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…S VEL MORTIS 217 Long after (to men: but a moment To'me in my mansion of rest) Is a sundawn to blaze what the glow meant Seen long after death in the west ; A magical zeon ! Nor love-song nor pzean, But a flame with a silvery crest. There shall rise a sweet song of the soul Far deeper than love or distress ; Beyond mortals and gods shall it roll ; It shall find me, and crave, and caress. Ah! me it shall capture In torrents of rapture ; It shall flood me, and fill, and possess. For brighter from age unto age The weary old world shall renew Its l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
… With the ring of space and eternity; And where the oil, the Holiest Breath, With its first whisper dedicateth Its new life to a further death. This experience lasted throughout the night, and I describe the dawn, the awakening of the world and myself to what men call reality. The trout leap in the shingly shallows. Soared skyward the great sun, that hallows The pagan shrines of labour and light As the moon consecrates the night. Labour is corn and love is wine, And both are blessd in the shrine; Nor is he for priest designated. Who partakes o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 36
…alised and balanced. But in the 10, showing complete materialisation and nimiety, the effect of fire is pushed to its extreme limit. Its death is impending, but it reacts against this as best it can by appearing as the Lord of Oppression, formidable on the surface, but with the seeds of decay already sprouting. The above summary can easily be applied by the student to the other suits. The Court cards are sixteen in number, four to each suit. There is thus a subdivision of each element into its own system. The Knights represent the element of Fi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…e soul is out of me, and swings In desperate and strange surmise About the inmost heart of things. This is all strange: but is not life, Death, all, most strange, not to be told, Not to be understood by strife Of brain, nor bought for gleaming gold, Nor known by aught but love? And love Far from resolving soul to sense, Stands isolated and above Immaculate, alone, intense, Concentrate on itself. But should The lesser leave me, as it might ; The lesser never touch you ; would Your will be one with my delight? Leave all the thoughts and miseries …
1939 · PDF PAGE 12
…ube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against the window to the point of exhaustion and death, instead of escaping through the tube. We must not confuse the necessary automatic functioning of any of our elements with the true Will which is the proper orbit of any star. A human being only acts as a unit at all because of countless generations of training. Evolutionary processes have set up a higher order of Yogic action by which we have managed to subordinate what we consider particular interests …
1939 · PDF PAGE 18
…f dead regulations. Almost the only point of emancipation, in the sense of relief from a burden, is just the difference between Life and Death. To obey a set of rules is to shift the whole responsibility of conduct on to some superannuated Bodhisattva, who would resent you bitterly if he could see you, and tick you off in no uncertain terms for being such a fool as to think you could dodge the difficulties of research by the aid of a set of conventions which have little or nothing to do with actual conditions. Formidable indeed are the obstacle…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
… Of its own royal rapture, deaf and blind To aucht but its own mastery of song And light, shown ever as silence and deep night Secret as death and final. Let me long Never again for aught! This great delight Involves me, weaves me in its pattern of bliss, Seals me with its own kiss, Draws me to thee with every dream that glows, Poet, each word ! SNOWS Extending beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rase, inviolate, utterly withdrawn Maiden, each burden ci i In the truth:—for this is truth: Love knows ! Ah! Kose of the World! Rose! Rose!
