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Page 71 of 781909 · PDF PAGE 295
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING a cubical altar. In his left hand, which points downwards, he holds a lighted torch, and in his right hand, which is elevated, a horn of water. The cubical Altar represents the Universe. The whole figure shows the gross generating powers of nature on the material plane, and is analogous to the Pan of the Greeks and the Egyptian Goat of Mendes. As his hands bear the torch and the horn, the symbols of Fire and Water, so does his form unite the Earth in his hairy and bestial aspect, and the Air in his bat-like wings.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
…ts. of the Sephiroth and paths. 6. The Elements and their symbols. 2. The Tarot on the Tree of Life. 7. The Elemental Weapons. 3. The Yî King on the Tree of Life. 8. The Sphinx. 4. The Caduceus of Hermes. 9. The Essential Dignities of the Planets.
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…erplexed his mind renouncing good and ill Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assail! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie Contemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
…m 4 and § draw straight lines 348, 257 | 45, and’the straight lines 25 L 14, 43 L 15, 48 L 59, and 57 L 40, the points 2, 3, 7, and 8 marking the inter- sections. Join 19, 12, 13, 23, 78, 79, 89. Let 6 be the point of intersection of 19, 47, 58. On 78 erect an equilateral L\ with its apex away from 1. Produce 19 to 10, 78 to 10. The attri- bution of the paths can then be found from the column ‘Graphic Tree of Life.” Cots. XV.-XVIII.— Daath—Lavender, Grey-white, Pure violet, Grey - flecked gold. Herschel—Silver flecked white. Cot. XVI., Linz 10.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
…iss kindle for the morrow. THE THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘* By long and vehement suit I was seduced To make room for him in my husband's bed.” King John. Morvra.s are not for nectar all the time: Ambrosia feeds not men ; nepenthe's sip Is only for a moment: then we dip Back to the earth and leave the bed sublime, 1 The imaginary river of the Ancients, which formed the circumference of the world-disk. And tune our kisses to a terrene rhyme. So, once again before we left the ship With right good will our bodies cling and slip, And the life’s flame sink…
1906 · PDF PAGE 90
…not live.”’ Margaret. ‘*let me hear from thee, For whereso’er thou art in this world’s globe I have an Iris that shall find thee out.” 2 King Henry V1, I. AT noon she sailed for home, a weeping bride | Widowed before the honeymoon was done. Always before the rising of the sun I swore to come in spirit to her side And lie like love; and she at eventide Swore to seek me and gather one by one The threads of labyrinthine love new spun, Cretan} for monstrous shadows serpent- eyed. So the last kiss passed like a poison-pain, Knowing we might not ever…
1905 · PDF PAGE 224
…e roll her sleepy seas Over thy ruined clime. O piteous fallen tyranny of Spain ! What dogs are tearing at thy bowéls yet? Let thine own King,” saith God, resume his reign | Loyal and happy seasons may foryet The ancient scars. Thy moon is on the wane? Thy sun may never set ! And thou, foul oligarchy of the West, Thou, soiled with bribes and stained with treason’s stain, Thou, heart of coin beneath a brazen breast, Rotten republic, prostitute of gain ! Thou, murderer of the bravest and the best That fringed thy southern main !% The doom is spok…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
… you find you are living in the first Three Houses all at once, for you feel the delight of your own dear Prince and his love; and the old King stirs in his Silence in the First House, and thousands of millions of blessings shoot out like rays of light, and everything is all harmony and beauty below, and crowned above with the crown of twelve stars, which is the only way you can put it into dream talk. Now you see you don’t need to struggle to go on any more, because you know already that all the House is one Palace, and you move about in your ow…
1906 · PDF PAGE 109
…he praise of the gold, and its glory be told where the heavenly fold rejoices to hold the stars in its sphere. O hero Tolchian ! Warrior king ! From the kingdom Colchian The Fleece dos bring ! Our song shall be sung and its melody flung where the Lyre and the Tongue are fervid and young, all islands among where the Sirens sing. Thou bearest, strong shoulder, The sunbright fleece ! Glow swifter and bolder And brighter—and cease ! O glory of light! O woven of night! O shining and bright! O dream of de- light! How splendid the sight for the dwelle…
1912 · PDF PAGE 5
…t of Its death It is reborn from the knight’s own belly. xiv, At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. He chaseth and slayeth it ; it proves but a child’s toy. xv. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men, Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. xvi. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of Spain, he findeth the bait stolen by vermin. xvii. In Crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. Sir Palamede compelleth him to pu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 21
