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Page 37 of 1081913 · PDF PAGE 198
…d, And all the glamour is fled. Here in the soft grey twilight the mournful evening lingers Upon the road to dream and sleep and all the things that are past ; Here in the shadowy night-fall, with slow reluctant fingers, The poet touches the silent strings, and falls into calm at last As the night grows dim and vast. And the passionate hour of love, of love, is come unto dust and slumber, A gracious memory only stays, a passionless sense remains Of golden hours that are passed and fled, when the joys of love without number Fanned into fire his …
1913 · PDF PAGE 198
…d, And all the glamour is fled. Here in the soft grey twilight the mournful evening lingers Upon the road to dream and sleep and all the things that are past ; Here in the shadowy night-fall, with slow reluctant fingers, The poet touches the silent strings, and falls into calm at last As the night grows dim and vast. And the passionate hour of love, of love, is come unto dust and slumber, A gracious memory only stays, a passionless sense remains Of golden hours that are passed and fled, when the joys of love without number Fanned into fire his …
1914 · PDF PAGE 15
CHICAGO MAY If had twopence, you should have it, sure; And I would flee, on hygienic grounds, But as things are, I am extremely poor; T owe a matter of five thousand pounds; ‘And as I have a girl to help, here goes! I cannot both help her, and help my nose. God ! God! God! God! is there no scavenger To cart this nastiness? Or can there be No sewer fit to suck the corpse of her Into the great, all-purifying sea? Her little hand would rather, I opine, The multitudinous seas incacadine! xv If men could hear me, they would smile and say : How this …
1928 · PDF PAGE 161
…traits of famous doctors hung from the walls. How I was petted! There was a big fire, hot wine, cigars; and while offering me these good things, and herself lighting a cigar, the little buffoon said to me, Make yourself quite at home, dear boy; this will remind you of the hospital and the happy days of youth. Ah, where did you get this white hair? You were not like that when you were house-surgeon under L, not so long ago, either. I remem- ber that it was you who helped him in major operations.There, if you like, was a man who loved cutting…
1905 · PDF PAGE 117
Let all the life and dream and death be done, And all the love and hate be woven in one, All things be broken of the winter winds, No soul stand up and look upon the sun! Save only mine !|—that my voice may confound The universe, and spell the mighty sound To shake all heaven and earth, to mingle hell In chaos, in some limitless profound ; That it may tear Olympus from its place, Mix it with Hades, change the Ocean space, _ Level the tides of time that sink and swell, And curse my very father to his face! O father, father Apollo, did I wrong Th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 93
…h. To puzzle out an imaginary meaning for this "nonsense" sets one thinking of the Mysteries; one enters into deep contemplation of holy things, and God Himself leads the soul to a real illumination. Hence also the necessity of Incarnation: the soul must descend into all falsity in order to attain All-Truth. For instance: Old Mother Hubbard Went to her cupboard To get her poor dog a bone ; When she got there, ' This chapter was dictated in answer to a casual remark by Soror Virakam. Fra. P. said jokingly that everything contained the Truth, if …
1919 · PDF PAGE 30
… it. THE GOLDEN Ass, by Apuleius. Valuable for those who have wit to understand it. Le Comte DE GaBaLis. Valuable for its hints of those things which it mocks. THE Rape oF THE Lock, by Alexander Pope. Valuable for its account of elementals. UnDINE, by de la Motte Fouqué. Valuable as an account of elementals. Brack Macic, by Marjorie Bowen. An intensely inter- esting story of sorcery. La Peau DE Cuacrin, by Honoré de Balzac. A magnifi- cent magical allegory. Numpser NINETEEN, by Edgar Jepson. An excellent tale of modern magic. Dracuta, by Bram S…
1901 · PDF PAGE 72
…nd to truth, Sought out by desolate ways of hateful deeds, And so set free myself from my own fate, Whom I will smite to end the coil of things Here, to begin—what life? For Life I know Stands like a living sentinel behind The rugged barrier of death, the gates Where the rude valley narrows, and man hears The steep and terrible cataract of time Break, and lose shape and substance in the foam , And spray of an eternity of air! My death, and not my life, may crown me king! So let me not be buried in that state Due to the hateful rank that I abjur…
1912 · PDF PAGE 147
