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Page 66 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 38
…xT Unity transcends consctoiisness. It is above ail division. The Father of thought — the Word —* is called Chaos — the dyad. The number Three, the Mother, is called Babalon. In connection with this the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, and Liber 418. This first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. The compréhension of this Trinity is a matter of spiritual expérience. Ail true gods are attrîbuted to this Trinity. 2 3 An immeasurable abyss divides it from ail manifestations of Reason or…
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…the complete works of George Meredith, Thomas Carlyle, and Henry James, tangled together, would have seemed in comparison like a word of three letters. [176] His Grimoire was in reality excellent for its purpose; for the infernal hierarchy delights in unintelligible images, in every kind of confusion and obscurity. This particular lucubration was calculated to drag the Archdemon of Bad Syntax himself from the most remote corner of his lair. For Arthwait could not speak with becoming unintelligibility; to knot a sentence up properly it has to be…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…e Charge. The “Firmament” is the Ruach, the “mental plane” ; it is the realm of Shu, or Zeus, where revolves the Wheel of the Gunas, the Three forms1 of Being. The Aethyr is the I* They correspond to the Sulphur, Mercury, and Sait of Alchemy; to Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas in the Hindu System; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. They are the apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are conventions. There is no absolute validity in any means of mental appréhension; but unless we m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…he made an excuse for taking off the rope and retired behind a rock while I sat down and lit my pipe. I was aroused by a hail. Ellis was three or four hundred feet down the slope! He urged me once more to glissade. He said he had invented a new method of exercising this art, which was to hold the axe by the shaft and use the pick as a brake. It was downright insanity; and took me absolutely by surprise, as previously he had been a sound and careful climber. I could do nothing to restrain him: I tried to humour him and suggested that he should "…
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…ere means the same as Yoga). Jt zs better than skill, When I first began to cut up bullocks I saw before me simply whole Judlocks. After three years’ practice I saw no more whole animals, And now I work with my mind and not with my eye. When my senses bid me stop, but my mind urges me on, I fall back upon eternal * «The Bhagavad-Gita,” iv, 33, 37, 38. Compare with the above “The Wisdom of Solomon,” eg.: “For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit, holy, one only, manifold, subtle, lively, cle…
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…ere means the same as Yoga). Jt zs better than skill, When I first began to cut up bullocks I saw before me simply whole Judlocks. After three years’ practice I saw no more whole animals, And now I work with my mind and not with my eye. When my senses bid me stop, but my mind urges me on, I fall back upon eternal * «The Bhagavad-Gita,” iv, 33, 37, 38. Compare with the above “The Wisdom of Solomon,” eg.: “For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit, holy, one only, manifold, subtle, lively, cle…
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
… deep. That word of Apollo Shall shudder and leap ; That word in the uttermost night shall awake them who know not of sleep. Ilear, O ye Three, In the innermost pit Dwellers that be! Tartarus, split ! Arise unto me For I call ye with wit Of the words that constrain and compel, of the summons ordered and fit! O daughter of Earth, Tisiphone dread, The ophidian girth, And the blood-dripping head, In hideous mirth Bring living and dead To torture! Arise! I conjure by the might of the words I have said. Megeera, thou terror, O daughter of Night Whos…
1996 · PDF PAGE 92
…on and potentiality. To these Hadit brings motion and position. The wheel moves; manifesta tion now is possible. Its perception implies three-dimensional space, and time. But note that the Mover is himself not moved. The “cube in the circle” emphasizes this question of dimensions. The cube is rectilinear (therefore phallic no less than the axle); its unity suggests perfection projected as a “solid” for human percep tion; its square faces affirm balance, equity, and limitation; its six- sidedness sets it among the solar symbols. It is thus lik…
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
