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…ound lover feasts off the agony of her last victim , which still moistens her blood -red lips : His death lends savour to our passionate life ; His is the heart I taste upon your tongue ; His death -spasms our love -spasms , my wife ; His death -songs are the love -songs that you sung ! Ah ! Sweet , each kiss I drink from you is warm With the dear life -blood of a man-a man ! The scent of murder lures me , like a charm Tied by some subtlety Canidian . Ay ! as you suck my life out into bliss, Its holier joy is in the deadlier thirst That drank h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
… kind . ? A true wife , that is a woman whose very soul palpitates in harmony with that of her husband or lover , is the greatest joy of life. Burns sang : To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life . And from the other side of the sphere the melodious lines of Kalidasa reverberate with the same perfection of pure wifehood . In the Raghuvancha the step mothers of Rama greet Sita thus , when she blames herself for the misfortunes which befell her husband : Dear daughter , rise ! (So said they)…
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
…ystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life's plan . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 188
THE CUP 181 XXIV . An ecstasy to which no life responds , Is the enormous secret I have learned : When self-denial's furnace - flame has burned Through love , and all the agonizing bonds That hold the soul within its shell are turned To water weak ; Then may desires obtain the cypress crown they seek . It is only when we lose the cherished present , that it looms up through the mist of time as a glorious past ; and it is only when we have lost the body of corruption , that its soul rises sublime purifying all ; our personality purified by death…
1907 · PDF PAGE 183
176 THE STAR IN THE WEST one of his most interesting and attractive , and this is how I interpret it . A soul standing in the lupanar of life , aspiring to grasp the mystic riddle from the chilly lips of the eternal sphinx, salutes us , as we open this frail little volume . Our bodies are not burst asunder as was that of Judas , but our souls are reft and rent , and in the end know not God from Satan , or which of these twain have won . “ All the dream is wrought a spider tapestry ” yet the soul stands on the blood - red field of Aceldama : II.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… , such poverty , such want . Is there a God ? Could there be a God ? A power of Light compatible with such dismal darkness . Is there a life eternal ? The grim horror of such a possibility grips us by the throat . Is there an eternal Death ? Ah ! Saviour, deliver us from the misery of our lot ; lead us to the realms of eternal Rest , where rich and poor , good and bad , are made one , lost in the depths of the Lethean sea. And what can all this lead us to , this progress through misery ? To the great archetype the Arahat ship of Buddha . It wa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…alo of sainthood to be cast o'er the skull of the time-cleansed skeleton , which was once a spongy mass of wriggling larvae . During his life the thief stole , he lied , and he cheated ; pursued , he was caught , judged , and nailed to a cross , and in death alone was he promised the subconscious longing of his life - Paradise . This duality of Virtue and Vice has rent the world , as with a sword , and her garment has been torn asunder . Some say “ this is mine ! ” others " that is mine ! ” and so the quarrel rages . Yet will they not unite ? f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 306
…ps , But one note swells . Mightiest souls Of bard and music - maker , rolls Over your loftiest crowns the wheel Of that abiding bliss . Life flees Down corridors of centuries Pillar by pillar , and is lost . Life after life in wild appeal Cries to the master ; he remains And thinks not . The polluting tides Of sense roll shoreward . Arid plains Of wave - swept sea confront me . Nay ! Looms yet the glory through the grey , And in the darkest hours of youth I yet perceive the essential truth , Know as I know my consciousness , That all division'…
1907 · PDF PAGE 300
…hat were man's appointed term ? To feed God's friend , the coffin - worm ! Crowley further states in a short foreword to these Images of Life and Death ” : “ To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty , in solemnity and horror ; in emotions , to be brief , so great that man had no place therein . But there are moods , in which the heights are attained indirectly , and through man's struggle with the elemental powers ." 2 Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest , Dissolve the desperate lust of life By i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…journ in the Venusberg , and for telling the truth he is execrated by the Pope : So he Cried out upon me , “ Till this barren staff Take life , and bud , and blossom , and bear fruit , And shed sweet scent-so long God casteth thee Out from His Glory !”! When lo !-in the very moment of his supreme despair , his Genius mysteriously manifests , and “ darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes ” reaches to the sceptre with his word and will : Buds , roses , blossoms ! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom , bloom , the fragrance shed upon the air ! Out flames…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
… a day or so will have just about had her fill: Angela . Die, then , and kiss me dead ! Sir Percy . I die ! I die ! Angela . Thy flower -life is shed Into eternity , A waveless lake .1 He sleeps , and she awake becomes somewhat weary of these “jejune platitudes,” these “ ululations of pre posterous puberty ,"these very " eructations of ginger bread ” and “flatulence of calf-sickness ." 2 Soon he is kicked flying out of her ladyship's bed , and here we must leave him for a time to meet him again and his first love Molly further on , though not u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
…apter known as Tbe Aew wine In which chapter it is related : how the “ New Wine ” which was drawn from the Tavern known as the “ Well of Life ” burst the “ Old Bottle ” ; and yet was not spilt . And wherein it is shown how it intoxicated the multitudes to dreams in the which they perceive many things that are not ; and how it openeth the eye of the wise to the vision of the One Won der which alone is .
