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Page 115 of 1301907 · PDF PAGE 21
…you not ready? Who would stay? Arise, O Queen, O Queen of Night ! Arise, and leave the little day! XXXII. Lapy, awake the dread abyss Of knowledge in impassioned eyes ! Fathom the gulfs of awful bliss With the poised plummet of a kiss ! Love hath the arcanum of the wise ; Love is the elixir, love the stone ; The rosy tincture shall arise Out of its shadowy cadences. Love is the Work, and love alone Rewards the ingenious alchemist. Chaste fervours chastely overthrown Awake the infinite monotone. So, Lady, if thy lips I kissed ; So, lady, if in e…
1906 · PDF PAGE 43
… Ahme! I curse even now that hateful parting- place. But now—he comes! Apace How glad I am! Fly the glad minutes—There he is at last ! I know the firm foot on the marble floor. The hour-glass turns! What miseries to cast For ever to the limbo of the past ! He knocks—my friend! O joy for ever- more ! He calls! door !” ‘‘Open the door! Open the
1929 · PDF PAGE 209
…er. "And I don't say but what you done right about Balloch." Douglas glanced at her sharply in his most dangerous mood. How much did she know of a certain recent manoeuvre? But she went on quite placidly. "Now, look `e here. We gotta get these guys. An' we gotta get them where they live. You been hitting at their strong point. Now I tell you something. That girl she live five years with Lavinia King, durn her! I see that bright daughter of Terpsichore on'y five minutes, but she didn't leave one moral hangin' on me, no, sir. Now see here, big ch…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…s thus twofold: first, the True Will must be consciously grasped by the Mind, and this Work is akin to that called the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Second, as it is written: Thou hast no right but to do thy Will, each particle of energy which the Instrument is able to develop must be directed to the doing of that Will, and this is one fierce lion in the way, that until the second task be already far advanced, the confusion of the instrument is such that it is wholly incapable to accomplish the first…
1905 · PDF PAGE 267
…rrow of the world ! HEINRICH. Thou, Tannhauser ! what miracle is this? Your body glows—with what unearthly light ? TANNHAUSER, I did not know. Ah! sorrow of this earth ! What tears are falling from the Pleiades ! What sobs tear out Orion’s jewelled heart ! Ah me! As these, as these ! HEINRICH. Speak, speak to me! Else, Iam feared. Why run these tears to earth ? Why shakes your bosom? Why does glory flame A crown, acincture? What befell you there ? TANNHAUSER. I came to Rome across the winter snows Barefoot, and through the lovely watered land R…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
… a decision, always to be able to refer everything to a simple standard, my Will? And can't you see how simple it makes life for you, to know that if I once say a thing, I'll do it?" "Yes. I do see. But, oh, Cyril, what agony I passed through that evening!" "That was ignorance," said Simon Iff, "the cause of all suffering. You failed to read him, to be assured that, just as he was keeping his word to Miss Badger about the dinner, he would keep his to you about the telephone." "Now, tell me about the Battle. I see that I am in the thick of the f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeking for the light of Occult Knowledge, and I believe that in this Order the Know- ledge of that Light may be obtained.” Whereupon the Hierophant asks the Candidate whether he is willing “in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to keep inviolate the secrets and mysteries of our Order?” To which the Candidate himself replies: “I am.” The Hierophant now advances between the Pillars as if thus asserting that th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 278
…phant then says to him: “ Before you are the portals of the thirty-first, thirty-second and twenty-ninth paths. Of these, as you already know, the central one leads from the 1° = ro° of Zelator to the 2° = 9° of Theoricus. That on the left hand, which is now open to you, is the thirty-first, which leads from the 1° = 10° of Zelator to the 3° = 8° of Practicus. Take in your right hand the Pyramid of Flame, and follow your guide Axiokersa § the Kabir, who leads you through the path of fire. In this ritual the Three Cabiri are made to represent th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeking for the light of Occult Knowledge, and I believe that in this Order the Know- ledge of that Light may be obtained.” Whereupon the Hierophant asks the Candidate whether he is willing “in the presence of this assembly to take a great and solemn obligation to keep inviolate the secrets and mysteries of our Order?” To which the Candidate himself replies: “I am.” The Hierophant now advances between the Pillars as if thus asserting that th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 278
…phant then says to him: “ Before you are the portals of the thirty-first, thirty-second and twenty-ninth paths. Of these, as you already know, the central one leads from the 1° = ro° of Zelator to the 2° = 9° of Theoricus. That on the left hand, which is now open to you, is the thirty-first, which leads from the 1° = 10° of Zelator to the 3° = 8° of Practicus. Take in your right hand the Pyramid of Flame, and follow your guide Axiokersa § the Kabir, who leads you through the path of fire. In this ritual the Three Cabiri are made to represent th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 359
