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Page 55 of 741930 · PDF PAGE 86
The Hierophant to friends, Nine b y nature, Naught by attainment, Five by fonction. In speech swift, subtle and secret j in thought créative, unbiassed, unboundedj in act gentle, patient and persistent. Hermes to hear, Dionysus to touch, Pan to behold. A Virgin, a Babe, and a Beast! A Liar, an Idiot, and a Master of Men! A kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! Take ten that be one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six! Thy wand to al] Cups, and thy Disk to ail Swords, but betray not thine Egg! Mo…
1947 · PDF PAGE 8
seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. But to love me is better than all things : if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all ; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Behold ! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away ; let the good ones be purged by the prophet !…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
…Angel, the which forsook him no more, but made Him a Magus, the Word of the Aeon of Horus ! For know this, that the Name IAF in its most secret and mighty sense declareth the Formula of the Magick of the BEAST whereby he wrought many wonders. And because he doth will that the whole world shall attain to this Art, He now hideth it herein so that the worthy may win to Elis Wisdom. Let I and F face ail j 2 yet ward their A from attack. The Hermit to himself, the Fool to foes, 1. But see also the general solution of the Riddle of Existence in the B…
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
…not think of the result of the examination. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! 46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen. 47. But they have the half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra- Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let As…
1911 · PDF PAGE 19
…drawn over the stone, only I hear the voice of the angel receding, very sweet and faint and sorrowful, saying: Far off and lonely in the secret stone is the unknown, and interpenetrated is the knowledge with the will and the understanding. Iam alone. I am lost, because I am all and in all; and my veil is woven of the green earth and the web of stars. I love; and I am denied, forI have denied myself. Give me those hands, put them against my heart. Is it not cold? Sink, sink, the abyss of time remains. It is not possible that one should come to Z…
1996 · PDF PAGE 99
… 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. 16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. 17. Hear me, ye people of sighing! The sorrows of pain and regret Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. Commentary: The dead and the dying, who know not Hadit, are in the Illusion of Sorrow. Not being Hadit, they are shadows, puppets, and what happens to them does not matter. If you insist upon id…
1996 · PDF PAGE 206
…the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! 26. 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. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. 27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Rea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…g when to be bold that had made Theodore the fine business man he was. And very bold it was, for conscience makes cowards of us all. The secret shame of his orgies! Every week- nightonce even on a Sunday!after everyone had gone to bed, he opened the little safe in the wall at the head of his bed, and drew forth the obscene picture from its envelope marked In case of my death or dis- ability THIS PACKET is to be DESTROYED UNOPENED. T. Bugg. Then he would sit, and hold it in his hot hands, and gloat upon the evil thing, lifting it now and aga…
1944 · PDF PAGE 87
…ir fold; they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. “For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight.” This sacrament is the physical‐magical formula for attaining initiation, for the accom‐ plishment of the Great Work. It is in alchemy the process of distillation, operated by internal ferment, and the influence of the Sun and Moon. Behind the figures of the Beast and his Bride are ten luminous rayed circles; they are the Sephiroth latent and not yet in order, f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 171
…isillusioned a very psychical eczema. 5. In primitive communities, to serve as a guard against surprise and treachery. 6. To cover their secret shame in the matter of sex. Hence the pretence that a woman is “pure,” modest, delicate, aesthetically beautiful and morally exalted, ethereal and unfleshly, though in fact they know her to be lascivious, shameless, coarse, ill-shapen, unscrupulous, nauseat- ingly bestial both physically and mentally. The adver tisements of “dress shields,” perfumes, cosmetics, anti sweat preparations, and “Beauty Tre…
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…e light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of the earth, that this is fertility and understanding, the secret of Demeter. Nay, (even I) the Oracle may speak in his heart and foretell or foreshadow the greater mysteries of Persephone, of Death the daughter of Love. Those, too, who are thus reborn will understand that I who write these words am stretched on the wet earth on the day of Spring. It is night, but only the sea whispers of Per- sephone, as the stars intimate Urania whose mystery is the third, and beyon…
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…e light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of the earth, that this is fertility and understanding, the secret of Demeter. Nay, (even I) the Oracle may speak in his heart and foretell or foreshadow the greater mysteries of Persephone, of Death the daughter of Love. Those, too, who are thus reborn will understand that I who write these words am stretched on the wet earth on the day of Spring. It is night, but only the sea whispers of Per- sephone, as the stars intimate Urania whose mystery is the third, and beyon…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
…l maladies, with per versions of the enervated and thwarted instinct. Repression of the natural satisfaction may result in addiction to secret and dangerous vices which destroy their victim because they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. Such moral cripples resemble those manufactured by beggars by compressing one part of the body so that it is compensated by a monstrous exaggera tion in another part. But on the other hand we have no right to interfere with any type of manifestation of the sexual impulse on a priori grounds. We must re…
1996 · PDF PAGE 216
…thereby alone can he fall from it. 48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier place. * 49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. 50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them! 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Bud dhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn…
1910 · PDF PAGE 99
…r fundamental lotus, and it has four petals. ‘In the pericarp of the Adhar lotus there is the triangular beautiful yoni, hidden and kept secret in all the Tantras.” In this yoni dwells the goddess Kundalini; she surrounds all the Nadis, and has three and a half coils. She catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the en- trance of the Sushumna.t “The Book of Concealed Mystery.” Note too the lotus-leaf that backs the throne of a God is also the hood of the Cobra. So too the Egyptian gods have the serpent upon the brow. * Provided the other…
1910 · PDF PAGE 99
…r fundamental lotus, and it has four petals. ‘In the pericarp of the Adhar lotus there is the triangular beautiful yoni, hidden and kept secret in all the Tantras.” In this yoni dwells the goddess Kundalini; she surrounds all the Nadis, and has three and a half coils. She catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the en- trance of the Sushumna.t “The Book of Concealed Mystery.” Note too the lotus-leaf that backs the throne of a God is also the hood of the Cobra. So too the Egyptian gods have the serpent upon the brow. * Provided the other…
1930 · PDF PAGE 130
LIBER CHETH vel VALLUM ABIEGNI SUB FIGURA CLVI. 1. This is the secret of the Lïoly Graal, that is the sacred vessei of our Lady, the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the IVlother of Abomina¬ tions, the Bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast. 2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4» Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and ail thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out…
1954 · PDF PAGE 322
…ate from the conviction that no success in life was worth a tinker's dam, decided: "This is the answer to my problem; the members of the Secret Fraternity which this book describes have solved the riddle of life. I must discover them, and seek to be received amongst them." 2. X, hearing a conversation in a cafe which made him think that the speaker might be such an one as he sought, hunted him down-he had gone on his travels-caught him, and made him promise an interview at the earliest possible date. 3. This interview leading to an introduction…
1954 · PDF PAGE 408
…different form of words: Any given degree is, as it were, a seal upon a precise attainment; and although it may please Us to explain the secret or secrets of any given degree or degrees to any particular person or persons, it is not of the slightest effect unless he prove in his own person the ability to perform those functions which all We have done is to give him the right to perform and the knowledge how to perform. The further you advance in the Order the more will you fmd yourself pestered by people who have simply failed to understand thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 371
…ights on a litter of gorse. my path. Those which naturally arise in the course of any work soever would have been quietly removed by the Secret Chiefs. But I had chosen to fight against myself for five years and "If Satan shall be divided against Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?" The more I strove, the more I encouraged an internal conflict and stultified myself. I had been permitted to complete my initiation, for the reason that by doing so I was fitting myself for the fight; but all my other efforts had met with derisory disaster. More, on…