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Page 86 of 1041907 · PDF PAGE 158
…d In the light of my face ! Heaven thunders behind, Hell shakes for a space, As I fling the loud sound to the sky, and the vaults of the Earth give place. O mystical tune Of a magic litten Of music, the moon, The stars unsmitten, The sun, the unhewn Stones deeply bitten By runic fingers of time, where decrees of the Fates are written ! Time listens, obeys me ; All Nature replies ; Nought avoids me, nor stays me, Nor checks, nor defies. Tribute she pays me From seas unto skies, But Death—shall he heed me or hear? shall he list to the lyre and ar…
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
…the true Celtic psychology. When we've all finished talking, there’s something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre. And now comes the funny part of the business. I discovered to my amazement that the desperate wild
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the Supreme Soul. To teach this celestial marriage to the children of earth even the greatest masters must make use of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the sublimest of truths, until man’s eyes, no longer seeing the light, see but the flameless lantern, because of the filth that has been cast about it, 99
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the Supreme Soul. To teach this celestial marriage to the children of earth even the greatest masters must make use of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the sublimest of truths, until man’s eyes, no longer seeing the light, see but the flameless lantern, because of the filth that has been cast about it, 99
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
…ites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…y Deity, that further knowledge of Him may inspire me with deeper dévotion to Him.” Or: working. Let him say: “I drive my spade into the earth that fresh flowers (fruit, or what not) may spring up to His glory, and that I, purified by toil, may give better dévotion to Him.” Or: whatever it may be that he is doing, let him reason it out in his mind, drawing it through circumstance and circumstance to that one end and conclusion of the matter. And let him not perform the act until he hath done this. As it is written : Liber VII, Cap. 5. — 22. aEv…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…ous sources ! THE VOLCANOES. The Hepheestian hammer on the anvil of hell, In the hollows accurst, Falls for the knell Of the children of earth. By the strength of our fires, The fierce force of our sires, Let us roar, let us burst ! By the wrath of our birth, Up! and boil over in rivers of lava ! Uncover! Uncover! ORPHEUS. Lift up thine amber Lithe limber limbs, Lissome that clamber Like god-reaching hymns ; The flame in its chamber Of glory that swims, The spirit and shape of the fire, mine eyes with fine dew that bedims! Exempt from the bond …
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…vine self within the man, a self as far above the possession of will or any other qualities whatsoever as the heavens are high above the earth, that should reabsorb itself into that illimitable radiance of which it is a spark. 1 The great difficulty for the single Magician is so to perfect himself that these multifarious duties of the Ritual are adequately performed. At first he will find that the exaltation destroys memory and paralyses muscle. This is an essential difficulty of the magical process, and can only be overcome by practice and exp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…e for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animais, such as a golden hawk or a crocodile, and in such form to go about the earth “taking his pleasure among the living.” * 1 As a general rule, material was supplied out of which he could construct the party of the second part aforesaid, hereinafter referred to as the hawk. We need not, however, consider this question of death. It may often be convenient for the living to go about the world in some such incognito. Now, then, conceive of this magical body as créative force, seeking ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 189
…e the Pantacle, his Universe, is a static portrait of him? and that, you pursue flatteringly, is why you preferred to call the Weapon of Earth (in the Tarot) the Disk, emphasizing its continual whirling movement rather than the Pantacle or Coin, as is more usual. Once again, exquisite child of our Father the Archer of Light and of seaborn Aphrodite, your well-known acumen has "nicked the ninety and nine and one over" as Browning says when he (he too!) alludes to the Tarot. As you will have gathered from the above, a Talisman is a much more rest…
1922 · PDF PAGE 277
…ival, a lady and gentle- man had called and were very anxious to see me. They would come back in half an hour. I couldn’t imagine who on earth it could be, and the matter slipped from my mind. I was hot and eager to get out of the dis- gusting atmosphere of those rooms. I wouldn't let Lala come in; but I found that I wasn’t strong enough to pack my stuff. The smell of the den was foul beyond all belief. Lou has not described a hundredth part of the dark abominations which had become habitual. In fact, I was overcome by the feetor. I had no stre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…S space. There is no a priori reason why the forces which prevent them rushing together should not come into operation in respect of the earth and the body. The Allan part of this is the best evidence at my disposal. He couldn't have got where he did by hopping, and he couldn't have got into that position intentionally; he must have been levitated, lost balance, and dropped upside down. In any case, there is no trace of fascination about it, as there may have been in Soror Virakam's observation. About invisibility, now? Of this I have so much e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
