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Page 71 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 516
… the transmutation, like Raymond Lully, like Arnaud de Villeneuve, and like Nicholas Flamel. The universal light, when it magnetizes the worlds, is called astral light; when it forms the metals, one calls it azoth, or philosophical mercury ; when it gives life to animals, it should be called animal magnetism. The brute is subject to the fatalities of this light; man is able to direct it. It is the intelligence which, by adapting the sign to the thought, creates forms and images. The universal light is like the divine imagination, and this world…
1919 · PDF PAGE 18
…HE Book or THE Law, which is the foundation of our whole work, and the commentary thereon by the Master through whom it was given to the world. Lizer LXI. A manuscript giving an account of the his- tory of the A.”. A... in recent times. This history contains no mythology; it is a statement of facts susceptible of rational proof. Lizer CL. Der Lect Lisettum. A short explanation of the Law, extolling its sublime virtue. By the Master Therion. Lizer LXV. THE Boox or THE Heart GIRT WITH A Serpent. This magical treatise describes particularly the 12
1919 · PDF PAGE 80
…. 35. Where is now the Master? cry the little crazy boys. He is dead! He is shamed! He is wedded! and their mockery shall ring round the world. 36. But the Master shall have had his reward. The laughter of the mockers shall be a ripple in the hair of the Beloved One. 37. Behold! the Abyss of the Great Deep. Therein is a mighty dolphin, lashing his sides with the force of the waves. 38. There is also an harper of gold, playing infinite tunes. 39. Then the dolphin delighted therein, and put off his body, and became a bird. 40. The harper also lai…
1954 · PDF PAGE 295
…s before; adds, sinisterly, that first publication was nine months before outbreak of Balkan war, second, nine months before outbreak of world war, third, nine months before outbreak of Sino-Japanese war. No coincidence, it says: "the might of this Magick burst out and caused a catastrophe to civilisation. " Well, we'll see next September . ..
1954 · PDF PAGE 389
…tive evidence, on any subject pertaining to Magick. When, therefore, you express curiosity as to how much of the normally super-sensible world has been revealed to my senses, and especially that of sight, you must take my answer as "without prejudice," "e. and o.e.," "under the rose," and "in a Pickwickian sense." If you choose to call me a lunatic and/or a liar, I shall accept the verdict with mine accustomed imperturbability. Whether what I am about to tell you is "true" or not doesn't matter, as in any case it proves nothing in particular. W…
1903 · PDF PAGE 78
…tar. Be silent, love, and abide; the wanton strings must go To the vain tumultuous tide of the spirit’s overflow. I sing and sing to the world; then silence soon Be about us clasped and furled in the light of the moon. Forget not, never forget the terrible song I have sung; How the eager fingers fret the lute, and loose the tongue Tinkles delicate things, faint thoughts of a futile past— We are past on eagle wings, and the silence is here at last. The last low wail of the lyre, be it soft with a tear 76
1911 · PDF PAGE 102
THE EQUINOX The tenth Aethyr is the world of adjectives, and there is no substance therein. (Now returned the beautiful woman who had _ before tempted the Scribe. She prevailed not.) I am afraid of sunset, for Tum is more terrible than Ra, and Khephra the Beetle is greater than the Lion Mau. I am a-cold. (Here Choronzon wanted to leave the triangle to obtain wherewith to cover his nakedness. The Scribe refused the request, threatening the demon. After a while the latter continued:) Iam commanded, why I know not, by him that speaketh. Were it th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modem monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the Saviour of the World. The doctrine of résurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. It is not even “Scriptural”. St. Paul does not identify the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. On the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The I. There is a quite different …
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
13 5. The competition is open to all the world. Com- peting essays must be written in English. 6. Essays may be sent in at any time up to August 1905. The time may be extended if no suitable essay has been received up to that date. 7. Competitors will not be kept in suspense. Any essay sent in will be read at once, and returned within fifteen days if unsuitable. In case of any competitor requiring more time than that allowed, it is open to him to forward part of his MS. to the Secretary, when if his work shows promise of success, he will be acc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…lowing welkin , it is the signal drum announcing the marriage of Night and Day . The crescent moon rises , diaphanous and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love , And life for every one . Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollows and height In the festal mystical revel , The rapturous Bacchanal rite ! The rocks and trees are yours , And the waters under the hill , By the might of that which endures , The holy heaven of will ! I k…
