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Page 10 of 831898 · PDF PAGE 70
SUCCUBUS. WHO is Love, that he should find me as I strive, Pale and weary, dumb and blind, where curses thrive, Fold my sleep within his wings, and lead my dreams Through a land of pleasant things, of woods and streams, Bind my slumber with a chain of pure delight, Though the canker of it stain at death of night, Fill with passion and distaste and wakened pleasure All the moments run to waste that else were treasure ? Who is Love ? a fury red with all men’s blood On his cruel altars shed, a deadly flood ? Or a veiléd vision black with shame and…
1899 · PDF PAGE 128
106 MYSTERIES : VAUGHAN. Do you find beauty in her ? PERCY. No, but I see in her history a poem, to which I trust that God will write an end. VAUGHAN. What end can come but evil ? PERCY. O! if I had no hope for her I should have none for myself. VAUGHAN, How? Have you then fallen? PERCY. Oh, yes, I have fallen. I am older every hour. [ have wasted time, I have wasted love. VAUGHAN. Perhaps it is not all waste after all. There is a use for everything, nothing is destroyed—believe so, anyhow! — FRIEND. What about this dinner of yours, Vaughan? Es…
1913 · PDF PAGE 80
…arly note that unless the apparent size approximate to the real, his practice is wasted. Let him then add a comet to the picture; he may find, perhaps, that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision until it include a star. And thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the heaven, in space and time ever aspiring to the perception of the Body of Nuit ; yea, of the Body of Nuit.
1913 · PDF PAGE 80
…arly note that unless the apparent size approximate to the real, his practice is wasted. Let him then add a comet to the picture; he may find, perhaps, that the path of this comet may assist him to expand the sphere of his mental vision until it include a star. And thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the heaven, in space and time ever aspiring to the perception of the Body of Nuit ; yea, of the Body of Nuit.
1929 · PDF PAGE 560
…. I will add that the wealthy and alleged aristocratic classes are sprinkled much too thinly with individuals for whom I have any use. I find them selfish and boring. The first is the cause of the second, for the secret is that they lack faith in life; seeking self they have found an inane nullity, and being bored with themselves they naturally bore other people. But French artists, the professional classes and the much abused bourgeois are almost always delightful. What's more, you can trust them to do you a good turn when opportunity occurs. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 38
Then the Lord answered me out of the wind, Out of the whirlwind did He answer me; Gird up thy loins now hike a man, and find If thou canst answer like a man to Me! Who art thou darkening counsel by thy word, And in thine ignorance accusing Them Who. ere thy prayer was formulated, heard And crowned it with its passion’s diadem ? Who isthe Son of Man, that We should mind him ? Or visit the vain virgin of his pleasance ? Yet ever as he went We stood behind him And conipassed her with Our continual presence? From the black whirlwind the most high G…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
44 THE STAR IN THE WEST find it in the rapture of Love , the melody of Song , or the fire of Deity , it is what Poe meant by “ elevating excitement ,” and as we have seen , it was because of its absence that he attacked the Epic school of verse . Ecstasy lies beyond our gnosis ; as we shall here after see , it carries us out of ourselves , beyond the mere shell of existence , into the very depths of the profound . For the fraction of a second the whole ocean of our being is whirled through a narrow gorge , then once again we are hurled forth in…
1901 · PDF PAGE 119
…e again. Life ends in death and loving ends in birth. All’s made for pleasure: man’s device is pain. And in that pain and barrenness men find Triumph on God; and the glory of the mind.
