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Page 70 of 811907 · PDF PAGE 321
…, until she “ is wholly purified from all faults and stain of sin , and become perfectly fair and unspotted .” Her wedding gift is “ The Holy Ghost . He sheds forth upon the Bride the torrent of divine love ... insomuch that the Bride loseth herself and is intoxicated with love , so that she forgets herself , and all creatures in time or eternity together with herself . . . The joy that the Bride hath with the Bridegroom is so vast that no senses or reason can apprehend or attain unto it ."; · St. Augustine , Confessions , vii , ix , X. John Ta…
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
…fane it is only to turn food into poison. The act must be pure and passionate. It must be held as the union with God in the heart of the Holy of Holies. One must never forget that a child will be born of that deed. One must choose the environment appropriate to the particular child which one wills to create. One must make sure that the conscious will is written, on the pure waters of a mind unstirred, in letters of fire, by the Sun of the Soul. One must not create confusion in the talisman, which belongs to the Silent Self, by letting the speak…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…re. It îherefore fulfiïs the required conditions. The principal means of divination in history are astrology, geo- mancy, the Tarot, the Holy Qabalah, and the Yi King. There aie hundreds of othersj from pyromancy, oneiromancy, auguries from sacrifices, and the spinning-top of some ancient oracles to the omens drawn from the flight of birds and the prophesying or tea-leaves. It will be sufficient for our présent purpose to discuss only the five Systems first enumerated. Astrology is theoretically a perfect method, since the symbols employed actu…
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…ving then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then to make our whole Engine the true and real Appurte nance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a Machine propelled by a Man’s Feet, becometh as it were an Extension of the Rider, through his Skill and Custom. Thus …
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
… Word is found to possess similar properties. A is the négative, and also the unity which concentrâtes it into a positive form. A is the Holy Spirit who begets God in flesh upon the Virgin, according to the formula familial* to students of “The Golden Bough”. A is also the “babe in the Egg” thus produced. The quality of A is thus bisexual. It is the original being — Zeus Arrhenothelus, Bacchus Diphues, or Baphomet. U or V is the manifested son himself. Its number is 6. It refers therefore, to the dual nature of the Logos as divine and human; th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
…r. Simon Iff was walking toward her, and his hand was open. "I congratulate you, sister," he said solemnly, "upon your initiation to our holy Order. You have well earned the robe in which you stand, for you have paid its price — service to others without thought of the consequence to yourself. Let us break our fast!" And he took Lisa's arm; presently they came to the refectory. As in a well- rehearsed play, every one fell into his place; and before Lisa realized the utter subversion that had taken place in her being, Sister Cybele was on her fe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…that spying was a dog's [334] game, with a dog's death at the end of it. He has renounced his errors, and he is now a Probationer of our Holy Order." The young men greeted each other, the Turk stammering out an appeal for pardon, the other laughing off his embarrassment. "But you are ill, Cyril!" cried Sister Cybele. And in truth the boy could hardly stand. "Action and reaction are equal and opposite," explained Simon Iff, cheerily. "You will sleep, Brother Cyril, and you will then pass seven days in meditation, in one of the high trances. I wi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…e of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not States of existence, but modes of motion. They are verbs, not nouns. Sh is the Holy Spirit as a “tongue of fire” manifest in triplicity, — 337 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…d 20 is the value of Yod (the Angel or Herald) expressed in full as IVD. S h is the Spiritual congress of Heaven and Earth. But T is the Holy Spirit in action as a “roaring lion” or as the uold Serpent” instead of as an “Angel of Light”. The twins of Set-Isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as m the cases of Mary and the Dove; Leda and the Swan, etc. The card is XI, the number of Magick AVD : Aleph the Fool impregnating the woman according to the Word …
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
