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Page 113 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 153
…e as a spouse Lean on thine iron hand. not made for 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 harlot’s will, burn the earth to ashes, Cleanse the incestuous sty of a whore’s 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 disaster, a royal seal to his name. [ Bxeusnt. SAFI. I am not Horus, but I shall be king. Enter THE LEPER. THE LEPE…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…orced to attribute the qualities of human conscious- ness to inanimate things (Poincaré, “La mesure du temps”), and of asserting that we know anything of the universe in itself, though the nature of oui senses and our minds necessanly détermines our observations, so that the limit of our knowledge is subjective, just as a thermometer can record nothing but its own reaction to one particular type of Energy. Magick recognizes frankly (i) that truth is relative, subjective, and apparent; (2) that Truth implies Omniscience, which is unattainable by…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…l. I don’t think I’d better tell you about the Veil. I’ll only put your mouth to my head, and your hand—there, that’ll tell any body who knows that I’ve really been there, and that it’s all true that I’m telling you. This Sixth House is called the Treasure House of Gold; it’s a most mysterious place as ever you were in. First there’s a tiny, tiny, tiny doorway, you must crawl through on your hands and knees; and even then I scraped ever such a lot of skin off my back; then you have to be nailed on a red board with four arms, with a great gold c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 303
…ing people, whose consciousness does not in any way represent them, or, as we used to say in days of less complicated speech, who do not know what they are talking about. Has he no shame to blot the ’scutcheon of the Pooles—the other scissors-knights of Savile Row? The book is interesting enough to any one who knows Russia even slightly, if only because there is a laugh on every page. Some old poet, I forget his name, remarked: “Some minds improve by travel, others rather Resemble copper wire or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther.”…
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
… own shame fired Not less in doing all that love desired: We have forgotten, surely—being here! We have forgotten every shape of sorrow, Knowing no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, Eternity— Seeing we have it in our power to die Before the new kiss kindle for the morrow. THE THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘* By long and vehement suit I was seduced To make room for him in my husband's bed.” King John. Morvra.s are not for nectar all the time: Ambrosia feeds not men ; nepenthe's sip Is only fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
…arrion had once been Douglas. Cyril Grey did a strange thing, a thing he had not done for many years: he broke into a strong sobbing. "I know now," he murmured, "that Simon Iff is right. The Way of the Tao!
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
…corrected this view of the Society’s work. They never did that sort of thing, he said, except in a few very special cases. Now I want to know about these very special cases. Are they by any chance those in which the fathers are reputable and pious persons, highly esteemed for their Evangelicalism and philanthropy? . . . There have been some ill-disposed persons who were not ashamed to assert that some of the methods of Vigilance Societies reminded them of blackmail. Is there another side to the medal? A. QUILLER, JR. THE CANON. An Exposition of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
…corrected this view of the Society’s work. They never did that sort of thing, he said, except in a few very special cases. Now I want to know about these very special cases. Are they by any chance those in which the fathers are reputable and pious persons, highly esteemed for their Evangelicalism and philanthropy? . . . There have been some ill-disposed persons who were not ashamed to assert that some of the methods of Vigilance Societies reminded them of blackmail. Is there another side to the medal? A. QUILLER, JR. THE CANON. An Exposition of…
1919 · PDF PAGE 310
…, “The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it.” Said I, after a minute of thought, “It is true; for I too have known that joy.” Said he, “Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.” Then I left him, not knowing whether he had complimented or belittled it. A year passed, during which the scarecrow turned philosopher. And when I passed by him again I saw two crows building a nest under his hat. 2096
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…nd in the world. But your Black Magician is secret, and difficult of access; he isn't going to tell anyone anything, not he! So even his knowledge tends to extinction, in the long run." "But you are yourselves a secret society!" exclaimed Lisa. "Only to secure freedom from interruption. It is merely the same idea as that which makes every householder close his doors at night; or, better, as public libraries are guarded by certain regulations. We can't allow lunatics to scrawl over our unique manuscripts, and tear the pages out of all our books.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 51
…and golden robe indeed hath worth to clothe therein. They who see falsehood in the Truth, imagine Truth to lurk in lies, Never arrive to know the Truth, but follow eager vanities. To whom in Truth the Truth is known, Falsehood in Falsehood doth appear, To them the Path of Truth is shown; right aspirations are their sphere ! 1 Sodden — the habitual— who ézves unre- strained, etc. 2 The Indian power of evil. 3 Alternative reading !— Who is not free from dirty taint, and tem- perate and truthful ain’t, He should not wear the garment quaint that ma…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…dress, Or dewdrops fallen in wheat. ‘“Q love! O husband ! I did not wish to go? And now—what rapture can express This ?>—do you feel and know?” The girl’s arms close in a caress $ Her lips are warm aglow ; She looks upon his loveliness :— The night has frozen the old stress; His mouth is cold as snow ! Did you guess But closer to the corpse she links, And closer, closer clings. Her kiss like lightning drops and drinks. She burns upon his breast, and thinks Unutterable things. Now half a moment stayed the steed; And then she thought he sighed ;—…
1905 · PDF PAGE 74
…. A doubtful word, and who shall fathom it? PROPHET. Thy help is from the hills and desert lands. CHORUS. Our help is from the hills: we know the Lord. PROPHET. Death rides most violently against the sun. CHORUS. And who shall bridle him, or turn his way? lor Fate alone of gods, inflexible, wAnd careless of men’s deeds, is firm in heaven. PROPHET. I sec a sword whose hilt is to thy hand. CHORUS, But which of us shall wield the shining blade?
