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Page 36 of 1141909 · PDF PAGE 9
…e wisdom of the world ; for the Question was important—how many teeth were there in a horse’s mouth. For many days the debate swung this way and that, as Father was quoted against Father, Gospel against Epistle, Psalm against Proverb; and the summer being hot, and the shade of the monastery gardens pleasant, a young monk wearied of the discussion, and rising presumptuously among those reverend men, impudently proposed that they should examine the mouth of a horse and settle the question. Now, there was no precedent for so bold a method, and we …
1928 · PDF PAGE 73
…warm caskets of perfume, whence he exhaled a subtle scent, and every time he signed, musk-scented butterflies gat light, on their winged way, from the ardour of his breath. Around his purple tonic was twisted as a belt a gleaming serpent, who, with raised head, turned languorously toward him eyes that were like glowing coals. From this living girdle were suspended alternatively phials full of deadly liquids, shining knives, and surgical instruments. In his right hand he held another phial, filled with a luminous red liquid, and which bore these…
1905 · PDF PAGE 109
…nnacle athwart the bank, Where towered behind it one vast pillar of cloud To thrice its height. dome On which we stood, all weary of the way, And marked the east awaken into scorn, And rush upon us. Then we set our teeth To force a dangerous passage, and essayed The steep slope not in vain. We pushed our way Slowly and careworn down the icy ridge, Hewing with ponderous strokes the riven ice In little Hakes and chips, and now again Encountered strange and fearsome sentinels, Behold the ice-clad 1 The first guideless traverse of this mountain, on…
1913 · PDF PAGE 44
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1961 · PDF PAGE 117
…Black Brothers and their Cults set hemselves against Change, do thou break them asunder. Yea, though of bad come worse, continue in that Way; for it is as if thou didst open an Abscess, the first Effect being noisome exceedingly, but the last Cleanness. Heed not then, whoso crieth Anarchy, and Immorality, and Heresy against thee, and feareth to destroy Abuse lest worse Things come of it. For he Will of the Universe in its Wholeness is to Truth, and hou dost well to purge it from its Costiveness. For it is written that there is no bond that can …
1961 · PDF PAGE 161
…ible in Judgment, and free in the Law of Thelema. Thus thou mayst read or no, concur or no, as thou wilt. Have I not tutored thee in the way of the Balance, or of Antithesis, shewing thee the art of Contra- diction, whereby thou dost accept no Word save as the Victor in thy mind over its opposites, nay more, as the Child transcendental of a Marriage of Opposites. This Book then shall serve thee but as a Food for thy Meditation, as Wine to excite thy Mind to Love and War. It shall be unto thee as a Chariot to carry thee whither thou wilt; for I …
1961 · PDF PAGE 134
…y according to thy True Nature, for here only thou standest in Sorrow, if there be a Division conscious of itself, and hindered from its Way (whose Name is Love) unto its Dissolution. It is written in The Book of the Law that the Pain of Division is as nothing, and the Joy of Dissolution all. Now then here is an Art and Device of Magick that I will declare unto thee, albeit it is a Peril if thou be not fixed in that Truth and in that Beatific Vision whereof I have written in the three Chapters foregoing. And it is this, to create by Artifice a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…driven into a corner by the avengers, tries to escape by some desperate deed. Thus a boy robs the till to pay for his folly in gambling away his earnings, and being found out is maddened by the thought of jail, sees red and kills his employer. We should rather sterilize sin. The sense of shame is cowardly and servile. It is based on ignorance that one is a star. "Conscience makes cowards of us all." The man who respects himself will not act unworthily, but if we hammer into his head from infancy that most of his natural impulses are evil, we en…
1944 · PDF PAGE 9
…d 10th April, 1904 e.v., he received the Book of the Law. Chosen bv the Masters to carry out Their sublime plan, he began to prepare the way for the establishment of the New Aeon, as They instructed him. (See The Equinox of the Gods for a very full and de‐ tailed account of this, the most important event in his career). He accordingly published the previously secret attributions of the Tarot in the Book 777
1961 · PDF PAGE 168
…f with Environment, else being devoid of Judgment, thou goest blindly upon an headlong Path. For every Star in his Orbit holdeth not his Way obstinately, but is sensitive to every other Star, and his true Nature is to do this. Oh how many are they whom I have seen persisting in a fatal Course, in Sway of the Belief that their dead Rigidity was Exercise of Will. And the Letter of the Man is Tzaddi, whose Number is Ninety; which is Maim, the Water that conformeth itself perfectly with its Vessel, that seeketh constantly its Level, that penetratet…
1905 · PDF PAGE 204
