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…r our very feet made ceaseless song, We sate, remote, the lone lanai! along Sequestered from the young mcon in the gloom 1 The South Sea word for balcony, or rather verandah.
…lets in posies Where Hyacinth bled, The flower that closes Its dolorous head ;— What song may be sung, or what tune may be told, or what word may be said ? All tropical scent, Blossom-kindled perfume Love-colours new-lent By the infinite womb, Gold subtlety blent With the scarlet bloom ;— Shall ye in my melody live? Shall my song be not rather your tomb? Most musical moves The head of the corn ; Strong glorious loves Of its being are born. Dim shadows of groves Of Demeter adorn The waves and the woods of the earth, the heart of the mother forlo…
…d and evil. Man, unable to solve the Riddle of Existence, takes counsel of Saturn, extreme old age. Such answer as he can get is the one word “ Despair.” Is there more hope in the dignity and wisdom of Jupiter ? No ; for the noble senior lacks the vigour of Mars the warrior. Counsel is in vain without determination to carry it out.
…the Hunchback” in Equinox I, I, and “Konx Om PaxT Unity transcends consctoiisness. It is above ail division. The Father of thought — the Word —* is called Chaos — the dyad. The number Three, the Mother, is called Babalon. In connection with this the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, and Liber 418. This first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. The compréhension of this Trinity is a matter of spiritual expérience. Ail true gods are attrîbuted to this Trinity. 2 3 An immeasurable abyss …
Chapter II * Verses 67-70 137 69. Ah’ Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! Commentary: It is absurd to suppose that “to indulge the passions” is necessarily a reversion or degeneration. On the con trary, all human progress has depended on such indulgence. Ev…
LOVE-SONGS Be done with the dragons! Awaits for the lord of the sword On the crest of a mountain the maid, the availing award. The spear of the Wanderer shivers, the God is exhaust. Ue done with the Gods ! the key of Valhalla is lost. The fires that Loki the liar built up of deceit Are like roses that cushion the moss for the warrior’s feet. Be done with the paltry defences! She sleeps. O be done With the mists of the mountain! Awake to the light of the sun! Awake! Let the wave of emotions conflict- ing retire, Let fear and despair be engulfed …
… to lighten the darkness of such as may be requiring only one ray of the Sun in order to spring into life and light. Il Abrahadabra is a Word to be studied in Equinox I, V., aThe Temple of Solomon the King”. It represents the Great Work complété, and it is therefore an archétype of ail lesser magical operations. It is in a way too perfect to be applied in 1. Chaos is a general name for the totality of the Units of Existence; it is thus a name féminine in form. Each unit of Chaos is itself All- Father. 42
…ed that the complete works of George Meredith, Thomas Carlyle, and Henry James, tangled together, would have seemed in comparison like a word of three letters. [176] His Grimoire was in reality excellent for its purpose; for the infernal hierarchy delights in unintelligible images, in every kind of confusion and obscurity. This particular lucubration was calculated to drag the Archdemon of Bad Syntax himself from the most remote corner of his lair. For Arthwait could not speak with becoming unintelligibility; to knot a sentence up properly it h…
…ction of the original “First Matter”; and its qualities are invariably such as pertain to a living being, not to an inanimate mass. In a Word, the alchemist is to take a dead thing, impure, valueless, and powerless, and transform it into a live thing, active, invaluable and thaumaturgie. The reader of this book will surely find in this a most striking analogy with what we hâve already said of the processes of Magick. What, by our définition, is initiation ? The First Matter is a man, that is to say, a perishable parasite, bred of the earth’s cr…
the Third as the Second, and thus to the end. Moreover, let the Adept fling forth his whole consciousness thither. Then at the final Word, let him bring rushing back his Will within himself, steadily streaming, and let him offer himself to its point, as Artémis to PAN, that this perfectly pure concentration of the Elément purge him tho- roughly, and possess him with its passion. In this Sacrament being wholly at one with that Elément, let the Adept utter the Charge “Hear me, and make”, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of…
