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THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 115 THE ATHANOR. IBERTINE touches of small fingers creep Among my curls to-night : pale ghastly kisses, Like mournful ghosts roused from their ruined sleep By clamorous cries of murder. Strange abysses Loom in the vista keen eyes penetrate, Vague forecasts of immeasurable fate. O thou belovéd blood, that wells and weeps ! O thou belovéd mouth, that beats and bleeds ! O mystic bosom where some serpent sleeps, Sweet mockery of a thousand saintlier creeds ! Even I, that breathe your perfume, taste your breath, Know, even this h…
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
…uessed your life well given Up to my kiss? Aha! the veil is riven! Beneath the smiling mask of a young bride Languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed; Beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial Of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, Beneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, A tiger snarling, or a grinning ape Resolved by every devilish device Upon my murder. This I clearly see Now you are—for an hour—away from me. I see it once; no need to tell me twice! II. Some Yank…
1910 · PDF PAGE 383
…it is in very deed That gleeful goes the goatish gait. His mother it his, that pure and pale Cried in the pangs that gave him birth; The holy image he would veil From aught the tiniest taint of earth.
1910 · PDF PAGE 383
…it is in very deed That gleeful goes the goatish gait. His mother it his, that pure and pale Cried in the pangs that gave him birth; The holy image he would veil From aught the tiniest taint of earth.
1901 · PDF PAGE 107
THE HOLY PLACE. 95 THE EVOCATION. ROM the abyss, the horrible lone world Of agony, more sharp than moonbeams strike The shaken glacier, my bitter cry is hurled, As the avenger lightning. Swiftly whirled, It flings in circles closing serpent-like On the abominable devil-horde I summon to the mastery of the sword. In my white palace, where the flashing dawn Leaps from the girdling bastions, where the light Flames from the talisman as if a fawn Glode through the thickets, where the soul, withdrawn From every element, gleams through the night Into …
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell. Now I begin to pray: Thou Child, Holy Thy name and undefiled! Thy reign is come: Thy will is done. Here is the Bread; here is the Blood. Bring me through midnight to the Sun! Save me from Evil and from Good! That Thy one crown of all the Ten Even now and here be mine. AMEN. fle puts the first Cake on the Fire of the Thurible. I burn the Incense-cake, proclaim These adorations of Thy name. fle makes them as in Liber Legis, and strikes again Eleven times upon the Bell. With the Burin he then makes upon his b…
1898 · PDF PAGE 63
…the last word said ; Turn my back resolute on dung and dross, And face the future with no twitch of dread, But dare to converse with the holy dead, And taste the earnest of the church’s bliss. Love, God be with you ! He is overhead And watches us, that nothing be amiss— Love ! our hearts bleed as one in the last lingering kiss. 53
1901 · PDF PAGE 125
THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 113 So patient, in the breathless strife ; So silent, under scourge and knife ; So tranquil, in the surge of things ; I bring them from the well of Life, Love, from celestial water-springs ! From the shrill fountain-head of God I draw out water with the rod Made luminous with light of power. I seal each æon’s period, And wait the moment and the hour. Aloof, alone, unloved, I stand With love and worship in my hand. I commune with the Gods : I wait Their summons, and I fire the brand. I speak their Word : and there is Fate. I …
1910 · PDF PAGE 130
… quiet wood is lifted to the seers gaze ; He burns athwart the murky maze beyond into be- atitude. A solemn rapture holds the faun : an holy joy sucks up the seer Within its rose-revolving sphere, the orient oval of the dawn. Lights graven old cartouche is sealed upon the for- est : groves are gray With filtered glamours of the day, the steely ray flung off his shield. She kneels, yon spirit of the earth ; she kneels and looks toward the east. In her gray eyes awakes the beast from slumber into druid mirth. She is amazed, she, eager, she, exo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…it may be thou shalt ease thy brain. But dung she is, and dung she must remain. Thus then with proud humility the younger Answered that holy ancient Wisdom-monger : The Way grows clear as crystal to my ken. Let me to teach this alchemy to men. Do ! answered He, and learn. The race shall rage Through to the blackness of the Dragon-stage : Few may pass on. The younger God essayed The schemeand a nice mess of it he made ! So thator trousers, petticoats, or tights Hide what makes honest men turn sodomites. Hence our joints ache, and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
