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Page 90 of 1541913 · PDF PAGE 293
…elieve that He does exist, and to adore Him themselves with closed eyes. Why ?—Because this Absurd is the infinite source of reason. The light springs eternally from the eternal shadows. Science, that Babel Tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. God is He whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, He whom we shall never know entirely. The realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. March the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 293
…elieve that He does exist, and to adore Him themselves with closed eyes. Why ?—Because this Absurd is the infinite source of reason. The light springs eternally from the eternal shadows. Science, that Babel Tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. God is He whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, He whom we shall never know entirely. The realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. March the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 341
…s Great Sea. 26. If thou would’st cross the first Hall safely, let not thy mind mistake the fires of lust that burn therein for the sun- light of life. The metaphor is now somewhat changed. The Hall of Ignorance represents the physical life. Note carefully the phraseology, “Let not thy mind mistake the fires of lust.” It is legitimate to warm yourself by those fires so long as they do not deceive you. 27. If thou would’st cross the second safely, stop not the fragrance of its stupefying blossoms to inhale. If freed thou would’st be from the Kar…
1954 · PDF PAGE 103
70 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS XXII: 2: Therefore the sage concentrateth upon one Will, and it is as a light to the whole world. Hiding himself, he shineth; withdrawing himself, he attracteth notice; humbling himself, he gaineth force to achieve his Will. Because he striveth not, no man may contend against him. XLIII: 1: The softest substance hunteth down the hardest. The Unsubstantial penetrateth where there is no opening. Here is the Virtue of Inertia. XLIII: 2: Few are they who attain: whose speech is Silence, whose Work is Inertia. XLVIII: 3: He w…
1961 · PDF PAGE 60
…in a Sequence of Causes and Effects. For thy Mind hath been built up of these Elements, so that in these Books thou mayst bring into the Light thine own subconscious Memories. And thy Memory is as it were the Mortar in the House of thy Mind, without which is no Cohesion or Individuality possible, so that the Lack thereof is called Dementia. And these Books have lived long and become famous because they are the Fruits of ancient Trees whereof thou art directly the Heir, wherefrom (say I) they are more truly german to thine own Nature than Books …
1913 · PDF PAGE 211
…still lie imprisoned in the rocks By the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, But being dumb, as is the doom of man. For nightfall is delight of Eld, and I Wander bareheaded under the dark sky; Calling and calling from the windy deeps, The olden Night still draws me: moonlight weeps For sunlight faded in the dark ; the sun Is under the dark clouds ; still one by one Soft, silent stars creep silently upon me, Leaving soft trails of light. O wonder-dawn Of the inverted thunder of the skies— Back to the gardens of old Babylon ! The hanging lamps,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 211
…still lie imprisoned in the rocks By the salt sea, knowing of the doom of man, But being dumb, as is the doom of man. For nightfall is delight of Eld, and I Wander bareheaded under the dark sky; Calling and calling from the windy deeps, The olden Night still draws me: moonlight weeps For sunlight faded in the dark ; the sun Is under the dark clouds ; still one by one Soft, silent stars creep silently upon me, Leaving soft trails of light. O wonder-dawn Of the inverted thunder of the skies— Back to the gardens of old Babylon ! The hanging lamps,…
1961 · PDF PAGE 190
…vel, a Thousand Times a Thousand in their Course and Sequence, until by their Movement was the Universe churned into the Quintessence of Light. Moreover at another Time did I behold All Things as Bubbles, iridescent and luminous, self- shining in every Colour, Myriad pursuing Myriad until by their perpetual Beauty they exhausted the Virtue of my Mind to receive them, and whelmed it, so that I was fain to withdraw myself from the Burden of that Brilliance. Yet, o my Son, the Sum of all this amounteth not to the Worth of one Dawn-Glimmer of Our T…
1910 · PDF PAGE 18
…n from Cambridge, members of the unspeakable C. I. C. C. U. I remember in my first term at Cambridge how I was in the rooms of a leading light of the C. I. C. C. U., the Revd. Something Doddridge, my Uncle Tom’s trusted henchman. I remember how eloquently he held forth on the cou- rage to stop any “ impure conversation.” I remember how impressed we were ; how a gentleman with an “ honou-
1913 · PDF PAGE 71
…nto a multitude of forms, each clothed in the most brilliant dress. Thus the devil is said to be able to disguise himself as an angel of light. Under the strain of a magical vow this is too terribly the case. No normal human being understands or can understand the temptations of the saints. An ordinary person with ideas like those which obsessed St. Patrick and St. Antony would be only fit for an asylum. The tighter you hold the snake (which was previously asleep in the sun, and harmless enough, to all appearance), the more it struggles : and i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
