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Page 143 of 1591907 · PDF PAGE 240
…o The Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene x. ‘‘ Bachelor” refers to the degree of ‘* B.A.,” which the Author was expecting to take at the time of writing the Dedication; but which in fact he did not take. Text, pp. 5-69; ‘‘A Note on Jephthah,” pp. 70-71. Headlines throughout. No imprint. Edition : 25 copies on machine-made paper. Issued in grey paper with an auto-lithograph in black ink, ‘‘ Aleister Crowley | Jephthah,” on cover, [THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY: 1901] The Mother’s | Tragedy | and | Other. Poems. | by | Aleister Crowley | Privately printed…
1906 · PDF PAGE 134
…And like a Hathor’s skin is wine, And like a Hathor’s skin is kisses. Gray steel self-kindled shine her eyes. They rede strange runes of time defiled, And ruined souls, and Satan’s kin. I see their veiled impurities, An harlot hidden in a child, Through all their love and laughter lean ; And like a witch’s eyes are wise, And like a witch’s eyes are wild, And like a witch’s eyes are Sin. She moves her breasts in Bacchanal Rhymes to that music manifold That pulses in the golden head, Seductive phrase perpetual, Terrible both to change or hold ; T…
1919 · PDF PAGE 296
… observing the law or laying it down, he is as ill at ease as a pedagogue in a bar-room. His American Puritanism nibbles his ear all the time. His hatred of what he calls rhetoric, his mania for the ‘clear’ and the ‘hard,’ his earnest belief that poetry must never be a ‘pastime,’ all derive from the Amer- ican conscience; and so does his distaste for the Puritan poet Milton, whose ex- treme sensuality avenged its suppression magnificently unawares in the greater Miltonic lines, But Mr. Pound’s Puritanism is too distantly inherited. Like modern …
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
418 Are one as they were one ere time began, Are one on earth as they are one in heaven; Where the soul is given a new name, Confirming with an oath the same, And with celestial wine and bread Is most delicately fed, Yet suffereth in itself the curse Of the infinite universe, Having made its own confession Of the mystery of transgression; Where it is wedded solemnly With the ring of space and eternity; And where the oil, the Holiest Breath, With its first whisper dedicateth Its new life to a further death. This experience lasted throughout the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…n wings did poise Her glory in the vast turquoise Of the whole sky : expanded far Beyond the farthest sun or star, Beyond all space, all time. I saw The very limits of the law That hath no bounds: beheld the bliss Of that first wonder of the kiss In its true self: how very love Is God, and hath its substance of Pure light : and how love hath its cause Beyond religions, worlds, and laws; Is in itself the first : and moves All evolution, and disproves God in affirming God: all this In that one rapture of the kiss I knew, and all creation’s pain F…
1944 · PDF PAGE 60
…on; for the understanding of this idea was certainly further advanced when these philosophies modified each other, than elsewhere at any time. The Hindu conception of Mercury, Hanuman, the monkey god, is abominably degraded. None of the higher aspects of the symbol are found in his cult. The aim of his adepts seems principally to have been the production of a temporary incarnation of the god by sending the
1939 · PDF PAGE 51
which exists, and the great Hebrew sages of old time noted this fact by giving it the title of the supreme idea of reality (behind their tribal God, Jehovah, who, as we have previously shown, is merely the Yoga of the 4 Elements, even at his highest,the Demiourgos) EheiehAsher-Eheieh, I 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…
1905 · PDF PAGE 211
…ugh the adamant, to fill The gardens of the Lord With music, that the air be still, Dumb to its mighty chord. I stand above the tides of time And elemental strife ; My figure stands above, sublime, Shadowing the Key of Life,” And the passion of my mighty rhyme Divides me as a knife. For secret symbols on my brow, And secret thoughts within, Compel eternity to Now, Draw the Infinite within. Light is extended.? I and Thou Are as they had not been. So on my head the light is one, Unity manifest ; A star more splendid than the sun Burns for my crow…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…h Thy renown ! Approve my riddle ! This Thou canst not do. 17. O living Kose ! O dowered with subtle dew Of love, the tiny eternitics of time, Caucht between flying seconds, are well filled With these futilides of fragrant rhyme ; In Love’s retort distilled, [In sunrays of fierce loathing purified, In moonrays of pure longing tried, And gathered after many moons of labour Into the compass of a single day, \nd wrought into continuous tune,! One Jaughter with one languor for its neigh- bour, One thought of winiter with one word of June, Muddled a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…nd when, invoking often, thou shalt see That formless Fire; when all the earth is shaken, The stars abide not, and the moon is gone, All Time crushed back into Eternity, The Universe by earthquake overtaken ; Light is not, and the thunders roll, The World is done : When in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature ; fatal is her name ! It fitteth not thy body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…seau de Beaulieu, in the province of Normandy, I do myself the honour to inform you that unless you are married to my niece in an hour's time, from these hooks you will hang. [BLANCHE screams aloud, and falls half fainting into a chair.) I trust your good sense will come to your aid, for of course it is not at all your death that I desire, but my niece’s establishment in life. Your family, Monsieur de Beaulieu, is very well in its way, but if you sprang from Charlemagne you should not refuse the hand ofa Malétroit with impunity—not if she had b…
