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Page 30 of 911928 · PDF PAGE 101
…mly, as if to excuse his extrava- gance. But in my unhappy brain, always busy with tilting at windmills, (with how exhausting a gift has Nature endowed me!) this idea suddenly entered; that such conduct on the part of my friend was only excusable by the desire of cre- ating an event in the life of this poor devil, perhaps even of discovering the divers conse- quences, unfortunate or otherwise, which a bad coin in a beggars hand may produce. Might it not multiply itself into genuine pieces? Might it not, on the other hand, bring him to gaol?An…
1961 · PDF PAGE 127
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 115 Dk De Cantu (Of Song) O then, o my Son, there is my Wisdom, that the Voice of he Soul in its true Nature Eternal and Unchangeable, comprehending all Change, is Silence; and the Voice of the Soul, dynamic, in the Way of its Will, is song. Nor is there any Form of utterance that is not, as song is, the Music proper to that Motion, according to the Law. Thus, as thy Cousin Arthur Machen hath rejoiced to make plain unto Men in his Book called Hieroglyphics, the first Quality of Art is its Ekstacy. So, night to all …
1961 · PDF PAGE 132
…the Planes, nor confounding the Stars, nor denying the Laws of their Reaction, yet with Eagles Vision beholding the One Sun of the True Nature of the Whole. Verily, his is the Truth, and unto it did also Dionysus and Tahuti and Sri Krishna set the seal of their Witness. Cleanse herefore thine Heart, o my son, in the Waters of the Great Sea, and enkindle it with the Fire of the Holy Ghost. For his is His peculiar Work of Sanctification. n
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…d device. Midsummer Night's Dream, What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory body 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 …
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
Xx To drink one drop thereof is to be drunk. The firm feet stagger, and the world spins round; The fair speech stammers — nature's God hath sunk Into some trivial place of the profound. But he who is drunk thereon is wholly sane, Being wholly mad; he moves with space-wide wings Sees not a world — engulphed in the inane! Nor needs a voice for speech, because he sings. What then of them who are most drunk together As you and I are, mystic maiden 0’ mine, Beyond Dionysus and his tedious tether, Beyond Kithairon and his topmost pine? Why, even now …
1913 · PDF PAGE 370
… or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religion, and the false religions are superstitions imitated from her, borrowed from her, lying shadows of herself ! One may say of religion what one s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 370
… or does not exist, in such and such a soul; but, whether one accepts it or denies it, it is in humanity; it is, then, in life, it is in nature itself; it is an incontestable fact of science, and even of reason. The true religion is that which has always existed, which exists to-day, and will exist for ever. Some one may say that religion is this or that; religion is what it is. This is the true religion, and the false religions are superstitions imitated from her, borrowed from her, lying shadows of herself ! One may say of religion what one s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
…the sentinel who actually prepares the Candidate; whose body is now surrounded by a triple cord to show the restriction of the powers of Nature ; and it is triple to show the white Triangle of the Three Supernals, His eyes are also bandaged, symbolising that the Light of the natural world is but as darkness compared with the radiance of the Light Divine. The Ritual then continues : Hegemon : “ Child of Earth ! arise, and enter into the Path of Darkness!” The Hierophant then gives his permission, ordering the Stolistes and Dadouchos to assist th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
…the sentinel who actually prepares the Candidate; whose body is now surrounded by a triple cord to show the restriction of the powers of Nature ; and it is triple to show the white Triangle of the Three Supernals, His eyes are also bandaged, symbolising that the Light of the natural world is but as darkness compared with the radiance of the Light Divine. The Ritual then continues : Hegemon : “ Child of Earth ! arise, and enter into the Path of Darkness!” The Hierophant then gives his permission, ordering the Stolistes and Dadouchos to assist th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
…Some rot infect the golden grain ! Nay, though my flesh grow boil and blain, Each sinew cramp, each muscle sprain, Each link dissolve of Nature’s chain, Each nerve disrupt in thoughts inane,2 Each function abdicate its reign, I care not, so this love remain. Dead or alive, insane or sane, The perfect passion of us twain Shall bring us blessing in its train As summer brings the welcome rain. Turn, life’s deceitful weather-vane ! Our love is set as Charles his wain3 That lights to love the amorous swain.4 On one love rest my life ; in vain The ev…
