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Page 26 of 911919 · PDF PAGE 201
…ad neither heard nor seen Nor felt the Idalian. Between My soul and all its knowledge of The universe of light and love, Thought, being, nature, time and space, The Mother’s heart, the Father’s face, All that was agony or bliss, Stretched an infinite abyss. All that behind me! but my soul, With no star left to point the pole, Witless and banned of grace or goal, Beggared of all its wealth, bereft Of all its images, unweft Its magic web, its tools all broken, Its Name forgot, its Word unspoken,
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…thinker invents a single cause for all these diverse effects, and calls it God. This hypothesis leads to interminable disputes about the nature of God; in fact, they have never been settled. The problem of the origin of evil, alone, has quite baffled Theology. "Science advances; we now find that all things are subject to law. There is no need of any mysterious creator, in the old sense; we look for causes in the same order of nature as the effects they produce. We no lounger propitiate ghosts to keep our fires alight. "Now, at last, I and a few…
1912 · PDF PAGE 236
…om; disgust springing from too great luxury. In particular it represents drug- habits, the sottish excess of pleasure and the revenge of nature] XLV THE LORD OF DOMINION Two of Wamis A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping two crossed wands Flames issue from the point of junction. On two small wands above and below, with flames of five issuing therefrom, are the symbols of ὀand?ד for the Decan. Strength, domination, harmony of rule and of justice, Boldness, courage, fierceness, shamelessness, revenge, reso- lution, genero…
1912 · PDF PAGE 236
…om; disgust springing from too great luxury. In particular it represents drug- habits, the sottish excess of pleasure and the revenge of nature] XLV THE LORD OF DOMINION Two of Wamis A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and grasping two crossed wands Flames issue from the point of junction. On two small wands above and below, with flames of five issuing therefrom, are the symbols of ὀand?ד for the Decan. Strength, domination, harmony of rule and of justice, Boldness, courage, fierceness, shamelessness, revenge, reso- lution, genero…
1919 · PDF PAGE 202
…ars of the world— Borne from the byss of light To the Dark Night! The moon had sunk behind the tower When, for a moment, by the power Of nature, as even the eagle’s eye Turns wearied from the sun, did I Fall from the conning-crag, that springs Above the Universe of Things, Into the dark impertinence Of the mirrored lies of sense. Yet, when I sought the stars to espy And ree the runes of destiny, Mine eyes their wonted office failed, So diligently God had veiled Me from myself! I could not hear The drone and rustle of the weir. No help in that w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 462
… mind once and for all of this delusion, disastrous and most damnable , that there can be opposition between two essential parts of your nature. I cannot write more; it makes me too sad. I hope there is no need. Do be your Self, the radiant Daugher of the Muse! With that command I tum to other tasks. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours ever, 666
1901 · PDF PAGE 120
… Alone amid their crag-bound solitude. Even beyond the keen delight—to Be— Steals that diviner mood Of wonder at the miracle—the plan Of Nature crowned by the astounding Man ! The secret of the Lord is set with him That wonders at His Majesty : his praise Wells from no trembler’s misery : his hymn Swells the exultant day’s. His psalm wings upward, and reflected down Even in Hell makes music and renown. Yea ! for the echo of the anthem rolls Down to the lost unfathomable deep. Down, to the darkness of all shades and souls, The founts of music sw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
…r 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 tell The pulse that makes my forehead swell. You see me walk in clubs, not cloisters ; Eat not ambrosia, but oysters. Nor shall it all avail you, though You eat your heart for lust to know, To watch these sparks of verse I throw Cold ere they flame ! For they attest The anvils ring, the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 206
…uch with Kether, the Highest; diverge never so little from the delicate bal‐ ance of the Middle Pillar; at once the holiest mysteries of Nature become the obscene and shameful secrets of a guilty conscience.
