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Page 20 of 1291929 · PDF PAGE 184
…and an oboe, and an octopus; and they are easy enough to catch — in this country." Little by little the Old Lady beguiled Iliel, and one day, while they were setting a trap to catch a viper, and a vineyard, and a violin with their unicorn, and their umbrella, and their ukulele, she suddenly stopped short, and asked Iliel point-blank if she would like to attend the Sabbath on Walpurgis-night — the eve of May-day — for "there's a short cut to it, my dear, from this country." Iliel revolted passionately against the idea, for she scented something …
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
…d open my arms (as it were) but am not satisfied; and so I turn and direct it towards that formless vision of Adonai within. Maybe, some day a spark will fire it and it will break loose; & then? (This sounds very good indeed. O.M.) Aug. 27. The most perfect peace I have experienced for a long time. Sep. 1. This is the last day of the six months. Nov. 9. Nearly two months since I made an entry. Will write down a few of the events that I remember during that time. Have done some slight morning and evening practice almost every day. Have occupied …
1907 · PDF PAGE 259
252 THE STAR IN THE WEST bleached bones , ' and salt encrusted heads, of those who have failed : So I press on . Fresh strength from day to day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high . So I depart upon the desert way , So I strive ever toward the copper sky , With lips burnt black and blind in either eye . I move for ever to my mystic goal Where I may drain a fountain never dry , And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole , And on celestial manna satisfy my soul.3 All the “ Unholy phantom faces ” . of self, and of sin , will be lost , and all …
1996 · PDF PAGE 155
…hat temple is already aright disposed—& it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. 11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstraction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger Sc trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire Sc blood; wors…
1902 · PDF PAGE 38
… of leaves, The harvest to remember, The load of sunny sheaves. In gardens deeply scented, In orchards heavily hung, Love flung Away the days demented With lips that curled and clung. Ah ! Sweeter still October, When russet leaves go grey, And sombre loves and sober Make twilight of the day. Dark dreams and shadows tenser Throb through the vital scroll, Man's soul. Lift, shake the subtle censer That hides the cruel coal ! 36
1912 · PDF PAGE 82
66 MORTADELLO Is set on Christ. I pray His kingdom quickly come. But, for myself, to-daylead me to martyrdom. Come hither, bind these bleeding hands together fast ! [She holds out her hands toward the soldiers, wrist to wrist. SOLDIERS. O we dare not ! MONICA. Your queen commands ; these are the last Of all the words that I shall say till Heaven opes. This is the golden gate and way of all my hopes. THE LIEUTENANT. High saint and virgin, we obey. MONICA. Make fast the ropes ! [They bind MONICA in silence, weeping, and lead her away.
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…e last -named play , which , even more so than in “ The Mother's Tragedy " is , as we shall see later on , a subtle discount on present -day morality . What Beardsley and Whistler did for art , Crowley is now doing for poetry . Beardsley , especially , suc ceeded Rossetti just as Crowley is now superseding Swinburne . A poetic iconoclast to the very backbone , we find Crowley , especially in his later works , break ing away from every poetic convention and restraint . At first it makes itself apparent in “ The Star and the Garter ,” which was u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
THE OLD BOTTLE 157 The Lord's Day. The foolish bells with their discordant clang Summon the harlot -ridden Hell to pray : The vicar's snout is tuned ; the curates bray Long gabbled lessons , and their noisy twang Fills the foul worshippers with hate ; the fang Of boredom crushes out the holy day , Where whore and jobber sit and gloom , grown grey For hating of each other ; the hours hang .' And the pen of Crowley like that of Saladin , Swin burne , and Shelley , is but another douche of cold water to wake the frowsy sleepers of the night , and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 59
…nne! We love—we shall die, sweet heart, take cheer, Jeanne I We are bound to a fate that brings release; We move in a moi] that must one day cease; We shall win to the everlasting peace, Jeanne! And how things are, and why, and whence Are puzzles for fools that lack the sense Of cows—enough of the future tense, Jeanne! For the end of love and the end of art Is just—my ear against your heart! ALEISTER CROWLEY. 51
1911 · PDF PAGE 59
…nne! We love—we shall die, sweet heart, take cheer, Jeanne I We are bound to a fate that brings release; We move in a moi] that must one day cease; We shall win to the everlasting peace, Jeanne! And how things are, and why, and whence Are puzzles for fools that lack the sense Of cows—enough of the future tense, Jeanne! For the end of love and the end of art Is just—my ear against your heart! ALEISTER CROWLEY. 51
1941 · PDF PAGE 3
…. For "Major-General John Charles Frederick Fuller" read "Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller" P.S. Page 10. August 15. A fourth Day of National Prayer is announced for September 7. I trust that the publication of the Hymn on page 9 and the Invocation by the V sign of Apophis and Typhon may avert the calamities called upon us by this last borborygmus of the "clamorous rump" of the dead cult. 666. This book is published by the Author at 10 Hanover Square, London, W.1.
