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Page 194 of 2031929 · PDF PAGE 438
…the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of course, every single English or American visitor to our Lodge in Z--- stood in peril of instant and irrevocable expulsion on detection. So I said nothing, but walked to another room in Freemasons' Hall over his head, and took my seat as a Past Master in one of the oldest and most eminent Lodges in London! Kindly note, furthermore, that when each of those wicked visitors r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…nding the old man, kills her husband. This last scene, by the way, fulfils my idea of true comedy; the dressing up of a man as a king or god, and inducing him to preside at a hunting of which he is in reality to be the quarry. I have shown in my essay "Good
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
Attainment of the Virgin of the Absolute; who, being manifested, is the Player upon the seven‐ fold pipe, the Great God Pan, and, being withdrawn into the Perfection that he willed, is Si‐ lence. 2. DE SAPIENTIA ET STULTITIA1 O, my Son, in this the Colophon of mine Epistle will I recall the Title and Superscription thereof; that is, the Book of Wisdom or Folly. I proclaim Blessing and Worship unto Nuith our Lady and her Lord, Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit, as it is shewed in the design Minutum Mundum, the Tre…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…i- son of puritanism has rotted through the whole of human thought. Conventional morality is the syphilis of the soul, and it is for the God Mercury, no one less, to oppose its action. Our trouble is rendered a thousand times more grievous because most of us do not recognize how foul is our disease. The words ‘marriage with a Canadian’ should be expunged from human language. People should be prose- cuted for printing so foul and obscene a phrase. Yet these things happen every day. The sun turns sick in heaven to behold them. Yet we do not see h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…s ; so transcends Music, that starlight-sandalled majesty ! Then—shall I contemplate the face of Her? O Nature! Self-begotten! Spouse of God, The Glory of thy Countenance unveiled ! Thy face, O mother ! Splendour of the Gods! Behold ! amid the glory of her hair And light shed over from the crown thereof, Wonderful eyes less passionate than Peace That wept! That weot! O mystery of Love! Clasping my hands upon the-scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom, the keen thorns Pierced me and slew! My spirit was with- drawn Into Her godhead, and my soul m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…astity had been my chief abomination; the sign-manual of cowardice, heartlessness and slavery. In the Celtic Church there was no fear of God, but a communion with Him as nobly familiar as the relations of Roland and Charlemagne. I still too everything very literally. Browning's quotation: Childe Roland to the dark tower came {121} was as real to me as the Battle of Waterloo. In a sense, perhaps, even more so. I think it was only due to my subconscious common sense that I did not go and see Browning and ask him where to find the dark tower! {122…
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…sal the Moon is also universal in another sense. The Moon is the highest and the lowest; the Moon is the aspiration, the link of man and God; she is the supreme purity: Isis the Virgin, Isis the Virgin Mother; but she comes right down at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. The Niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
… just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise, Long has the day drawn out; a bitter frost Sparkles along the streets; the shipping heaves With the slow murmur of the sea, half lost In the last rustle of forgotten leaves. Over the bridges pass the throngs; the sound, Deep and insistent, penetrates the mist— [I hear it not, I contemplate the wound Stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver Christ. He hangs in anguish there; the crow…
1939 · PDF PAGE 60
…e have David saying in the Psalms: 'I hate thoughts, but Thy law do I love.' We have St. Paul saying: 'The carnal mind is enmity against God.' One might almost say that the essence of St. Paul's Epistles is a struggle against mind: 'We war not against flesh and blood'you know the restI can't be bothered to quote it allEph. vi. 12. 9. It is St. Paul, I think, who describes Satan, which is his name for the enemy, owing to his ignorance of the history of the world, as the Prince of the Power of the Air; that is, of the Ruach, of the intellect; …
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
