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Page 113 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 117
…ction of the hilt, of no less than five inches. Chanting the terrible conjurations of Mars, fierce war-songs of the olden peoples of the world, invocations of mighty deities throned upon the thunder — "He sent out his arrows and scattered them; he sent forth his lightnings, and consumed them" — Brother Onofrio began the war-dance of the Serpent, the invoking dance of Mars. Close coiled about the altar at first, he took gradually a wider sweep, constantly revolving on himself but his feet tracing a complex spiral curve. On reaching the door of t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…ove the starry choir Stands the jasper, where alone Vivid seraphim respire Perfumes of a precious stone, Where beneath His feet the dire World of shells is pashed with mire, And the evil spirits’ ire Steams and fumes within the zoné Girt with minaret and spire Broken, burst, and overthrown, Dusty, and defiled, and dun, Palled with smoke of fruitless altars
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…de, must cease, must fall and miss The height of happiness. The moon must set, the sun must rise, The wind of dawn is chill. Oh, in this world of miseries Is one hour’s pleasure ill to prize? Is love the means of ill? Oh, if there were a God to hear ! Or Christ had really given His life! Or did a Dove appear Bearing a rosebud, we might fear Or hope for hell or heaven. Alas! no sign is given. But short Bliss of the earth is ours ; The kiss that stops the avenging thought ; The furtive passion shrewdly caught Between the summer flowers. So, Flavi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…er you get in, the harder it is to say what you mean because it all has to be put into dream talk, as of course the language of the wake-world is silence. So never mind! let me get on. We came by and by to the Sixth House. I forgot to say that all those three paths were really one, be cause they all meant that things were difi‘erent inside to outside, and so people couldn’t judge. It was fearfully interesting; but mind you don’t go in those passages without the Fairy Prince. And of course there’s the Veil. I don’t think I’d better tell you about…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… mind. You are in rude health, and yet you are hysterical; you are fascinated and subdued by all things weird and unusual, though to the world you hold yourself so high, proud, and passionate. You need love, it is true; so much you know yourself; and you know also that no common love attracts you; you need the sensational, the bizarre, the unique. But perhaps you do not understand what is at the root of that passion. I will tell you. You have an inexpressible hunger of the soul; you despise earth and its delusions; and you aspire unconsciously …
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
…t: then we dip Back to the earth and leave the bed sublime, 1 The imaginary river of the Ancients, which formed the circumference of the world-disk. And tune our kisses to a terrene rhyme. So, once again before we left the ship With right good will our bodies cling and slip, And the life’s flame sinks as the kisses climb. There never has been such a supreme kiss Since heaven and earth began to be as this ! Doubt nothing of it! yet our spirits knew Its savour was as roses fallen to dust: Our proper food was of Selenian dew, And love without a ba…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
… if they were parts of herself, she saw Sister Clara and her pages and her hand-maidens under the image of stars. For each was a radiant world of glory, thrilling with most divine activities, yet all in azure orbits curling celestially, their wake of light like comets' tails, wrapping her in a motion that was music. A flaming boundary to her sphere, the fires of the circle blazed far into the night, forked swords of scarlet light in everlasting motion, snakes of visible force extended every way to keep the gates of her garden. She saw the forms…
1906 · PDF PAGE 31
…ontemplate—that selfless solitude ! THE STORM. Written on the North Atlantic Ocean. In the sorrow of the silence of the sunset, when the world’s heart sinks to sleep, And the waking wind arises from the wedding of the aether and the deep, There are perfumes through the saltness of the even ; there are hints of flowers afar; And the God goes down lamented by the lonely vesper star. 1 The universe. The monsters rise around us as we move in moving mist, Slow whales that swim as musing, and lo! or ever we wist, Looms northward in the grey, mysterio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…don’t need to struggle to go on any more, because you know already that all the House is one Palace, and you move about in your own wake world, just as is necessary. All the paths up to the Second House all open—the path of the Hierophant with the flaming star and the incense in the vast cathedral, and the path of the Mighty Ruler, who governs everything with his orb and his crown and his sceptre. There is the path of the Queen of Love which is
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…asure in the contemplation of evil ideas. She was at home in her heaven of romance, [290] the heroine of the most wonderful story in the world. Her love for Cyril showed a tender and more exalted phase; she became alive to her dignity and responsibility. She acquired also a sense of Nature which she had never had before in all her life; she felt a brotherhood with every leaf and flower of the garden, told herself stories of the loves of the fishermen whose sails dotted
