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Page 103 of 1201996 · PDF PAGE 172
…eliance to win Her own way forth! We do not want Her as a slave; we want Her free and royal, whether Her love fight death in our arms by night, or Her loyalty ride by day beside us in the Charge of the Battle of Life. “Let the woman be girt with a sword before me”! ni:ll So sayeth this our Book of the Law. We respect Woman in the self of Her own nature; we do not arrogate the right to criticize her. We welcome her as our ally, come to our camp as her Will, free-flashing, sword-swinging, hath told Her, Welcome, thou Woman, we hail thee, star sho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…gâte of a new life, as among the twice-born. With the A.*. A.*, life and death are equally incidents in a career, very much like day and night in the history of a planet. But, to pursue the simile, we regard this planet from afar. A Brother of A.*. A.*, looks at (what another person would call) “him- self”, as one — or, rallier, sonie — among a group of phenomena. He is that “nothing” whose consciousness is in one sense the universe considered as a single phenomenon in time and space, and in another sense is the négation of that consciousness. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
… imaginary animal, sacred to Venus. Hides from the prayer’s distress Thy loftier loveliness Till thy veil’s glory shrouds the earth from night ; And silence speaks indeed, Seeing the subtler speed Of its own thought than speech of the Pan- dean reed! There no voice may be heard ! No place for any word ! The heart’s whole fervour silently speeds to thee, Immaculate ! and craves Thy kisses or the grave’s, Till, knowing its unworthiness to woo thee, Remembers, grows content With the old element, And asks the lowlier grace its earlier music meant. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…ake and said: ‘I am the synthesis of the Elemental Forces: I am also the symbol of man: I am Life: and I am Death: I am the Child of the Night of Time.’” Hierophant : «The priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘Thou canst nN not pass the gate of the Eastern Heaven : except thou canst tell me my name.’” Tablet Kerux, for Zelator: “Thou art Nu: oes P The Goddess of the Firmament of Air, Thou love art Harmakhis, Lord of the Eastern Sun.” das Martecty Hierophant : “ In what sign and symbol CH for, dost thou come ?” Kervx,for Zelator: “Inth…
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…ake and said: ‘I am the synthesis of the Elemental Forces: I am also the symbol of man: I am Life: and I am Death: I am the Child of the Night of Time.’” Hierophant : «The priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘Thou canst nN not pass the gate of the Eastern Heaven : except thou canst tell me my name.’” Tablet Kerux, for Zelator: “Thou art Nu: oes P The Goddess of the Firmament of Air, Thou love art Harmakhis, Lord of the Eastern Sun.” das Martecty Hierophant : “ In what sign and symbol CH for, dost thou come ?” Kervx,for Zelator: “Inth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
…. "I should be obliged," continued Brother Onofrio, "if you could see your way to impose a rule of silence for seven days from sunset to-night. Excepting, of course, in the invocations. I will warn the boys; do you take up the matter with Iliel and the girls." " It shall be done." Brother Onofrio went off to the private room where he did his own particular magick. He saw that a serious inroad had been made; but his divination, on this occasion, failed to enlighten him. His favourite device was the Tarot, those mysterious cards with their twenty…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…il Grey." Abdul Bey rushed off without another word spoken; and Balloch and the Pasha went to the rendezvous appointed. They passed that night and the next day in alternate bouts of drink and sleep. About half-past eight on the following evening the telephone rang. Douglas had judged rightly; the lovers had arrived at the Gare de Lyon. Balloch and his pupil sprang to life — fresh and vigorous at the prick of the summons to action. It was easy to mark the tall figure of the magician, with the lovely girl upon his arm; at the barrier their distin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 180
…, I call, O perfect soul, to thee, With chants, and murmurs mystical, And whispers wiser than the sea : O lover, come to me! The pall Of night is woven : fair and free, Draw to my kisses; let thy breath Mingle for love the wine of death ! MADONNA OF THE GOLDEN Nicut brings madness; moonlight dips her throat to madden us; Love’s swift purpose darts, the flash of a striking adder. Love that kills and kisses dwells above to sadden us ; Dawn brings reason back and the violet eyes grows sadder. O Madonna of the Golden [yes ! Swooned the deep sunligh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
… the Place de l'Opera he lifted his eyes to assure himself of a free crossing. * * * * * The mind of Abdul Bey was in turmoil. His first night upon the yacht had been mere wallowing in debauch; but he woke with a clear head, acutely alive to the complexity of his situation. He was personally triumphant; there was nothing in his private affairs to worry him. But in charge, as he was, of the Turkish Secret Service in Paris, he knew the political situation well enough. He knew that Turkey would throw in her lot with Germany, sooner or later; and h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 271
