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Page 108 of 1201929 · PDF PAGE 112
…etermined to paint the pentagram in Gum Arabic, which would hardly be visible. Accordingly he went [161] to the Butterfly-net at dead of night, armed with this means of grace, and set to work by the light of a candle-lamp. He was careful to make the pentagram so large that it was impossible to cross the bridge without stepping over it. Absorbed in his inspiring task, he did not notice, until the last stroke was in place, that he was himself hemmed in between his pentagram and the door of the villa. He crouched in terror for the best part of an …
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…which came to her after about a month of the changed routine was of good cheer and great encouragement. It was an hour after sunset; the night was curiously warm, and a soft breeze blew from the sea. It was part of the duty of Iliel to remain in the moonlight,
1905 · PDF PAGE 250
…the solitude Up from the valley. Pilgrims, by my fay! [Enter PILGRIMS. PILGRIMS (sz7g). Hail to Thee, Lady bright, Queen of the stars of night! Avé Maria! Spouse of the Breath divine, Hail to Thee, shrouded shrine, Whence our Redeemer came! Hail to Thy holy name! Avé Maria ! TANNHAUSER. Those words that saved me! SHEPHERD-BOY. Pray, your blessing, sirs ! I worship Mary in my simple way, And see Her name in all the starry host, And Jesus crucified on every tree For me! God speed you to the House of uod ! THE ELDEST PILGRIM. The Blessing of the V…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…s; and she would think that he meant: "What am I to say to this piece of wood?" Even nature seemed to stir his contempt in some way. One night she had noticed him rapt in a poetic trance leaning over the bows watching the foam. For a long while he remained motionless, his breast rising quickly and falling, his lips trembling with passion — and then he turned to her and said in cold blood: "Ought that to be used to advertize a dentifrice or a shaving soap?" She was sure that he had rehearsed the whole scene merely to work her up in order to have…
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…m I only a dream in the sleep of some butterfly? Phantom of fright Conceived, who knows how, or how deep, in the measureless womb of the night? I imagine impossible thought, metaphysical voids that beget Ideas intangible wrought to things less conceivable yet. It may be. Little I reckbut, assume the existence of earth, Am I born to be hanged by the neck, a curse from the hour of my birth? Am I born to abolish mans guilt? His horrible heritage, awe? Or a seed in his wantonness spilt by a jester? I care not a straw, For I understand Do what tho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 30
…ook beyond the End. | VI. O Solitude ! how many have mistaken Thy name for Sorrow’s, or for Death's or Fear’s ! Only thy children lie at night and waken— How shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? O Soul of Tears ! For never hath fallen as dew thy word, Nor is thy shape showed, nor as Wisdom’s heard 1 Via Lactea, the ‘‘ Milky Way,”
1905 · PDF PAGE 176
…maidens as they cleave Tender to patient lovers, for the ease Of lips fulfilled of harmonies. Such songs were hers. What song is hers to-night When she is smitten in her bridal bed, Because I would not trust the God that gave Her smooth virginity to godlier might, My glory? There she lies divine and dead Because I would not trust the sullen wave | Of time ; and chose this way-—her grave. I had not thought the poison left her so— Smiling, enticing, exquisite. I meant Rather that beauty to destroy, to leave No subtle languors on that breast of sn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…madness. Did not these people in Glasgow understand the God did not permit such things to happen with impunity? So on the first Saturday night the people betook themselves to points of vantage on the surrounding hills in order to see the works destroyed by the divine wrath. No explanation has ever been offered why it did not come off!
