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Page 63 of 1211913 · PDF PAGE 496
… in light that form is preserved. It is by light that form reproduces itself. The vibrations of light are the principle of universal movement. By light, the suns are attached to each other, and they interlace their rays like chains of electricity. Men and things are magnetized by light like the suns, and, by means of electro-magnetic chains whose tension is caused by sympathies and affinities, are able to communicate with each other from one end of the world to the other, to caress or strike, wound or heal, in a manner doubtless natural, but in…
1919 · PDF PAGE 233
ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS self, will weigh heavily in the scale when it comes to be a question of the high advancement of a Brother in the Order. OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE BRETHREN FIRST HOUSE 44. The first and greatest of all privileges of a Brother is to be a Brother; to have accepted the Law, to have become free and independent, to have destroyed all fear, whether of custom, or of faith, or of other men, or of death itself. In other papers the joy and glory of those who have accepted the Book of the Law as the sole rule of life is largely, though …
1919 · PDF PAGE 454
…ortex of that golden light in which the Victor bathes, ALL NATURE’S wordless voice in thousand tones ariseth to proclaim! JOY UNTO YE, O MEN OF MYALBA. A PILGRIM HATH RETURNED BACK “FROM THE OTHER SHORE.” A NEW ARHAN IS BORN. Peace to all Beings. Here, however, we get something like real poetry. This, and not the Pi-Jaw, should be taken as the key to this Masterpiece. Love is the law, love under will. 132
1954 · PDF PAGE 116
Cara Soror, 8 The Three Schools of Magick (3) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is in history only one movement whose object has been to organize the isolated adepts of the White School of Magick, and this movement was totally unconnected with religion, except in so far as it lent its influence to the reformers of the Christian church. Its appeal was not at all to the people. It merely offered to open up relations with, and communicate certain practical secrets of wisdom to, isolated men of science throughout Europe. This m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
…ure whom he had defied, he went steadily on with his work. Wealth and health had been torn from him; he was like Job, but even worse tor- mented; greater than Job, he resisted all without a murmur, and conquered all without a glimmer of self-satisfaction. When the Books are opened and the deeds of men are known, who dare say that there shall be found aught to surpass these marvellous months which Fra. P. set to the Operation of the Sacred Magic, the obtaining of the Know- ledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ? We return to the Diary…
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
…ure whom he had defied, he went steadily on with his work. Wealth and health had been torn from him; he was like Job, but even worse tor- mented; greater than Job, he resisted all without a murmur, and conquered all without a glimmer of self-satisfaction. When the Books are opened and the deeds of men are known, who dare say that there shall be found aught to surpass these marvellous months which Fra. P. set to the Operation of the Sacred Magic, the obtaining of the Know- ledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ? We return to the Diary…
1913 · PDF PAGE 123
…the task. This form of dishonesty reaches its climax in the expurgating of the classics. " The Bible is the Word of God, written by holy men, as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost. But we will cut out those passages which we think unsuitable." " Shakespeare is our greatest poet — but, of course, he is very dreadful." " No one can surpass the lyrics of Shelley, but we must pretend that he was not an atheist." Some translators could not bear that the heathen Chinese should use the word Shang Ti, and pretended that it did not mean God. Others, c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 185
…fest by the Universal War. This is the first great and direct result of the Equinox of the Gods, and is the preparation of the hearts of men for the reception of the Law. Let Us remind you that this is a magical formula of cos- mic scope, and that it is given in exact detail in the legend of the Golden Fleece. Jason, who in this story represents the Beast, first fits out a ship guided by Wisdom or Athena, and this is his aspira- tion to the Great Work. Accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the Fleece, but they can do nothing unti…
1944 · PDF PAGE 131
…wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of their selfishness. “Thus they make war upon the Holy One, sending forth their delusion upon men, and upon everything that liveth. So that their false compassion is called compassion, and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. “Yet of their own poison do they perish, and in their lonely fortresses shall they be eaten up by Time that hath cheated them to serve him, and by the mighty devil Choronzon, their master, whose name is the Second Death, for the b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…ime, fly off ; they are subtle : there abides A secret and most maiden taste ; Salt, as of the invisible tides Of the molten sea of gold Men may at times behold In the rayless scarab of the sinking sun ; And out of that is won Hardly, with labour and pain that are as pleasure, The first flower of the garden, the stored treasure That lies at the hearts heart of eternity. This treasure is for thee. 16. O ! but shall hope arise in happiness ? That may not be. My life is like a golden grape ; the veins Peep through the ecstasy Of the essence of iv…
1961 · PDF PAGE 189
…ews, which they brought from the City Babylon, how Nebuch- adnezzar the Great King, being afflicted in his Spirit, did depart from among Men for Seven Years Space, eating Grass as doth an Ox. Now this Ox is the Letter Aleph, and is that Atu of Thoth whose Number is Zero, and whose name is Maat, Truth, or Maut, the Vulture, he All- Mother, being an Image of Our Lady Nuith, but also it is called the Fool, who is Parsifal, der reine Thor, and so referreth to him thatwalketh in the Way of the Tao. Also, he is Harpocrates, the Child Horus, walkin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 103
… God, A jealous God and evil ; with His rod He smiteth fair and foul, and with His sword Divideth tiniest atoms of intangible time, That men may know He is the Lord. Then, with that sharp division, Did He divide our wit sublime ? Our knowledge bring to nought ? We had no need of thought. We brought His malice in derision. So thine eternal petals shall enclose Me, O most wonderful lady of delight, Immaculate, indivisible circle of night, Inviolate, invulnerable Rose !
1910 · PDF PAGE 23
… not quite as bad as that of the Plymouth Brethren. I had, however, cut myself adrift from all these things. I had lived among the great men of the earth, and the great mountains of the earth. Pollitt had made a poet of me ; Eckenstein had made a man of me ; Cecil Jones and Allan Bennett had made a God of me. I had forgotten the Plymouth Brethren ! But early in this spring, I went down to Eastbourne to my mother’s house, and some of the old bitterness came back. In her house were two vile old women, hypocrites and slaves to the marrow. The mere…
1935 · PDF PAGE 4
…ll be the whole of the Law. 1. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its exist- ence upon the Earth, an organized body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. They move in accordance with their own Wills, which are each unique, yet coherent with the universal will. They perceive (that is, understand, know, and feel) in love, which is both unique and universal. 1. The Name of the Order and those of its three divisions ar…
1899 · PDF PAGE 213
…shed the fire From all the circle of eternity, Were that the reason ; for thou shudderest To hear the Voice of Love; it is no voice That men may hear, but an intensest rich Silence, that silence when man waits to hear The faintest vibrance in the smitten air, And, if he hear not, die; but we who love Are beyond death, and therefore may commune In that still tongue; it is the holy speech And song of stars and sun; nor is it marred By one dissentient tremor of the air That girds the earth, but in lone zther spreads ' Its song; but now I turn to t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…As the earths before the sunset, and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool, gain the God by clean endeav- our ; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever.
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…h, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret? Is progress a delusion? Are men mad? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…h, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret? Is progress a delusion? Are men mad? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
by wise men of old; they have made a Science of Life com- plete and perfect; and they have given to it the name of MAGIC K. It is the chief secret of the Ancients, and if the keys have never been actually lost, they have certainly been little used.^ Again, the confusion of thought caused by the ignorance of the people who did not understand it has discredited the whole subject. It is now our task to re-establish this science in its perfection. To do this we must criticize the Authorities; some of them have made it too complex, others have compl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 134
…nd execution have got into unison (for once) and know it, I cannot say.) It is well that thus should close this eleventh day of my Retirement, and the thirty-third year of my life. Thirty and three years was this templein building. . . . It has always been my custom on this night to look back over the year, and to ask: What have I done? The answer is invariably “ Nothing.” Yet ofwhat men count deeds I have done no small share. I have travelled abit, written abit . , . I seem to have been hard at it all the time—and to have got nothing finished o…