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Page 54 of 871907 · PDF PAGE 275
…f the Ain are withdrawn . Pure spirits rise to heaven , the bride . Pure bodies are as lamps below. The shining essence , glorified With fire more cold than fresh - fallen snow, And influences , white and wide , Descend , re -gather , kindle , grow , Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever . ' We might expect to find this idea in “ Tannhäuser,” and do in the following verse : This were my guerdon : to fade utterly Into the rose heart of that sanguine vase , And lose my purpose in its silent sea , And lose my …
1922 · PDF PAGE 170
…eguiled, You have not known her? Well! There was never a need she smiled To harry you into hell| Morphia is but one Spark of its secular fire. She is the single sun— Type of all desire ! All that you would, you are— And that is the crown of a craving. You are slaves of the wormwood star. Analysed, reason 1s raving. Feeling, examined, is patn. What heaven were to hope for a doubt of it! Life is anguish, insane; And death is—not a way out of it! “‘ Olya,” too, reminds me of myself. I have a morbid wish to be an impossible monster of cruelty and w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 448
…again. I helped him out : "You see, you were thinking of pistols, I of poetry ." (There is a lesson in that!) And now you-of all people!-fire him off at me. I laugh! I wondered when you were going to pull me up, and send me packing to my Skeat about what "Sin" means. O.K. Police routine does beat the gifted amateur. Sin, astonishingly , means real! Curtius tells us "Language regards the guilty man as the man who it was." Then , what is 'guilt'? A.S. gyit , trespass; in our own Thelemic language, "deviation from (especially in the matter of exce…
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57
1922 · PDF PAGE 252
…t there. He only attains the truth when he becomes wholly impersonal, in the final paragraph. ** Morphia is but one Spark of its secular fire. She is the single sun— Type of all desire ! All that you would you are— And that is the crown of a craving. You are slaves of the wormwood star. Analysed, reason is Taving.. Feeling, examined, is pain. What heaven were to hope for a doubt of it! Life is anguish, insane; And death is—not a way out of it!”
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…me ! come away ! but not your mighty sounds ! O wind of all the world ! O silent river ! O sea of seas ! O flower of all the flowers ! O fire ! O spirit ! Beam thou on for ever Through æons of illimitable hours !
1919 · PDF PAGE 440
…n, the sixth, the Bodhi Portal. 72. The Dhyana gate is like an alabaster vase, white and transparent; within there burns a steady golden fire, the flame of Pragnyé that radiates from Atmé. Thou art that vase. 118
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…t until consecrated. Purification is performed by water, and banishing by air, whose weapon is the sword. Consécra¬ tion is performed by fire, usually symbolised by the holy oil.1 In most extant magical rituals the two operations are per¬ formed at once; or (at least) the banishing has the more important place, and greater pains seem to be taken with it; but as the student advances to Adeptship the banishing will diminish in importance, for it will no longer be so necessary. The Circle of the Magician will hâve been perfected by his habit of Ma…
1911 · PDF PAGE 13
…n. Tue Cry OF THE 28TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED BAG There cometh an Angel into the stone with opalescent shining garments like a wheel of fire on every side of him, and in his hand is a long flail of scarlet lightning; his face is black, and his eyes white without any pupil or iris. The face is very terrible indeed to look upon. Now in front of him is a wheel, with many spokes, and many tyres; it is like a fence in front of him. And he cries: O man, who art thou that wouldst penetrate the Mystery? for it is hidden unto the End of Time. And I ans…
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
…d in this symbol. The Sword or Dagger is attributed to air, all-wandering, all-pene- trating, but unstable; not a phenomenon subtle like fire, not a chemical combination like water, but a mixture of gases.' The Sword, necessary as it is to the Beginner, is but a crude weapon. ' The Oxygen in the air would be too fierce for life ; it must be largely diluted with the inert nitrogen. The rational mind supports life, but about seventy-nine per cent, of it not only refuses itself to enter into combination, but prevents the remaining twenty-one per c…
1922 · PDF PAGE 242
…akes me very nervous. about him. : When he had finished reciting, his strength suddenly failed him, and.he collapsed. The clatter of the fire- irons was the most hideous noise that I had ever heard. When 1 can summon up enough strength to write in my diary, the pain leaves me. I see that there are
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
…f that light Wherein all being flashes to its flight! All things that live, a cohort and a choir, Laugh with the leapings of that fervid fire; Motes in that sunlight, they are drunken of The wine of their own energy of love. Nothing so small, so base, so incomplete, But here goes dancing on diviner feet; And where Light crosses Light, all loves combine Behold the God, the worshippers, the shrine, Each comprehensive of its single soul Yet each the centre and fountain of the whole; Each one made perfect in its passionate part, Each the circumfere…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
…ind them rising and dissolving like some strange mist over the realms of the Vedanta. To disperse them we must consume them in that same fire which has consumed all we held dear; we must turn our engines of war about and destroy our sick and wounded, so that those who are strong and whole may press on the faster to victory. As early as the days of the Rig Veda, before the beginning was, there was “neither not-being nor yet being.” This thought again and again rumbles through the realms of philosophy, souring the milk of man’s understanding with…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
…ind them rising and dissolving like some strange mist over the realms of the Vedanta. To disperse them we must consume them in that same fire which has consumed all we held dear; we must turn our engines of war about and destroy our sick and wounded, so that those who are strong and whole may press on the faster to victory. As early as the days of the Rig Veda, before the beginning was, there was “neither not-being nor yet being.” This thought again and again rumbles through the realms of philosophy, souring the milk of man’s understanding with…
1913 · PDF PAGE 16
…silence, and a lamen to declare his work. The book of spells or conjurations is his magical record, his Karma. In the East is the Magick Fire, in which all burns up at last.^ We will now^ consider each of these matters in detail. ^ He needs nothing else but the apparatus here described for invocation, by which he calls down that which is above him and within him ; but for evocations, by which he calls forth that which is below him and without him, he may place a triangle with- out the circle.
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
THE EQUINOX should now be able to understand the thought of the Jew Abraham. The secret fire of the masters of alchemy was, then, electricity ; and there is the better half of their grand arcanum ; but they knew how to equilibrate its force by a magnetic influence which they concentrated in their athanor. This is what results from the obscure dogmas of Basil Valentine, of Bernard Trevisan, and of Henry Khunrath, who, all of them, pretend to have worked the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like Nicholas Flamel. T…
1913 · PDF PAGE 516
THE EQUINOX should now be able to understand the thought of the Jew Abraham. The secret fire of the masters of alchemy was, then, electricity ; and there is the better half of their grand arcanum ; but they knew how to equilibrate its force by a magnetic influence which they concentrated in their athanor. This is what results from the obscure dogmas of Basil Valentine, of Bernard Trevisan, and of Henry Khunrath, who, all of them, pretend to have worked the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like Nicholas Flamel. T…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…articular faculty which stood in need of it. This Section B invokes Air in the East, with a shaft of golden glory. The adept now invokes Fire in the South; flamc red are the rays that burst from his Verendum. He invokes Water in the West, his Wand billowing forth blue radiance. He goes to the North to invoke Earth; flowers of green flame flash from his weapon. As practice makes the Adept perfect in this Work, it becomes automatic to attach ail these complicated ideas and intentions to their correlated words and acts. When this is attained he ma…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…esist ! ALECTO. O face of woman wretched and unkissed, What hast thou here to do with us? TISIPHONE. -Be quiet ! MEGAERa. Quench not the fire of murder! ALECTO. Loose the riot Of worms beneath the skull !