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Page 39 of 811907 · PDF PAGE 104
…e is fashioned like a moon; Her breasts are tongues of pointed jet ; Her belly of opal fairly hewn ; And round about her neck is set The holy rosary, skull by skull, Polished and grim and beautiful ! This jewelled shape of gold and bronze Is seated on my bosom’s throne ; She takes my muséd orisons To her, to her, to her alone. Oh Kali, Kali, Kali, quell This hooded hate, O Queen of Hell! iler ruby-studded brow is calm ; Her eyes shine like some sleepy flood ; Her breast is oliban and balm ; Her tongue lolls out, a-dripping blood ; She swings my…
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…ty , thrice, and again) and that was the Beas t, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that he had won into, and that s o hardly. For of this shall no man speak. Now therefore let it be spoken of our Father’s journeyings in the land of Vo 5 and of his sufferin therein, and of the founding of our holy and illustrious Order. Our Father, Brethren, having attained the mature age of three hundred 1 Kether adds up to 620. 2 These are the letters of A…
1909 · PDF PAGE 59
…nded in the bowers of your hair ! And saintship lurks in the colossal kiss. And blinded in the bower ook. . Loves are the letters of the holy word This is his truth, who seems to writhe and sob . . That contradicts the curse ’ Let Being be!” Beneath the earthquake pangs of your caress, . . Since all things, even one thing, are absurd ; Whose heart burns out in one volcanic throb, — And no thing is the utmost ecstasy. Whose life is eaten up of nothingness. This is his truth, and yours, that seem to be Mere beauteous bodies gripped in epicene And…
1913 · PDF PAGE 341
…who dies of starvation is a martyr, for he is like a soldier struck down in the battle of life. Those who die in defence of right are as holy in their sacrifice as the victims of duty, and in the great struggles and revolutions against power, martyrs fell equally on both sides. Right being the root of duty, our duty is to defend our rights. What is a crime? The exaggeration of a right. Murder 1 A mistranslation by monotheists. The Greek is veda 6 Oedg: “Spirit is God.”—TRANS, 43
1913 · PDF PAGE 341
…who dies of starvation is a martyr, for he is like a soldier struck down in the battle of life. Those who die in defence of right are as holy in their sacrifice as the victims of duty, and in the great struggles and revolutions against power, martyrs fell equally on both sides. Right being the root of duty, our duty is to defend our rights. What is a crime? The exaggeration of a right. Murder 1 A mistranslation by monotheists. The Greek is veda 6 Oedg: “Spirit is God.”—TRANS, 43
1919 · PDF PAGE 273
… about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. THE PEopLe. So mote it be. (THE LORD) Tue Deacon. Lord secret and most holy, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and 259
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
…ments of thought, But none is equal; this high head is bowed In vain to the wise God it would have wrought, Had not — Who sitteth on the Holy Throne Thereby must make himself to be alone. II] See! to be God is to be lost to’God. That which I cling to is my proper essence; Nor is there aught at any period That may endure the horror of my presence. I conjure up dim gods; how frail and thin! How fast they slip from this appalling level! This is the wage of the fellatrix Sin Drunk on the icy death-sperm of the Devil. I were a maniac did I contempla…
1910 · PDF PAGE 104
…ah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his tongue. For he said that in a certain holy meditation both Allah and himself were destroyed, and that nought re- mained, but only the consciousness of bliss.1 This is contrary to reason, for how can bliss exist, ex- cept as the quality of some person or sensible thing ? Nevertheless, these experiments which I have performed upon thy podex, solely with a view to investigating these statements,2 make for a similar conclusion. It is excessively annoy…
1919 · PDF PAGE 41
….A.. Liper D. SEPHER SEPHIROTH. A dictionary of Hebrew words arranged according to their numerical value. This is an Encyclopedia of the Holy Qabalah, which is a Map of the Universe, and enables man to attain its Perfect Under- standing. Lrper DCCLXXVII. Vet ProL—EGOMENA SYMBOLICA Ap Systemam Sceptico-Mystice Vize Explicandz, Funda- mentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientiz Sum- me. A complete Dictionary of the Correspondences of all magical elements, re-printed with extensive additions, mak- ing it the only standard comprehensive book of r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…great moon-crested waterfall With hammering heart. ’Tis like the rain of dew That quires to the angel stars. ’Tis like a bell Rung by an holy anchoret to summon Out of the labyrinths of heaven and hell Some grave, majestic, and deep-breasted woman To bring her naked body shining, shining With flowers of heaven or flames of Phlegethon Into his hermit cell, her love entwining Into his life with spells that murmur on Black words! For one thing be you sure the same My wine is as the music of your name! Marden. Believe me, mystic maiden 0’ mine, Tha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 36
