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Page 39 of 821944 · PDF PAGE 150
…OF CUPS The Knight of Cups represents the fiery part of Water, the swift passionate attack of rain and springs; more intimately, Water’s power of solution. He rules the Heavens from the 21st degree of Aquarius to the 20th degree of Pisces. He is clothed in black armour furnished with bright wings which, together with the leaping attitude of his white charger, indicates that he represents the most active aspect of Water. In his right hand he bears a cup from which is‐ sues a crab, the cardinal sign of Water, for aggressiveness. His totem is the …
1899 · PDF PAGE 108
…m outward to the snowy fruit Whose bloom to-night lay sleeping on her breast, As if a touch might stir the sunny nest, Break the spell’s power, and bid the spirit fly Who had come near to dwell with us. But I Bend through long hours above the dear twin life, Look from love’s guerdon to the lover-wife, And back again to that small face so sweet, And downwards to the little rosy feet,
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…TRIANGLES! IN THE PARCHMENT. Alpha and Omega. Thou, O great God, Who art the beginning and the end: Tetragrammaton. Thou God of Almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let Thy Holy Spirit and presence be now and always with us: Soluzen. I command thee, thou Spirit, of whatsoever region thou art, to come unto this circle: Halliza. And appear in human shape: Bellator (or Ballaton). And speak unto us audibly in our mother-tongue: Bellonoy (or Bellony). And show, and discover unto us all treasure that thou knowest of, o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 106
…tual Sun, which yet he beheld but darkly, to him now even the light of earth seems dark. Reason the rudder was long since unshipped; the power 01 his personality has broken down, yet under the tiny storm-sail 01 his Will to Adonai, the crazy bark holds way, steered by the car of Discipline— Yea, he holds his course. Adonail Adonai! is not the harbour yet in sight? He has returned home and burnt (as every night since its arrival) the holy incense of Abramelin the Mage. The atmosphere is full of vitality, sweetened and strengthened; the soul natu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 144
…n hair flows down upon her armour of scaled mail. She is seated upon a throne of flame, ordered into geometri‐ cal light by her material power. Beneath the throne the surging flames are steady. She bears a wand in her left hand; but it is topped with a cone suggestive of the mysteries of Bacchus. She is attended by a couchant leopard upon whose head she lays her hand. Her face expresses the ecstasy of one whose mind is well in‐drawn to the mystery borne beneath her bosom. The characteristics of the Queen are adaptability, persistent energy, cal…
1961 · PDF PAGE 146
… sayeth, assume the Mask of the Spirit, that thou mayst evoke it by Sympathy. But thou shalt appear in thy Glory only when she is in thy Power, and bewildered utterly by Ecstasy. This is a Mystery, o my Son, and of old times it was declared in the fable of Scylla and Charybdis, which are the Formula of the Rock and the Whirlpool. Now then meditate thou strictly upon his most worthy and adorable Arcanum, to thy Profit and Enlightenment. t
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…d? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…d? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
…e sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…bing bosom with a manlier breast That .. She submits , not to the god , but to the man . Within the god , the godhood vanishes ; for the power of love rules all , and the god once again becomes in carnated in the form of a divine man .” So the morning past And found them linked inexorably fast Each in the other's arms . Their lips are wed To drink the breezes from the fountain - head Of vers ' breath .3 Then all her senses leap to the melodious song of Zeus , a divine lyric ; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses : O lamp of love …
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…rowley states in Aceldama : The inmost is the home of God . He moulds Infinity , The great within the small , one stainless unity !! The power of the small is grandly described in the following : Yet ants may move the mountain ; none is small But he who stretches out no arm at all ; Toadstools have wrecked fair cities in a night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . …
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
…le experience) trace the chain. With neigh- bourhood-concentration this is not 50. Perhaps there is a chain, but so great already is the power of prevent- ing the impressions from rising into consciousness that one has no knowledge of the links, each one having been automatically slaughtered on the threshold of the consciousness. Of course, the honest and wary practitioner will have no difficulty in recognising the right kind of wandering; with this explanation there is no excuse for him if he does. I have another theory, though. Perhaps this is…
1922 · PDF PAGE 346
…e had taught him how: to negotiate the difficulty. As for Dionysus, his methods were entirely different. He had neither the intellectual power of the elder boy nor his prudence, and he climbed with a sort of tem- pestuous genius. | At the top of the tongue, the goat track bends suddenly to the right, under the wall, to a point where there is a breach where one can crawl through very comfortably. Here we rejoined the climbers. “To-morrow,” said Hermes, “I shall take you up the Great Gully,” with the air of a full-fledged alpine guide. Dionysus s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 386
…ok lays down no law. So far as one can see, it seems to adhere to "the good old rule, the simple plan that they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can." Now then, as to war. You need hardly have asked the question; the whole Book is alive with it; it thrills, it throbs, 353
1901 · PDF PAGE 47
…nd thou must envy me ! Gird all thy godhead to destroy a man Whose little moment is a single span, Whose small desire is nothing—and thy power Must root from out his bosom the fair flower Of passion ! Listen to thine own voice yet : “ A rich man many flocks and herds did get, “ And took the poor man’s lamb.” Thou art the man ! Our love must lie beneath thy bitter ban ! Thou petty, envious God ! My king, be sure His brute force shall not to the end endure ; Some stronger soul than thine shall wrest his crown And thrust him from his own high heav…
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
… a non-existent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Why should infinite power use such finite means, and very often fail even then?” * Encyclopedia Britannica. Art. Metaphysics. + The Principles of Mevaphysics, Macmillan.
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…t to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and sit down, coinciding with the physical body. Closely unite the two: the experiment is over. Practice makes perfect. This practice is delusive and even dangerous; it is best to precede and follow it by a carefully performed “ Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram…
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…t to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and sit down, coinciding with the physical body. Closely unite the two: the experiment is over. Practice makes perfect. This practice is delusive and even dangerous; it is best to precede and follow it by a carefully performed “ Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…, and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And pain is passion's flower ; When blood drips over kisses , And madness sobs through wine : Ah mine ! The snake starts up and hisses And strikes and I am thine !3 In the above we still find the now almost dead echo of his higher self , yet Venus entices him on , compar ing their fierce lust to the lukewarm affection of those little lovers who strip their maidens bare , “ A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…ing in the womb of Death ? Blistering fire runs , Scorching , terrific suns , Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour , 2 Ibid . vol .I, p . 236 . 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 234 . 3 Ibid . vol . I, p . 237 .