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Page 67 of 1301910 · PDF PAGE 103
…provoke the Crowned-with-Night Hidden beyond sound and sight In the mystery of His own high essence ? Lo, Rose of all the gardens of the world, Did thy most sacred presence Not fill the Real, then this voice were whirled Away in the wind of its own folly, thrown Into forgotten places and unknown. So I sing on ! Sister and wife, dear wife Light of my love and lady of my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling for one star-wink thy bright face ! Did we leave then, once cognisant, Time for some Fear to implant His poison ? D…
1910 · PDF PAGE 23
XVIII PREFACE. THE WRITING OF THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY It has been necessary to sketch this part of my life in order to exhibit the atmosphere which I am bound to connect with Christianity, or at least English Christianity. Certainly the vast majority of English people, of those who are religious at all, belong either to Evangelicalism or Dissent ; and the tyranny of these is nearly if 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 grea…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…oonrise flash across the days ! I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold. I alight in mighty splendour from the thrond boats of light ; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night. Yea, with gladness did they pæan, bowing low be-fore my car, In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. I have risen ! I am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, I the first-born of the Mother in her ecstasy of old. Lo! I am come to face the dweller in the sacre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…st get on as best we can. Life is a hard thing, my God! “ Meantime there is our life here. Well?” It seems sometimes to me as if all the world’s wisdom were summed up in that one Epicurus phrase. For if Todd has solved all their problems with a word, at least he supplies no hint of the answer to mine. For I—it seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, 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…
1910 · PDF PAGE 251
…st get on as best we can. Life is a hard thing, my God! “ Meantime there is our life here. Well?” It seems sometimes to me as if all the world’s wisdom were summed up in that one Epicurus phrase. For if Todd has solved all their problems with a word, at least he supplies no hint of the answer to mine. For I—it seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, 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…
1912 · PDF PAGE 322
…loah, a name of GOD?הולא The Supernal Mother, un-?אמא fertilized; see 52 Terror, calamity?ההלב Loss, destruction?ילב To cease κ7᾽||Ἴ The World, Earth of Malkuth?רלה My glory?ירוכב Great?לודג To rejoice?ל`ג Challah; to make faint.?הלה [Vide Kin. LCK. p. 346] [Vide K.D. L,C.K. p. r51;?אמל see no. 340] Hazel, almond?זול &m +5 Drops?יוונא A pool, pond; sorrow?םגא Captive, captivity rbv Angel ruling 1]?לאט 42 ”43 44
1912 · PDF PAGE 322
…loah, a name of GOD?הולא The Supernal Mother, un-?אמא fertilized; see 52 Terror, calamity?ההלב Loss, destruction?ילב To cease κ7᾽||Ἴ The World, Earth of Malkuth?רלה My glory?ירוכב Great?לודג To rejoice?ל`ג Challah; to make faint.?הלה [Vide Kin. LCK. p. 346] [Vide K.D. L,C.K. p. r51;?אמל see no. 340] Hazel, almond?זול &m +5 Drops?יוונא A pool, pond; sorrow?םגא Captive, captivity rbv Angel ruling 1]?לאט 42 ”43 44
1913 · PDF PAGE 329
…ins calm, and accomplishes its work. The ploughshare is not cruel when it tears the bosom of the earth, and the great revolutions of the world are the husbandry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never change because they do not instruct them- selves; but peoples instruct themselves. Shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31
1913 · PDF PAGE 329
…ins calm, and accomplishes its work. The ploughshare is not cruel when it tears the bosom of the earth, and the great revolutions of the world are the husbandry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never change because they do not instruct them- selves; but peoples instruct themselves. Shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
…the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
… we may expect the final statement of the poet’s mind. The passage that first put me on the track of the amazing discovery for which the world has to thank me is to be found in Act I. Sc. ii. ll. 132-149:— “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty
1944 · PDF PAGE 28
…ulgar‐ ised in the fable of a Female Pope. More important still, “The Angel”, or “The Last Judgment”, represented the destruction of the world by fire. Its hieroglyph is, in a way, prophetic, for when the world was destroyed by fire on 21st March, 1904,1 one’s attention was inevitably called to the similarity of this card to the Stele of Revealing. This being the beginning of the New Aeon, it has seemed 1See The Equinox of the Gods, loc. cit. more fitting to show the beginning of the Aeon; for all that is known about the next Aeon, due in 2,000…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…r nobler work possible, and it is the gravest possible mistake to sneer at these humble but faithful followers of the great minds of the world. What, then, are the best, easiest, directest_ methods to attain our result? And how shall we, in mortal language, convey to the minds of others the nature of a result so beyond language, baffling even imagination cagle-pinioned? It may help us if we endeavour to outline the distinction between the Hindu and Buddhist methods and aims of the Great Work.
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
… the miracle of rédemp¬ tion; Horus crowned and conquering, taking the place of his father. Christ-Bacchus in Heaven- Olympus saving the world. The Hermit IX Yod (a hand) ÏO V i r g o (an The root of the Alphabet. (H e r m e s English I earthy sign The Spermatozoon. The with Lamp, or Y. ruled by youth setting out on his Wings, Mercury adventures after receiving Wand, e x a 1 t e d the Wand. Parzival in Cloak, and therein ; the desert. Christ taking Serpent). se x u a'I ly refuge in Egypt, and on ambivalent) the Mount tempted by the Light, i. e.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 124
…eir judgment would be worthless; and at least Magi (though not that particular kind of Magus who brings the Word of a New Formula to the world every 2,000 years or so) or they would be unable to influence events on any scale cominensurate with the scope of the Work. 91
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…ed! ’Tis curious how totally independent is mantra-yoga of reverie. I can say my mantra vigorously while my thought wanders all over the world; yetI cannot write the simplest sentence without stopping it, unless with a very great effort, and then it is not satisfactory to either party! Meditation—~of the " rational ” sort—on this leads me to suggestthat active “ radiant" thought may be incom— patible with the mantra, itself being (Ρ) active. One can 45
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
… Open unto me, Gateway of God the Mighty! Lift up your heads, O ye Gates, &c. Iam come forth from the Path of the Waters: I stand in the World of the Power of God: I turn my face to the Right, and the Gate of the Lion is before me— Gate of the Path of the Lion, in the Sign of the Lion do thou open before my face. Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates, &c. I advance over the Path of the Leader of the Lion, By the Power of the Daughter of the Flaming Sword. About me the Lions are roaring for their prey; But I am Sekhet, of the Flaming Eyes. Turned is my…
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
… Open unto me, Gateway of God the Mighty! Lift up your heads, O ye Gates, &c. Iam come forth from the Path of the Waters: I stand in the World of the Power of God: I turn my face to the Right, and the Gate of the Lion is before me— Gate of the Path of the Lion, in the Sign of the Lion do thou open before my face. Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates, &c. I advance over the Path of the Leader of the Lion, By the Power of the Daughter of the Flaming Sword. About me the Lions are roaring for their prey; But I am Sekhet, of the Flaming Eyes. Turned is my…
1910 · PDF PAGE 196
…y, you told me most dramatically, and it shall be counted unto you for righteousness. EUPHEMIA. I think youre the greatest brute in the worldand I love you. CARR. How reciprocal of you ! EUPHEMIA. Sweet ! CARR. On my honour, I havent a single chocolate on me. Have a cigar ? [Business with case. EUPHEMIA. Be serious ! You must marry me at once. CARR. Then how can I be serious ! I understand from
1911 · PDF PAGE 86
…ee; and, I think, a monster. You are mad with pride and conceit of your own wisdom. SoI know you for a fool. RINALDO, The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. LAYLAH. Prate on I Even the dust mocks at you. RINALDO. There are snakes in the dust. LAYLAH. What do you mean? RINALDO. I saw it in your eyes three minutes since. I did not need to turn my head to know that on the horizon gallop your husband and his band. LAYLAI-I. You are clever. RINALDO. And you were forced despite yourself to drop a hint that might warn me to rejoin my knight…