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Page 46 of 911944 · PDF PAGE 40
…and. It is in this restricted sense, for the most part, that the word will be used ill this essay. The business of Science is to explore Nature. It’s first questions are, What is this? How did it come to be? What are its relations with any other object? The knowledge acquired may then be used in Applied Science, which asks: How can we best employ such‐and‐such a thing or idea for the purpose that, to us, seems fit? An example may make this clear. The Greeks of old were aware that by rubbing amber (which they called Electron) upon silk, the ambe…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
THE SWORD OF SONG 12 Exactly! Grown my mental stature, I ponder much: but never yet Can I get over or forget That bitter text’s accurded nature, The subtle devilish omission,57 The cruel antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “Fish.”58 Here goes my arrow to the gold ! I’ll make no magpies ! Though I hold Your Christianity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most …
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis : The Poet. Epode : Nature. BOOK II. Orpheus laments his wife—‘‘ Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice.” “ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power.” Complains of the antithesis of desire and power --‘' Le¢ the far music of oblivious years,” Laments—'‘ How can one hour dissolve a year's delight,” Tells of his wooing—'"' Jn child-like meditative movd,”’ Eurydice’s song—*' O shape half seen of love, and lost.” Continues t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, 113 enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. The garden quit ? Frequent the mosque ? By Allah, ’twas an ass that brayed. Allah, if Allah be, indwells All beauty.3 He is best repaid By who loves jade as jade, nor asks Some mighty Jaker for the Jade.4 The garden-podex wants, methinks, No worship, but a member-spade.5 1. The Sodom-fable is to be found in the XVth chaper of the Q’uran. Moslems accept the Bible, so far as it goes. Only they regard the Christian as the Christian regards the Jew : as one n…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
…uckily, and my “ Retro Satanas ” takes this form. Let me define my position. It is quite true that my attitude to real life, the life of Nature, is perfectly “ sane ” and “ wholesome ”. In a perfect society I should regard even my “ Alice ” as perverted art : for in a sane world one is insane to proclaim sanity. But art (which is the Word of the Masters to the World) must move with that world and follow it into its corruption, redeeming the same. The simple humanity, the great guffawing indecency, of Shakespeare is well enough for the pagan soc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 89
…hall it be given according to his capacity. (He has been saying certain secret things to the unconscious mind of the seer, of a personal nature.) Now a voice comes from without: And lo! I saw you to the end. And a great bell begins to toll. And there come six little children out of the floor of the chariot, and in their hands is a veil so fine and transparent that it is hardly visible. Yet, when they put it over the Cup, the Angel bowing his head reverently, the light of the Cup goes out entirely. And as the light of the Cup vanishes, it is lik…
1919 · PDF PAGE 125
…become the seed of joy: for you are certain beyond all proof that you can never die; that, though you change, change is part of your own nature: the Great Enemy is become the Great Ally. And now, rooted in this perfection, your Self become the very Tree of Life, you have a fulcrum for your lever: you are ready to understand that this pulsation of Unity is itself Duality, and therefore, in the highest and most sacred sense, still Sorrow and Illusion; which having comprehended, aspire yet again, even unto the Fourth of the Gifts of the Law, unto …
1919 · PDF PAGE 386
…oth in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future “Days” again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in Nature. The astronomy of the Author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. Mercury can hardly be said to have a fiery aura, or to bea silent watcher in the night. Nor is it easy to attach any meaning to the statement that Mars and Mer- cury were once Suns. The theories of transmigration of personality involved are a little difficult! 55. Be, O Lanoo, like them. Give light and comfort to the toiling pil…
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 152 Eu De Natura S#inu (Of the Nature of the Sphinx) IRSTLY, this Sphinx is a Symbol of the Coition of Our Lady BABALON with me THE BEAST in its Wholeness. For as I am of the Lion and the Dragon, so is She of the Man and the Bull, in our Natures, but the Converse thereof in our Offices, as thou mayst understand by the Study of the Book of the Vision and the Voice. It is thus a Glyph of the Satisfaction and Perfection of the Will and of the Work, the completion of the True Man as the Reconcilor of the Highest with the Lowest,…
1961 · PDF PAGE 200
… a Sword, so hath every magician of a Body and Mind capable to the Work that he willeth; and he can do nothing, save it be proper to his Nature. d
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 129 LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM TO OSCAR ECKENSTEIN, WITH WHOM I HAVE WANDERED IN SO MANY SOLITUDES OF NATURE, AND THEREBY LEARNT THE WORDS AND SPELLS THAT BIND HER CHILDREN Taxa & év rais wodvdévdpoow ’OAprov Oardpuats, évOa ror’ ’Opdevs xidapifwy fvvayev Oévipea povoass, Evvayev Ofjpas dypwras. —Baxyar Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing. To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard …
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES which balances faith, and it constitutes the whole merit of faith. Nature herself induces us to believe; but the formule of faith are social expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. It is that which proves the Church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. God is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because He is only defined by negative experience ; He is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
… it is finer to let him devour us,—yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say.” “But if the tiger threatens my children ?” “Let Nature herself reply to you!” Harmodius and Aristogiton had festivals and statues in Ancient Greece. The Bible has consecrated the names of Judith and Ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the Holy Book is that of Samson, blind and chained, pulling down the columns of the temple, as he cried: “Let me die with the Philistines!” And yet, do you think that, if Jesus, before dying, had gone to Rome to plung…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES which balances faith, and it constitutes the whole merit of faith. Nature herself induces us to believe; but the formule of faith are social expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. It is that which proves the Church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. God is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because He is only defined by negative experience ; He is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
… it is finer to let him devour us,—yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say.” “But if the tiger threatens my children ?” “Let Nature herself reply to you!” Harmodius and Aristogiton had festivals and statues in Ancient Greece. The Bible has consecrated the names of Judith and Ehud, and one of the most sublime figures of the Holy Book is that of Samson, blind and chained, pulling down the columns of the temple, as he cried: “Let me die with the Philistines!” And yet, do you think that, if Jesus, before dying, had gone to Rome to plung…
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…n sulky majesty to the red bays of the Pacific. The Society formed to exploit this unheard- of invention is, naturally, of a most secret nature: perhaps I am revealing too much when I say that members are permitted to inscribe after their names the letters L.A.L. By the New Method, therefore, let us continue our interesting studies of the system of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume. Laure, the first of three curtain (and hair) raisers, is a charming little drama. An ingénue comes by accident into possession of a letter compromis- ing her mothe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
172 THE SWORD OF SONG Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair? So says Mansel. That masks the primal cause of being. With all respect to Buddha, fleeing The dreadful problem with the word ‘* Who answers, as who asks, hath erred,” I must decidedly insist On asking why these things exist. My mind refuses to admit All-Power can be all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What though…
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…ary, yet content, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing no man can be positive about from the nature of things—it must have happened so quietly that I never knew. Certainly I should not have thought that I had gone on for 25 minutes, as I did. But I do indeed ask for a Knowledge and Conversa- tion of the Holy Guardian Angel which is not left so much to be inferred from the good results in my life and work; I want the Perfume and the Vision. . . . Why am I so materially wallowing in grossness.> It matte…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…f that Truth, which is in science, reality; in judgment, reason; and in ethics, justice. Finally, we shall acquaint you with the laws of Nature, whose equilibrium is stability, and we shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of God. Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revela- tions, mysterious illne…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…f that Truth, which is in science, reality; in judgment, reason; and in ethics, justice. Finally, we shall acquaint you with the laws of Nature, whose equilibrium is stability, and we shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of God. Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revela- tions, mysterious illne…