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Page 19 of 831899 · PDF PAGE 48
…eaven A little cloud grew near, all thunder-riven, Scarred by the lightning, torn of ravaging wind ; Upon it sate the herald, who should find The home of Aphrodite, and should bring A message from high Zeus. The mighty king Had bidden him to speed. His wings drew nigh And hushed the last faint echoed melody With silver waving. As the messenger Of mighty Zeus descending unto her He stood before her, and called loud her name. Wrapped in a cloud of amber-scented flame Befitting his high office ; but his word, Too terrible for mortals, passed unhea…
1928 · PDF PAGE 36
… vain words: Love me well; I have so much need of it; console me here, caress me there. Come, I will try to cure you; we shall perhaps find the means for a brace of half-pence in the middle of a festival. Let us consider carefully, I beg you, this solid cage of iron. Within it, howling like a lost soul, shaking the bars like an orang-outang made furious by captivity, imitatingand how perfectly!now the tigers circular leaps, now
1905 · PDF PAGE 53
We hear the low chant that may bind us, The song from the ultimate shore. We come that our lover may find us His bride as he found us before. We listen, and love; and his voice is the voice of the God we adore. ORPHEUS Come forth in your gladness, O end of all these! O sorrow and madness And passion and ease, Sharp joy and sweet sadness, Deep life and deep peace ! Come forth! I invoke you, ringed round, earth’s girdle, the manifold seas ! THE SEA I hear but one voice in our voices ; One tune, multitudinous notes; One life that burns low or rejo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING therefore find almost every master of note, from Sankaracharya down to Agamya Paramahamsa, insisting on the maintenance to the letter of the rules of Yama and Niyama, that is absolute Chastity in body and mind amongst their pupils.* Now P. proved that the strict letter of the law of Chastity had no more to do with the ultimate success of attainment than refusing to work on a Sabbath had to do with a free pass to the Celestial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, eac…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING therefore find almost every master of note, from Sankaracharya down to Agamya Paramahamsa, insisting on the maintenance to the letter of the rules of Yama and Niyama, that is absolute Chastity in body and mind amongst their pupils.* Now P. proved that the strict letter of the law of Chastity had no more to do with the ultimate success of attainment than refusing to work on a Sabbath had to do with a free pass to the Celestial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, eac…
1903 · PDF PAGE 59
…h. But—oh! these nudes of Rodin! I Drag one more linnet from its perch That sang to us, and sang a lie. Did Rodin strip the clothes, and find A naked truth fast underneath ? Never! Where lurks the soul and mind ? What is the body but a sheath? Did he ply forceps, scalpel, saw, Tear all the grace of form apart, Intent to catch some final law Behind the engine of the heart? He tried not ; whoso has, has failed. So, did I pry beneath the robe, Till stubborn will availed, nor quailed, Intimate with the naked probe ? I know the husks to strip ; name…
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
… say so — of the sky. I feared her perfidy ; The journey might prove tedious — (nay, my lords ! Star or no star, I am honoured, glad, to find Such royal mates !). But her, I had her stripped And most magnificently whipped By two tall slaves (a Tartar and a Goth) Till all the flesh was ripped From her olive back — she looked like a dead camel When a man frightens off the kites ; And her rich blood came all afroth To her lips’ vermeil enamel — The lips that I had kissed ! And still she would persist. You see, she had her rights ; For here am I co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…Crowley, however, was not going to judge any isolated story by the general laws of probability, so, bowing gracefully, he and set out to find Allan Bennett, whom he eventually ran down at the house ofa holy Yogi in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, to hear his account. Allan Bennett's account was les of belief. They had had, he s: id, an argument about the God Shiva, the Destroyer, whom Allan Bennett we use, if one repeated his name often enough, Shiva would one da © and destroy the Universe, and whom Mathers feared and hated because He would one day …
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
…rdthe quality of manhood; that is, to all intents and purposes, the quality of godhead. But since we are translating Yama 'control,' we find that our two words have not at all the same relationship to each other that the words have in the original Sanskrit; for the prefix 'ni' in Sanskrit gives the meaning of turning everything upside down and backwards forwards,as you would say, Hysteron Proteronat the same time producing the effect of transcendental sublimity. I find that I cannot even begin to think of a proper definition, although I know…
