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Page 66 of 871996 · PDF PAGE 14
…e for every human being. The best way for the layman to approach this Book is to regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not be able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately personal sense, to him. It is because the thought expressed in this Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commentary upon it.1 2 He wished to explain, so far as he could, the messages that he had received. After som…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… and the usual Nemesis of the half-hearted awaits you. Not only do you get inferior instruments, but you lose in some other way what you thought you were so clever to hâve saved. Remember Ananias! On the other hand, if you purchase without haggling you will find that along with your purchase the vendor has thrown in ï. “For, enduring unto the End, at the End was Naught to endure.” Liber 333, Cap Z. 2. However closely the square of any fraction approximates to 2, no fraction equals \/2. \J2 is not in the sériés; it is a different kind of number …
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…uld never believe or assert that which he does not himself certainly know. The Brothers do not attach Themselves to any external system, though They are in essential harmony with all living systems, by reason that Truth, even when it appears to be buried beneath the greatest errors, is the life of all that lives. As a registered subscriber to 7hke Equinox, you will have an opportunity, should you desire it,of being examined by the A.°. A.°. as to your fitness for instruction and assistance in your search for Truth. The Review will appear on or …
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 153 I hear not a word, Though my music be rolled As the song of a bird Through fields of gold. Hast thou not heard? Have I not told The magic that bridleth the Gods, the Gods in their houses of old? Art thou elder than they In their mountain of light? Is thy fugitive way Lost in uttermost night? Shalt thou not obey, Or my lyre not affright, If I call thee by Heaven and Earth with a God’s tumultuous might? If I curse thee or chide Shalt thou tremble not, Thou? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…and consists in the dramatization of the legend of the God. The Bacchae of Euripides is a magnificent example of such a Ritual; so also^ though in a less degree, is the Mass. We may also mention many of the degrees in Freemasonry, particularly the Third. The 5° — 6° Ritual published in N° III of the Equinox is another example. In the case of Bacchus, one commémorâtes firstly his birth of a mortal mother who has yielded her treasure-house to the Father of AU, of the jealousy and rage excited by this incarnation, and of the heavenly protection af…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
… clairvoyant a waistcoat to psychometrize. He made 56 State- ments about the owner of the waistcoat ; of these 4 were notably rightj 17, though correct, were of that class of statement which is true of almost everybody. The remainder were wrong. It was concluded from this that he showed no evidence of any spécial power. In fact, his bodily eyes — if he could discern Tailoring — would hâve served him better, for he thought the owner of the vest was a corn-chandler, instead of an earl, as he is. The Magician can hardi y take too much trouble to d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…uses of various observed effects. They may be of any order of existence. We give a physical form and name to a bell but not to its tone, though in each case we know nothing but our own impressions. But we record musical sounds by a spécial convention. We may therefore call a certain set of qualities “Ratziel”, or describe an impression as “Saturnian” without pretending to know what anything is in itself. Ail we need is to know how to cast a bell that will please our ears, or how to evoke a “spirit” that will tell us things that are hidden from …
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…on, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless as that of the man-milliner, though they call him God, and his freakish Fiat pass for Everlasting Law. The English Bible sanctions the polygamy and concubinage of Abraham, Solomon and others, the incest of Lot, the wholesale rape of captured virgins, as well as the promiscuity of the first Christians, the prostitution of temple servants, men and women, the relations of Johannes with his master, and the putting of wan dering Prophets to s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…tempt to draw any opinions as to the author's design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. develops the plot and is little germane to our matter, save that we catch a glimpse of the unspeakably vile Cordelia, with no pity for her father’s serious condition (though no doubt he deserved all he got, he was now harmless, and should have inspired.compassion), hanging to him in the hope that he would now reverse his banishment and make her (after a bloody victory) sole heiress of grea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…he Mathematics of Philosophy with its “infinité sériés” and “Cantorian continuity” is to schoolboy arith- metic. Each implies the other, though by that one may explore the essential nature of existence, and by this a pawnbroker’s profits. This then is the true aim of the Adept in this whole operation, to assimilate himself to his Angel by continuai conscious com¬ munion. For his Angel is an intelligible image of his own true Will, to do which is the whole of the law of his Being. Also the Angel appeareth in Tiphereth, which is the heart of the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
