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Page 95 of 1041905 · PDF PAGE 212
…sacred spirit of the Gods !? O triple tongue !* Descend, Lapping the answering flame that nods, Kissing the brows that bend, Uniting all earth’s periods To one exalted end. Still on the mystic Tree of Life My soul is crucified ; 4 Still strikes the sacrificial knife Where lurks some serpent-eyed Fear, passion, or man’s deadly wife Desire, the suicide ! Before me dwells the Holy One Anointed Beauty’s King ;° Behind me, mightier than the Sun, To whom the cherubs sing, A strong archangel,® known of none, Comes crowned and conquering. An angel stan…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…e should push his fellow aside. As there is room in Heaven for every Star to pass upon its Way unchallenged, so also with those Stars of Earth, which go masked as men and women. Know therefore that this Law of Thelema Do what thou wilt is the first Law ever given to man which is a true Law for all men in every place and time. All earlier Laws have been partial, according to the faith of the hearer, or the customs of a people, or the philosophy of their sages. Nor is there need, with this Law of Thelema, of threats or promises: for the Law ful…
1905 · PDF PAGE 30
…o sleep with him. Through the noon’s haze the world was vast and dim, The streams and trees and air were shimmering With summer heat and earth’s cool vapouring, When, round his limbs entwined, a fiery snake Hissed in his frightened ear the call ‘‘ Awake.” And Zeus arisen strives vainly to release His valiant body from the coils, nor cease lis angry struggles in their cruel hoid. But all implacable, unyielding, cold, Their sinuous pressure on his breast and thighs, The white teeth sharp and ready otherwise In one fierce snap to slay. There hisse…
1906 · PDF PAGE 22
16 ORACLES Who knowest all, of under earth the king, Familiar healer of man’s suffering ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery! Who to the leper, even the cursed pariah, Hast taught by love the taste of heavenly fire! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou who on Death, thine old and strong leman, Begottest Hlape—a charming madwoman ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Who knowest in which caves of envious lands God has hid precious stones with jealous hands! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou whose clear eye discerns the arse…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…citrine portion of Malkuth, and the part receiving the impact of the Middle Pillar. The Hierophant then says to the Candidate: ‘Child of Earth! wherefore hast thou come to request admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeking for the light of Occult Knowledge, and I believe that in this Order the Know- ledge of that Light may be obtained.” Whereupon the Hierophant asks the Candidate whether he is willing “in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…citrine portion of Malkuth, and the part receiving the impact of the Middle Pillar. The Hierophant then says to the Candidate: ‘Child of Earth! wherefore hast thou come to request admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeking for the light of Occult Knowledge, and I believe that in this Order the Know- ledge of that Light may be obtained.” Whereupon the Hierophant asks the Candidate whether he is willing “in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to …
1939 · PDF PAGE 9
… studies and practises it from the less pleasing features of his life on this planet? I say Hindustan, but I really mean anywhere on the earth; for research has shown that similar methods producing similar results are to be found in every country. The details vary, but the general structure is the same. Because all bodies, and so all minds, have identical Forms. (6) Yoga means Union. In the mind of a pious person, the inferiority complex which accounts for his piety compels him to interpret this emancipation as union with the gaseous vertebrate…
1905 · PDF PAGE 133
…e of dying Gaunt! Shall rule by right. The sons of England shall bid Hell avaunt And priest and harlot smite. Then all the forces of the earth shall be Untamable, a shield of Liberty. Freedom shall burgeon like a rose, While in the sky A new white sun with ardour glows On liberty. Men shall sing merrily at work as those Who fear no more to die— Ay! and who fear no more at last to live Since man can love and worship and forgive. 1 See Richard 17/., ii. 1,
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
…are we Of God’s own purpose of fecundity. Exactly! You have read the golden rede. Yet robbed (you say) That is the pity of all things on earth: That all must have its consequence again. Life ends in death and loving ends in birth. All’s made for pleasure: man’s device is pain. And in that pain and barrenness men find Triumph on God; and glory of the mind.
