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Page 120 of 1301906 · PDF PAGE 225
… he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. May all we die so! And what further befell him ye shall also know, but not at this time. Going forth of that Mountain he met alsothe Fool. Then the discourse of that Fool, my Brethren; it shall repay your pains. They think they are a triangle,? he said, they think as the Picture-Folk. Base they are, and little infinitely. Ain Elohim. They think, being many, they are one.* They think asthe Rhine-Folk think. Many and none. | Ain Elohim. They think the erect® is the twined…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…ractise Magick and Yoga as they should. 17. The same is true of plastic art, but evidently in much less degree; and all those who really know and love art are well aware that classical painting and sculpture are rarely capable of producing these transcendent orgasms of ecstasy, as in the case of the higher arts. One is bound to the impressions of the eye; one is drawn back to the contemplation of a static object. And this fact has been so well understood in modern times by painters that they have endeavoured to create an art within an art; and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
… life, that never came. For Aphrodite sought in vain the woods, The silent mountains, and impetuous floods In all the world, nor had she knowledge of Such dens as him concealed ; (for what shotild Love Know of such vile morasses ?) in despair Waved angry wings, and, floating through the air, Came unto Aphaca, lewd citadel Of strange new lusts and devilries of hell, Where god Priapus dwelt; to him she came— She, Love !—and, hiding her fair face for shame, Nor showing aught the quivering scorn that glowed Through all her body, her desire showed I…
1944 · PDF PAGE 226
…n of Osiris as Horus. Nor are the Disks any more to be considered as Coins; the Disk is a whirling emblem. Naturally so; since it is now know that every Star, every true Planet, is a whirling sphere. The Atom, again, is no more the hard, intractable, dead Particle of Dalton, but a system of whirling forces, comparable to the Solar hierarchy itself. This thesis dovetails perfectly with the new Doctrine of Tetragrammaton, where the Earthy component, Hé final, the Daughter, is set upon the Throne of the Mother, to awaken the Eld of the All‐Father.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…ould not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. …
1939 · PDF PAGE 68
places they have seen in dreams repeatedly are places that they have known in a waking life. But they are quite capable of criticising this illusion by memory, and they admit the deception. Well, in the same way the phenomena of high Magick and Samadhi have an authenticity, and confer an interior certainty, which is to the experience of waking life as that is to a dream. But, apart from all this, experience is experience; and the real guarantee that we have of the attainment of reality is its rank in the hierarchy of the mind. 13. Let us ask ou…
1939 · PDF PAGE 70
… staying with me at the time. A couple of hours later, when I returned to the Abbey, he burst out upon me a flame of excitement. 'Do you know what this is?' he cried. I answered casually that it was a lot of very good visions. 'Bother your visions,' he exclaimed, 'didn't you notice the style? It's pure John Bunyan!' It was. 21. But all this is neither here nor there. There is only one thing for anybody to do on a path, and that is to make sure of the next step. And the fact which we all have to comfort us is this: that all human beings have cap…
1939 · PDF PAGE 60
…ffice. It would, perhaps, be more sensible to suppose that the heads of the Order have really attained the greatest heights of spiritual knowledge and freedom, and it is quite possible that the best term to describe their attitude would be either Pantheistic or Gnostic. 7. These considerations should be of the greatest use to us now that we come to discuss in more detail the results of the Yoga practices. There is, it is true, a general similarity between the ecstatic outbursts of the great mystics all over the world. Comparisons have often bee…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…e judge. [Exzt Second Herald. ELEAZAR. Well spoken: but the ear that will not hear Is deafer than the adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. IT know it, and will not await the answer. But dawn shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, passing here the night in prayer, will wait And with thee offer up propitious doves, And firstline males of all the flocks of us, JEPIVITIATE. Not so: b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
…y on the sloping field, And felt her sighs in his embraces yield A sweeter music than all birds. But she, Lost in the love she might not know, may see No further than his face, and yet, aware Of her own fate, resisted like a snare He Iler own soft wishes. As she Jooked and Saw [lis eager face, the iron rod of law Grew like a misty pillar in the sky, In all her veins the blood’s desires die, And then---O sudden ardour !—all her mind And memory faded, and looked outward, blind, Beyond their bitterness. Herarms she flung Around him, and with amoro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 372
…ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ which would have certainly meant ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ that. That I should doubt anything ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ is absurd: I shall know the Sign, ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ without fail. And herewith I close
1905 · PDF PAGE 200
THE GATE OF THE SANCTUARY 193 I am the king: you know it, friend! We wed. That is the tale of how my wooing sped. And oh! the quest : half won—incredible? I am so brave, and pure—folk love me well. But oh! my life, my being! That is dead, And my whole soul—a whirlwind out of hell ! THE REAPER. In middle music of Apollo’s corn - She stood, the reaper, challenging a kiss ; The lips of her were fresher than the morn, The perfume of her sxin was ambergris ; The sun had kissed her body into brown ; Ripe breasts thrown forward the summer breeze ; ) W…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…experiment. This is what constitutes an experiment. The other kind of man has only bad habits. When you explore a new country, you don't know what the conditions are going to be; and you have to master those conditions by the method of trial and error. We start to penetrate the stratosphere; and we have to modify our machines in all sorts of ways which were not altogether foreseen. I wish to thunder forth once more that no questions of right or wrong enter into our problems. But in the stratosphere it is 'right' for a man to be shut up in a pre…
1906 · PDF PAGE 227
…chiefly his study was to reduce unto eight things his many. And thus, O Brethren of our Venerable Order, he at last succeeded. Those who know not will learn little herein: yet that they may be shamed all shall be put forth at this time clearly before them all, with no obscurity nor obfuscation in the exposition thereof. Writing this, saith our Father to me, the humblest and oldest of all his disciples, write as the story of my Quintessential Quest, my Spagyric Wandering, my Philosophical Going. Write plainly unto the Brethren, quoth he, for man…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…n And thrust him from his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. Forsake thy hopes in him! we, Rather the dear delights we know and hold ; The first cool kiss, within the water cold That draws its music from some bubbling well, Looks long, looks deadly, looks desirable, The touch that fires, the next kiss, and the whole Body embracing, symbol of the soul, And all the perfect passion of an hour. Turn to me, pluck that amaranthine flower, And leave the doubtful blossoms of the sky ! You dare not kiss me! dare not draw you nigh Lest …
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…ith Delight to the Perfection of Truth, it is no Odds from what Thought thou makest the first Leap in thy Meditation, so that thou mayst know how every Road endeth in Monsalvat and the Temple of the Sangraal. SEQUITUR DE HAC RE I believe generally, on Ground both of Theory and Experience, so little as I have, that a Man must first be Initiate, and established in Our Law, before he may use this Method. For in it is an Implication of our Secret Enlightenment, concerning the Universe, how its Nature is ut‐ terly Perfection. Now every Thought is a …
1905 · PDF PAGE 115
…o and fro Wafts at the hour of dawn. Alone I wait, a figure turned to stone (Or salt for pain). A week ago Thine arms embraced me; now I know Far off they clasp the empty air: Thy lips seek home, and in despair Lament aloud over the frosted moor. Sad am I, sad, albeit sure There is no change of God above And no abatement of our love. For still, though thou be gone, I see In the glad mirror secretly That I am beautiful in thee. Thy love irradiates my eyes, Tints my skin gold ; its melodies Of inusic run over my face 3 Smiles envy kisses in the r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
… to yourself avail. There's one and twenty for your score, Ah, how your divination slewed awry, Ye prurient guttersnipes of prudery ! We know as much, my girl! We laughed, And still can laugh at Barbercraft Plied thus askew. Then leave them so! Evoke the ancient afterglow Rose on our sacramental snow Of silent love, of mountain grace. Remember the old tenderness Even in these bitter words that press Their ardent breast, their iron face, Out to expression. Ay! remember The ancient phantom fire of flowers, The Druid altars of December, The Virgin…
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. May we all die so ! And what further befell him ye shall also know, but not at this time. Going forth of that Mountain he met also the Fool. Then the discourse of that Fool, my Brethren ; it shall repay your pains. They think they are a triangle, 3 he s aid, they think as the P icture-Folk. Bas e they are, and little infinitely. Ain Elohim. They think, being many , they are one.4 They think as the Rhine-Folk think. Many and none. Ain Elohim. They think the erect 5 is the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…ar order to those which have finally driven modern science and mathematics to their present position; whereas the ancients, as far as we know, based their thesis on an intuitive perception of the incompetence of reason and on their experience of the results of illumination. I devoted a great deal of time to various essays demonstrative of the general truth above set forth1 and to this practical problem. I took all the mystical and magical practices of all religions all over the world, and those of the secret teachers and associations to which I…