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Page 119 of 1291905 · PDF PAGE 18
THE TALE OF ARCTIAIS II The sin that slumbers; these divide the day And all the darkness, and deceive, and slay. And these regather in the womb of hell To marry and increase, and by the spell Of their own wickedness discover sin Unguessed at, by slow treason creeping in, To spread corruption, and destroy the earth. sut in the holy hour and happy birth That swam through stars propitious, meadows white, And fresh with newer flowers of the night In the pale fields supernal, when his sire Took from the nurse the child of his desire, Aman, the praye…
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…And all the massy pillars of her girth ; Half-jubilant, as if foreseeing a world Fresher with starlight and with waters pearled, Sunnier days and rivers calm and clear, And music for four seasons of the year, And pleasant peoples with glad throat and voice Too wise to grieve, too happy to rejoice. So came the dawn on Ida to disclose Within her confines a delicious rose Lying asleep, a-dreaming, white of brow, Stainless and splendid. Yea, and fair enow To tempt the lips of Death to kiss her eyes And bid her waken in the sad surprise Of seeing ro…
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
…han doves, More beautiful than Gods of wood or river ; . And so the city should endure for ever.) But the king’s mood was otherwise this day. Along time’s river, fifty years away, There was a young man once Ruddier than autumn suns With gold hair curling like the spring sun’s gold, And blue eyes where stars lurked for happi- ness, And lithe with all a young fawn's loveliness. Such are the dwellers of the fire that fold Fine wings in wanton ecstasy, and sleep Where the thin tongues of glory leap Up from the brazen hold And far majestic keep Of D…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…subsequent parallel. During the years that followed, the boy --- and the man --- dreamed repeatedly that his mother was dead; but on the day of her death he --- then three thousand miles away --- had the same dream, save that it differed from the others by possessing this peculiar indescribable but unmistakable quality that he remembered in connection with the death of his father. From the moment of the funeral the boy's life entered on an entirely new phase. The change was radical. Within three weeks of his return to school he got into trouble…
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…So joyous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the ordinary passions and yield to such majesty as his own. ‘* But one day there came into the jungle a strange wild figure. He was a man dressed in the weird Tibetan fashion. He had red robes and hat, and thought dark things. He whirled a prayer-wheel in his: hands}; and ever as he went he muttered the mystic words: ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum.’! The parrot, who had never heard human speech, tried to mimic the old Lama, and was amazed at his: success. Pride first seized the bird, but it…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
… ! Ah! No dim mystery of desire Kathoms this gulf! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future, a dream of the day When athwart the dim glades Of the forvst a ray Of suntivht shall flash and the dew die away f 15. Let there then be obscurity in this ! There is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music, that outpaced All time, fly off; they are subtle: there abides A secret and most maiden taste $ Salt, as of the invisible tides Of the molten sea of gold Men may at times behold In the rayless scarab …
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
43 NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST “Blind Chesterton is sure to err, And scan my work in vain; I am my own interpreter, And I will make it plain.” NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AN APPRECIATION BY ALEISTER CROWLEY.* IT is a lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H . Mallock, &c. ) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after all a problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. To me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for S…
1905 · PDF PAGE 27
…ow of a pain.” “But I, but I” —‘‘ Vea, verily, fear not But stratagem may lift thy bitter lot From thy worn shoulders. Thus for half the day Thou art as free as air, as woodland fay Treading the circle of unearthly green, By maiden eyes at summer midnight seen. These hours of freedom thou may’st use to free Love from his toils, and joy and goodly gree ! Shall be thy guerdon. Listen! I have power To change thy semblance in thy happier hour3 Thou shalt assume the countenance of Love’s Divinest maiden in the darkling groves Of Ida. There shalt tho…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…ee the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day , and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said : Here is a change indeed ! 1 T he com mon for mula for beginning a “Jataka,” or story of a previous incarnation of the Buddha. Brahmadatta reigned 120,000 years. 2 The Sun. 3 The Moon. 4 Perdurabo. Crowley’s motto. “Now it came to pass that after many years he looked upon h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
… perfect purity, by imputing to her an improper intimacy with me. It was especially dastardly, as she was engaged to be married. To this day I cannot understand {196} how people like W. B. Yeats should not have repressed such methods in the sternest way and insisted that the fight be fought with fir weapons. They had seized the furniture of the temple and the vault. I applied to a police magistrate for tit to be handed over. On the hearing of the summons we were amazed to find Mr. Gill, K.C., one of the most famous men at the bar, briefed to ap…
