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Page 117 of 1301907 · PDF PAGE 122
…of this our life is sorrow. LYETERNEL PRINTEMPS. I. THE eternal spring is in the heart of youth. | They are nearest to the secret of the world, These lovers with their lithe white bodies curled Into the rhythm of a dance; the truth Is theirs that feel, not ours that idly see ; Theirs that inhabit, and not ours that flee The intimate touch of love and think to sleuth By intellect all the scent of being, whirled In the wheel of time—roll back, slow years, and be A monument, a memory for me; That I may in their passion have a part, And feel their …
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
…t abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”--S‘vr. JOHN xil, 24, 25. Ir was a windy night, that memorable seventh night of December, when this philosophy was born in me. How the grave old Professor! wondered at my ravings! I had called at his house, for he was a valued friend of mine, and I felt strange thoughts and emotions shake within me. Ah! how I raved! I called to him to trample me, he would not. We passed t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
…nt in America to bow solemnly before the crude “Teachings” obtained through this evident fraud of a medium? Any common sense man-of- the-world, reading this stuff, would form his own opinions,—for it is plain to see that,—by merely playing upon his vanity, and flattering him to the skies,— this ‘medium’ has managed to ingratiate herself so thoroughly with the noted Pro- fessor, that he has become blind to evidence, to facts, and to common sense. Here are a few typical “Nuggets of Wisdom” from the sittings :— “They are not so clear about the lif…
1905 · PDF PAGE 23
…en’s hand, Stretched out in vengeance, held him back. The land, Where rest is made eternal, slipped his clutch ; He wandered through the world and might not touch The sceptre of King Death. In vain he sought Those fierce embraces, nor availed him aught To numb the aching of his breast. The maid He loved, now freed from doom, no longer prayed For anything but to discover him, And her large eyes with weeping grew more dim Than are the mists of Autumn on the hills, She sought him far and near; the rocks and rills Could tell her nought; the murmur …
1905 · PDF PAGE 258
…faces, that might not abide ; Flicker, and are fordone. So were they caught within the spacious tide, The sleepy waters that encased the world. Monsters rose up, and turned themselves, and curled Into the deep again. The darkness brooded, and the bitter pain Of chaos twisted the vast limbs of time In horrid rackings: then the spasm came: The Serpent rose, the servant of the slime, In one dark miracle of flame Unluminous and void: the silent claim Of that which was, to be: the cry to climb, The bitter birth of Nature: uttermost Night Dwelt, inac…
1919 · PDF PAGE 163
…been dazzled with no illusionary success, I have overcome the fear of failure, and now, even as a tired warrior, I will go back into the world—and STRIVE. The Next day. Chaos. Reason is quite inadequate to solve the problem. Here followeth a certain’ passage from Ezekiel. “Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shalt thy tears run down. Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 304
…ral. The poignancy of such a reali- zation is like that which one feels in the eternal Greek which Synge re-awakened in the wild Western world. I am thinking of Riders to the Sea. Experience dulls us; words are prostituted in the brothel of life. In Riders to the Sea, Synge says merely, “A man was drowned.” His genius sweeps away the cobwebs which time spins over the door of the cavern of our imagination. We realize the meaning of those words, “A man was drowned.” This power to make us feel is the divine thing in art. It is the creative force w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
…esents the element of salt. Yet in these figures there is also a certain degree of complexity, for Typhon was a monster of the primitive world, personifying the destructive power and fury of volcanos and typhoons. In the legend, he attempted to obtain supreme authority over both gods and men; but Zeus blasted him with a thunderbolt. He is said to be the father of stormy, hot and poisonous winds; also of the Harpies. But this card, like Atu XVI, may also be interpreted as a Unity of supreme attainment and delight. The lightnings which destroy, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…f Science, &c. |} They More or less recognised appear, (sooner or later) as great | but as men, fools and knaves. By the Progress of the World we mean that sheis always giving adepts to God, and thus losing them; yet,, through their aid, while they are still near enough to humanity to attract it, she reaches each time a higher point. Yet this point is never very high; so that Aeschylus, though in fact more ig- norant than our schoolboys, holds his seat besides Ibsen and Newtonin the Republic of the Adepti—a good horse, but not to be run too har…
1939 · PDF PAGE 44
