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Page 36 of 1301922 · PDF PAGE 96
…al for having been preoccupied with the deal which he had on at the moment. “I’m afraid it’s literally obsessing me,” he said. “ But you know it makes, or rather will make, a big difference to my prospects. Unfortunately, I’m not a millionaire like you, old thing. I’ve been doing very well, but somehow, it’s gone as easy as it came. But I’ve scraped up twenty thousand of the best to buy an eighth share in this oil proposition that I told you about.” “No,” put in Lou, “ you didn’t tell us what it was.” “T made sure I had,” he laughed back ; “ I’…
1910 · PDF PAGE 166
156 THE CAMP FIRE To you for help, who snarl I know, and grasp, Mean mongrel whelp ! my bulging sporrans clasp. So, Swinburne, sleep ! That which is written is written. I will not weep. The torch of song is smitten Into dry stray leaves elsehow doomed for sure To damp decay, Victorian manure, Miasmal squelch, black slough to mire the Sun, The stink and belch and snivel of Tennyson ! Hail and farewell, my brother ! I am he To plant in hell thy sunkissed sea-lily Thou has lived ! As I live, stars in midnights deep. Thou hast died. All die ; …
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
ASTRAL JOURNEY 147 got so far; but then of course you must know if he is "one of the believing J inn." Briefly, is he a friend or an enemy? You accordingly say to him "The word of the Law is Thelema." It turns out that he doesn't understand Greek at all, so you were certainly right in choosing Hebrew. You put it to him, "What is the word of the Law?" and he replies darkly: "The word of the Law is Thora." That means nothing to you; any one might know as much as that , Thora being the ordinary word for the Sacred Law of Israel, and you accordingl…
1898 · PDF PAGE 42
…. And feel Thy presence very near to-night! I sink as with delight Through places numberless with fervid fires Of holiest desires Into I know not what a cradle, made Of subtle-shapéd shade, And arms most perdurable. I am lost In thought beyond all cost— Nay, but my spirit breaks the slender chain That held it down. The pain Of death is past and I am free. Nay, I, This body, dead, must lie Till Thou come home again, O soaring Soul. The gates supernal roll ! Flash through them, O white-winged, white-blossom ghost ! Ah, God! for I am lost. - [Jeph…
1904 · PDF PAGE 120
…se at last. From father unto son it flees, An awful heritage of woe. Wives feel its cancerous prodigies Invade their wombs; the children know The inexpiable word, exhaust Not by a tenfold holocaust. Thus let mankind abase in fear Their hearts, nor sacrilege profane The awful slumber of the seer, The dread adytum of the fane; Nor gain the mockery of a fleece, Losing reality of peace. Hail to wild Ares! Men, rejoice That He can thus avenge his shrine! One solemn cadence of that voice Peal through the ages, shake the spine
1905 · PDF PAGE 89
…r and adore Thee, the amazing ! I follow to the eagle-baffling sight, Limitless oceans of abounding space ; Purposed to bind myself, but know thy face, Phœbus, in gazing.
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
THE FATAL FORCE 153 THE LEPER. Myself do know, I await the event. Inquire not of your fate ! Mayhap. Ye shall know. AMENHATEDP. We shall be patient, and we shall be strong. THE LEPER. The corridor This is the The noise of rushing feet ! Rings with their scurrying fear. end. [Luter a flying soldier, crying aloud, and seeks a hiding-place. Speak not, thou trembling slave: we under- stand ! [Zhe soldier slips on the marble floor, and lies groaning. AMENHATEDP. See that due silence greets catastrophe ! No word from now without command of mine. [Szl…
1899 · PDF PAGE 181
…while sad winds are sighing, Some of Love’s flowers ? Now is beginning of spring, and I ask not Roses to flame o’er the lawn— Who should know better that peonies bask not In the sun’s dawn? Still, through the snow, it may be there is peeping Veiled from the kiss of the sun | One lone white violet, daintily sleeping, Hard to be won. So with my fairy white maiden (you hear me ?) . Winter may yet pass away ; Spring may arrive, (will it find your heart near me?) Summer may stay. Passionate roses I seek not, whose glories Now are too fierce for the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
…ar garden of the South, The herald of our happening there ! Fragrant, caressing, steals the breeze ; Curls into kisses on your lips : I know interminable seas, Winged ardour of the stately ships, Space of incalculable blue And years enwreathed in one close crown, And glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bards renown : Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight : her God Weary, his old eyes sad and dim In his intolerable abode. All things that are, unknown and known, Bending in homage to your eyes ; We wander wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 128
…uld beat The man who tried to tell (Even if he had felt ) the heat And hungriness of hell : But even in hell there is no pain Such as is known on earth , To parents who a child have 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
