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Page 21 of 921928 · PDF PAGE 32
…t. At last the tyranny of the human countenance disappears, and I shall not suffer except from myself. At last! it is then allowed me to take mine ease in a bath of shadows. First let me double- lock the door. It seems to me that this turning of the key will intensify my solitude and strengthen the barricades that separate me from the world. Horrible life; horrible town! Let us go over the days work. I saw several men of letters, one of whom asked me if it was possible to go to Russia by land. He doubtless thought Russia was an island. I dispu…
1961 · PDF PAGE 33
…r of analysing the Consciousness into its Planes; and so for many others. But all these are, in our mystical Sense, Poisons; that is, we take two Things diverse and opposite, binding them together so that they are compelled to unite; and the Orgasm of each Marriage is an Ecstasy, the Lower dissolving in the Higher. n
1919 · PDF PAGE 140
THE EQUINOX As this cannot be done with comfort in this country (England), let your chief practice take place an hour or half an hour before your breakfast hour. 4. If possible set apart a room wherein to carry out your exercises; keep it clean, and only keep in it objects which please you; burn a little incense in the room before beginning an exercise; keep the room holy to yourself, and do not allow yourself or another to do anything unbalanced in thought or action in it. In will and deed make this room a temple and a symbol of that greater T…
1902 · PDF PAGE 31
…the light and rapture of the will : We touch the stars —and they are tiny still ! O mighty thews ! O godlike face and hair ! Rise up and take me ; ay, and keep me there, One tingle at thy touch from head to feet ; Lips that cling close, and never seem to meet. Melting as sunlight melts in wine ! Arise ! Shame ! Has thy learning left thee overwise ? Thy lips sing fondly —to another tune. Nay ! 'twas my breathing beauty made thee swoon, 29
1903 · PDF PAGE 13
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1910 · PDF PAGE 480
…that took me in his toil. I keep my strength regained to chase The Beast that mocks me now as then Dear Christ! I pray Thee of Thy grace Take pity on the forlorn case Of Palamede the Saracen!” 104
1910 · PDF PAGE 480
…that took me in his toil. I keep my strength regained to chase The Beast that mocks me now as then Dear Christ! I pray Thee of Thy grace Take pity on the forlorn case Of Palamede the Saracen!” 104
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
THE POET AT BAY 127 Life was, and laughter. Take the odds Offered us by the gambling gods ! I saw a painted dancing-girl Writhe, jerk, shake, snap her fingers, curl Her lips into a lecherous leer All night for sixpence and her beer. I met her eyes. We knew each other, In Gods womb sister and twin brother ! She blazed. Each belly-twitch set swinging The censers of the stars, set singing The myriad choirs of cherubim. All nature dived from sense, to swim In that past-space past-period Infinite ocean that is God. Such luck be yours ! You cannot t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 17
…ordered form. Every instruction has been edited on strictly scientific lines. Students are thoroughly drilled in this work; examinations take place regularly, and diplomas issued to those who pass II
1926 · PDF PAGE 4
12. Come forth, 0 children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! 13. I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy. I4. Above, the gemméd azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardours of Hadit. The winged globe, the starry blue, Are mine, 0 Ankh-af-na-khonsu! I 5. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest and apostle of infinite space is the prince- priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their f…
1901 · PDF PAGE 78
…e soldier. The KING OF SYRIA, attended, enters. KING OF SYRIA. Your armies beaten back before my face, Your weapons broken, I am come to take The crown from her pale brows that sitteth there. THE LEPER. The Queen is dead: I am the King of Egypt. To-day I saved the house from its own shame By strange ways: I will strike one blow to save The land from its invaders. In the name Of all our gods, I here invoke on thee The spirit of my leprosy. Have at you! [Springs at the King of Syria, only to be transfixed on his drawn sword; but he succeeds tn cl…
1912 · PDF PAGE 7
