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Page 76 of 911929 · PDF PAGE 155
…Every day witnessed some new [219] phenomenon, ever more vivid and persistent, as the imminence of the lunar world increased, and as the natures of the celebrants became more and more capable of appreciating those silvern vibrations. Cyril Grey alone took no active part. He represented the solar force, the final energy creatrix of all subordinate orbs; his work had been done when he had set the system in motion. But since Brother Onofrio represented so active a force as Mars, he made himself a silent partner to the Italian, an elasticity to buf…
1943 · PDF PAGE 3
…t that we are still some distance from perfection. It is foolish to force the human animal to conform to laws which violate the inherent nature of the species. And no person or system can long endure in such a course. The fight for freedom, for liberty of the individual, is an old, old battle in which many have fought, many died, many lost. A few won on a few fronts, and these few bought us what freedom we now possess. We still fight, and will continue to fight, to a final freedom. For inspiration in our battle we need only to review modern his…
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
…e 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 hideous: and the brood Misshapen, mishegotten out of spite ; Lust after death ; love in deerepitude.
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…le. Whereupon the Church smilingly agrees; but the magician, holding the balance between the disputants, and insisting upon the unity of Nature, asserts that all force is one in origin. He believes in the "miracle," but maintains that it is exactly the same kind of miracle as charging a Leyden Jar with electricity. You must use a moral [150] indicator to test one, an electrical indicator to test the other; the balance and the test- tube will not reveal the change in either. The Black Lodge knew well enough that the weak strand in the Butterfly-…
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
…rth’s deep greenery. . All elemental love closes and covers Both you and me. All shapes of silence and of sound and seeing, All lives of Nature molten into this, The moonlight waking and the shadows fleeing, Strange sorcery of unimagined bliss, All breath breathing in ours; mingled all being Into the kiss, THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘* The ship is in her trim; the merry wind Blows fair from land.” Comedy of Errors. QUITE careless whether golden gales of wind Fling our boat forward, or the storm and spark Of lightning lamp or shroud us in the dark,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 329
… be as one, and the Higher Genius shall descend into the Kether of the Man, bringing with him the tremendous illumination of his Angelic Nature; and the man shall become what was said of Enoch: “And Chanokh made himself to walk for ever close with the essence of the Elohim, and he existed not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with…
1909 · PDF PAGE 329
… be as one, and the Higher Genius shall descend into the Kether of the Man, bringing with him the tremendous illumination of his Angelic Nature; and the man shall become what was said of Enoch: “And Chanokh made himself to walk for ever close with the essence of the Elohim, and he existed not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…s which do not transmute matter fall strictly speaking under this heading. The real objection to this formula is not inhérent in its own nature. Witchcraft consists in treating it as the exclusive préoc¬ cupation of Magick, and especially in denying to the Holy Spirit his right to indwell His Temple.1 I. The initiate of the XI0 of O. T. O. will remark that there is a totaliy different formula of ALIM, complementary with that here discussed. 8l may be regarded as a number of Yesod rather than of Luna. The actual meaning of the word may be taken …
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
craving of her nature, as urgent and devouring as hunger or thirst. Balloch, who had been all his life high-priest of Hecate, had never been present at an evocation of the force that he served. He shuddered — not a little — as the sorcerer recited his surgical exploits; the credentials of the faith of her servant then present before her. He had committed his dastardly crimes [273] wholly for gain, and as a handle for blackmail; the magical significance of the business had not occurred to him at all. His magical work had been almost entirely dir…
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
