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Page 135 of 1541996 · PDF PAGE 74
…ul and the spirit in terms of the body. We do not deny the existence of the body, or despise it; but we refuse to regard it in any other light than this: it is the organ of the Self. It must never theless be ordered according to its own laws; those of the mental or moral Self do not apply to it. We love; that is, we will to unite: then the one must study the other, divine every butterfly thought as it flits, and offer the flower it most fancies. The vocabulary of Love is small, and its terms are hackneyed; to seek new words and phrases is to b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 85
…at vast Voices of misery had held her fast, And made her curse her own lock’s cruelty. So by her beauty and my love we swore, And by the light within mine eyes, by her Sweet shame: that never so we sunder again. But she: ‘‘ You swear ‘by thy bright face’ in vain; ‘ By thy sweet self’ you grow a perjurer; Who have shamed my face and made me but an whore.” THE THIRTY-FOURTH DAY. ‘* Ben. Stop there, stop there. Mer. Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.” Romeo and Jultet. SWEET are the swift hard struggles ere the kiss, When the fr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…edom. She had a period of fidgets; that over, she became listless, and merely prayed for sleep. Then she noticed that a square pencil of light had entered from the apex of the chapel, and was casting glory upon the top of the altar. She rose instantly — and gasped in amazement, for figures were moving on the silver. Three men, with strange musical instruments, species respectively of flute, viol, and drum, were walking across a room. This room was hung with rose- coloured curtains, and lit with silver candelabra. At one end was a dais, and on t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…a vital organ. Yet that is exactly what is done, the trick that is played on every inquiring mind. Why cannot I see in the dark? Because light is necessary to sight. No confusion of that issue by talk of rods and cones, and optical centres, and foci, and lenses, and vibrations is very different to Edwin Arthwait's treatment of the long-suffering English language. Knowledge is really confined to experience. The laws of Nature are, as Kant said, the laws of our minds, and, as Huxley said, the generalization of observed facts. It is, therefore, no…
1906 · PDF PAGE 71
…et. I wAs so hopeless that I turned away And gave my love to foul oblivion, . Shuttered my bosom’s window from the sun, Kindled a corpse-light and proclaimed ‘*The day!” ; Lurked in Aeaean! fens to elude the ray Whose beauty might disturb me: I did shun. The onyx eyes that saw me not as one Possible even for a moment’s play. Thus I was tangled in some house of hell, Giving mine own soul’s beauty up to lust, Hoping to build some fort impregnable Against my love: instead the deep disgust Of my own beasthood crushed it into dust, And left my manho…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…the 17 ighty Is A young and holy king under the starry canopy* .' | The Child of the Powers of the Waters: the 18 Lord of the Triumph of Light A smiling rouse holds the open jaws of a fierce and | The Daughter of the Flaming Sword 19 powerful lion Wrapped in a cloke and cowl, an Ancient walketh, The Prophet of the Eternal, the Magus of the 20 bearing a lamp and staff * Voice of Power A wheel St six shafts, whereon revolve the Triad of | The Lord of the Forces of Life 21 Hermanubis, Sphinx, and Typhon * A conventional figure of Justice with scal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…gabbled, Laughter splashed of Bassarids, blood-be- dabbled, Mad with their murder ! O thou many-coloured immortal maiden, Dawn! O dew, delight of a world! SOrrow Hides your holy faces awhile. To-morrow Comes for your calling? A Still the notes of musical Orpheus, laden Never now of pain or of failing, follow; Follow up the height, or adown the hollow Fairy are falli O my hopeless misery mind of longing ! O the anguish born in a breast unlovered ! Women, wail the face of a God uncovered, Brain dead and breath dumb! Wail the sense of infinite ard…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ble. This Aura should be clean-cut, résilient, radiant, iridiscent, brilliant, glittering. “A soap-bubble of razor-steel, streaming with light from 99
1935 · PDF PAGE 14
own success, the witness of his Life to the Law that hath given him light in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to the Law that hath Freed him by working its will to free all men; and he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his fellows into freedom. By thus ordering his disposition, he will fit himself in the best possible manner for the task of understanding and mastering the divers technical methods prescribed by the A.. A-. for Mystical and Magical attainment. He will thus prepare hims…
1905 · PDF PAGE 119