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
… , Destiny's web , and my immense despair . And this despair -as sorrow so frequently does creates in him a deep cynical disgust for the world : Man , a bad joke ; and God , mere epigram ! If we must come to that . And likewise love .? Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle.3 He taunts them , insults God ; and tells all , shouting it far and broad , that his road was the road of the Mount of Venus , the road of Lust , the fiery baptism of Vice which impels Virtue . Then the silence breaks , the foul mob of the Self - sufficient , th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…g youth soon disappears to be swallowed up in the reality of a maturer understanding : He took the universe on trust ; He reconciled the world below With that above ; rolled eloquence Steel -tired o'er reason's “ why ? ” and “ whence ? ” . 1 Songs of the Spirit, vol . i, p. 30. 2 Ibid . vol . i, p. 40. Jephthah , vol . i, p. 64. 3 Ibid . vol. i, p. 43. 4
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…t measures. If one were to slack off now and hope for the morning, like a shipwrecked Paul, one would probably wake up a mere man of the world. The Question then arises: What shall I do to be saved ? The only answer-and one which is quite unconnected with the question—is that a Ritual of Adeptus Major should display the Birth of Horus and Slaying of Typhon. Here again Horus and Harpocrates—the twins of the twin signs of o°=o" ritual—are the slayers of Typhon. So all the rituals get mixed: the symbols recur, though in a different aspect. Anyway,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…—yea, being utterly absorbed in His ineffable Glory—yea, being That of which there is no Image either in speech or thought. What a weary world we live in! No sooner am I betrayed into making a few flattering remarks about my body than I find everything wrong with it, and two grains of Cascara Sagrada necessary to its welfare! . . . . I wish I knew where I was! I don’t at all recognise what Path I am on; it doesn’t seem like a Path at all. As far as I can see, I am drifting rudder- less and sailless on a sea of no shore—the False Sea of the Qlipho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 92
…d by any images of discipline or magic. Ofcourse 1 but this is just the difficulty—as it was in the Beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end! My beautiful answer to the question, How will you become a millionaire? is: I will possess a million pounds. The “answer" is not an answer; it is a begging of the question. What a fool I am! and people think me clever. Ergo, perhaps!
1913 · PDF PAGE 181
…ink of nothing but diet, you are almost sure to acquire that typical form of melancholia, in which the patient is convinced that all the world is in league to poison him. Professor Schweinhund has shown that beef causes gout; Professor Naschtikoff proves that milk causes consumption. Sir Ruffon Wratts tells us that old age is brought on by eating cabbage. By and by you reach the state of which Mr. Hereward Carrington makes his proud boast: your sole food is chocolate, which you chew unceasingly, even in your dreams. Yet no sooner have you taken…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…ether for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose". Earthly life was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers, besides distributing them by thousands through the post; he was also constantly preaching to vast crowds, all over the country. It was, indeed, the onl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…oneself against the pain inflicted by a dentist. I could not imagine anything better in life. I found myself suddenly in an entirely new world. I was part of the glories of the past; and I made a firm resolution to be one of the glories of the future. I should like the haunted room over the Great Gate of Trinity to be turned into a vault like that of Christian Rosencreutz to receive my sarcophagus. I must admit that I don't know of much else in England of the works of man which I would not make haste to destroy if the opportunity occurred. But …
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
…eart burns the white phallus of God , and whose jewelled crown is crimson with the lips of the passionate daughters of Men . Rose of the World ! Red glory of the secret heart of Love ! Red flame , rose - red , most subtly curled Into its own infinite flower , all flowers above ! Its flower in its own perfumed passion , Its faint sweet passion , folded and furled In flower fashion ; The Rose of Dew , the Rose of Love and Night , The Rose of Silence , covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things Beheld in the mirror of truth , The Rose i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 70
…t the Father with Matter, rendering apparent the Images of unapparent Natures,and inscribing the Unapparent in the Apparent frame of the World.” “There are certain Irrational Demons (mindless elementals), which derive their subsistence from the Aerial Rulers; where- fore the Oracle saith, Being the Charioteer of the Aerial, Terres- trial and Aquatic Dogs.” “The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.” “There are certain Water Elementals who…