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Page 182 of 2031910 · PDF PAGE 310
…ild goose sweeping from Tibet upon the poppy-fields of Yunnan. But the prose of a poet reveals the man in him, as his poetry reveals the god; and Francis Thompson the man is a pitiful thing enough. ‘It is the wounded earthworm cursing the harrow; the snipe blaspheming the lark. Shelley was a fine, pure, healthy man whose soul was habitually one with the Infinite Universe; Thompson was a wretch whose body was poisoned by drugs, whose mind by superstition. Francis Thompson was so much in love with his miserable self that he could not bear the tho…
1910 · PDF PAGE 310
…ild goose sweeping from Tibet upon the poppy-fields of Yunnan. But the prose of a poet reveals the man in him, as his poetry reveals the god; and Francis Thompson the man is a pitiful thing enough. ‘It is the wounded earthworm cursing the harrow; the snipe blaspheming the lark. Shelley was a fine, pure, healthy man whose soul was habitually one with the Infinite Universe; Thompson was a wretch whose body was poisoned by drugs, whose mind by superstition. Francis Thompson was so much in love with his miserable self that he could not bear the tho…
1905 · PDF PAGE 33
…ARCHAIS. I the queen of your array. Both. Foot it nimbly in the ring ! CHORUS. Stay, stars, and dance with us! Our songs compel The very gods to tremble, Banish the ill ghosts of hell, Make fiends their shape dissemble. Freedom forbids their tyrannous reign here, Flee to their prison must they, nor deceive ; Love has a lightning that shall strip them clear, Truth through the curtain of the dark shall reave. Ye love, O happy ones andl chaste, Ye love, and light indwells your eyes ; Truth is the girdle of your waist, Ye play before the gates of p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…ompare it. Every new fact not only adds itself to our universe, but increases the value of what we already possess. In AL this “The” or “God” arranges for “Countenance to behold countenance”, by establishing itself as an equilibrium, A the One- Naught conceived as L the Two-Naught. This L is the Son- Daughter Horus-Harpocrates just as the other L was the Father- Mother Set-Isis. Here then is Tetragrammaton once more, but expressed in identical équations in which every term is perfect in itself as a mode of Naught. ShT supplies the last element;…
1919 · PDF PAGE 174
…s Absolute, Thou One without a second, Thou in Whom Time and Space no longer exist. I invoke Thee. Oh Thou, who when I think of Thee art God, who when I cease to think of Thee art My self, may I be lost in THEE. Yet never shall I be lost, for Thou Art, who art not. Oh Beloved, I come to Thee when I realize that never have I moved through all Eternity. Oh Thou, on Whom man looks through the senses, and sees as the world. Oh Thou, on Whom man looks through the mind and sees as the world of thought. Oh Thou on Whom man looks as Thyself and becomes…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…ting pleasures, from my “circle” the hospital} J. consecrate my “weapons” (my various abilities) to the study of medicine} I invoke the “Gods” (medical authorities) by studying and obeying their laws in their books. I embody the “Formulae” (the ways in which causes and effects influence disease) in a “Ritual” (my Personal style of constraimng sickness to conform with my will). I persist in these conjurations year after year, making the Magical gestures of healing the sick, until I compel the visible appearance of the Spirit of Time, and make hi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 56
…e have made love the lackey to property, as who should pay his rent by sneezing. We have swaddled it in polite ness, as who should warn God off the grass. We have muddled it up with morality, as who should frown at the Himalayas on the one hand, and, on the other, regulate his behaviour by that of an ant-heap. The Law of Thelema is here! (It appears pertinent to add that the above ethical theories have stood the test of practice. Experiment shows that complete removal—in the most radical manner—of all the usual restric tions on conduct result…
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
… and rally; The pine stirs and is shaken. Beneath whose sombre shade I hold a lazy maid In chaste arms and too tender. Lo! she is fair ! God said : And saw through the deep glade How sweet she was and slender. But I—could I behold her Curved shapeliness of shoulder? I, whose strong arms enfold her Trimoculate surrender. Pure as the dawns that quicken On snow-topped mountains stricken 3y first gray light that grows, 3y beams that gather, thicken, A web of fairy ticken 1 To make a fairy rose: Pure as the seas that lave With phosphorescent wave Th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
…e it not better with a bosom warm And accents sweet ) To help to raise (and no man will upbraid you) Your sisters fallen far? ’Tis vain! God’s worst omission—Heart— has made you The thing you are ! THE LITTLE HALF-SOVEREIGN.! RED is the angry sunset, Murk is the even grey, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lord, can an angel find Fifty, but fifty, righteous— Body—I say not Mind.” Sadly the angel turneth— ‘* Stay, ere thou fleest, stay ; Canst thou not find me twenty?” ‘‘ Nay” is the answer, ‘‘ nay…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…nformed by common sense to décidé him to teach man T he Nexi Step, the thing which was immediately above him. He might hâve called this “God”, or “The Higher Self”, or “The Augoeides”, or “Adi-Buddha”, or 61 other things —but He had discovered that these w'ere ali one, yet that each one represented some theory of the Universe which would ultimately be shattered by criticism — for He had already passed through the realm of Reason, and knew that every statement contained an absurdity. He therefore said: “Let me déclaré this Work under this title:…
