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Page 85 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 64
…my body and face (say) East, I can turn (in the “ astral body") as far as West-Sou’-West or thereabouts, but no further except with very great difficulty and after long practice? In making the circle, just as I got to West, I would swing right back to West—Nor’-West: turn easily enough, in short, to any point but due West, within perhaps 5", but never pass that point. I have taught myself to do it, but always with an effort. Is this a common experience ? I connect it with my faculty of knowing direction, which all mountaineers and travellers who…
1909 · PDF PAGE 120
…40. 4.10. 118 THE EQUINOX One might justly object to any Results of this Ten days’ strain. But if abundant health and new capacity to do great work be the after—effect, who then will dare to cast a stone? Not that it matters a turnip—top to the Adept himself. But others may be deterred from entering the Path by the foolish talk of the ignorant, and thus may flowers be lost that should go to make the fadelesswreath of Adonai. Ah, Lord, pluck me up utterly by the root, and set that which Thou pluckest as a flower upon Thy brow! Walked back to the D…
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…he chair. (This is usually the one difficulty.) Feeling perfectly at home in your imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. Stop. Look around you. Probably the eyes of your ‘“‘astral” body will be closed. It is sometimes difficult to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and…
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…he chair. (This is usually the one difficulty.) Feeling perfectly at home in your imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. Stop. Look around you. Probably the eyes of your ‘“‘astral” body will be closed. It is sometimes difficult to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
… All, to fold and unfold in eternal rapture, to manifest as the Many that the Many may become the One Unmanifest. But this matter is too great for an elementary treatise on Magick. The Serpent which is coiled about the Crown means many things, or, rather, one thing in many ways. It is the symbol of royalty and of initiation, for the Magician is anointed King and Priest.
1919 · PDF PAGE 344
…its aspira- tions. 35. If through the Hall of Wisdom, thou would’st reach the Vale of Bliss, Disciple, close fast thy senses against the great dire heresy of Separateness that weans thee from the rest. This verse reads at first as if the heresy were still possible in the Hall of Wisdom, but this is not as it seems. The Dis- ciple is urged to find out his Ego and slay it even in the beginning. 36. Let not that “Heaven-Born,’ merged in the sea of Maya, break from the Universal Parent (SOUL), but let the fiery power retire into the inmost chamber,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX This again commands the stilling of thoughts. The pre- vious verses referred rather to emotions, which are the great stagnant pools on which the mosquito thought breeds. Emo- tions are objectionable, as they represent an invasion of the mental plane by sensory or moral impressions. 64. Merge into one sense thy senses, if thou would’st be secure against the foe. ’Tis by that sense alone which lies concealed within the hollow of thy brain, that the steep Path which leadeth to thy Master may be disclosed before thy Soul’s dim eyes. ’ T…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
… the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name ON. (He closes his hands, hisses the PRIESTESS between the breasts and makes three great crosses over the Paten, the Cup and Himself. He strikes his breast. AU repeat this action.) Hear ye ail, saints of the true church of old time now essentially présent, that of ye we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye we claim bénédiction in the name of IAQ. (He mahes three crosses on Paten and Cup together. He uncovers the Cup, genuflectSy tahes the Cup in his left hand and the Host in h…
1961 · PDF PAGE 216
… that hath adventured upon Ocean, from whose mast the Watcher espieth in the Dimness of the Horizon a Point of Snow, being the Peak of a great Mountain that is Guardian of the Harbour, the Term of that Voyage. So now do I commit thee wholly unto thyself, for I exist not in thine Universe, save in my Relation with thee, wherefore this Part of me is in Truth thou rather than I. Yet do thou treasure this Letter, for it is mine especial Gift, and hath Radiance of the Light of my Wisdom, and flameth, being the Blood of my Love of thee and of Mankind…
1906 · PDF PAGE 4
…To VENUS CALLIPYGE . 9 To ‘S ELIZABETH ” . . . 53 THE CANNIBAIS © . « . TO RonpDELS (At MONTE CARLO). 53 THE BLoop-LoTtus . . «12 In THE GREAT PYRAMID OF THE NATIVITY . . . . 14 GHIZEH ; ; ; . 53 TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDE- THe HILLS ; . . 85 LAIRE . . . . . IS CHALDEAN FOOLS . . . 19 a CALL OF THE SYLPHS 49 ALICE: AN ADULTERY— INVOCATION . . . . 20 INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR — 58 HYMN TO APOLLO. . . 22 WHat LAY BEFORE— THE HeErmit’s’ TIYMN~ ‘TO WHITE Poppy . . . . 61 SOLITUDE . . . . 23 MESSALINE. . . . 62
