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Page 20 of 1061910 · PDF PAGE 388
12 IV Now, with two score of men in life And one fair babe, Sir Palamede Resolves one last heroic strife, Attempts forlorn a desperate deed. At dead of night, a moonless night, A night of winter storm, they sail In dancing dragons to the fight With man and sea, with ghoul and gale. Whom God shall spare, ride, ride! (so springs The iron order). Let him fly On honour’s steed with honour’s wings To warn the king, lest honour die! Then to the fury of the blast Their fury adds a dreadful sting : The fatal die is surely cast. To save the king—to save…
1910 · PDF PAGE 388
12 IV Now, with two score of men in life And one fair babe, Sir Palamede Resolves one last heroic strife, Attempts forlorn a desperate deed. At dead of night, a moonless night, A night of winter storm, they sail In dancing dragons to the fight With man and sea, with ghoul and gale. Whom God shall spare, ride, ride! (so springs The iron order). Let him fly On honour’s steed with honour’s wings To warn the king, lest honour die! Then to the fury of the blast Their fury adds a dreadful sting : The fatal die is surely cast. To save the king—to save…
1909 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX These last three are merely aids to general judgment. If the judge be good the figure is good, and vice-versa. The Reconciler= I + XV. To find the part of Fortune @ (ready money or cash belonging to Querent), add points of the figures I-XII, divide by 12, and remainder shows figure. Here 1+II+...+ XII = 74 points =6 x 12+2, .. @ falls with ;:; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and correc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 154
THE EQUINOX These last three are merely aids to general judgment. If the judge be good the figure is good, and vice-versa. The Reconciler= I + XV. To find the part of Fortune @ (ready money or cash belonging to Querent), add points of the figures I-XII, divide by 12, and remainder shows figure. Here 1+II+...+ XII = 74 points =6 x 12+2, .. @ falls with ;:; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and correc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 123
…f. MIRIAM The dawn ! oh, curses on the dawn that breaks This night of joy. God ! my whole being wakes Into a world of rapture. I am I At last — the little fool that wondered why ! I am abreast of God’s whole tide of thought. Like gold into fine linen, I am wrought Into the royal vesture of the globe. I am the Empress of the City of Sin, Wrapped in its purple robe Stained with mine own maid’s blood. Yea ! for all glorious within Am I, most like the daughter of a king, Voluptuously languishing Like a great queen afloat upon the flood In gilded ba…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…shapen as kisses. And those arms And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being, and his life was lost In woman’s love at last! CHORUS. Unseemly act! Who dared thus break on meditation? MEDEA. IL CHORUS. Surely thy passion mastered thee, O queen! MEDEA. I tell you—thus the night passed. CHORUS. Verily, The woman raves. MEDEA. Such victory as this Outsails all shame. Before the dawn was up I bound such talismans about his breast That fire and steel grow dew and flowery wreaths For all their power to hurt him. Presently I made a po…
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
… Buddha smiles; ’twas Jesus wept! Arise, O brother and adept! XN. Master! A. The torture-hours are past. V. The peace of pain is mine at last. 28
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…like the breast of some alluring flood Whereon a man might sleep for ever, until 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 38
1941 · PDF PAGE 6
…e the celestial team; and Man was the Lord of the Fire. Deep-mouthed from their thrones deep-seated, the choirs of the aeons declare The last of the demons defeated, for Man is the Lord of the Air. Arise, O man, in thy strength! the kingdom is thine to inherit, Till the high gods witness at length that Man is the Lord of his spirit.
