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Page 21 of 791904 · PDF PAGE 77
ACTUS QUARTUS That song of swimming when thy love lost sense Before the passion of the Infinite. JASON. The more so as my master warns me oft Of late how near that island is, where dwell The alluring daughters of Melpomene. ORPHEUS. Light shed from seaward over breakers bending Kiss-wise to the emerald hollows: light divine Whereof the sun is God, the sea his shrine; Light in vibrations rhythmic; light unending, Light sideways from the girdling crags extending Unto this lone and languid head of mine; Light, that fulfils creation as with wine, F…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
6 ARGONAUTAE Light, as I swim through rollers green and gleaming, Sheds its most subtle sense to penetrate This heart I thought impervious to Fate. Now the sweet light, the full delight, is beaming Through me and burns me: all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deeming T see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light! ever light! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light inva…
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
…led with comet and with meteor. Behold within that crested House of War, One central glory of a sapphire stone, Whereon there breathed a sense, a mist, a sun ! I stood and laughed upon the Ancient One. For He was silent as my body’s kiss, And sleeping as my many-coloured hair, And living as my eyes and lips ; and where The vast creation round him cried “ He Is ! ”, No murmur reached Him ; He was set alone, Alone and central. And my eyes were dim; I worshipped even ; for I envied Him. So, moving upward to the azure throne, I spread my arms unto …
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
…ding the History Lection. Explains the actual history of the origin of the present movement. Its statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. The object of the book is to discount Mythopeeia. Liser LXIV.—Liber Isvafel, formerly called Anubis. An instruction in a suitable method of preaching. Liper LXXVIII. A description of the Cards of the Tarot with their attribu- tions, including a method of divination by their use. 47
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
…ding the History Lection. Explains the actual history of the origin of the present movement. Its statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. The object of the book is to discount Mythopeeia. Liser LXIV.—Liber Isvafel, formerly called Anubis. An instruction in a suitable method of preaching. Liper LXXVIII. A description of the Cards of the Tarot with their attribu- tions, including a method of divination by their use. 47
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…guage itself confirms it; for the words 'to know, 'gnosis,' are merely sub-echoes of the first cries implying generation in the physical sense; for the root GAN means 'to know' only in the second place; its original sense is 'to beget.' Similarly 'spirit' only means 'breath'; 'divine' and most other words of identical purport imply no more than 'shining.' So it is one of the limitations of our minds that we are fettered by language to the crude ideas of our savage ancestors; and we ought to be free to investigate whether there may not be someth…
1905 · PDF PAGE 131
…d the willows cover (As lover from a lover Even for love’s sake all the wealth of love) The whole light of the skies : there came to him Sense of some being dim Bent over him, one colour and one form With the dark leaves ; but warm And capable of some diviner air. Her limbs were bare, her face supremely fair, Her soul one shapely splendour, Her voice indeed as tender As very silence : so he would not speak, But let his being fade : that all the past Grew shadowy and weak, And lost its life at last, Being mere dream to this that was indeed Life …
1910 · PDF PAGE 4
…, dry, contemptuous, Too cold for hate : all I can say is that they come From some dead sphere without me ; Singly they come, beats of a senseless drum Jarred by a fool, harsh, unharmonious. There is no sense within me or about me ; Yet each thought is most surely known For a catastrophe. No climax of a well-wrought tragedy ! Single and sterile. I am here for naught. I have no memory of the rose-red hours. No fragrance of those days amid the flowers Lingers ; all’s drowned in the accursed stench Of this damned present. The past years abort And …
1913 · PDF PAGE 4
…ks will be made. The Student is expected to show a thorough acquaintance with them, but not necessarily to understand them in any deeper sense. On passing the examination he may be admitted to the grade of Probationer. With the publication of No. X of THE Eguinox the Official Pronouncements of the A.*. A.*. will cease, according to the Rule of the Order, which prescribes Five Years of Silence alternating with Five Years of Speech. This Silence was maintained from the year O to the year IV of this era. Speech followed, from the year V to the yea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 140
…ly as a windless palm. Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound To the one love of the Profound. Fifth, let the thought, divinely free From sense, observe its entity. Watch every thought that springs ; enhance Hour after hour thy vigilance ! Intense and keen, turned inward, miss No atom of analysis ! Sixth, on one thought securely pinned, Still every whisper of the wind! So like a flame straight and unstirred Burn up thy being in one word! Next, still that ecstasy, prolong Thy meditation steep and strong, 100
