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…d :— See, from the Calvary of the Son of Man,} Where all the hopes of France were trodden under ; See, from the crucifixion of Sedan Thy thought the lightning, and thy word the thunder ! See her supreme, kingly, republican, New France arisen, with her heart in sunder— Yet throned in Heaven on ever-burning wheels, Freedom resurgent, sealed with seven seals. 1 Napoleon III. VO}... 1. The seal of Reason, made impregnable: The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid : The seal of Brotherhood, man’s miracle: The seal of Peace, and Wisdom heaven- descen…
1939 · PDF PAGE 24
…which is the Niyama of the Sun. He is not only the heart but the brain of the system; but he is not the 'thinking' brain, for in him all thought has been resolved into the beauty and harmony of ordered motion. 12. The next of the planets is Venus. In her, for the first time, we come into contact with a part of our nature which is none the less quintessential because it has hitherto been masked by our preoccupation with more active qualities. Venus resembles Jupiter, but on a lower scale, standing to him very much as Mars does to Saturn. She is …
1939 · PDF PAGE 70
…d already got beyond all such preliminary exercise; his mind immediately took on the formless condition which transcends all images, all thought. Other failures were stupid people who were incapable of making an experiment of any sort. They were a mass of intellectual pride and prejudice, and I sent them away with an injunction to go to Jane Austen. But the ordinary man and woman get on very well, and by this I do not mean only the educated. It is, in fact, notorious that, among many of the primitive races of mankind, strange powers of all kind…
1905 · PDF PAGE 216
…brown-stained fingers wring the petals white, And weary lips seek lotus-life in them Vainly: the lotus burns above the tomb— Yea, but in thought’s unfathomable womb! For spiritual life and love and light Climb the swayed Jadder of our various fate ; The steep rude stair that mocks the hero’s might, Casts off the wise, and crumbles with the great. Yet from the highest crown no blossom fell, Save one, to bring salvation unto Hell. O angel of my spiritual desire !? O luminous master of the silver feet ! O passionate rose of infinite white fire ! O…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…al, I say !—and I will drink, for parenthetical is a poor substitute—- [ Drinks. Why, how thou fir’st me ! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. Kt well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the be- ginning then The vastness of the heavens and the earth Created the idea of (od. So Levi once Sarcastic in apostasy ; @ rebours. So Miiller, mythopoeic in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia, Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s Research, find me…
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
…r grown to it for kin; Some final leprous growth that took my brain, Weaving a labyrinth of dullest pain From the sweet scarlet thread I thought was sin. I cannot sin! Alas, one sin were sweet ! But sin is living—and we cannot meet ! (To call it life that grows This bitter- So long ago, so miserably long ! I was a maiden—oh how rich and rare Seemed the soft sunshine woven in my hair! How keen the music of my body’s song ! How white the blossom of my body’s light ! How red the lips, how languorous the eyes, How made for pleasure, for the sleepy …
1919 · PDF PAGE 172
…e perceived a boat, something like a gondola, and swam towards it. It was rowed by a dark-skinned man, old and wrinkled, whom I at first thought to be an Indian. As I reached the boat and put my hand on the side, it seemed as if he would strike at me with his oar, but no, he grinned, and I drew myself into the boat and sat in the fore part, which was high and covered by a sort of hood. Presently, it struck me that the man was not living but dead. Death. We then drifted in a mist, and all be- came blank for a while; the memory of boat, man and s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 307
…the first Jack, who had to look after the business. But, three months later, the tragedy begins. The ‘worm’ is struck by the ap- palling thought that perhaps Alice’s new lover may not fall in so simply with the scheme. He manifests reluctance to pay the expenses of the divorce, arguing with some show of good sense that he does not see why he should pay for relieving another man of his rubbish. The situation is complicated by the fact that Alice has again become pregnant. The ‘worm’ resolves upon a remarkably ingenious solution of his troubles. …
1906 · PDF PAGE 191
…stify us. Where would a man naturally hide his greatest treasure? In his most perfect treasure-house. Where shall we look for the truest thought of a great poet? In his greatest poem. What is Shakespeare's greatest play? King Lear. In King Lear, then, we may expect the final statement of the poet's mind. The passage that first put me on the track of the amazing discovery for which the world has to thank me is to be found in Act I. Se. ii. Ul. 132-149 :-— ‘* This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…ness, as we know it, is absolutely indrawn, so that it exists in ure isolation, it knows an ecstasy which can only be ex— pressed in the thought, “ I 0 not exist." This last paradox of human manifestation as been perceived by every school of mystics. “ Man’s darkness is a leathern sheath, Myself the sun-bright sword,” is the feeling of the consciousness as it returns to its human state, admirably expressed by Mr. Crowley in “Mysteries” (vol. i, p. 105). Finally he is driven to the utterance of one who has gained final liberation from human illus…