…f this same Path of the wise men: for my soul is blind Yet: and the foemen I have never feared I could not see (if such should cross the way), And therefore Iam strange: my soul is seared With desolation of the blinding day I have come out from: yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, I know it in my soul, despite of this, The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer…
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
188 ORPHEUS And bring my lover from among the dead. Now in the blackness of the rocks that span The dolorous way I spy a golden thread Veined in the strength of the obsidian Flowing and growing, joining vein to vein, Like fresh blood in the arteries of man, Up to the very heart. And as I go Loosen the knees of anguish and grow dim The shattering flames of pain: the songs of woe Flicker and alter to a solemn hymn Chanted in slowest measure in deep awe. Now as a yew-tree sends a mighty limb Shooting to sunset, the black road’s black maw Gapes to …
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…I strive. But should I sit and rest One hour of dawn, and cry, ‘‘I will not go Another step without more sleep,” that blest' Dove flies away, the fountains are re- pressed, 1 J,e,, to serve as a direction. The grass is withered, and the angry sky Rages more fierce that day, and from the crest Of black foul mountains comes a bitter cry: ** He that returneth now shall in destruction die.” So I press on. day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high. So I depart upon the desert way, So I strive ever toward the copper sky, With lips burnt black and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 20
…tears relief. He knew the loss, the old head wise and grey Well to assoil him of his spirit’s grief, The twilight dangers of a boy’s dim way, His dragons to confront, his minotaurs to slay. Yet, when he knew himself the baronet, He took good order for the house, and bore Him as beseemed the master ; none may fret All are as well bestowed as aye before. His father’s eighty was with him fourscore. His father’s old advisers well he groups Into a closer company ; their lore He ardently acquires — he loops no loops, But — Bacon — grapples them to’s …
1899 · PDF PAGE 7
… and red, a hurtful avatar, Whose fatal forehead like itself is dun. It was no wonder when the second day Showed me a city on the desert way, Whose brazen gates.were open, where within _ I saw a statue for a sign of sin, And saw the people come to it and pray, Before its mouth set open for a gin. And seeing me, a clamour rose among — Their dwarfish crowds, whose barbarous harsh tongue Grated, a hateful sound ; they plucked me down, And mocked me through the highways of the town, And brought me where they sang to censers swung A grotesque hymn b…
1903 · PDF PAGE 77
…y and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart; He is tamed by the art of the sages, the magical art. No longer he burns and blisters, consumes and corrodes; He hath Muses nine for sisters; the holy abodes Of the maiden are open to him, for his wrath is grown still ; His eyes with weeping …
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
… 2 |M Fortuna Minor. Verchiel Sorath | © Be Lesser fortune, lesser aid, safes guard going out 6) os |v]: |e Via Muriel | Chashmodai |p i Way, journey CHAPTER II THE MODE OF DIVINING—MOTHERS—DAUGHTERS— NEPHEWS—WITNESSES—] UDGE—RECONCILER— PART OF FORTUNE TuInk fixedly of the demand ; with a pencil mark 16 lines of points or dashes. Find whether number of points in each line is odd or even. For odde; for even ee. Lines 1-4 give the first mother; lines 5-8 the second; and so on, EXAMPLE 4 3 2 x x0 seo oo ° 45 x oe 6 oe 6 "8 x0 * 9 . oe x 10 . 7 we…
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
…ld, discover medicine for dis- ease, and see hidden treasures.” All this is filth. What is the curse upon religion that its tenets must always be associated with every kind of extravaganceand falsehood? There is one exception; it is the A:. Ax., whose members are ex- tremely careful to make no statement at all that cannot be verified in the usual manner; or where this is not easy, at least avoid anything like a dogmatic statement. In Their second book of practical instruction, Liber 0, occur these words: “By doing certain things certain results w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 204
… leans on a long and heavy club, swelling at the lower end, where the sigil is placed; and it has flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the King or Queen Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping Flames of Fire. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. If ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering She rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the No…
1912 · PDF PAGE 204
… leans on a long and heavy club, swelling at the lower end, where the sigil is placed; and it has flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the King or Queen Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping Flames of Fire. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. If ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering She rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the No…