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Page 43 of 1031912 · PDF PAGE 77
….) Sept. 21. Did a little Invocation. Inquiring how to invoke A got the instant reply “ Oflml”—and only saw later that this was the same old order as before. Which confirms it: discard methods, rituals, etc. (and their contradictions), but do it Often! 22. D. D. S. visits me. Celebration of the Autumnal Equinox. ,, 23. Celebration of the Autumnal Equinox. 24—30. (During this period Fra. P. was preparing, under the guidance of D. D. S., a certain ritual of initiation. This was to combine the Eastern and the Western methods. The mind, exalted, for…
1929 · PDF PAGE 228
another cottage where that old Belgian mystic lives — the friend of Maeterlinck! ha! ha! He's really von Walder, a Dresdener. And he is in charge of another cable — underground three hundred [320] miles, thanks to Becasseux, who helped us with the road squads, to a place which by now is firmly in the hands of the Crown Prince. So all you have to do is to tell your man to sit and pretend to meditate — and tap. I shall send you plenty of information from the front. You will know my agents by a nick filed in a trouser-button. Each message will hav…
1954 · PDF PAGE 77
… you has been familiar to many of the great minds of humanity for many centuries. Indeed, the Qabalah is a special language, and that is old enough; there is not much new material to fit into that structure. But why did they, in the first place, resort to this symbolic jargon? You put it very well, and when I think it over, I feel far from sure that the explanation which I am about to inflict 44
1899 · PDF PAGE 18
…ness, life beyond the tomb! Manhood reluctant from religion’s womb Leaps, and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken; yet the impure fierce fire Kindles the grievous furnace of desire Still for the harpy brood of king and priest, Slave, harlot, coward, that make human feast Before the desecrated god, in hells Of darkness, where the mitred vampire dwells, Where still death reigns, and God and priests are fed, Man’s blood for wine, man’s flesh for meat and bread, The lands of mu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 211
… me, that sang, that sang to me Sprang from the underworld of Eld; the moon That circled in the heavens sang to me. And I that heard the olden monstrous lays Of eld, the dreaming wonders of the dawn, Died, and still lie imprisoned in the rocks By the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, But being dumb, as is the doom of man. For nightfall is delight of Eld, and I Wander bareheaded under the dark sky; Calling and calling from the windy deeps, The olden Night still draws me: moonlight weeps For sunlight faded in the dark ; the sun Is under the d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 211
… me, that sang, that sang to me Sprang from the underworld of Eld; the moon That circled in the heavens sang to me. And I that heard the olden monstrous lays Of eld, the dreaming wonders of the dawn, Died, and still lie imprisoned in the rocks By the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, But being dumb, as is the doom of man. For nightfall is delight of Eld, and I Wander bareheaded under the dark sky; Calling and calling from the windy deeps, The olden Night still draws me: moonlight weeps For sunlight faded in the dark ; the sun Is under the d…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…s right Is as bad as having a funk on; Then why should we wait till Saturday night To get all kinds of a drunk on? With brandy a century old in sight, Why should we wait till Saturday night? If I havent a house on the Grand Parade, Ill build me a hut of wattle. The corkscrew seems to have got mislaid? Then smash the neck of the bottle! Courage and will and a whack will aid, Though the corkscrew seem to have got mislaid. Anatomists say that a single wing Isnt much for a bird to fly on. Theres not much ginger about the spring Of the fiercest …
1954 · PDF PAGE 378
…nness; at least, I would like to bet that 95 percent of mean people originally became so because they foresaw a friendless and penniless old age. And fear is particularly forbidden in the Book: III: 16: "fear not to undergo the curses." Waxing in wrath , III: 17 goes on: "Fear 345
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
421 Christ crown the work! Here is the blessing that He gave thee. 6. After both second and fourth feet: Come, let me hold my crystal cross up to the moon! A guess of gold were at a loss to tell its tune. 7. After the first and fifth feet: No news! No word of Mortadello's fate! No hope To bruise the head of the old snake, the State. No scope. 8. After the first half foot and the second foot: Come, save me, save Thy Maiden! Strike each barbed dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart. 9. After the fifth foot: Last, to the lords who…
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
…n the Sanctuary; it only became public when the secret lection issued to members of the Grade of Practicus of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was published as a result of the catastrophe attending the English branch of the Order in 1899 and 1900, e.v., and the reconstruction of the whole Order in March and April, 1904, e.v. By putting the card marked 0 in its proper place, where any mathematician would have put it, the attributions fall into a natural order which is confirmed by every investigation. There was, however, one kink in the rop…