… remarks I can but smile my most genial assent. The only objection that I can take to them is to point out that the con notation of the word “chastity” may have been misunderstood from a scientific point of view, just as modern science has modi fied our conception of the relations of the earth and the sun with out presuming to alter one jot or tittle of the observed facts of Nature. So we may assert that modern discoveries in physiology have rendered obsolete the Osirian conceptions of the sexual process which interpreted chastity as physica…
…se thee by that most mighty and powerful name of Gop, EL, strong and wonderful; O thou Spirit N. And I command thee by Him who spake the Word and His Fiat was accom- plished, and by all the names of Gop. Also by the names Anponal, EL, ExLoum, Exou1, Euven AsHER EXHYEH, ZABAOTH, E Lion, Janu, TeEtTRa- GRAMMATON, SHADDAI, Lorp Gop Most Hien, I do exorcise thee and do powerfully command thee, O thou spirit N., that thou dost forthwith appear unto me here before this Circle in a fair human shape, without any deformity or tortuosity. And by this ine…
…nergy which has until that moment escaped you. I ought incidentally to mention that this sudden illumination-that is not quite the right word but I cannot think of a better one-is quite different to the sudden confidence which takes hold of one in the Yoga practices. The more I think of it the more I feel that the question of sensitiveness is of the greatest importance. In Yoga practices one does not, at least as far as my experience goes, come against the delicacy that one does in all magical and astral practices. The reason for that is, I thi…
…" "Why is it thy will that thy body may be sustained in strength?" "That it may aid me in the accomplishment of the Great Work." At this word all rose, and chanted solemnly in chorus, "So mote it be." "Love is the law, love under will," said Sister Cybele softly, and sat down. "Of course it's a most absurd superstition," remarked Morningside to Simon Iff, "to think that Food [79] sustains the body. It is sleep that does that. Food merely renews the tissues. "I agree entirely," said Cyril, before Iff could answer, "and I am about to renew my tis…
… the process. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go. Commentary: “it is I that go.” The Book Aleph must be consulted for a full demonstration of this truth. We may here say briefly that Hadit is Motion, that is, Change or “Love.” The symbol of Godhead in Egypt was the ankh, which is a sandal strap, implying the Power to Go; and it suggests the Rosy Cross, the Fulfilment of Love, by its shape. The Wheel and the Circle are evidently sym…
…st and a schoolman. I commend the book to all those who wish to understand the tendencies of philosophy in the universities of to-day. A word of praise is due to Mr. Titchener. He has again performed satisfactorily his difficult task of translation. V. B. NEUBURG. 390
…st and a schoolman. I commend the book to all those who wish to understand the tendencies of philosophy in the universities of to-day. A word of praise is due to Mr. Titchener. He has again performed satisfactorily his difficult task of translation. V. B. NEUBURG. 390
… attention. When they saw him, he acted in the most conventional way possible; a smile, and a bow, and a formal handshake, and the right word of greeting. But the moment that introductions were over, he apparently vanished! The conversation became general; Amy Brough went to sleep; Blaustein took his leave; Arnold King followed; the pianist rose for the same purpose and looked round for his friend. Only then did anyone observe that he was seated on the floor with crossed legs, perfectly indifferent to the company. The effect of the discovery wa…
…ace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no syllables : thence there breathes a perfume which no breezes waft away : there food is always savoured and never eaten : there are embraces which never ask to end . . . Some times , O God , you create a state of soul in me so extra ordinary , and you fill me with so intimate a joy , that , if it lasted , all life would be different ... Who shall under stand , who shall express God ? …
…self could not gauge its value at all at the time. He was alone in Vancouver and out of touch with the Order, having received no further word from his Neophyte since he left England. In fact he heard nothing till January of the fol- lowing year. He however sent a post-card to say that he had obtained some result. About this same time I find an entry called “The Philos- ophy of V.I.0.” which seems of interest on account of some similarities to the Law of Thelema, of which he had heard nothing at that time. It reads as follows: Man is bound by bu…