1961 · PDF PAGE 72
…lusion. But insofar as he entereth into the Game he abideth by the Rules thereof, though they be artificial and in no wise proper to his Nature; for in this Restriction is all this Pleasure. Therefore, though he hath All-Power to move the Pieces at his own Will, he doth it not, enduring Loss, Indignity, and Defeat rather than destroy that Artifice of Illusion. Think then that thou hast thyself created this Shadow-world the Universe, and that it pleasureth thee to watch or to actuate its Play according to the Law that thou hast made, which yet b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…and lifts me, and mingles my soul into sound! 1 The bulk of this Book I. was written at Waikiki, which is described in this Parabasis. O Nature, my mother, Heart melted on heart At last! Not another, Not any shall part Thy soul from my art. How should it be otherwise, Sister divine, Lover, my mother wise, Wiser than wine? Seeing I linger Here on the beach— Let God’s own finger Here to me reach, Making me singer Each unto each— Nature and Man made one In the light and fire of the sun, And the sobbing tune Of the moon, Wedded in cyclic bonds, Whe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 97
…r cadences outrunning song, And clear sweet clean-chiselled English, sharp and strong Of the one man among the latter men Who lived with Nature, saw her face to face, And died not: here in this consummate place, Immortal now, though the Antarctic sent Its mightiest coldest wave and rose and rent 98
1911 · PDF PAGE 269
…!לעשla him,] LUNA. The Treason is accomplished. PISCES. The mind is nobler than the body. SATURN. Friendship is holier than love. LIBRA. Nature is overcome by wit. PISCES. How shall we adore thee? TAURUS. As you like it. SATURN. What shall we sacrifice? TAURUS. What you will. [LUNAplays a meto "811203?/??מוALL bowing in adoration to MERCURVJ LIBRA. Brother, what is the hour? PISCES. Dawn. LIBRA. Let us depart unto the work of the clay. ALL. Amen. * Moto perpetuo: Ries. g 9Ι
1911 · PDF PAGE 269
…!לעשla him,] LUNA. The Treason is accomplished. PISCES. The mind is nobler than the body. SATURN. Friendship is holier than love. LIBRA. Nature is overcome by wit. PISCES. How shall we adore thee? TAURUS. As you like it. SATURN. What shall we sacrifice? TAURUS. What you will. [LUNAplays a meto "811203?/??מוALL bowing in adoration to MERCURVJ LIBRA. Brother, what is the hour? PISCES. Dawn. LIBRA. Let us depart unto the work of the clay. ALL. Amen. * Moto perpetuo: Ries. g 9Ι
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…vered that this plan extended even to her diet — she was to live exclusively on those foods which wise men of old classified as lunar in nature, on account either of their inherent qualities, or because they are traditionally sacred to Diana. After the beginning of the experiment, no male was to enter that apartment. She was a little frightened on grasping the fact that Cyril must have forseen her perfect compliance from the beginning. He noticed it with a slow smile, and began to explain to her why he had chosen the moon as the type of "butter…
1902 · PDF PAGE 129
…d by you, in the pleasant path. For me, I enter not— Blessed be God !— In those dark problems that disturb your soul. Mine is the simple nature. Look at me ! TannhAuser. Lady pure, miracle of true love, 1 have a bitter word and harsh to say. This is my curse —no sooner do I speak, Or formulate my mind in iron words. That my mind grows, o'erleaps the limit set, And I perceive the truth that lies beyond— One further step into a new-fallen night. Hear then — I hate to hurt your perfect soul ; 127
1905 · PDF PAGE 60
…t she had let go. Yet you are like to it, this dung, this carrion, To this infection doubly dire, Star of my eyes that are, and still my nature’s sun, You, O my angel ! You, my own desire ! Yes ! such will you be, queen, in graces that surpass, Once the last sacraments are said ; When you depart beneath wide-spreading blooms and grass To rot amid the bones of many dead. Then, O my beauty ! tell the worms, who will devour With kisses all of you to dust ; That I have kept the form and the essential power Divine of my distorted lust.
1961 · PDF PAGE 129
…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 Tumult and Upheavel in every Land. consider in thyself, herefore, what is the Might of the Adep…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…ted it with occult science. "You must give the honour to the Mahathera Phang!" interjected Cyril. "I was proving to him the metaphysical nature of the soul — and he regarded me with so amused a smile that I perceived my asininity. Of course there can be but one order of Nature!" "In any case," continued Iff, "this theory of Cyril's wipes the slate clean of every metaphysical speculation. Good and evil vanish instantly, with Realism and Nominalism, and Free will and [105] Determinism — and all the 'isms' and all the 'ologies'! Life is reduced to…
1944 · PDF PAGE 120
… we were blind thereunto, lacking his Mode of Light. Yet were that Art of none avail unless we had already the Root of that Truth in our Nature, and a Bud ready to flower at the Summoning of that Sun. In Witness, nor a Boy nor a Stone hath Knowledge of the Sections of a Cone, and their Properties; but thou mayest teach these to the Boy by right Presentation, because he hath in his Nature those Laws of Mind that are consonant with our Art Mathematical, and hath Need only of Fledging (I may say this), so that he apply them consciously to the Work…