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…The seesaw of all misery—begin The alluring mysteries of lust and sin ; Ends their delight !—and are they clear to sight ? Or mixed with death, compact of night ? Begin—the bitter tears of impotence, The sad permuted sense , Of this despair—what would you? and re- new The long soft warfare—the enchanted arms, , The silken body’s charms, The lips that murmur and the breasts that sting ; The eyes that sink so deep Beyond the steeps and avenues of sleep, And of their wonder bring No ultimation from the halls of night, The slippery staircase, and t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…screams aloud, and falls half fainting into a chair.) I trust your good sense will come to your aid, for of course it is not at all your death that I desire, but my niece’s establishment in life. Your family, Monsieur de Beaulieu, is very well in its way, but if you sprang from Charlemagne you should not refuse the hand ofa Malétroit with impunity—not if she had been as common as the laris road, not if she were as hideous as the gargoyles on my roof. Neither my niece, nor you, nor my own private feelings move me in this matter. The honour of my…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…a devil, with lidless eyes, Stands avenging over the Halls. Sleep there is none, for day awaits Tokens of toil; there is none that dies, Death being rest; there is none that calls, Voice being human; only the Fates Rattle the dice at a sombre game, Game without goal of peace or fame. Sinister, sombre, horrors and hates Lurk in the shadows, under the walls. Light deceives, and the darkness lies. Love there is none; he is child of peace: Joy there is none; she is bride of force: Thought there is none; it is birth :—there fell Ages ago all hope of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH 53 TO ‘‘ ELIZABETH.” WITH A COPY OF TANNHAUSER. Written in the Akasa.} THE story ofa fool. From love and death Emancipate, he stands above. The goal Is in the shrines of misty air: there roll The voices and the songs of One who saith : ‘There is no peace for him who lingereth.” Love is a cinder now that was a coal : Either were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know…
1906 · PDF PAGE 138
…, am I not the Goddess Maurya? Criospa. Yes! yes! of course, but only by my making. MAURYA. Was not my birth miraculous? and strange The death of the old people of this house That left you guardian? CRIOSDA. Yes, girl, that was strange. You are a
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…d indecent bacchanals, And bawdy photographs attest The Devil’s taste to be the best. VITl. I did not sleep at all: but she :— O face of deathless agony ! O torture of hell’s worm, to wrest From peace that miserable breast ! Me, me she strikes in mid-delight Staggered and shattered at the sight, The moment that she slept. I laughed Thereat : the bow! I idly quaffed Was nectar : she amused me, so. You see, my friend, I did not know. I also slept at morn. Then, then, A low voice whispered in the den: ‘‘Lucky young fellow! Brave and clever! This s…
1939 · PDF PAGE 36
…fore you have been doing it very long, things are pretty certain to begin to happen, though this, I regret to remark, is fun to you, but death to Yoga. The classical physical results of Pranayama are usually divided into four stages: 1. Perspiration. This is not the ordinary perspiration which comes from violent exercise; it has peculiar properties, and I am not going to tell you what these are, because it is much better for you to perform the practices, obtain the experience, and come to me yourself with the information. In this way you will k…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…se hands The twelvefold Kingdom of my Godhead stands. Six are the mighty seats of living breath, The rest sharp sickles, or the horns of death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they? hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty ear…
1907 · PDF PAGE 244
…white letters, ‘‘ The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley.” [GARGOYLES: 1906] Gargoyles | being | Strangely Wrought Images | of Life and Death | by | Aleister Crowley | Foyers | Society for the Propagation of Re- ligious Truth | 1906, Collation :—Pott 8vo, pp. vit+t113. Half- title [reverse *.° Fifty copies only, &c., on the hand-made copies]; Title as above in red and black; Contents, pp. v, vi. Prose Dedication (‘‘To Lola Bentrovata”) in red and black, pp. 1, 2, and Text, pp. 3-112; (presumably) Dedicatory Epilogue, p. 113, printed in red. Ch…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…lamed in the starlight; then our bed your bower Ifeaved like the breast of some alluring flood Whereon a man might sleep for ever, until Death should surprise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my skill To find another holier name, some flower Still red, but red with the ecstasy of blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear mother of the child Whose fair faint features are a match for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, No serpent in the generous draught of wine? Did I guess…
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
…: the Voice begotten said : ‘* Divided be thy ways and limited !” Answered the reflux and the indrawn breath : ‘¢ Let there be Life, and Death !” ‘*The Earth, she shall be governed by her parts :? Division be upon her! Let her glory From crown to valley, source and spring to mouth, North unto South, Smooth gulf and sea to rugged promontory, Always be vexed and drunken, that the hearts Ruling her course round alway in the sky ; And as an handmaid let her serve and die! One season, let it still confound another ; No man behold his brother ; No cr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 255
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 249 survives death, what does it matter to us?| 5. Patigha. Hatred. Why are we to be so altruistic as to avoid} 6. Ruparaga. Desire for bodily immor- the reincarnation of a being in all points tality. different from ourselves? As the small boy} 7. Aruparaga. Desire for spiritual im- said, ‘‘ What has posterity done for me?” mortality. But something does persist; something} 8. Mano. Pride. changing, though less slowly. What evi-| 9. Udhasfa. Self-righteousness. dence have we afier all that an animal does| I0. Avigga. Ignoran…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…ite of thee, and write a lot Too like the late Sir Walter Scott.”) } Sir Percival de Percivale (Begin again !) was over all The pangs of death foreseen ; his eye Sought the high rafter vacantly. A week, and he would see no more! His lady long had gone—O Lor’! I hear ‘‘ St. Agnes’ Eve” * suggest To this 8’s better a far best ; Spenserian solemnitie Fits this part of my minstrelsie. Now is the breath of winter in the hall. The logs die out—the knight would be alone ! The brave Sir Percival de Percivale Sits like an image hewen out of stone. Ay! h…