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Page 13 of 1081910 · PDF PAGE 76
…me of the Prodigal. XIV THE COMPARISONS O Habib, I have compared thy figure to the cy- press, and to a thousand other beautifully shapen things. Also I have said that thine eyes were like the sun for splendour ; and like the gazelle’s eyes for depth and softness ; many other things very well composed have I sung concerning thee.1 I have even compared the perfume of thy podex to that of the rose, and I take Allah to witness that this is not so, except by favour of Him in whom all is One.2 I was faithful and diligent in love, and worshipped thee …
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
… heart of love, a crown of light, An infinite music of delight ;— This, but no more; let fancy sway But never fix the transient ray! All things are lawful, so they be At most a marshalled imagery. Dream of Earth's glories higher and higher, Mounting the minaret, desire; Never attaining to the sky, Realization—lest thou die. So dream, possessing all; so dream, Possessing nothing: I esteem These twain as one, since dreams they are. Thus mayst thou journey far and far And far! to climes unguessed, to seas Proud with seignorial argosies, 48
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…ese is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto. 14. It is impossible to tell you 01 the splendours of that to which they have attained. Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the Path 01 the Ade…
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…ese is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the servants 01 V.V.V.V.V., have attained thereunto. 14. It is impossible to tell you 01 the splendours of that to which they have attained. Little by little, as your eyes grow stronger, will we unveil to you the ineffable glory of the Path 01 the Ade…
1919 · PDF PAGE 99
…eing and of Consciousness and of Bliss; for I am thou, and the Pillar is *stablished in the void. 25. Also thou shalt discourse of these things unto the man that writeth them, and he shall partake of them as a sacra- ment; for I who am thou am he, and the Pillar is ’stablished in the void. 26. From the Crown to the Abyss, so goeth it single and erect. Also the limitless sphere shall glow with the brilliance thereof. 27. Thou shalt rejoice in the pools of adorable water; thou shalt bedeck thy damsels with pearls of fecundity; thou shalt light fl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…lack as ink, The nightmare shoreward springs ; The lightning stoops to let them drink. They hold each other close, and think Unutterable things. The roar of earthquake stuns the ear ; The powers volcanic rise, Casting the lava red and sheer A million miles in ether clear Beyond the labouring skies. Ghastlier faces bend around And gristlier fears above. They see no sight: they hear no sound ; But look toward the chill profound End and abyss of love. The water and the skies are fallen Far beyond sight of them. All earth and fire gasp and expire: …
1961 · PDF PAGE 218
…ith the Love of its opposite. Thus even Falsehood is not alien to Truth, for the Perfection of Nature com- prehendeth all. But all these Things are written in The Book of the Law, after which do I limp painfully; afar off, upon the poor Crutch of mine Understanding of its Word; yea, I am well assured that in that Book are writ all Things soever; but we, being mostly without Wit are not able to distinguish hem. For the Stature of Aiwass is beyond our Measure, seeing that he was able to comprehend the whole Mystery of Nuith and of Hadith, and yet…
1922 · PDF PAGE 248
…e to take me away to fulfil my destiny. I know now what it was that I thought was a shot, or a door closing. It was really both of these things in a mystical sense ; for I know now who the old man is, and that he is the father of the Messiah. ...
