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ACTUS SECUNDUS ARGUS. True, Theseus—if he had but hit his thumb! CASTOR. Cease this fool’s talk. The moon waits not the work. POLLUX. The sun will sink no later for your pleasure. On to thy work, man. THESEUS, He that traps a lion And baits him for an hour, and lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me; and I lift up my club, And with one blo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 101
The Mystic the true support of all religion. 93 XXIII MIRRIKH1 Like Mars, red planet of the evening, Rising o’er breasts of tender earth in spring, So gleams thy podex, beautiful Habib, My brother and my lover and my king ! For Mars is like a rose and ball of fire2 ; For Mars is like a serpent with its sting. There is a pain, an ecstasy, a woe, A joy, athrob within the wondrous thing. The dull and boneless devotees of twat— Leave them to grovel ; we are well a-wing. Yet twitch that podex, like the wandering way Of Mars within the everlasting ri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 96
… Roses for ivy on thy brow , That splendour for this barren vow ? ” Gentle of speech she answered me : " Sir , I was sick with revelry . True , I have scarred the night with sin, A pale and tawdry heroine ; But once I heard a voice that said ' Who lives in sin is like one dead , But follow : thy dark eyes shall see The towns of immortality !' "
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…f minimum effort—would be simply to jump. I should hâve destroyed my will in the act of fulfilling it, or what I mistook for it; for the true will has no goal ; its nature being to Go. Similarly a paraboia is bound by one law which fixes its relations with two straight lines at every point ; yet it has no end short of infinity, and it continually changes its direc¬ tion. The initiate who is aware Who he is can always check his conduct by reference to the déterminants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings and his proper …
1899 · PDF PAGE 204
…. The Fear of Faithlessness! But well I know, Beyond the faith that mortals hold for truth, That we are wedded, in eternal youth, In the true marriage. While the rivers flow, And the sea mourns for Sappho, and the trees Croon over men their many melodies, And the sun burns above, and ice and snow With ermine robes and cloudy canopies Crown the rock pyramids, and God stands fast In heaven, our love shall last. It was the shadow of some cloudy Thing, That touched my mind a moment, and is past Into the gloomy.kingdom. I may cast The sandals of the…
1901 · PDF PAGE 107
… blue ; Rings the sharp summons in the halls of fear ; Flames the great lamen ; as a fiery dew Falls the keen chanted music ; fierce and true Beams the bright diamond of the crowning sphere. None may withstand the summons : like dead flame Flares darkness deeper, and demands its name. F
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…s I bowed mine head Upon the amber altar, And shed my life out there before ye all, Careless if I had summoned from the skies Some young true God, or spoiled the sacrifice, And were but dead as any man is dead ! So I have given up my inmost life Even unto you, sweet wife, Carelessyet conscious of the babe-stirred womb Of some dread Mother older than the Tomb, Wiser than Life, more pitiful than Death. IV OUR wine-stained and wine-coloured hair unloosing, Mingle your wine-wise breath, Spiritual siren ! with the scent seducing Your body sheds, sc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 296
THE EQUINOX forces is the pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power. Good alone is mighty, and Truth alone shall prevail; Evil is but weakness, and the power of evil ; magic exists but in the contest of unbalanced forces, which in the end will destroy and ruin him who hath subjugated himself thereto. As it is said: “stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the Earth ; a descent of Seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an Evil and Fatal force. Stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy bril…
1909 · PDF PAGE 296
THE EQUINOX forces is the pathway made to true occult knowledge and practical power. Good alone is mighty, and Truth alone shall prevail; Evil is but weakness, and the power of evil ; magic exists but in the contest of unbalanced forces, which in the end will destroy and ruin him who hath subjugated himself thereto. As it is said: “stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the Earth ; a descent of Seven steps; and therein is established the throne of an Evil and Fatal force. Stoop not down unto that dark and lurid world, defile not thy bril…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
…ul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great mystic to get to the bottom of things without becoming defiled. I hope Mr. Watkins is a true Christian. V. BLN. TH…
1910 · PDF PAGE 48
…ul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really perceives the underlying realities of Christianity, a religion which is so hidden by mounds of dirt and rubbish that it needs a very great mystic to get to the bottom of things without becoming defiled. I hope Mr. Watkins is a true Christian. V. BLN. TH…
