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Page 39 of 1971919 · PDF PAGE 374
…e cities, to Devas, men and Gods. Reference is here made to the attainment of the Buddha. It was only after he had abandoned the Ascetic Life that he attained, and so far from manifesting that attainment by non-action, he created a revolution in India by attacking the Caste system, and by preaching his law created a Karma so violent that even to-day its primary force is still active. The present ‘Buddha,’ the Master Therion, is doing a similar, but even greater work, by His proclamation: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 32. Sow …
1899 · PDF PAGE 241
…thee, God, to weapon me With this keen fire, That I may set this people free As my desire ; That the white lilies of our liberty Grow on Life’s crags still higher, Till on the loftiest peaks their blossom flower, The rampart of a people and their power.
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…’s prophet loose my nails I’ll gibe no more at prophet’s whales. PUBLIUS I loathe and despise all kinds of fiction Whether or no it ease life’s friction. AGRIPPA Anoint the next fair lambkin’s fleece With rock-sand in the stead of grease. PUBLIUS He speaks again. ISSA Forgive me, brothers ! I knew not what I did. PUBLIUS His mother’s Here; wants the body.
1907 · PDF PAGE 319
…ld round the key which opens the treasure house is Ecstasy . Myself being idle for an hour I dare one thing to speculate : Namely , that life hath cusps yet higher On this our curve : a prize , a power Lies in our grasp : unthinking Fate Shall build a brain to nestle nigher Under the ultimate Truth : I burn To live that later lives may learn . Wisdom and Love , intenser glow ! Beauty and strength , increase and burn Be brothers to the law of life ! Things as they are — their nature know !
1954 · PDF PAGE 283
250 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. (6-8) For I am perfect, being Not ; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the K…
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
…the Holy Qabalah. A SHORT EXPLANATION OF THE ATTRIBUTIONS HERE SET FORTH WITH NINE ILLUSTRATIVE DIAGRAMS LIST OF DIAGRAMS 1. The Tree of Life, with the attribution 5. The Numbers of the Planets. of the Sephiroth and paths. 6. The Elements and their symbols. 2. The Tarot on the Tree of Life. 7. The Elemental Weapons. 3. The Yî King on the Tree of Life. 8. The Sphinx. 4. The Caduceus of Hermes. 9. The Essential Dignities of the Planets.
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
… the depth ; the Voice begotten said : “ Divided be thy ways and limited ! ” Answered the reflux and the indrawn breath : “ Let there be Life , and Death !” ? Worthy of the author of “ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell !” “ Let there be Life and Death ,” and the link between these two is Love . Here we will give but one or two curious examples , dealing with the great songs of love in the next chapter . As a singer of love - songs Aleister Crowley excels . The following is from “ The Star and the Garter " : Your lips are gathered up to mine ; You…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
… before his feet... Tabard was sitting in the verandah. The men had gone to bed, the women also. He lighted his pipe, the use of which a life in the open air had permitted his lungs to tolerate. He was thinking, pondering, meditating upon the most important matter in life, the personal one. He looked at his hands, white, well shaped, well kept, but the left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and looked at the time of night. * For reasons which are obvious to anyone who has mi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
… before his feet... Tabard was sitting in the verandah. The men had gone to bed, the women also. He lighted his pipe, the use of which a life in the open air had permitted his lungs to tolerate. He was thinking, pondering, meditating upon the most important matter in life, the personal one. He looked at his hands, white, well shaped, well kept, but the left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and looked at the time of night. * For reasons which are obvious to anyone who has mi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
ACTUS SECUNDUS Till the Three Worlds flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy! JASON. It is enough! HERACLES. Too great for a god’s strength! THESEUS. Speak! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death! ORPHEUS, Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. “This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. JASON. Nay, brother. The voice was: “The end is sorrow!”
