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Page 7 of 821913 · PDF PAGE 61
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. 32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise. 33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! 34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake! 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 61
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. 32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise. 33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! 34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake! 35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty! 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
… mother, By might of my lyre, By Nature’s assistance, I, I, not another Demand my desire, Rebuke your resistance, By mighty Apollo Whose power yet abides, Though his light may not follow Through Stygian tides ! By my power over things Both living and dead, By my influence splendid In heavenly court, The song of me springs. My favour is dread. Be your portals rended! Your bolts be as nought ! The ethereal kings Encompass my head. My soul hath transcended The limits of thought ! Unbar me the gates! Revolve me the hinges! Mine be the Fate! Mine be…
1912 · PDF PAGE 98
…ight fall too sudden to a sob. I dont care that [she makes a gesture of contempt] for all the favour of the mob. Your friends have real power ; mines but the power of storm. Its over in an hour ; your sun is always warm. MORTADELLO. If it were so, I think you would not be so frank. MONICA. Yes, but I shall not sink ; you make a perfect plank. This hour is mine ; and this shall breed me many more. Your Charon-fees a kissand I shall come to shore. MORTADELLO. I would as soon espouse a trull upon the quays. MONICA. My beauty can arouse no kin…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…e which is called the Spirits’ Chain. Here followeth, therefore, the Invocation of the King :? THE INVOCATION OF THE KING. O THoU great, powerful, and mighty King Amarmon, who bearest rule by the power of the SupREME Gop Et over all spirits both superior and inferior of the Infernal Orders in the Dominion of the East; I do invocate and command thee by the especial and true name of Gop; and by that God that Thou Worshippest; and by the Seal of thy creation; and by the most mighty and powerful name of Gop, I—EHovAH TETRAGRAMMATON who cast thee ou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 479
…y affirm the intervention and the presence of the spirit of evil. Perversity or fatality, these pretended miracles obey one of these two powers. As to qabalistic writings and mysterious signatures, we shall say that they reproduce themselves by the magnetic intuition of the mirages of thought in the universal vital fluid. These instinctive reflections may be produced if the magic Word has nothing arbitrary in it, and if the signs of the occult sanctuary are the natural expressions of absolute ideas. It is this which we shall demonstrate in our …
1913 · PDF PAGE 479
…y affirm the intervention and the presence of the spirit of evil. Perversity or fatality, these pretended miracles obey one of these two powers. As to qabalistic writings and mysterious signatures, we shall say that they reproduce themselves by the magnetic intuition of the mirages of thought in the universal vital fluid. These instinctive reflections may be produced if the magic Word has nothing arbitrary in it, and if the signs of the occult sanctuary are the natural expressions of absolute ideas. It is this which we shall demonstrate in our …
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…of Régénération. To trike with the hand on the dagger déclarés that one demands he use of the dagger as a tocl to extena one’s executive power. The reader will recall how Siegfried smote Nothung, the sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a …
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
…e a Star That shames thy beauties and thy manifold Mind with Its tiny triple flame. I go! VENUS, Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TANNHAUSER. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work Thy devilish lusts on me unfortunate ! There is no gateway to this fortalice? Thy fiends surround me? Hein! their pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Avé Maria ! VENUS. Mercy! Mercy, God! [ Zhunder rolls in the lightning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and TANNHAUSER finds himself in a cross…
1929 · PDF PAGE 319
… battling ....Weakly with night. Lord, shall these dry bones live? ........O keep us in the hour ........Wherein the King-Ghost hath his power! The King-Ghost girds me with his gibbering creatures, ....My dreams of old that never saw the sun. He shows me, in a mocking glass, their features, ....The twin fiends "Might-have-been" and "Should-have-done". ........Keep us, by Jesu's ruth, ........What time the King-Ghost grins the truth! The King-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature; ....For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by endur…
1909 · PDF PAGE 41
… the Voice of the Archangel, and the trump of God. He is installed in the Throne of the Double Kingdom, and he wields the Wand of Double Power by the signs of the grade. He is recognised an initiate, and the word of Secret Power, and the silent administration of the Sacrament of Sword and Flame, acknowledge him. Then, the words being duly spoken and the deeds duly done, all is symbolically sealed by the Thirty Voices, and the Word that vibrateth from the Silence to the Speech, and from the Speech again unto the Silence. Then the Pyramid is seal…
1913 · PDF PAGE 36
…n-itiate. Get out. But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY. Get out. For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power. '? Get OUT. If thou hast T already, first get UT.1° Then get O. And so at last get OUT.