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
…ely admit, to defend. so apparently mystical a statement, I may give the follow- ing from my own experience. In a certain meditation one day I re- corded: ‘“*T was (a) conscious of external things seen behind after my nose had vanished. (6) Conscious that I was of conscious of these things. These (a) and (6) were simultaneous.” I subsequently discovered this peculiar state of consciousness classified in the Ab- hidhamma. That it is a contradiction in terms I am perfectly aware; to assign any meaning to it is frankly beyond me; but I am as certa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…d a double room. I thought it was hardly playing the game; but I couldn't be rude to a lady and, at the worst, it was only a matter of a day or so. I could decently dispatch her from Boleskine to the embraces of Mr. Summers and proceed to Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff. It possibly crossed my mind that all these alarums and excursions were alien to arahatship, that marriage was a nuisance to a man whose mind was set on success in Mahasatipatthan…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…So joy ous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the ordinary passions and y ield to such majesty as his own. “But one day there came into the jungle a strange wild figure. He was a man dressed in the weird Tibetan fashion. He had red robes and hat, and thought dark things. He whirled a pray er-wheel in his hands; and ever as he went he muttered the mystic words ‘Aum Mani Padme Hum.’ 1 The parrot, who had never heard hum an speech, tried to mimic the old Lama, and was amazed at his success. Pride first seized the bird, but it …
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…ure, and this allied to a command of richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the author a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet’s work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” — Publishers’ Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the r…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…ure, and this allied to a command of richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the author a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet’s work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” — Publishers’ Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
…as guide of the dead. Also Hermes leading up Eurydice, and Christ raising up Jairus' daughter. Christ is said to have risen on the third day, because it takes three days for the planet Mercury to become visible after separating from the orb of the sun. (It may be noted here that Mercury and Venus are the planets between us and the sun, as if the Mother and the Son were mediators between us and the Father.) Note Christ as the Healer, and also his own expression, "The son of Man cometh as a thief in the night"; and also this scripture (Matt. XXIV…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…fs. And he abode in that temple awhile therefore, and worshipped ten weeks. And the first week he sacrificed to that goat! a crown every day. The second a phallus. The third a silver vase of blood. The fourth a royal sceptre. The fifth a sword. The sixth a heart. The seventh a garland of flowers. The eighth a grass-snake. The ninth a sickle. And the tenth week did he daily offer up his own body. Said the goat: ‘‘Though I be not an ox, yet am la sword.” ‘‘ Masked, O God!” cried the Adept. ‘‘ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—’”’ There was sil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
…ve no social theories. They are addressed only to would-be disciples, and have been so given --- from the dawn of history to the present day --- by every Eastern teacher that ever balanced himself upon one thumb, used a hip bath instead of a soup plate, or rode the Wheel of Samsara in preference to a bicycle. Once more, the irrational incidents of the life of Christ become entirely normal when understood as the rubric of a ritual of initiation. I claim that my book establishes the outline of an entirely final theory of the construction of Chris…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
…e third act, Parsifal’s innocence has matured into sanctification; he is the initiated Priest whose function is to create; it is Good Friday, the day of darkness and death. Where shall he seek his salvation? Where is Monsalvat, the mountain of salvation, which he has sought so long in vain? He worships the lance: immediately the way, so long closed to him, is open; th£ scenery revolves rapidly, there is no need for him to move. He has arrived at the Temple of the Graal. All true ceremonial religion must be solar and phallic in character. It is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
9 up the very moment of death; but once the saints had been called up, the day of grace was finally over. Various alarums and excursions would take place as per the Apocalypse, and then would come the millennium, when Satan would be chained for a thousand years and Christ reign for that period over the Jews regathered in Jerusalem. The position of these Jews is not quite clear. They were not saved in the same sense as Christians had been, yet they were not damned. The millennium seems to have been thought of as a fulfilment of god's promise to …