1954 · PDF PAGE 507
… Wisdom formed He the worlds." So soon as its thaumaturgy is accomplished, it is, through Binah, understood as the Logos. Thus in Sex we find everyone of the primary Correspondences of Chokmah. Being thus ineffable and sacrosanct , it is (plainly enough) peculiarly liable to profanation. Being profaned, it is naturally more unspeakably nasty than any other of the "Mysteries." You will find a good deal on this subject implied in Artemis Iota, attached to another of my letters to you. Before tackling "Sore Spots" seriously, there is after all, on…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…over all , till it also becomes such a pest , that it too , will have to give way to something better . Never contented , man ultimately finds that his double collection of manna rots . What the end will be no one knows , and few care ; that we shall ever reach a state verging on perfection is most improbable ; man could not stand it for long unless his worldly span were one of unam bitious affluence , and his heavenly one of spasmodic sensuality and forgetfulness . To have plenty of money and no ambitions , to eat like a hog , sleep like a hog…
1902 · PDF PAGE 91
…re by all the Virgins in the Book She would wed nobody but—Tannhauser. So, like the foolish, doting sire I am, I gave her thirty days to find you. This Must dumb you with astonishment. Tannhauser. Well, no ! The details, unfamiliar ! But the theme I knew. And therefore leaps my bosom up : I rob your verderer of his nag, and ho ! Low the long gallop to Elizabeth ! Wolfram. Lucky and brave. How we all envy you ! Heinrich. Envy ? This day when he comes back to us ! Why, we are lucky too ! We thought you dead ! M 89
1919 · PDF PAGE 302
…7.) If this isn’t mediumistic cant, I should like to know what is! However, on another occasion, we read: “Go to hell and there you will find the information you seek my sweet friend.” (p. 622.) Here is some sound advice! This is another little gem, which is dished-up as part of the “proof of immor- tality”: “Mamma gave some advice and now comes to help in the work of proving that the love and care and interest does not cease at death but all is intensified and de- sires become actions and have effect in friends and loved ones. No one has been …
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
…e outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endless slopes. “It is too high for me to climb,” the little man will say; “it is indeed very beautiful; but …
1909 · PDF PAGE 236
…e outset comes to us and like the old witch in “ Cinderella” strews innumerable lentils before us to count—but begin ! and soon you will find that you have left the kitchen of the world behind you and have entered the enchanted Palace “‘ Beyond.” It is all very difficult and complex at first; it is rather like a man who, setting out by a strange road to visit the capital of his country, comes to a great mountain and gazes up its all but endless slopes. “It is too high for me to climb,” the little man will say; “it is indeed very beautiful; but …
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…in these studies which is not to be by-passed or dodged in any way whatever. But, after all, it is the same difficulty which every child finds when he begins any study of any kind. In Latin, for instance, he is told that mensa means a table, that it belongs to the first declension and is feminine. There is no why about any of this; no explanation is possible; the child has to pick up the elements of the language one by one, taking what he is taught on trust. And it is only after accumulating a vast collection of unintelligible details that the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 273
266 APPENDIX when identical with, or a Multiple or Subniultiple of, or a Metathesis of. that of another Word. (6) The Method of finding the Least Number of a Word, by adding (and re-adding) the Digits of its total Number, and taking the corresponding Key of the Taro as a Key to the Meaning of the Word. (c) The Method of Analogies drawn from the Shape of the Letters. (2) The Method of Deductions drawn from the Meanings and Correspondences of the Letters. (¢) The Method of Acrostics drawn from the Letters. ‘This Mode is only valid for Adepts of t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…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. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him: he bade me not despair. An holy ‘* The Blouu of the Osiris !”” was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) ‘‘The life, the tears, the tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its name!” (I heard This fo…
1939 · PDF PAGE 52
… in all 'kinds' of possibility. What do we know about it in respect of its greenness, its hardness, its mobility, and so on? And then we find out that what we imagine to be the description of the object is in reality nothing of the sort. 22. All that we recorded is the behaviour of our instruments. What did our telescopes, spectroscopes, and balances tell us? And these again are dependent upon the behaviour of our senses; for the reality of our instruments, of our organs of sense, is just as much in need of description and demonstration as are …
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…m. He even attempted to publish Liber Legis and the 30th and 29th A8thyrs which he had obtained in Mexico, with sceptical commentary. We find him driven inch by inch into the Path appointed by the Masters. We have seen him stripped of all that he had and of all that he was. We know, too, that he made the obtaining of Samadhi a condition of his taking up the work, on the ground that no one without that experience could possibly carry it out, and we have seen this demand granted. We have seen him hailed by the Adepts of the Great White Brotherhoo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…m. He even attempted to publish Liber Legis and the 30th and 29th A8thyrs which he had obtained in Mexico, with sceptical commentary. We find him driven inch by inch into the Path appointed by the Masters. We have seen him stripped of all that he had and of all that he was. We know, too, that he made the obtaining of Samadhi a condition of his taking up the work, on the ground that no one without that experience could possibly carry it out, and we have seen this demand granted. We have seen him hailed by the Adepts of the Great White Brotherhoo…