1907 · PDF PAGE 204
… on thine, and my tresses Like Zephyr’s caresses When the twilight dips. IIADES. This passes all. Relent. Release! Depart ! I yield : my power is broken, and my heart Riven, and all my pride ruined, and me Compelled to earth to loose Eurydice. ORPHEUS. Depart ! ERINYES. Baffled! O misery! Bethink, Proud Hades, ere thy torture gar thee drink Humiliation’s utmost dregs ! HADEs. I spake. Depart ye ! lest my power regained awake, And smite ye with a terror more than ye. MEG-ERA. We are borne on bitter winds. ALECTO, We sink. TISIPHONE, We flee ! ME…
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
… us from all perils and dangers. Eloha. O Almighty God! be present with us both now and for ever: Tetragrammaton. And let thine Almighty power and presence ever guard and protect us now and for ever: Raphael. Let thy holy angel Raphael wait upon us at this present and for ever: Schemes (or Shemesh). To assist us in these our undertakings. Tehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer : Sabioth. Thou great God of Sabdoth : Netzah (or Netzach). All-seeing God: Elohim. God be present with us, and let thy presence be now and alway present w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 424
64 Magical Power Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rightly you remark that most of these letters have dealt with self-development in one form or another; now, what of the causa finalis. the "practical angle" some would call it. What you want now is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical …
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
92 THE MANTRA-YOGI Half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe The passion ineluctable, this power Slave to its single end, to storm the tower That holdeth thee, who art Authentic Truth. O golden hawk ! O lidless eye ! Behold How the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold ! Still I will strive ! That by the striving broken I may exhaust this me ! That thou mayst sweep Swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep And the unutterable word be spoken.
1928 · PDF PAGE 182
NOTES IV. Written at the height of the power of Napoleon III. IX. Box-office Clerks. The allusion is un- translatable. In French theatres there are three officials to check the theatre tick- ets, sold or complimentary, and to assign seats to ticket holders. XXIII. Santerres drums. XLVI. Yeats, etc. Baudelaire here alludes to some long since forgotten poetasters of his day. L. The incident of the Villa Hermosa seems to refer to some incidents in Baudelaires life.
1910 · PDF PAGE 160
… scarlet ! A bitter exchange A bad bargain to strike ? It May seem to you strange : The fact isI like it ! II You offer me gold, Place, power and pleasure To have and to hold Inexhaustible treasure ! Ill give it and more In this planet of boredom For a girl thats a whore, And is proud of her whoredom !
1905 · PDF PAGE 27
…ome And left him to despair, but pitying His soul struck through with darts: “A bitter thing” (She cried) “thou sayest, yet perchance my power Is not as great as thine, for while I cower Tnder the lash of Zeus, stand thou upright, And laugh him to his beard for all his spite.” ‘©T even now beneath hisdoom?” ‘‘ Even thou! For learn this law, writ large upon the brow Of white Olympus, writ by him who made Thee, yea and Zeus, of whom is Zeus afraid, Graven by Him with an eternal pen, The first law in the destiny of men: We whom Zeus wrongfully onc…
1919 · PDF PAGE 347
…t this verse really refers is known only to members of the ninth degree of O.T.O. 45. Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they over- power thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware, Disciple, suffer not, e’en though it be their shadow, to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness 25