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…ve slain Before or after birth . The devil doesn 't know the cramp That settles round the heart, When yesterday was a hopeless tramp For work , and it's time to start ; In morning fog, or morning sun , You wake the silent street , And a crust of bread or stony bun Is all you have to eat . 109
…er, At my groaning And my creaking , As the cloud of night comes reeking , Casting me about and speaking Wild and loud . “ All the day I work in silence , Half asleep my sails go round , But at night I think and listen To the thoughts the stars have found , For the day with all its brilliance Has not half the truth of night : Children plight their love in darkness But they veil it in the light . “ I have heard the boys at day prime , I have seen the men at noon , And the grey - beards pass me silent In the hush t' wixt sun and moon . They have …
…, how piteous thy plight, The doubts that daunt, the ills that irk, Thon hast nor wit nor will to fight — How hope in heart, or worth in work ? No star in siglit ! Thy G ods proved puppets of the priest. “Truth ? All’s relation !” science sighed. In bondaae with thy brother beast, Love tortured thee, as Love’s hope died And Love’s faith rotted. Life no least Dim star descried. Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled To find itself a chance-cast clod Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled That aimless accident thus trod Its agony, that void skies…
…n, her book comes as a direct message from the Masters: “Courage, child !—there lies a great reward immediately beyond. Nay! but for the work’s sake, work! Though thou perish, let them be saved. And remember : there is not one single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood.” Self-doubt, and self-distrust : these find little place in Mrs. Besant’s story ; yet surely they attack all of us alike who strive to those calm heights. Is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser ills? Is the spectre, self, laid beyond remembrance,…
…n, her book comes as a direct message from the Masters: “Courage, child !—there lies a great reward immediately beyond. Nay! but for the work’s sake, work! Though thou perish, let them be saved. And remember : there is not one single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood.” Self-doubt, and self-distrust : these find little place in Mrs. Besant’s story ; yet surely they attack all of us alike who strive to those calm heights. Is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser ills? Is the spectre, self, laid beyond remembrance,…
…ttle where every one else has a rifle. 9. The Grade of Adeptus Major confers Magical Powers (strictly so-called) of the second rank. His work is to use these to support the authority of the Exempt Adept his superior. (This is not to be understood as an obligation of personal subservience or even loyalty; but as a neces- sary part of his duty to assist his inferiors. For the authority of the Teaching and Governing Adept is the basis of ail orderly work. ) To attain the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus, he must accomplish Three Tasks; the acquisition of…
…an hope at last With the invariable law of death Abundant in new life, and having filled The world with music, dost demand of us “ Is my work meaningless ? ” O thou, supreme, Thou, First and Last, most inconceivable All-radiating Unity, thou sphere All-comprehensive, all-mysterious, Spirit of Life and Death, bow down and hear ! [Bends deeper and prays silently. The flame grows duller, and finally leaves the room in absolute darkness. Curtain. 18
…enus. Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TannhAuser. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work 74
…ave a genuine grudge against the system on this account. Whole months of my life, which might have been profitably spent in all sorts of work, were taken up by the morbid broodings of the unsatisfied appetite. Repression is as mentally unwholesome as constipation, and I am furious, to this hour, that some of the best years of my life, which should have been spent in acquiring knowledge, were sterilized by the suffocating stupor of preoccupation with sex. It was not that my mind was working on the subject; it was simply unable to work. It was a …
…t the lungs of a young child. Then were indeed the earth defiled And the sole seedling that must lurk In the desert world — waste by thy Work — Itself its loveliness transplant To a flawless field whose grace should grant Life to that bright inhabitant. ISSA These eyes are blind with blood and tears ; They strain across the doubtful years ; They search the stars : the earth they scan ; All, all spells Misery to Man. Of whom I am. First, fables gross and foul Hooted and hissed by human snake and owl About me, twisted into doleful engines Of gree…
