Expect him not from the East, nor from the West;
for from no expected house cometh that child. Aum!
All words are sacred and all prophets true;
save only that they understand a little;
solve the first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked.
But thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though not all, in the dark.
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transubstantiation:

1. the changing of one substance into another.
2. Theology. the changing of the elements of the bread and wine, when they are consecrated in the Eucharist, into the body and blood of Christ (a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church).

Origin:
1350-1400; ME transubstanciacioun < ML trānssubstantiātiōn- (s. of trānssubstantiātiō). See ( Read more... )

From The Chariot of Antimony by Basil Valentine (1642)

The Great Alchemical Work

Let the Lion and Eagle duly prepare themselves as Prince and Princess of Alchemy - as they may be inspired.
      Let the Union of the Red Lion and the White Eagle be neither in cold nor in heat. Let their working be sublimated.
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For some time mystics have affirmed that blood was a vapor rather then a fluid. Science does not fully sustain this opinion, which may be traced to van Helmont, who declares without qualification that "the arterial spirit of our life is of the nature of gas. " He further describes this arterial spirit as a vital air and a sharp saltish vapor which ( Read more... )

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3. Now then to your old Pons Asinorum about the names of the Gods! Stand in the corner for half an hour with your face to the wall! Stay in after school and write Malka be-Tharshishim v-Ruachoth b-Schebralim 999 times!

My dear, dear, dear sister, a name is a formula of power. How can you talk of "anachronism" when the Being is eternal? For the type ( Read more... )

Indeed, it is very difficult to understand the world as it is, for, although it seems true, it is not, and, although it seems false, it is not. Ignorant people can not know the truth concerning the world.

Buddha alone truly and fully knows the world as it is and He never says that it is true or false, or good or evil. He simply protrays the world ( Read more... )

The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them.
Liber AL vel Legis I:55

The New Comment by Aleister Crowley
Here is the first reference to a 'child' who will complete the Work connected with this Book. It is only necessary to say that this Child has indeed appeared, fulfilling in a very remarkable way the peculiar conditions indicated in this Book. ( Read more... )