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Page 96 of 1591913 · PDF PAGE 539
…enius brought it forth, but it is for experience to nourish it. Do not fear that it will die of neglect! Oblivion is for it a favourable time of rest, and contra- dictions help it to grow. When a sun bursts forth in space it creates worlds or attracts them to itself. A single spark of fixed light promises a universe to space. All magic is in a word, and that word pronounced qabal- istically is stronger than all the powers of Heaven, Earth and Hell. With the name of Jod hé vau hé, one commands Nature : kingdoms are conquered in the name of Adona…
1910 · PDF PAGE 166
…rite of, dangerous even to think of; wherefore they are not here written. But he beginneth with his sojourning in the Isle of Lanka: the time of his dwelling with Maitrananda Swami.§ Wherefore, O Bhavani, bring Thou all unto the Proper End! To Thee be Glory—OM. On the 6th of August P. landed in Colombo, and on the following day he went to see his old friend Frater I.A. who was now studying Buddhism with the view of becoming a Buddhist monk. On this very day he commenced, or rather continued his meditation practices; for we find him trying with …
1910 · PDF PAGE 166
…rite of, dangerous even to think of; wherefore they are not here written. But he beginneth with his sojourning in the Isle of Lanka: the time of his dwelling with Maitrananda Swami.§ Wherefore, O Bhavani, bring Thou all unto the Proper End! To Thee be Glory—OM. On the 6th of August P. landed in Colombo, and on the following day he went to see his old friend Frater I.A. who was now studying Buddhism with the view of becoming a Buddhist monk. On this very day he commenced, or rather continued his meditation practices; for we find him trying with …
1911 · PDF PAGE 121
…dess. These are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of Love. Each plume of the peacock is full of eyes, that are at the same time 4x 7. And for this is the number 28 reflected down into Netzach; and that 28 is Kaph Cheth (Kach), power. For she is Sakti, the eternal energy of the Concealed One. And it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. And this explaineth the call of the Aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of Sakti. And this mystery is reflected in the legend of the * …
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
…haos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms! Oh, blue! blue! blue! whose reflection in the Abyss is called the Great One of the Night of Time; between ye vibrat- eth the Lord of the Forces of Matter. O Nox, Nox, qui celas infamiam infandi nefandi, Deo solo sit laus qui dedit signum non scribendum. Laus virgini cuius stuprum tradit salutem. O Night, that givest suck from thy paps to sorcery, and theft, and rape, and gluttony, and murder, and tyranny, and to the nameless Horror, cover us, cover us, cover us from the Rod of Destiny; for Cosmos mus…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
…tome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel, The Wandering Jew.‘ The scene takes place at Corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of Catullus. The bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient Polyhymnia; she is amorous and deliciously provoking in her modesty, like a Venus of Correggio, or a Grace of Canova. The bridegroom is Clinias, a disciple of the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
…tome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel, The Wandering Jew.‘ The scene takes place at Corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of Catullus. The bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient Polyhymnia; she is amorous and deliciously provoking in her modesty, like a Venus of Correggio, or a Grace of Canova. The bridegroom is Clinias, a disciple of the …
1916 · PDF PAGE 11
…xt makes it clear, doubt is certain to remain. Nor need one suppose that there are any words free from this ambiguity. Everything at one time or another has been the subject of violent praise and violent blame. If any one asks me for the meaning of the word God, I must first know whether the word is being used by the Pope or Mr. G. W. Foote or Herbert Spencer or Billy Sunday. If you ask me for the meaning of the word soul, I am equally at a loss. To the Buddhist it is a figment of the imagination of certain Hindu philosophers. The Qabalists u…
1919 · PDF PAGE 413
…ad to do before he approached the first gate, but this may be regarded as a sort of a joke on the part of the Guru. The Guru has a weary time, and frequently amuses himself by telling the pupil that he must do something ob- viously impossible before he begins. This increases the re- spect of the pupil for the Guru, and in this way helps him, gI
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…hole of my work, from the moment of its utterance, illustrates some phase of its potentiality, and the story of my life itself from this time on is no more than a record of my reactions to it. To recapitulate the historical basis of The Book of the Law, let me say that evolution (within human memory) shows three great steps: 1. the worship of the Mother, when the universe was conceived as simple nourishment drawn directly from her; 2. the worship of the Father, when the universe was imagined as catastrophic; 3. the worship of the Child, in whic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
