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Page 71 of 1041911 · PDF PAGE 109
…or such things are informed by Her spirit, for they are cast off from her into the world of the Qliphoth, or shells of the dead, that is earth. For every world is the shell or excrement of the world above it. I cannot bear the Vision. A voice comes, I know not whence: Blessed art thou, who hast seen, and yet hast not believed. For therefore is it given unto thee to taste, and smell, and feel, and hear, and know by the inner sense, and by the inmost sense, so that sevenfold is thy rapture. (My brain is so exhausted that fatigue-images appear, by…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…off this minute to Jehannum l ” In sooth, the fiend’s unseemly mirth mocked all their wagging beards alike, , - As from the bowels of the earth quacked an ironical “ Labbaik! ” The moral is—if all your folk are sure you are a black magician, You may as well enjoy the joke; you cannot damage your position. The moral is—when mothers crossed perform the usual Christian revel And tell their children they are “lost,” they simply drive them to the deviL
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…hath moulded and set there In thy brain's heaven ? Such a god replies As thy fears move . So men pray everywhere . God did first work in earth when womankind He chipped from Adam's rib-a thankless task I wot His wisdom has long since repined . When I am dead remember me for this That I bade workers work , and lovers kiss ; Laughed with the Stoic at the dream of pain , And preached with Jesus the evangel - bliss .' Whilst such lines as the following in the second poem also remind us of the astronomer poet : O thou , zelator of this Paradise , Te…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…re interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was ever a pang to her, and yielding was only less terrible than denial? “On my small insistent beat have lain heads that were heavy with great dreams: men of action and men of fancy who loved her and were loved, it may be, a little …
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…re interesting than the most awake and magnetic of geniuses, even as the veiled and cloistered odours of Spring with which one knows the earth is tingling in Winter are more delirious and exciting than the naked bosoms of May. “Will you believe me, that, by I know not what exquisite contradiction, the sweetest kiss was ever a pang to her, and yielding was only less terrible than denial? “On my small insistent beat have lain heads that were heavy with great dreams: men of action and men of fancy who loved her and were loved, it may be, a little …
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…ce all passions to powers and all powers to justice. Tuy Kincpom come! For nigh on nineteen hundred years, over the whole surface of the earth, this has been the cry of seven hundred million throats, and the Israelites yet await the Messiah! He said that he would come, and come he will. He came to die, and he has promised to return to live. HEAVEN IS THE HARMONY OF GENEROUS SENTIMENTS. HELL IS THE CONFLICT OF COWARDLY INSTINCTS. When humanity, by dint of bloody and dolorous experience, has truly understood this double truth, it will abjure the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
…ce all passions to powers and all powers to justice. Tuy Kincpom come! For nigh on nineteen hundred years, over the whole surface of the earth, this has been the cry of seven hundred million throats, and the Israelites yet await the Messiah! He said that he would come, and come he will. He came to die, and he has promised to return to live. HEAVEN IS THE HARMONY OF GENEROUS SENTIMENTS. HELL IS THE CONFLICT OF COWARDLY INSTINCTS. When humanity, by dint of bloody and dolorous experience, has truly understood this double truth, it will abjure the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 492
…r blue gleam-all in the Mother-of-pearl. And again, Cpo I: 50-52 and 56-62. 50. Adonai spake yet again with V. V. V. V. V. and said: The earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of her grapes, and be drunken thereon. 51. And V. V. V. V. V. answered and said: 0 my Lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. And He answered him: Not as thou canst see. It is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? For it
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
…llest pact With your creative Deity, And say: The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“ New Birth” you'll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary sphere And flies in the direction ‘‘x.” (There lies the fourth dimension.) Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations, But leave me with the Flaming Star,” Jeheshua (See thou Zohar !) And thus our formidable Pigeon- Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
…icus then turning to Scepticus asks him the seemingly simple question , “ What is a ' year ' ? ” . Scepticus answers something about the earth moving round the sun , and is at once shown by Mysticus that a man stating a fact in refer ence to “ Since the Derby was run ,” would be more intelligible than he who would say , " Since May , such and such a day ” ; . . “ for his memory is of the race , and not of a particular item in the ever changing space -relation of the heavens , a relation which he can never know , and of which he can never percei…
