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Page 144 of 1541944 · PDF PAGE 39
…e was a cipher, a good‐for‐nothing. They made this as‐ sumption simply because they did not 1Some paragraphs of this section repeat, in slightly different phrases, statements already made in earlier pages. This is intended. know the secret doctrine of the Qabalistic Zero. They did not know elementary Mathematics. They did not know that mathematicians begin the decimal scale with Zero. To make it quite clear to initiates that they did not understand the meaning of the card called The Fool, they put him down between the cards XX and XXI, for what…
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
…ad shuddered out; her pulses bate Their quick sweet movement; on the ground she lies Struggling, and rending Heaven with her cries. Like light, in one convulsive pang the snake Leapt in the sunlight, and its body brake With glistening scales that golden skin of hers, And writhing with pure shame, the long grass whirrs With her sharp flight of fury and despair. Vhen Charicles at last became aware Of the fell death that had him by the throat To mar his music ; like one blind he sinote The quivering air with cries of sorrow ; then, Jisdaining fear…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…ary consciousness. In other words, the only proper translation is in poetry, art and music. 16. If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable. With music this thesis is so obvious as hardly to need stating. M…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…pes and loves requickened, and her breath Grew calm as worship’s, though as dark as death Her soul had been for weary days no few ; Now, lightened by the spirit thrust anew As into a dead body breath of life, She gave sweet thanks with gentle lips that ope, Like buds of roses on the sunny slope Of lily gardens falling toward a stream That flashes back the intolerable beam Of sunlight with light heart. They fled away At Cypris’ word, beyond the bounds of day Into the awful caverns of the night, Eerie with ghosts imagined, and the might Of strang…
1905 · PDF PAGE 72
JEPHTHAH 05 The splendid forehead, crowned with Love and Light, Flames in the starry air : the fallen minions Droplike lost souls through horrid emptinesses To their own black unfathomable abysses ! Now Freedom, flower and star and wind and wave And spirit of the unimagined fire, Begotten on the dishonourable grave Of fallen tyranny, may seek her sire In the pure soul. of Man, her lips may lave In the pure waters of her soul’s desire, Truth: and deep eyes behold thine eyes as deep, Fresh lips kiss thine that kissed her soul from sleep. See Ital…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…not, Only see the youth in woman’s raiment, Feigned tresses drooping from his forehead, Awkward with unwonted dress, rude waving Aye the light spear tipped with mystic pine- cone ; Hear his boast who lifts the slender thyrsus: ‘*T could bear the mass of swart Cithaeron, And themselves the Maenads on my shoul- ders.” So the self-willed’s folly lights the laughter Rippling round the theatre. But horror Seizes on the heart of the judicious. They see only madness and destruction In the mockery’s self innate, implicit. Horror, deeper grief, most dre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…s prize, The maiden body of earth. Outrun The violent rays; the dawn is dashed In one swift moment into dust. Long lies the Jand with sunlight splashed, Brutally violate to his lust. Alone and naked I watched through The appalling hours of noon ; I parched ; I blistered: all the ghastly crew Of mind’s sick horror mocked me; arched The flaming vault of hell and pressed Its passionate murder in my breast. Seven times I strove to slay me: filled My mouth with sand to choke my breath. In vain! No loftier purpose willed The iron miracle of death. So…
1906 · PDF PAGE 197
…tthi, Vikikikeha, silabbata-pardmasa, kama, patigha, rfiparaga, artiparaga, mano, uddhakéa, avigga. 81. ‘‘ Who asks doth err,” ®—Arnold, Light 83. You.2®—You! 86. ‘' O'erleaps itself and falls on the other.” *" —Afacbeth, I. vii. 27. 92. English.8 — This poem is written in English. 94. J cannot write.°—This is not quite true. For instance: ronReeds TR ean He mcea Ame qe aeNe ged T+ x5 + pK =a He 4 BLeaeWia- in gy 5: 3° gw || This, the opening stanza of my masterly poem on Ladak, reads :—‘‘ The way was long, and the wind was cold: the Lama was i…
1939 · PDF PAGE 70
…ces. He was very fortunate, and attained admirable results. No sooner had he done so that his poetry itself became flooded with supernal light and energy. He produced masterpieces. And then he gave up his Magick because the task of further progress appalled him. The result was that his poetry fell completely away to the standard of wet blotting paper. 20. Let me tell you also of one man almost illiterate, a Lancashire man who had worked in a mill from the age of nine years. He had studied for years with the Toshophists with no results. Then he …
1905 · PDF PAGE 216
…seek lotus-life in them Vainly: the lotus burns above the tomb— Yea, but in thought’s unfathomable womb! For spiritual life and love and light Climb the swayed Jadder of our various fate ; The steep rude stair that mocks the hero’s might, Casts off the wise, and crumbles with the great. Yet from the highest crown no blossom fell, Save one, to bring salvation unto Hell. O angel of my spiritual desire !? O luminous master of the silver feet ! O passionate rose of infinite white fire ! O cross of sacrifice made bitter-sweet ! O wide-wing, star-bro…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
