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Page 105 of 1541910 · PDF PAGE 131
Devotion better than learning. 123 But the light-hearted Sufi thither floats Breasting God’s waves with Life for coracle. So El Qahar defies the host of Fate, Having thy podex for a citadel. 1. Zemzem. The holy well at Mecca. Its waters are excessively foul, and even the most devout make a wry face when drinking them. 2. Jasmine podex — surely a true perversion of sense ! Yet the adjective is as invariable as pius for Aeneas and fidus for Achates. 3. Fatihah, the first chapter of the Q’uran. To recite it 1,000 times nightly causes one to become…
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…tood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstacy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and B2 19
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…tood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstacy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and B2 19
1919 · PDF PAGE 419
…g to be one of Themselves. If he does so, let him abide by it. 25. Hast thou attuned thy being to Humanity’s great pain, O candidate for light? Thou hast? . . . Thou mayest enter. Vet, ere thou settest foot upon the dreary Path of Sorrow, *tis well thou should’ st first learn the pitfalls on thy way. It appears as if the condition of entering the Path was the Vision of Sorrow, and of course the present Commentator might be inclined to support this theory, since, in his own ex- perience, it was this Vision of Sorrow which caused him to take the …
1938 · PDF PAGE 5
…aviness, not from exhaustion of labour, but from lethargy. The plain is vast beyond eye to mark its bounds, even were not all dark with blight of fog and thick with marish damp. A few of us are half awake, gaze dumbly on the East. No light responds. Alas for me who am too much alive with the horrible and hopeless ache for sleep of one half-drugged! Dazed, stupefiedI know not who I amI know not whence I cameI know not whither I go. Vaguely I say within my dull heart: I must not sleep because I am a soldier. But of what captain, in what war? I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…! MOLLY. Yes, do not leave me. Let us away now ! No, I must tell them, fetch my— SiR PERCY, No! Nothing is necessary unto love, Not even light. In chaos love were well. I love you, love you so, my love, my love. No! No! MOLLY, HIow I love you! Oh, kiss me again ! Str PERCY. Yet you were best to go. This bites like Ilell’s worst agony. ANGELA. Amen ! MOLLY: God be with you! Sirk PERCY. Till we meet again. MOLLY. At moonrise. Sirk PERCY. At your door. ANGELA, At moonset he shall crawl away from mine. The dog! YThate him ! So much the more SUTC To…
1910 · PDF PAGE 41
…d worship, seeing justice as a spouse Lean on thine iron hand. For Murder walks by night, and hides her face, But righteous Wrath in the light, and knows his place ; For hate of a mother is ill, and the lightning flashes But foil a harlots will, burn the earth to ashes, Cleanse the incestuous sty of a whores desire Scatter the dung to the sky, and burn her with fire ! So the avenging master shall cleanse his fate of shame, Set his seal of disaste, a royal seal to his name.
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
… in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled by the centuries of degeneracy through which they have flowed, we …
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
… in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled by the centuries of degeneracy through which they have flowed, we …
1911 · PDF PAGE 265
…IBRA, still hidden, recz'fesfwm Swinöume's "Atalanta," We have seen thee, O Love, thou art fair; thou art goodly, Ο Love; Thy wings make light in the air as the wings ofa dove, etc. . . . Famine, and blighting of corn, When thy time was come to be born. [LIBRA appears and confront: her. All these we know of; but thee Who shall discern or declare? etc. . . . Wilt thou utterly bring to an end? Have mercy, mother! VENUS. Nay, brother, thou art the chiefest of my chosen. LIBRA. Alas. VENUS. Yea, brother: in the end all turn to me, and all return to…
1911 · PDF PAGE 265
…IBRA, still hidden, recz'fesfwm Swinöume's "Atalanta," We have seen thee, O Love, thou art fair; thou art goodly, Ο Love; Thy wings make light in the air as the wings ofa dove, etc. . . . Famine, and blighting of corn, When thy time was come to be born. [LIBRA appears and confront: her. All these we know of; but thee Who shall discern or declare? etc. . . . Wilt thou utterly bring to an end? Have mercy, mother! VENUS. Nay, brother, thou art the chiefest of my chosen. LIBRA. Alas. VENUS. Yea, brother: in the end all turn to me, and all return to…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
…d went softly into the laboratory. Meanwhile Muriel Madox tripped along from the Escoffier in the bright February air. Her heart was very light and very anxious. The incident of the afternoon— should she tell the Professor? Concealment was foreign to her nature ; for the first time in her life she hesitated, How would it affect their relations ? It would be better to think it over, to sleep on it. It never occurred to her for a moment that the Professor might already know. In the end she decided to say nothing; but so absorbed had been her tiny b…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
…d went softly into the laboratory. Meanwhile Muriel Madox tripped along from the Escoffier in the bright February air. Her heart was very light and very anxious. The incident of the afternoon— should she tell the Professor? Concealment was foreign to her nature ; for the first time in her life she hesitated, How would it affect their relations ? It would be better to think it over, to sleep on it. It never occurred to her for a moment that the Professor might already know. In the end she decided to say nothing; but so absorbed had been her tiny b…
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE 52. O Thou Son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be Thy name, and the Name of Thy Name, throughout the ages! 53. Behold! I am a butterfly at the Source of Creation; let me die before the hour, falling dead into Thine infinite stream! 54. Also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the Abode; bear me away upon the Bosom of Nuit! 55. This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of S…
1919 · PDF PAGE 386
…er- cury were once Suns. The theories of transmigration of personality involved are a little difficult! 55. Be, O Lanoo, like them. Give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrims, and seek out him who knows still less than thou; who in his wretched desolation sits starving for the bread of Wisdom and the bread which feeds the shadow, without a Teacher, hope or consolation, and—let him hear the Law. This charge is very important to all Students of whatever 64
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
… Silence with soaring Subtilty as the Eagle or Dragon. Moreover, this Sphinx is an Eidolon of the Law, for the Bull is Life, the Lion is Light, the Man is Liberty, the Serpent Love. Now then his Sphinx, being perfect in true Balance, yet taketh the Aspect of the Feminine Principle that so She may be partner of the Pyramid, that is the Phallus, pure Image of Our Father the Sun, the Unity Creative. The Signification of this Mystery is hat the Adept must be Whole, Himself, containing all Things in true Proportion, before he maketh himself Bride of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
… mother, O queen many-minded, When bays for the lyrist I bore, | More beauty than beauty may be, My life was diviner and sharper, | More light than the Sun; I am blinded, My name in the Muses was more ; Sink, tremble, am lost in the sea. VOL. III. I
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…the asses that bray and think “the tiger roars!” Physically too, the mystic is to be known by his atmo- sphere of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. You will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even “ playing Adam.” What? you don’t know how to play “Adam”? And you call yourself a sage? Tut! The game of “ Adam” is played as follows. Take a key, a Bible, an elastic band. 67
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…the asses that bray and think “the tiger roars!” Physically too, the mystic is to be known by his atmo- sphere of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. You will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even “ playing Adam.” What? you don’t know how to play “Adam”? And you call yourself a sage? Tut! The game of “ Adam” is played as follows. Take a key, a Bible, an elastic band. 67
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
…essed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and who lend them at their own cost a factitious existence of a more or less durable kind. They then serve as supplementary instru- ments to the instinctive volitions of these degener…