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Page 36 of 671961 · PDF PAGE 110
…eated; it is unthinkable that thou shouldst love another, and incomprehensible that any Man should grieve. Yet ere the Moon change her Quarter, thou art free of thy Lunes, and lovest another, and it may be grievest in thyself while he that amazed thee hath joined the Company of the Rejoicing. Watch then, and heed thyself; and pay no Heed to thy Fellows, insofar as they impede thee not. And let this be the Rule. For every Will is pure and every Orbit free; but Error bringeth Confusion. See therefore that none leave his Path, lest he foul that of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 186
…TION OF DREAMS A. Depth of Impression. 1. Vivid. 2. Ordinary. 3. Slight. 4. Doubtful. B. Degree of Memory. 1. Detailed. 2. Outlined. 3. Partially outlined. 4. Central idea only, 5. Incident only. 6. Nothing save fact of dream. C. Cause. 1. Traceable to thoughts of previous day. 2. Traceable to local circumstances (eg. Dream of river from rain falling on face). 3. Not so traceable. D. Character. 1. Surprising. 2, Ordinary. E. Character. 1. Rational. 2. Irrational. F. Character General. 1. Lascivious, (2) Finished, (6) Baffled. 2. Of travel. 3. O…
1910 · PDF PAGE 186
…TION OF DREAMS A. Depth of Impression. 1. Vivid. 2. Ordinary. 3. Slight. 4. Doubtful. B. Degree of Memory. 1. Detailed. 2. Outlined. 3. Partially outlined. 4. Central idea only, 5. Incident only. 6. Nothing save fact of dream. C. Cause. 1. Traceable to thoughts of previous day. 2. Traceable to local circumstances (eg. Dream of river from rain falling on face). 3. Not so traceable. D. Character. 1. Surprising. 2, Ordinary. E. Character. 1. Rational. 2. Irrational. F. Character General. 1. Lascivious, (2) Finished, (6) Baffled. 2. Of travel. 3. O…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…h, with a breath to call back health, with a touch to beckon life, He must watch His own child waste awav month by month, aware that His Art may not anywise avail, who hath sold the signet ring of his personal profit to buy him a plain gold band for the félon finger of his bride, that worn widow, the World! 128 —
1961 · PDF PAGE 104
…nt. And thy Technick is the Magick of Water, so that thine Act is of Nourishment, and not of Generation. Therefore the Prime Use of this Art is to build up thine own Nature. But if thou hast Skill to control the Mood of the Eagle, then mayst thou work many an admirable Effect upon thine Environment. Thou knowest how great is the Fame of Witch-Women (old and without Man) to cause Events, although they create nothing. It is this Straitness of the Channel which giveth Force to the Stream. Beware, o my Son, lest thou cling overmuch to this Mode of …
1961 · PDF PAGE 141
…nment being eroded by Time, this Wisdom is no more perfect, for it is not absolute, but standeth in relation to the Universe. So then a Part thereof may become useless, and atrophy as (I will instance this case) Mans Wit of Smell; and the bodily Organ corresponding degeneratheth therewith. But this is an effect of much Time, so that in thy Hell thou art like to find Elements vain, or foolish, or contrary to thy present Weal. Yet, o my Son, this hidden Wisdom is not thy true Will, but only the Levers (I may say so) thereof. Notwithstanding, her…
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…, though it be a dream Or little more, a vision from the Maid~ That rules by Phlegethon's sepulchral streain. Nay ! it is more: by magic art compel (My soul!) my maiden’s body to appear Visible, tangible, enjoyable Even to the senses of the amorous seer, Whose demon ministers through the gulphs and glooms Convey his mistress 6n their meteor plumes. VIL? More, I will visit you, forlorn who lie Crying for lack of me; your very flesh Shall tingle with the touch of me as I Wrap you about with the ensorcelled mesh Of my fine body of fire: oh! you sh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…d for us, Beating i’ the dust this consecrated brow, And answer Thee in broken murmur thus, That Iam altogether base and vile, That Thou art altogether good and great, That Thou hast given the guerdon grace for guile Even while I lifted up myself to Fate And cursed Thee. And from me who scorned to pray Thou hast rolled the sad sepulchral stone away. III On this wise : that by uttermost good Fortune I met you walking out in London city, Even when from Heaven I did not dareimportune Hardly to pass your house! The Gods took pity They whirled us in…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…’ And like all doctrinaires, Mr. Pound is exposed to the besetting sin of the half-true or the maybe-true platitude. ‘The mastery of any art is the work of a lifetime, for example. How about the art of lyric poetry, how about Sappho and Keats and Swinburne’s early work? Again, we must have ‘direct treatment,’ Mr. Pound affirms, and we must ‘use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.’ Such pronouncements are either platitudes or untrue, they either mean nothing that can’t be taken for granted or a good deal that can’t. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 308