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
ACTUS PRIMUS 9 WOMEN. Ah, there’s a fine retort ! PELIAS. Goddesses speak and men list reverently. Could she not find a fitter messenger? JASON. Her cause is Jason’s. Jason therefore speaks. P PELIAS. Aha! A suppliant to our clemency! I did mistake the gesture and the sword Angrily gripped, the foot flung terribly Foremost, the fierce, constrainéd attitude. But—as a suppliant! Tell thy woeful tale, Sad youth! Some woman thou hast loved and lost? JASON. Thou hast robbed me of this kingdom. Thou hast kept My father (poor half-witted man!) a slave…
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
… shape seen on the sea? Were I now free of this intense desire, By swift magician power I might fly westward shod with wings of fire And find my love, and in her arms expire, Or wed her for an hour. (Not for an hour as man, but even as God Whose day is like an zon. _Love hath nor station, stage, nor period : But is at once in his inane abode Beneath the spring Dircean.) 119
1898 · PDF PAGE 30
…and his war shall urge Long columns of victorious men To blackest wood and dimmest den, Wherever fugitive and slave Shall seek a refuge, find a grave; And so pursue the shattered legions
1907 · PDF PAGE 6
…til Death should surprise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my skill To find another holier name, some flower Still red, but red with the ecstasy of blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear mother of the child Whose fair faint features are a match for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, 1 R
1910 · PDF PAGE 49
THE GARDEN OF JANUS 39 But in the end we lift the plumèd casque Of the dead warrior ; Find no chaste corpse therein, but a soft-smiling whore. XIV Then I returned into myself, and took All in my arms, Gods universe : Crushed its black juice out, while His anger shook His dumbness pregnant with a curse. I made me ink, and in a little book I wrote one word That God himself, the adder of Thought, had never heard. XV It detonated. Nature, God, mankind Like sulphur, nitre, charcoal, once Blended, in one annihilation blind Were rent into a myriad of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…. Such is the living poetry that abides and ever lives on , knowing no youth or age, alone an eternal man hood . Lavishly scattered , we find it throughout the works before us ; in “ Aceldama ,” “ Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic ,” “ The Temple of the Holy Ghost, ” “ Tannhäuser , “ Rosa Mundi,” and “ Alice .” Ec stasy is the keynote here , as it is of all poetry , all literature , -aye ! of all Life . Without it we cease to be even animals — a dog will bay the moon - mere lumps of sodden clay ; with it a flaming crown of glory , angel - voiced…
1913 · PDF PAGE 95
83 Little Bo Peep, She lost her sheep, And couldn't tell where to find them. Leave them alone ! And they'll come home, Dragi:ring their tails behind them. " Bo " is the root meaning Light, from which spring such words as Bo-tree, Bodhisattva, and Buddha. And " Peep " is Apep, the serpent Apophis. This poem therefore contains the same symbol as that in the Egyptian and Hebrew Bibles. The snake is the serpent of initiation, as the Lamb is the Saviour. This ancient one, the Wisdom of Eternity, sits in its old anguish awaiting the Redeemer. And thi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 259
… bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99 0 C. You may find that a Pranayama cycle of 10-20-30 brings no result in months; put it up to 10-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly . When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. I guess that's about what I think. Love is the law, love…
1899 · PDF PAGE 48
…and his war shall urge Long columns of victorious men To blackest wood and dimmest den, Wherever fugitive and slave Shall seek a refuge, find a grave; And so pursue the shattered legions
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
… a goose woe began : Quoth Husswhich means goose in his idiom un- polished Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)
1910 · PDF PAGE 51
… XXI Yet all that Sea was swallowed up therein ; So they were not, and it was not. As who should sweat his soul out through the skin And find (sad fool !) he had begot All that without him that he had left in And in himself All he had taken out thereof, a mocking elf ! XXII But now that all was gone, great Pan appeared. Him then I strove to woo, to win Kissing his curled lips, playing with his beard, Setting his brain a-shake, a-spin, By that strong wand, and muttering of the weird That only I Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky. XX…