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… Fit for the assuaging of a deadlier thirst Our throats can sound than pray for further favour; Than Attis knew or Abelard: even so Even though our sorrow, eating up our days, I suffer; than some lovely nun accurst Devour us also. Gods enjoy the savour Who beats her breast upon the convent bars, Of Man's thanksgiving ; from their holy place Even so you suffer : let its draught restore Beholding mortals, they are wroth to see All lovers (that invoke the sad cold stars) Tears ; they rejoice to see a proud glad face Unto good luck : then you and I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
… eyes so grey, ‘ Did you believe that I could not guess Whose pretty face beneath it lay ? Yes! Who but yourself could adorn that dress, Though it be dainty—(are you a fay, Or a pink-and-white Dresden Shepherdess ? ) Dominoes must not say love nay. Surely my skill can deserve no less Than—so you smile—I am sure I may— Yes? 87
1912 · PDF PAGE 31
…minist, got an almost identical vision; but called the “divine” figure which she saw alternately “ Adonai ” and “ Maria.” Now this woman, though handicapped by a brain that was a mass of putrid pulp, and a complete lack of social status, education, and moral character, did more in the religious world than any other person had done for generations. She, and she alone, made Theosophy possible, and without Theosophy the world-Wide interest in similar matters could never have been aroused. This interest is to the Law of Thelema what the preaching of…
1912 · PDF PAGE 166
…with us the first table hath no call, and can have no call, seeing that it is 01 the Godhead Thus, then, with us hath it the number 01 0, though with them that 01 1. (Even as the first key 01 the ROTA hath the number 0.) After this follow the calls or keys 01 the Thirty Aires or Aithyrs: which are in substance similar, though, in the name 01 the fEthyrs, diversified. i24
1912 · PDF PAGE 166
…with us the first table hath no call, and can have no call, seeing that it is 01 the Godhead Thus, then, with us hath it the number 01 0, though with them that 01 1. (Even as the first key 01 the ROTA hath the number 0.) After this follow the calls or keys 01 the Thirty Aires or Aithyrs: which are in substance similar, though, in the name 01 the fEthyrs, diversified. i24
1954 · PDF PAGE 528
Cara Soror, 82 Epistola Penultima The Two Ways to Reality Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat exacting! You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote so of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and Yoga. That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter. In your ma…
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
1 1.35. 6.55. 7.0- 7.16. 7.30. 7.50. 8.5. JOHN ST. JOHN And indeed, though I tried to continue the mantra with its high aspiration to know Adonai, I must have slept almost at once. The Third Day Now the day being gloriously broken, I awoke with some weariness, not feeling clean and happy, not burning with love unto my Lord Adonai, though ashamed indeed for that thrice or four times in the night I had been awakened by this loyal body, urging me to rise and meditate—and my weak will bade it be at ease and take its rest—oh, wretched man! slave of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…celebrated in the world of motors and balloons, walked into the room and told us rather a lively story. The Reverend something Doddridge thought of the “ honourable ” and laughed pleasantly. I remember how, boys as we were, we filed austerely from the rooms without farewell. Oh, you must know the C. I. C. C. U. ! I remember too how this Doddridge, while in charge of my morals, aided and abetted me in extinguishing street lamps ; and how when a policeman pounced upon me, he forsook me and fled ! A true disciple of Jesus ! I had no playmates ; my…
1913 · PDF PAGE 236
…ave pined Because the Word was unkind ; But now the spirit hath stirred. I sought not, yet did I find, For the wonderful thing occurred. Though I be blind, shall I gird Because I see not? The gods bind Mine eyes. But I heard! I heard! Shall it avail, O wind? ExpLicir OpuscuLum NONDUM FINIS
1913 · PDF PAGE 236
…ave pined Because the Word was unkind ; But now the spirit hath stirred. I sought not, yet did I find, For the wonderful thing occurred. Though I be blind, shall I gird Because I see not? The gods bind Mine eyes. But I heard! I heard! Shall it avail, O wind? ExpLicir OpuscuLum NONDUM FINIS
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…e so absorbed in the Work of His true Will that it no longer occurred to Him to indulge in capricious amusements. Yet even at this hour, though He be verily a Magus of A. \ A.*., though His Word be the Word of the Aeon, though He be the Beast 666, the Lord of the Scarlet Woman “in whom is ail power — 126 —
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
…nd pe ! It Is time the doctor see it, Or smell it : care I which ? Lest all who loved and licked your Fat oyster get a stricture : For though you are a picture, You are a rotten bitch. [101]
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
… a grouse in the green of the horrible heather, (Mr Swinburne cannot abide my straightforward English (that’s one to me) way of talking, though his morality is imported and perfectly well known to be as black as jet) But he’s right in the main, though he does so lovingly bleat and so blether,
1954 · PDF PAGE 129
…bility that I am a Secret Chief myself without knowing it: for I have sometimes been recognized by other people as having acted as such, though I was not aware of the fact at the time.