…s, the Yogi is likely to get as a direct experience the consciousness that these laws are not true in any ultimate way. He has reached a world where intellectual conceptions are no longer valid; they remain true for the ordinary affairs of life, but the normal laws of thought are seen to be no more than a mere mechanism. A code of conventions. The students of higher mathematics and metaphysics have often a certain glimmering of these facts. They are compelled to use irrational conceptions for greater convenience in conducting their rational inv…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
… he is to leave his postern door ajar. Whoever he is, he can hardly blame me for a _ mis- adventure—and a curious tale is a passport the world over. Well, let me go in! To go in boldly is to slap Luck the courtezan on the shoulder, and ’tis Venus o’ the dice- box to an ace and a deuce but she call me a tall fellow of my hands and bid me sit to supper. Warily now!... [Pushes past arras. ALAIN. Good evening, good evening, my dear young friend. Welcome, very welcome! Come to the fire, man, and warm your- self. ‘‘ Jam satis terris nivis,”—if you kn…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…pon the darkness, where the sound Of all high song through calm eternity Shall beat and boom,thine own maternal sea. For in the formless world, so swift a fire Shall burn, that fire shall not be com- prehended; So deep a music roll, that our desire Shall hear no sound;; shall beam a light so splendid That darkness shall be infinite: the lyre Fashioned of truth, strung with men’s heart-strings blended, Shall sound as silence: and all souls be still In wisdom’s high communion with will. JEPHTHAH. A TRAGEDY. ‘'O Jephthah ! judge of Israel !”—HAMLE…
1939 · PDF PAGE 52
…s of the firmament, with ideas, souls, etc. I perceived also that each star was connected by a ray of light with each other star. In the world of ideas, each thought possessed a necessary relation with each other thought; each such relation is of course a thought in itself; each such ray is itself a star. It is here that logical difficulty first presents itself. The seer has a direct perception of infinite series. Logically, therefore, it would appear as if the entire space must be filled up with a homogeneous blaze of light. This is not, howev…
1905 · PDF PAGE 199
…: ‘‘ Gereth, Iam thine !” [ must have listened to the voice of hell. The earthly horror wove its serpent spell Against the Beauty of the World: I heard Desolate voices cry the doleful word “*Unready !”’ All the soul invisible Of that vast desert echoed, and concurred. The voices died in mystery away. I passed, confounded, lifeless as the clay, Somewhere I knew not. Many a dismal league Of various terror wove me its intrigue, And many a demon daunted: day by day Death dogged despair, and misery fatigue. Behold ! T came with haggard mien again In…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…rovoke the Crowned-with- Night Hidden beyond sound and sight In the mystery of Ilis own high essence? Lo, Rose of all the gardens of the world, Did thy most sacred presence Not fill the Real, then this voice were whirled Away in the wind of its own folly, thrown Into forgotten places and unknown. So I sing on! Sister and wife, dear wife, Light of my love and lady of my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling fur one star-wink thy bright face ! Did we leave then, once cognisant, Time for some Fear to implant His poison? Di…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
…r 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 only in one kind. I suited the action to the word. There was also the poem "A Birthday", written on…
1939 · PDF PAGE 51
… am that I am. 17. If there is any sense in any of this at all, we may expect to find an almost identical system of thought all over the world. There is nothing exclusively Hebrew about this theogony. We find, for example, in the teachings of Zoroaster and the neo-Platonists very similar ideas. We have a Pleroma, the void, a background of all possibilities, and this is filled by a supreme Light-God, from whom drive in turn the seven Archons, who correspond closely to the seven planetary deities, Aratron, Bethor, Phaleg and the rest. These in th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 211
204 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST THE HOLY OF HOLIES THE PALACE OF THE WORLD. THE fragrant gateways of the dawn? Teem with the scent of flowers. The mother, Midnight, has withdrawn Her slumberous kissing hours : Day springs, with footsteps as a fawn, Into her rosy bowers. The pale and holy maiden horn? In highest heaven is set. 1 Describes the spiritual aspect of the ‘‘Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram,” which we append, with its explanation. The abstruse nature of many of these poems is well reflected in this one. (i.) Touching the forehead, say A…
1919 · PDF PAGE 156
… they have been well spent, and that I have gained a more certain control of 1He had finished his immediate work, and went back into the world, as per liber VILLII, 51-53, bestowing on himself this Benediction as he did so. O.M. 148
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
…absent from Chinese thought, even at its most abstruse and metaphysical. The fundamental heresy of the Black Lodge is con tempt for “the world, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful and good”. The error of Christian Mystics on this point has been responsible for more cruelty, misery, and collective insanity than all others put together; its poison can be traced even in the tea…