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Page 19 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 194
THE EQUINOX And the flesh, alas! is the core of thee. Be it so. I have wandered through the worlds in seeking thee, And I have found thee, and thou art as pure As dung, as sweet as sweat, as light as lust. All these, all these I have found, oh, bitterness! O forsaken one, whom I have found, thou art ravished By the phallus of Time, of Time that pierceth thee So keenly that thou art torn, thy virgin body A prey to the lust of Time! Oh, bitterness ! Oh, threefold sadness! I have found thee now Too late, too late, too late. I am weary of flesh; It…
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
THE EQUINOX Every action produces a reaction. This is the universal law of the world. Christianity must needs produce anti-Christianity. Antichrist is the shadow, the foil, the proof of Christ. Antichrist already produced itself in the Church in the time of the Apostles: St. Paul said :—‘ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked One be revealed. . . .”? The Protestants said: “Antichrist is the Pope.” The Pope replied : “‘ Every heretic is an Ant…
1954 · PDF PAGE 296
…holly obeyed . . .. Yet, even so, the intrinsic power of the truth of the Law and the impact of publication were sufficient to shake the world, so that a critical war broke out, and the minds of men were moved in a mysterious manner. The Second Publication nine months before the outbreak of the World War, which broke up the West. The second blow was struck by the re-publication of the Book in September, 1913, and this time . .. caused a catastrophe to civilisation. At this hour, the Master Therion is concealed, collecting his forces for a final…
1916 · PDF PAGE 14
…But people are not aware of it; they are still listening to the false prophets who prophesy smooth things. The critical situation of the world at present lies not in Europe. Europes fate is known. It lies in America and China. The attention of every man of even the smallest degree of foresight should be concentrated on this fact. It is emphasized clearly enough in these letters. And the great merit of Mr. Stuarts vision is that he saw these things in their entirety long before any other man had even begun to think about them. Another difficul…
1903 · PDF PAGE 30
…azen abysses The leopard-coloured paw Strikes, and the cruel jaw Hides me in the glutless maw— Crown of ten blisses ! For all the vision world Is closed on me and curled Into the deep Of my slow soul, and hurled Through lampless lands, and furled, Sharp folds and steep : Till all unite in one, Seven planets in the sun, And I am deeplier done Into full sleep. 8
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…—is your natural home. You have written these essays by my pen; not on you need I bestow them; but— To all and every person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
84 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. GOVINDA I have a gipsy girl Skilled in the mystic art. She knows the trick to curl Dried leaves in fire, and augur thence. I bought her in the mart From an old Greek — a vile old man ! He told me she was a Bohemian ; And by a fabulous conjuring with cards Indeed she can divine. CHAU So can our bards. These girls are shifty. GOVINDA Maybe so ; but list ! (I pray you) She can take an amethyst And see a thousand visions. CHAU So can I
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
90 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. CHAU I wager thirty loads of merchandise Most precious — sandalwood and gold and spice And jewels, and divine medicaments, And goat-hair broideries, and silken tents — And thirty diamonds of the purest water, It is a daughter ! ALEXANDER I take it — and yours too, my lord. Maybe You both are wrong. GOVINDA True, this much mystery Veils the whole matter — it were hard to say. CHAU Shang Ti ! how fierce a bray The amorous ass gives. MIRIAM Heave, o heave, my sides ! Stretch ! Split ! This pang decides
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…. On, thou puny verse ! Weak tide of rhyme ! Another argument Will block the railway train of blague you meant To run me over with. This world Or that ? We’ll keep the question furled. But, surely, (let me corner you !) You wish the painter-mood were true! To leave the hateful world, and see Perish the whole Academy ; So you remain for ever sated, On your own picture concentrated ! Objectivity of universe not discussed. Preferability of concentration- state to the normal. 630 635 640 645 650 655 660 666 670
1907 · PDF PAGE 212
…es ; for if we dare to attempt to tread so thorny a path with the utmost success the land we reach is but the land of Weissnichtwo . The world does not exist outside me . I am the world ; but what am I ? Herein lies the greatest of riddles . This question , this gigantic “ What ?" Crowley sets forth lucidly enough in “ Pentecost ” and “ Ascension Day ." He writes : To calculate one hour's result I find surpassing difficult ; One year's effect , one moment's cause ; What mind could estimate such laws ? Who then ( much more !) may act aright Judg…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
