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Page 117 of 1231906 · PDF PAGE 46
… Bound in no tyrant’s yoke ; Knowing no God, nor fearing any man ; Life’s enviable span Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they ‘‘ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine brass Was set on marble, with an iron style That all might carve within that golden space If one grief came—and still the people pass, And since the city first began None …
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…ight !) Then the last lie, duality, May break before the victor sight. Then, and then only, That. Sweet hours Of trivial passion deep as death, Ye are past: I'face the solemn powers Of sex and soul, of brain and breath. For you I lift the veil: discover The actual, for I was your lover. What should such word imply? I showed Late, in the earlier dithyramb. But—in yon stone there lurks a toad !— The Quarter bleats no palinode ; Goat it may be, no woolly lamb. Arithmetic assuage your wrath Should Cambridge wit write quarter ‘‘ fourth” ! What said …
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…am, not will be. O blind ape! All these are shapeless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat! Ugh! Ugh! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi | * tell me of the mage; Of him who would; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed; of him who. fell ; One peéring .lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards—and achieving hell! O let me do and die as they !_ The wand, The lamp, the sword, come eager to my nand ;— Or, if I wander now upon the moor…
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
head is the Uraeus serpent, Lord of Life and Death. She is masked, and her expression shows her secret intimate satisfaction in her domination of every element of dis‐equilibrium in the Universe. This condition is symbolized by the Magic Sword which she holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced ex‐ actly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience …
1906 · PDF PAGE 228
… is not fitting that I, the poor old fool who loved him, shall now dis- course. But it is most necessary that I should speak of his holy death and of his funeral and of the bruit thereof, for that is gone into divers lands as a false and lying report, whereby much harm and ill-luck come to the Brethren. In this place, therefore, will I set down the exact truth of all that happened. In the year of the Great Passing Over were signs and wonders seen of all men, O my Brethren, as it is written, and well known unto this day. And the first sign was o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
… hints at the gathering storm of persecution, the constant assaults of ill-health, and the irregularity of the work, or perhaps even the death of Raoul Loveday is implied by the word going. Line six. Startling events continue causing breathless dismay and anxious watchfulness. In this one might read the renewal of the newspaper attacks on the abbey and the discouragement and worry produced by events. My own fortune was described by the 9th hexagram "Hsiao Khu". The first line. "Returning and pursuing his own course." Fulfilled by my lectures an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…a God". But he had weakened in late years. He had married. Life to his optimistic eyes looked like a green field with a watering trough. Death in his mind became inseparably connected with the idea of mutton chops.
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…ff; he fell into deplorable abjection; even his scholarship deserted him. He published nothing new and lived in sodden intoxication till death put and end to his long misery. He was a great man in his way. May he have expiated his errors and resumed his labours, with the advantage of experience! Summer was now at hand and the wanderlust reasserted itself in me. There was no point in my going back to Boleskine till the following Easter. As it happened, Mathers --- to whom I returned to report progress --- had two guests, members of the Order. Th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…u mighty Mother, that ridest upon the crownéd beast, let me be drunken upon the wine. of thy fornications; let thy kisses wanton me unto death, that even I, thy cup‐bearer, may understand. “Now, through the ruddy glow of the cup, I may perceive far above, and infinitely great, the vision of Babylon. And the Beast whereon she rideth is the Lord of the City of the Pyra‐ mids, that I beheld in the fourteenth Aethyr. “Now that is gone in the glow of the cup, and the Angel saith: Not as yet mayest thou understand the mystery of the Beast, for it per…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…, it is not fitting that I, the poor fool who loved him, shall now dis- course. But it is most necessary that I should speak of his holy death and of his funeral and of the bruit thereof, for that is gone into diverse lands as a false and ly ing report, whereby much harm and ill-luck com e to the Brethren. In this place, therefore, will I set down the exact truth of all that happened. In the year of the Great Passing Over were signs and wonders seen of all men, O m y Brethren, as it is written, and well known unto this day. And the first sign w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
