross. Now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the Sword, and the Pyramid being builded in its just pro…
1912 · PDF PAGE 29
…repeat those strokes at will. The moment we begin to think consciously about a stroke we get “nervous,” and are lost. In fact, there are three main classes of stroke; the bad stroke, which we associate, and rightly, with wandering attention ; the good stroke which we associate, and rightly, with fixed attention ,' and the perfect stroke, which we do not understand, but which is really caused by the
1944 · PDF PAGE 230
POWER FOUR OF DISKS The Four, Chesed, shows the establishment of the Universe in three dimensions, that is, below the Abyss. The generating idea is exhibited in its full material sense. The card is ruled by the Sun in Capricornus, the Sign in which he is reborn. The disks are very large and solid; the suggestion of the card is that of a fortress. This represents Law and Order, maintained by constant authority and vigilance. The disks themselves are square; revolution is very opposite to the card; and they contain the signs of the Four Elements.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
…order Their iron gates to unclose. The gross, inhospitable warder Of Loves green garden of spice is well awake. Hell hath enough of Her three-headed hound ; But Loves severer bound Knows for His watcher a more fearful shape, A formidable ape Skilled by lack art to mock the Gods profound In their abyss of under ground.
1911 · PDF PAGE 107
THE SCORPION LAYLAH. Lord Bishop, I have heard that phrase thrice in three score years. The first time a man used it to destroy a child : the second time a child used it to murder her brother; this time you use it to torture and burn an honourable adversary. BISHOP. Child of the devil, you blaspheme, Be silent! On the first count, guilty. [Several JUDGES, hut uot R1NALDo,echo “ Guilty.” Through- out this same RINALDO sits absolutely sileut amt motionless, except that how and theu he makes a gesture of weg;/iners and z'mþatz'eme. THE CLERK. Second…
1911 · PDF PAGE 107
THE SCORPION LAYLAH. Lord Bishop, I have heard that phrase thrice in three score years. The first time a man used it to destroy a child : the second time a child used it to murder her brother; this time you use it to torture and burn an honourable adversary. BISHOP. Child of the devil, you blaspheme, Be silent! On the first count, guilty. [Several JUDGES, hut uot R1NALDo,echo “ Guilty.” Through- out this same RINALDO sits absolutely sileut amt motionless, except that how and theu he makes a gesture of weg;/iners and z'mþatz'eme. THE CLERK. Second…
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…ries will diminish, even though the total number of breaks in a meditation remain stationary. By the time that you are meditating two or three hours-a day, and filling up most of the rest of the day with other practices de- signed to assist, when nearly every time something or other happens,and there is constantly a feeling of being “ on the brink of something pretty big,” one may expect to proceed to the next state—Dhyana.
1909 · PDF PAGE 41
…peech, and from the Speech again unto the Silence. Then the Pyramid is sealed up, even as it was opened ; yet in the sealing thereof the three men partake in a certain mystical manner of the Eucharist of the Four Elements that are consumed for the Perfection of the Oil. Konx Om Pax. [With these mystic words the Mysteries Eleusinian were sealed—Eu] Having written out this explanation, I will read it through and meditate solemnly thereupon. All this I wrote in the Might of the Secret Ring committed unto me by the Masters; so that all might be abs…
1909 · PDF PAGE 283
… takes place, and the prayer to the Undines is tehearsed, and in thename of ELOHIM TZABAOTH is the Dismissal pro- nounced, In May, 1899, three months after P. had passed through the ceremony of 3°=8°, he was sufficiently prepared for the further advancement to the grade of 4°=7°. RITUAL OF THE 4° = 7° GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS The First Part This Ritual is particularly attributed to the Element of Fire, and refers to the planet Venus, and the Twenty-ninth, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-seventh paths of Qoph, Tzaddi and Pé. The Adoration commences by the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 283
… takes place, and the prayer to the Undines is tehearsed, and in thename of ELOHIM TZABAOTH is the Dismissal pro- nounced, In May, 1899, three months after P. had passed through the ceremony of 3°=8°, he was sufficiently prepared for the further advancement to the grade of 4°=7°. RITUAL OF THE 4° = 7° GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS The First Part This Ritual is particularly attributed to the Element of Fire, and refers to the planet Venus, and the Twenty-ninth, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-seventh paths of Qoph, Tzaddi and Pé. The Adoration commences by the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 112
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (2) 79 11. Yet I worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. 12. Also it came to pass that thereby she sickened and corrupted before me. Almost I cast myself into the stream. 13. Then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. Then rose she up from abyss of Ages of Sleep, and her body embraced me. Altogether I melted in her beauty and was glad. 15. The river also became the riv…
