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Page 21 of 781944 · PDF PAGE 169
…her than workers. Life for them is purely mechanical; and they cannot rise, or even seek to rise, above their ap‐ pointed lot. In the Yî King, the watery part of Earth is represented by the 3ist hexagram, Hsien. This has the meaning: Influence. The commentary describes the effect of moving various parts of the body, from the toes to the jaws and tongue. This is rather an amplification of what has been said above than an exact correspondence; yet there is no discordance. The general ad‐ vice is to go forward quietly without overt attack upon exi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 207
… glowing flood of glory; I had been almost delirious to think I was the wife of a man in whose veins ran the blood of England’s greatest king ; of him whose glamour had gilded the centuries with romance; to think that I might hold such royal heir- ship under my heart. What radiant rapture ! And Peter himself had shown himself worthy of his ancestry. Had not he too beaten back the heathen and saved England? So this was the end of my dream! This brawling ruffian was my man! I sat stupefied while his incoherent insults battered my brain; but my in…
1899 · PDF PAGE 147
…m a single speck. And so he went away; and fate inwove The bitterest of treason for our love. For scarce two days when sickness took the King, And death tissolved the violence of the ring, I ruled alone; I left my palace gate To see if Love should have the laugh at Fate. And so I violated Death, and died ; And in the other land my spirit cried For incarnation ; conquering I came Within my soulless body as a flame.
1899 · PDF PAGE 5
…t like a littlé thing, And Truth and God were'near us to withdraw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. - We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. Only our looks and trembling lips we dread, And the dear nimbus of a lover’s head, The dreamy splendour and the dim delight ' That feels the fragrance fallen from the night,
1910 · PDF PAGE 123
…y 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 barge
1911 · PDF PAGE 73
THE ELECTRIC SILENCE And the end shall be as is appointed by the master of the House; but this I know, that this ship is the King’s ship. And in my bosom are the champak—blossom, and the mustard seed, and the oak-leaf, more lovely than before. And upon us watcheth ever he that is appointed to watch. And the wild swan sings ever; and my heart sings ever. Now then I had laid aside the pen, and a voice cried : Write! Fear not I Turn not asidel Is it not written that Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning? Sleep therefore in p…
1911 · PDF PAGE 73
THE ELECTRIC SILENCE And the end shall be as is appointed by the master of the House; but this I know, that this ship is the King’s ship. And in my bosom are the champak—blossom, and the mustard seed, and the oak-leaf, more lovely than before. And upon us watcheth ever he that is appointed to watch. And the wild swan sings ever; and my heart sings ever. Now then I had laid aside the pen, and a voice cried : Write! Fear not I Turn not asidel Is it not written that Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning? Sleep therefore in p…
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
…TER CROWLEY.* IT is a lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H . Mallock, &c. ) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after all a problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. To me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for Shakespeare what Verrall has done so ably for Euripides. The third tabernacle must be filled; Shaw and “the Human” must have their Superhuman companion. (This is not a scale: pithecanthropoid innuendo is to be deprecated…
1898 · PDF PAGE 31
…e. O Life of the stars in their glory, O Light of the passionate spring, How sweet and supreme is thy story, Most Wonderful, Counsellor, King ! O crucified, slain, re-arisen ! Burst open the fetters that bind, Change from us the garb of our prison And lighten the mind. O Spring, tell the bountiful Giver Thy smiles on the world are in vain ;
1899 · PDF PAGE 141
…t like a littlé thing, And Truth and God were'near us to withdraw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. - We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. Only our looks and trembling lips we dread, And the dear nimbus of a lover’s head, The dreamy splendour and the dim delight ' That feels the fragrance fallen from the night,
1901 · PDF PAGE 14
xi PROLOGUE Lord of the Gods! O Thou, the King of Kings! To me a sinner, me, Lowest of all that be, Be merciful, O Master Soul of things! Show me thy face of ruth, And in thy way of truth, Guide my weak youth, That stumbles while it walks, makes discord when it sings! So, Mighty Mother! Pure, Eternal Spouse, Isis, thou Star, thou Moon, thou Mightiest, Lead my weak steps to thine Eternal House! Rest my vain head on thine Eternal Breast! Spread wide the wings divine Over this shadowy shrine, Where in my heart their hovering lendeth Light! Bend do…
1901 · PDF PAGE 117
… Where lurks some serpent-eyed Fear, passion, or man’s deadly wife Desire, the suicide ! Before me dwells the Holy One Anointed Beauty’s King ; Behind me, mightier than the Sun, To whom the cherubs sing, A strong archangel, known of none, Comes crowned and conquering. An angel stands on my right hand With strength of ocean’s wrath ; Upon my left the fiery brand, Charioted fire smites forth : Four great archangels to withstand The furies of the path.