…s of the stars rain hard upon thy body. “Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fulness of the inspiration; the expi‐ ration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm.” This Trump is assigned to the sign of Leo in the Zodiac. It is the Kerub of Fire, and is ruled by the Sun. It is the most powerful of the twelve Zodiacal cards,’ and represents the most critical of all the operations of magick and of alchemy. It represents the act of the original marriage as it occurs in nature, as opposed to the more artific…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…ter; he is thus the fruit of the marriage of Heaven and Earth. This identifies him as the Vau of Tetragrammaton, but the legends of his “death” refer to initiation, which accords with the doctrine of the Devourer. In this card, however, the traditional form is much more clearly expressive of Bacchus Diphues, who represents a more superficial form of worship; the ecstasy characteristic of the god is more magical than mystical. The latter demands the name Iacchus, whereas Bacchus had Semele for a mother, who was visited by Zeus in the form of a f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…or spite of it! O love, Too pure and fond for those pale gods above, Too perfect for their iron rods to break, Arise, awake, and die for death’s own sake! That one forgetfulness may take us three, Still three, still one, to the Lethean sea ; That all its waters may be sweet as those We wandered by, sweet sisters of the rose, That perfect night before we fled, we two Who were so silent down that avenue Grown golden with the moonlight, who should be No longer two, but one; nor one, but three. And now it is the spring; the ice is breaking; The wat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
…s the journalistic point of view. Disasters should not be prevented. Heaven forbid! We should rather encourage battle, murder and sudden death. Our business is to make the splash. This psychology is one of my reasons for holding the press in horror. I do not believe in restrictions on business enterprise, but it really ought to be made impossible that it should be to anyone's interest to bring about a European war. On the twenty-third Guillarmod came to see me and ask me to say no more in the public press, as far as he was concerned. On the twe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
… misery occult in youth, awake At the first touch of the diviner air Of manhood, that could bane and blessing make, The Lord of Life and Death, the secret of the Snake. The snake of Egypt hath a body twin ; It hath bright wings wherewith it well can fly ; It is of virtue and of bitter sin; It beareth strength and beauty in its eye ; Beneath its tongue are Hate and Misery ; Love in its coils is hidden, and its nature Is double everyway ; dost wonder why The poet worships every scaléd feature, And holds him lordliest yet of every kingly creature …
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
… i. 250 Amid the drowsy dream, ii, 61 A miner laboured in a mine, ili. 90 I., I0., IIT. Among the lilies of the sacred stream, i. 38 And death in kissing. How I have despised, i. 230 ‘And now (I'll quote you Scripture anyhow), li, 176 And though you claim Salvation sure, li. 159 And thus to-day that ‘‘ Christ ascends,” ii. 162 And who is then the moon? Bend close, lil. 13 And you—what are you doing here? i. 57 Anemones grow in the wood by the stream, iii. 58 An island of the mist, i. 102 Another day rose of unceasing fire, li, 70 As, after long…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…of the Golden Dawns! Yea: and monsters, faces half-formed, arose: but they subsisted not. And the firmament was. Again the Chaos and the Death! Then Ath Hashamain ve ath h-aretz1. There is a whirling, intertwining infinitude of nebulae, many concentric systems, each system non-concentric to any other, yet all concentric to the whole. As I went backwards in time they grew faster and faster, and less and less material. (P.S. --- this is a scientific hypothesis, directly contrary to that of Anna Kingsford.) And at last are whirling wheels of light…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
…allid - ghost. that fleets down the’ tong’ avenues! Of - ‘deodar and moonlight; stole in: her: brains and her song was ever of: love and death: and music from-beyond. — , ‘** And one day as she sang thus the deep truth stole into. being and ‘she knew ‘the Noble Truths. So she turned her flute ‘to the new song, when—horror !—there was.a mosquito in the flute. ‘Tootle! Tootle!’ she began. ‘ Buzz! Buzz!’- went.-the mos- quito from the very vitals of her delicate tube. “Indra was not unprovided with a disc, 1 Alas! Jehjaour, art thou alreadyin thé …
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…n and expect thy coming with a lamp of oil of holiness and beauty! Hail, beautiful and strong one! I desire thy kisses more than life or death. From this it appears that I was still as spiritually adolescent as St. Augustine or St. Teresa. It seems necessary for juvenile souls to represent mystical experience by means of anthropomorphic
1944 · PDF PAGE 32
…shown by his power to create Im‐ ages; and the Earthy part, his immense Stability. Similarly, of a Serpent, they would call his power of Death fiery; his Swiftness, airy; his undulatory motion, Watery; and his habit of life, Earthy. These descriptions are obviously quite inadequate; they have to be filled up by attrib‐ uting planetary qualities and zodiacal qualities to all objects. Thus, the Bull in the Zodiac is an Earthy sign, and this is the central sign of the three through which the Sun passes during Spring. But the bovine nature is also …