…thee that I love thee ! Nay! by the Star in Ifeaven burning, Its ray to me at midnight turning To tell me that it beams above thee Nay ! though thou wert, as Tam, yearning, I should not tell'thee that I love thee ! 1 ‘The refercuce is to the five acts of the play. i | know what secret thought once blossomed Into a blush that seemed a kiss, Some swift suppressed extreme of bliss 'In thy most fearful sigh embosomed. What oracle should prate of this ? I know the secret thought that blossomed ! Extol the truth of love’s disdain ! Love, daring by no…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…iously examined by any student. annihilation of this Ego. One might therefore be an Adeptus Minor or even a Magister Templi, in essence, though refused official récognition by the A A as a Zelator owing to (say) a nervous defect which prevented him from acquiring a Posture which was “steady and easy1” as required by the Task of that grade. — 243
1929 · PDF PAGE 167
… without a single word as soon as she entered. "Is that all?" snarled Douglas. "You ought to be getting fives again now spring's coming. Though you're not as pretty as you were." He garnished this greeting with garlic of low abuse. Rarely to any other person did he use even mild oaths; he affected the grand manner; but he [236] knew that foulness of speech emphasized his wife's degradation. He had no need of the vile money that she earned; he had a thousand better means of buying whisky; but he drove her to the streets as no professional souten…
1996 · PDF PAGE 103
…angles are related to it as above stated.) One does not want even a comparatively brief extension of these “actual” states; Wedded Love, though licensed for a lifetime, is usually intolerable after a month; and marrons glacés pall after the first five or six kilograms have been consumed. But the “Happiness,” eternal and formless, is not less enjoyable because these forms of it cease to give pleasure. What happens is that the Idea ceases to find its image in those particular images; it begins to notice the limitations, which are not itself and i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…not be wholly true for any save Him, even as no two artists can make identical pictures of the same subject. More, even in fundamentals, though these things be Truth for ail Mankind, as we carelessly say, any one particular Magician may be the one man for whom they are false. May not the flag that seems red to ten thousand seem green to some one other? Then, every man and every woman being a Star, that which is green to him is verily green 3 if he consent to the crowd and call it red, hath he not broken the Staff of Truth that he leaneth upon? …
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer wrong. We know these words are just. not. Though thy song Were the sole word of Zeus, Should that avail to loose The bands of Being firm, invulnerable dews Tincturing its bitter brass, Shielding its vital mass From every word that cries, ‘‘ Thus, and thy day shall pass.” We avail ALACUS. Typhon ! Typhon ! Typhon ! Heard ye that awful moan Leap through the blackness from the miser- able throne? Vain as each pallid ghost, Where is thy fatal boast, Destr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
in two places at once,1 for example, though even the possibilité of so simple a feat (in the case of spirits) seems to be denied by certain passages in extant conjurations which tell the spint that if he happens to be in chains in a particular place in Hell, or if some other magician îs conjuring him so that he cannot comc, then let him send a spirit of simîlar nature, or otherwisé avoid the dif- ficulty. But of course so vulgar a conception would not occur to the student of the Qabalah. It is just possible that the magi wrote their conjuration…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…tempt to draw any opinions as to the author’s design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. develops the plot and is little germane to our matter, save that w e catch a glimpse of the unspeakably vile Cordelia, with no pity for her father’s serious condition (though no doubt he deserved all he got, he was now harmless and should have inspired compassion), hanging to him in the hope that he would no reverse his banishment and make her (after a bloody victory) sole heiress of great…
1930 · PDF PAGE 134
…y nakedness in the bazaar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva. 35. And in ail shalt thou create the Infinité Bliss and the next link of the Infinité Chain. 36. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles — is not my symbol a triangle ? — ever in circles — is not the symbol of the Beloved a circle? Therein is ail progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. But the prog…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…his person. DENYs. This really cannot go on. I must beg you, sir, to allow me to go from your house. I came here by an ill chance enough—though it saved my life in sooth. ALAIN. And secured you a splendid marriage. DENYS. [sede.] Never, never again will I mix my drinks. [ALAIN szrveys DENYS from head to foot, emitting satisfied chuckles at on his hat with a flourish, DENys. Sir, if you are in your wits, I find you insolent: if not, I will not stand here parleying with a madman. ALAIN. I must apologise, no doubt, but the cir- cumstances are pecu…