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Page 90 of 1081909 · PDF PAGE 275
…aters, and in the all-presence of Fire: Heaven cannot speak their fulness, Earth cannot utter it. Yet hath the Creator bound them in all things. He hath mingled them through Water: He hath whirled them aloft in Fire: He hath sealed them in the Air of Heaven: He hath distributed them through the Planets: He hath assigned unto them the twelve constellations of the Zodiac.” He then explains that to the Thirty-second Path of the Sepher Yetzirah is attributed the seven Abodes of Assiah ; to the four Elements, the Kerubim, and the Qliphoth.* D1aGRaM …
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
…e fouler vermin, in their nest Thy rotten heart and thy polluting breast ! II. | Egg of the Slime! Thy loose abortive lips Mouth hateful things: thy shifty bloodshot eyes Lurk craftily to snare some carrion prize, The dainty morsel whence the poison drips Unmarked: the maskéd infamy that slips Into an innocent maw: corrupter wise ! Sly worm of hell! that close and cunning lies With sucking tentacles for finger-tips. Earth spits on thee, contagious Caliban ! Hell spits on thee; her sin is spiritual, Only the awful slime and excrement That sin sh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…be, isn’t it? Only sometimes the world means all the other children in the dream, and sometimes the dream itself, and sometimes the wake-things one sees before one is quite, quite awake. The prince tells me that really and truly only the First House where his Father lived was really a wake-House, all the others had a little sleep-House about them, and the further you got the more awake you were, and began to know just how much was dream and how much wake. Via" v. Pertica Then there was the other passage where there was a narrow edge Stimulus of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…ch force and energy that it was terrifying. The effect was heightened by the sagacity, the occult and profound knowledge of all possible things, which dwelt behind those fiery wills. In the carriage of the head was something leonine as well as serpentine; there was extraordinary pride and courage to match the fierce persistency. Yet there seemed no object in the movements of these strange beings; their immense activity was unintelligible. It seemed as if they were going through physical exercises — yet it was something more than that. At one mo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 47
…and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand.
1996 · PDF PAGE 41
…is nothing inspiring in a visit to one’s lawyer. Of course this is merely my personal view; a star who happened to be a lawyer might see things otherwise! Yet Nature’s unspeakable variety, though it admits cruelty and selfishness, offers us no example of the puritan and the prig! However, to the mind of Law there is an Order of Going; and a machine is more beautiful, save to the Small Boy, when it works than when it smashes. Now the Machine of Matter-Motion is an explosive machine, with pyrotechnic effects; but these are only incidentals. Laws …
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…ise of this book in the Daily News. Carmen Sæculare. 2s. 6d. This beautifully printed pamphlet contains lyrics of prophetic strain “ Few things in history are more pathetic than the fate of the Anglo-Gaelic writers who are compelled to denounce their hereditary enemy, the Saxon, in his own English. While the cry destruction upon him, they enrich his literature and breathe new life into his speech. To this school belongs the author of “ Carmen Sæculare,’ a poem and a vision:—
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…easure either the faith or the mountains. If you can kill a chicken by Magic, why not destroy an army with equal exertion? “With God ail things are possible.” This absurdity is an error of the same class as that mentioned above. The facts are wholly opposed. Two and two make four in the Astral as rigorously as anywhere else. The distance of one’s Magical target and the accuracy of one’s Magical rifle are factors in the success of one’s Magical shooting in just the same way as at Bisley. The law of Magical gravitation is as rigid as that of Newt…
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…I grace fully acknowledged the greeting to Our Holy Order, but went on with my search. There is no such word as AXPIETA,1 “unchristlike things”; only blind bigotry could be satisfied with so crude an invention. 1 [The ST has the numeration 6.] Then came XAPATH, 713, an “engraved character.” That was a true name for the Stèle; if I suffixed AA, 5, it might read “The Mark of Hadit.” But I did not feel inwardly that thrill of ecstasy that springs in the heart or that dawn of amaze ment that kindles the mind, when Truth’s sheer simplicity takes f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…rength of my blood, The heat of my body, The birth of my wit. To hell with the flood Of words! Were I God, he Had made me as fit For all things as now, But added a brow Cool—O how cool ! Fool ! Fool! Fool! LWith a terrible laugh he springs out of sight down the crags. SCENE III. SIR PERCY PERCIVALE (zx the Hall), O the gloom of these distasteful tomes ! The horror of the secrets here discovered ! Awake, ye salamandrines;! sleep, ye gnomes ! Were those the sylphs that round me hovered On the mountain, and destroyed my peace? O the misery of this…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…lara raised her voice, and her acolytes kept accord on their mandolines; it was an incantation of fervour and of madness, the madness of things chaste, remote, and inscrutable. At the conclusion she took Lisa by the hand, and gave her a new name, a mystic name, engraved upon a moonstone, set in a silver ring which she put upon her finger. This name was Iliel. It had been chosen on account of its sympathy of number to the moon; for the name is Hebrew, in which language its characters have the value of 81, the square of 9, the sacred number of th…