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
THE EQUINOX Rw. J. |Rw. J. |RW. J. |RW. J. (RW. J. ee ee rd oe wet Pra ra Laetitia : : oe : : ae ard Life, &c. 1 | Good | Med. | Med. | Evil | Med. | Med. | Med. | Good land long} Money, &c, 2 \Increase| Evil Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. Med. Rank, &c. 3 Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Good | Evil | Med. | Med. dignity Property 4| Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Good | Evil | Med. Evil Wife, &c. 5| Good | Med. Med, Evil Good Evil Med. | Good Sex of Child 6] Son Dau. Dau. 5 Son 5 Son 5 Sickness 7 | Health} x1 Asc. | Danger-| Health} Health} Health 5 o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 157
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY J. [Rw. J. [RW. J. [RW. J. [RW. J. [RAW. J. (RW. J Fortuna Major Life, &c. 1| Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med. | Med. | Good | Med. Money, &c. 2| Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med. | Med. | Good | Med. Rank, &c. 3| Possi- | Evil | Good | Good | Good | Med. | Good | Good bility good Property 4| Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med, | Med. | Good | Evil Wife, &c. 5 | Good | Evil | Good | Good | Good | Evil | Good | Evil Sex of Child 6 5 Son Son 5 Son Dau. 5 5 Sickness 7 | Health| Health| Good | Asc. | Health |Perilous) Health | He…
1909 · PDF PAGE 157
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY J. [Rw. J. [RW. J. [RW. J. [RW. J. [RAW. J. (RW. J Fortuna Major Life, &c. 1| Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med. | Med. | Good | Med. Money, &c. 2| Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med. | Med. | Good | Med. Rank, &c. 3| Possi- | Evil | Good | Good | Good | Med. | Good | Good bility good Property 4| Good | Evil | Good | Med. | Med, | Med. | Good | Evil Wife, &c. 5 | Good | Evil | Good | Good | Good | Evil | Good | Evil Sex of Child 6 5 Son Son 5 Son Dau. 5 5 Sickness 7 | Health| Health| Good | Asc. | Health |Perilous) Health | He…
1919 · PDF PAGE 355
…taken in its literal sense. Hunger is not conquered by starvation. One’s attitude to all the necessities which the traditions of earthly life involve should be to rule them, neither by mortification nor by indulgence. In order to do the work you must keep in proper physical and mental condition. Be sane. Asceticism always excites the mind, and the object of the Disciple is to calm it. However, ascetic originally meant athletic, and it has only acquired its modern meaning on account of the corruptions that crept into the practices used by those …
1919 · PDF PAGE 421
THE SEVEN PORTALS This passage also appears to have reference to the early life of the Student—hence he is specially warned against fear. Fear is, of course, the first of the pylons through which one passes in the Egyptian system. It is important then to arrange one’s life in such a way that one never al- lows one thing to interfere with another, and one never makes trouble for oneself. The method given in “Thien Tao” is the best to employ. 31. Fear, O Disciple, kills the will and stays all action. If lacking in the Shila virtue—the pilgrim tri…
1922 · PDF PAGE 249
… in his breast. I understood immediately what I had to do. It was impossible to send for a doctor. The scandal of the suicide would make life impossible ever after, and he would immediately discover that it was due to dope. The burden must be on my own shoulders. I must nurse my boy back to life. I remember that I had been too weak to walk down from the north tower. I climbed to the balustrades and gasped, and slid myself, sitting, from step to step. I was almost blind, too. My eyes seemed unable to focus on anything. | But the moment I saw wha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
… man's forgiveness ; then struck with the horror of the still small voice , he bids God break his unrepentant will , and let the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame , fling back the gates of Dis ! This is the true conquest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial pageant faded , leave not a rack behind .” Yet how d…
1909 · PDF PAGE 30
3.15. 3.30. 345. 28 THE EQUINOX Yet now—ah now 1—1 am but a dead man. Within me and without still stirs that life of sense that is not life, but is as the worms that {east upon my corpse. . . . Adonail Adonai! my Lord Adonai! indeed, Thou hast forsaken me. Nay! thou liest, O weak soul! Abide in the meditation; unite all thy symbols into the form of a Lion, and be lord of thy jungle, travelling through the servile Universe even as Man the Lion very lordly, the Sun in His strength that travelleth over the heaven of Nu in His bark in the mid-caree…
1901 · PDF PAGE 106
…n the vast profound Still burns the rescuing sign ; Beyond all sight and sense and sound The symbol flames divine. For He shall make all life, all death, His solitary shrine.
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…garded as frag- mentary and absurd, even as the remembrance of a dream is to the waking man. Can we not conceive then of a ‘‘dreamless ” life, of 1 Mahasatipa¢¢hana (Sec. VIII.) does admit this perhaps. Yet its very object is to correct consciousness on the lines indicated by reason. which our dreams are the vague and dis- turbed transition to normal consciousness ? The physiological evidence goes literally for nothing. Even were it proved that the recipio-motor apparatus of a ‘‘ dreamless ” sleeper was relatively quiescent, would that supply a…