…TY—EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS Arise, saith the First: Move therefore unto his servants! Shew yourselves in power, and make me a strong Seer-of— things: for Ι am of Him that liveth for everl [Invokesz The File of Spirit in the Tablet of Spirit E—the Root of the Powers of Air. H—the Root of the Powers of Water. N—the Root of the Powers of Earth B—the Root of the Powers of Fire. The Four Aces] THE OPENING OF THE TEMPLE IN THE GRADE OFם20=9? GIVE the Sign of Shu. [Knock] Let us adore the Lord and King of Air] Shaddai El ChaiI Almighty and ever—living One,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 147
…TY—EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS Arise, saith the First: Move therefore unto his servants! Shew yourselves in power, and make me a strong Seer-of— things: for Ι am of Him that liveth for everl [Invokesz The File of Spirit in the Tablet of Spirit E—the Root of the Powers of Air. H—the Root of the Powers of Water. N—the Root of the Powers of Earth B—the Root of the Powers of Fire. The Four Aces] THE OPENING OF THE TEMPLE IN THE GRADE OFם20=9? GIVE the Sign of Shu. [Knock] Let us adore the Lord and King of Air] Shaddai El ChaiI Almighty and ever—living One,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 148
…ending his garden seeketh not to single out the flower that shall be NEMO after him. And we are not told that NEMO might have used other things than those which he actually does use; it seems possible that if he had not the acid or the knife, or the fire, or the oil, he might miss tending just that one flower which was to be NEMO after him! 1 NEMO is the Master of the Temple, whose task it is to develop the beginner. See Liber CDXVIII, Aethyr XIII.
1939 · PDF PAGE 9
…g a distinction between it and the rest of the world. The first proposition, the type of all propositions, is: S is P. There must be two thingsdifferent thingswhose relation forms knowledge.
1944 · PDF PAGE 252
…eans good fortune because the fact of consultation implies anxiety or discontent.) XI Mitigate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things. Worship the name , foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of His House 418.
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…ved. The range of our senses is extremely limited. Our sensorial apparatus only works properly with reference to a very few of very many things. Every child knows how narrow is the spectrum, how confined the range of musical tone. He has not yet been drilled properly to an understanding of what this may mean, and he has not been told with equal emphasis many similar facts relating to other forms of perception. In particular, he has not learnt the meaning of diluted impression, in spite of an admirable story called The New Accelerator by Mr. H. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
… the sign Pisces through the Tarot Trump “The Moon.” The Camel is only connected with the High Priestess through the letter 3. Since all things whatsoever (including no thing) may be placed upon the Tree of Life, the Table could never be complete. It is already somewhat unwieldy ; we have tried to confine ourselves as far as possible to lists of Things Generally Unknown. It must be remembered that the lesser tables are only divided from the thirty-two-fold table in order to economise space; ¢.g. in the seven-fold table the entries under Saturn …
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As …
1913 · PDF PAGE 235
…ms again. Oh! now the hour is dead, and I am fain Awake life's young song back to soul again! THE EPILOGUE SHALL they avail, O wind, The things that I have heard? Because I am utterly blind, Did I hear the wings that whirred ? 197
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I! Appear, most awful and most mild, As …
1913 · PDF PAGE 235
…ms again. Oh! now the hour is dead, and I am fain Awake life's young song back to soul again! THE EPILOGUE SHALL they avail, O wind, The things that I have heard? Because I am utterly blind, Did I hear the wings that whirred ? 197
1961 · PDF PAGE 128
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 116 Dl De Stultitia Humana (Of Human Folly) NOW that a Mind can only apprehend those Things with which it is already familiar, at least in Part. Moreover, it will ever interpret according to the Distortion of its own Lenses. Thus, in a great War, all Speech soever may be understood as if it were of Reference thereunto; also, a Guilty Person, or a Melancholic may see in every Stranger an Officer of Justice, or one of them that are banded together to persecute him, as he Case may be. But consider moreover that the Mysterious i…