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…y pale). Is this your writing? ANGELA. Oh shame! shame! shame! Tell me you have not read it, Sir Percy ! Str Percy. Some I did read— How know you my name? ANGELA. I read it in my heart. O but I am ashamed to speak to you! Or would be were not that name as a brand to blot out all feeling from me for evermore. SIR PERCY (aside). How she speaks! singing. (Aloud.) Indeed, I read too far, It is indeed an angel ANGELA. Pity me! Sir PERCY. Dear lady, the joy to know, and so per- fectly to express such love is enough. ANGELA. You mock me! That girl—do …
1996 · PDF PAGE 141
…roper to its peculiar potentialities! 71. But exceed! exceed! Commentary: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” So wrote William O’Neill.1 1 [William Blake (1757-1827), “Proverbs of Hell,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790-93). A theory was current in Crowley’s time that Blake was an Irishman of the O’Neill family.] Progress, as its very etymology declares, means A Step Ahead. It is the Genius, the Eccentric, the Man Who Goes One Better than his fello…
1902 · PDF PAGE 81
And sink in lover's swoon. We'll sing them sister songs, and shew What secrets mortal lovers know. Tannhauser. The simple life of love and joy therein ! Merely to love—to take such pride in it Gods must behold ! The childish easiness, Impossible to me, who am become Perhaps the subtlest mind of men. Alas ! Maybe in this I still am self-deceived, Merely the fool swelled up with bitter words, Imagination, and the toadstool growth, Thought, wounded ; as a scorpion to sting Its own bruised life out. This is Tannhauser! How long ago since he took pl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…diamonded Stretched love-wise to my queen That danced upon the light, and shed Her own sweet light between. But never a mortal joy might know, Hold never a mortal lover! Whose limbs like moonshine glint and glow, Throb, palpitate, and hover :— Pale sunrise woven with the snow Athwart a larchen cover! So danced she in the rainbow mist, A fairy frail and chaste, By moon caressed, by sunlight kissed, A guerdon vain and waste ; And the misery of her thankless tryst Stole on me as she paced. 138
1910 · PDF PAGE 80
…out in London, dear, A now is worth a never ! To make to-day a heaven of cheer, And make to-day for ever ! Yea ; though we know how springs run dry, Well trust our future, you and I. Ah, madman ! was there ever yet A love that lived a lustre
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
…ss the lawn From the elms and yews? They were not wont to reach Beyond the branches of that copper-beech. Aucta. Attend the dawn Of an unknown comet, that shall come From the unfathomable weils of space Into its halidom, Crassus. I know it not. Last night I walked alone Here, and saw nothing. Autcta. I was not with yout There is no God upon the eternal throne Of stars begemming the bewildering blue Unless one has the eyes to see him. Think How we two stand upon the brink Of nothingt Here's a globe, whereto we trust, No larger than the smallest …
1922 · PDF PAGE 337
…‘Do what thou wilt.’ ‘But, yes,’ we say, ‘what is that?’ He replies rudely, ‘Find out.’ We ask how to find out; and he says, ‘How do you know what is the good of a motor- car?’ Well, we think a bit ; and then we tell him that we find out the use of a motor-car by examining it, looking at its various parts, comparing it and them with similar machines whose use we already know, such as the bullock wagon and the steam engine. We make up our minds that an automobile is constructed in order to travel along the high road. ‘Very good,’ says Big Lion, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…t could bring back my watch, nor over the mind that moves these muscles. I am not even able to inform that mind of my Will, for I do not know where it is. But I know it to be a mind fund- amentally like my own, and I try to make a Magical Link with it by advertising my loss in the hope of reaching it, being careful to calm it by promising it immunity, and to appeal to its own known motive by offering a reward. I also attempt to use the opposite formula j to reach it by sending my “familiar spirits”, the police, to hunt it, and compel its obedie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
…nt anything — in this country." "Well, I'll go on." "There's no going on — in this country." "Oh, but there is, and I'm off." "Don't you know what a treasure we have — in this country?" "No — what is it?" The Old Lady dived into the cleft of the rock, and came out again in a moment with a monkey, and a mouse-trap, and a mandolin. "I began," she explained, "with an arrow, and an adder, and an arquebus; for there are terrible dangers in the beginning — in this country." "But what are they good for?" "Nothing at all — in this country. But I'm chan…
1899 · PDF PAGE 60
…. And feel Thy presence very near to-night! I sink as with delight Through places numberless with fervid fires Of holiest desires Into I know not what a cradle, made Of subtle-shapéd shade, And arms most perdurable. I am lost In thought beyond all cost— Nay, but my spirit breaks the slender chain That held it down. The pain Of death is past and I am free. Nay, I, This body, dead, must lie Till Thou come home again, O soaring Soul. The gates supernal roll ! Flash through them, O white-winged, white-blossom ghost ! Ah, God! for I am lost. - [Jeph…