…hein. 25s. net. The first thing one has to do is to compose oneself in a comfortable position, for this book is large and weighs I don’t know how many pounds; the next to remember that the author has an axe to grind, or at least has constituted him- self leading counsel for his client Egypt, and in a learned and most convincing argument not only proves the undoubted antiquity of his client’s claim, but that it was from Egypt, or rather Central Africa, that the human race originated, and that it is to Egyptian symbolism, and more particularly to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 359
…hein. 25s. net. The first thing one has to do is to compose oneself in a comfortable position, for this book is large and weighs I don’t know how many pounds; the next to remember that the author has an axe to grind, or at least has constituted him- self leading counsel for his client Egypt, and in a learned and most convincing argument not only proves the undoubted antiquity of his client’s claim, but that it was from Egypt, or rather Central Africa, that the human race originated, and that it is to Egyptian symbolism, and more particularly to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 108
…. His lips reluctant grew Ardent at last as recognising me, and love’s wild tempest sweeps upon his sea. And I? I knew not anything, but know We are still silent, and united so, And all our being spells one vast To Re, A passion like the passion of the sea. THE LEGEND OF BEN LEDI.! ON his couch Imperial Alpin ? In majestic grandeur lay, Dying with the sun that faded O’er the plain of granite gray. 1 The ‘‘ Hill of God.” 2 The first King of all Scotland. Snowy white his beard descended, Flecked with foeman’s crimson gore, And he rose and grasped…
1906 · PDF PAGE 29
…E HERMIT’S HYMN TO SOLITUDE 23 I follow to the eagle-batiling sight, Limitless oceans of abounding space ; Purposed to blind myself, but know thy face, Phoebus, in gazing. O hear me! hear me ! hear me! for my hands, Dews deathly bathe them ; sinks the stricken song; Eyes that were feeble have become the strong, See thee and glisten. Blindness is mine ; my spirit understands, Weighs out the offering, accepts the pain, Hearing the pzean of the unprofane ! Lycian, listen ! God of the fiery face, the eyes inviolate ! Lord of soundless thunders, lig…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…r senses is extremely limited. Our sensorial apparatus only works properly with reference to a very few of very many things. Every child knows how narrow is the spectrum, how confined the range of musical tone. He has not yet been drilled properly to an understanding of what this may mean, and he has not been told with equal emphasis many similar facts relating to other forms of perception. In particular, he has not learnt the meaning of diluted impression, in spite of an admirable story called The New Accelerator by Mr. H. G. Wells. Our vision…
1954 · PDF PAGE 511
…s the individual leans ever harder on the moral support of the herd. 2 P.P.S. Here is a very different set of reactions . I do not quite know why I am putting it in; is it some sub-conscious attraction of my own? Anyhow, here it is; call it: La Poule Aux Rats Time : a fine Sunday evening in June , just one and twenty 2. Here is a most pertinent story from I Write as I Please by myoId friend, Walter Duranty . It shows how the sentimental point of view blinds its addicts to the most obvious facts. My friend Freddy Lyon . .. told me a story . . . …
1905 · PDF PAGE 42
…be sweet as Death, And Love be clean as Lust! I died amid her kisses: so This last time I would not forget— so [attained The Life ;! and know {fer hps and God’s have met. lor in Those [lands ? above His head The Depth is one with That Above, And Sleep and Death and Life are dead, And Lust is One with Love. 1 /.e,, that state of mind which perceives the hidden unity. 2 A hand is here used as a syinbol of the Infinite Point because Yod—the Greek Iota— means a hand,
1919 · PDF PAGE 157
…ad of nine o’c. as heretofore. I think Fra. P.A. might write to me. I feel that he is testing me, and have tried to hold to that idea. I know that really it does not matter, but I am weak yet, and should so like a little friendly push and a few words of advice. I feel like dropping it all for a time; but that is perhaps the very thing that is so difficult, in fact, the whole trick! O dear, I am certainly having a spell of ‘dryness.’ But I will plod on, On, ON, and in, In, IN. O for one kiss, or the echo of a Kiss, My Lord Adonai. I yearn for Th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 9
…st toil shall rest thee ; No fears that thou must go away Need haunt thee and molest thee. We pray a level-headed set Of fellow men, who know thee, In some small measure grateful yet, May pay thee what is owed thee. The joys of single blessedness, And undisturbed seclusion, We envy for thee, we confess, Until thy final fusion. ELVINA. Written at Eastbourne. Tune—'' German Evening Hymn.’ Was thy fault to be too tender? Was thine error to be weak? Was iny kiss the chief offender Pressed upon thy blushing cheek? 1 Jabez Balfour, author of the ‘‘ L…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…circular saw in motion. Sirk HERPES Z, Dear, dear ! and how was that ? StR GRARSON J. His lordship was very fond of children, as you may know. It seems he was pursuing 1 Certain of our little-instructed surgical readers have expressed themselves dissatisfied with the explanation given by Sir G. Jobbs. They argue that it requires to be amplified, since the Marquis of Glenstrae must have had normal habits, otherwise so pure a poet as Crowley would never have introduced him. This is true; but Sir R. Burton has pointed out that the outcry against G…