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 85 Dear old chap! responded Basil, with a warm pressure of the hand. Open the whisky, and you’ll feel better! Which being gone about, the irrepressible doctor broke in with a story of his youth. I will never assent to murder, said he. It’s inartistic. I dined forty years ago in the Apennines with an Italian Prince, and he entirely converted me. I put down his words in verse. They are being pub lished by the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. If a supreme aesthete like the Prince botches it (this is th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 319
…worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the New Covenant. Then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. They will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have wept so long. IV THE QUATERNARY Tue Quaternary is the number of force. It is the ternary completed by its product, the rebellious unity reconciled to the sovereign trinity. In the first fury of life, man, having forgotten…
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…s ecclesiastic was furnished with a letter of recommen- dation conceived in these terms : “‘DEAR MASTER, “This is to introduce to you an old savant, who wants to gabble Hebrew sorcery with you. Receive him like myself—I mean as I myself received him—by getting rid of him in the best way you can. “ Entirely yours, in the sacrosanct Qabalah, “ Ap. DESBARROLLES.” “ Reverend sir,” said Eliphas, smiling, after having read the letter, “I am entirely at your service, and can refuse nothing to the friend who writes to me. You have then seen my excellen…
1913 · PDF PAGE 319
…worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the New Covenant. Then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. They will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have wept so long. IV THE QUATERNARY Tue Quaternary is the number of force. It is the ternary completed by its product, the rebellious unity reconciled to the sovereign trinity. In the first fury of life, man, having forgotten…
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…s ecclesiastic was furnished with a letter of recommen- dation conceived in these terms : “‘DEAR MASTER, “This is to introduce to you an old savant, who wants to gabble Hebrew sorcery with you. Receive him like myself—I mean as I myself received him—by getting rid of him in the best way you can. “ Entirely yours, in the sacrosanct Qabalah, “ Ap. DESBARROLLES.” “ Reverend sir,” said Eliphas, smiling, after having read the letter, “I am entirely at your service, and can refuse nothing to the friend who writes to me. You have then seen my excellen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
value is calculated to twenty-eight places of decimals. But hardly had he laid down these bold outlines of his scheme when interruption came. On the fourth day of our intercourse he signalled only Wait. Watch me! again and again. In the evening he manoeuvred to get to the rear of the line of convicts, and only then dragged out There is a traitor, a spy. Henceforth I must find a new means of communicating the details of my plan. I have thought it all out. I shall speak in a sort of rebus, which not even you will be able to understand unless…
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
…ere is no comfort nor defence nor peace From thee (and all thy malice) in the world : Thou sittest through the aching centuries Like the old serpent in his horror curled Ready to strike, strike home —and yet not striking Till thou hast lipped the victim to thy liking!
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
… as the jackal’s ! Nay ! But come to me, Habib ! I will cherish thee as my life ; I will take thee in my garden and love thee ever as of old. El Qahar will make new songs for thee, till thy fame standeth for ever among men, as the sun standeth in the sky, not to be denied.6 So sayeth El Qahar. 1. Often the case in Persia. 2. Often the case in Persia. 3. Karenian — proverbial expression. (Write this up fully). (Major Lutiy did not live long enough to accomplish this intention and we cannot trace the phrase. Possibly it is more Indian than Persia…
1928 · PDF PAGE 106
…acity to cry, in an access of familiarity which did not seem to dis- please him, as I clutched a brimming cup,To your immortal health, old goat! We talked also of the Universe, of its crea- tion and its future destruction; of the great idea of this centuryI mean Progress and Per- fectibilityand in general of every form of hu- man infatuation. On that subject His Highness was inexhaustible in light and unanswerable jests, and expressed himself in a suavity of speech and a calm in jest-making that I have never found in any of the most famous…
1901 · PDF PAGE 91
…k on the life that stirs your hair : Every hair was alive with a spark of midnight’s delicate flame, Or a glow of the nether fire, or an old illustrious shame. Many, so many, were ye to make one Womanhood— A thing of fire and flesh, of wine and glory and blood, In whose rose-orient texture a golden light is spun, A gossamer scheme of love, as water in the sun Flecked by wonderful bars, most delicately crossed, Worked into wedded beauties, flickering, never lost— That is the spirit of love, incarnate in your flesh ! Your bodies had wearied me, b…