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…ys for the lyrist I bore, | More beauty than beauty may be, My life was diviner and sharper, | More light than the Sun; I am blinded, My name in the Muses was more ; Sink, tremble, am lost in the sea. VOL. III. I
… Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name . For I am Yesterday , and I To-day, and I to -morrow , born Now and again , on high , on high Travelling on Dian's naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods , and all the kin of Breath . I come from the sequestered state ; My birth is from the House of Death . I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather , and my wings the world enfold . I alight in mig…
…light! {The PRIEST mounts the third step.) The PRIEST: Thou that art One, our Lord in the Universe, the Sun, our Lord in ourselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance, enlightening the worlds, is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before thee — by the Sign of Light appear thou glorious upcn the throne of the Sun. Make open the path of création and of intelligence between us and our minds. Enlighten our understanding. Encourage our hearts. Let thy light crystallize itself in our blood, fu…
…tead of a Vau. So brutal a blunder is conclusive proof that the modern Sovereign Princes of Rose Croix attach no meaning whatever to the name of Jesus --- which they profess to adore more intelligently than the mob because it represents the descent of the Holy Spirit into the midst of that tremendous name of God which only occurs in {704} their ritual because of its power to annihilate the universe if pronounced correctly1. The intelligence of the average mason may be gauged by the following quotation from the R.A.M. degree. The twentieth centu…
172 THE SWORD OF SONG Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair? So says Mansel. That masks the primal cause of being. With all respect to Buddha, fleeing The dreadful problem with the word ‘* Who answers, as who asks, hath erred,” I must decidedly insist On asking why these things exist. My mind refuses to admit All-Power can be all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What though…
3.0. 3.15. JOHN ST. JOHN felt to pulse and even to ache. Especially this is the case if one vibrates a mantra or Magical Name in a nerve-centre. At present I cannot do this at all. The Prana seems equilibrated in the whole organism: I am very peaceful—just as a corpse is. It is terribly annoying, in 3 sense, because this con- ditionis just the opposite of Dharana; yet one knows that it is a stage on the way to Samadhi. So I rise and give confidently the Sign of Apophis and Typhon, and will then regard the reflection of the sweet October Sun in th…
…d times, each time preceded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. Death he sees, and the Life of Nature whose name is Sorrow, and the Word that quickeneth these, and his own self—and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the apex of a descending triangle is admitted to the lordship of the Double Kingdom. Thus is he a member of the visible triad that is crossed with the invisible—behold the hexagram of Solomon the King! All this the Hiereus seals with a knock an…
…n between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, in God’s name, is experi- 114
…byss. Had not the Master already passed the Abyss, as it were, un- officially, he could not have endured this crystallization of it into name and form. In the gth AAthyr comes a further reward, a further under- standing of the task. And the first indication that he has really passed the Abyss on all planes is that there is no longer any curse. All is blessing. There is a secret meaning, a blessing in everything. And this is his reward— the Daughter of BABALON the beautiful. She is the pure soul, glorified by virtue of his attainment. In the 8th…
…the Elohim creates light by commanding it to exist. The Elohim said, ‘Let there be light!” and there was light. This light, whose Hebrew name is Wx, aowr, is the fluidic and living gold of the hermetic philosophy. Its positive principle is their sulphur; its negative principle, their mercury; and its equilibrated principles form what they call their salt. One must then, in place of the sixth aphorism of Mesmer which reads thus: ‘“‘ Matter is indifferent as to whether it is in movement or at rest,” establish this proposition: “The universal matt…
…byss. Had not the Master already passed the Abyss, as it were, un- officially, he could not have endured this crystallization of it into name and form. In the gth AAthyr comes a further reward, a further under- standing of the task. And the first indication that he has really passed the Abyss on all planes is that there is no longer any curse. All is blessing. There is a secret meaning, a blessing in everything. And this is his reward— the Daughter of BABALON the beautiful. She is the pure soul, glorified by virtue of his attainment. In the 8th…
…the Elohim creates light by commanding it to exist. The Elohim said, ‘Let there be light!” and there was light. This light, whose Hebrew name is Wx, aowr, is the fluidic and living gold of the hermetic philosophy. Its positive principle is their sulphur; its negative principle, their mercury; and its equilibrated principles form what they call their salt. One must then, in place of the sixth aphorism of Mesmer which reads thus: ‘“‘ Matter is indifferent as to whether it is in movement or at rest,” establish this proposition: “The universal matt…
…beam and the Clod! The mystic Sabbath of the Saints of God! Bestride the Broomstick that is God-in-man! Spur the rough Goat whose secret name is Pan! Before that Rod Heaven knows itself unjust; Beneath those hoofs the stars are puffs of dust. Rise up, my soul! One stride, and space is spanned; Time, like a poppy, crushed in thy left hand, While with thy right thou reachest out to grip The Graal of God, and tilt it to thy lip? Lo! all the whirring shafts of Light, a web Wherein the Tides of Being flow and ebb, One heart-beat, pulsing the Eternal…
…to Deity ." I Nothing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existence to that great road , the road of the Soul . From the supernal flights of Idealism , we now find Crowley in the most infernal depths o…
THE EQUINOX thought! “Look not upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature; for Her Name is Fatality; it becometh not thy body to behold Her, until it be first cleansed by the Sacred Mysteries.” The methods most practical and easy of obtaining these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, a…
THE EQUINOX thought! “Look not upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature; for Her Name is Fatality; it becometh not thy body to behold Her, until it be first cleansed by the Sacred Mysteries.” The methods most practical and easy of obtaining these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, a…
…us and fatal smile which gave so singular an expression to his pallid counte- nance. He rose and took his leave without having given his name, and without any one having thought to ask him for it. Eliphas and Desbarrolles reconducted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. Near the staircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descende…
…us and fatal smile which gave so singular an expression to his pallid counte- nance. He rose and took his leave without having given his name, and without any one having thought to ask him for it. Eliphas and Desbarrolles reconducted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. Near the staircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descende…
… satisfy the requirements of the Grade 8° = 3ř. I admitted him as a probationer in the Order on the day of the solstice, and he took the name A V D. I advised him to repress any ambitions to pass quickly to higher Grades and to concentrate on thoroughness. With admirable good sense, he agreed. As evidence of his amazing genius for Magick, let me mention that I showed him a thesis which had been sent me by a member of the Order in support of his application for admission to the Grade 7° = 4ř, the highest of the Second Order, implying complete kn…
…even colours. All this I saw; and then the hidden voice went on low and sweet: Come away! The price of the journey is little, though its name be death. Thou shalt die to all that thou fearest and hopest and hatest and lovest and thinkest and art. Yea! thou shalt die, even as thou must die. For all that thou hast, thou hast not; all that thou art, thou art not! NENNI OFEKUFA ANANAEL LAIADA I MAEL- PEREJI NONUKA AFAFA ADAREPEHETA PEREGI ALADI NIISA NIISA LAPE OL ZODIR IDOIAN. And I said: ODO KIKALE QAA. Why art thou hid- den from me, whom I hear?…