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…r, Sealing that sacramental troth With a long curl of hair, And the strange prayer’s reiterant growth Sent shining through the air. (Invoking Aphrodtte) Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the Father of all, the A‘gis-bearing King! Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering. Sweet sister unto me, I cry aloud to thee ! I laugh upon thee laughing, O dew caught up from sea! Drawn by sharp sparrow and dove And swan’s wide plumes of love, And all the swallow’s swifter vehemence, 139
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…s: A Lyrical Legend. (In two volumes.) Ios. The tale of Orpheus re-told in surpassingly beautiful lyrics. The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. 2s. The only book of its kind in which rational criticism has been combined with unimpeachable scholarship, and a profound knowledge of Cere- monial Magic, as practised to-day in the Secret Houses of Adepts. Rosa Mundi. 16s. Rosa Inferni. 16s, Rosa Coeli. 16s, Each of these three contain a lithograph from a water-colour of Auguste Rodin. Gargoyles. 35. 6d. This book contains Mr. Crowley’s finest …
1898 · PDF PAGE 125
LA JUIVE 119 I saw his broken body hang Sweating and bleeding on the cross ; I heard his curses champ and clang ; I spat upon his reeking corse ; I licked the spear ; my feet were shod With iron as I kicked my God. Such frightful fancies dim my eyes— I can remember how his side Lay open for a lover’s prize— I violate the Crucified ! Hell shrieks with impious laugh ; they sing A mad lewd chant ; Hell hails me king ! So runs my dream ; but what am I ? A lover by a Jewess’ bed, A lover waiting wistfully For his desires to be fed ; His only lust—a …
1904 · PDF PAGE 93
…S WEPT 77 SIR HERPES Z. But how does this bear on the case ? SIR GRABSON J. Dying without issue, he has left all to Sir Percy here ; the King (cheers from large but unseen body of retainers, who have been eaves- dropping), moreover, unwilling that the Marquisate should die out, will bestow it on the same lucky young fellow. SIR HERPES Z. This is marvellous news ! SIR GRABSON J. Again, Lady Baird has just perished in awful agony. Having suffered for twenty years from a hideous and incu- rable disease, she brought matters to a climax last night b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
… of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all Knowledge. Thence let them soar! 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him. Commentary: We must abolish the shadows by the Radiant Light of the Sun. Real things are only thrown into brighter glory by His effulgence. We need have no fear then to throw the Christians to the Lions. If there be indeed True Men among them, who happen through defect of education to know no better, they will reincarnate all right, an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. Commentary: The Christians to the Lions! A hermit is one who dwells isolated in the desert, exactly as a soul, a star, or an electron in the wilderness of space-time. The 11:6 11:24
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…spise Lewd conduct in the lowest, and detest Spells hurtful to the head, when ancient hags Brew their bad liquors at the waning moon, Barking their chants of murder. But to rule A land, and wive a king, and breed to him Kings—then such persons are unsuitable. MEDEA. Unless these words were well repented of I might transform ye into—— CHORUS. Stay, great queen! MEDEA. Well for your respite comes this messenger. MESSENGER. Queen and fair mother of great kings unborn, And mighty chosen of the land of Greece, A tidings of deep bliss is born to you.
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
…se true of virtue ; but, to the mystic, virtue, as such, is itself vice. Cf. “ All your righteousness is as filthy rags.” 5. Shahrava. A king who forced a leather cur- rency on his subjects. Dildos in Persia being usually made of leather, the jest is double- edged. To present a dildo, or anything which might by any possibility be used as such, to a courtesan is a deadly insult, implying “ You cannot attract a live man ”, and she will assuredly have you murdered sooner or later if she can. 6. A proverb and a pun, [Persian text] denial, [Persian …