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Page 44 of 781913 · PDF PAGE 164
… ANGEL.” All beyond that is useless till that has been done. Here, then, the task of the writers of this book. 7he Temple of Solomon the King, may end. The progress of a man has been described in detail with the documents reproduced verbatim. It is of no concern to any man, least of all to him, whether that account of his attainment is accepted. What is urgent for each man is that the message should be accepted. And this message, whether it be interpreted in Tiphareth, the attainment of the Heart, or 124
1913 · PDF PAGE 333
… falls; and the column of smoke and flame, which goes before a freed people, advances majestically into the desert. Christ is priest and king by intelligence and by love. He has received the holy unction, the unction of genius, faith and virtue, which is force. He comes when the priesthood is worn out, when the old symbols have no more virtue, when the beacon of intelligence is extinguished. He comes to recall Israel to life, and if he cannot galvanize Israel, slain by the Pharisees, into life, he will resurrect the world given over to the dead…
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…ain Christians, the Emperor Julian, we say, understood better than Dupuis and Volney the symbolic worship of the sun. In his hymn to the king, Helios, he recognizes that the star of day is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…he night wind blows Fresh gusts of passion on the outer gate. But we, in waves of frenzy, concentrate Our thirsty mouths on that hot drinking cup, Whence we may never suck the nectar up Too often or too hard ; fresh fire invades Our furious veins, and the unquiet shades Of night make noises in the darkened room. Yet, did I raise my head, throughout the gloom I might behold thine eyes as red as fire A tigress maddened with supreme desire ; White arms that clasp me; fervent breast that glides An eager snake, about my breast and sides ; Teeth keen…
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…LIX. Goetia Demons, &c. (Cadent). book in right hand Like Agares JY, yan | 15 Lion with ass’s head, bellowing . .@. . 3pbyy | 16 Crowned king on dromedary, accompanied by many musicians ©. PWO'NH | 17 Leopard’s head and gryphon’s wings YY - —TMMw) 18 A knight with a lance and banner, with a serpent . .@. woe | 19 A strong man with a serpent’s tail, on a pale horse .@. - PARI 20 Human-faced bull .d and % . . prn| 22 A black crane with a sore throat—he flutters an - "35 | 24 A monster [probably a dolphin] . . SO and ww... 99] 25 Seamonster .. wv.…
1912 · PDF PAGE 90
…me unworthy of the love of God ! me stained With every sin, and bruised with every rod ! me drained Of all things, given up to the great King ! me brought By infinite mercy to his banqueting, me wrought Out of myself, out of all earthly taint ! Me shod Even with the silver sandals of a saint of God ! ALESSANDRO. She is with God, not upon earth ! A CITIZEN. Ask for her prayers. MONICA. Thy will be done, thy will, O God, not mine or theirs ! Purge me of will ! It was my wicked will that kept Me back so long, so long, from rousing That which slept…
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…the wild swan said : “ How shall I come up thither ? " I will guide thee.?].י The Swan : Who art thou? I: My Father is the keeper of the King’s Cup: I have prepared a little ship wherein I may go my journeys upon the great river. Who will draw it? The Swan: I will draw it. So we set forth together; and of the horrible tempests that arose it is unworthy discourse. And of what followed after is discourse unprofitable; but the wild swan still guides my ship. 64
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…the wild swan said : “ How shall I come up thither ? " I will guide thee.?].י The Swan : Who art thou? I: My Father is the keeper of the King’s Cup: I have prepared a little ship wherein I may go my journeys upon the great river. Who will draw it? The Swan: I will draw it. So we set forth together; and of the horrible tempests that arose it is unworthy discourse. And of what followed after is discourse unprofitable; but the wild swan still guides my ship. 64
1954 · PDF PAGE 283
…y 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 King are not of me; for there is a further secret. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. ( 15-16) I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. (22) I am alone: there is no God where I am. (23) I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. I…
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
…Omar and my brothers —the whole wing was destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. God has punished mylie, making you—the token of love—the minister of revenge So then—— be he avenged ! [She strih…
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
…Omar and my brothers —the whole wing was destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. God has punished mylie, making you—the token of love—the minister of revenge So then—— be he avenged ! [She strih…