…eins; locked close for love they lie, . The heart’s dumb word exprest without a sigh In the strong magic of a lover’s kiss, And the twin light of love5 but Archais Felt through her blood a sudden chill; her face Blanched and besought a moment’s breath- Ing space ; Her heart’s desire welled up, and then again Whitened her cheeks with the exceeding pain Of uttermost despair. At last her strength Failed, and she flung her weary body at length Amid the bruiséd flowers; while from her eyes Surged the salt tears; low moans she multiplies Because her …
1939 · PDF PAGE 22
…ome time or other in what is grotesquely known as the silence of the night, and you will have become aware of infinitesimal movements of light in the darkness, of elusive sounds in the quiet. They will have soothed you and pleased you; it will never have occurred to you that these changes could each one be felt as a pang. But, even in the earliest months of Yoga, this is exactly what happens, and therefore it is best to be prepared by arranging, before you start at all, that your whole life will be permanently free from all the grosser causes o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 200
…uggle and renew The utter bliss of the unending kiss, The mutual pang that shudders through and through, . Repeated and repeated, as the light Can build a partial palace of the day, So, in our anguish for the infinite, One moment gives, the other takes away. (I, the mere rhymer, she, the queen of rhyme, As sweeps her sickle in the falling wheat, Her body’s sleek intoxicating time, The music of the motion of her feet !) I swoon in that imperial embrace— Lay we asleep till evening, or dead? I knew not, but the wonder of her face Grew as the dawn …
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…ler, and also his own expression: “The Son of Man cometh as a thief in the night.” Also this scripture (Matthew xxiv, 24‐7): “For as the lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” Note also Christ’s relations with the money‐changers, his frequent parables, and the fact that his first disciple was a publican, i.e., tax‐collector. Note also Mercury as the deliverer of Prometheus. One half of the Fish symbol is also common to Christ and Mercury; fish are sacred to Mercury (owing…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…r These olive shoulders with an old-time kiss, And fix thy mouth upon me for such bliss Of sudden rage rekindled, Turn again, And make delight the minister of pain, And pain the father ofa new delight, And light a lamp of torture for the night Too grievous to be borne without a cry To rend the very bowels of the sky And make the archangel gasp—a sudden pang, Most like a traveller stricken by the fang Of the black adder whose squat head splings up, A flash of death, beneath a cactus cup. Ah turn! my bosom for thy love is cold ; My arms are empty…
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…d the God to leave him alone. ‘* Now he was still quite a young elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. ‘‘ And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old. VI. “* A brief consultation ; and the Srotapatti was reincarnated asa parrot. For the parrot, said the wicked Jehjaour, may live 500 years and never feel it. ‘‘So a grey wonder of wings flitted into the jungle. So joyous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the ordinary pa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…s some incarnation of that love. Some rosebud in the garden of spices blows, Some offshoot from the Rose Of the World, the Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night, The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things 1 This poem was issued under the pseudonym ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to God's gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the TTouse of Tire, The Rose of Honey-in-Youth ! Ah! No dim mystery of desire Kathoms this gulf! N…
1905 · PDF PAGE 27
…goodlihead and grace Of maiden magic; her delicious face Grew more and more upon the hero’s sight, Till all the hut was filled with rosy light, And Charicles’ grey eyes were Juminous With love-reflections multitudinous As lilies in the spring. Again was seen As in a mirror, like the ocean green, The admirable birth of Love’s eternal Queen. So Charicles a moment was amazed. A moment; then, contemptuous, he gazed With curling lip on her, and sourly scorns Her petty miracle: ‘‘ The deed adorns Too well a queen whose promises are foam.” And she, in…
1905 · PDF PAGE 104
…. sword Trenchant, that tore their scaly essences— Like Lucian’s sailor writhing in the clutch Of those witch-vines—I slashed about like light, And noises horrible of death devoured The hateful suction of their clinging arms And wash of slipping bellies. Presently Sense failed, and—Nothing! By-and-by we woke In a most beautiful canoe of pearl Lucent on lucent water, in a sun VOL. I. With my That was the heart of spring. But the green land Seemed distant, with a sense of aery height ; As if it were below us far, that seemed Around. And as we gaz…
1919 · PDF PAGE 319
…f dullness, that one has wished the Absolute at the devil. There is nothing of this in this book. We feel that Mr. Klein is enjoying the Light, Life, Love and Liberty which come from the acceptance of the Law of Thelema. But I must still ask him for another volume. The greater part of his difficulty in explanation seems to arise from the fact that he has no conception of a technique of attainment. He says quite rightly that it is all a matter of thinking right instead of wrong, and certainly a study of his pages should do a great deal to clear …