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Page 38 of 1081961 · PDF PAGE 38
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 26 w De Differentia rerum (Of the Distinction of Things) UT, o my Son, although thine ultimate Nature be Universal, thine immediate Nature is Particular. Thy Way to the Centre is not oriented as that of any other Being, and thine elements are no kin, but alien, to his. For Shame! Is it not the most transcendent of all the Wisdoms of this Cosmos, that no two Beings are alike? Lo! This is the Secret of all Beauty, and maketh Love not only possible, but necessary, between every Thing and every other Thing. So then, lest thou in…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…ride! Away to ride Upon the nightmare’s wings ! The livid lightning’s wine we'll drink, And laugh for joy of life, and think Unutterable things ! The gallant caught the lady fair Below the arms that lay Curling in coils of yellow hair, And kissed her lips. ‘‘ Away !” The lover caught his mistress up And lifted her to heaven, Drank from her lips as from the cup Of poppies drowsed at even. ‘* Away, away, my lady may! The wind is fair and free ; Away, away, the glint of day Is faded from the ghostly grey That shines beyond the sea.” The lordly bri…
1905 · PDF PAGE 144
…ed out Hungary for gold, And shattered Greece to serve no noble ends. The traitors and the peoples and the kings That love not righteous things ; They shall behold our wrath, and find our anger stings. White slaves shall look up and behold a hight Grow in the islands of the sacred sea, And on the land whose forehead kisses night And has the dawn upon its wings, whose might Is mightier for the lips of Liberty Pressed on its new-born cheek, when Church and State Drove forth to baffle Fate Our sires and yours, whose fame is grown this year so grea…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
… an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student therefore beware lest in that idea be any trace of imperfection. It should be pure, balanced, calm, complete, fitted in every way to dominate the mind, as it will. Even as in the choice of a king to be …
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
… an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student therefore beware lest in that idea be any trace of imperfection. It should be pure, balanced, calm, complete, fitted in every way to dominate the mind, as it will. Even as in the choice of a king to be …
1913 · PDF PAGE 80
…e plane. But as the Wand is weak without breadth, so is the water false with- out depth. The Understanding of the Magus must include all things, and that understanding must be infinitely profound. ^ A—, the privative particle; mrita, mortal.
1914 · PDF PAGE 18
…ICAGO MAY See! what a love is child of that pure hate, ‘What hope the heritor of that despair! All I destroyed 1 save, I recreate. ‘What things shall be annihilate what were. Evil was made that good might come thereby, And life to show us it is good to die! Iv O love! O love! lost, lost beyond all hope! 1 plunged too deep within the mire! I strove To master worlds beyond my horoscope 1 sought out hate, and found it only love. I did invoke pure scorn, and lo! appears The pale veiled goddess of immortal tears. Vile, mean, debauched, a mass of muc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…ong the stars and ages; and her stature Soars o’er the system; so the scarred mis- feature Of death avails her for the isolation Of high things ever holy ; this the throe Of swiftly-comprehended motherhood Once taught her. Now the whisper of the child Bids her be great, who was supremely good. For, mark you! babes are ware of wiser things, And hold more arcane matters in their mild Cabochon eyes than men are ware of yet. VOL. IIT. Therefore have poets, lest they should forget, Likened the little sages unto kings. But look! the baby whispers—hus…
1905 · PDF PAGE 135
…of any cheer. Here, in caprice, in will divine, I see no perfect peace ; Here, in the Law’s impassive shrine, no hope is of release. All things escape me, all repine, all alter, ruin, cease. II But thou, O Lord, O Apollo, Must thou utterly change and pass ? Thy light be lost in the hollow ? Thy face as a maid’s in a glass Go out and be lost and be broken As the face of the maid is withdrawn, And thy people with sorrow unspoken Wait, wait for the dawn ? But thou, O Diana, our Lady, Shall it be as if never had been ?
