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…man's appointed term ? To feed God's friend , the coffin - worm ! Crowley further states in a short foreword to these Images of Life and Death ” : “ To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty , in solemnity and horror ; in emotions , to be brief , so great that man had no place therein . But there are moods , in which the heights are attained indirectly , and through man's struggle with the elemental powers ." 2 Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest , Dissolve the desperate lust of life By infinite a…
1898 · PDF PAGE 91
…ome, where bound ?) To baffle those protectors Whose wings are broad around. Uprise they and upbraid, Till life shrinks back afraid, And death itself dismayed Sinks back to the profound. 81
1911 · PDF PAGE 45
…mercy find our ease. Beside the pleasant streams we move, Our thoughts concentrated on the above, And find our joyance in Thy love. When Death’s cold stream runs black and chill, And yew and cypress haunt the hill, Be Thou our love and comfort still. Receive us (by Thy Motherhood) By deathless stream and fadeless wood In Thy celestial solitude. Amen. U 38
1910 · PDF PAGE 335
…t is deep under the ground and very still. Above its bricks is a layer of earth, and if any sound at all percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. This, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown and ugly stems glow such a tender sap and noiseless fervour of exqui- site perfume. At intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 335
…t is deep under the ground and very still. Above its bricks is a layer of earth, and if any sound at all percolates into this chamber of death, it is only the delicate tremor and rustle of things growing, of the grass seed pushing its tiny way through the mould, to break at the last into its narrow slip of bright green flame. This, and the weak whisper of trailing rose-roots in whose brown and ugly stems glow such a tender sap and noiseless fervour of exqui- site perfume. At intervals, maybe, this dark blue silence is wounded by strange creakin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 156
…is the Path? l. The Ego is attracted to the Solar System. 2. The Child experiences Birth. 3. The Man experiences Life. 4. He experiences Death . 5. He experiences the World beyond Death. 6. This entire cycle of Point-Events is withdrawn into Annihilation . In the O.T.O. these successive stages are represented as follows : l. 0° 2. 1° 3. W 4. IW 5. IV 6. P.1. (Minerval) (Initiation) (Consecration) (Devotion) (Perfection, or Exaltation) (Perfect Initiate) Of these Events or Stations upon the Path all but three (11°) are single critical experience…
1913 · PDF PAGE 206
…ncontaminate—a lambent flame. Lick, lick the sores upon me!* ah! thy name Hath burned me through : I scorch within thy star! Drain me to death, and slay me with thy flame! Death and destruction! O Istar! Istar! Palace of dream! Red rose-leaves subtly hurled At the chariot-wheels of Time! O charioteer, Who drivest on the molten car o' the world Over desire, and love, and hope and fear, Hath not the name of the goddess on thine ear Fallen, and art thou still abashed with shame? Apollo! Apollo! Apollo! I name the Name, And the silver of the moon g…
1913 · PDF PAGE 206
…ncontaminate—a lambent flame. Lick, lick the sores upon me!* ah! thy name Hath burned me through : I scorch within thy star! Drain me to death, and slay me with thy flame! Death and destruction! O Istar! Istar! Palace of dream! Red rose-leaves subtly hurled At the chariot-wheels of Time! O charioteer, Who drivest on the molten car o' the world Over desire, and love, and hope and fear, Hath not the name of the goddess on thine ear Fallen, and art thou still abashed with shame? Apollo! Apollo! Apollo! I name the Name, And the silver of the moon g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
…hese, Perfectly sad, and steady, and at ease. Self-slain, they shall save others from the yoke. Seven then are these found faithful unto death; From Calais six; and one from Nazareth. 29
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…MBERGRIS This is the climax, first and last. We stand upon the summit. Mother Of ages, daughter of ages, cast The fatal die, and turn to death ! Let evolution turn, involving As when the gray sun sickeneth Ghostly September ! so dissolving Into the pale eternal breath. When all is done, shall this be said. When all is said, shall this be done, The æon exhaust and finishéd, And slumber steal upon the sun, My dear, when you and I are dead.