… Eleven ! ” APhEN-IAF aThou Treasure of IAO!” I “Thou Virgin twin-sexed! Thou Secret Seed! Thou inviolate Wisdom!” PhOTETh “Abode of the Light. ABRASAX “.of the Father, the Sun, of Hadith, of the spell of the Aeon of Horus !” AEOOU “Our Lady of the Western Gâte of Heaven !” ISChURE “Mighty art Thou !” Mighty and Bornless One! (Vide Supra) (The conception is of Water, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Dragon-Serpent, of a Neptunian nature.) Hear Me: and make ail Spirits subject unto Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether:…
1961 · PDF PAGE 213
…te, I speak of Parabrahaman and of Nibbana, thus in any Reality of Thought rather denying Him or It than destroying Illusion. But in our Light we have no Need of any Denial, and accept all, yea Illusion itself, discriminating only in our Minds between Phenomena by Comparison with some convenient Standard, for the Purpose of maintaining the Order of our Conceptions in Respect of the Relation of any Being with its Environment. t
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
…ay a word of him}; No stars, to whom she looked, had seen the grim Abodes of Charicles, for deadly shade Lowered o’er their top, nor any light be- trayed The horror of their core. Despairing then Of nature’s prophets, and of gods and men, She cast her arms wide open to the sky, Cried loud, and wept, and girt herself to die. It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs Thrust up by magic, in the direst pangs Of Earth, when Earth was yet a whirling cloud Of fire and adamant, a ceaseless crowd Of rushing atoms roaring …
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
…e depths . Similarly in the following : Aching with all the pangs of night My shuddering body swoons ; my eyes Absorb her eyelids ' lazy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” in place of dis cordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader's mind than a word which scanned correctly would do . In the next passage , taken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness : Chaos , a speck ; and space , a span ; Ruinous cycles fal…
1909 · PDF PAGE 19
…nchback friend into a pre- sentable soldier. The digression will not have been all digression, either; for it will have thrown a deal of light on the question of the limitations of scepticism. We have questioned the Malkuth point of view ; it appears absurd, be it agreed. But the Tiphereth position is unshaken ; Tiphereth needs no telling that Malkuth is absurd. When we turn our artillery against Tiphereth, that too crumbles; but Kether frowns above us. Attack Kether, and it falls ; but the Yetziratic Malkuth is 127
1912 · PDF PAGE 371
…onal spelling) Aan 612 (The covenant)—Day Demon 2 of 1 Dec. 8. [Ps. xxv. 14] The number of the Divine Precepts 7613 ‘The Quintessence of Light }WR AN Moses, our Rabbi wan nws [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 179] mn 614 615 616 Qliphoth of « pow The Five Books of Moses; the 'F\ Law on Sinai. Cf. Tarot W617 “Mighty acts.” (Plur. of YN «Strength.”) [Ps. cvi. 2] Columnae Nubis pon YAN TY et Ignis A King of Edom man 618 na Contentiones 55 7619 Dns 620 Chokmah, Binah, AY) 73°3 APIN Daath; the first descending triad Novissimum The Crown: Kether sn Angel of 3" De…
1912 · PDF PAGE 371
…onal spelling) Aan 612 (The covenant)—Day Demon 2 of 1 Dec. 8. [Ps. xxv. 14] The number of the Divine Precepts 7613 ‘The Quintessence of Light }WR AN Moses, our Rabbi wan nws [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 179] mn 614 615 616 Qliphoth of « pow The Five Books of Moses; the 'F\ Law on Sinai. Cf. Tarot W617 “Mighty acts.” (Plur. of YN «Strength.”) [Ps. cvi. 2] Columnae Nubis pon YAN TY et Ignis A King of Edom man 618 na Contentiones 55 7619 Dns 620 Chokmah, Binah, AY) 73°3 APIN Daath; the first descending triad Novissimum The Crown: Kether sn Angel of 3" De…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…ve its laughter and its tears, and shatter All the causes of its mockery, master All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style ‘‘ Cessation”; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, ‘‘ dy’ ws rdxuora, To0 xpbvov dé co. POovar’” —“ Wh…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…s experience of its possibilities by union with atoms of opposite character, such as Oxygen; with this it combines (with an explosion of light, heat, and sound) to form water. The result is entirely different from either of the component elements, and has another kind of 'true Will,' such as to unite (with similar disengagement of light and heat) with Potassium, while the resulting 'caustic Potash' has in its turn a totally new series of qualities, with still another 'true Will' of its own; that is, to unite explosively with acids. And so on. (…
1901 · PDF PAGE 101
…d gold, Where Heaven’s petals in the East unfold The awful flower of morning : for the folk Bound in one single patient love, a yoke Too light for fairy fingers to have woven, Too strong for mere archangels to have cloven With adamantine blades from the armoury Of the amazing forges of the sea : The folk that follow with undaunted mein The utmost beauty that their eyes have seen— O patient sufferers ! yet your storm-scarred brows Burn with the star of majesty : your vows Have given you the wisdom and the power To weld eternities within one hour…