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…s curled , Curled out to draw me to their monstrous world ! Tannhäuser now enters the palace of the great queen Venus , the false Isis , Life ! Life ! This Kiss ! Draw in thy breath ! To me ! To me ! He is lost ! Act II opens with two beautiful songs . Venus sings the praise of spring and summer , and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And pain is passion's flower ; When blood drips over kisses , And madness sobs t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 275
…: This were my guerdon : to fade utterly Into the rose heart of that sanguine vase , And lose my purpose in its silent sea , And lose my life , and find my life , and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass .” One more quotation we will give from the song of Parthenope in “ The Argonauts ." O mortal , sad is love ! But my dominion Extends beyond love's ultimate abode . Eternity itself is but a minion , Lighting my way on the untravelled road . Gods shelter ' neath one shadow of my pinion . Thou only tread the path none else hath trode ! Come…
1907 · PDF PAGE 281
… Last . ( Not “ will be ") ... 6 God slips you , He is Undefinable . Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all .6 Isis am I, and from my life are fed All stars and suns , all moons that wax and wane , Create and uncreate , living and dead , The mystery of Pain . I am the Mother ,I the silent Sea , The Earth , its travail , its fertility . Life , death , love , hatred , light , darkness , return to me To Me !? 2 1 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 143 . Jephthah , vol . i, p . 78 . 3 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . 4 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramati…
1907 · PDF PAGE 185
…ath . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if our souls be spotless our abasement , “ ... bringeth back the sheaves ” XV . Of golden corn of exaltation , With strange intoxications mad and manifold . It is this curious phase , yearning towards Perfection , which forms the great stumbling - block to all progress in the life of a soul . Priestcraft has drawn a definite line between Vice and Virtue ; it has hedged itself round with chastity , v…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love , And life for every one . Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollows and height In the festal mystical revel , The rapturous Bacchanal rite ! The rocks and trees are yours , And the waters under the hill , By the might of that which endures , The holy heaven of will ! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star ; Your hair as a comet's horrent , Ye shall see things as they are ! I lif…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
… as Orpheus did when he sang : This world is shadow -shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow, age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . This is but the chant of the Brahmin and the Buddhist as it has risen and fallen over the East for hundreds and thousands of years . There no sun shines , no moon , nor glimmering star , Nor yonder lightning , the fire of earth is quenched , From him , who alone shines , all else borrows its brightness , The whole world…
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
… odds and numbers , as in the spiritual journey towards the Supreme of “ The Ultimate Voyage , ” struggling with the cold wet horrors of life : with my sword Trenchant , that tore their scaly essences Like Lucian's sailor writhing in the clutch Of those witch - vines-- I slashed about like light , And noises horrible of death devoured That hateful suction of their clinging arms And wash of slippery bellies . . > 3 » 5 Life is a boiling cauldron of purposes , actions , and desires . At one moment all pessimistic with the “ toad spotted dew of Re…
1907 · PDF PAGE 319
…ld round the key which opens the treasure house is Ecstasy . Myself being idle for an hour I dare one thing to speculate : Namely , that life hath cusps yet higher On this our curve : a prize , a power Lies in our grasp : unthinking Fate Shall build a brain to nestle nigher Under the ultimate Truth : I burn To live that later lives may learn . Wisdom and Love , intenser glow ! Beauty and strength , increase and burn Be brothers to the law of life ! Things as they are — their nature know !