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…. | Med. Wife, &c. 5| Good | Evil Med. |V. good} Evil Good | Good | Med, Sex ofChild 6{ Son 5 5 Dau. 5 Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 |Long &| Death | Death | Asc. Asc. | Health |Perilous} Hard pining Prison 8 Tong Out with} Perilous} Long | Good Come Come Long Journey 9| Slow Med. [Good by| Good | Med. Evil Slow | Hard Thing Lost 10| Found | Found | Not | Found| Not | Found| Not | Found found found found CaRCER oe Life, &c. 1 | Good Med. | Good | Good | Med. |Suffic’nt| Evil Med. Money, &c. 2| Good} Evil Good | Med. | Med. |Suffic’nt) Evil Med. Rank…
1911 · PDF PAGE 234
…osom bare. 0 maiden, maiden queen! The lightning flows between Thy mounting breasts, too magically fair. Draw me, 0 draw me to a dreaming death ! Send out thine opiate breath, And lull me to the everlasting sleep, That, closing from the kisses of disdain To ecstasy of pain, I may sob out my life into their dangerous deep. Who cometh from the mountain as a tower Stalwart and set against the fiery foes? Who, breathing as a jasmine—laden bower? Who, crowned and lissome as a living rose? Sharp thorns in thee are set ; In me, in me beget The dolorous …
1911 · PDF PAGE 234
…osom bare. 0 maiden, maiden queen! The lightning flows between Thy mounting breasts, too magically fair. Draw me, 0 draw me to a dreaming death ! Send out thine opiate breath, And lull me to the everlasting sleep, That, closing from the kisses of disdain To ecstasy of pain, I may sob out my life into their dangerous deep. Who cometh from the mountain as a tower Stalwart and set against the fiery foes? Who, breathing as a jasmine—laden bower? Who, crowned and lissome as a living rose? Sharp thorns in thee are set ; In me, in me beget The dolorous …
1913 · PDF PAGE 320
…e Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who begrudge that man should hope, and the Pharisees of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 320
…e Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who begrudge that man should hope, and the Pharisees of …
1961 · PDF PAGE 169
…that cry: I am I, they that deny Love, restricting it to their own Nature. But the Serpent is the secret Nature of Man, that is Life and Death, and maketh his Way through the Generations in Silence. And the Eagle is that Might of Live which is the Key of Magick, uplifting the Body and its Appurtenance unto high Ekstacy upon his Wings. It is by Virtue thereof that the Sphinx beholdeth he Sun unwinking, and confronteth the Pyramid without Shame. Our Dragon, therefore, combining the Natures of the Eagle and he Serpent, is our Love, the Organ of ou…
1912 · PDF PAGE 86
80 White as a corpse, the hero hails The dawn, that night of fear still shaking His body. All death’s doubt assails Him. Was it sleep or was it waking? “ By God, I care not, I!” (quod he). “Or wake or sleep, or live or dead, I will pursue this mystery. So help me Grace of Godlihead!” Ay! with thy wasted limbs pursue That subtle Beast home to his den! Who knows but thou mayst win athrough, Sir Palamede the Saracen?
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…bout its cage ; The stars are shaken in the rage Of—who but Zeus? Before our gaze, (My love’s in shuddering amaze, Of birth deceived and death forlorn, And mine in anger, ay ! and scorn !) He stood--the mighty One! So earth And heaven proclaimed that fearful birth: So they grew silent lest he curse. Dead silence hushed the universe 3 O how And then in clear calm tones he spoke: ‘Fools! who have meddled, and awoke The inmost forces of the world ! One lightning from my hand had hurled Both to annihilation’s brink. What foolish goddess bade ye thi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 116
…r is in His hands; He must end it, either with that mighty spiritual Experience which I have sought, or else with black madness, or with death. By the Body of God, swear thou that death would come— welcome, welcome, welcome!
1909 · PDF PAGE 162
…. | Med. Wife, &c. 5| Good | Evil Med. |V. good} Evil Good | Good | Med, Sex ofChild 6{ Son 5 5 Dau. 5 Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 |Long &| Death | Death | Asc. Asc. | Health |Perilous} Hard pining Prison 8 Tong Out with} Perilous} Long | Good Come Come Long Journey 9| Slow Med. [Good by| Good | Med. Evil Slow | Hard Thing Lost 10| Found | Found | Not | Found| Not | Found| Not | Found found found found CaRCER oe Life, &c. 1 | Good Med. | Good | Good | Med. |Suffic’nt| Evil Med. Money, &c. 2| Good} Evil Good | Med. | Med. |Suffic’nt) Evil Med. Rank…