… lovely nun accurst Devour us also. Gods enjoy the savour Who beats her breast upon the convent bars, Of Man's thanksgiving ; from their holy place Even so you suffer : let its draught restore Beholding mortals, they are wroth to see All lovers (that invoke the sad cold stars) Tears ; they rejoice to see a proud glad face Unto good luck : then you and I once more Master of itself and of eternity. (Though still we were forbidden word and kiss) Let us, reflecting on how dear we love, Might find a certain happiness in this. Shew laughter and coura…
1913 · PDF PAGE 41
… calm too great heat, by the letting of blood; and it is this weapon which is plunged into the side or heart of the Magician to fill the Holy Cup. Those faculties which come between the appetites and the reason are thus dealt with. The Chain is Salt : it servestobind thewanderingthoughts; and for this reason is placed about the neck of the Magician, where Daath is situated. These instruments also remind us of pain, death, and bondage. Students of the gospel will recollect that in the martyrdom of Christ these three were used, the dagger being r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 16
…lust more spiritual than life, that stings Till death and hell dissolve i’ the aftergust. So? But the Gods avert their faces, bend Their holy brows, and see — no-happy end.
1913 · PDF PAGE 454
…of his vestment, from the East to the West, sweeps the stars of the morning.” “ He had a very clean surcoat, and very white linen.” “The Holy Scripture says that one cannot see him and live.” “ He had a kind and jovial face.” “But how did you proceed in order to obtain these apparitions?” “Why, I did everything that it tells you to do in the gvimotre.” “What! Even the bloody sacrifice?” “ Doubtless.” 156
1913 · PDF PAGE 454
…of his vestment, from the East to the West, sweeps the stars of the morning.” “ He had a very clean surcoat, and very white linen.” “The Holy Scripture says that one cannot see him and live.” “ He had a kind and jovial face.” “But how did you proceed in order to obtain these apparitions?” “Why, I did everything that it tells you to do in the gvimotre.” “What! Even the bloody sacrifice?” “ Doubtless.” 156
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…perfumes Steal soft in the wake of the One that abides in the glooms. Walking he is, and slowly; thoughtful he seems, Pure and happy 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 ;…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
… of her sad garden, cold and clear And something overbitter and oversweet ? Or in the rout of Dionysus did Some Bassarid prophesy in her holy heat On such a draught as I for you have hid In this the Graal of mine enchaunted shrine To pour for you, o mystic maiden o’ mine?
1910 · PDF PAGE 52
40 THE EQUINOX And this—is this not the trunk he rended? But—oh! oh! oh!—the task transcended, Where is the holy idol that stood For the god of thy queen’s beatitude? Here is the tent—but where is the pole? Here is the body—but where is the soul? Nepti, sister, the work is undone For lack of the needed One! Lo! I lament. There is no god so far As mine Asar|! There is no hope, none, in the corpse, in the tomb. But these—what are these that war in my womb? There is vengeance and triumph at last of Maat In Ra-Hoor-Khut and in Hoor-pa-Kraat! Twins …
1910 · PDF PAGE 52
40 THE EQUINOX And this—is this not the trunk he rended? But—oh! oh! oh!—the task transcended, Where is the holy idol that stood For the god of thy queen’s beatitude? Here is the tent—but where is the pole? Here is the body—but where is the soul? Nepti, sister, the work is undone For lack of the needed One! Lo! I lament. There is no god so far As mine Asar|! There is no hope, none, in the corpse, in the tomb. But these—what are these that war in my womb? There is vengeance and triumph at last of Maat In Ra-Hoor-Khut and in Hoor-pa-Kraat! Twins …
1913 · PDF PAGE 84
…no one know the secret of your strength. Remember Samson ! Remember Guy Fawkes ! Of the methods of increasing Understanding those of the Holy Qabalah are perhaps the best, provided that the intellect is thoroughly awake to their absurdity, and never allows itself to be convinced.' Further meditation of certain sorts is useful : not the strict meditation which endeavours to still the mind, but such a meditation as Sam- masati.- On the exoteric side if necessary the mind should be trained by the study of any well-developed science, such as chemis…