1996 · PDF PAGE 296
…3,79,158,160 “The Rites of Eleusis” 38 “The Soldier and the Hunchback” 23,122 0EAHMA — The Holy Books 21, 135,139,140 “ThienTao” 116 The World’s Tragedy, quoted 123 Crowley, Rose Edith (Ouarda) 28,188 Crowned and Conquering Child 31,47, 163 Crusades 181 cup 30,65 Cythna 54 Daath 89 Daniel, Book of 157 Daphnis 63 Darwin, Charles 52.109 David 180 death 41,48.65.67,69,73,79.92,97. 102,103,124,125-127,135,143-145, 147-148,151,171,172 feast for 124 of the ego 93 Death (Atu XIII) 144 Debussy, Claude 75 de Lamballe 84 democracy 37,129 Desdemona 68 des…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
… present engaged on writing a scenario for moving pictures in which he was to incorporate the facts of psychical research. Nobody in the world was better aware than he that everything reliable could be packed into a single reel, and rattle, but he had undauntedly contracted for a series of fifty five-part pictures. He chewed his chocolate — his latest specific for averting the perils of more complex nutrition — with no idea that these activities might damage his reputation as a research student. And he was really a very clever man, with a quick…
1905 · PDF PAGE 246
… soul of the Obscene Incarnate in the spirit: and above Hangs Sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! VENUS. This man was drained of music! Five new songs Chase the three ancient to oblivion! Oh! Love is grown fury! TANNHAUSER. Kall me! VENUS. In the kiss. [TANNHAUSER Sleeps, ACT III. For Love is lord of truth and loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden piumes up to the purest sky, Above the reach of loathly sinful lust, Whose base affect through c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…r canopy When you would sleep, you frail angelic thing Like a tiny snowdrop in its own life curled— But oh! the biggest heart in all the world! XI. MARY. Mary, Mary, subtle and softly breathing, Look once eager out of the eyes upon me, Draw one sigh, resign and abide in maiden Beauty for ever ! Love me, love me, love me as I desire it, Strong sweet draughts not drawn of a well of passion, Truth’s bright crystal, shimmering out of sunlight Into the moon-dawn. Closer cling, thou heart of amazed rapture, Cords of starlight fashioned about thee net…
1907 · PDF PAGE 152
ORPHEUS 146 The hills and dales are dumb beneath the heat, And all the world lies tranced or mutely dreaming, Save some low sigh caught up where pulses beat Of warm love waiting in the arboreal seat Till the shade lengthen on the lawn light- gleaming. Now all the birds change tune, and all the light Glows lowlier, musing on departed day. Strange wings and sombre, heralding the night, Fleet far across the woods; and gleaming bright The evening star looks from the orient way. Shadow and silence deepen : all the woods Take on a tenderer phrase of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 124
…, speeding, subtle and rare, Up to the sky, an avenue of Hamc! My soul, thy body, in the same sin curled, With vivid lust annihilate the world. A WVODLAND IDYLL. FResH breath from the woodland blows sweet O’er the flowery path we are roaming, On the dimples of light lover’s feet In the mystical charm of the gloaming, Yvonne! On the buds that blush bright as we meet In the mystical charm of the gloaming ! A tear for the stars of the night, And a smile for the avenue shady, A kiss for the eyelashes bright, And a blush tor the cheek of my lady, Yv…
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
…winter’s traces Fall from the spring’s last cold wind—shining sadness !— And from the frail new faces Blushing through moss; and all the world is light With the unsufferably bright Full joy and guerdon of that sunny season By Love’s sweet trap of treason. So the bright girl is now a woman brighter; And childhood sees a reason Beneath the strong stroke of the goodly smiter For all the past: and love at last is hers. No more the bosom’s pride demurs, While in her womb the first faint pulse of motherhood soft stirs. AUTUMN. Full amber-bréasted lig…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…eloped the most surprising powers of mediumship and was obtaining messages from Herr P. Geist, which seemed of unusual importance. A new world was open to our view. I have always fancied myself as a Columbus; and, as I had recently made a considerable sum of money by a fortunate speculation in oil, I did not hesitate to go to the expense of a telegram. I have always fancied myself as a Caesar, and I endeavoured to emulate his conciseness. 'Come stay winter' was the expression employed. A week later those simple and pious souls, escaping the per…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…es life through his own death, or of the instrument of that life and of that death, of the Holy One appointed from the foundation of the world as its redeemer. It was as if there had come to him a flash of that most secret Word of all initiated knowledge, so secret and so simple that it may be declared openly in
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
…Adeptus Minor needs little help or guidance even from his superiors in our Order. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates. To attain the Grade Adeptus Major, he must accomplish two tasks; the equilibration of himself, especially as to his passions, so that he has no preference for any one course of conduct over another, and the fulfillment of every action by its complement, so that whatever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his True…