1905 · PDF PAGE 156
… spilt, because these dark maternal breasts That gave their milk to that divinest child Are not yet full of the transcending stream That knows its fountain in my deity. The incense fumes before me: Iam come, Isis, within this body that ye know, Transmuting ! Look upon me, ye blind eyes ! Behold, dull souls and ignorant desires ! See ifI be not altogether god ! [She assumes the appearance of her mature beauty, standing before them with the wand uprarsed, Wonder and worship! Sing to me the song Of the extreme spring! Rejoice in my great streneth …
1905 · PDF PAGE 246
…. Steady and strong, persistent to the heart ! So shall this song be made more ter- rible With the soul-mastering spell, Choke, stagger, know the Evil, Beauty’s counterpart ! Whose long-drawn curse runs venom in my veins ? What dragon spouse consumes me with her breath? What passionate hatred, what infernal pains, Mixed with thy being in the womb of Death? Blistering fire runs, Scorching, terrific suns, Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour, A draught of ichor of the veins of Hell! Curses le…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
… the long low ground, The trees and the turf; In front the profound, The warrior seas, Upstirred of the breeze, by the far reef bound— I know the low music of love, I feel the sweet murmur in me, My soul is in tune with the sea. The stars are above me, The rocks are below me, The sea is around! Great Gods that love me Lead me, and show me Their powers profound. Their lightnings move me To stir me, to throw me As into a swound, The song of the infinite surf that is beaten and bound As a fierce wolf-hound, The song that lures me, and lifts me, an…
1935 · PDF PAGE 12
…this attainment in the theory and prac- tice of the whole of Magick and Mysticism, so that each man may be expert in the handling of all known weapons, and free to choose and to use those which his own experience and instinct dictate as proper when he essays the Great Experiment. He is furthermore trained to the one habit essential to Membership of the A-. A..; he must regard all his attainments as pri- marily the property of those less advanced aspirants who are con- fided to his charge. No attainment soever is officially recognised by the A-.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…ed songs, Hears naught beside, interprets silence so, Till liquid melodies of music flow “T love you.” We afford to wait; who longs That knows ? is full. And we know; for the moon Steals in the ambient aura of delight That quivering ray intense and cool Self centred. Woven ofa million lines There is a curve of licht, | A pure, ideal curve, single, that shines Amid the manifold night Of all the flowery dreams that build it up. So from the azure cup Of heaven inverted is the white wine poured, Stay, O thou vivid sword : Of soul, and cease, and be…
1909 · PDF PAGE 330
…rs in untrained Spirit Visions: for the untrained Skryer (i.e., Seer)—even supposing him free from the delusions of Obsession,* doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousness : still less what are the correspondences and harmonies between his Sphere of Sensation and the Universe—the Macrocosmus. . . . The Art of Skrying is further explained inaG .-. D.-. manuscript entitled “Of Travelling in the Spirit Vision,” in which this particular form of gaining contact, so to speak, with the Higher Will is explained as follows: The symbol, pl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 330
…rs in untrained Spirit Visions: for the untrained Skryer (i.e., Seer)—even supposing him free from the delusions of Obsession,* doth not know or understand how to unite his consciousness : still less what are the correspondences and harmonies between his Sphere of Sensation and the Universe—the Macrocosmus. . . . The Art of Skrying is further explained inaG .-. D.-. manuscript entitled “Of Travelling in the Spirit Vision,” in which this particular form of gaining contact, so to speak, with the Higher Will is explained as follows: The symbol, pl…