…k,” is more advanced in style than Part I ; the student is expected to know a little of the literature of the subject, and to be able to take an intelligent View of it. This part is, however, really explanatory of Part I, which is a crude outline sketch only. If both parts are thoroughly studied and understood, the pupil will have obtained a real graspof all the fundamentals and essentialsof both Magick and Mysticism. I wrote this book down from Frater Perdurabo’s dictation at the Villa Caldarazzo, Posilippo, Naples, where I was studying under …
1961 · PDF PAGE 129
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 117 Dm De suo Prlio (Of his Struggle) OW therefore thou seest how Men take the Son of Science, and burn him for a Sorcerer or a Heretic; the Poet and cast him out as Reprobate; the Painter, as deforming Nature, the Musician, as denying Harmony; and so for every New Word. How much more, then, if the Word be of Universal Import, a Word of Revolution and of Revelation in the Deep of the Soul? A new Star; that is for the Astronomers, and maybe setteth them by he Ears. But a new Sun! That were for all Men; and a Seed of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…ss All that I am with all thou art, my Vampire, my Siren that I thought a nightingale ! Abase me ! Spit on me ! Scourge me ! Murder me ! Take thy wolfs meal of my loveliness ! Give me the reek of thy foul breath, and show me the lepers face behind the shining veil ! Yea ! Though I sink through measureless abysses, I trace the incommensurable curve. Thy foursquare wedge that rages in my circle shall match it at the infinite period. Polluted body, violated spirit, corrupted soul, stunned brain and tortured nerve : These merge into thy bloody m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 250
…nk where, shepherds say, The flowers eternal are. Thine eyes should gleam to see me there, As fixed upon a star, And yet thy lips should take a tune, And match me unaware— So steals the sun beside the moon And hides her lustre rare. The bloom upon the peach is fine ; The blossom on thy cheek is mine ! O kiss me—if you dare ! I called thee by the name of love That mothers fear and gods approve, And maidens blush to say— O Gretchen, meet me in the dell We know and love, who love so well, While morn is cold and gray ! So, match thy blushes to the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 16
…f my idle hours? Believe, I seem to tremble at my inward thought ; My heart is full of wonder. When I go Nightward beneath the moon, and take my thoughts
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…ck," is more advanced in style than Part I; the student is expected to know a little of the literature of the subject, and to be able to take an intelligent view of it. This part is, however, really explanatory of Part I, which is a crude outline sketch only. If both parts are thoroughly studied and understood, the pupil will have obtained a real grasp of all the fundamentals and essentials of both Magick and Mysticism. I wrote this book down from Frater Perdurabo's dictation at the Villa Caldarazzo, Posilippo, Naples, where I was studying unde…
1916 · PDF PAGE 1
…12 Pyramids beneath the=Night of Pan for Five Score and Six seasons, according to the word of the pro- - pphecy in Liber CDXVIII, having taken the Hand of the Prelate, the Scarlet Woman, Hilarion, and having been led by her through the appointed Pylons, become OHPION ‘a Magus 9” = 2° of the A:.A:, the Great White Brotherhood of Light. ace [Now therefore must he of necessity take up the Curse of his Grade, and preach his Law to men. Here then is ‘Law as it is written in the Book of the Law. Do what thou wile shall be ehe whole of the Law. ‘There…
1944 · PDF PAGE 135
…foam upon the waves. And there is a contest between the Vision and the memories. I prayed unto the Lords of Vision, saying: O my Lords,, take not away this wonder from my sight. And they said: It must needs be. Rejoice therefore if thou hast been permitted to be‐ hold, even for a moment, this Arrow, the austere, the august. But the vision is accomplished, and we have sent forth a great wind against thee. For thou canst not penetrate by force, who hast refused it; nor by authority, for thou hast trampled it under foot. Thou art bereft of all but…
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
… aw guedp—gold aud feafé Pour from the poor folk & Heir Gands. The Doubtful poWer from FeaBey t (trike The WBin COLE Hey claim atiBe. GS take no feed of trickery plamd Bp cunning mad Elijas’s (Bite, Whey He givat af of férength Bas mar Oy Carmel’s melancholy Gil, And on tHe alfarzftone the fiar Exied “ Maer,” and poured forth Gueek fir! They While He fools prev FaSen Ward, ‘Eva as he prays, & (ec He (Rice Momit He flafh, Sis furife (Bord AFale tthe Flintp altar Flic. Whoof! He Wild Blase affures He chose TefoRah is He God of gods! ‘Mor % SH fet…