… theurgy , whereby the difficulties set in motion by the conceptions of “ Infinite ” and “ Eternal " are overcome by the annihilation of Time and Space , and the reduction of all rational terms to an absolute inertia in zero . From here Crowleyanity becoming purely mystical becomes symbolic , leading those who follow into the Kingdom of the Adepts ; and finally showing how the keynote of all mystical systems of either East or West , is to be found in Ecstasy ; and how the former , arriving at this sublime state by purely mechanical methods , ar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 198
…was but one strange image. Carved of that polished black granite of Egypt, which seems, as it were, the very bodily form of the Night of Time, there squatted a god upon his pedestal ; an inscrutable god, smiling, ever smiling with a smile that spoke unfathomable lust and cruelty resolved—by what theurgic alchemy ?—into a pure and passionless bliss. It was a thing eternal as the stars—nay, before it the very stars might bow as in the reverence of Youth toage! Yet in it stood a strength and beauty as of golden youth. Its skin was polished and shi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 198
…was but one strange image. Carved of that polished black granite of Egypt, which seems, as it were, the very bodily form of the Night of Time, there squatted a god upon his pedestal ; an inscrutable god, smiling, ever smiling with a smile that spoke unfathomable lust and cruelty resolved—by what theurgic alchemy ?—into a pure and passionless bliss. It was a thing eternal as the stars—nay, before it the very stars might bow as in the reverence of Youth toage! Yet in it stood a strength and beauty as of golden youth. Its skin was polished and shi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 165
…ciety, but so is their love and good—will, and worst of all, so is their example and precept. Christ, at the height of his career, found time to wash the feet of his disciples ; any Master who does not do this on every plane is a Black Brother. The Hindus honour no man who becomes “ Sannyasi " (nearly our “hermit”) until he has faithfully fulfilled all his duties as a man and a citizen, Celibacy is immoral, and the celibate shirks one of the greatest difficulties of the Path. Beware of all those who shirk the lower difficulties: it’s a good bet th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 165
…ciety, but so is their love and good—will, and worst of all, so is their example and precept. Christ, at the height of his career, found time to wash the feet of his disciples ; any Master who does not do this on every plane is a Black Brother. The Hindus honour no man who becomes “ Sannyasi " (nearly our “hermit”) until he has faithfully fulfilled all his duties as a man and a citizen, Celibacy is immoral, and the celibate shirks one of the greatest difficulties of the Path. Beware of all those who shirk the lower difficulties: it’s a good bet th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
THE EQUINOX night, and at sunrise. And if he be able, he shall pray also four times between sunrise and sunset. The prayer shall last for the space of an hour, at the least, and he shall seek ever to extend it, and to inflame himself in praying. Thus shall he invoke his Holy Guardian Angel for eleven weeks, and in any case he shall pray seven times daily during the last week of the eleven weeks. And during all this time he shall have composed an invo- cation suitable, with such wisdom and understanding as may be given him from the Crown, and th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 302
…? There remains, then, moral authority, which alone is able to constitute dogma and establish the discipline of worship, in concert this time with the civil authority, but not in obedience to its orders. It is necessary, in a-word, that faith should give to the religious need a real satisfaction,—a satisfaction entire, permanent and indubitable. To obtain that, it is necessary to have the absolute and invariable affirmation of a dogma preserved by an authorized hierarchy. It is necessary to have an efficacious cult, giving, with an absolute fai…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
… God, and one even employs them as a proof of the truth of religion. But, what? heretics, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, this time quite frankly and really absurd. They then sacrificed both their reason and their life to their belief? Oh, for heretics, it is evident that the devil was responsible. Poor folk, who took the devil for God, and God for the devil! Why have 204
1913 · PDF PAGE 302
…? There remains, then, moral authority, which alone is able to constitute dogma and establish the discipline of worship, in concert this time with the civil authority, but not in obedience to its orders. It is necessary, in a-word, that faith should give to the religious need a real satisfaction,—a satisfaction entire, permanent and indubitable. To obtain that, it is necessary to have the absolute and invariable affirmation of a dogma preserved by an authorized hierarchy. It is necessary to have an efficacious cult, giving, with an absolute fai…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
… God, and one even employs them as a proof of the truth of religion. But, what? heretics, too, let themselves be killed for dogmas, this time quite frankly and really absurd. They then sacrificed both their reason and their life to their belief? Oh, for heretics, it is evident that the devil was responsible. Poor folk, who took the devil for God, and God for the devil! Why have 204