by OP ED » Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:26 pm
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HaGGai HowLings
{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Nu-Eta}
Haggard am I, an hyaena; I hunger and howl. Men
think it laughter-ha! ha! ha!
There is nothing movable or immovable under the
firmament of heaven on which I may write the
symbols of the secret of my soul.
Yea, though I were lowered by ropes into the
utmost Caverns and Vaults of Eternity, there is
no word to express even the first whisper of the
Initiator in mine ear: yea, I abhor birth, ululating
lamentations of Night!
Agony! Agony! the Light within me breeds veils; the
song within be dumbness.
God! in what prism may any man analyse my Light?
Immortal are the adepts; and yet they die-They
die of SHAME unspeakable; They die as the
Gods die, for SORROW.
Wilt thou endure unto THe End, O FRATER
PERDURABO, O Lamp in The Abyss? Thou hast
the Keystone of the Royal Arch; yet the
Apprentices, instead of making bricks, put the
straws in their hair, and think they are Jesus
Christ!
O sublime tragedy and comedy of THE GREAT
WORK!
COMMENTARY ({Nu-Eta})
Haggai, a notorious Hebrew prophet, is a Second
Officer in a Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons.
In this chapter the author, in a sort of raging
eloquence, bewails his impotence to express himself,
or to induce others to follow into the light. In para-
graph 1 he explains the sardonic laughter, for which he
is justly celebrated, as being in reality the expression of
this feeling.
Paragraph 2 is a reference to the Obligation of an
Entered Apprentice Mason.
Paragraph 3 refers to the Ceremony of Exaltation
in Royal Arch Masonry. The Initiate will be able to
discover the most formidable secret of that degree con-
cealed in the paragraph.
Paragraphs 4-6 express an anguish to which that of
Gethsemane and Golgotha must appear like whitlows.
In paragraph 7 the agony is broken up by the
sardonic or cynical laughter to which we have previously
alluded.
And the final paragraph, in the words of the noblest
simplicity, praises the Great Work; rejoices in its
sublimity, in the supreme Art, in the intensity of the
passion and ecstasy which it brings forth. (Note that
the words "passion" and "ecstasy" may be taken as
symbolical of Yoni and Lingam.)
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{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Pi-Alpha}
LOUIS LINGG
I am not an Anarchist in your sense of the word:
your brain is too dense for any known explosive
to affect it.
I am not an Anarchist in your sense of the word:
fancy a Policeman let loose on Society!
While there exists the burgess, the hunting man, or
any man with ideals less than Shelley's and self-
discipline less than Loyola's-in short, any man
who falls far short of MYSELF-I am against
Anarchy, and for Feudalism.
Every "emancipator" has enslaved the free.
COMMENTARY ({Pi-Alpha})
The title is the name of one of the authors of the affair
of the Haymarket, in Chicago. See Frank Harris,
"The Bomb".
Paragraph 1 explains that Frater P. sees no use
in the employment of such feeble implements as bombs.
Nor does he agree even with the aim of the Anarchists,
since, although Anarchists themselves need no restraint,
not daring to drink cocoa, lest their animal passions
should be aroused (as Olivia Haddon assures my
favourite Chela), yet policemen, unless most severely
repressed, would be dangerous wild beasts.
The last bitter sentence is terribly true; the personal
liberty of the Russian is immensely greater than that of
the Englishman. The latest Radical devices for
securing freedom have turned nine out of ten English-
men into Slaves, obliged to report their movements to
the government like so many ticket-of-leave men.
The only solution of the Social Problem is the
creation of a class with the true patriarchal feeling,
and the manners and obligations of chivalry.
--from The Book of Lies, Aleister Crowley.