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Page 15 of 791902 · PDF PAGE 55
Tannhauser. Still. I am not in any sense estranged. I yearn for thee in the first hour of spring, As in the dying days of autumn. I Would clasp thee, as a child its mother's throat, Drinking celestial wine from that dear mouth, Or with goodwill see poison in thy smile. And die, still kissing thee, and kissed again ! This, though I saw thee crawl upon the earth, Howl at Her presence Whom thou wouldest ape, Thy tale reversed. I read that thunder now ! This, though I know thee. Aphrodite, no ! Nor Anael, nor Eva ! Rather thou Lilith, the woman-ser…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…n; it is Nature that Man must overcome ere he enter into his kingdom. 2 The true God 1. TEITAN — 300+5+ 10+300+1+50 = 666. 2. In another sense, a higher sense, Nature is absolutely right through- out* The position is that the Magician discovers himself imprisoned in a distorted Nature of Iniquity; and his task is to disentangle it. This is ail to be studied in the Book of Wisdom or Folly (Liber ALEPH, CXI) and in The Master Therion’s édition of the Tao T eh King. A rough note from His Magical Diary is appended here : “Ail éléments must at one t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…ings, it is masked by confused thinking; and, only too often, brought into contempt by the machinations of knavery. (1) There is more nonsense talked and written about Yoga than about anything else in the world. Most of this nonsense, which is fostered by charlatans, is based upon the idea that there is something mysterious and Oriental about it. There isn't. Do not look to me for obelisks and odalisques, Rahat Loucoum, bul-buls, or any other tinsel imagery of the Yoga-mongers. I am neat but not gaudy. There is nothing mysterious or Oriental ab…
1912 · PDF PAGE 85
…ad throne, Waiting beneath that awful stair, Beneath that pit of slippery stone. Yea! though he sees not anything, Nor hears, his subtle sense is ’ware That, lackeyed by the devil-king, The Beast—the Questing Beast—is there| So though his heart beats close with fear, Though horror grips his throat, he goes, Goes on to meet it, spear to spear, ; As good knight should, to face his foes. Nay! but the end is come. Black earth Belches that peerless Paladin Up from her gulphs—untimely birth! —Her horror could not hold him in! 79
1961 · PDF PAGE 83
…ailed Operations of Magick. But Dionysus, by the Word INRI, laid the Foundation of all Science, as We say Science to-day in a particular Sense, that is, of causing external Nature to change in Harmony with our Wills. k
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… In asking, “shall I be wise to marry?” one leaves it open for wisdom to be defined in divers ways. One can only expect an answer in the sense of the question. The connotation of “wise” would then imply the limitations “in your private définition of wisdom”, “in reference to your présent circumstances.” It would not involve guarantee against subséquent disaster, or pronounce a philosophical dictum as to wisdom in the abstract sense. One must not assume tliat the oracle is omniscient. By the nature of the case, on the contrary, it is the utteran…
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
…woons back to night ; The white and black are woven in gray, Faint sleep of silken light. A strange soft light about me shed Devours the sense of time : Hovers about my sleepy head Some sweet persistent rime. Beneath my breast my love may hear Deep murmur of the billows O gather me to thee, my dear, On soft forgetful pillows ! O gather me in arms of love As maidens plucking posies,
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…on would call) “him- self”, as one — or, rallier, sonie — among a group of phenomena. He is that “nothing” whose consciousness is in one sense the universe considered as a single phenomenon in time and space, and in another sense is the négation of that consciousness. The body and mind of the man are only important (if at ail) as the telescope of the astronomer to him. If the telescope were destroyed it would make no appréciable différence to the Universe which that telescope reveals. It will now be understood that this formula of I A O is a fo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…. The True Will is thus both determined by its équations, and free because those équations are simply its own name, spelt out fully. His sense of being under bondage cornes from his inability to read it; his sense that evil exists to thwart him arises when he begms to learn to read, reads wrong, and is obstinate that his error is an improvement. We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, ail such — 342 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…, like dewfall, drawn A veil oer leaf and lawn Mix night, and noon, and dawn, Dew, flower, and moon ! One kiss, intense, supreme ! The sense of Natures dream And scent of Heaven Shown lin the glint and gleam Of the pure dawns first beam, With earth for leaven ; Moulded of fire and gold, Water and wine to fold Me in its life, and hold ! In all but seven ! I would not kiss thee, I ! Lest my lips charactery Ruin thy flower. Curve thou one maidenly Kiss, stooping from thy sky Of peace and power ! Thine only be the embrace ! I move not from m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