…rk. The man whose property they are will not be likely to hear of it, as the inexplicable conduct of Alice has more or less broken his heart, and he has become a sort of hermit. But the wife turns up again like a bad penny. The ‘worm’ has by this time got rather tired of the German girl, and he goes off to Chicago after another woman, leaving his wife and his mistress to share a room at the McAlpin. In- stead of quarreling, they made Friends, and the wholly icily murderous plot is laid bare. Alice now makes strenuous efforts to get back her lov…
1898 · PDF PAGE 13
…Baude- laire’s brandied shrieks, and his First Series of Poems and Ballads was the legitimate echo of that not fierier note. But English Art as a whole was unmoved, at any rate not stirred to any depth, by this wave of debauchery. The great thinkers maintained the even keel, and the windy waters lay nor for their frailer barks to cross. There is one exception of note, till this day unsuspected, in the person of George Archi- bald Bishop. In a corner of Paris this young poet (for in his nature the flower of poesy did spring, did even take root a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 78
…ound the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. Balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the Assistant Magus of Art under the ring, thumb against thumb. (An important but, as I hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger.) Keep very still; and ask your question: ‘‘ Adam, Adam, tell me true! Shall I——” &c. If the Bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is “ yes”; if in the opposite direction, “no.” This sublime method of tearing out the heart of destiny is evidently derived from a slightly more elabor…
1909 · PDF PAGE 78
…ound the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. Balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the Assistant Magus of Art under the ring, thumb against thumb. (An important but, as I hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger.) Keep very still; and ask your question: ‘‘ Adam, Adam, tell me true! Shall I——” &c. If the Bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is “ yes”; if in the opposite direction, “no.” This sublime method of tearing out the heart of destiny is evidently derived from a slightly more elabor…
1961 · PDF PAGE 97
… Years of Apprenticeship in His School did I discover his most excellent Way of Magick. Be thou diligent, o my son, for in this wondrous Art is no more Toil, Sorrow, and Disappointment, as it was in the dead Aeon of the Slain Gods. n
1961 · PDF PAGE 105
… Will, loosing him from bodily Fatigue, Morphine, which purifieth the Mind, making the Thought safe, and slow, and single, Heroin which partaketh as it seemeth, of the Nature of these twain aforesaid albeit in Degree less notable than either of them, and Alcohol, which is Food, that is, Fuel, for the whole Man. To Water, attribute Hashish and Mescal, for they make Images, and they open the hidden Springs of Pleasure and of Beauty. Morphine, for its Ease, hath also part in Water. Air ruleth Ethyl Oxide, for it is as a Sword, dividing asunder eve…
1909 · PDF PAGE 136
…nd bearded, but of an indescribable majesty and force. “He laid his hand unhesitatingly upon my shoulder. ‘Unhappy man!’ he cried, ‘thou art sacrificing thy life toa phantom. “Look not,” quoth Zoroaster, “upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, for Her name is Fatality.” What thou hast seen—I know not what it is, save that it isas 126
1909 · PDF PAGE 136
…nd bearded, but of an indescribable majesty and force. “He laid his hand unhesitatingly upon my shoulder. ‘Unhappy man!’ he cried, ‘thou art sacrificing thy life toa phantom. “Look not,” quoth Zoroaster, “upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, for Her name is Fatality.” What thou hast seen—I know not what it is, save that it isas 126
1924 · PDF PAGE 6
to the man, and to the impersonal cause of art and letterswhich can never by any possibility be remedied. Your editors lie has wrought the havoc, and more. In France, my Lord, as you are doubtless aware, any man attacked in a newspaper has the legal right to reply in its columns, and his reply must be printed in the same type and in the same place as the original attack. This law is admirably just and wise. Its effect has been to put a complete stop, in France, to this plague of anonymous defamation, whether used as the instrument of journali…
1961 · PDF PAGE 61
…on of the Like and the Unlike. Also, it shall arouse in thee the Ecstasy of Wonder; and it shall bring thee to a proper Understanding of Art Magick. For our Magick is but one of the powers that lie within us undeveloped and unanalysed; and it is by the Method of Science that it must be made clear, and available to the Use of Man. Is not this a Gift beyond Price, the Fruit of a Tree not only of knowledge but of Life? For there is that in Man which is God, and there is that also which is Dust; and by our Magick we shall make these twain one Flesh…
1961 · PDF PAGE 103
…ula Lunæ (Of the Formula of the Moon) HUS then concerning Operations of the Tao with the Yang and the Yin is there enough; for thine own Art of Beauty shall divine for thee, and devise new Heavens. But in all these is the Formula of the Serpent with the Head of the Lion, and all his Magick is wrought by the Radiance and Creative Force hereof. And this Force leapeth continually from Plane to Plane, and breaketh forth from his Bonds, so that Constraint is Labour. Now then learn that the Yin hath also a Formula of Force. And the Nature of the Yin …