…d hairs and gray ! Red lips and white! Warm hearts, cold clay ! Bright day, dim night ! Our spirits pass Like the hours away. We have no light, Alas! alas! We have no more day, we are fain to say Alas ! In Love’s a cure For Fortune’s hate ; In Love’s a lure Shall laugh at Fate ; We have tolled Death’s knell ; All streams are pure ; We are new-create ; All’s well, all’s well! We have God to endure, we are very sure All’s well ! In such wise rang the challenge unto Death With clear high eloquence and happy breath ; So did a brave sad heart grow g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…he cool forest, filling every one That reaps yon gold With strange intoxications mad and manifold. XVI. Only beware gross pleasure—the delight Of fools: the ecstasy, the trance of love— Life’s atom-bonds must strain—aye, and must move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. XVII. Iam unworthy. In the House of Pain There are ten thousand shrines. Each one enfolds A lesser, inner, more divine, that holds A sin less palpable …
1905 · PDF PAGE 223
… With freemen’s orisons. The mist is gathering on the seer’s sight— I cannot see the future of thy state. Or, am I dazzled by resounding light? I know this thing—thy future shall be great ! Come war, come revolution! In their spite Thou mayst compel thy Fate. 1 The Jews. 2 The verdict of Rennes. O German Empire! Let thy sons beware, Not crowding sordid towns for lust of gold, Not all forgetful of the herdsman’s care, Not arming all men in an iron mould. Peaceful be thou: with watching and with prayer. But be not overbold. Fall, Austria! In the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
… off like that. I could see that the stick was really the measuring rod with which the whole Palace was built, and the lamp was the only light they had to build it by, and the cloak was the abyss of darkness that covers it all up. That is why dream-people never see beautiful things like I’m tell ing you about. All their houses are built of common red bricks, and C l
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…ool of purest aquamarine, and in it is water, only you can see every drop as a separate crystal, and the blue tinge filtering through the light. Above there hangs a calm yet mighty globe of deep sapphirine blue. Round it there were nine mirrors, and there is a noise that means when you understand it, “joy! Joy! joy!" There are violet flames darting through the air, each one a little sob of happy love. One began to see what the dream~world was really for at last; every time any one kissed any one for real love, that was a little throb of violet fla…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…eet thoughts and pure kisses. And there is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a holy Magician called Hermes, who takes me through so quickly that I arrive sometimes even at the very moment that I start. Last of all is the most mysterious passage of them all, and if any of you saw it you would think there was a foolish man in it being bitten by crocodiles and dogs, and carrying a sack with nothing any use at all in it. But really it is the man who meant to wake up…
1929 · PDF PAGE 326
…emembered only as a glory now attainable. 28 Twenty-fifth week of A.'. begins. 29 (A.'. continued evidently, for P. writes:) Perfect the lightning conductor and the flash will come. Aug 4 About to try the experiment of daily Aspiration in the Sign of Osiris Slain. Did this twenty-two minutes, with Invocation as of old. Cut cross on breast and circle on head. (Scire) The vow of Poverty is to esteem nothing save A.'.. (Audere) The vow of Chastity is to use the Magical Force only to invoke A.'.. (Velle) The vow of Obedience is to concentrate the w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 88
…and Jultet. SLEEP, O deep splendour of disastrous years, Gone likea star fallen at the fall of night ! Wake, O mute mouth and majesty of light, Made of no sound that even silence hears,
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
… than this delirious fight! For all the glowing fragrance of a dream And all the sudden ecstasy of words Deluge my spirit with a lake of light. VOL, I. IT. The constant ripple of your long white hands, The soul-tormenting violin that speaks Truth, and enunciates all my soul seeks, That binds my love in its desirous bands, And clutches at my heart, until there stands No fibre yet unshaken, while it wreaks In one sharp song the agony of weeks, And all my soul and body understands. The music changes, and I know that here, In these new melodies, a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
…as still in her a motion of revolt against the crime. But even as she made her gesture of repulsion, Douglas leapt to his feet, with the light of hell burning in his eyes. "I have it!" he shouted, "get to your straw, you stinking slut. And you may thank your stars that as you can't be ornamental, you're going to be useful." It was dawn before Douglas turned into bed, for his great idea brought with it a flood of imagination, and a million problems of detail. The servant girl was already half dressed for the day's work; and he made her fetch him…
1905 · PDF PAGE 158
…life and death, No lesser throne! [have borne meas a god, Avenging on my nearest blood the sin That brought me shameful to the shameless light. I have not faltered nor turned back at all, Nor moved my purpose for a moment’s thought. Nor will Tnow. The god is gone from me, And as a man I feel the living shame Of my existence, and the biting brand Of murder set upon me, and the sting Of my discrownéd forehead. I shall die Ifaving this proof of my own nobleness To soothe the rancour of my stricken soul In the abodes of night, that I have dared, Wi…