… OF THE MYSTERIES ture, they were found faithful. They showed to the multitude a living immortality in their death, and they watered the earth with a blood whose heat could not be extinguished, because they were burning with the ardours of charity. It is by charity that the Apostles built up their Creed. They said that to believe together was worth more than to doubt separately; they constituted the hierarchy on the basis of obedience—rendered so noble and so great by the spirit of charity, that to serve in this manner is to reign; they formu- …
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
… OF THE MYSTERIES ture, they were found faithful. They showed to the multitude a living immortality in their death, and they watered the earth with a blood whose heat could not be extinguished, because they were burning with the ardours of charity. It is by charity that the Apostles built up their Creed. They said that to believe together was worth more than to doubt separately; they constituted the hierarchy on the basis of obedience—rendered so noble and so great by the spirit of charity, that to serve in this manner is to reign; they formu- …
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
the Heavens to enlighten the Earth, so that he may possess a vehicle wherein he may communicate with mankind. The quality and position of this star, and its functions, are determined by the nature of the incarnations transcended by him. 4. The Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described îully; but its opening is indicated in Liber I vel MagL There is also an account in a certain secret document to be published when propriety permits. Here it is only said this : The Ipsissimus is wholly free from ail limitations soever, existing in the nature of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…st hâve certain stores of electrical force, and the right kind of clouds to contain it. He must see that the force does not leak away to earth quietly and slyly. He must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolér¬ able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man, cannot pray to God to cause them, for the Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves* But, as a Mystic, he knows that ail things are phantoms of One Thing, and that they may be withdrawn therein to reissue in other attire. He knows that ail things are…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…d with the entire structure of the Universe that the observation of their fall should not enable us to rneasure ail things in heaven and earth. With one piece of curved glass we hâve discovered uncounted galaxies of suns; with another, endless orders of existence in the infinitésimal. With the prism we hâve analysed light so that matter and force hâve become intelligible only as forms of light. With a rod we hâve summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our Will, whether it be to outsoar the cond…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…; I know him; I fall In tears at his call. ORPHEUS., Cold lips and chaste eyes Of frost-fall that leap, That shake from the skies On the earth in her sleep Kiss nuptial, arise As the lyre-strings sweep ! Come forth! I invoke thee, O frost, the valleys await thee and weep. THE FRosr. So silent and wise In her cerement clothes, So secretly lies My soul in my snows ; I awake, I arise, For my spirit now knows The first time in her eyes That a voice may unclose My petals: I hear it; I come; I clasp the warm ground In my passion profound. ORPHEUS. In…
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…t, in revolt against the natural order, Gape like the ravening jaws of any beast To let the furious invaders down Into the bowels of the earth, and close Upon those grisly men of war, whose life Groans from the prison that shall crush it out. CHORUS. Be thou most blessed of the Lord for ever ! First ELDER. But what shall he that hath delivered us Have for his guerdon when he comes in triumph ? SECOND ED.DER. A milk-white ass shall bear him through the city. THIRD ELDER. And wreaths of roses be instead of dust. FOURTH ELDER. And dancing girls— F…
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
…abiliments of the goddess Isis That day appeared.” —Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 6, 16. ‘Stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the earth, reached by a descending ladder which hath Seven Steps, and therein is established the throne of an evil and fatal force.""— ZOROASTER. PEOPLE. RATOUM, Queen of Egypt. THE LEPER, her divorced husband. KHOMSU, ¢thezr son (dead). S’AFI, son of KHOMSU and RATOUM. THE KING OF SYRIA. AMENHATEP, High Priest. | Chorus of Priests. Soldiers of Egypt. Syrian Troops. SAFI. WuHy is thy back made stiff, unrighteous p…