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Page 66 of 731929 · PDF PAGE 95
…reat sword, like his brother guard at the Profess-House in Paris, stood bowing before them. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I enter the house." With these words Cyril Grey assumed possession. "Lead me to Sister Clara." The man turned and went before them down a long corridor which opened upon a stone terrace, flagged with porphyry. A circular fountain in the middle had, for its centre a copy of the Venus Callipyge in black marble. The parapet was decorated with statues of satyrs, fauns, and nymphs. The woman who came to meet t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
…the birds of heaven By the low insistent call Of the constant waterfall. There, to such a setting be The carven gem of deity, A central flawless fire, enthralled Like Truth within an emerald! Thou shalt have a birchen bark On the river in the dark; And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream's smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit's call; then say the spell: "Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!" Making the Sign of Magistry With the wand of lapis lazuli Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine …
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…uer’s extension of the same, Had he done so he would scarcely have asserted, as he does (or is it Kant or Schopenhauer ?), that from the law of Causality results the important a priori corollary “ that Matter can neither be created nor destroyed” (p. 35). If, however, it can be destroyed, as Gustave le Bon has attempted to prove, what becomes of the a priority of Causality? Nay, further, of the a priority of the Transcendental Esthetic itself{—of Time and of Space, the fundamental sensual perceptions of Kant’s system ? Must we agree with the le…
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…uer’s extension of the same, Had he done so he would scarcely have asserted, as he does (or is it Kant or Schopenhauer ?), that from the law of Causality results the important a priori corollary “ that Matter can neither be created nor destroyed” (p. 35). If, however, it can be destroyed, as Gustave le Bon has attempted to prove, what becomes of the a priority of Causality? Nay, further, of the a priority of the Transcendental Esthetic itself{—of Time and of Space, the fundamental sensual perceptions of Kant’s system ? Must we agree with the le…
1905 · PDF PAGE 129
…ld awake with song Of many lyres and lutes and reeds of straw, And all the rivers musical that throng In bright assemblage of unchanging law, Like many flute-players ; and seeing this, (That all the mountains looked upon and saw) The sweetness of the savour of a kiss, And all its perfume wafted to the sky. Nay, but no wind will drive our fortalice
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
…rn to pieces. A faint voice—like his—is still heard, ever receding andfailing.) O night |! Fade, love! Fade, light! I pass beyond Life’s law. I melt as snow; as ice I thaw; As mist I dissipate: I am borne, I draw Through chasms in the mountains: stormy gusts Ofancient sorrows and forgotten lusts Bear me along : they touch me not: I waste The memory of long lives interlaced Fades in my fading. I disintegrate, Fall into black oblivion of Fate. My being divides : I have forgot my name. I am blown out as a thin subtle flame. I am no more. A SPIRIT.…
1919 · PDF PAGE 256
…important, for in that grade a new pledge-form must be signed, and the new Knight vowed to devote his life to the Establish- ment of the Law of Thelema. “The members of the Fifth Degree are responsible for all that concerns the Social welfare of the Order. This grade is symbolically that of beauty and harmony; it is the natural stopping-place of the majority of men and women; for to proceed farther, as will appear, involves renunciation of the sternest kind. Here then all is joy, peace, well-being on all planes; the Sovereign Prince Rose Croix …
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…eing English. ‘This is absurd: (1) Lady Percivale is just as likely to have remained virgo tntacta as any other mother. (2) ‘The English law, cognisant of the dilemma set forth above, permits the use of a poker in the relations of man and wife. (3) If God’s Grace can break a habit, it can surely rupture a hymen.—AUTHOR.