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
…Body ^uith, every successive incarnation is a Veil, and the acquisition of the Magical Memory a graduai UnveilinP- of that Star, of that God. 6
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…e is conscious of his own incompréhensible calamity, and clumsily incapable of repairing it. Achieved, he is no less than the co-heir of gods, a Lord of Light. He is conscious of his own consecrated course, and confidently ready to run it. The Adeptus Minor needs little help or guidance even from his superiors in our Order. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictâtes. To attain the Grade Adeptus Major, he must accomplish two tasks; the équilibration of himself, espe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 316
…er, pp. 24, 55. nec. Only afew copies remain. An illuminating essay on the Universe, reconciling the conflicting systems of religion. THE GOD=EATER. Crown 4to, pp. 32, 2:. 6d. net. A striking dramatic study ot the origin or religions. THE SWORD OF SONG. Post 4to, pp. lx+ 194, printed ln red and block, decorative wrapper, zor. net. This is the author’s first most brilliant attempt to base the truths of mysticism on the truths of scepticism. It contains also an enlarged amended edition or “ Bemshith,” and on Essay showing thedstr ug parallels and i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 316
…er, pp. 24, 55. nec. Only afew copies remain. An illuminating essay on the Universe, reconciling the conflicting systems of religion. THE GOD=EATER. Crown 4to, pp. 32, 2:. 6d. net. A striking dramatic study ot the origin or religions. THE SWORD OF SONG. Post 4to, pp. lx+ 194, printed ln red and block, decorative wrapper, zor. net. This is the author’s first most brilliant attempt to base the truths of mysticism on the truths of scepticism. It contains also an enlarged amended edition or “ Bemshith,” and on Essay showing thedstr ug parallels and i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
… purpose — is essential above ail else. “Do what thou Wilt” strikes on him, a ray of berce white flame consuming ail that is not utterly God. Very soon he is aware that he cannot consciously contradict himself. He develops a subtle sense which warns him that two trains of thought which he had never conceived as connected are incompatible. Yet deeper drives “Do what thou wiit”$ subconscious oppositions are evoked to visible appearance. The secret sanctuaries of the soûl are cleansed. “Do What thou Wilt” purges his every part. He has become One, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother’s God, or the Rite that invokes Him. The Masters of the A A .*. hâve therefore made no attempt to institute any regular ritual for this central Work of their Order, save the generalised instructions in Liber 418 (the 8th Aethyr) and the detailed Canon and Rubric of the Mass actually used with suc- cess by Frater Perdurabo in His attainment. This has been written down by Himself in Liber Samekh. But they hâve pub…
1905 · PDF PAGE 97
…s the fawn from the avenues deep that look to the east in the heart of the wood : Light touches the trees of the hill with its lips, and God is above them and sees they are good : Night flings from her forehead the purple- black hood. The thicket is sweet with the breath of the’ breeze made soft by the kisses of slum- bering maids ; The nymph and the satyr, the fair and the faulty alike are the guests of these amorous shades 3 The hour of Love flickers and falters and : fades. Oh, listen, my love, to the song of the brook, its murmurs and caden…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
… to be silent — even as the friend of Catullus turned his uncle into a statue of Harpocrates." "Oh yes! I know Harpocrates, the Egyptian God of Silence," gushed the
1929 · PDF PAGE 163
…obes were stained and soiled, as if by contact with other colours. Artemis drew back with quick repulsion. For the first time the maiden goddess spoke. "What is thy name?" she cried. "I am Malkah of the tribe of the Sickles." "And thy crime?" "I love a mortal." Artemis drew back once more. "Thou, too, hast loved," said Malkah. "I drew my mortal lovers unto me; I did not sully my life with theirs; I am virgin unto Pan!" "I also am virgin; for whom I loved is dead. He[14] was a poet, and he loved thee above women, `And haply the Queen-Moon is on …
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
…and the cry of a lover as he seizes his mistress, and the exultation of a martyr who in the moment of his murder reaches conclusively to God. Cyril went back to the British Headquarters, and [330] handed in General Foch's request, through Colonel Mavor, officially. The events of the next week are of the very spine of history. The cruel blow was definitely parried. More still, that first great victory not only saved France for all time, but showed that the men of Bonaparte had come into their own moral sublimity again. It proved 1870 to have bee…