1944 · PDF PAGE 48
…e has made up one’s mind to consider the feminine aspect of things, the masculine element should immediately appear in the same flash of thought to counterbalance it. This identifica‐ tion is complete in itself) philosophically speaking; it is only later that one must consider the question of the result of formulating Zero as “plus I plus minus I”. The result of so doing is to formulate the idea of Tetragrammaton. THE FORMULA OF TETRAGRAMMATON It is explained in this essay (see 16, 34, et al.) that the whole of the Tarot is based upon the Tree …
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
…stify us. Where would a man naturally hide his greatest treasure? In his most perfect treasure-house. Where shall we look for the truest thought of a great poet? In his greatest poem. What is Shakespeare’s greatest play? King Lear. In King Lear, then, we may expect the final statement of the poet’s mind. The passage that first put me on the track of the amazing discovery for which the world has to thank me is to be found in Act I. Sc. ii. ll. 132-149:— “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the sur…
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
…at; she bears upon her nemyss the ostrich feathers of the Two‐ fold Truth. From this Crown, so delicate that the most faintest breath of thought must stir it, de‐ pend, by chains of Cause, the Scales wherein Alpha, the first, is poised in perfect equilibrium with Omega, the last. The scales of the balance are the Two Witnesses in whom shall every word be established. She is therefore to be understood as assessing the virtue of every act and demanding exact and precise satisfaction. More than this, she is the complete formula of the Dyad; the wo…
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…st trifling object, the incident is a landmark in his life. It upsets him completely for years. In the East, an absolutely automatic and thoughtless act of kindness to a native is liable to attach him to you, body and soul, for the rest of his life. In other words, it is going to upset him; and as a budding Yogi he has got to refuse it. But even the refusal is going to upset him quite a lot; and therefore he has got to become 'fixed' in refusal; that is to say, he has got to erect by means of habitual refusal a psychological barrier so strong t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 143
… hope that they may be saved one drop of the anguish I now suffer. Whatever may have happened in this last three days, the results of my thoughts amount to this. I who have found the heart of the shining triangle, who have indeed become one with the Great White Brotherhood, who have heard the Voice of God in all Its sweetness, who have made that message a part (nay all) of my being, who have held my Beloved in my arms, who have Become my Beloved and lost myself therein, who have for ever given up my lower self, who have conquered Death, who hav…
1906 · PDF PAGE 26
… . Essence! O Queen, O Goddess of my life, Light unbegotten, Scintillating spark Of the All-Self! O holy, holy Spouse Of my most godlike thought, come forth ! I say, — And manifest unto thy worshipper In more candescent fulgours! Let the air Ring with the passion of my holy cry Unto the Highest. For persistent will And the continual fervour of my soul Have led me to this hour of victory, This throne of splendour. O thou Beauty’s Self, Thou holiest Crown thus manifest to me, Come forth, I say, come forth! With mightier cries Than Jesus uttered o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…nothing worth fighting for. The rebel camp broke up in anarchy. They issued various hysterical manifestos, distinguished by confusion of thought, inaccuracy of statement, personal malice, empty bombast and ignorance of English. One error is worth rescuing from oblivion. "Nothing in the above resolutions shall effect our connection with the Rosicrucian order." The poor darlings meant affect. They went on squabbling amongst themselves for a few months and then had the sense to give up playing at Magick. Their only survivor is Arthur Edward Waite,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…neth even unto the West, so is the coming of the Son of Man." He would have to give an account of "every idle word". It was a horrifying thought to him that he might be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of the lightest act, of the value of every moment, has been a tragically intense factor in my life. I have always grudged the time necessary for eating, sleeping and dressing. I have invented costumes with th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 69
…impos- sible! Esmé! Esmé ! itisa pity you cannot always sleep so, and never wake up to the cruel sorrow of yesterday. Ah me! When we all thought to be so happy. And in a month he would have married her: in a day he would have finished the poem. What a wonderful poem it was! One could hear, above the angels that sany, the voice of God in that awful music that made his lines quiver and shimmer like live coals. And the end was to have been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…g a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a higher place in the creation; our emo tions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelligence. In these 3