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Page 24 of 2251901 · PDF PAGE 65
…her is my son, From my own womb complete and absolute, And in this strong perfection of myself Stands the triumphant power of my desire, Manifest over self, and man, and god! For in the sacred coffin lies his corpse Who shall arise at the enormous word Of my creating deity; his life Shall quicken in him, and the dead man rise Osiris; and all power be manifest In our supreme reunion ; let the priest Cast incense on the fire, upon the ground Let water of the fertilising Nile Be spilt, because these dark maternal breasts That gave their milk to th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 237
…nough,” says a fourth. “I have no chart.” . . . ‘My business won't let me.” . . . “ My wife is against it.” Thus God enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Abraham in the land of Moriah. But the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his Great travel to the Summit of the Mountain of God; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way Satan follows behind him in the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 237
…nough,” says a fourth. “I have no chart.” . . . ‘My business won't let me.” . . . “ My wife is against it.” Thus God enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Abraham in the land of Moriah. But the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his Great travel to the Summit of the Mountain of God; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way Satan follows behind him in the…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
For it is abominable to correlate the life and work of any man, whenever that work approaches the standard of genius. Work of that sort is perfectly independent of life. The purest poems spring alike from the foulest soil and from the cleanest kept. Any stimulus may stimulate. Knowing Shelley almost by heart, the present writer is still ignorant of his domestic affairs—and thanks God for it. Here, however, we have no work of genius to save from soilure. The poem is less than the man, as the editor has pointed out in his sufficiently able introd…
1910 · PDF PAGE 52
…its mesh, slaves to its yoke. Silent, unknown, I work and will Redemption, godheads master-stroke, And breaking of the wands of ill. No man hath seen beneath my brows Eternitys exultant house. No man hath noted in my brain The knowledge of my mystic spouse. I wait the centuries wax and wane. Poor, in the kingdom of strong gold, My power is swift and uncontrolled. Simple, amid the maze of lies ; A child, among the cruel old, I plot their stealthy destinies. So patient, in the breathless strife ; So silent, under scourge and knife ; So tranquil…
1919 · PDF PAGE 370
…rink because his brain is too weak to stand it, or perhaps because his doctor has forbidden him to do either for the next two years, the man who is afraid of life, afraid to do anything lest some result should follow, is acclaimed as the best and greatest of mankind. It is very amusing in England to watch the snobbishness, particularly of the middle classes, and their absurd aping of their betters, while the cream of the jest is that the morality to which the middle classes cling does not exist in good so- ciety. Those who have Master Souls ref…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…r of Jesus of Nazareth I am not concerned ; but Vespasian’s “ Ut puto Deus fio ” is commonly thought to have been meant as a jest. Our Romanticist’s unique and magnificent dramatisation of the war between the sceptic or lover of truth, and the religious man or lover of life, may be well quoted against me. Though Vespasian did jest, though Christ’s “ It is finished ” were subjectively but the cry of his physical weakness, like Burton’s “ I am a dead man,” it is no less true that millions have regarded it as indeed a cry of triumph. That is so, s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
… foul ass!" he said. "I have to take this up with S.R.M.D., you know! What will he say and do?" "I tell you I couldn't. There was an old man there who spoilt everything, in my idea." "An old man?" Dr. Balloch almost dropped his hypocritical bedside voice in his rage. "Oh curse, oh curse it all!" He leant over to the Turk, caught his beard, and deliberately pulled it. There is no grosser insult that you can offer to a Mussulman, but Akbar accepted it without resentment. Yet so savage was the assault that a sharp cry of pain escaped him. You dog!…
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
… quicker, winnowing with faint fans The soundless air of thought : the noonday sun Seemed to the mightiest of a thousand khans Like to a man’s Brief life—a thousand such dream spans !— And so he dreamed of life : and failing plumes Wrought through ancestral looms In the man’s brain : and so he dreamed of death. And slower still the grey God wrought Dividing consciousness from breath, And life and death from thought. So the king dreamed of Nought. Yet subtly-shapen was this Nothingness, Not mere negation, as before that dream
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
task set him by Douglas; his pomposity always stood in his way; a man fighting for life is exceptionally a fool if he insists on stopping every moment to admire himself. Douglas had chosen him for one of the curious back- handed reasons which so often appeal to people of perverse intelligence: it was because he was harmless that he was selected to work harm. A democracy often chooses its generals on the same principle; a capable man might overthrow the republic. It apparently prefers to be overthrown by a capable enemy. But Douglas had backed h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