1898 · PDF PAGE 63
We shall regather where the skies are blue And live and love for aye, pure, passionate, and true. Also before my eyes there gleams from Heaven The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted, and the skies are riven— A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and his love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether, Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather. So I am ready to assume the Cross, Start on my journey with the last word said ; Turn m…
1961 · PDF PAGE 90
…Men say, that I might attain to this great Work. It is now twenty Years, as Men count years, that I came to my first Understanding of my true Nature, and aspired to that Work. Now then at first I made no Error. I abandoned my chosen Career; I poured out my whole Fortune without one Thought; I gave my Life utterly to the Work, without keeping back the least imaginable Thing. So then I made swift Strides along the Path. But in the Dhyanas that were granted unto me in Kandy, in the Island of Lanka, I used up my whole Charge of Magical Energy; and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
… waiting womb ! 2nd Semi-chorus. Glory to Thee from virgin vowed ! Glory to Thee from earth unploughed ! 1st Semi-chorus. Glory to Thee, true Unity Of the eternal Trinity! 2nd Semi-chorus. Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam And self of I am that I am! 1st Semt-chorus. Glory to Thee, beyond all term, Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! 2nd Semt-chorus. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, thou Three in One! Chorus. Glory and worship be to Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! [He raises his hands to the shrine, and opens it. A ros…
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
… waiting womb ! 2nd Semi-chorus. Glory to Thee from virgin vowed ! Glory to Thee from earth unploughed ! 1st Semi-chorus. Glory to Thee, true Unity Of the eternal Trinity! 2nd Semi-chorus. Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam And self of I am that I am! 1st Semt-chorus. Glory to Thee, beyond all term, Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! 2nd Semt-chorus. Glory to Thee, eternal Sun, Thou One in Three, thou Three in One! Chorus. Glory and worship be to Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! [He raises his hands to the shrine, and opens it. A ros…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
… of those three éléments of literary composition. 3. This is not in contradiction with the absolute right o f every person to do his own true Will. But any True Will is of necessity in harmony with the facts of Existence; and to refuse to accept the Book of the Law is to create a conflict within Nature, as if a physicist insisted on using an incorrect formula of mechanics as the basis of an experiment. 240 —
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…these; I have dreamed them in sickness of lust, Delirium born of diseaseah, whence was the master, the must Imposed on the All?is it true, is it true, then, that something in me Is subject to fate? Are there two, are there two, after all, that can be? I have brought all that is to an end; for myself am sufficient and sole. Do I trick myself now? Shall I rend once again this homologous Whole? I have stripped every garment from space; I have strangled the secret of Time, All being is fled from my face, with Motions inhibited rime. Stiller an…
1898 · PDF PAGE 55
Far, far away, where desolation ends, There is a water of serenest blue ; And by it stands, as patient and as true As in the past, his form to whom I turn, And break my bondage and would touch anew His holy lips ; my body and spirit yearn ; He fades away, and fires of Hell within me burn. Still, as I journey through the waste, I see A silver figure more divine arise ; The Christ usurps the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes, And He with rosy finger points the way, The blood-wrought my…
1901 · PDF PAGE 42
28 THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY MADELINE. O Heart of Jesus! Thou art bleeding still ! This was Thy true disciple. Leave her not, Sweet Jesus, in this madness. Who is this ? [Enter ULRIC; he carries a razor. ULRIC. I have a lovely bride at last, my dear! A phantom with intolerable eyes Came close and whispered: I am Wisdom’s self, Thy spouse from everlasting. Mortal king Of my immortal self, I claim thy love! So, we are wedded close. Justice demands The punishment of this accurséd one, Originator of the cruel crimes My mother-mistress carried to their c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 190
184 THE SWORD OF SONG Christian mystics not true Christians, What think ye of Crowley? His interlo- cutor dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. cum ! Now who dares Call me no Christian? And, who cares? Read ; you will find the Master of Balliol, Discarding Berkeley, Locke, and Paley, ’Il Resume such thoughts and label clear “My Christianity lies here !” With such religion who finds fault? Stay, it seems foolish to exalt Religion to such heights as these, Refine the actual agonies To nothings, lest the mystic jeer ‘‘ So l…