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Page 72 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 173
…ecutive verses, firstly to answer a fool according to his folly, and secondly, not so to answer him? This is the Scriptural version of a truth which we phrase otherwise. There are two ways of dealing with an opponent; one by beating him on his own ground, the other by withdrawing to a higher plane. You can fight fire with fire, or you can fight fire with water. "It is, roughly speaking, legitimate magick to resolve a difficult situation in either of these two ways. Alter it, or withdraw to higher ground. The black magician, or as I prefer to ca…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
give True Answers unto his Demands. But then he tarrieth not one hour in the Truth, unless he be constrained by Divine Power. And his Seal is this, which is to be worn as aforesaid, etc. (69.) Decarasia.—The Sixty-ninth Spirit is Decarabia. He appeareth in the Form of a Star in a Pentacle, +X, at first; but after, at the command of the Exorcist, he putteth on the Image of a Man. His Office is to discover the Virtues of Birds and Precious Stones, and to make the Similitude of all kinds of Birds to fly before the Exorcist, singing and drinking as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 169
…eive a certain type of visitor, that loftier type which has enough rank and wealth to know that they are not necessary to a search after Truth, and is impressed by simplicity and saintliness. It was at the former address that the Count received Mr. Butcher. He was dressed in severe and refined broadcloth, with the rosette of the Legion of Honour — to which he was well entitled — in his buttonhole. In presence of this splendour the American was ill at ease; but Douglas knew how to make a man his own by giving him a good conceit of himself. "I am…
1905 · PDF PAGE 174
…ight. O if these words were lightnings, and their flame Deluged the world, and drowned the seed of shame In these ill waters where alone Truth’s ark May float, where only lovers may embark, I were contented to abandon fame And live with love for ever in the dark. THE MOTHER AT THE SABBATH.! Come, child of wonder! it is Sabbath Night, The speckled twilight and the sombre singing! Listen and come: the owl’s disastrous flight Points out the road! Hail, O propitious sight ! See! the black gibbet and the murderer swinging! Come, child of wonder and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 175
…ery remarkable fact, however, that Akrasia (333) and Akolasia (333) should so accurately describe Choronzon (333). No higher test of the truth of “ The Vision and the Voice " could be desired. Again, 656 is “H ,/??.םותnot the Lower Mind, as Mr Pryse unhellenically says, but Tiphereth, the Lion that lieth down with the Lamb. Nor, by the way, is lacchos a phallic God except as 'O Nucwv himself is phallic, and has his mystic 167
1911 · PDF PAGE 175
…ery remarkable fact, however, that Akrasia (333) and Akolasia (333) should so accurately describe Choronzon (333). No higher test of the truth of “ The Vision and the Voice " could be desired. Again, 656 is “H ,/??.םותnot the Lower Mind, as Mr Pryse unhellenically says, but Tiphereth, the Lion that lieth down with the Lamb. Nor, by the way, is lacchos a phallic God except as 'O Nucwv himself is phallic, and has his mystic 167
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…? And that world So larger, so more beautiful and fleet, So free, so exquisite, The world of dreams and impearled With solitary shaft of Truth? O children of the Night, shadows, not Too sweet, Are your wide realms for our philoso- phers, Who must in hard gray balance-shackles bind The essence of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the poor sense of touch they judge that this Or that is real or not. Have they divined This simplest spirit-bond, The joy of some ba…
1939 · PDF PAGE 58
…ticism of any kind, and there is only one thing in the universe which complies with these conditions: the direct experience of spiritual truth. Here, and here only, do we find a position in which the great religious minds of all times and all climes coincide. It is necessarily above dogma, because dogma consists of a collection of intellectual statements, each of which, and also its contradictory, can easily be disputed and overthrown. 3. You are probably aware that in the Society of Jesus the postulants are trained to debate on all these highl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
…in it is Invoking memory for sweet sound of youth ; The song, the day, the cup, the shot, the kiss ! This night begets illusion—ay ! the truth. I know the deep emotion of that birth, When chaos rolled in terror and in thunder; The abortion of the infancy of earth; The monsters moving in a_ world of wonder3; The Shapeless, racked with agony, that grew Into these phantom forms that change and shatter3 The falling of the first toad-spotted dew ; The first lewd heaving ecstasy of matter. I see all Nature claw and tear and bite, All hateful love and…
1939 · PDF PAGE 6
…y huge, the agony not to be summed; For the soul in itself is division, is separate, worse that its wings Were fledged of the essence of truth at the evil beginning of things, When the All broke its peace with the thought of itself, and the schism began That ended in chaos of crime, in the crazy catastrophe, man. The soul is no ghost to conjure with the spell of: Illusion, begone! It is true, and hath might to endure, unassailable, travelling on, None hinders, commands or deflects; none alters its course by a jot; Space cannot constrain it, a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