Line 2 Line 3 Section B the meanings and correspondences of 9, 15, 24, 45, 300, 345-) 45 is moreover A D M, man. “Mosheh” is thus the name cf man as a God-concealing Form. But in the Ritual let the Adept replace this “Mosheh” by his own motto as Adeptus Minor. For “Ish- rael” let him prefer his own Magical Race, according to the obligations of his Oaths to Our Holy Order! (The Beast 666 Himself used “Ankh-f-n-khonsu” and aKhem” in this section.) The Adept reminds his Angel that He has created That One Substance of which Hermes hath written in t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
give True Answers unto his Demands. But then he tarrieth not one hour in the Truth, unless he be constrained by Divine Power. And his Seal is this, which is to be worn as aforesaid, etc. (69.) Decarasia.—The Sixty-ninth Spirit is Decarabia. He appeareth in the Form of a Star in a Pentacle, +X, at first; but after, at the command of the Exorcist, he putteth on the Image of a Man. His Office is to discover the Virtues of Birds and Precious Stones, and to make the Similitude of all kinds of Birds to fly before the Exorcist, singing and drinking as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…y gone to the Equator to correct the obliquity of the Ecliptic in the interest of the Law of Righteousness. I'm sorry; I believe in that man; I know he's got something that I haven't, and I want it. However, Simple Simon has been nice to me; only he won't talk Phenomena — says that, like a certain Pope, he has seen too many miracles to believe in them. Which is my own case, only he is referring to genuine ones. Hence difficulty in comprehension of his attitude. "I hope you're having a great time with the devil; I envy your blue skies; London is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…c enough to believe in a (semi-)omnipotent power (pure omnipotency is ana chronistic ), we should believe this malady were in flicted on man as are the measles , the croup , and the chicken -pox , so as to stimulate romance , and retard that ultimate uninteresting state perfection. This not being so , we can only suggest that being descended from the flat - nosed simiae , besides being generally flat all round , man must have lost his wits with his tail , both being now exceedingly rudimentary . Having lost his tail , he could no longer swing i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 278
…steroid , is the aspirant , " O Hope ! O Hope ! Where hast thou led me , ever near me , never with me ? ” “ On , on , O weary one , past man , past gods , on , on to the rim of Time ” : then from the parched lips bursts the echoing cry , “ Ag nosco , Agnosco ." The hyperbola of Time , the parabola of Infinity , lie far to the north in the hyperborean regions of the Unknowable . Knowledge is but a ring smitten into the face of the waters , around it grows another ring , the ring of a greater knowledge , around that yet another , it is the ring o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 266
…ABETH. Oh no! Grant me one boon—the one that I shall ask Ever in this world! Promise me! TANNHAUSER. Alas ! One promise gave I once to woman—that Drove me to this illusion of your love, And broke your heart. ELIZABETH, Oh no, I shall not die. Have I not Mary and the angels yet? TANNHAUSER. You are so pure, so pitiful—your word Cannot bring evil. Yes, I promise you! ELIZABETH. Go then the bitter pilgrimage to Rome, Gain absolution for this piteous past From him that owns the twin all-opening keys That bar your infinite on either side. Then ! loo…
1961 · PDF PAGE 46
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 34 Ah De Libertate Corporis (Of Liberty of the Body) HERE shall be no Property in Human Flesh. Every Man and every Woman hath Right Indefeasable to give the Body for the Enjoyment of any other. The Exercise of this Right shall not be punished either by Law or by Custom; there shall be no Penalty either by Loss or Curtailment of Liberty, of Rights, of Wealth, or of Social Esteem; but this Freedom shall be respected of all, seeing that it is the Right of the Bodily Will. For this same Reason thou shalt cause full Restriction a…
1903 · PDF PAGE 68
Never clang brutal on the gong, And lunch, man-eating tiger, wait Crouched in the jungles of my song; My gaze be steadfast on the star And never to the garter glide, And I on rapture’s nenuphar Sit Buddha-like above the tide.
1919 · PDF PAGE 243
…e no sympathy with those who cry out against prop- erty, as if what all men desire were of necessity evil; the natural instinct of every man is to own, and while man re- mains in this mood, attempts to destroy property must not only be nugatory, but deleterious to the community. There is no outcry against the rights of property where wisdom and kindness administer it. The average man is not so un- reasonable as the demagogue, for his own selfish ends, pre- tends to be. The great nobles of all time have usually been able to create a happy family…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…e subsequent examination has shown the brain to be definitely degenerated, there sometimes occur moments of complete lucidity, where the man is in possession of his full powers. If the mind depended absolutely on the physical condition of the brain, this would be difficult to explain. "Science, too, is beginning to discover that in various abnormal circumstances, totally different personalities may chase each other through a single body. Do you know what is the great difficulty with regard to spiritualism? It is that of proving the identity of …