1939 · PDF PAGE 26
…rdest because they interfere directly with the technique of our work; we are constantly gaining new powers, despite ourselves, and every time this happens we have to invent a new method for bringing their malice to naught. But, as before, the remedy is of the same stuff as the disease; it is the unswerving purity of aspiration that enables us to surmount all these difficulties. The Moon is the sheet- anchor of our work. It is the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel that enables us to overcome, at all times and in all manners, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…fair on a sheet of blue air with a hurricane pen. I copy it here for men. First on the ghostly adytum of pale mist that was the abyss of time and space (the stars all blotted out, poor faded nenuphars on the storm-sea of the infinite :) I wist a shapeless figure arise and cover all, its cloak an ancient pall, vaster and older than the skies of night, and blacker than all broken’ years—aye! but it grew and held me in its grasp so that _ 1 If this poem be repeatedly read through, it falls into a subtly rhymed and metrical form.
1905 · PDF PAGE 217
…uicken in my heart Mastery of night-fear and the day-flung dart. , Yea! from the limit of the fallen day, And barren ocean of ungathered Time, Bring Night, and bring Eternity, and stay With white wings pointing where tired feet may climb: Even the pathway where shed blood ran deep To build red roses in the land of Sleep. O guardian of the pallid hours of night ! O tireless watcher of the smitten noon ! O sworded with the majesty of light, O girded with the glory of the moon ! Angel of absolute splendour! Link mine Old weary spirit with the All-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
… hath wrought. See the loose languor of precipitate thought These versicles exhale! ILow rude the rime! There is no melody; the tune and time Are broken. Thirteen centuries ago They would have said, ‘‘ Alas! the youth! We know : This devil hath from him plucked the im- mortal soul.” / say: you have dulled my centres of control ! V. If you were with me, I were blind to this: Ready to drain my arteries for your kiss, Feel your grasp tighten round my ribs until You crush me in the ecstasies that kill. Being away and breathing icy air I am half lov…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…aos, in some limitless profound ; That it may tear Olympus from its place, Mix it with Hades, change the Ocean space, Level the tides of time that sink and swell, And curse my very father to his face! O father, father Apollo, did I wrong Thy chariot and thy horses in my song? Why clove thine arrow the unseated air, The heaven void of thee, why the thunder- thong Slipped from the tether, and the fatal stone Sped not to my heart, not to mine alone? Ah why not? but to hers as she lay sleep- ing By hate, not fate, quelled, fallen, and over- thrown …
1939 · PDF PAGE 36
… and 30 holding, there is quite a long period during the holding period when the mind does tend to stop its malignant operations. By the time this cycle has become customary, you are able to recognise instinctively the arrival of the moment when you can throw yourself suddenly into the mental act of concentration. In other words, by Asana and Pranayama you have worked yourself into a position where you are free, if only for a few seconds, to attempt actual Yoga processes, which you have previously been prevented from attempting by the distracti…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…rm, as early as the fourteenth century; for packs of that date are extant, and the form has not varied in any notable respect since that time. In the Middle Ages, these cards were much used for fortune telling, especially by gypsies, so that it was customary to speak of the “Tarot of the Bohemians”, or “Egyptians”. When it was found that the gypsies, despite the etymology, were of Asiatic origin, some people tried to find its source in Indian art and literature. There is here no need to enter into any discussion of these disputed points.1 THE T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
…ne was in the wrong, no one respected himself or anyone else, and every one complained. I have dwelt on the character of my life at this time in order to emphasize that the event to be recorded in the next section was an absolute bolt from the blue. {389} P A R T T H R E E THE ADVENT OF THE AEON OF HORUS {391} {392} 49 This chapter is the climax of this book. Its contents are so extraordinary, they demand such breadth and depth of preliminary explanation, that I am in despair. It is so serious to me that my responsibility overwhelms me. My enti…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…ower. Sleep they? hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His mercies murmur in the skies. His Name i…