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…n : ... there gleams from Heaven The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies are riven A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and His love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather ." In many other of these poems do we find depicted other phases of the philosophy of the Qabalah ; one , Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 190 .…
1907 · PDF PAGE 333
…g the alkali , and then the acid , the patients firmly believing that in the effervescence consequent to the evolution of gas , the evil spirit has been dislodged from their interior . For if they firmly believe the spirit was dislodged , there can not be the slightest doubt on this point , the spirit being a temporary part of the “ brain ,” as all other “ ideas ” must be from the idea of “ constipation ” which Seidlitz powders will also remove -- to that of Heaven and Hell ,' which Swedenborg also dislodges . At last we have arrived at the clo…
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…nd's magnificence assumed In the soul's splendour ! Here is peace ; Here earneșt of assured release . Here is the formless all pervading Spirit of the World , rising , fading Into a glory subtler still . Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates , and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival . Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil pass on ! The veil Is rent asunder , the stars pale , The suns vanish , the moon drops , The chorus of the spirit stops , But one note swells . Mightiest so…
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…desire in the other . Very different from Blake do we find such a poem as “ Vespers ,” which , though differing in rime , in cadence and spirit , is reminiscent of Rossetti's “ Blessed Damozel " : Still in those avenues of light, No maid , with golden zone , And lily garment that from sight Half hides the ivory throne , Lay in my arms the livelong night To call my soul her own . ? Whilst parts of the poem “ Messaline " with which “ Alice ” opens remind us of poor " Jenny." Tennyson , if we are to judge from the introduction to “ Alice , " does …
1907 · PDF PAGE 257
…reaming , to hold their ghastly festival .' The search after Mystery is finely described in the opening dedication of “ The Songs of the Spirit " : Mine was the holy fire that drew Its perfect passion from the dew , And all the flowers that blushed and blew On sunny slopes by little brooks . Mine the desire that brushed aside The thorns, and would not be denied , And sought, more eager than a bride , The cold grey secret wan and wide of sacred books .2 It is in this search that the soul unfurls its wings and sweeps into the infinite ether of ex…
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…robbing with fire more potent than all wine , All sting of fleshly pangs and pleasures . Oh ! The god is fast upon my back ; he rides My spirit like a stallion ; for I hate The awful thong his hand is heavy with ." Again , in “ The Nameless Quest ": Then surged the maddening tide Of my intention . Onward ! Let me run ! Thy steed , O Moon ! Thy chariot , O Sun ! Lend me fierce feet , winged sandals , wings as wide As thine , O East wind ! And the goal is won ! 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 38 . 3 Rosa Mundi…
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THE NEW WINE 251 Many of the poems in “Songs of the Spirit " and “ The Holy of Holies ,” hold fast to this idea ; and it is this ideal , the progression from the Kingdom to the Crown , from Malkuth to Kether , which constitutes one of the most beautiful doctrines of the older and simpler Qabalah . The Qabalah guides us to a divine theurgy . Ac cording to the Zohar it is impossible to know God , herein the Qabalah is Agnostic , it forbids the repre sentation of God , herein it is Rational . The Ain Soph is the “ All-pervading ,” the “ Non Ens ” …
1907 · PDF PAGE 103
… field of its choice is also most certain . In “ The Nameless Quest ” and “ Tannhäuser ," we find represented this striving after a more spiritual and platonic ideal of love . In the former , questing for the ideal of his hopes , man falls tangled into the arms of the real ; in the latter , entangled , he strives to tear away the meshes of his passion , and at length suc ceeds in releasing himself from the magic threads . In “ The Nameless Quest ,” Gereth is in love with the Queen , and the King calls on a knight to go on the Nameless Quest to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…r worship , and reject thy spouse , The harlot of the world ! For , proud and free , We stand beyond thy hatred , even we : We broken in spirit beneath bitter years , Branded with the burnt-offering of tears , Spit out upon the lie , and in thy face Cast back the slimy falsehood ; to your place , Ye Gadarean swine , too foul to fling Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back , to your mother filth ! With hope , and youth , Love , light , and power , and mastery of truth Armed , we reject you ; the bright scourge we ply , Your howling spirit…
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… , and yet we stand and gaze With touching hands and lips immutable As mortals stand a moment ; . . The universe is One ; One Soul , One Spirit , One Flame , One infinite God , One infinite Love . ' Truly the poet has here refined the dross and poured out before us the glittering metal. Yet what a differ ence he makes between the two great world forces : the love of man for a good woman , and the love of man for a bad woman ; the first is supreme , yet the other is far from being infernal . Listen : Yes . A good woman's love will forge a chain …
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…s our book Goetia be obtained , and if so , can you give a rational explanation of the circumstances ? Say you so ? I can and will . The spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain ." Their seals therefore represent ( Mr. Spencer's projected cube ) methods of stimulating or regulating those particular spots ( through the eye ). The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish : (a) General control of the brain ( Establishment of func tions relative to the subtle world ). (6) Control over the brain in detail . ( Rank or type of …
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…er , Demy 8vo . ( Out of Print .] JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES , lyrical and dramatic . Boards , pp . xxii + 223 , 75. 6d . SONGS OF THE SPIRIT . Boards , Pott 8vo , pp . x + 109. (A few of the first edition , cloth , 7s . 6d .] THE POEM . Japanese vellum wrapper , Demy Svo , pp . 20. [ Out of print .] JEZEBEL . Japanese vellum wrapper , Demy 4to , Caxton type , pp . 23 + viii , £ 2 25. [ Less than 10 copies remain .) AN APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC . Paper , Demy 4to , pp . 12 , 6d . JEPHTHAH . Paper , Demy 8vo , pp . 71. [ Out of print .]
