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… at length, I paid my twopence, and I saw—a seal! There it lay, at the bottom of a miniature bear-pit, and with its wistful face and its great pathetic eyes it really did look quite as human as the majority of its audience. The thing was a I ¥ 337
…re. 8. [This and the following verses are of modern origin] Let the Student remember that each Point represents a definite achievement of great difficulty. 9. Let him not then attempt the second until he be well satisfied of his mastery over the first. * This is also the “Opening of the Eye of Shiva.” ΕΙ). 1- Mayan, the Magician, or Mara. Also The Dweller on the Threshold in a very exalted sense. ED. 12
…re. 8. [This and the following verses are of modern origin] Let the Student remember that each Point represents a definite achievement of great difficulty. 9. Let him not then attempt the second until he be well satisfied of his mastery over the first. * This is also the “Opening of the Eye of Shiva.” ΕΙ). 1- Mayan, the Magician, or Mara. Also The Dweller on the Threshold in a very exalted sense. ED. 12
… the senses. To turn to another point. One of our tests of truth is the vividness of the impression. An isolated event in the past of no great importance may be forgotten; and if it be in some way recalled, one may find one’s self asking: “Did I dream it? or did it really happen?” What can never be forgotten is the 22%/?»!?ש”מקThe first death among the people that one loves (for example) would neverbe forgotten; for the first time one would realize what one had previously merely known. Such an ex- perience sometimes drives people insane. Men of sc…
…aust who loveth her, Exhaust of light, exhaust of might, exhaust of love, Until their world of woe uncurled reach out above To where the great black snake of Fate is coiled about The very spine of God, a vine divine, devout. Oh for the blind kiss of the wind, the desert air Thrilling the blue and shrilling through my souls despair ! Oh for the sharp edge of the escarpments of the dunes ! Diffract through haze the rigid rays of the dead moons ! Saturn of lead, and Mars all red, and Venus blue, And purple Jove, lend me your love, as mine to you …
…Snark’ and ‘Don Quixote’ without the particular individ- ual qualities of either; but, seriously speaking, it is a religious poem, and a great work of art. Again, superficially speaking, it is the master-limerick of a buffoon; again, seriously speaking, it is the epic of the eternal speaker .. . should on no account be missed. Itis a work that superficial criticism might as easily compare to some of the productions of Byron, as overlook with a sneer. I doubt,in fact whether the question of its placein literatureis one to be decided by contempor…
…w is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical Link. You must lay to heart Magick, Chapter XIV (pp. 106-122) and never forget one detail. More failure comes from neglect of this than from all other causes put together. Most of the qualities that you need are inborn; all the material is to your hand ; and to develop t…
…Star, resisteth the Ministers of Disruption, for a Season, according to its Strength. Now, if his Star be of those that are bound by the Great Oath, incarnating without Remission because of Delight in the Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the appointed Way, and indwelleth the Ftus of a Child, and quickeneth it. And if at this Time the mind of its Former Tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there Continuity of Character, and it may be Memory between the two Vehicles. This is, briefly and without Elaboration, the Way of Asar in Amenti…
…ankind. Such persons may find the reasoning of Tannhauser useful, if only to brace them to a more courageous attempt to understand the " Great Arcanum," and to attain at last, no matter at what cost, to "true Wisdom and perfect Happiness." So may all happen! Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. 1901. 16
…ns the summit of Philosophy. I’m sure I hope so! I get into Asana . . . and so endeth the Eighth Lesson. The Ninth Day Thus I began this great day, being in my Asana firm and easy, and holding in my breath for a full minute while I threw my will with all my might towards Adonai. Have settled myself for the night. Will continue a little, learning the Ritual. Ζ 97
…hich is the number of }, the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God. We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number—which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: ‘‘ God geometrises.” Let us behold the Work of His Fingers! One Son Incomprehensible. 3. One Father Incomprehensible. One Mother Incomprehensible. > Fic. I.—THE TRINITY UNMANIFEST. be …
…hich is the number of }, the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God. We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number—which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: ‘‘ God geometrises.” Let us behold the Work of His Fingers! One Son Incomprehensible. 3. One Father Incomprehensible. One Mother Incomprehensible. > Fic. I.—THE TRINITY UNMANIFEST. be …
… the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name ON. He closes his hands, kisses the Priestess between the breasts, and makes three great crosses over the Paten, the Cup, and himself. He strikes his breast. All repeat this action. Hear ye all, saints of the true church of old time now es- sentially present, that of ye we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye we claim benediction in the name of IAO. 264
…Mother Babylon, and in their lonely for‐ tresses they pray to the false moon. And they bind themselves together with an oath, and with a great curse. And of their malice they conspire together, and they have power, and mastery, and in their cauldrons do they brew the harsh wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of their selfishness. “Thus they make war upon the Holy One, sending forth their delusion upon men, and upon everything that liveth. So that their false compassion is called compassion, and their false understanding is called understa…
…u Believe in God? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You are quite right , as usual. True, we have gone over a great deal of the ground in various learned disquisitions on Gods, Angels, Elves, et hoc genus omne. But God with a capital G in the singular is a totally different pair of Bluchers-nicht wahr? Let me go back just for a moment to the meaning of belief. We agreed that the word was senseless except as it implies an opinion , instinct, conviction-what you please!-so fIrmly entrenched in our natures that we act au…
…s is an hour in heaven.” He ceased And I was silent. She released Her soul from that tremendous birth Of fear in gentle-minded mirth. ‘* Great Sir!” she cried, ‘‘ the choice is made ! An hour ago I was afraid, Knew nothing, and loved not. But I Know now not this you say—to die. Some doubtful change! An hour ago I wasanymph. I did not know This change: but now for death or life I care not. Am I not his wife? I love him. Now I would not leave That joy once tasted ; shall not grieve If even that should ever cease, So great a pleasure (and a peace …
…thunderbolt , by the diving of birds and the fall ing of rocks. In fact, throughout the whole of volume ii of the collected works runs a great river of esoteric mystic ism , which in the earlier works was a glittering net work of sparkling streams . In “ Time ” we find the commandments of Yama and Niyama mentioned , though we must never forget that the conditions of success vary for every indi vidual , and that Crowley might advise one pupil to drink more , and another to abstain . He doubts That extreme virtue is a necessary condition for one …
…3 6.3L 104 THE EQUINOX not hopelessly, not fearfully, but with an abiding certainty that he would endure unto the end. And now ? In this great Magical Retirement he has struck many rocks, sprung many leaks ; the waters of the False Sea foam over the bow, ride and carry the quarter—is he perchance already wrecked, his hopeless plight con- cealed from him as yet by his own darkness? For, dazzled as he is by the blinding brilliance of this morning’s Spiritual Sun, which yet he beheld but darkly, to him now even the light of earth seems dark. Reaso…
…two- lettered word is nx. On either side of this is the pair of figures 35—53, balanced one against the other: as though symbolic of the great dawning life of the Mothers—n and n, vitalised by the SON (3) as the Vice-Gerent of His Father. These balanced figures together make 16, whereof the Key is 7; the total number of letters in the third Symbol. Then we have left at either end 4 and 6 = 10,* the perfection of the * Vide Sepher Yetzirah for this division of the Holy Sephiroth into a Hexad and a Tetrad. II M 177