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…ore the Lord Adonai. Home again ; have done odd necessary things, and am ready to work. I feel slack; and I feel that I have been slack, though probably the Record shows a fair amount of work done. But I am terribly bruised by the Great Fall; these big things leave the body and mind no worse, apparently ; but they hurt the Self, and later that is reflected into the lower parts of the man as insanity or death. I must attain, or . . . an end of John St. John. An end of him, one way or the other, then l Good-bye, John ! Ten minutes wasted in sheer …
1909 · PDF PAGE 36
…Angel, within the Pyramid already duly prepared by DCLXXI. Alas! in vain have I tried even the supreme ritual of Awaiting the Beloved, although once I thought Ah ! give unto Thy beloved in sleep! How ashamed I should be, though! For an earthly lover one would be on tiptoe of excitement, trembling at every sound, eager, afraid . . . I will, however, rise and open (as for a symbol) the door and the window. Oh that the door of my heart were ever open! For He is always there, and always eager to come in. I rise and open unto my Beloved. . . . May i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
PREFACE. VII it ; even Stuart was sound in this matter, and Stoney himself (though reluctantly) gave his adhesion. To hold a Meeting you must have two persons present. Let nobody try to upset this ; for once I positively insist. No less than two for a Meeting ! I will brook no oppo- sition ; I mean to have my own way in the matter ; I am not to be played with. Two or more make a Meeting. There ; my foot is down, let’s hear no more senseless cavil about it ! Well, I need hardly say that Mr. and Mrs. Cameron took opposite sides of the controversy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…apitulate L.V.X. Lux, the Light of the Cross). 1.55. 3-55- 42 Thence one might proceed to some symbolic passage through the 6“: 5° grade—though of course that grade is really symbolic of this soul—journey, not vire versui— and through 7°=4° ; so perhaps—-if one could only dare to hope it !—to the 8°=3° attainment Certainly what little I have done so far pertains no higher than Minor adeptship, though I have used higher formula: in the course of my working. My Prana is acting in a feverish manner ; a mixture of fatigue and energy. This is not go…
1903 · PDF PAGE 10
… circle opening out into the line.” The Christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive of a previous and eternally existing God, though the Qabalists hedge by describing this latent Deity as “Nor”. Later commentators, notably the illustrious MacGregorMathers, have explained this Not as Snegatively-existing”. Profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom I am proud to have been permitted to call my master, I am bound to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, and nothing el…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…iple in energy of radiant flame, Informing all, in all most beautiful, Circle and sphere, perfect in every part High above hope of Art : Though, be it said ! thou art nowhere now, Save in the secret chamber of my heart, Behind the brass of my anonymous brow. 12. Ay ! let the coward and slave who writes write on ! He is no more harm to Love than the grey snake Who lurks in the dusk brake For the bare-legged village-boy, is to the Sun, The Sire of Life. The Lover and the Wife, Immune, intact, ignore. The people hear ; Then, be the people smitten …