…uding other mathematical terms such as √‐1, ε, π, w, θ, a, {, Ω, and so on. Each Unit is a having idea or person; to each are related in nature all other ideas in some way or other. Thus 93 is related to 31, being a multiple of it; 13 is related to I, since AChD the Hebrew word for Unity means One. A gentian is related to the sky, because both appear blue; and blue is related to Jupiter, Venus and the Moon, thus to the numbers sacred to those planets 4, 7, and 9, because blue is the colour of all three planets in one scale or another. All words…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…d Yama’s power; The seeker find that Path as skill of t herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends aright, Breaking dread Mara’s flower-pointed shaft he goes, Death’s monarch shall not meet his sight. Like one who strayeth gathering flowers, is he who Pleasure lusteth on ; As the flood whelms the sleeping village, so Death snaps him—he is gone. Like one who strayeth gathering flowers is he whose thoughts to Pleasure cling ; While yet unsatisfied with lusts, there con- quereth him the Iron…
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
…(easily) placed on the Tree and divided into &, 9, and Y. ; ae Waxing Moon in 4; Waning in 5; Full in 6. Cor. X].—The elements, of whose nature the signs of the Zodiac partake, are shown by the symbol against them. Cou. XII.—Let 45 be astraight line. On 45 erect the equilateral As 451, 459. From 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 ere…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…e left frontal lobe much more developed than the right; one could have thought that it had been deliberately knocked out of shape, since nature, fond, it may be, of freaks, rarely pushes asymmetry to such a point. There would have been more than idle speculation in such a theory; for she was the child of hate, and her mother had in vain attempted every violence against her before her birth. The face was wrinkled parchment, yellow and hard; it was framed in short, thick hair, dirty white in colour; and her expression denoted that the utmost cunn…
1907 · PDF PAGE 103
IMAGES OF DEATH 97 Let song and cry leave tune and tone, Perish uncried and die unsung ! Nature, the monotonic moan Roared by the river, thunder alone :— The Hoang-Ho, its note, the monstrous Kung !2 Or let Kailasha’s ? godded peak Summon the oread and the gnome To leave their toils, the word to speak That shakes its azure-splitting dome With the reverberation—listen !—Aum ! Let olive fail, and mangostin ! O’erturn the dark forbidden draught ! Give me the taste, the taste unclean Of human flesh and blood that inean Some infinite horror to the l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 58
…on, of Oceanus, and the False Sea. mpare the classical four rivers of Hell. Cot. CVIII.—Incomplete and redundant owing to unconcentrated nature of Qliphoth. LinE 3.—Three Evil Forms before Samael are :-— Ssepnp byiba Syony The Thaumiel, also called Kerethiel. Cor. CIX.—© = King. @ = Duke. King Yb of WyY3, Dukes MIDy, y9DN, and nn, are all referred to Daath. Edomite Kings and Dukes are taken e libro Maggid. and Gen. 36. Cot. CXIV., Live 1.—J.e. simple breathing without articulation. Cot. CXV.—The furniture, &c., is attributed as told in the ritu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…l, and together they went down to the terrace, where Sister Clara would be ready to begin the invocations. [189] Of course, owing to the nature of the ceremony, it took place an hour later every day; and at first Iliel found a difficulty in accommodating herself to the ritual. The setting of the moon witnessed a second ceremony, directly from which she retired to her bed. It was part of the general theory of the operation thus to keep her concealed and recumbent for the greater part of the day; which, as has been seen, really lasted nearer 25 h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
… love for Cyril showed a tender and more exalted phase; she became alive to her dignity and responsibility. She acquired also a sense of Nature which she had never had before in all her life; she felt a brotherhood with every leaf and flower of the garden, told herself stories of the loves of the fishermen whose sails dotted
1907 · PDF PAGE 225
…l! but until then, unless my heart deceives me, no third shall appear to join us. Indeed, may two attain? It seems a thing impossible in nature. May it not be that—near as the resounding roar of the viewless spectators sounds to our dust-dimmed ears—there stands some awful opposer in the way, some fear or some seduction? Why do you grip that bar in your left hand? Does not this loin-cloth irk my Jimbs? We should have shaved our heads before the race—the curls are moist: and heavy! Why did: we cumber ourselves with sandals? Long ere now our feet…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…XVI. Wisdom and Love, intenser glow ! Beauty and Strength, increase and burn ! Be brothers to the law of life ! Things as they are—their nature know! Act! Nor for faith nor folly turn ! The hour is nigh when man and wife, Knowing, shall worship face to face, Beget and bear the royal race. THE WHITE CAT. HAIL, sweet my sister! hail, adulterous spouse, Gilded with passionate pomp, and gay with guilt: Rioting, rioting in the dreary house With blood and wine and roses splashed and spilt About thy dabbling feet, and aching jaws Whose tongue licks mi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…augh Running o’er pebbly beaches, Writing amazement’s epitaph With freshets, turns, and reaches :—- The only tale too short by half That nature ever teaches.