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Page 71 of 811910 · PDF PAGE 48
…w so well, yet of which we never tire. The one objection to Emerson is that he thinks all men know this Oversoul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great myst…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
…w so well, yet of which we never tire. The one objection to Emerson is that he thinks all men know this Oversoul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great myst…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…st 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that Aiwaz — the solar-phallic-hermetic “Lucifer” is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and “The Devil” Satan or Hadit of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, Satan, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade “Know Thyself!” and taught Initiation. He is “the Devil” of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is Baphomet, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. The number of His Atu is xv, which is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 41
…its false function. What is more brutal than to stunt natural growth or to deform it? What is more absurd than to seek to interpret this holy instinct as a gross animal act, to separate it from the spiritual enthusiasm without which it is so stupid as not even to be satisfactory to the persons concerned? The sexual act is a sacrament of Will. To profane it is the great offence. All true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or dis tortion is contrary to the Law of Liberty. To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention …
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…; they are indeed the Key of the Book of the Law. No more can be said in this place that that Aleph is Harpocrates, Bacchus Diphues, the Holy Ghost, the “Pure Fool” or Innocent Babe who is also the Wandering Singer who imprégnâtes the King’s Daughter with Himself as Her Child; Lamed is the King’s Daughter, satisfied by Him, holding His “Sword and Balances” in her lap. These weapons are the Judge, armed with power to execute His Will, and Two Witnesses “in whom shall every Truth be established” in accordance with whose testimony he gives judgmen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…e fact of his incarnation itself proves that he has taken the Oath which entitled him to attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, and the 242
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
Chapter III & Verse 19 159 I found XAIPE A/.A.-., 718, “Hail to the A.-.A.-..” I grace fully acknowledged the greeting to Our Holy Order, but went on with my search. There is no such word as AXPIETA,1 “unchristlike things”; only blind bigotry could be satisfied with so crude an invention. 1 [The ST has the numeration 6.] Then came XAPATH, 713, an “engraved character.” That was a true name for the Stèle; if I suffixed AA, 5, it might read “The Mark of Hadit.” But I did not feel inwardly that thrill of ecstasy that springs in the heart or that d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…ion available for him aie probably selected by the Wardens of Mankind with a view to his real necessities. One must learn to trust one’s Holy Guardian Angel to shape one’s circumstances with skill. If one be but absorbed in the ardour of one’s aspiration toward Him, short indeed is the time before Expérience instils the certain conviction that His Works and His ways are inhnitely apt to one’s needs. 2. See Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie; Rituel, ch. XIII.
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…ty, mighty and powerful; by the four beasts before the throne, having eyes before and behind; by the fire round about the throne; by the holy angels of Heaven; and by the mighty wisdom of Gop; I do potently exorcise thee, that thou appearest here before this Circle, to fulfil my will in all things which shall seem good unto me; by the Seal of BASDATHEA Batpacuia; and by this name PRimEuMATON, which Moses named, and the earth opened, and did swallow up Kora, Dathan, and Abiram. Wherefore thou shalt make faithful answers unto all my demands, * Or…
1919 · PDF PAGE 167
…leads to a kind of ecstasy. Had to leave off, as was called to tea by Ruby. (Good, but a virtuous woman is above Rubies, and never calls holy men to tea. O.M.) Apr. 4. Control of Body. While at office kept left elbow at side for 3 hours. Wished to see if this would be quite easy and found I had no difficulty in remem- bering. (Good: try something harder. O.M.) Apr. 6, 9.20-10 P.M. Dragon. This meditation was the best lately. Quickly felt the Prana gripping the body. Conceived the blackness of Understanding becoming penetrated by Wisdom. Brain b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 215
208 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST Steady of purpose, girt with Truth, I pass, in my eternal youth, And watch the centuries wax and wane: Untouched by Time’s corroding tooth, Silent, immortal, unprofane! My empire changes not with time. Men’s kingdoms cadent as a rhyme Move me as waves that rise and fall. They are the parts, that crash or climb ; I only comprehend the All. I sit, as God must sit; I reign. Redemption from the threads of pain I weave, until the veil be drawn. I burn the chaff, I glean the grain ; In silence I await the dawn. THE AT…