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… line verses of those books from which this one has drawn its life -blood . And they are : Aceldama . The Tale of Archais . Songs of the Spirit . Jezebel . An Appeal to the American People . Jephthah . The Mother's Tragedy . The Soul of Osiris . Carmen Saeculare . Tannhäuser . Berashith . Ahab . The God -Eater Alice . The Sword of Song . The Star and the Garter . The Argonauts . Goetia .
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… wept ! O mystery of Love ! Clasping my hands upon the scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom , the keen thorns Pierced me and slew ! My spirit was withdrawn Into Her godhead , and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above , beyond the Tomb of Time , Blending the darkness into the profound Chasms of matter-so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space , Limitless fields of Time .. Such is the ecs…
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…It is. Phil . And is it not possible ideas should succeed one another twice as fast in your mind as they do in mine , or in that of some spirit of another kind ? Hyl . I own it.2 This clinches the whole argument between Mysticus and Scepticus , as it did between the two disputants Philonous and Hylas . THE QABALAH Before entering upon Aleister Crowley's ontological essay on Space , it will be as well first to run through , briefly though it may be , some of the more important eclaircissements of the Qabalah , and the influence this divine theur…
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…ze , fresh as the dawn in May, sunny as a June day , and then furious with burning passion and vitriolic lust . So closely interwoven in spirit are the true lyrics with the remainder of his amatory poetry , that it would be dangerous to attempt to separate them , and such an attempt would almost certainly lead to repetition or a breaking of the chain of psychosexual sensations , dimming that lustre which thrills through these mag nificent verses , from the chaste kiss of a mother to the Phaedrian embrace of a Sadistic sow . In “ Why Jesus Wept,…
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…l the Poetic Iconomachy to the Poetic Iconolatry of these poems ; 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 125 . 2 Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 31 . Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 103 . 4 Jephthah , vol . i, p . 74 . 3
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…T psychopathic mist dims his mind , and all the love he lavished on the body of the living woman turns to a lust for her cadaver : 1 The spirit filled me . And behold ! I saw her dead stare to the skies . I came to her , she was not cold , But burning with old infamies . On her incestuous mouth I fell , And lost my soul for Jezebel . They cast her forth on Naboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowds abide No longer by he…
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…all song .” 1 In “ The Triumph of Man ” we again find the same idea crystallized , but in “ The Ultimate Voyage ,” the aspirant , on his spiritual journey towards the Supreme Knowledge , at one point on his journey all but attains Nirvana . In many other poems do we find this idea of Nir vana . In “ Why Jesus Wept ” we have : Thy flower - life is shed Into eternity , A waveless lake .2 Which reminds us of Sir Edwin Arnold's : OM , MANI PADME , OM ! The Dewdrop slips Into the shining Sea ! Again , in “ The Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile " : My…
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…t implying , as I guess , This very super - consciousness . Miracles follow as a dower ; But ah ! They used the fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act .? 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, pp . 178 , 179 . I am ; and by my fancy : if my reason Will thereto be obedient , I have reason ; If not , my senses better pleased with madness Do bid it welcome .- Winter's Tale . 2 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 182 .