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Page 206 of 2251905 · PDF PAGE 154
…} Leave me: we twain have no more words to speak. THE LEEPER. Neither in heaven nor in hell. I go, The dead king, worshipping the living man. [Aves. S’AFI. I have been a god so long, my thoughts run halt From many contemplations. Like the flow Of a slow river deep and beautiful, My even life moved onward to full scope, The ocean of profounder deity, And—suddenly—the cataract ! Centred eternally upon itself, Comprehends hardly all this violence Of wayward inen intemperate. Iam calm, And contemplate, without a muscle moved Or nerve set shrieking,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
…y length of time, the rage was all for professional bicyclists. These pallid heroes, after panting round the vélodrome for God knows how many hours, would fall from their racers into the arms of the stalwart vampires who had annexed them. The best known of England’s “heroic widows” at that time kept a tame but half-witted giant with an enormous black beard; the whole of his body was, I was told, as hirsute as a bear. A daughter of the nobility contented herself with more lyric loves than these. A well-to-do girl from Calcutta practised sheer pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
…y length of time, the rage was all for professional bicyclists. These pallid heroes, after panting round the vélodrome for God knows how many hours, would fall from their racers into the arms of the stalwart vampires who had annexed them. The best known of England’s “heroic widows” at that time kept a tame but half-witted giant with an enormous black beard; the whole of his body was, I was told, as hirsute as a bear. A daughter of the nobility contented herself with more lyric loves than these. A well-to-do girl from Calcutta practised sheer pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
have a similar doctrine; but that it is true in action is only properly expressed by the Chinese. Nothing that any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize it with knowledge of all kinds, improve its powers of expression; supply the genius, in short, with an orchestra instead of a tin whistle. All our little great men, our one-poem poets, our one-picture painters, have merely failed to perfect themselves as instruments. The Genius who wrote The Ancient Mariner is no less sublime…
1905 · PDF PAGE 79
…rust Some petty obstacle before my hands When I would grasp your promise, and betray Your faith for fear of me. I read thy thoughts, Old man; I trust no word of thine; but these Full-hearted mourners, them will I believe Upon their oath most solemn and secure. But take thou warning now! I shall not spare Grey hairs or faltering limbs for treachery. ELEAZAR. Lift up your hands, all people of this land, And swear with me this oath my lips pro- nounce: By Wisdom, father of the world, we swear; 3y Understanding, mother of the sea, By Strength and M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
…that they themselves may hail thee, Festering corruption of thy kiss! Thou the soul of God ! the soul of demon ! Soul of matter, soul of man! Show the gross fools, thine, that think them freemen, What thou art, and what thy heart, And what they are, that they are thee, All creation, whole and part, Thine and thee, near and far :— Come! I call thee, I who can. Pan! Iknowthee! Pan! I show thee! Burst thy cofhn open, Pan! What have I said? What have I done? M.-2ZNADS. Pan! Pan! Evoe, Iacche! Pan! AGAVE. The victim ! AUTONOE. Rend The sole pure thi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
…pyrean. We, vines and fruits and trees with autumn laden, - Sing as the bride-song of a married maiden Before the god-like vigour of the man Breaks the frail temple-doors of love asunder, And wakes the new life’s promise in pale wonder, Shattering the moulded glass, the shape Selenian. Fruits of the earth, our low song joins the crowd. We need not (to be heard) to thunder loud. Our hearts are lifted up, our heads with love low bowed. The tenderest light, the deepest hidden, is shed Up through dark earth—your home, O happy dead !— Crusted in dar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…N J. Eh? What? SIR HERPES Z, You see, Englishmen—ah ! SIR GRARSON J. Er—ah? 1 The Abbot of the Fort-Augustus Abbey was at this time a German, Sirk HERPES Z, Ah! SIR GRABSON J. Er—ah! As Whistler said, ‘‘ You put out your arm, and you hit three’! —eh? Sir HERPES Z. At least the anatomical detail Here is a ph— Probably. is certain. SIR GRABSON J. Tush, tush, old friend, I can take your word for it, Sir HERPES Z. You have some good news to announce, I think, as well as I. SIR GRABSON J. Sad for the general commonwealth, but of particular joy in th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 73
…in of the sunset on highlands Of snow: could the mind of me span The tenderness born of the dew in immaculate islands Virgin of maculate man : Could I mingle the Alps and Hawaii; Strath Ness and A’pura?! and Baie; Kashmir and Japan : Could lilies attain to the life of the Gods: could a comet Attain to the calm of the moon: I would mingle them all in a kiss, and draw from it The soul of a sensitive tune. All lovers should hear it and know it: not needing the words of a poet In ebony hewn. Obeam of discovery under the eyelids awaking The sense of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