TANNHAUSER 249 Great lord, true knight, and honest gentle- man, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace, In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet’s tourney. HERALD. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. LANDGRAVE. Ha! He is not here! WOLFRAM. Our sturdy lover will not be consoled For losing, as he phrases it, his friend. LANDGRAVE. Well, we forgive him the more readily Because of the occasion. One al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…it, and imagine that it is that hollow tube in which Prometheus brought down fire from Heaven, formulating to himself the passing of the Holy Influence through it. In this and other ways he will perform the initiation; and, this being accomplished, he will repeat the whole process in an elaborate ceremony.1 To take an entirely different case, that of the Circle; the magician will synthesize the Vermilion required from Mercury and Sulphur which he has himself sublimated. This pure I. I hâve omitted to say that the whole subject of Magick is an e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…He will thus préparé himself properly for the crisis of his career in the Order, the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel. His Angel shall lead him anon to the summit of the Order of the R. C. and make him ready to face the unspeakable terror of the Abyss which lies between Manhood and Godhead; teach him to Know that agony, to Dare that destiny, to Will that catastrophe, 1. “Their Will” — not, of course, their wishes as individual human beings, but their will as ofhcers of the New Aeon. 2. It is not considered…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
… is the main thème of the instructions of the A.'. A.*. It is characterised by the Attain- ment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. (See the Equinox, The Temple of Solomon the King:\ The Vision and the Voice 8th Aethyrj also Liber Samekh, etc. etc.) This is the essential work of every man; none other ranks with it either for personal progress or for power to help one’s fel- lows. This unachieved, man is no more than the unhappiest and blindest of animais. He is conscious of his own incompréhensible calamity, and clumsi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
… them as being of the family of murder. In Magick, likewise, the Adept who is sworn to attain to the Know¬ ledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel may in his grosser days hâve been expert as a Healer, to find that he is now incapable of any such work. He will probably be puzzled, and wonder whether he has lost ail his power. Y et the cause may be no more than that the Wisdom of his Angel deprecates the interférence of ignorant kindlmess with diseases which may hâve been sent to the sufferer for a purpose profoundly important to his we…
1996 · PDF PAGE 47
… “therefore.” It appears to describe an initiation, or perhaps the initiation, in general terms. I would suggest that the palace is the “Holy House” or Universe of the Initiate of the New Law. The four gates are perhaps Light, Life, Love, Liberty—see “De Lege Libellum.”1 Lapis Lazuli is a symbol of Nuit, Jasper of Hadit. The rare scents are possibly various ecstasies or samadhis. Jasmine and Rose are hieroglyphs of the two main Sacraments, while the emblems of death may refer to certain secrets of a well-known exoteric school of initiation whos…
1996 · PDF PAGE 145
…ema. For every Individual in the State must be perfect in his own Func tion, with Contentment, respecting his own Task as necessary and holy, not envious of another’s. For so only mayst thou build up a Free State, whose directing Will shall be singly directed to the Welfare of all. We of Thelema think it vitally aright to let a man take opium. He may destroy his physical vehicle thereby, but he may produce another Kubla Khan.1 It is his own responsibility. Also we know well that “If he be a King” it will not hurt him — in the end. We trust Nat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
deed into dévotion, and consecrated by the right performance of the holy ceremonies. Yet herein is danger, for that the Mind is fluid as quicksilver, and bordereth upon the Abyss, and is beset by many sirens and devils that seduce and attack it to destroy it. Therefore let the devotee beware, and précisé accurately his médi¬ tations, even as a man should build a canal from sea to sea. 21. Continuation. — Let then the Philosophus meditate upon ail J ove that hath ever stirred him. There is the love of David and of Jonathan, and the love of Abrah…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…s in robing yourself as a king, then stripping and slaying vourself, and rising from that death to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel \ There is an etymological identitv between Tetragrammaton and I A 09 but the m agi cal formulæ are entirely different, as the descriptions here given hâve schewn. Professor William James, in his “Varieties of Religious Expérience”, has well classified religion as the <£once~born” and the “twice-born”; but the religion now proclaimed in Liber Legis harmonizes these by transcending them. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…we may return to the question of making the Magical Link. In the case above cited Frater Perdurabo composed His talisman by invoking His Holy Guardian Angel according to the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage. That Angel wrote on the lamen the Word of the Aeon. The Book of the Law is this writing. To this lamen the Master Therion gave life by devoting His own life thereto. We may then regard this talisman, the Law, as the most powerful that has been made in the world’s history, for previous talismans of the same type hâve been limited in their…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…hail, O Queen, to Thee, Spouse of Eternity ! Avé Maria! Mother in Maidenhood ! Saintly Beatitude ! Queen of the Angel Host! Bride of the Holy Ghost ! Avé Maria ! [Axeunt Pilgrims. TANNHAUSER. The love of Isis! No mere love to Her That is inborn in every soul of us! It-is Her love to Christ that we must taste, Uniting us with Her eternal sigh. There is a problem infinite again. I have not gained one jot since first I saw The stately bosom of the Venusbherg, Save that mine eyes have seen a little truth, My body found a little weariness. © I am ve…