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ROSA IGNOTA As food for thy body—thy body !—how shall I come to thee Who am at last awakened? Oh, my Rose, My Rose of my lost World, O Rose! Rose! Rose ! Pity me for that now I may not love thee, Pity me for the unquenchable desire, Never to be gratified, I bear toward thee! Pity me for my youth, the scattered dreams That are fallen from the shattered casket of my soul. Yet will I ravish thee even now, my queen ; I will fasten my fangs in thy breast, and drink thy blood, Thy leprous blood, to make me mad with hate, And frenzied with unsatisfied…
1919 · PDF PAGE 368
… revolves for all, the humble and the proud; the “Doctrine of the Heart” for the elect. The first repeat in pride: “Behold, I know”; the last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess: “Thus have I heard.” Continues the subject, but adds a further Word to dis- criminate from Daath (knowledge) in favour of Binah (un- derstanding). 17. “Great Sifter’ is the name of the “Heart Doctrine,” O Disciple. This explains the “Heart Doctrine” as a process of con- tinual elimination which refers both to the aspirants and to the thoughts. 18. The wh…
1912 · PDF PAGE 57
OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 39 Farewell, my liege, my lords, I leave at last the world ! You who were all my thoughts, my hopes, my joys, my cares, A weight to gravitate, to counterpoise my prayers, Need them no more. Then praise with me this period ; I leave you trembling as my soul draws near to God [She goes out on the arm of THE ABBESS. MORTADELLO. My lords, I will have you all to know : I judged her ill. So man distrusts the saintly snow on winters hill, Fearing what suns of spring may send, destruction tear Through larch and pine to village,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
… dark Tower came": For mark ! no sooner was I fairly found Pledged to the plain, after a pace or two. Than, pausing to throw backwards a last view O'er the safe road, 'twas gone: grey plain all round. Nothing but plain to the horizon's bound. I might go on ; naught else remained to do. And this is universally true. The statement that the Probationer can resign when he chooses is in truth only for those who have taken the oath but superficially. A real Magical Oath cannot be broken: you think it can, but it can't. This is the advantage of a real…
1941 · PDF PAGE 13
…the Far East. THE FOURTH PUBLICATION: 6.22 a.m., December 22, 1937, e.v., nine months before the betrayal, which stripped Britain of the last rags of honour, prestige and security, and will break up civilization. To repeat: the event will establish the kingdom of the Crowned and Conquering Child over the whole earth, and all men shall bow to the Law, which is love under will. Magick, pp. 112-113, written in 1922, published 1929. THE DEAD RELIGION OF THE OLD AEON OF OSIRIS Days of National Prayer. No. 1 There followed: the colossal military…
1901 · PDF PAGE 98
… from : yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun : my life has been the death, This death may be the life : my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air ; I know, I know it in my soul, despite of this, The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kiss,
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…ng I should : Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan5 In the last line of the succeeding verse the metre ( I should say) is not unimpeachable : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 205. Ibid . vol . i, p. 209. : Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p. 107. 4 Ibid . vol . i, p. 98. 5 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 210.
