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Page 27 of 831899 · PDF PAGE 98
76 MYSTERIES: Listen, oh, listen! the nightingale near us swoons a farewell to the blossoming brake. Listen, the thrush in the meadow is singing notes that — move sinuous, lithe as a snake ; The cushats are cooing, the world is awake. Only one hour since you whispered the story out of your heart to my tremulous ear; Only one hour since the light of your eyes was the victor of violent sorrow and fear; Your lips were so set to the lips of me here. Surely the victory ripens to perfect conquest of every- thing set in our way. We must be free as our…
1909 · PDF PAGE 58
…ring one thought to birth one hour. For now we knew; ” it is a lonely thing To sit supreme upon the single throne; ” But being come thus far, goes glittering: " It is a lovely thing to be alone! ” Silence! Beware to speak the fatal word That might inweave our two-ply with a third ! IX Wherefore again in sexless sanctity The mighty lingam rears its stilled sublime; The mighty yoni spreads its chastity Against the assaulting gods of space and time. Rather be Phoedra than Semiramis | I will deny you, though you doom to dare To abdicate, and risk t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 107
…d is for us to repeat their experiments, and so confirm or dis- prove their results. . But their instructions differ widely! . Only in so far as each was bound by conditions of time, race, climate and language. There is an essential identity in the method. . Indeed! . It was the great work of the life of Frater Perdurabo to prove this. Studying each religious practice of each great religion on the spot, he was able to show the Identity-in-diversityof all, and to formulate a method free from all dogmatic bias, and based only on the ascer- tained …
1913 · PDF PAGE 375
ARTICLE III SOLUTION OF THE THIRD PROBLEM THE RATIONALE OF THE MYSTERIES Fartu being the aspiration to the unknown, the object of faith is absolutely and necessarily this one thing—Mystery. In order to formulate its aspirations, faith is forced to borrow aspirations and images from the known. But she specializes the employment of these forms, by placing them together in a manner which, in the known order of things, is impossible. Such is the profound reason of the apparent absurdity of symbolism. Let us give an example: If faith said that God w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 375
ARTICLE III SOLUTION OF THE THIRD PROBLEM THE RATIONALE OF THE MYSTERIES Fartu being the aspiration to the unknown, the object of faith is absolutely and necessarily this one thing—Mystery. In order to formulate its aspirations, faith is forced to borrow aspirations and images from the known. But she specializes the employment of these forms, by placing them together in a manner which, in the known order of things, is impossible. Such is the profound reason of the apparent absurdity of symbolism. Let us give an example: If faith said that God w…
1928 · PDF PAGE 50
…zied explosion of vitality. Here only, absolute wretchedness; wretchedness dressed, to crown its horror, in comic rags, where necessity, far more than art, had introduced the contrast. He did not laugh, poor wretch! He neither leapt nor danced, nor gesticulated nor cried. He sang no song, either merry or sad; he made no supplication. He was dumb and motionless. He had given up the game; he had abdicated: his fate was come upon him. But what a gaze (how profound, how unfor- gettable!) he cast upon the crowds and the lights, whose moving flood st…
1905 · PDF PAGE 63
More tranced than death in this far following, Careless of winter, not invoking spring ; And all the witless woods company us and sing. But not the glades by song of thee unstricken? Not they? Shall they refuse the pulse to quicken, Soft smiting the low melody of light? Tuned without fingers, the wild woods lift high The wordless chant, the murmurous melody, The song that dwells like moon-enkindled night. We draw from low palm groves and cedar hills, From stern grey slumbers, for thy music fills All earth with unimaginable delight. Have we not …
1907 · PDF PAGE 21
…re of their detestable presence, the heel is ground down in one generous impulse, and the slimy thing is no more. Decomposition, already far advanced, may be trusted speedily to resolve the remains into the ultimate dust of things, mere matter for some new and hopefuller avatar. Such a worm are you, M. D——, who once, as above described, voided your noxious nastiness in my presence, trusting to conciliate me by the intended compliment that my poems on Rodin were from myself and not from him, and that any other statues would have done as well. I …
1912 · PDF PAGE 108
…? MORTADELLO. Splendid. ALESSANDRO. Then Ive got a girl to dance to the guitar : She saw the sand-storms whirl down SouthGod knows how far And copies every twitch of their veiled fury of storm. A witcha very witch ! MORTADELLO. Most excellent. ALESSANDRO. A form. Pure as a sylphs, a soul like Satanspride and lust, And something in the whole to humble to the dust I care not who. Shes force, pure elemental rage Of love without remorse. MORTADELLO. The wonder of the age ! Indeed and I must see the little lady soon. ALESSANDRO. Ill send fo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 239
…e shining force Tenderly , day that I have loved, I close your eyes . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . The agelong rest of trees swept wide and far The cool December breezes ... The fragrant gateways of the Dawn ... , The haunted image -bearing minds of men . .. The King cried , “ Bring me colour , the heart's wine .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . The labour of the fields is hard . The lapping , lapping, lapping of the stream ... The life by angels' touch divinely lifted . . . The light was grey 60 87 57 220
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
…uld know thereof. Yet were all right, both he and they. But truth ran quickly about ; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Hammer of Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree bor. was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. For alway doth this Arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the Not and the Arcanum. Amen,! pa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…y down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Lycidas. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. Another Orpheus sings again And loves, and weeps, and dies, MOUNT IDA. THE COMPANY OF THE M<AENADS. M-ENADS. Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! Hail, O Dionysus ! Hail ! Wingéd Son of Semelé ! Hail, O Hail! The:stars are pale. Hidden the moonlight in the vale ; Hidden the sunlight…
1905 · PDF PAGE 140
…rkness Work I so that every living being Pass beyond this constant chain of causes. If I fail, may all my being shatter Into millions of far-whirling pieces ! ” Swears that oath, and works, and studies silence, Takes his refuge in the triple jewel,
1924 · PDF PAGE 13
well-known to your editorthis infamous lie was quite strictly murderous : for a man may be done to death by venomous libels far less mercifully than by cruder poisons. 11. My Lord, you cannot escape the gravest personal responsibility in this matter. Your editor could not, with any private resour- ces of his own, undertake a protracted news- paper campaign of libel. It is your wealth, in particular, that he relies on when he challenges Mr. Crowley to fill his pockets by means of an action at law. It is your capital, in various kinds, that he u…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
An account of the cosmic process so far as it is indicated by the Tarot Trumps. Equinox VII, p. 69. Liber CCXLIL AHA! An exposition in poetic language of severaJ of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. Equinox III, p. 9. Liber CCLXV. The Structure of the Mind. A Treatise on psychology from the mystic and magical stand- point. Its study will help the aspirant to make a detailed scientific analysis of his mind, and so learn to control it. Uupublished. Liber CGC. Khabs am Tekht. A spécial instruction for the Promulgation of the Law. Th…
1899 · PDF PAGE 185
…on knows To press my hand and close my dying eyes There, at the endless end. I am alone on earth, and from the skies Sometimes I seem so far—and yet, thy kiss Re-quickens Hope ; through zther’s emptiness Thou guidest me to touch the Hand of Him who Is Thou hadst a torch to lume my lips to song ; Thou hast a cooler fountain for my thirst, Lest my young love should work thy fame a wrong ; So the grape’s veins in purple ardour burst, And opiates in bloomless gardens throng, And Life, a moon, wanes fast; But to thy garden richer buds belong And har…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
…olds it to the light. The room is lighted by electricity, the globes being the eyes of strange sculptured stone beasts on the walls.] So far the story is true. [Drinks a little.] Why, that 1s better already. I am again the priest of Maurya—who is the brother of Maurya? A trivial ape
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…her hand guided him to the proper orifice. The dance began. Eve wriggled her fat bottom about as hard as she could, and Adam assisted as far as his constrained position would allow. The critical moment arrived and a deluge of warm liq- uids mingled to flood the surrounding parts. But Eve would not let him withdraw as yet. And at this moment Adam gave vent to a cry of pain. Im bit- ten, he said. That horrible Palaeopulex, said Eve. No, its in you ! Its pushing me out ! Get up ! And Eve jumped up alarmed to find Satan quietly emergin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 42
…rs have been. Never a son nor a daughter grow From your waste limbs, lest the goddess weep ; Fill up the ranks from the babes that sleep Far in the arms of a god of snow. Conquer the world, that her throne may keep More of its pride, and its secret woe Flow through all earth as the rivers flow. Which of the gods is like thee, our queen ? Venus Callipyge, nameless, nude, Thou with the knowledge of all indued, Secrets of life and the dreams that mean Loves that are not, as are mortals’, hued All rose and lily, but linger unseen, Passion-flowers p…
1905 · PDF PAGE 64
…ack womb, We hear the voice and we obey—we know not whom ! We hear thee, who are cliffs and pinnacles Higher than heaven’s base, founded far in hell’s ; We hear, that sunder the blue skies of heaven; E? 65