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Page 16 of 791996 · PDF PAGE 16
…religious Law; its sanctions, its injunctions, and its prohibitions are religious. At the same time it is not a dogmatic religion in the sense in which most religions are dogmatic; it is a Faith for the individualist, as is clearly shown by its central text, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” “Discover your own true will,” is the mean- L40 ing of this; “and then act in harmony with it to the utmost of your powers.” The aim of the Commentary on the Book of the Law is to guide the reader along the path of the discovery of his own …
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…Be blind, and their life depart! Till the Eye that was blind Be a lamp to my mind! Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir, leave the flower-throne, and up-flying Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! Then crown me and cling! Flash forward—and spring! Flash forth on the fire of the altar, The stones, and the sacrifice shed ;
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… common criminal, an epileptic; he should never have been sent to Devils Island at all. He had been mad for months. His messages had no sense at all; it was a cruel practical joke! But how, said Bevan getting into his carriage and looking back, how did you escape in the end? By a stratagem, replied the Irishman, and jumped into another compartment.
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…itive to His influence. Such a point will naturally be one that is salient in the Adept’s character, and also one that is, in the proper sense of the Word, pure 2. Thus an artist, attuned to appreciate plastic beauty is likely to 1. Of course, even false tenets and modes of the mind are in one sense true. It is only their appearance which alters. Copernicus did not destroy the facts of nature, or change the instruments of observation. He merely effected a radical simplification of science. Error is really a “fooFs knot”. Moreover, the very tend…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…chral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong lauzhing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion: then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening ; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour changes as his child Calls him first father” ; sense of strength divine Fills him; then man’s work in the world, and wild Efforts to fame: then steadier…
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
… very good, but it falls short of Brother Cyril's latest lunacy. As I understand him, he wishes indeed to proceed normally in a physical sense, but to prepare the way by making the heredity, and environment as attractive as possible to one special type of soul, and then — to go soul-fishing in the Fourth Dimension! "Thus he will have a perfectly normal child, which yet is also a Homunculus in the mediaeval sense of the word! "And he has asked me to lend you the villa of the Order at Naples for the purpose." Lisa had lent forward; her face, betw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
…l lovers should hear it and know it : not needing the words of a poet In ebony hewn. O beam of discovery under the eyelids awakening The sense of delight ! O assent Slow dawning through cream into roses ! O white bosom shaking The myrtles of magical scent In the groves of the heart ! O the pleasure that runs over all overmeasure, The wine of Event ! Overmastered the hurl of the world in the hush of our rapture ; Entangled the bird of success
1913 · PDF PAGE 207
…land places And sloping tall hillsides : All that our heart in tremulous pride embraces , And subtler influence of moods and tides , And sense of shadowy traces . You touch with wonder our desire and mirth , All aims and pleasures of imperfect birth , The very pang of lust ; And love, that comes before all power and worth , Might scarcely shape such beauty out of dust Did you forsake the earth . And yours the wonder of all times and lands , Of tongues , and work of human hearts and hands , Of thought , and deeds , and art . Only to you the unbr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…al and literary corpse of the Irish nation. Ireland has been badly treated, we all know; but her only salvation lay in forgetting her nonsense. What is the use of setting up a scarecrow provincialism, in re-establishing a barbarous and fantastic language which is as dead as Gothic and cannot boast sufficient literature to hold the attention of any but a few cloistered scholars --- at the price of cutting Ireland off from the main stream of civilization? We see already that the country has slunk into the slough of anarchy. When the Kilkenny cats…
1902 · PDF PAGE 58
…ning them Its own warm purple. Look, the tender stream ! Venus. Let its old sleepy fragrance lull thee now. Yet madden thee in brain and sense and soul, Mixing success with infinite despair. So ; take our secret back to sleep with us :— And in that sleep I know that thou wilt choose The fact, and leave the dream, and so disdain These far-off splendours, catch the nearer joy. Take squalid kisses, banish crested love Intangible. Delights it thee, my friend. To reach the summits unattained before. And stumble on their snows ? Thine old desire Was …
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
…ver’s soul, my soul that is! Thrill, mighty life of nerves, exultant strains Triumphant of all music in a kiss ! Fade! fade! O strenuous sense Into the soul intense Of life beyond your weak imagining! And, O thou thought, dissever Thy airy life for ever 149
1910 · PDF PAGE 455
…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
1910 · PDF PAGE 455
…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
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…exquisite deceit of the devil is to lure you from the plain meaning of words. So, though your instinct, and your reason, and your common sense, and your intelligence all urge you to interpret some duty otherwise than in the plain original sense; don't do it!" "I don't see what you mean." "Here's a case. Suppose you swore 'not to touch alcohol.' The devil would come with a sickness, and an alcholic medicine; he would tempt you to say that of course your oath didn't mean 'medicinally.' Or you would wish to rub your skin with eau-de-cologne; of co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
… Whose radiance changes and shifts and drapes The infinite soul in finite shapes. There is light, there is life, there is love, there is sense
1909 · PDF PAGE 5
…ioning, investigating. One must pass by contemptuously the Christian liar’s gloss which interprets “ sceptic” as “ mocker” ; though in a sense it is true for him, since to inquire into Christianity is assuredly to mock at it ; but I am concerned to intensify the etymological connotation in several respects. First, I do not regard mere incredulity as necessary to the idea, though credulity is incompatible with it. Incredulity implies a pre- judice in favour of a negative conclusion; and the true sceptic should be perfectly unbiassed. Second, I e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 80
…aculous intervention of Providence when even one of even the simplest ideas "gets across." Now then, this being so, it is evidently good sense to construct one's own alphabet , with one's own very precise definitions, in order to handle an abstruse and technical subject like Magick. The "ordinary" words such as God, self, soul, spirit and the rest have been used so many thousand times in so many thousand ways, usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any scientific essay is almost …
1939 · PDF PAGE 15
…ord 'control' is here not very different from the word 'inhibition' as used by biologists. A primary cell, such as the amoeba, is in one sense completely free, in another completely passive. All parts of it are alike. Any part of its surface can ingest its food. If you cut it in half, the only result is that you have two perfect amoebae instead of one. How far is this condition removed in the evolutionary scale from trunk murders! Organisms developed by specialising their component structures have not achieved this so much by an acquisition of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…hose others do not comprehend ; But some perceiving it, for them all discords find an utter end. Sodden * with passion, unrestrained his senses (such an one we see), Immoderate in the food of sense, idle and void of energy , Him surely Mara overcomes, as wind throws down the feeble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind , Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind ? * Sodden—the habitual—who lives unrestrained, etc.
1907 · PDF PAGE 21
… So that he paced the enamelled slopes Laughing upon the laughing lake below, Expectant of some strange experience Worth all the woes of sense, Some drop of nectar worth a world of wine, Some grace of One divine Worth more than all lifes grace, and more than life Intense, Was there a wonder if the silken boy Found her a-playing on the bluebell marge And drank from golden vats the wine of joy ; Hot, eager, overcoming in her breath, As she would draw him to those large And firm white breasts and mix her liquid life With his in pagan strife ? 16 …