1954 · PDF PAGE 338
…5 shambles of surrender if we are fools enough to give ear to their caterwauling-as in the story of the highly-esteemed Tomcat , when at last one of his fans obtained an interview; "all he could do was to talk about his operation ." "The Book of the Law takes us back to primitive savagery," you say. Well, where are we? We're at Guernica, Lidice, Oradour-sur-Glane, Rotterdam and hundreds of other crimes, to say nothing of Concentration-camp, Stalag, and a million lesser horrors, inconceivable by the most diseased and inflamed Sadistic imaginatio…
1898 · PDF PAGE 51
…’s dear sake. My songs their wonted music make, Joyous and careless, songs of youth, Because the sacred lips of both Are met to kiss the last good-bye, Because sweet glances weep for ruth That we must part, and love must die. Remembrance of love’s long delights Is to remember sighs and tears, Yet I will think upon the nights I whispered into passionate ears The fond desires, the sweet faint fears. My lover’s limbs of lissome white Gleamed in the darkness and strange light, The wondrous orbs voluptuously Bent on me all unearthly bright : But we …
1903 · PDF PAGE 81
…e love’s gold and steel, The sharpness inlaid with sweet tracery Of talismans of virtue : she is leal To come and live and be my love at last. 61
1903 · PDF PAGE 110
…ld’s sad sympathy with Persephone. Yet I myself, while tuning to her key My sighs of sorrow, mused in secret mirth : “ I am convinced at last of money’s worth, For lack of which she cannot cross the sea.” I told her, like a fool, a day too soon. She went and told her story to the priest ; She wept, and borrowed money of the beast. She told me she would go : June fell from June. I, left in limbo ; she, to front the elate Cockoldy lawyer in the L . . . S . . . S . . . 90
1905 · PDF PAGE 133
The shadow of the buttress stays And dips its head and swims, While moss engirdles it with grays And greens that dew bedims. Now, at the last, the western end, Most miracle of all! The groves of rock dispart and rend Their sacred cincture-wall ; All tunes of heaven their rapture lend To make the waterfall. There, steaming from the haze and mist Where dew is dashed in spray, Rises a halo sunrise-kissed And kissed at close of day From ruby unto amethyst, Within the veil of grey. And there within the circled light I saw a dancing thing, Most like …
1939 · PDF PAGE 3
… STAND FAST! A Poem by ALEISTER CROWLEY England, stand fast! Stand fast against the foe! They struck the first blow: we shall strike the last Peace at the price of Freedom? We say } England, stand fast! ‘The earth hurls thunderbolts; the sea spurts death; The skies drop murder; hell itself aghast! Answer, with steady eye and easy breath ; England, stand fast ! England, the centuries have not sent thee shame, Tamer of tyrants, from thy purple past Thy heroes call thee, from their heaven of fame: England, stand fast England, resistless as the gal…
1941 · PDF PAGE 2
…e the celestial team; and Man was the Lord of the Fire. Deep-mouthed from their thrones deep-seated, the choirs of the aeons declare The last of the demons defeated, for Man is the Lord of the Air. Arise, O man, in thy strength! the kingdom is thine to inherit, Till the high gods witness at length that Man is the Lord of his spirit.
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
…er was "Kieh" meaning "Regulations". In the first three months I am described as unable to organize the affairs of the Order. But in the last three, a sudden change takes place. A way is found of establishing the proper system. Now, until the winter solstice the chaos grew more confused than ever. A few days later a man suddenly came forward precisely fitted to undertake the organization required. I say suddenly, for he had steadfastly resisted the Secret Chiefs for years. His soul was torn by an earthquake and he broke with his past ruthlessly…
1898 · PDF PAGE 22
16 PREFACE last (the pious will quote James 2, 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum) ; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into Sadism, Necrophilia, all the mad- dest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. But always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. His delirium does not amuse ; it appals ! A man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his h…
1903 · PDF PAGE 54
…use And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subjects.” The Sonnets. I learnt at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thoughts immense Like this I thought : plumes of my amorous quill I tickled her withal : then grave and still Waited secure : the silence grew intense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not…
1903 · PDF PAGE 86
…ay catch your France, ‘My crow grow germane to your cluck. See art: see truth as I who see, (Am wellnigh fallen in the fight!) ‘Then the last lie, duality, ‘May break before the victor sight. ‘Then, and then only, That, Sweet hours Of trivial passion deep as death, ‘Ye are past: I face the solemn powers Of sex and soul, of brain and breath. For you I lift the veil: discover ‘The actual, for I was your lover. What should such word imply? I showed