… to Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! [He raises his hands to the shrine, and opens it. A rosy light stveams thence and fills the holy place, while the white Dove that was enshrined therein descends upon his head. The tree blossoms into leat, flower, and fruit. (The curtain falls.) 79
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
… to Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! [He raises his hands to the shrine, and opens it. A rosy light stveams thence and fills the holy place, while the white Dove that was enshrined therein descends upon his head. The tree blossoms into leat, flower, and fruit. (The curtain falls.) 79
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…yr is as tawny clouds, like the flame of a furnace. And there is a mighty host of Angels, blue and golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of Be‐with‐us is at hand! For he hath created the Universe, and overthrown it, that he might take his pleasure thereupon. And now, in the midst of the Aethyr, I behold that god. He hath a thousand arms, and in each hand is a weapon of terrible strength. His face is more terrible th…
1898 · PDF PAGE 55
…t blue ; And by it stands, as patient and as true As in the past, his form to whom I turn, And break my bondage and would touch anew His holy lips ; my body and spirit yearn ; He fades away, and fires of Hell within me burn. Still, as I journey through the waste, I see A silver figure more divine arise ; The Christ usurps the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes, And He with rosy finger points the way, The blood-wrought mystic path of Paradise That leads at last through yonder icy spray…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
…in that Palace of untasted gloom ; As, in our life, confronting the black forms Colossal ghosts, like storms ! I did abide in the most holy hall And let the dread word fall, Nor bade the red axe falter 4 A
1912 · PDF PAGE 418
…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 his book ; and if he does not advise all the readers of [01:11 Bull to read mine, Ι shall despair of human nature, A. QUILLER, JR. EPICURES are invited to taste the J'peciol Dishes invented by ALEIJ‘TER CROWLEY. This can be done at the CAFE ROYAL, REGENT STREET, W. Pavots d’Amour Cro=Cro Pilaff d…
1912 · PDF PAGE 418
…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 his book ; and if he does not advise all the readers of [01:11 Bull to read mine, Ι shall despair of human nature, A. QUILLER, JR. EPICURES are invited to taste the J'peciol Dishes invented by ALEIJ‘TER CROWLEY. This can be done at the CAFE ROYAL, REGENT STREET, W. Pavots d’Amour Cro=Cro Pilaff d…
1961 · PDF PAGE 14
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 2 b De Arte Kabbalistica (Of the Qabalistic Art) O thou study most constantly, my Son, in the Art of the Holy Qabalah. Know that herein the Rela- tions between Numbers, though they be mighty in Power and prodigal of Knowledge, are but lesser Things. For the Work is to reduce all other conceptions to these of Number, because thus thou wilt lay bare the very Structure of thy Mind, whose rule is Necessity rather than Prejudice. Not until the Universe is thus laid naked before thee canst thou truly anatomize it. The Tendencies o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 161
…hat he has willed is willed to a purpose. It is the same as if he had taken an oath to perform some achievement. Now this Book must be a holy Book, not a scribbling-book in which you jot down every piece of rubbish that comes into your head. It is written, Liber VII, v, 23: "Every breath, every word, every thought, every deed is an act of love with Thee. Be this devotion a potent spell to exorcise the demons of the Five." This Book must then be thus written. In the first place the Magician must perform the practice laid down in Liber CMXIII so …
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
…nverted commas, It is against the express wish of Mr. Crowley thatI in his own phrase, * played scavenger"; but I rather break my Vow of Holy Obedience than allow his work to be hindered, as 1 cannot but maintain that it has been hindered hitherto, u BO VINCE