…ations of sweet sound . The magic motions of the forest then Spanned the free arches of a simple age When man was part of nature and his work Seemed but a slighter fashioning of her own . As once did sleep the present , sleeps the past : Who knows whether the same still sentinels of trees Await not in some nether depth of time The reinsurgence of their reign of sleep , When men shall hail them once again with joy A new land watching o' er the unknown sea . 127
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 16 o De Cultu (Of Training) OW, o my Son, that thou mayst be well guarded against thy ghostly Enemies, do thou work constant- ly by the Means prescribed in our Holy Books. Neglect never the fourfold Adorations of the Sun in his four Stations, for thereby thou doest affirm thy Place in Nature and her Harmonies. Neglect not the Performance of the Ritual of the Pentagram, and of the Assumption of the Form of Hoor-pa-Kraat. Neglect not the daily Miracle of the Mass, either by the Rite of the Gnostic Catholic Church, or that of t…
… able to adjust itself to any musical problem that may be set before him. This technique of Yoga is the most important detail of ail our work. The Master Therion has been himself somewhat to blâme in representing this technique as of value simply because it leads to the great rewards, such as Samadhi. He would hâve been wiser to base His teaching solely on the ground of évolution. But probably He thought of the words of the poet : UY ou dangle a canot in front of her no se. And she go es wherever the canot go es For, after ail, one cannot expla…
The effect of the Ritual has been (a) to keep them so busy with their own work that they cease to distract him; (b) to separate them so completely that his soûl is stripped of its sheaths ; (c) to arouse in him an enthusiasm so intense as to intoxicate and anaesthetize him, that he may not feel and resent the agony of this spiritual vivisection, just as bashful lovers get drunk on the wedding night, in order to brazen out the intensity of shame which so mysteriously coexists with their desire ; (d) to concentrate the necessary spiritual forces …
…e Strides this young man and talks? Let him advance, Trembling at our offended majesty. Who art thou whose rude summons startles us From work of state to listen a young mouth Beardless? Speak, man, for shortly thou shalt die. JASON. Athena speaks.
…it may be He shall discover me the great excuse For an ill world ill shapen by ill hands, For unit joy and misery ten score, For all his work’s complaint; I think that He, Twitching His fearful fingers, may let loose This answer: Thus a kiss I brought to being Which by no other way were possible. Measure, O man! Balance with eyes true seeing If I were right or no to have made Hell! Then would He stand forgiven—nay! acquitted! I, as I look on this tight coil of bliss, Swift clasp of Rodin’s magical mind love-witted, See all creation fade; abide,…
…nts of cool air . Lay your long fingers on the sea And shake your shadow at the sun , Darkly reminding him that he Relieve you when your work is done . Rally your wizardries , and wake A noonday panic cold and rude , Till ' neath the ferns the drowsy snake Is conscious of his solitude . Then as your sorcery declines Elaborate your pomp the more , So shall your gorgeous new designs Crown your beneficence before . 104
. Chinese Music. . Buttonsand Rosettes. . Windmill-Words. . Méme Raths. . WARATAH-BLOS- SOMS. . The Vigil of St. Hu- bert. . Terrier Work. . The Bull-Baiting. . The Dowser. . Eaves-Droppings. . The Drooping Sun- flower. . Trouble with Twins. . The Duck - Billed Platypus. . Haggai-Howlings. . The Tailless Monkey. . The Wound of Am- fortas. . The Fool’s Knot. . Twig? . Margery Daw. . Constancy. . Sic Transeat —— . The Praying Mantis. . Sodom-Apples. . Manna. The Way to Succeed —and the Way to Suck Eggs! . Broomstick-Bab- blings. . King’s College …
…state of Dhyana, it left a very marked result on the consciousness of Frater V.1.O., and gave him the necessary energy to con- tinue his Work through many a dark and dismal period. He himself could not gauge its value at all at the time. He was alone in Vancouver and out of touch with the Order, having received no further word from his Neophyte since he left England. In fact he heard nothing till January of the fol- lowing year. He however sent a post-card to say that he had obtained some result. About this same time I find an entry called “The…
… log, this body on the earth will lie. Condemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind.