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Page 24 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 61
… the thunderbolt of Zeus or Indra, the God of Air. Lamed is the Ox-goad, the driving force; and it is also the Balance, representing the truth and love of the Magician. It is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the équilibration of that fierce force which initiâtes the ceremony \ Yod is the créative energy — the procreative power ; and yet Yod is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. Mem is the letter of Water, and it is the Mem final, whose long fiat lines suggest …
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…t.” But I did not feel inwardly that thrill of ecstasy that springs in the heart or that dawn of amaze ment that kindles the mind, when Truth’s sheer simplicity takes form. There is a definite psychological phenomenon which accompanies any important discovery. It is like First Love, at First Sight, to the one; like the recognition of a Law of Nature, to the other. It inflames one with Love for the Uni verse, and it explains all its puzzles, in a flash; and it gives an interior conviction which nothing can shake, a living cer tainty quite bey…
1902 · PDF PAGE 8
In purple pleasure plucked of pain. Nay ! let our tears, that fail to sadden, Extol the truth of love's disdain ! Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture ! Hardly our eyes reveal the inward bliss, Sealed by no speech and shadowed by no kiss. Love is no wizard to elude recapture In the strong prison of his silences ! Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture ! Twin souls are we, to one Star bound in Heaven ! Twin souls on earth by earthly bars divided ! But, did thy spirit glide as mine has glided Straight to That Star — no rose-leaves a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
…least our present littleness: nor hope Of larger excellence, extended scope, Shall help me here, forgetting: nothing skills Of this poor truth—to flatter with the trope ! Wooing in mockery !—nothing skills but this To raise her now, and resuspire the kiss, United by the splendour of the will’s Success—to marry, to be made of bliss, 123
1912 · PDF PAGE 418
THE EQUINOX St. James the Divine has indeed found a way to tell the truth (about most things) without frightening Respectability too much, though I think he might have spared us a thunderbolt against that feeble writer, Herbert Vivian. Sanctus Jacobus Corvus once observed in his treatise on?!”נ/עשתמ (blue- pencilled by the common sub-editor),“Crow and Crowley—what a combination ! " Not a bad one, either. Ifonly he had stolen the holy water (as I begged him to do) and baptized our mandrakes properly Never mind! I advise all our readers to read h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 418
THE EQUINOX St. James the Divine has indeed found a way to tell the truth (about most things) without frightening Respectability too much, though I think he might have spared us a thunderbolt against that feeble writer, Herbert Vivian. Sanctus Jacobus Corvus once observed in his treatise on?!”נ/עשתמ (blue- pencilled by the common sub-editor),“Crow and Crowley—what a combination ! " Not a bad one, either. Ifonly he had stolen the holy water (as I begged him to do) and baptized our mandrakes properly Never mind! I advise all our readers to read h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 401
…e? A. No; it is a kind of folly greater than reason, for reason is forced to admire it. Q. How does one call a man who acts according to truth, reality, reason and justice? A. A moral man. g. And if he sacrifices his interests to justice? a. A man of honour. g. Andif in order to imitate the grandeur and goodness of Providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his right to the good of others? a. A hero. What is the principle of true heroism ? Faith. What is its support? Hope. And its rule? Charity. What is the Good ? Order. What is the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 401
…e? A. No; it is a kind of folly greater than reason, for reason is forced to admire it. Q. How does one call a man who acts according to truth, reality, reason and justice? A. A moral man. g. And if he sacrifices his interests to justice? a. A man of honour. g. Andif in order to imitate the grandeur and goodness of Providence he does more than his duty, and sacrifices his right to the good of others? a. A hero. What is the principle of true heroism ? Faith. What is its support? Hope. And its rule? Charity. What is the Good ? Order. What is the …
1928 · PDF PAGE 48
…For myself, like a true Parisian, I never miss passing in re- view all the booths which flaunt upon these solemn occasions. They were in truth trying to outdo each other in hubbub; they chattered, bellowed,
1898 · PDF PAGE 28
…us This day. Behold the flowers, whose kindly gaze Of modest love is on us as we stand, And clasp fond hands before high Heaven to swear Truth an eternal bond, no parchment scroll Of perishable matter ill devised And scored upon with perishable ink, But in our pulses’ quick delight to live From day to day renewed, as if a fount Of God’s mysterious stream, that here a man May wet his ankle, and again immerse Unto his knees, and yet again assay To cross its silver depth and find himself Swimming in crystal coldness on a sea Broad as God’s mercy a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 6
…a work of art ; previous lucubrations of mine having been works either of necessity or of piety : that is, or I felt obliged to tell the truth about something, or I was definitely inspired. But the Angel of Venice (I protest) is a very cunning concoction. I had been revolving certain exposition by M. Henri Davray of Verlaines skill in treating the Alexandrine ; and I couldnt let it stay there ! Hence the form. I had also been meditating on Maeter- lincks method of obtaining atmosphere ; but this went all awry. With regard to the matter of my…
1898 · PDF PAGE 24
Sufficient to beat back the waves of doubt, To pierce the void, and grasp the glorious, To find out Truth ? Would God it might be so, Since here is nothing for the soul to love Or cling to beyond self. My chamberlain Once showed me a pet slave, dwarf, savage, black, A vile, lewd creature, who would cast a staff Far wheeling through the air, and suddenly Break its swift course, and curving rapidly Come hard upon himself who threw. Even so These vile deformities—our souls—cast forth Missiles of thought, and seek to reach some end With swift imagi…
1898 · PDF PAGE 59
And not found Truth. So he would be a saint Whose skeleton lies here because his soul did faint ! I will not turn toward Sodom any more, Lest its ripe glades of fruit waft up their scent, And draw me to them, what time heavens pour Brimstone and fire from out the firmament, And all my substance in its fall be spent ; Lest I lie there beneath a barren sea Forgotten of high God, until there went The final trumpet of the dead, who flee Vainly that fearful blast of judgment. Woe is Me ! My feet, in spite of me, in circles bend ; I meet my own track…
1901 · PDF PAGE 108
…undant ease, That bound the stately head. What joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind ? What pride of being? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind ? I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love! The leopard changed his spots; for in me leapt The mate, the tiger. Murderous I sprang Across the mellow earth: my senses swept, One torrent flame, one soul-dissolving pang. How queenly bent her body to t…
1902 · PDF PAGE 85
…m infinite again. I have not gained one jot since first I saw The stately bosom of the Venusberg, Save that mine eyes have seen a little truth, My body found a little weariness. I am very feeble ! Hither comes the hunt ! \_A horn winds quite close by. The noble, doomed, swift beauty ! Closer yet Pant the long hounds ! What heart he has ! One, two ! See the brach dying by his bloody flank ! So could not Tannhauser awhile ago. My help lay outside and above myself What skills him he is brave ? He ends the same. Poor stag! Here sweep the foremost h…
1901 · PDF PAGE 139
THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 127 O Wisdom-crowned Ta-hu-ti, lend Thy magic : let my light extend ! I cannot comprehend one truth. My sight is biased, and my mind— One snake-skin thought is of its youth ; Grows old, and casts the slough behind. O Themis, Lady of the plume, Shed thy twin godhead in the gloom ! How ugly is this life of mine ! How slimes it in the terrene mud ! Clouds hide the beauty all-divine, The moonlight has a mist of blood. O Hathoor, Lady of the West, Take thy sad lover to thy breast ! Even the perfumes of the dawn Intoxicate, deceiv…
1902 · PDF PAGE 57
…ng ! I had evil thoughts When I pronounced it —else had She Herself, Hathoor or Mary, risen. Misery! Incessant mystery of the search for Truth ! Venus Search out my mystery a little while ! TannhAuser. There is a flush of passion in thine eyes. An hunger in them ; fascinate me now, 55
1938 · PDF PAGE 17
…all for thyself, and with the left accept all that be created otherwise! XVI. Break down the fortress of thine Individual Self, that thy Truth may spring free from the ruins! XVII. Use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the Phoenix! XVIII. Let the Illusion of the World pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the Midnight to the Morning! XIX. Give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play! XX. Be every A…
1961 · PDF PAGE 27
… journeys and Visions so-called, do thou lay this Wisdom to thy Heart, o my Son, that in this Practice, whether Things Seen and Heard be Truth and Reality, or whether they be Phantoms in the Mind, abideth this Supreme Magical Value, namely: Whereas the Direction of such Journeys is consciously willed, and determined by Reason, and also unconsciously willed, by the true Self, since without It no Invocation were possible, we have here a Cooperation of Alliance between the Inner and the Outer Self, and thus an Accomplishment, at least partial, of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 147
…makes strange dreams of her bewilderment . Of such race are you not ; For you , untripped by unseen snares , in light Can see the simple truth As it has been through centuries in those isles Which neither live nor die But are immortal . The refrains of love And death and tragedy Seem sad by very changelessness . The world In the forthflow of time So new , is yet so hopeless and so old , That every tear we shed Is but a repetition of those tears Which perhaps Sappho shed . The same chant murmurs in the ageless sea As Homer turned to words , 128