…ison. She sits as one long dead ; infernal calm, Chill hatred, wrap her in their disdainly cold. She careth not, but doth disdainly hold Three scourges for man’s soul, that know no balm. They know not any cure. The first is Life, A well of poison. Sowing dust and dung Over men’s hearts, the second scourge, above All evil deeds, is Lying, from whose tongue Drops Envy, wed with Hatred to sow Strife. These twain are bitter. But the last is Love.’ There are many poems the titles of which we need not give. Nearly all seem to indicate that Mr Crowley…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…self, secondly, of his instru¬ ments, thirdly, of the place of working. Ancient Magicians recommended a preliminary purification of from three days to many months. Durîng this period of training they took the utmost pains with diet. They avoided animal food, lest the elemental spirit of the animal should get into their atmosphère. They practised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to the excrements of the body they were equally carefulj in trimming the hair and nails, they cerem…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…otic. From being nothing in the room, he became everything. Even Lavinia King, who had wearied of the world at thirty, and was now forty-three, saw that here was something new to her. She looked at that impassive face. The jaw was square, the planes of the face curiously fiat. The mouth was small, a poppy-petal of vermilion, intensely sensuous. The nose was small and rounded, but fine, and the life of the face seemed concentrated in the nostrils. The eyes were tiny and oblique, with strange brows of defiance. A small tuft of irrepressible hair …
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…ty! There are rituals of the éléments and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet — secret, O Prophet! A feast for the Suprême Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! — 35i — 4
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…lated by the Absolute, every point is equally the Centre; every point is equally the focus of the forces of the whole. (In any system of three points, any two may be considered solely with reference to the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties may be com mon to any two points. Thus a circle, BCD, may be described by the revolution of a line ab in a plane about the point A; but also from the point c, or indeed any other point, by the application of the proper analy…
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…deavour to bring all to the knowledge of the Law, is to keep the Law. Seek ye the Law that ye may be Free. Wisdom, Love and Power, these three are One. That these should be One is the Law. 136
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…’s dread of death and ignorance of nature. The partheno- 1. Her sole speech in the last Act is “Dienen: Dienen ”. 2. Note that alî these three remain for a time as neuters among women, prevenled from living the male life.
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…quent life is merely the aftermath of that crisis. On the other hand, however, there is the circumstance that his time has been spent in three very distinct manners: the Secret Way of the Initiate, the Path of Poetry and Philosophy, and the Open Sea of Romance and Adventure. It is indeed not unusual to find the first two, or the last two, elements in the molecule of a man: Byron exemplifies this, and Poe that. But is is rare indeed for so strenuous and out-of-doors a life to be associated with such profound devotion to the arts of the quietist;…
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
…e of those societies which are always springing up in universities. They never take root; because death comes to all alike at the end of three years, so to speak. People who stay up for a fourth year are Ancient Mariners, but lack the power to hold the wedding guest. Of course people overlap; but the generations follow each other so quickly and the spirit of youth is so impotent to stamp itself upon history, that it is a rare piece of luck when any of these clubs or societies live beyond seven years at the outside. Neuburg's society, the Pan so…
1954 · PDF PAGE 179
…remember what the Sepher Sephiroth tells you about the number ; but as luck will have it, there is no need to inquire; for 135 = 3 x 45. Three is the number , is the first number of Saturn, and 45 the last. (The sum of the numbers in the magic square of Saturn is 45.) that corresponds beautifully with everything you have
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
…ls upon a golden cross was engraved: CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ (For so were the Brethren discreet to conceal his true name). After whom came three names Great and Terrible that I write not in this place. Lastly appeared this newly-writ hieroglyph of the Lion, and the Name of that Brother was hidden from me. Then was I shewn the Mystery of the Words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum …
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…se of Nature as proceeding from free and formless création through controlled and formed préservation to the silence of destruction. The three sounds are harmonized into one; and thus the Word represents the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; and the operations in the Universe of their triune energy. It is thus the formula of a Manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternâtes with a Pralaya, during which création is latent. Analysed Qabalistically, the Word is found to possess similar properties. A is the négative, and a…