AMBERGRIS 113 FROM GARGOYLES Prayer The light streams stronger through the lamps of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas : its icy glimmer Show dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky ? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled ! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness…
1901 · PDF PAGE 17
…heel In formless furies, subtly wrought Of swifter melodies than steel That flashes in the fight : the peal Of amorous laughters choking sense, And madness kissing violence, Rings like dead horsemen ; bodies reel Drunken with motion ; spirits feel The strange constraint of gods that dip From Heaven to mingle lip and lip. The gods descend to dance ; the noise Of hungry kissings, as a swoon, Faints for excess of its own joys, And mystic beams assail the moon, With flames of their infernal noon ; While the smooth incense, without breath, Spreads l…
1928 · PDF PAGE 123
XXXII THE THYRSUS: DEDICATED TO FRANZ LISZT WHAT is the Thyrsus? In the moral and po- etic sense it is a sacerdotal emblem borne in the hands of priests or priestesses when they celebrate the Divinity whose interpreters and servants they are. But physically it is nothing but a stick, a mere stick, hop-pole or vine- prop; or, hard, and straight. Around this stick, in capricious meanderings, sport and frolic tendrils and blossoms, those sinuous and eva- sive, these hanging like bells or inverted cups, and an astounding glory shoots forth from thi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 271
…Await the Hours. 1 Priapus, like Jehovah, is the phallic god of generation. It is to be remarked that Crowley never uses Jehovah in this sense, but in the later spiritualised sense of the Qabalists. And thou, Persephone, I know thy story, That I must taste the terror of thy wrong : How Hades ride across the promontory, Snatch my pale body in mid over-song ; Drag me from sight of my Apollo’s glory With horses strong. Nay! as Apollo half the day is shrouded, As Artemis twice seven nights is dark ; Surely he shines in other lands unclouded, Surely…
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you; come unto me!” And thus She ends: < Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me per- fumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you ! TI love you! I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. Tome! Tome !” And with these words “ The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” In the next chapter of our Book is given the word of TI] Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…ut only that he has a certain rank and character; and although we can invoke hinij we do not necessarily mean that he exists in the same sense of the Word in which our butcher exists. When we “conjure Nakhiel to visible appearance,” it may be that our process resembles création — or, rather imagination — more nearly than it does calling-forth. The aura of a man is called the “magical mirror of the universe”; and, so far as any one can tell, nothing exists outside of this mirror. It is at least convenient to represent the whole as if it were sub…
1898 · PDF PAGE 61
…And of Life’s guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satisfy my soul. Each night new failure and each day fresh strength, A sense of something nearer day by day ; Though the ill road’s intolerable length, League upon league, fling back the torrid ray Of the fierce sunlight night can scarce allay With the incessant beating of cool wings, And men’s bleached skeletons infest the way, Yet Hope her passion like a flower brings, And Courage ranks me with unconquerable kings. So, in the power of these who guard my path, I hope one day to …
1902 · PDF PAGE 120
…delight !— and are they clear to sight ? Or mixed with death, compact of night ? Begin — the bitter tears of impotence. The sad permuted sense Of this despair—what would you ? and renew The long soft warfare—the enchanted arms. The silken body's charms. The lips that murmur and the breasts that sting ; The eyes that sink so deep Beyond the steeps and avenues of sleep, And of their wonder bring No ultimation from the halls of night, The slippery staircase, and the Fatal Throne, The Evil House, the Fugitive of Light, The great Unluminous, the For…
1903 · PDF PAGE 67
… Not to be understood by strife Of brain, nor bought for gleaming gold, Nor known by aught but love? And love Far from resolving soul to sense, Stands isolated and above Immaculate, alone, intense, Concentrate on itself. But should The lesser leave me, as it might ; The lesser never touch you; would Your will be one with my delight? Leave all the thoughts and miseries ! Invade the glowing fields of sun! Cross bleak inhospitable seas, Until this hour be past and done, And we in some congenial clime Are then reborn, where danger’s nought To mock …
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…ght be won, The worlds heart melted now, The worlds mind drawn from its dejection, By the sure fact that not in idle dream But sole in sense supreme Certainly visible and tangible 13 T