1907 · PDF PAGE 274
…hat cast their trammels off , and spring On eager wing , Immaculate , new born , toward the sky , And shall not die Until they cleave at last the lampless dome , And lose their tent because they find their home .“ 21 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 189 . Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 41 . 3 Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 43 . 4 Ibid . vol . I, p . 55 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…me, therefore, if you please, selecting these few facts from the millions of others in the armoury of my brain, dovetailing them, and at last formulating an hypothesis verifi- able by experiment. III “But I evolve all these mysteries in the profound abyss of Mind.”—ZOROASTER. This was my hypothesis : “Perhaps hashish is the drug which ‘loosens the girders of the soul,’ but is in itself neither good nor bad. Perhaps, as Baudelaire thinks, it merely exaggerates and distorts the natural man and his mood of the moment.” The whole of 38
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…me, therefore, if you please, selecting these few facts from the millions of others in the armoury of my brain, dovetailing them, and at last formulating an hypothesis verifi- able by experiment. III “But I evolve all these mysteries in the profound abyss of Mind.”—ZOROASTER. This was my hypothesis : “Perhaps hashish is the drug which ‘loosens the girders of the soul,’ but is in itself neither good nor bad. Perhaps, as Baudelaire thinks, it merely exaggerates and distorts the natural man and his mood of the moment.” The whole of 38
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…bstitute— [Drinks.] Why, how thou fir’st me! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. It well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the beginning then The vastness of the heavens and the earth Created the idea of God. So Levi once Sarcastic in apostasy ; @ rebourse. So Miller, mythopoeic in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia. Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s Research, find men have made—since men made aught— Their Gods, and slain, and eat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 104
… too cowed to express an opinion at all, even were the question, Is grass green ? Every small snatch of sleep, without exception, in the last three or {our days, has these images. The ideal condition seems likely to be perfect oblivion —or (in the Adept) is the Tamo-Guna, the Power of Elemental Darkness, broken once and for ever, so that His sleep is vivid and rational as another man’s waking; His waking another man’s Samadhi; His Samadhi—to which He ever strives—— ? ? ? ? ? At least this latter view is suggested by the Rosicrucian formula of R…
1913 · PDF PAGE 52
…h to obtain anything we want without loss of time. It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its high- est point, even though the last task but one is the total sur- render of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick. The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not de- pendent upon this principal will are so many leakages ; they are like fat to the athlete. The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they can…
1907 · PDF PAGE 300
…d eight stages of perfection have to be accomplished : Yama , Niyama, Asana , Prânâ yâma, Pratyâhâra, Dharanâ, Dhyâna , and Samâdhi, the last being that state of super -knowledge in which Self and its shadow become one , an extended form of Kant's à priori . Existence is change , and change is sorrow , there fore we must overcome existence . Existence , as we know it, spins A fatal warp , a woof of woe . There is no place for God or soul . Works , hopes , prayers , sacrifices , sins Are jokes . The cosmos happened so : Innocent all of guide or …
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…hereth, the Sun — the Son, in whom Glory and Suffering are identical. The Galangal represents both Kether and Malkuth, the First and the Last, the One and the Many, since in this Oil they are One. These oils taken together represent therefore the whole Tree of Life. The ten Sephiroth are blended into the perfect gold. This Oil cannot be prepared from crude myrrh, cinnamon, and galangal. The attempt to do so only gives a brown mud with which the oil will not mix. These substances must be themselves refined into pure oils before the final combina…
1913 · PDF PAGE 210
…d in grey ." And still th' enchanted drowsy stream flowed on, Beating some rhythmic music in my ears Until the sea should silence all at last . Overhead my children slept . And I thought “ What when they wake , and , calling for me , Find that there is no longer Mother there ? " Then gathered I my strength and fashioned it To prayer , and took my love and made it wings Wherewith to fly to God 's far - distant throne . I felt that with the gift of that one prayer I surely gave my children all I had . While lower , swifter sped the drowsy stream …
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…he declared that every hypothesis of faith was absurd, and admitted for the rule of reason only the witness of the senses. Moreover, the last word of Voltaire was this contradic- tory formula: “Gop AnD Liperty.” God! that is to say, a Supreme Master, excludes every idea of liberty, as the school of Voltaire understood it. And Liberty, by which is meant an absolute independence of any master, which excludes all idea of God. The word Gop expresses the supreme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…he declared that every hypothesis of faith was absurd, and admitted for the rule of reason only the witness of the senses. Moreover, the last word of Voltaire was this contradic- tory formula: “Gop AnD Liperty.” God! that is to say, a Supreme Master, excludes every idea of liberty, as the school of Voltaire understood it. And Liberty, by which is meant an absolute independence of any master, which excludes all idea of God. The word Gop expresses the supreme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are…
1928 · PDF PAGE 54
…gain and sent his conqueror rolling to the ground by butting him in the stomach. But why should I describe the hide- ous struggle, which lasted indeed far longer than their puerile powers had led me to ex- pect? The cake journeyed from hand to hand and changed from pocket to pocket at each in- stant, but alas! it changed also in size, and when at last, exhausted, panting, bleeding, they stopped for lack of strength to go on,
1928 · PDF PAGE 120
…r comfort- able anywhere, and I always believe that I should be better anywhere else but where I am. Well, let me tell you! I saw at the last Fair in the next village three men, who live as I should like to live. You never noticed them; they were tall, almost black, and very proud, although in rags, with the air of having need of nobody. Their large dark eyes became quite brilliant while they made music; a music so surprising, so exciting, that it makes one want first to dance and then to weep and then to do