1898 · PDF PAGE 9
…............................... 27 The Student ....................................................... 31 The Priest Speaks. (Boccaccio. Day IV. Tale VIII.) 32 Passover ............................................................ 36 The Violet’s Love-Story ....................................... 37 The Farewell of Paracelcus to Aprile ................... 41 A Spring Snowstorm in Wastdale ........................ 55 In Neville’s Court, Trinity College, Cambridge ..... 59 Succubus .......................................................... 60 A Ro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
AMBERGRIS 119 FROM RODIN IN RIME Reveil DAdonis Adonis, awake, it is day ; it is spring ! It is dawn on the lea, it is light on the lake ! The fawns in the bush and the birds on the wing ! Adonis, awake ! Adonis, awake ! We are colour and song And for, we are muses most tender to take Thy life up to Art that was lost over long. Adonis, awake ! Adonis, awake ! thou has risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love ! Adonis, awake !
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…fore the face . ? So beautiful was she , that “ the sun forgot his chariot , nor would set " ; and in this mystic hour , the marriage of Day and Night , she prayed fervently to Aphrodite , fond goddess of lovers , and there amidst the thunder -smitten stone , beautiful and piteous , she waited , longing for that strong desire of love that had been so rudely snatched from her. Again , Love in the form of Aphrodite listens to her prayer , but is helpless to help her till she has sought aid from the lewd city of Aphaca , where Lust in the grim sha…
1898 · PDF PAGE 95
…old The flocks on heaven’s steep. Refreshed, encouraged, lightened, Sent on the Way Whose Sun and Star have brightened From dawning into day, I set my face, a flint, Toward where the holy glint Of lamps affords the hint That leads me—where it may. 85
1898 · PDF PAGE 109
ASTROLOGY. A LONELY spirit seeks the midnight hour, When souls have power To cast away one moment bonds of clay, And touch the day With pallid wistful lips beyond the earth, And bring to birth New thoughts with which life long has travailed ; As if one dead Should rise and utter secrets of the tomb, And from hell’s womb Or heaven’s breast bring all the load of fears, Toils of long years, Sorrows of life and agonies of death, Hard caught-up breath, The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of shame, The gloomy flame 99
1902 · PDF PAGE 47
Venus. Mere thunder on the mountain top. Do this, And I will come in sleep, in sleep renew The carnal joys of day. Tannhauser. Hast Thou forgot ? It is the fleshly I would flee ! Venus. Forget ? But I strive fleshwards. Let our sleep renew The endless struggle —and perhaps, for thee, For thee !—the veil may lift another fold. Tannhauser. Why dost Thou hate this vision ? Venus. She would take Thee from these arms ! Tannhauser. But she is beautiful With Thine own beauty : yet as if the God Cancelled its mortal comeliness, and came More intimate t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
…ers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you , lord of the maze , In the darkness free of the sun ; In spite of the spite that is day's , We are wed , we are wild , we are one !! I “ Orpheus ,” vol . iii , p . 207 .
1928 · PDF PAGE 85
…use at that hour when the advice of wisdom is no longer suffocated by the roar of the exterior world, he said to himself: I have had to-day in dream three dwelling-places, which have given me one as much pleasure as the other; why inflict the trouble of travelling upon my body since my soul does it so easily, and why carry out plans, since planning is itself a sufficient pleas- ure?
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
…hat temple is already aright disposed—& it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. 11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger & trouble. Ra- Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire & blood; worsh…