…phrodite, Jackal, Monokeros de Astris, Moly, An‐ halonium Lewinii, Opal, the Holy Ghost, Storax, the Names and Versicles used in Ritual, Truth‐ fulness, the Octagon, Palatium Serenitatis, Aaron, Raqie, Svaddistthana, Sakkya‐ditti, deceiv‐ ers, Jarmat al Firdaus, and innumerable other ideas: all these pertain to the number 8. These “correspondences” are not arbitrary; in some cases there is a rational connec‐ tion, direct or indirect, in others the relation results from direct observation. All possible ideas being ultimately integral with each o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…oubtedly tend to make me an even better man than I am. It is, however, with regret that I find myself obliged to confess that scientific truth is an even dearer object of my heart than moral beauty, and at the moment I was wholly absorbed in the desire to verify the latest facts about the Poltergeist, for these lent great weight to the theory that it was some kind of dog. Under the inspiring intuition of its charming mistress, it had developed those qualities which we associate with the spaniel or the retriever. "Even in Armenia it had been won…
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…g by the graves of their descendents. Any sound philosophy must be first destructive of previous error, then constructive by harmonising truths into Truth. Nor can the human mind rest content with negation ; I honour him rather whose early emotion is hatred of Christianity, bred of compulsion to it, but who subdues that negative passion and forces his way to a positive creed, were it but the cult of Kali or Priapus. Here, indeed, modern Agnostics are at fault. They sensibly enough reject error ; but they are over-proud of their lofty attitude, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…NDA METTEYA AND TO THOSE FOOLS WHO BY THEIR SHORT-SIGHTED STUPIDITY IN ATTEMPTING TO BOYCOTT THIS BOOK HAVE WITLESSLY AIDED THE CAUSE OF TRUTH I DEDICATE THESE MY BEST WORDS. [This book is so full of recondite knowledge of va rious kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. Where refere nces and explanations can be concisely given this has been done.] SWORD OF SONG
1905 · PDF PAGE 134
… to sleep. Your pure names (thine renowned, yours fresh with youth And full of promise) shall be kept Sul in our hearts for monuments of truth, As if you had not slept. EPILOGUE. HORACE, in the fruitful Sabine country, Where the wheat and vine are most abun- dant, Where the olive ripens in the sunshine, Where the streams are voiced with Dian’s whispers, Lived in quiet, with a woman’s passion To inspire his lute and bring contentment In the gray still days of early winter. I, remote from cities, like the poet,
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…ne; and if you walked through that proved it. I thought that was silly, but he ’5 much older and wiser than I am; so I said nothing. The truth is that it is a very difficult Palace to talk about, and the further you get in, the harder it is to say what you mean because it all has to be put into dream talk, as of course the language of the wake-world is silence. So never mind! let me get on. We came by and by to the Sixth House. I forgot to say that all those three paths were really one, be cause they all meant that things were difi‘erent inside t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 274
…an initiated Formula which expressed these Ideas to the Wise. As these Formulas are done with, it is of no Consequence if I reveal them. Truth is not eternal, any more than God; and it would be but a poor God that could not and did not alter his Ways at his Pleasure. This Formula was used to open the Vault of the Mystic Mountain of Abiegnus, within which lay (so the Ceremony of Initiation supposed) the Body of our Father Christian Rosen Creutz, to be discovered by the Brethren with the Postulant as said in the Book called Fama Fraternitatis. Th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 224
…shall thine eagle shake his wings, And sunward soar through the unsulled skies, And careless watch the destiny of kings. Then only shall truth’s angel in thine eyes Perceive eternal things. The oracle is suddenly grown still. Only, mine eyes, unweary of the sight, Pierce through the dawn-mist of the sacred hill And yearn toward the rose of love and light. My lips, that drank the Heliconian rill, Murmur with slow delight. I see the faces of the lyric Nine! The Rose of God its petals will unfold ! I madden with the ecstasy divine ! My soul leaps …
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…r unique manuscripts, and tear the pages out of all our books. Shallow people are always chattering about science being free to all; the truth is that it is guarded as no other secret ever was in all history, by the simple fact that, with all the help in the world, it takes half a lifetime to begin to master even one small section of it. We guard our magick just as much and as little as our other branches of physics; but people are so stupid that, though they know it requires years of training to use so simple an instrument as a [113] microscop…
1929 · PDF PAGE 174
…s seal. So you have a dyed rabbit-skin, and you call it seal coney. But there are by-ways that stray further yet from the narrow lane of truth. The increasing demand for rabbits has reduced the profit on seal coney, and it becomes desirable to find a cheaper substitute. Reckless of the susceptibilities of the ancient Egyptians, this is found in that domesticated representative of the lion family which consoles our spinsters. Having disguised the skin as far as may be, they next disguise the name; some buyer must be made to pay the price of seal…