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…5YD yg | V water, Taste |... | 23 Sxesip | Ohooohatan . . |. (S) DYN wp | A Fire, Sight 7). 9/7] 81 Sy | Thahaaotahe ©. . (N) MBY nu | W Earth, Tough |... 1." | 82 bis @® spirit, Hearing) . .w. . | 31 bis LXVIII. LXVII LXVI. LXV. The Demon The Parts of Spelling of Tetragrammaton Secret Num- Kings. the in the Four Worlds. spondi vA ponding. Oriens . Quack NTIV NA TW. . 45. 11 Ariton . - N'A oN . 63. 23 Paimon mnow ms Fy! . 72. $1 Amaimon . -mnyranr ww... . 52. $2 bis $1 bis LXXIII. LXXII. The Court Cards of the Tarot, with the Spheres | The Cour…
1911 · PDF PAGE 31
…outh increase and whirl, and he cries: Behold the mys- tery of toil, O thou who art taken in the toils of mystery. For I who trample the earth thereby make whirlpools in the air; be comforted, therefore, for though I be black, in the roof of my mouth is the sign of the Beetle. Bent are the backs of my brethren, yet shall they gore the lion with their horns. Have I not the wings of the eagle, and the face of the man? And now he is turned into one of those winged Assyrian bull-men. And he sayeth: The spade of the husbandman is the sceptre of the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 512
…urely physical reminiscences. In dreams, we have the consciousness of the universal life; we mingle ourselves with water, fire, air, and earth; we fly like birds; we climb like squirrels ; we crawl like serpents ; we are intoxicated with astral light; we plunge into the common reservoir, as happens in a more complete manner in death; but then (and it is thus that Paracelsus explains the mysteries of the other life) the wicked, that is to say, those who have allowed themselves to be dominated by the instincts of the brute to the prejudice of hum…
1913 · PDF PAGE 512
…urely physical reminiscences. In dreams, we have the consciousness of the universal life; we mingle ourselves with water, fire, air, and earth; we fly like birds; we climb like squirrels ; we crawl like serpents ; we are intoxicated with astral light; we plunge into the common reservoir, as happens in a more complete manner in death; but then (and it is thus that Paracelsus explains the mysteries of the other life) the wicked, that is to say, those who have allowed themselves to be dominated by the instincts of the brute to the prejudice of hum…
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…ed as golden or solar, because the Sun is the Fa‐ ther of all Life, and (in particular) presides over distillation. The fertility of the Earth is main‐ tained by rain and sun; the rain is formed by a slow and gentle process, and is rendered effec‐ tive by the co‐operation of air, which is itself alchemically the result of the Marriage of Fire and Water. So also the formula of continued life is death, or putrefaction. Here it is symbolized by the caput mortuum on the cauldron, a raven perched upon a skull. In agricultural terms, this is the fall…
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
…zon succeeded not in his design.) In this Aethyr is neither beginning nor end, for it is all hotch-potch, because it is of the wicked on earth and the damned in hell. And so long as it be hotch-potch, it mattereth little what may be written by the sea-green incorruptible Scribe. The horror of it will be given in another place and time, and through another Seer, and that Seer shall be slain as a result of his revealing. But the present Seer, who is not P...., seeth not the horror, because he is shut up, and hath no name. (Now was there some furt…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…rons. Though the vulgar are strangers to our works, the greatest geniuses have sprung from our order. The most illustrious characters on earth have laid the foundation of their most amiable qualities in M. The wisest of princes, SOLOMON, planned our institution by raising a temple to the Eternal and Supreme Ruler of the Universe. “ Swear, my son, that you will be a true and faithful M. Know, from this moment, that I centre the affection of a parent in the name of a brother and a friend May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may y…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…rons. Though the vulgar are strangers to our works, the greatest geniuses have sprung from our order. The most illustrious characters on earth have laid the foundation of their most amiable qualities in M. The wisest of princes, SOLOMON, planned our institution by raising a temple to the Eternal and Supreme Ruler of the Universe. “ Swear, my son, that you will be a true and faithful M. Know, from this moment, that I centre the affection of a parent in the name of a brother and a friend May your heart be susceptible of love and esteem, and may y…
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
THE EQUINOX thee; but only one initiate, only one sage has revealed thee to the children of earth, one alone could say of thee: “I and my Father are one.” Glory then be his, since all his glory is thine! Thou knowest, O my Father, that he who writes these lines has struggled much and suffered much; he has endured poverty, calumny, proscription, prison, the forsaking of those whom he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright …
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
THE EQUINOX thee; but only one initiate, only one sage has revealed thee to the children of earth, one alone could say of thee: “I and my Father are one.” Glory then be his, since all his glory is thine! Thou knowest, O my Father, that he who writes these lines has struggled much and suffered much; he has endured poverty, calumny, proscription, prison, the forsaking of those whom he loved:—and yet never did he find himself un- happy, since truth and justice remained to him for consolation | Thou alone art holy, O God of true hearts and upright …