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…he limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens with two beautiful songs . Venus sings the praise of spring and summer , and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And pain is passion's flower ; When blood d…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…rfection in any work. The perfect lover is calm and equable ; storms of thunder, quakings of the earth, losses of goods, punishment from great men, none of these things cause him to rise from his divan, or to remove the silken tube of the rose-perfumed huqqa from his mouth. I can even take pleasure with Laila, O no longer jealous one ! When thou wast away from me, I was unable to regard her or her companions (the thunder-smitten bitches2 !) without excessive sick- ness. It was for thy sake, o mischievous one ! that I caused the eunuchs3 to forn…
1913 · PDF PAGE 356
…h throws a bridge between the two worlds. And can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so great a future? Could you think that the spur of a Tartar might one day tear up the pact of our glories, the testament of our liberties? Say rather that we may again become children, and enter again into our mother’s womb! “Go on! Go on!” said the voice of God to the wander- ing Jew. “Advance! Advance!” the destiny of the world cries out to France. And where do we go? To the unknown, to the abyss perhaps; no m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 356
…h throws a bridge between the two worlds. And can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so great a future? Could you think that the spur of a Tartar might one day tear up the pact of our glories, the testament of our liberties? Say rather that we may again become children, and enter again into our mother’s womb! “Go on! Go on!” said the voice of God to the wander- ing Jew. “Advance! Advance!” the destiny of the world cries out to France. And where do we go? To the unknown, to the abyss perhaps; no m…
1944 · PDF PAGE 81
…e Descent into Matter is the signal for the redintegration by Spirit. It is the Formula of the Princess, the mode of ful‐ filment of the Great Work. This card recalls the Legend of Persephone, and herein is a dogma. Concealed within Mercury is a light which pervades all parts of the Universe equally; one of his titles is Psychopompos, the guide of the soul through the lower regions. These symbols are indi‐ cated by his Serpent Wand, which is actually growing out of the Abyss, and is the sper‐ matozoon developed as a poison, and manifesting the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 129
LUST BABALON1 In Atu VII, the charioteer bears the Grail, from the Great Mother. Here is the Vision: “The charioteer speaks in a low, solemn voice, awe‐inspiring, like a very large and very distant bell: Let him look upon the cup whose blood is mingled therein, for the wine of the cup is the blood of the saints. Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, Babylon the Mother of Abominations, that rideth upon the Beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth, and lo! she hath mingled it in the cup of her whoredom. “With the breath of her k…
1919 · PDF PAGE 143
…days, the results of my thoughts amount to this. I who have found the heart of the shining triangle, who have indeed become one with the Great White Brotherhood, who have heard the Voice of God in all Its sweetness, who have made that message a part (nay all) of my being, who have held my Beloved in my arms, who have Become my Beloved and lost myself therein, who have for ever given up my lower self, who have conquered Death, who have felt the Pain of the whole World, who have found Wisdom, Love and Power, who have given up All to become Nothin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…le page (inspired by the aforesaid curate) about the way in which he swindled his servant-girls out of their savings. I knew that if the great Patriot seemed to be not giving me my duty, it was from shortage of paper or writer's cramp, not from lack of kindness of heart. I had indeed ample evidence of what wealth of magnanimity was buttoned beneath that patriotic waistcoat. A well-known journalist, who has never written a book on the Musical Glasses, a biography of either Lord Henry Somerset, Canon Aitken or F. E. Smith, any novel about Fenian …
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…LAH. Thank Godl THE CHILD. I do not understand LAYLAH. Oh I will your father say, “ Ι do not understand ? ” What am 1? Yet I gave him my greatest gift—and I have yet a greater gift to give him—and I have a gift that he has always had and I have never lost. THE CHILD. Are you an enchantress? You do not talk sense LAYLAH. You are the child of an enchanter. THE CHILD. My father burns enchanters alive when he catches them. LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a great concourse with- out. The men are returning. They ride slowly, as in peace. 93
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…LAH. Thank Godl THE CHILD. I do not understand LAYLAH. Oh I will your father say, “ Ι do not understand ? ” What am 1? Yet I gave him my greatest gift—and I have yet a greater gift to give him—and I have a gift that he has always had and I have never lost. THE CHILD. Are you an enchantress? You do not talk sense LAYLAH. You are the child of an enchanter. THE CHILD. My father burns enchanters alive when he catches them. LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a great concourse with- out. The men are returning. They ride slowly, as in peace. 93