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…r ! How soon hast thou forgot thy troth of faith ! Consider, chuck, the toast has but this weight, That thou and I are friends, and that King Death Is friend of both, and will not harvest us Before the time of our ripe harvest comes."’ We have surely said enough to establish clearly the abominable character of this book. We are sure that the moment it is brought to the notice of Lord Alfred Douglas he will take the proper steps to crush the perpetrator. The title-page discloses, as might be expected, both the title of the book and the name of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
… next two years he had reduced the Universe to the Yang and the Yin and their permutations in the trigrams of Fo-hi and the hexagrams of King Wu. In the last year be abolished the Yang and the Yin, and became united with the great Tao. All this was very satisfactory to Kwaw. But even his iron frame had become somewhat impaired by the unvarying diet of tinned pro visions; and it was perhaps only by virtue of this talisman
1912 · PDF PAGE 305
…ical MSS,, on I.A.’s departure for Ceylon inי899!? Frater Perdurabo used it, and largely added to it, in the course of his Qabalistic workings. With George Cecil Jones (Fra Volo Noscere) he further added to it by making it a complete cross-correspondenceto the Book DCCLXXVII, It was further revised and checked, re-copied by a Jewish scribe, and again checked through, in the year V of the present Era. The mathematical additions were continued by Fra P, and Fra Lampada Tradam; and the MS. finally copied on a specially constructed typewriter by Ger…
1912 · PDF PAGE 305
…ical MSS,, on I.A.’s departure for Ceylon inי899!? Frater Perdurabo used it, and largely added to it, in the course of his Qabalistic workings. With George Cecil Jones (Fra Volo Noscere) he further added to it by making it a complete cross-correspondenceto the Book DCCLXXVII, It was further revised and checked, re-copied by a Jewish scribe, and again checked through, in the year V of the present Era. The mathematical additions were continued by Fra P, and Fra Lampada Tradam; and the MS. finally copied on a specially constructed typewriter by Ger…
1922 · PDF PAGE 276
… AID WHEN I woke, the winter sun was already high. It streamed upon my face through the glass skylight of the studio. The sensation of waking was itself a revelation. For months past I had been neither awake nor asleep ; simply passing from the state of greater to one of less unconsciousness. But this was a definite act. King Lamus had gone out, and Lala had only just returned, for she was taking off her furs as I woke. I had been covered with blankets. She came and took them off, and told me it was time to go and get my things from Greek Stree…
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING must be learnt from the Guru himself, and though, as we are told in the ‘“ Pradipika,” a theoretical study of crores of Shastras cannot throw any light upon it, yet nevertheless in the “Shiva Sanhita” the difficulty seems to be solved by standing on one’s head.* 10. Shakti Chalana Mudra. Let the wise Yogi forcibly and firmly draw up the goddess Kundalini sleeping in the Adhar lotus, by means of the Apana-Vayu. This is Shakti- Chalan Mudra. . . .t The “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” is very obscure on this Mudra, it says: A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING must be learnt from the Guru himself, and though, as we are told in the ‘“ Pradipika,” a theoretical study of crores of Shastras cannot throw any light upon it, yet nevertheless in the “Shiva Sanhita” the difficulty seems to be solved by standing on one’s head.* 10. Shakti Chalana Mudra. Let the wise Yogi forcibly and firmly draw up the goddess Kundalini sleeping in the Adhar lotus, by means of the Apana-Vayu. This is Shakti- Chalan Mudra. . . .t The “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” is very obscure on this Mudra, it says: A…
1911 · PDF PAGE 168
…fail. It is indeed self— destructive. To exclude the authors of the Bhagavadgita, the Voice of the Silence, Konx Om Fax, and the Tao Teh King is to exclude by implication St Teresa, To deny Crowley is to deny Christ. Similarly, the attempt to define Magic in terms contrary to its tradition, is sectarian folly, I may disagree with Huxley, but I shall not confute him by saying that he was a bigoted opponent of Evolution. Roosevelt, in calling Thomas Paine a dirty little Atheist, when he was demonstrably a clean tall Deist, established only the rec…
1911 · PDF PAGE 168
…fail. It is indeed self— destructive. To exclude the authors of the Bhagavadgita, the Voice of the Silence, Konx Om Fax, and the Tao Teh King is to exclude by implication St Teresa, To deny Crowley is to deny Christ. Similarly, the attempt to define Magic in terms contrary to its tradition, is sectarian folly, I may disagree with Huxley, but I shall not confute him by saying that he was a bigoted opponent of Evolution. Roosevelt, in calling Thomas Paine a dirty little Atheist, when he was demonstrably a clean tall Deist, established only the rec…