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Page 59 of 1051913 · PDF PAGE 472
…the papers said that he had black hair... . “It is not he, then,” thought Eliphas. ‘However, I still keep in my ear and in my memory the word which would now be explained for me by this great crime: ‘ You will soon learn something. Before a little, you will hear speak of me.’” The trial took place with all the frightful vicissitudes with which every one is familiar, and the accused was condemned to death. The next day, Eliphas read in a legal newspaper the account of this unheard-of scene in the annals of justice, but a cloud passed over his ey…
1954 · PDF PAGE 45
…ady-made. Pyramis,' a pyramid , is that force in its geometrical form ; in its biological form it is Phallus ,' the Yang or Lingam. Both words have the same numerical value, 831. These two words can therefore serve you as the secret object of your Work. How then can you construct the number 83l? The letter Kaph,2 Jupiter (Jehovah) the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot - the Atu X is a picture of the Universe built up and revolving by virtue of those Three Principles , Sulphur , Mercury , Salt, or Gunas , Sattvas , Rajas, Tamas - has the value 20. S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…fe , through heaven , through hell , till the flaming forms of Paolo and Francesca rise before us , an everlasting answer to the eternal word of Love . Nay ? kiss in double death -pang , if dare ! Or one day I will strangle you within My heavy hair !? Slowly , and solely through temptation can man be purified . Burns, who was possessed with the happiest knack of striking the nail full on the head , driving it home at one blow , describes this well in his “ Address to the Unco Gude " : What's done we partly may compute But kenna what's resisted …
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
… task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from haying any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
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…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
…ded 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 and at the Hegemon’s new s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…m pure... and so is pure understanding silence, and stillness, and darkness. The eye 1 I suppose that only a Magus could have heard this word. 118
1913 · PDF PAGE 409
…inertia, because inertia, for it, would be death. It is this original substance to which the hieratic recital of Genesis refers when the word of 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 o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…m pure... and so is pure understanding silence, and stillness, and darkness. The eye 1 I suppose that only a Magus could have heard this word. 118
1913 · PDF PAGE 409
…inertia, because inertia, for it, would be death. It is this original substance to which the hieratic recital of Genesis refers when the word of 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 o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…uline nor feminine , but androgynous ; and it was left for William Postel to utter one of the greatest world truths when he said , “ The Word has 1 The Mysteries of Magic , p . 30 . 2 La Kabbale , Frank , p . 217 .
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…ia, Chienne de race! She was young, and her lips rather sneered than smiled, rather gloated than sneered. One instinctively muttered the word cmn/liba]. She had a perfect and perverse enjoyment of life, a perfect and perverse con- tempt of life; the contempt of the philosopher, the enjoyment of the wallowing pig. Porcus e grege Epicuri. This much Edgar Rolles smelt rather than saw; for as he turned to her, he caught her eyes. They were the eyes of an enthusiast, of a saint, of an ascetic—but of a saint who, strong in his agony through faith and…
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…ia, Chienne de race! She was young, and her lips rather sneered than smiled, rather gloated than sneered. One instinctively muttered the word cmn/liba]. She had a perfect and perverse enjoyment of life, a perfect and perverse con- tempt of life; the contempt of the philosopher, the enjoyment of the wallowing pig. Porcus e grege Epicuri. This much Edgar Rolles smelt rather than saw; for as he turned to her, he caught her eyes. They were the eyes of an enthusiast, of a saint, of an ascetic—but of a saint who, strong in his agony through faith and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…ctory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in mother- hood! Quit the tomb, O Phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy first Jupiter: it is now that thou wilt conceive a God! O …
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
…s are often ridiculous or obscene. The pretended spirits, when questioned on the greater mysteries of Nature, often reply by that coarse word which became, so they say, heroic on one occasion, in the military mouth of Cambronne. The drawings which pencils will trace if left to their own devices very often reproduce shapeless phalli, such as the anemic hooligan, as one might picturesquely call him, sketches on the hoardings as he whistles, a further proof of our hypothesis, that wit in no way presides at those mani- festations, and that it would…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…ctory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in mother- hood! Quit the tomb, O Phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy first Jupiter: it is now that thou wilt conceive a God! O …
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
…s are often ridiculous or obscene. The pretended spirits, when questioned on the greater mysteries of Nature, often reply by that coarse word which became, so they say, heroic on one occasion, in the military mouth of Cambronne. The drawings which pencils will trace if left to their own devices very often reproduce shapeless phalli, such as the anemic hooligan, as one might picturesquely call him, sketches on the hoardings as he whistles, a further proof of our hypothesis, that wit in no way presides at those mani- festations, and that it would…
1906 · PDF PAGE 280
…ur Hindustani verbs! Because one rule covers a thousand cases. !Tow impossible is it to learn German genders! Because the gender of each word must be committed arbitrarily to memory. 1 A detective in sensational fiction of the period. oo 2 The gibe is at Butler, Master of Trinity during Crowley’s residence. ‘/yst. We then is the longest-lived, and the wisest, and the worthiest of respect, who can sum up all in one great generalisation? Scept. So Spencer defines philosophy: as the art of doing this. Myst. But you leave out this -‘‘ vividness.”’ …
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…he old Tragedies of Greece . This had already been partially carried out by Keats , who definitely broke away from the Miltonic style of Wordsworth and Coleridge , and was more than half completed by his contemporary , Shelley . But it was not till Swinburne himself seized the finely - strung lyre of the unconsciously irregular author of “ Prome theus ,” and attuned it to the rustle of Blake's angel winged voice , that it can be said that a certain system of irregularities in metre became admissible in the formal court of poetry . As the Rosset…
1911 · PDF PAGE 130
…not how the Seven was united with the Four; much less then canst thou understand the marriage of the Eight and the Three. Yet there is a word wherein these are made one, and therein is contained the Mystery that thou seekest, concerning the rending asunder of the veil of my Mother. Now there is an avenue of pylons (not one alone), steep after steep, carved from the solid rock of the mountain; and that rock is a substance harder than diamond, and brighter than light, and heavier than lead. In each pylon is seated a god. There seems an endless se…