…n at your cries; my lips Are silent at your -blasphemy ; my ears Are strong to hear if there be truth at all In your mixed murmurs: I command you, speak ! AMENHATEP. The burden of the madness of the Queen Lies on the land: the Syrian is near ; And she, believing that her godhead guards Her people, sleeps. The altars are thrown down ; The people murmur. wrong, But be thou mighty to avenge ! She hath done thee S’AFI. To-day I, Horus, shall become Osiris. Yea, Strange secret dreams of some mysterious fate Godlike have come upon me, and the throne …
1929 · PDF PAGE 346
…w how they look to the Pope. The greatness of a poet consists, to a considerable extent, in his ability to see the world through another man's eyes; and my training in science is always suggesting to me that I should invent a technique for doing anything that I want to do. My technique for borrowing other people's spectacles was to put myself in the place altogether, either by actually adopting a suitable alias or by writing a book in their names. It is a common and legitimate literary device. When in Holland in '97, I had written a Christmas h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ch reveals the Theogony of the Book was cfficially numbered 666, in the Boulak Muséum. The scribe had adopted 666 as His magical number, many years previously. Again, the scribe’s magical House, bought years earlier, had a name whose value was 418. The scribe had calculated 418 as the clusion of an article callecl “The Revival of Magick” by the Master Therion. The last sentence reads: “Herein is Wisdom; let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…eing yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake. And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise ofa skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge. Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and grace to God that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom. And, after days, did my Guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort sayin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…eing yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake. And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise ofa skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge. Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and grace to God that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom. And, after days, did my Guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort sayin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 216
…nd was a mere swamp of succulent luxury. So she sat there and swayed and wallowed over Abdul Bey. Cremers thought she looked like a snow man just beginning to melt. With a sardonic grin, the old woman waved her hand, and went on deck. The yacht was now well out in the open sea on her way to Marseilles. Here Cremers was to be landed, so that she might return to Paris to report her success to Douglas, while the lovers went on their honeymoon. The wind blew fresh from the south-west, and Cremers, who was a good sailor, came as near as she ever cou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
…o send 1 Sappho, the great lyric poet of Greece, plunged from a rock into the sea, according to later tradition. 2 A stream into which a man plunged, and was united, as a Hermaphrodite, with its attendant nymph. ‘The reference is connected with Sappho’s loves. See her Ode to Aphrodite and Swinburne’s Anactoria and Hermaphro- ditus. The sea is far Dropped in the hollows of the swooning land. Oh! hold my hand! Lift up thy deep eyes to my face, and let Our lips forget The dumb dead hours before they met to- gether ! The snowbright weather Calls us…
1905 · PDF PAGE 188
…n finds its stibtle rood, Intoxdvating my divinity ! Disaainful hands behind thee, PE imay take Wha joys Towill but thou walt not awike. MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE! TN my distress Pmade complaint to Death : Thy shadow strides across the starry airs Thou comest as a serpent unaware, Striking love’s heart and crushing out min’s Dreath : Thy destiny is even as God saith To mark the impotence of human prayer, Choke hope, sting all but Love; and never care . If man or flower or sparrow perisheth. Thee, T invoke thee, though no mercy move Thy hea…
1905 · PDF PAGE 196
… had Or, am I tricked in such a little snare? I lifted up my eyes. What soul stood there, Fronting my path? Tall, stately, delicate, A woman fairer than a pomegranate. A silver spear her hands of lotus hear, One shaft of moonlight quivering and straight. She pointed to the East with flashing eyes : “Thou canst not see her—but my Queen shall rise.” Bowed head and heating heart, with feet unsure I passed her, trembling, for she was too pure. I could have loved her. No: she was too wise. Her presence was too gracious to endure. ‘‘She did not bid m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
… medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cannot see." So instead 01 slipping it into one of the hundreds 01 books on t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
… medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cannot see." So instead 01 slipping it into one of the hundreds 01 books on t…