…ing, Love, of the breeze that is born, Love, with the breeze that takes wing. Love that is lighter than scorn, Love, that is strong as a king, Love, through the gate that is horn,? Sing ! Then Charicles rejoicing quickly ran And chose a lyre, and thus his song began Rippling through melodies unheard of man. SONG OF CHARICLES, Wake, fairy maid, for the day Blushes our curtain to shake ; Summer and blossoms of May Wake! Lilies drink light on the lake, Laughter drives dreamland away, Kisses shall woo thee, and slake Passion with amorous play, Clip…
1907 · PDF PAGE 152
… the blind air of the evening; Shadowy ghosts arise funereal And seek unspeakable things; and dryads call The satyr-company to the satyr-king. And all the light is over; but the sky Shudders with blanched light of the un- risen moon. The night-birds mingle their sad minstrelsy For daylight’s requiem: and the sea’s reply Now stirs across the land’s departed tune. The moon is up: the choral crowd of stars, Shapen like strange or unknown animals, Move in their measure : beyond A£olian bars The clustering winds, moving as nenuphars, Gather and muse…
1935 · PDF PAGE 12
…ment. This has been written down by Himself in Liber Samekh. But they have published such accounts as those in The Temple of Solomon the King and in John St. John. They have taken the only proper course; to train aspirants to this attainment in the theory and prac- tice of the whole of Magick and Mysticism, so that each man may be expert in the handling of all known weapons, and free to choose and to use those which his own experience and instinct dictate as proper when he essays the Great Experiment. He is furthermore trained to the one habit …
1910 · PDF PAGE 374
…t of Its death It is reborn from the knight’s own belly. xiv, At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. He chaseth and slayeth it ; it proves but a child’s toy. xv. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men, Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. xvi. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of Spain, he findeth the bait stolen by vermin. xvii. In Crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. Sir Palamede compelleth him to pu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 374
…t of Its death It is reborn from the knight’s own belly. xiv, At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. He chaseth and slayeth it ; it proves but a child’s toy. xv. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men, Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. xvi. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of Spain, he findeth the bait stolen by vermin. xvii. In Crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. Sir Palamede compelleth him to pu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…hut eyes hope to bring Irom out the fiery circle one divine Blossom of rose, as from a poisonous mine Gold comes to gird the palace of a king. Envious I sprang—and found the last rose gone. ) So in the fiery ring of wedlock, blind, Mad, one may leap, no rose perhaps to find (Or, if no rose, good fortune finds no thorn), But—mark the difference—palpable and plain : Kose or no rose, one leaps not out again. SONNET FOR GERALD KELLY'’S DRAWING OF JEZEBEL. irr up thine head, disastrous Jezebel ! Fire and black stars are melted in thine hair That cur…
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
…ns of Spirits, and his Seal is this, which wear thou, etc. (32.) Asmopay.—The Thirty-second Spirit is Asmoday, or Asmodai. He is a Great King, Strong, and Powerful. He appeareth with Three Heads, whereof the first is like a Bull, the second like a Man, and the third like a Ram; he hath also the tail of a Serpent, and from his mouth issue Flames of Fire. His Feet are webbed like those of a Goose. He sitteth upon an Infernal Dragon, and beareth in his hand a Lance with a Banner. He is first and choicest under the Power of Amaymon, he goeth before…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
… so had been cast off by her as excrement. It seemed as if the goat were conscious of the phantoms; as if he understood himself as demon-king of those regions; for he bounded under the manipulations of Vesquit with such rage and pride that Abdul Bey was forced to use all his strength hold him. It was taken as a sign of success by all the necromancers; and as Vesquit made the final gesture, Arthwait turned his page, and Abdul struck home with a great knife to the brute's heart. Now, as the blood stained their grave-clothes, the hearts of the thr…
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
…racterised 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 Aethyr; 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 animals. He is conscious of his own incomprehensible calamity, and clumsily incapable of repairing it. Achieved, he is no less than the co-…
1905 · PDF PAGE 210
THE HOLY PLACE 203 The first face spake and said: ‘“Welcome, O King, art thou! Await thy throne a thousand dead ; A crown awaits thy brow, A seven-sting scorpion; for thy rod thou hast a bauble now.” The next face spake and said: ‘“* Welcome, O Priest, to me! Red blood shall dye thee robes of red, Hell’s cries thy litany | Thy mitre sits, divided strength, to end thy church and thee !” The third face spake and said: ** Welcome, O Man, to Death! Thy little span of life is sped, Sighed out thy little breath. The worm that never dies is thine; the…