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
…tortured, murdered, or exiled; Of freedom robbed, of faith cajoled, In secret councils bought and sold ! Their weapons are the cell, the law, The gallows, and the scourge, to awe Brave Irish hearts: their hates deny The right to live—the right to die. Our weapons—be they fire and cord, The shell, the rifle, and the sword! Without a helper or a friend All means be righteous to the End! Look not for help to wordy strife ! This battle is for death or life. Melt mountains with a word—and then The colder hearts of Englishmen ! Look not to Europe in …
1919 · PDF PAGE 295
…etation of Religion, but commits the errors of petitio prin- cipii and non distributio medii with the most exquisite nonchalance. Only a law- yer could be so shameless. He begs the question with regard to this particular case, assuming that her relation with the angel was pure hallucination, of which he has no evidence whatever. He argues that, since one person both loves and is religious, religion is nothing but a morbid manifestation of the sexual instinct. One does not have even to disagree with him to see how worthless is his reasoning. As …
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
…leister Crowley are dangerous degenerates, in fact, gilded Onanists, overthrowers of love, gnncotton-fed anarchists, annihilators of the law, and decadent philosophers who wish to replace Aristotle and Copernicus by Paul Cams and Emil Reich; Diabolists who toss the world as on astring; proclaim the Synagogue of Satan and unfurl the oriflamme of the Prinpic pig. It is indeed a curious fact, but since the people of this country have worn thread bare their Christian smock they have undoubtedly paid a greater attention to the 5
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…rew; they uttered lies— They fascinate and cleave to me and cling. Then in their uttermost profound I saw The veil of Love’s unalterable law Lifted, and in the shadow far behind Dim and divine, within the shadow blind My own love’s face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. O suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body, as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey-bee ! I felt a perfect soul embracing me, And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea. IT. Hk did not kiss me with…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
…s out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. How many understand this mystery? Perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the Law of Thelema, LECF. THE LosT VALLEY. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Nash. 6s. It is the penalty of factitious success that the need of fuel increases like the dose ofa drug-fiend. Instead of clothing his wit with silk from the loom of life 343
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
…s out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. How many understand this mystery? Perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the Law of Thelema, LECF. THE LosT VALLEY. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Nash. 6s. It is the penalty of factitious success that the need of fuel increases like the dose ofa drug-fiend. Instead of clothing his wit with silk from the loom of life 343
1919 · PDF PAGE 257
… Grand Tribunal. “The next grade is that of Prince of the Royal Secret. Every member of this degree is devoted to the Propagation of the Law in a very special manner; for this grade is the first in which the Beginning of the Inmost Secret is declared openly. He will therefore, by his personal exertions, induce one hun- dred and eleven persons to join the Order, before he may proceed to the Seventh Degree, except hy special order from the Supreme and Holy King. “The Seventh Degree is, in military language, the Great General Staff of the Army of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 177
…in practice, it means solidification, materialization. Things have become manifest. The essential point is that it expresses the Rule of Law. In the Wand suit, the card is called Completion. The manifestation promised by Binah has now taken place. This number must be very solid, because it is the actual dominating in‐ fluence on all the following cards. Chesed, Jupiter‐Ammon, the Father, the first below the Abyss, is the highest idea which can be understood in an intellectual way, and that is why the Sephira is attributed to Jupiter, who is the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…oquence and mighty thrall Of cosmic agony, and wrung me back From my poor plea to challenge in my song The whole domain of deeply-seated law, Taunch thunders not Olympic at the strong Bars of the Order backed with strength and awe That men call Will of Zeus: the after scheme And primal fate and most primordial plan Shaped from the earth’s first protoplasmic dream Up to the last great mischief that is man. All this I challenge: that the suns and stars Work in due order and procession meet Without caprice in viewless, changeless bars, Nor self-de…
1939 · PDF PAGE 63
…n saying all this time: that it is very little use discussing things; what is needed is continuous devotion to the practice. Love is the law, love under will.
1939 · PDF PAGE 71
…ience increases in quantity it also improves in quality. And the Path is sure. And the End is sure. For the End is the Path. Love is the law, love under will.
1906 · PDF PAGE 130
… Beyond recorded time, and founds Its age beyond all history’s bounds ; Therefore: all search for truth beyond The doubtful canon of the law, The bitter letter of the bond Given when Sinai shook with awe, They swear ; all wit that looks aslant Shamed at the shameful covenant ;! ‘Vherefore: this brooding over truth She much avers cuts short my day, Steals love and laughter from my youth, Will dye my beard in early grey. **Go forth to war! Shall Judah still Set mockery to thy kingly will?” May be. I often feel a ghost Creeping like darkness throu…