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…owledge which abut directly upon universal problems. He should choose not one but several, and these should be as diverse as possible in nature. It is important that he should strive to excel in some sport, and that that sport should be the one best calculated to keep his body in health. He should have a thorough grounding in classics, mathematics and science; also enough general knowledge of modern languages and of the shifts of life to enable him to travel in any part of the world with ease and security. History and geography he can pick up a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
… bloom is faded on the snow ! There is no Jaugh of all those laughs of hers, Those tender thrills of laughter I used to know. Nor in all nature weep the careless eyes, Nor any soul of life may sympathise, All I once was in this is torn and rended— Scorned and forsaken the lone lyre lies. Hath that not yet some sympathy with me? That lyre that was myself, my heart’s decree And ruler, subtle at the dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground, I raise it, and its music hath not found One string…
1905 · PDF PAGE 140
… tears, and shatter All the causes of its mockery, master All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style “ Cessation ” ; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, “ ἀγ ὡς ταχιστα, του χρονου δε σοι φθονω ”—“ Why waste we time in talking…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
IV We knew enough to wake to choral rapture All answering Nature: I will swear the sun Came out; you saw the moulting trees recapture Their plumage, and the green destroy the dun. Nothing could jar; the British workman took A kindly interest in our kind caresses; The loafing nursemaid and the musing cook Agreed with us entirely. Love impresses Its seal upon the world; is skilled to wake The sympathy of everything that lives. Kindliness flows, not venom, from the snake; The trodden worm dies duly — but forgives. The cabman asked four shillings f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 9
…r questions have no answer, But all’s converted to the abominable Soul-sickening thing that one is tied to. This is I Just as God in His Nature, wholly Involved therein, its tune, its motive, its quintessence. There were no meaning in Spring’s aspen spell, Where man’s sole treasury, the sky, Made bankrupt of His presence. Only, this God is a black fiend ; Of blood, the babe’s drink, weaned And fattened on—what liquor and meat ? Unnameable By all the giant horrors that haunt hell !
1961 · PDF PAGE 134
…PH VEL CXI 122 D% De Ioco suæ Mchæ (Of the Sport of his Mistress) ESIST not Change, therefore, but act constantly according to thy True Nature, for here only thou standest in Sorrow, if there be a Division conscious of itself, and hindered from its Way (whose Name is Love) unto its Dissolution. It is written in The Book of the Law that the Pain of Division is as nothing, and the Joy of Dissolution all. Now then here is an Art and Device of Magick that I will declare unto thee, albeit it is a Peril if thou be not fixed in that Truth and in that…
1996 · PDF PAGE 86
…idual manifests the Whole; and the Whole conceals every Individual. The Soul interprets the Uni verse; and the Universe veils the Soul. Nature understands Herself by becoming self-conscious in Her units; and the Consciousness loses its sense of separateness by dissolution in Her. There has been much difficulty in the orthography (in sacred languages) of these names. Nu is clearly stated to be 56, 1]; but Had is only hinted obscurely. This matter is discussed later more fully; verses 15 and 16. 2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath no…
1910 · PDF PAGE 146
…r questions have no answer, But alls converted to the abominable Soul-sickening thing that one is tied to. This is I Just as God in His Nature, wholly Involved therein, its tune, its motive, its quintessence. There were no meaning in Springs aspen spell, Where mans sole treasury, the sky, Made bankrupt of His presence. Only, this God is a black fiend ; Of blood, the babes drink, weaned And fattened onwhat liquor and meat ? Unnameable By all the giant horrors that haunt hell !
1954 · PDF PAGE 463
…ue to normal children ; it is hardly possible to begin too early. Firstly, accustom his ear from the start to noble sounds; the music of nature and the rhythm of great poetry. Do not aim at his understanding, but at his subconscious mind. Protect him from cacophonous noise; avoid scoring any cheap success with him by inflicting jingles ; do not insult him by "baby-talk." Secondly , let him understand , as soon as you start actual teaching, the difference between the real and the conventional in what you make him memorize. Nothing 430
1961 · PDF PAGE 168
…y upon an headlong Path. For every Star in his Orbit holdeth not his Way obstinately, but is sensitive to every other Star, and his true Nature is to do this. Oh how many are they whom I have seen persisting in a fatal Course, in Sway of the Belief that their dead Rigidity was Exercise of Will. And the Letter of the Man is Tzaddi, whose Number is Ninety; which is Maim, the Water that conformeth itself perfectly with its Vessel, that seeketh constantly its Level, that penetrateth and dissolveth Earth, that resisteth Pressure maugre its Adaptabil…