1913 · PDF PAGE 240
…id air the live trams clash Through the Uncreated ... To and fro , and out and back ... . To sea ! To sea ! The ship is trim ... ... Two things I ask of you , and they are these ... Unutterably far , and still , and high ... Vague , unascertained , untravelled ... ... We children in our crowded home ... We glide and are still on the stream ... We served him with the sweat of many years We two are on the self - same planet ... . What are roses for , my Queen ... What longer hath she need of loveliness When gazing deep down in your eyes When love…
1944 · PDF PAGE 246
…an understanding of the Tarot through experience. It will not be sufficient for him to inten‐ sify his studies of the cards as objective things; he must use them; he must live with them. They, too, must live with him. A card is not isolated from its fellows. The reactions of the cards, their interplay with each other, must be built into the very life of the student. Then how is he to use them? How is he to blend their life with his? The ideal way is that of contemplation. But this involves initiation of such high degree that it is impossible to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…hysical bases as untenable as those of orthodoxy. There was no attempt to explain the origin of evil and similar difficulties. But these things were mysteries which would be revealed to the saint as he advanced in the way of grace. Anyhow, I was certainly not the person to cavil. The sublimity of the idea enthralled me; it satisfied my craving for romance and poetry. I determined with my whole heart to make myself worthy to attract the notice of this mysterious brotherhood. I yearned passionately for illumination. I could imagine nothing more e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…n, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations morning and evening, upon such simple objects as—a white triangle; a red cross; Isis; the simple Tatwas; a wand; and the like. I remained after some three weeks for 593} minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. Now I began also to consider more complex things: my little Rose Cross;+ the th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…n, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations morning and evening, upon such simple objects as—a white triangle; a red cross; Isis; the simple Tatwas; a wand; and the like. I remained after some three weeks for 593} minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. Now I began also to consider more complex things: my little Rose Cross;+ the th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
…dirge of moorlands ; Tempest, thunder, birds, and the breeze of summer Join to augment it. So the sound-world, filled of the fire of all things, Rolls majestic torrents of mighty music Through the stars where dwell the avenging spirits Bound in the whirlwind . . .
1911 · PDF PAGE 277
THE RITE OF MERCURY Power of the making of fair things. Sing ye unto your Shepherd! FR. GEMINI. [Rises and stands 62/07/12 MERCURY.] 0 Spirit, Ο Divine Messenger, Mighty One, most mighty circling and all comprehending Divine Bearer of the Wand, hail! Coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his sea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 277
THE RITE OF MERCURY Power of the making of fair things. Sing ye unto your Shepherd! FR. GEMINI. [Rises and stands 62/07/12 MERCURY.] 0 Spirit, Ο Divine Messenger, Mighty One, most mighty circling and all comprehending Divine Bearer of the Wand, hail! Coelestial, aethereal, inter-aethereal, water like, air like, fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his sea…
1944 · PDF PAGE 47
…tant feature of this card is that its number should be 0. It represents therefore the Negative above the Tree of Life, the source of all things. It is the Qabalistic Zero. It is the equation of the Universe, the initial and final balance of the opposites; Air, in this card, therefore quintessentially means a vacuum. In the medieval pack, the title of the card is Le Mat, adapted from the Italian Matto, madman or fool; the propriety of this title will be considered later. But there is another, or (one might say) a complementary, theory. If one as…
1905 · PDF PAGE 272
…stern names has been assimilated to the universal alphabet—e.g. Qabalah for Kabbala—with the permission of the author.| THE Evolution of Things is thus described by the Qabalists. First is Nothing, or the Absence of Things, }°%, which does not and cannot mean Negatively Existing (if such an Idea can be said to mean anything), as S. Liddell Macgregor Mathers, who misread the Text and stultified the Commentary by he Light of his own Ignorance of Hebrew and Philosophy, pretends in his Transla- tion of v. Rosenroth. Second is Without Limit 5) ]&, z…
1901 · PDF PAGE 75
… the king’s ? Here, from my finger drawn, this gem of power Shall guard thee in some unimagined hour. It hath strange virtue over mortal things. I freely give it for thy stirrup’s dower. ” I left the presence. Now the buffeting wind Gladdens my face—I leave the court behind. Am I Stark mad ? My face grows grim and grave ; I see—O Mary Mother, speak and save ! I stare and stare until mine eyes are blind— There was no jewel in the ring she gave ! Oh ! my pure heart ! Adulterous love began So subtly to identify the man With its own perfumed though…