1906 · PDF PAGE 16
…ter of shame! Tiger that Sin nor her son cannot tame ! Worship to thee! Glory to thee! Venus Callipyge, mother of me. THE CANNIBALS. ALL night no change, no whisper. Scarce a breath, But lips closed hard upon the cup of death To drain its sweetest poison. _ Scarce a sigh Beats the dead hours out ;' scarce a melody
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…r ever ! I knew the danger of the deed The while enrapt I gladdened. My eyes upon the dancer feed As one by daylight saddened After long night whose slumbers bleed, By dreams deceived and maddened ! It might be—the delusive dance, The shadowy form I saw, Apollo’s misty quivering lance Thrown to elude God’s law; It might be—doth the maid advance, Evanish, or withdraw? So stung by certainty’s mistrust, Or tranced in dream of sin, Or blinded by some Panic dust, By Dionysian din Deafened, arose the laughing lust To fling my body in! I stood upon th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
…A central flawless fire, enthralled Like Truth within an emerald! Thou shalt have a birchen bark On the river in the dark; And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream's smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit's call; then say the spell: "Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!" Making the Sign of Magistry With the wand of lapis lazuli Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whisper of his wings, Behold the starry breast begemmed With twelve stones of the twelve Kings! His…
1906 · PDF PAGE 55
…ir strings, a sombre mode Found by a ghost on a forgotten harp Or (still more terrible !) the lost dread ode That used to call the dead knights to their chief To the lone waters from the shadowy road. So deemed the weary Earl of the wind’s grief, And seemed to see about him form by form Like mighty wrecks, wave-shattered on a reef, Moulded and mastered by the shapeless storm A thousand figures of himself the mist Enlarged, distorted : yet without a qualm (So sad was he) he mounted the last twist Of the path’s hate, and faced the wind, and saw T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…stem ? Must we agree with the learned author of “The Star in the West,” that Kant, after having for a hundred years lost his way in “the night of Hume’s ignorance,” has at length fallen victim to his own verbosity, and has indeed sadly scorched “his fundamental basis ” ? THE LITERARY GUIDE AND RATIONALIST REVIEW, 1908-9. Monthly, 2d. Of all the lame ducks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of Sir Francis Drake, I suppose that the origin-of- religion lunatics are the silliest, 386
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…stem ? Must we agree with the learned author of “The Star in the West,” that Kant, after having for a hundred years lost his way in “the night of Hume’s ignorance,” has at length fallen victim to his own verbosity, and has indeed sadly scorched “his fundamental basis ” ? THE LITERARY GUIDE AND RATIONALIST REVIEW, 1908-9. Monthly, 2d. Of all the lame ducks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of Sir Francis Drake, I suppose that the origin-of- religion lunatics are the silliest, 386
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…Volcanic anguish !—Here’s the strange €XCESS: I called, ere waking, on the name Eheteh ! Solve me the riddle of the dream who can ! That night I sought a new toy for a lure, And she would not: but knew how hard to endure | Is love like ours, the love of purity. So she: “ Dispute it like a man!” and I: “* But I must also feel it as a man!” Note. Eheieh is the Hebrew for ‘‘I] am that Iam.” Its numerical value is 21. I was not aware at the time that this was the 21st day.— AUTHOR.! THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY. ‘*T’ll have her: but I will not keep her lo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 276
…of Divination by their use (Editor, A/eister Crowley), VIII, 143 Diana of the Inlet (Katharine Susannah Prichard), V1, 249 Dischmatal by Night (Arthur Grimble), IX, 66 Dr. Bob (Mary d’Este Sturges and Aleister Crowley), VILL, 65 Dream Circean, The (Aleister Crowley), I, 105 Dreamer, The (Ethel Archer), 1V, 208 Dumb! (Aleister Crowley), IX, 10 Earth, The (Aleister Crowley), VI, 108 Editorial, No. I (Aleister Crowley), I, 1 Editorial, No. II (first paragraph by /. F.C. Fuller, revised by Aleister Crowley; rest by Aleister Crowley), I, 2 Editorial…
1913 · PDF PAGE 276
…of Divination by their use (Editor, A/eister Crowley), VIII, 143 Diana of the Inlet (Katharine Susannah Prichard), V1, 249 Dischmatal by Night (Arthur Grimble), IX, 66 Dr. Bob (Mary d’Este Sturges and Aleister Crowley), VILL, 65 Dream Circean, The (Aleister Crowley), I, 105 Dreamer, The (Ethel Archer), 1V, 208 Dumb! (Aleister Crowley), IX, 10 Earth, The (Aleister Crowley), VI, 108 Editorial, No. I (Aleister Crowley), I, 1 Editorial, No. II (first paragraph by /. F.C. Fuller, revised by Aleister Crowley; rest by Aleister Crowley), I, 2 Editorial…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…iry manner. "Yes," said Simon, "I think you had better get to business." "We discussed the thing on general lines during your vigil last night," said Cyril. "Our first need is defence. The strongest form of defence is counter- attack; but you should arrange for that to take shape as far as possible from the place you are defending, In this game you are keeping goal, Lisa; I am full back; Simple Simon is the captain playing at half-back; and I think we have a fairly fit eleven! So that's all right. There is reason to believe that the enemy's goa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 225
"It's a good scheme," muttered Lisa. "Let's get away to-night; I'm sick of this hole." She caressed the Turk warmly. But Paris was no longer the Paris of her dreams, no longer the Paris of idleness and luxury "where good Americans go when they die"; it was a Paris of war, of stern discipline, of patriotic enthusiasm, nothing less than a nightmare for the compatriots of the lady who didn't raise her boy to be a soldier. She blamed Abdul, who shrugged his shoulders, and reminded her that she was lucky to get dinner at all, that the Germans were l…
1919 · PDF PAGE 169
…w a light so peculiar that it is worth mentioning. It had the appearance of being three distinct things at once. Dead black, a beautiful night-sky-blue, but at the same time the very essence of it was brilliant light. Quite indescribable in words. (Seems very good. O.M.) It may be remarked that Fra. V.I.O. had occupied himself with the contempla- tion of the Stélé of Revealing, completed therefrom a Pantacle of Nuit, and had obtained a sigil for same, during this day. (This peculiar light is stigmatically characteristic of the Stélé. O.M.) June…