1954 · PDF PAGE 185
…me desolate place, dependent for my food supply on a weekly messenger. If he is a day late, it is awkward; if two, it means hardship; if three, serious risk. One is naturally anxious as the day approaches; perhaps the weather, or some similar snag, makes it likely that he will be late. From one cause or another, I have rather exceeded my ration. There is nothing I can do about it, materially. The sensible course of action is to draw in my horns, live on the minimum necessary to life, which involves cutting the day's work down to almost nothing,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
…V.H., com‐ monly called Jehovah. He is the Supreme Lord of the Four Elements which compose funda‐ mentally the whole Universe. There are three verses in Exodus (xiv, 19, 20, 21) each containing seventy‐two letters. By writing down the first of these, and underneath this the next verse backwards, and under this again the last verse forwards, seventy‐two columns of three letters each are obtained. These are read downwards, and the terminations AL or AH according as they are male or fe‐ male, appended. There is also an attribution of these Intelli…
1907 · PDF PAGE 130
…rose wrapper, 16:. ROSA INFERNI. Royal 4to, pp. 8, orange wrapper, 16:. ROSA COELI. Royal 4to, pp. 18, blue wrapper, 16:. [Each of these three con tains a lithograph from a water colour of Auguste Rodin.] RODIN IN RIME. Royal 4to, pp. x+67. “ Seven lithographs from the water colours of Auguste Rodin, with a chaplet of verse.” Price £5 5:. White cloth, lettered gold. GARGOYLES. Pott 8vo, pp. vi+113, 5.». COLLECTED WORKS. [Traveller’s edition.] India paper. Extra Crow-n 8vo, 3 vols., pp. 11+ 269, + viii + 283, +viii + 230, + Appendices. Bound as …
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
… , sunnier hours Spurning the strain of all grief here , Bringing a quiet delight to us , beyond our belief , here ." Whilst in the next three cases I consider it distinctly faulty : I see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of unity Toward the calm centre of the sea .? Where larkspur and cornflower Are blue with sunlight's hour ,3 Ring out your frosty peal , and smite Loud fingers on the harp , and touch Lutes , and clear psalteries musical , And all stringed instruments , to indite 4 The first two of the above are quoted from poems pu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 172
…Did so, and discovered I was without clothes. Some time elapsed before I could get near the star, but on doing so I was whirled round it three times and alighted. Then became conscious that the body had given place to a flame only. Ascended as a flame into the air. Be- came dimly conscious that the flame was in the heart of a larger body. Strove still to rise, but came to blackness. Returned and disrobed. Gave thanks and entered diary. (This is very good indeed, as a start. It should be repeated with ever-increas- ing persistence. The time occu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 260
…rse adopted as convenient for the purposes of calculation in the Book called The Tarot. The el‐ lipse, parabola, and hyperbola, show the three Veils of the Negative; the ten circles refer to the ten numbers of the decimal scale; and their general spiritual and moral significance is given on the rims. The necessity and propriety of this system is set forth in the Naples Arrangement, and it is discussed quite fully in the text of the Prefatory Note. The lines joining these circles represent the twenty‐two numbers of the Hebrew alphabet with the a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 104
…cowed to express an opinion at all, even were the question, Is grass green ? Every small snatch of sleep, without exception, in the last three or {our days, has these images. The ideal condition seems likely to be perfect oblivion —or (in the Adept) is the Tamo-Guna, the Power of Elemental Darkness, broken once and for ever, so that His sleep is vivid and rational as another man’s waking; His waking another man’s Samadhi; His Samadhi—to which He ever strives—— ? ? ? ? ? At least this latter view is suggested by the Rosicrucian formula of Recept…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…ature the Tortoise has 6 members at angles of 60°. . Z.e., the truth that he hath slept. . His initials I. B. M. are the initials of the Three Pillars of the Temple, and add to 52, 13% 4, BN, the Son. . This chapter was written to clarify xe-:3, of which it was the origin. FRATER PERDURABO perceived this truth, or rather the first half of it, comedy, at breakfast at ‘“‘Au Chien qui Fume.” - HIMOG is a Notariqon of the words Holy Illumi- nated Man Of God. . 2.@., Food suitable for Americans, . Turbulence is here specially used to suggest ‘‘tour-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…ist's dismal trade. I took occasion to call upon an old mistress of mine, Jane Chéron, concerning whom see The Equinox, vol. I, No. VI, "Three Poems". She has never had the slightest interest in occult matters and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple. I wanted to see the man with whom she was living, …