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… they emanate from a source which has the right to command. P.P.S. A visitor's story has just reminded me of the possibility that I am a Secret Chief myself without knowing it: for I have sometimes been recognized by other people as having acted as such, though I was not aware of the fact at the time.
EDITORIAL Secret Chief 8°=3° to publish the knowledge and rituals of the Order (a) in order to destroy the value of that knowledge, so that the new knowledge to be revealed by himself might have room to grow (6) in order to stop the frauds of Mathers, which were a disgrace to arcane science. The secrecy of his rituals, and of the MSS. in the custody of Dr. Wynn Westcott, was essential to the carrying on of these frauds. (8) I was unable to comply with these orders until I had found a person competent to edit the enormous mass of papers. I showe…
EDITORIAL Secret Chief 8°=3° to publish the knowledge and rituals of the Order (a) in order to destroy the value of that knowledge, so that the new knowledge to be revealed by himself might have room to grow (6) in order to stop the frauds of Mathers, which were a disgrace to arcane science. The secrecy of his rituals, and of the MSS. in the custody of Dr. Wynn Westcott, was essential to the carrying on of these frauds. (8) I was unable to comply with these orders until I had found a person competent to edit the enormous mass of papers. I showe…
…uch abandonment to mirth implies a standard of seriousness unshakable." ”You are a witch,” said he. “It is sorcery to know that I have a secret, But to discover it you must be an adept." “I know this," she answered, making a secret sign. “ This," he retorted, with the mano in fica. “ If you can laugh at me," she said, “ you must indeed be a great man ! " “Know,” said he pompously, “that you speak to an Absolute Grand Patriarch of the Rite of Mizraim. “A button!" she laughed back. “I was born to undo them. So Ι always wear laced boots." “True eno…
…uch abandonment to mirth implies a standard of seriousness unshakable." ”You are a witch,” said he. “It is sorcery to know that I have a secret, But to discover it you must be an adept." “I know this," she answered, making a secret sign. “ This," he retorted, with the mano in fica. “ If you can laugh at me," she said, “ you must indeed be a great man ! " “Know,” said he pompously, “that you speak to an Absolute Grand Patriarch of the Rite of Mizraim. “A button!" she laughed back. “I was born to undo them. So Ι always wear laced boots." “True eno…
15 And light, shown ever as silence and deep night Secret as death and final. Let me long Never again for aught ! This great delight Involves me, weaves me in its pattern of bliss, Seals me with its own kiss, Draws me to thee with every dream that glows, Poet, each word ; maiden, each burden of snows Extending beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rose, inviolate, utterly withdrawn In the truth : for this is truth : Love knows ! Ah ! Rose of the World ! Rose ! Rose !
…hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret? Is progress a delusion? Are men mad? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
…hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your children—or, can humanity ever solve the great secret? Is progress a delusion? Are men mad? Is the great secret truly transcendental? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, Iv Q 233
head is the Uraeus serpent, Lord of Life and Death. She is masked, and her expression shows her secret intimate satisfaction in her domination of every element of dis‐equilibrium in the Universe. This condition is symbolized by the Magic Sword which she holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced ex‐ actly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience …
…em that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling! Wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying: “I bear the mystery of Time, And the secret of Fate?” I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose o’ the World! With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of red, sweet lilies under the moon? But now there is no moon, nor any sun ; Only the world’s gray noon is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world ; there is no quiver of light On the river of li…
…em that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling! Wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying: “I bear the mystery of Time, And the secret of Fate?” I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose o’ the World! With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of red, sweet lilies under the moon? But now there is no moon, nor any sun ; Only the world’s gray noon is for thee and me; There is no sound in the nerveless silences Of the fading world ; there is no quiver of light On the river of li…
…y on the brink of transfiguration. She is strong and beautiful, with an ex‐ pression of intense brooding, as if about to become aware of secret wonder. Her crest is the head of the ram, and her sceptre descends into the earth. There its head becomes a diamond, the precious stone of Kether, thus symbolizing the birth of the high‐ est and purest light in the deepest and darkest of the Elements. She stands within a grove of sacred trees before an altar suggesting a wheatsheaf, for she is a priestess of Demeter. She bears within her body the secret…
9 The Secret Ch iefs Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Very glad I am, since at one time I was obliged to be starkly stem about impertinent curiosity, to note that your wish to be informed about the Secret Chiefs of the A:. A :. is justified; it is most certainly of the first importance that you and I should be quite clear in our minds about Those under whose jurisdiction and tutelage we both work. You justly remind me that one of my earliest slogans was "Mystery is the enemy of Truth"; how then is it that I acquiesce…
REVIEWS THE SECRET OF EFFICIENCY. By GRACE DAWSON. William Rider & Son. Is, net. GRACE Dawson is a spiritual Grace Darling. Oh the wonderful gospel that she brings to perishing humanity! She has discovered the secret of eternal youth : like most great discoveries, it isa very simple one. “When tired, rest!” This puts Grace Dawson several streets ahead of Madame Curie, and disposes once for all of the assertion that the female brain is inferior to the male. “When tired, rest!” How grand, how simple, how sublime! When human souls, by passion led,…
REVIEWS THE SECRET OF EFFICIENCY. By GRACE DAWSON. William Rider & Son. Is, net. GRACE Dawson is a spiritual Grace Darling. Oh the wonderful gospel that she brings to perishing humanity! She has discovered the secret of eternal youth : like most great discoveries, it isa very simple one. “When tired, rest!” This puts Grace Dawson several streets ahead of Madame Curie, and disposes once for all of the assertion that the female brain is inferior to the male. “When tired, rest!” How grand, how simple, how sublime! When human souls, by passion led,…
… none shall stand before you. 9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. 10. Get the stele of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple— and that temple is already aright disposed—8c it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. 11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction fro…
…r still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; 8c its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have made a secret door Into the House of Ra and Turn, Of Khephra and of Ahathoor. I am thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat; By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell. Show thy star-splendour, O …
Yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. Now did the Horror of Time pervert all things, hiding the Purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. Yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firma- ment, as a foul stain of storm upon the sky. And the Black Brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. Also there rose up a soul of filth and of weak- ness, and it corrupted all the rule of the Tao. 44
98 THE STAR IN THE WEST Then from the centre of Eternity came a voice , " Tell thou the secret of the pillar .” “ Eternal Beauty , One and absolute ! ” flashes from his tongue . Again the voice asks , “ Thou knowest me for Beauty ! Canst thou bear the fuller vision ? " Then on my withered gaze that Beauty grew Rosy quintessence of alchemic dew ! The Self -informing Beauty ! In my heart The many were united : and I knew.1 And yet : I was wed Unto the part and could not grasp the whole . Thus , I was broken on the wheel of Truth . Fled all the ho…
…UINOX to manifest in any way whatever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. Liser LXVI. Liser STELLA Ruse#&. A secret ritual, the Heart of IAO-OAI, delivered into V.V.V.V.V. for his use in a certain matter of Liber Legis, and written down under the figure LX VI. Lizer CLVI. Liser CHeTH VEL VALLuM ABIEGNI Sub Figura CLVI. This book is a perfect account of the task of the Exempt Adept, considered under the symbols of a particular plane, not the intellectual. Liser XLIV. Tue Mass or THE PHenix. A Ritual of the Law. Liper …