…her, The feast of blood, the cold enchanted dell, Where fire was filtered up through earth to smother Sick scents of hell. And that wild night when vine-leaves wooed and clustered Round my wild limbs, and like a woman I went Over the mountains—how the Northwind blustered !— And slew with them the beast, and was content. The madness :—Oh! the dreadful light that lustred The main event. Ay! the wild whirlings in the woodland reaches ; The ghastly smile upon the Stone God’s ! lip; The rigid tremors, anguish that beseeches From eye to eye fresh fer…
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
… jewels! Drink to me, for I love you ! TI love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. Tome! Tome !” And with these words “ The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” In the next chapter of our Book is given the word of TI] Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…ut medicine and produced the following effusion: A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES In the hospital bed she lay ..........Rotting away! Cursing by night and cursing by day, ..........Rotting away! The lupus is over her face and head, Filthy and foul and horrid and dread, And her shrieks they would almost wake the dead; ..........Rotting away! In her horrible grave she lay, ..........Rotting away! In the place of her face is a gory hole, {82}
1906 · PDF PAGE 67
…. AMID the drowsy dream, Lit by some fitful beam Of other light Than the mere sun, supreme On all the glint and gleam ; Shooting through night, Above the water-way Where my poor corpse must stay, I bend and float away From human sight. Unto the floral face, Carven in ancient grace Of Gods or Greeks, The whole sky’s way gives place : Open the walls of space, And silence speaks. 1 Swinburne, ‘‘ Ave atque Vale.”’ See ! I am floating far Beyond space and sun and star, As drifts a nenuphar Down lilied creeks. Beyond the heavens I see The pale embroi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…t." "I, and Me, and Mine were sitting with lutes in [65] the market-place of the great city, the city of the violets and the roses. "The night fell, and the music of the lutes was stilled. "The tempest arose, and the music of the lutes was stilled. The hour passed, and the music of the lutes was stilled. "But Thou art Eternity and Space; Thou art Matter and Motion; and Thou art the Negation of all these things. For there is no symbol of Thee." The listeners were thrilled to the marrow of their bones. But the old man merely gathered a handful of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…im. "Is the Countess at home?" asked Balloch, apparently in courtesy. "She's on the Boulevard. Where else should she be, at this time of night?" It was the vilest thing charged against that vile parody of a man, his treatment of his wife, a young, beautiful, talented, and charming girl, the sister of [123] a famous Professor at the Sorbonne. He had delighted to reduce her to the bedraggled street-walker that she now was. Nobody knew what Douglas did with his money. The contributions of his
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…ted her on to the permanent way; thence into a stuffy compartment in the train that was standing at the next "Voie." "A frosty moonlight night like this," he said, pulling a large black pipe from his pocket and filling [127] it, "indicates (to romantic lovers like ourselves) the propriety of a descent at Moret, a walk to Barbizon through the forest, a return to Moret by a similar route in a day or so, and the pursuance of our journey to Naples. See Naples and die!" he added musingly, "decidedly a superior programme." Lisa would have listened to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 215
…burn the chaff, I glean the grain ; In silence I await the dawn. THE ATHANOR. LIBERTINE touches of small fingers creep Among my curls to-night: pale ghastly kisses, Like mournful ghosts roused from their ruined sleep By clamorous cries of murder. abysses Loom in the vista keen eyes penetrate, Vague forecasts of immeasurable fate. Strange O thou belovéd blood, that wells and weeps ! O thou belovéd mouth, that beats and bleeds ! O mystic bosom where some serpent sleeps, Sweet mockery of a thousand saintlier creeds ! Even I, that breathe your perf…
1906 · PDF PAGE 114
…f my face! Come over the water ! I will be A bride and a queen and a lover to thee ! Come over the water, love, and lie! All day and all night to kiss ! Come over, my lover, an hour to die In the language-baffling bliss ! Come over the water! Must I sigh? Thy lover and bride and queen am [! Come over the water, love, and bide An hour in my swift caress ! So short is the space, and so smooth the tide— More smooth is my loveliness ! Come over the water, love, to my side! I am thy lover and queen and bride ! MEDEA. Sing, poet, ere the rash fool le…
1905 · PDF PAGE 38
…e splendour, The sacred fountain that is whirled From depths beyond that older world A new world to engender.? The kingdom is extended.? Night Dwells, and I contemplate the sight That is not seeing, but the light That secretly is kindled, Though oft time its most holy fire Lacks oil, whene’er my own Desire Before desire has dwindled. I see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of unity 4 Toward the calm centre of the sea. (O thou supernal mother !) 5 The triple light my path divides To twain and fifty sudden sides ® Each perfect as each o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 22
…oom There lies a lover’s bower, A lotus-flower In bloom. O lotus-flower too white, Starred purple, round and sweet, Rich golden wheat Of night ! Pll kiss thee, lotus-flower, I'll pluck thee, yellow grain, Once and again This hour. There coos a dove to me Across the waves of space} O passionate face To see! I’ll woo thee, silver dove, Caress thee, lotus-flower; It is the hour Of Love. Cypris blushed deep; albeit for love did swoon At the song’s sweetness, while the cold dead moon Was still and pale; her nymphs are fain to sigh ‘With sudden longi…