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Page 48 of 1061909 · PDF PAGE 95
…’s coming—the vision of Khephra, etc. It was perhaps this subtle self-satisfaction that lost me . . . so I fell to the shocking abyss of last night! The Dweller of the Threshold is never visible until after one has fallen; he is a Veiled God and smites like the Evil Knight in Malory, riding and slaying—and no man seeth him. But when you are tumbled headlong into Hell, where he lives, then he unveils his Face, and blasts you with its horror! Very good, John St. John, now you knowl You are plain John St. John, and you have to climb right up again…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
…bs of Yoga: morality and virtue, control of body, thought, and force, leading to concen- tration, meditation, and rapture. Only when the last of these has been attained, and itself refined upon by removing the gross and even the fine objects of its sphere can the causes, subtle and coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hardly sown, of continued existence be grasped and annihilated, so Gite the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction. of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 93
…n and the Huntress is shewn by the shape of the bow, and the occult signifi‐ cance of Sagittarius is the arrow piercing the rainbow; the last three paths of the Tree of Life make the word Qesheth, a rainbow, and Sagittarius bears the arrow which pierces the rain‐ bow, for his path leads from the Moon of Yesod to the Sun of Tiphareth. (This explanation is highly technical; but this is necessary because the card represents an important scientific formula, which cannot be expressed in language suited to common comprehension.) This card represents …
1954 · PDF PAGE 231
…, 27 Structure of Mind Based on That of Body Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Was the sudden cloudburst at the end of my last letter somewhat of a surprise, and more than somewhat of a shock? Cheer up! The worst is yet to come. It is surely the wise course to accept the plain facts; to try to explain them away, or to excuse them, is certain to involve one in a maelstrom of sophistry; and when, despite these laudable efforts, the facts jump up and land a short jab to the point, one is even worse off than before. This has to be sa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
THE STAR AND THE GARTER 19 ‘See art: see truth as I who see, (Am wellnigh fallen in the fight !) Then the last lie, duality, May break before the victor sight. Then, and then only, That. Sweet hours Of trivial passion deep as death, Ye are past: I'face the solemn powers Of sex and soul, of brain and breath. For you I lift the veil: discover The actual, for I was your lover. What should such word imply? I showed Late, in the earlier dithyramb. But—in yon stone there lurks a toad !— The Quarter bleats no palinode ; Goat it may be, no woolly lamb.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…twins of rapture. [persian] Ha My member retardeth his ejection8 in thy podex, prolonging our pleasure ; he is the first therein and the last, like Israfel9 among trumpeters, as- suaging thy desire. My member manifesteth himself erect and beau- tiful and concealeth himself forthwith in thy po- dex ; for he is the fosterer of all thy beauty, like an harlot attiring herself, assuaging thy desire. He is the tallest of all members, and charitable toward thy podex ; he turneth the heart of thy po- dex to him, and avengeth Sodom10 therein, pouring do…
1912 · PDF PAGE 123
…eed : long live the fair Princess ! Her reign shall be the seed and flower of our success ! A CITIZEN. We have seen troublous times : at last good fortune smiles ! Heres glory to the Angel of the City of the Isles ! [MONICA assumes throne ; all applaud and do homage, MONICA comes forward and kneels be- fore THE LEGATE. MONICA. Now glory be to God, and glory to His Son, And glory to His Spirit, the eternal Three in One ! I humbly kneel and swear all truth and faith to keep, All power of all my prayer, all vigil to your sleep ! [COUNT ALESSANDRO…
1912 · PDF PAGE 93
HIS SECRET SIN [mu/{6612’ !!!/!1127571811 to Alexander Can/e. THEODORE BUGG had made England what she is. The last forty—two years had elevated him from errand-boy to biggest retail grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear conscience, a five- year old grave to keep in order “To the memory of my beloved relict," as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 93
HIS SECRET SIN [mu/{6612’ !!!/!1127571811 to Alexander Can/e. THEODORE BUGG had made England what she is. The last forty—two years had elevated him from errand-boy to biggest retail grocer in the Midlands. Twenty-eight years of wedded happiness had left him with a clear conscience, a five- year old grave to keep in order “To the memory of my beloved relict," as he had written until the clerk suggested a trifling alteration, and a strapping daughter just turned twenty. I wish I could stop here. But there is a rough side to every canvas, and Theodo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
… holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced ex‐ actly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience is absorbed, transmuted, and ultimately passed on, by virtue of the operation of the Sword, to further manifestation. This all takes place within the diamond formed by the figure which is the concealed Vesica Piscis through which this sublimated and adj…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…for investigating, and learning to bring under our control, all the divergent phenomena of our prison, a work which we undertake that at last we may be able to break down the walls, and find that freedom which an inconsiderate Inversion has denied. ‘The mystical precepts of pseudo-Zoroaster, Buddha, Gankaracharya, Pseudo-Christ and the rest, are for advanced students only, for direct attack on the problem. Our servants, the soldiers, lawyers, all forms of government, make this our nobler work possible, and it is the gravest possible mistake to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 134
…ms or so—two or three short stories—odds and ends of one sort and another: it’s a miserable record, though the Tragedy is good enough to last a life. It marks an epoch in literature, though nobody else will guess it for fifty years yet. The travel, too, has been rubbish. It’s been a petty, peddling year. The one absolute indication is: on no account live otherwise than alone. But it is 1035; these considerations, though in a way pertaining to the Work, are not the Work itself. Let me begin to inflame myselfinfraying! The Twelfth Day When therefor…
1909 · PDF PAGE 195
… hath four Letters showing its Elemental Constitution, and its Key is 17—also Hope—Hope in the Earth as there is Hope in Heaven. And the last letter of the verse is ¥ (the letter of Hope), by Qabalah of Nine Chambers that number which con- tains in itself all the properties of Protean Matters: howsoever you may multiply it the Key of its Numbers is ever 9. Fitting Symbol of ever-changing matter which ever in its essence is One—one and alone! Thus with the first appearance of the number of Matter does the first verse of B’rasheth close: formulat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 354
…air-haired lad, Who frequently sucked his finger— Son of CEdan, son of Audan, The paw of the big red-haired lad Who badly kept the watch last night. The watchman surmised that the beautiful woman who now stood before him was a “spirit from the vasty deep,” and 346
1909 · PDF PAGE 195
… hath four Letters showing its Elemental Constitution, and its Key is 17—also Hope—Hope in the Earth as there is Hope in Heaven. And the last letter of the verse is ¥ (the letter of Hope), by Qabalah of Nine Chambers that number which con- tains in itself all the properties of Protean Matters: howsoever you may multiply it the Key of its Numbers is ever 9. Fitting Symbol of ever-changing matter which ever in its essence is One—one and alone! Thus with the first appearance of the number of Matter does the first verse of B’rasheth close: formulat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 354
…air-haired lad, Who frequently sucked his finger— Son of CEdan, son of Audan, The paw of the big red-haired lad Who badly kept the watch last night. The watchman surmised that the beautiful woman who now stood before him was a “spirit from the vasty deep,” and 346
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
…and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the liberty of duty, Then there will be no more than one religion in the world, the Christian and universal religion, the true Catholic …
1913 · PDF PAGE 340
…and the strongest bond of human association, and to perform an act of religion is to perform an act of humanity.” When men understand at last that one must not dispute about things about which one is ignorant, When they feel that a little charity is worth more than much influence and domination, When the whole world respects what even God respects in the least of His creatures, the spontaneity of obedience and the liberty of duty, Then there will be no more than one religion in the world, the Christian and universal religion, the true Catholic …
1922 · PDF PAGE 346
…to the top of the rock. It was both exhilarating and disheartening to see the way the two boys scrambled from boulder _ to boulder. _ At last we reached the top. The two brethren who had carried up the provisions in knapsacks had already begun to spread them out on a level patch of grass.
1944 · PDF PAGE 172
PRINCESS OF DISKS The Princess of Disks, the last of the Court cards, represents the earthy part of Earth. She is consequently on the brink of transfiguration. She is strong and beautiful, with an ex‐ pression of intense brooding, as if about to become aware of secret wonder. Her crest is the head of the ram, and her sceptre descends into the earth. There its head becomes a diamond, the precious stone of Kether, thus symbolizing the birth of the high‐ est and purest light in the deepest and darkest of the Elements. She stands within a grove of …