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…nails through His outstretched hands , O “ maudite race !” “ WHOSE GOD IS THEIR BELLY , WHOSE GLORY IS IN THEIR SHAME , WHO MIND EARTHLY THINGS .” Temptation is the Armourer who tries the blade, and Resistance the quality of the steel. How many of the well -fed will bear the test of old Andrea ? How many would prove themselves a worthy blade to Ferrara ? Sadness stares around us with hollow tear -drowned eyes , and the days of our joys are wet with the weep ing of the night of sorrow . On , on we plod , through life's by -ways and alleys , thro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…ht obscene, to haunt our love with damned ghosts— Hark to their execrable hosts exulting as I kiss Katrine! It conquers? We will show it things memorial of its splendours gone, Things grosser than it looked upon where Neva rolls or Tiber swings. We shall exceed: its lips unclean shall answer at the Judgment Day: “ The greatest of them all, I say, were this my poet and his queen l ” Ah, God! we look upon the Thames; the Arno’s palaces are gone. Dull glows the misty horizon with London’s stinking stratagems. But lift the lid of earth and see the …
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
…enient medium of exchange of commodities which have value. If it were not for this, the present system could never have been created. As things are, a piece of paper is just as good as a piece of gold; but, as everyone knows, even the financiers, ninety five per cent of the gold never existed. The possibility of calling for gold has so frightened those very people who have been screaming for years that gold was the only basis, that already there has been a threat to demonetize gold. This is no vain threat. It is quite possible and will almost c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 59
…e bound to a fate that brings release; We move in a moi] that must one day cease; We shall win to the everlasting peace, Jeanne! And how things are, and why, and whence Are puzzles for fools that lack the sense Of cows—enough of the future tense, Jeanne! For the end of love and the end of art Is just—my ear against your heart! ALEISTER CROWLEY. 51
1911 · PDF PAGE 59
…e bound to a fate that brings release; We move in a moi] that must one day cease; We shall win to the everlasting peace, Jeanne! And how things are, and why, and whence Are puzzles for fools that lack the sense Of cows—enough of the future tense, Jeanne! For the end of love and the end of art Is just—my ear against your heart! ALEISTER CROWLEY. 51
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
THE SWORD OF SONG 36 So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer ? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer51—tests its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. “O God,” I prayed, “for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times—what a thumping trout ! (This is the only true fish-story I ever heard—give G…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…HY ? ” Berkeley, as we saw above , arrived at the conclu sion , that it was impossible to solve the question of relationship between the things which are perceived , and the things which are not perceived ; and in the “ Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous ” he further elaborates this proposition . Hume by a slightly different road arrives at an exactly similar conclusion , namely : how is it possible to judge the relationship between cause and effect , or in other words the per ceived and not perceived ? “ The first time a man saw the c…
1909 · PDF PAGE 28
…ce Phosphorus 2 The Vision of Sorrow Silver 3 The Vision of Love . 4 The Vision of Power. Iron, Sulphur . 5 The Vision of the Harmony of Things (also . 6 The Vision of Beauty Tonmotont . Arsenic . 7 The Vision of Splendour [Ezekiel] Mercury. 8 The Vision of the Machinery of the Universe | Lead . 9 The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel or of | Mag. Sulph. 10 Adonai Divination . . fll Miracles of Healing, Gift of Tongues, Know- | Mercury. 12 The White linet, Clairvoyance, Divination 13 by Dreams Love-philtres . 14 Power of Consecrating Things 15 …
1898 · PDF PAGE 93
Accurst, detestable, In which I laugh with hell, And furies chant the knell Of all things clean. Ah God ! the shapes that throng ! Ah God ! what eyes ! The souls grown sharp and strong That my lips made their prize, The ruined souls, the wrecks Of bodies fair of flecks Long since, ere God did vex My soul with sacrifice. Pale youth and bloodless maiden Whose breasts have bled, With wrath or mercy laden, By love or terror led, Reproachful or reviling, Some pure and some defiling, Some fearful and some smiling, Some living and some dead. 83
1913 · PDF PAGE 84
…LAH. I lack LAYLAH. ‘* Where is the Mystic Grace?” sayst thou? Who told thee, man, that LAYLAH is not Nuit, and I Hadit? I destroyed all things; they are reborn in other shapes. I gave up all for One; this One hath given up its Unity for all? I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH. I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…d I have the Will to create. Vast is the sphere, but it turns on itself like the prettiest star, And I am the looby that learns that all things equally are. Inscrutable Nothing, the Gods, the cosmos of Fire and of Mist. Suns, atoms, the clouds and the clods ineluctable dare to exit I have made the Voyage of Thought, the Voyage of Vision, I swam To the heart of the Ocean of Naught from the source of the Spring of I Am: I know myself wholly the brother alike of the All and the One; I know that all things are each other, that their sum and their …
1910 · PDF PAGE 305
…the helpless hands”; another was: ‘What is dis-satisfaction, and what is true satisfaction?” And the answer was: ‘‘ Love fixed on mortal things, without the knowledge of its source, increases vibration and creates dissatisfaction (‘mortal things’ is good]).” In his book, ‘‘ Sri Brahma Dhara,” which contains some of the most astonishing balderdash ever put in print, may be found his philosophy. This is a stewed-up hash of Yoga, Vedanta, and outrageous verbosity. ‘‘ Love,” he writes, “is the force of the magician Maya, and is the cause of all dis…