1906 · PDF PAGE 39
…erous throats of majesty, Titanic, in the waking of the world; Sprang, one vast-mass of spume and molten fire, Lava, tremendous waves of earth; sprang higher Than the sea’s crest volcano-torn, to be Written in Cyclopean charactery, Hawaii. Here she stands Queen of all laughter’s lands That dance for dawn, lie tranced in leisured noon, Dreaming through day towards night, Craving the perfumed light Of the stars lustrous, and the gem-born moon, Dewy with clustered diamond, The long land swoons to sleep; the sea sleeps and yet wakes beyond. 1 Near …
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…ach case being as 1 to 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Suppose a drop of water, 1/8 inch in diameter, to be magnified to the size of the earth, there would be about 30 molecules in every cubic foot of it, each
1935 · PDF PAGE 13
…hole Order. They must accept the Crowne and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowled; that “The word of the Law is @EAHMA” and that “Love is the law, love under will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for him- self his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with all the ener…
1944 · PDF PAGE 173
…r to the adept every turn of the wheel is equally probable, and equally a prize; for every Event is “a play of Nuit”. In the Yî King the earthy part of Earth is represented by the 52nd hexagram, Kan. The meaning is “a mountain”; of how sublime a significance is this Chinese doctrine of Balance, and how closely congruous with that of the Holy Qabalah! The mountain is the most sacred of all terrestrial symbols, stark, rugged, and immove‐ able in its aspiration to the Highest, thrust up as it is by the Titan energy of Hidden Fire. It is no less an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 129
122 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC A SONNET OF BLASPHEMY. EXALTED over earth, from hell arisen, There sits a woman, ruddy with the flame Of men’s blood spilt, and her uncleanly shame, And the thrice-venomous vomit of her prison. She sits as one long dead: infernal calm, Chill hatred,- wrap her in their poisonous cold. She careth not, but doth disdainly hold Three scourges for man’s soul, that know no balm. They know not any cure. The first is Life, A well of poison. Sowing dust and dung Over men’s hearts, the second scourge, abuve All shameful…
1905 · PDF PAGE 154
… a leaping fawn Upon the mountains. We are priests SAFI. Yea, I am a god. I am fire against the fountain of my birth, The storm upon the earth that nurtured me !} Leave me: we twain have no more words to speak. THE LEEPER. Neither in heaven nor in hell. I go, The dead king, worshipping the living man. [Aves. S’AFI. I have been a god so long, my thoughts run halt From many contemplations. Like the flow Of a slow river deep and beautiful, My even life moved onward to full scope, The ocean of profounder deity, And—suddenly—the cataract ! Centred e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…rred and shod. Her breasts gleamed bright and white as milk, Most like the mother of God ; His heart was shrouded, his face was clouded, Earth trembled where he trod. te ‘* By thy raven tresses ; by those caresses We changed these five hours past ; By the full red lips and the broad white brow I charge thee stay ; I am weary now; I would sleep again—at last.” ‘* By thy golden hair ; by the laughter rare Of love’s kiss conquering, By the lips full red and the ivory bed I charge thee come, I am fain instead Of the nightmare’s lordly wing !” The b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 259
…nce ; and lastly, the Goddesses of the Scales of the Balance, as though a vast wheel were revolving, as it is said : “One wheel upon the Earth beside the Kerub.” And also note the Rashish ha-Gilgalim.* Of this wheel the ascending side commenceth from below the pillar of Nephthys, and the descending side from below the pillar of Isis, but in the * Reverse Circumambulation ” * The beginning of Whirling Motions, Primum Mobile. 251
1909 · PDF PAGE 259
…nce ; and lastly, the Goddesses of the Scales of the Balance, as though a vast wheel were revolving, as it is said : “One wheel upon the Earth beside the Kerub.” And also note the Rashish ha-Gilgalim.* Of this wheel the ascending side commenceth from below the pillar of Nephthys, and the descending side from below the pillar of Isis, but in the * Reverse Circumambulation ” * The beginning of Whirling Motions, Primum Mobile. 251
1919 · PDF PAGE 256
…s and illumination. “This electoral college consists of Eleven Persons in each country. It has full control of the affairs of the Men of Earth, appointing Lodge Masters at will. It has however no authority over the Chapters of Rose Croix. “Persons who wish to be appointed to this College by the Supreme and Holy King must volunteer for the office. The appointment is for Eleven Years. Volunteers must renounce for that period all further progress in the Order. They must give evidence of first-rate ability in (1.) Some branch of athletics. (2.) Som…
1929 · PDF PAGE 205
…luring and so dangerous! But as she could not live wholly on the heights of aspiration, so also she could not live on the safe plains of earth-life. The voices of the swamp and the cavern called to her continuously. And so the external reconciliation had no deep root. For a few weeks she was better and healthier in body and mind. Then she slipped back into her sulks, and went "fairy-tale-ing" as she called it, with a very determined mind to be on guard against the interference of Sister Clara. She had begun to familiarize herself with the laws …