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…he slaves who would have them endure. But Thou and Thy masks are but one, Thy corruption the Essence of Thee, It is all of the nature of things, their virtue whereby they may be. So therefore I hail Thee divine, All-one with the substance of Truth; Mine age holds thee naked, the hem of whose garment bewildered my youth. My soul being thus with thy soul, shall not soul win at last to the wit That its changeless perfection is death, itself the assassin of it? Love under will is the law; all that exists, from the dust To the Gods, is but jetsam of…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…ST. For MARGOTE Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, the abode of ineffable things, Quintessence of joy and of strength, that, abolishing future and past, Makst the Present an infinite length, my soul all-One with the Vast, The Lone, the Unnamable God, that is ice of His measureless cold, Without being or form or abode, without motion or matter, the fold Where the shepherded Universe sleeps, with nor sense nor delusion nor dream, No spirit that wantons or weeps, no thought in its sil…
1906 · PDF PAGE 67
… Void of bright boy or girl, Desolate halls that furl Their shapes subdued. And wide they sunder, wide They fall into the tide Of fallen things. Me, me, O meek-browed bride, Horrible faces hide And devilish wings.
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…sed his ego, and used his body as its own. That is the beginner's danger in magick." "And what is your secret?" "To have assimilated all things so perfectly that there is no longer any possibility of strungle. To have destroyed the idea of duality. To have achieved Love and Will so that there is no longer any object to Love, or any aim for Will. To have killed desire at the root; to be one with every thing and with Nothing. "Look!" he went on, with a change of tone, "why does a man die when he is struck by lightning? Because he has a gate open …
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…the music of the lutes was stilled. "But Thou art Eternity and Space; Thou art Matter and Motion; and Thou art the Negation of all these things. For there is no symbol of Thee." The listeners were thrilled to the marrow of their bones. But the old man merely gathered a handful of dittany leaves from the chased golden box where they were kept, and led the way to the garden. It was very dark; nothing could be distinguished but the outlines of the shrubs and the line of the fence beyond. "Do you see the Thing?" said Iff. Lisa strained her eyes. "Y…
1996 · PDF PAGE 147
…Law is for All 1:44 is also possible on the larger scale, all Life being Magick, all Death Mysticism. Then why is Death “forbidden”? All things are surely lawful. But we must work without “lust of result,” taking everything as it comes without desire indeed, but with all manner of delight! Let thy Love-Madrigal to Death, thy Mother-Mistress, ripple and swell throughout the years, with all the Starry Heaven for thine Orchestra; but do not imagine that to attain Her is the sole satis faction. It is the yearning itself that is Beatitude. It may s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
…all know that a wise gardener wisely put them there. For IMAGES PROLOGUE. VIA VIT. I. My head is split. The crashing axe Of the agony of things shears through The stupid skull ; out spurt the brains. The universe revolves, then cracks, Then roars in dissolution due; And I am counting up the gains And losses of a life afire With dust of thought and dulled desire. II. So, all is over. I admit Futility the lord of will. Life was an episode, for me ‘indirectly, and through man’s struggle with the elemental powers. In these poems you shall hear the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
lt should be added that ail these things happen “naturally”. 1 Perform an operation to bring Gold — your rich uncle dies and leaves you his moneyj books — you see the book wanted in a catalogue that very day, although you hâve advertised in vain for a year; woman — but if you hâve made the spirits bring you enough gold, this operation will become unnecessary. 2 It must further be remarked that it is absolute Black Magic to use any of these powers if the object can possibly be otherwise attained. If your child is drowning, you must jump and try …
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…h of my wings ! The years are enfolden In my bosom golden, My periods Are the hours of the Gods. They have their plan In my seasons; all things Are woven in the span Of the spread of my wings. My brazen gates cleft By shafts shed of time, Are ruined and left As the Gods sing their rhyme. Buttress and joist are Effaced of the cloister. Fane after fane We lift us again To the hoarier transept Where ages climb, And ruin is left Where the Gods said their rhyme. The deity-year (WhereofI am an hour) Shall be born and appear As the birth ofa flower, S…