1906 · PDF PAGE 114
…leece ! Before us, Argive maidens tread The glowing isles of Greece ! Behind us, fear and toil are dead: Below, the breakers cease ! The Holy Light is on my head— My very name is Peace ! The water’s music moves; and swings The sea’s eternal breast. The wind above us whistles, rings, And wafts‘us to the West. — Greece lures us on with beckonings And sighs of slumber blest. I am not counted with the kings— My very name is Rest! Medea shoots her sweetest glance And Jason bends above— Young virgins in Iolchus dance, Ifearing the news thereof. The h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 162
… up your heads,” I hear the angels ery 3 ** Be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors. A child-heart seeks the Lover of the Child!” O meek and holy Jesus, hath Thy heart Yearned unto me, Thy maiden? For I knew \ bliss so pregnant with the unforeseen As brought me to the very feet of Christ, Weeping. Tow clouded that mysterious Passion! I fell a-weeping in my bed, Forgetting, or not knowing. For a fire Too perfect for my sinful soul to touch Gathered me closely in itself, to hide Its utter glory from me. Now I feel Swift troubled tremblings in myself:…
1906 · PDF PAGE 71
…t, SHE was more graceful than the royal palm ; Tall, with imperial looks, and excellence Most simply swathed in spotless ele- gance, And holy and tuneful like some stately psalm. Her breath was like a grove of myrrh and balm, And all the sight grew dim Lefore the sense Of blind attraction toward; an influence Not incompatible with her own calm. 1.Circe, who dwelt on the island of Aeaea, transformed men into swine. VOL, II. All the red roses of the world were blended To give the lively colour of her face ; All the white lilies of the sea shone s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…. . . . .. 16 A prophet, young, and in the Sign of Osiris Risen *. The. pray ave of the Voice: the Oracle of the 17 ighty Is A young and holy king under the starry canopy* .' | The Child of the Powers of the Waters: the 18 Lord of the Triumph of Light A smiling rouse holds the open jaws of a fierce and | The Daughter of the Flaming Sword 19 powerful lion Wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an Ancient walketh, The Prophet of the Eternal, the Magus of the 20 bearing a lamp and staff * Voice of Power A wheel St six shafts, whereon revolve the Triad of | …
1905 · PDF PAGE 59
… conquer, and most silently Await the end. VESPERS. THE incense steams before the Christ ; It wraps His feet with grey, A perfumed melancholy mist, Tears sacred from the day ; An awe, a holiness, I wist, More sweet than man may say. I bend my head to kiss the brow, Scarred and serene and wide, The bosom and the loin-cloth now And where the blood has dried, The blood whose purple tide doth flow From out the smitten side. The fragrance of his skin begets Desire of holy things ; Through the dim air a spirit frets His closcly woven wings; Like love…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…ids, blood-be- dabbled, Mad with their murder ! O thou many-coloured immortal maiden, Dawn! O dew, delight of a world! SOrrow Hides your holy faces awhile. To-morrow Comes for your calling? A Still the notes of musical Orpheus, laden Never now of pain or of failing, follow; Follow up the height, or adown the hollow Fairy are falli O my hopeless misery mind of longing ! O the anguish born in a breast unlovered ! Women, wail the face of a God uncovered, Brain dead and breath dumb! Wail the sense of infinite ardours thronging Fast and fast and fas…
1935 · PDF PAGE 14
…He will thus prepare 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, and to keep Silence for ever as he accomplishes the act of annihila- tion. From the Abyss comes No Man forth, but a Star startles the Earth, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 73
…, the Soul, with Him appointed from eternity to espouse her; yea, even the Most High, God All- in-All, the Truth. Therefore we hold Love holy, our heart’s religion, our mind’s science. Shall He not have His ordered Rite, His priests and poets, His makers of beauty in colour and form to adorn Him, His mak ers of music to praise Him? Shall not His theologians, divining His nature, declare Him? Shall not even those who but sweep the courts of His temple, partake thereby of His person? And shall not our science lay hands on Him, measure Him, disco…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…d posses- sion Of larger loves or passions more sublime. Where the night-caverns hide our solemn session The summoning word lifts up our holy rhyme. Even as a mighty river, bend to bend, We rise in turn and look toward the end. Also, the Gods arisen from the living Lights of the sky, half hidden in the night, Vast shapes beholden of men unbelieving, Staggering the sense and reason with the sight, Manifold, mighty, monstrous, no light giving Unto the soul that is not also light ; We rise in ghastly power; we know the token, © The speech of silen…