1913 · PDF PAGE 4
…ks will be made. The Student is expected to show a thorough acquaintance with them, but not necessarily to understand them in any deeper sense. On passing the examination he may be admitted to the grade of Probationer. With the publication of No. X of THE Eguinox the Official Pronouncements of the A.*. A.*. will cease, according to the Rule of the Order, which prescribes Five Years of Silence alternating with Five Years of Speech. This Silence was maintained from the year O to the year IV of this era. Speech followed, from the year V to the yea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 140
…ly as a windless palm. Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound To the one love of the Profound. Fifth, let the thought, divinely free From sense, observe its entity. Watch every thought that springs ; enhance Hour after hour thy vigilance ! Intense and keen, turned inward, miss No atom of analysis ! Sixth, on one thought securely pinned, Still every whisper of the wind! So like a flame straight and unstirred Burn up thy being in one word! Next, still that ecstasy, prolong Thy meditation steep and strong, 100
1899 · PDF PAGE 67
…ighest out the stars with balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? AHINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. Sing to him perchance! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. CHORUS. What say ye, brethren, shall we sing to him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean?
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…, dry, contemptuous, Too cold for hate : all I can say is that they come From some dead sphere without me ; Singly they come, beats of a senseless drum Jarred by a fool, harsh, unharmonious. There is no sense within me or about me ; Yet each thought is most surely known For a catastrophe. No climax of a well-wrought tragedy ! Single and sterile. I am here for naught. I have no memory of the rose-red hours. No fragrance of those days amid the flowers Lingers ; alls drowned in the accursed stench Of this damned present. The past years abort And …
1911 · PDF PAGE 262
…s of love, And all the swallow’s swifter vehemence, And, subtler than the Sphinx, The ineffable iynx Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When (rom the bluest bowers And greenest—hearted hours Of Heaven thou smil'st toward earth, a miracle of flowers! Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate, where the shade of earth is black, Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face! The glory of the comet-tailed track Blinds all black earth with tears Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the starry spheres. Wra…
1911 · PDF PAGE 262
…s of love, And all the swallow’s swifter vehemence, And, subtler than the Sphinx, The ineffable iynx Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When (rom the bluest bowers And greenest—hearted hours Of Heaven thou smil'st toward earth, a miracle of flowers! Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate, where the shade of earth is black, Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face! The glory of the comet-tailed track Blinds all black earth with tears Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the starry spheres. Wra…
1929 · PDF PAGE 384
… of the Aeon, the Prophet chosen to proclaim the Law which will determine the destinies of this planet for an epoch, singles me out in a sense, puts me in a class which contains only seven other names in the whole of human history. No possible personal attainment could have done this. There are countless initiates, especially in Asia, who have scaled very summit in the range of spiritual success. I should unquestionably have become insane from satisfaction at the fulfilment of my utmost aspirations having been granted to me {615} so superlative…
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…e maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirits ut- most flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name ! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; lake, rise up in mist to sun ; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Mas- ters work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world with light of healing in the an- cient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals, …
1928 · PDF PAGE 150
… reflected the softness of heaven, and my heart, mine, shuddered like hell What! { How What do you mean? It was inevitable. My sense of justice is too strong to allow me to beat, insult or dismiss an irreproachable servant; but I had to reconcile this sentiment with the horror with which this being inspired me: to disencumber myself without lacking in respect. What would you that I should do with her, since she was per- fect? The three other men looked at their com- panion with a vague and slightly stupefied
1929 · PDF PAGE 361
…professors were rarely well born, more rarely well bred, hardly ever sincere, and still less frequently honest even in the most ordinary sense of the word. It seemed to me that my first duty was to prove to the world that I was not teaching Magick for money. I promised myself always to publish my books on an actual loss on the cost of production --- never to accept a farthing for any form of instruction, giving advice, or any other service whose performance depended on my magical attainments. I regarded myself as having sacrificed my career and…