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KE®AAH AE VENUS OF MILO Life is as ugly and necessary as the female body. Death is as beautiful and necessary as the male body. The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond Life and Death. Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diverse developments of One Organ, so also
KE@®AAH 3Z SODOM-APPLES thirstier than before. O ye who dwell in the Dark Night of the Soul, beware most of all of every herald of the Dawn! O ye who dwell in the City of the Pyramids beneath the Night of PAN, remember that ye shall see no more light but That of the great fire that shall consume your dust to ashes!
… new consciousness; yet they are somehow vital. By use they be- come luminous. Unreason becomes Experience. This lifts the leaden-footed Soul to the Ex- perience of THAT of which Reason is the blasphemy. But without that Experience these words are the Lies of a Looby. Yet a Looby to thee, and a Booby to me, a Balassius Ruby to GOD, may be!
… } ‘Breaks’ Pratyhara gets rid of the Objective. Dharana gets rid of the Subjective. Dhyana gets rid of the Ego. Samadhi gets rid of the Soul Impersonal. Yama destroys the emotions. . (Vedana). Niyama destroys the passions. } Dharana destroys the perceptions (Safifia). Dhyana destroys the tendencies (Sankhara). Samadhidestroystheconsciousness(Vififianam). Homard 4 la Themindor destroys the digestion. The last of these facts is the one of which I am most certain.
…t, for his volume is privately printed.... Magnificent poems—pagan in their intensity and vividness of colouring.”— Oxford Magazine. The Soul of Osiris. 5s. ‘<The depth and volume and the passionate inten- sity of the feeling in many of these poems are un- mistakable, as are the frequent richness and vision- ary splendour of the imagery and the aptness and the transfiguring power of the rhythms.”—New York Nation. Mr. G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the si…
…ter—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. of the Initiator in mine ear: yea, I abhor birth, ululating lamentations of Night! Agony! Agony! the Light within me deeds veils; the song within me dumbness. God! in what prism may any man analyze my Light? Immortal are the adepts; and yet They die— They die of SHAME unspeakable; They die as the Gods die, for SORROW. 73
…his. Yet that life is of his very essence; it is more He than all that he calls He, In the silence of a dewdrop is every tendency of his soul, and of his mind, and of his body; it is the Quintessence and the Elixir of his being. Therein are the forces that made him and his father and his father’s father before him. This is the Dew of Immortality. Let this go free, even as It will; thou art not its master, but the vehicle of It.
…. The poetical epilogue is beautiful and con- tenting.” —Litevary Guide. **Mr. Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet; his ‘Soul of Osiris,’ written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than his Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhistic mood; but this also, though very affected, is very interest- ing. But the main fact about it is, that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. “Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intention to explain the beauty of the Bu…
…ar of the Tree of Life, from Malkuth to Kether. ‘Telepathy,’ ‘The Opium Smoker,’ ‘ The Muse,’ are all poems which will grip and hold the soul of the reader. “What is not least remarkable in Crowley’s poetry is his amazing variety. In some respects he is not unlike William Blake, but he is free from Blake’s metrical deficiencies whilst retaining all the 127