… and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” the Bodhi Satva, the Buddha, the Christ. Thus is fulfilled again and again the great prophecy: Whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my- self. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm “Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 184
… and then becoming its Maya, in its turn sets up a counter circle which in time will likewise be destroyed. The outer circle ‘“B” is the world Maya or the Samasdra Chak- kra, the inner “A” the Bodhi Satva, the Buddha, the Christ. Thus is fulfilled again and again the great prophecy: Whenever the dhamma decays, and a-dhamma prevails, then I manifest my- self. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil, for the firm “Tt is a fallacy,” wrote P., ‘‘that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is zo¢ an Intelligence directing l…
1916 · PDF PAGE 4
…ld always be the case with homo sapiens, the most important part of the impression is given by the head. Such a brow is only seen in the worlds greatest thinkers. Mr. Stuart was born in 1864 in Brooklyn, N.Y. His father, John Stuart, was a Captain of the 51st and Lieutenant Colonel of the 63rd New York Volunteers. His is the perfect and ideal type, fast disappearing, of the aristocratic American. Mr. Stuart was educated in San Francisco, California; but it is one of his favorite claims that he is not educated. Rather, he would say, he is begin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 121
…f spiritual overfeeding—what did Darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! many a time) when he wished every pigeon in the world at the devil? Now this wish has never really arisen in John St. John ; however bad he feels, he always feels that Attainment is the only possible way out of it. This is the good Karma of his ten years’ constant striving. Well, in the upshot, he will get back to Work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! There are f…
1922 · PDF PAGE 195
…t up behind him. I shook out my hair all over his face, and dug my nails into his scalp. We were living the heroin life, the life of the world of the soul. We had identified ourselves with the people of the poem. He was the poet, wreathed with poppies, with poisonous poppies that corrupted his blood, and I was the phantom of his delirium, the hideous vampire that obsessed him. Little drops of blood oozed from his scalp and clotted to black under my greedy nails. He spoke the next lines as if under some cruel compulsion. The words were wrenched …
1910 · PDF PAGE 83
30 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. O blest is the laughter Of Arcady’s groves That chases us after To delicate loves, The frolics, the fancies, The fires, the desires, The dives and the dances, The lutes and the lyres ! Follow, o follow, Sweet seed of the sun ! Through the wood, through the hollow, The race is begun That shall fill the day up With the roses of pleasure, The rod — and the cup — And the crown of our treasure ! Sweet are our voices ; Our bodies are bare ; Their spirit rejoices Afloat in the air,
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
… stars, the sea’s low plash beneath my feet, the soft breeze blowing over me, a whisper — oh essence of the winds and of the seas of the world ! — in my ears (I seem to remember even now that her name was Mabel — thank you, Mabel !) and then I gazed upon the moon and vowed myself knight of Artemis, to bring the truth into this England of hypocrisy, light in its superstition of rationa- lism, love in its prudery, chastity into its whoredom ! So I swore, and rose up and kissed Mabel and went home in the might of the holy vision — for the god Pan …
1906 · PDF PAGE 77
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY 71 Might shelter love in some wave-carven tomb.| Of man and maid in all the world But Maytime shone in us; with words Is stilled the swift caress, of art Because my lover has me curled I drew her down reluctant to my heart, In her own loveliness. When night was silence and my bed| No kiss be such a night as this !— the gloom. Unless my Alice be the kiss. So without sin we took strange sacrament, No blade of grass awaiting takes Whose wine was kisses, and whose bread The dew, fresh-fallen above, the flower Because my lover sw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 165
II2 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. Adonis, Attis, Mithras, and the rest ; And if there lack some detail — ISSA Thou art wise Enough to write in all the prophecies Fulfilled. That’s settled, then. JOHN I’d love to see The goggling eyes of duped posterity, Its mouth agape (while priests scoop out its poke) At the wild sequel of our harmless joke. ISSA Only one further fret balls up my brain : — The nuisance, if I have to rise again. JOHN Fear not ! The style suffices. ISSA Then be off, And tell the Seventy my bitter scoff
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…you why some people [57] have thought that another dimension might exist. Those triangles, so like, yet so unlike, have analogies in the world of what we call real things. For example there are two kinds of sugar, exactly alike in every way but one. You know how a prism bends a ray of light? Well if you take a hollow prism, and fill it with a solution of one of these kinds of sugar, the ray bends to the right; use the other kind, and it bends to the left. Chemistry is full of these examples. "Then we have our hands and feet; however we move abo…