…execute his function. There are thus seventy‐two “Angels” set over the thirty‐six small cards; these are derived from the “Great Name of God” of seventy‐two letters, called Shemhamphorasch. THE SHEMHAMPHORASCH AND THE TAROT This word means the Divided Name. The “Name” is Tetragrammaton: I.H.V.H., com‐ monly called Jehovah. He is the Supreme Lord of the Four Elements which compose funda‐ mentally the whole Universe. There are three verses in Exodus (xiv, 19, 20, 21) each containing seventy‐two letters. By writing down the first of these, and und…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…o pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And bitter tears divide his doubtful breath. So grew his anguish to accomplish death, Had not the goddess with the rosy shoon Stoop’d o’er the silver surface of the moon To touch his brow with slumber, like a kiss Whose dreams perfused the name of Archais, Till the sweet odour dulled his brain, and sleep Loosened his limbs, most dreamless and most deep. The mosses serve .him for a bed ; the trees Wave in the moonlight, daughters of the breeze ; Hardly the pleasant waters seem to shake, And only nightingale…
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
…sive shape, Not to aspire to, not to love; alas! Only a memory in the aged mass Of chained ones bound to me without escape ! Oh, doom of God! Oh, brand how worse than Cain’s ! Divided being, undivided pains ! What is this life 2 No inch throughout all time.) ness Too weak and hateful to be called distress? Slow memory working backward only knows There was some horror grown to it for kin; Some final leprous growth that took my brain, Weaving a labyrinth of dullest pain From the sweet scarlet thread I thought was sin. I cannot sin! Alas, one sin …
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…nt to have your own little peep—or have you borrowed a leaf from your former Jesuit brothers and write all this for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…nt to have your own little peep—or have you borrowed a leaf from your former Jesuit brothers and write all this for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
… and then began : ‘*O thou, a child of Heaven, and a man, Even so my lover, shall my woeful song So move thy spirit for my bitter wrong (God-nurtured though thou be) against the rods Laid on me by my mother, whom the gods
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…round her the iron gates of hell In gloomy strength: so sweet, so terrible, So fair, her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters, though he knew Ilis drowning body drowned her image too. ¥et she seemed gentle. Never thorn assailed The tender finger that would touch, nor failed The strong desire of Zeus, who wisely went, As was his wont, with amorous intent Among those pastures, and fresh fragrant lawns, And dewy wonder of new woods, where dawns A new flower every day, a perfect flower, Each…
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…he crocodiles that threaten Hoor‐Pa‐Kraat. This card is beautiful in a strange, immemorial, moribund manner. It is the card of the Dying God; its importance in the present pack is merely that of the Cenotaph. It says: “If ever things get bad like that again, in the new Dark Ages which appear to threaten, this is the way to put things right.” But if things have to be put right, it shows that they are very wrong. It should be the chiefest aim of the wise to rid mankind of the insolence of self‐sacrifice, of the calamity of chastity; faith must be…
1905 · PDF PAGE 200
…come to me! Thy dark embraces have a germ of Dawn ! THE TWO MINDS. ‘“‘THEY SHALL BE NO MORE TWAIN, BUT ONE FLESH.” WELL have I said, ‘‘O God, Thou art, alone, In many forms and faces manifest ! Thou, stronger than the universe, Thy throne ! Thou, calm in strength as the sea’s heart at rest!” N
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
… of universal application. It is the uni‐ versal solvent.” “I see it all now; the virile force of Mars is far beneath him. All the other gods are merely aspects of Jupiter formulated by Hermes. He is the first of the Aeons.” “The sense of humour of this god is very strong. He is not sentimental about his princi‐ pal function; he regards the Universe as an excellent practical joke; yet he recognizes that Jupiter is serious, and the Universe is serious, although he laughs at them for being serious. His sole business is to transmit the force from …
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…r luxuries are cheaply paid Since Satan introduced I’ree Trade; And necessaries—woe is me !— Are furnished to the damned soul free. III. God’s hell, Earth’s heaven, are not so far. Dinner brought oysters, caviar, Anchovies, truffles, curried rabbit (Bad for the apoplectic habit), While ancient brandy and champagne Washed down the dainties. Once again I seemed to haunt the Continental.} A saucy little elemental Flitted across ; I heard it sneer ; ‘‘ You won’t get water, though, I fear.” That’s hell all over. Good-bye, greens, Water, cold mutton,…