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Page 48 of 1731928 · PDF PAGE 51
… the sticking point; I resolved, as I passed, to lay some money on one of the boards, hoping that he would divine my inten- tion, when a great eddy of people, caused by I know not what disturbance, bore me far away from him. And, on my homeward round, obsessed by this sight, I sought to analyse my sudden sad- ness; and I said to myself: I have just seen the image of the old man of letters who has survived the generation which he so brilliantly amused; of the old poet, without friends, with- out family, without children, degraded by his misery a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
erform the Great Work by the formula of Régénération. To trike with the hand on the dagger déclarés that one demands he use of the dagger as a tocl to extena one’s executive power. The reader will recall how Siegfried smote Nothung, the sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general objec…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
… power, but judgment. Nothing can upset the sum total of destiny — everything must be paid for the uttermost farthing. For this reason a great many operations theoretically possible cannot be performed. Suppose, for example, you see two men of similarly unhealthy astral appearance. In one case the cause may be slight and temporary. Your help suffices to restore him in a few minutes. The other, who looks no worse, is really oppressed by a force incalculably greater than you could control, and you would only damage yourself by attempting to help …
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
…yet returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her; and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible God. Consider now: the Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the Stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the Body of our Lady Nuit. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.6. Jane Cheron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, then, I was in her apartment. I had attained none of my objectives in calling on her, and was a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
… said that he did not know, and (to a further question) that no one had ever explained it. This merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my imaginative life as one of his heroes, and the rest of it, I never had even a moment's illusion that anything of the sort had ever happened to me. I went through all the motions; I haunted all the places where…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
… caught the lavish lyre, and sate Hard by the waterfall, Twisting its sweetness intimate Into the solemn call Of many dead men that were great, The plectron’s wizard thrall. Thus as she danced, nor ceased, nor cared, I set the sacred throng Of heroes into acts that fared In Argo light and long, The foes they fought, the feats they dared, In shadow-show and song. (The play of Argonautae 1s shadowed before them by Orpheus’ malice might.) So faded all the dream : so stole Some fearful fondness in her soul; Even as a cloud thrilled sharply through …
1910 · PDF PAGE 487
…d To the white bosom of its mother, As Christ clung to the gibbet-reed! Then every knight turned to his brother, Sobbing and sighing for great gladness; And, as they looked on one another, SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT
1910 · PDF PAGE 487
…d To the white bosom of its mother, As Christ clung to the gibbet-reed! Then every knight turned to his brother, Sobbing and sighing for great gladness; And, as they looked on one another, SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…r. 3. Once union with God is attained, the whole of life (or perhaps religion) becomes pleasant. 4. May perhaps refer to the “ horror of great darkness ” which comes, say the Mystics, to an As- pirant on the Threshold of Illumination. (We must beg students to observe that Major Lutiy seems to have written these notes in two moods, one in which he admits his own personal knowledge of, and identification with, mysticism ; the other in which (as here) he writes as a mere scholar.) 5. Obscure throughout, and the two last stan- zas seem quite incons…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…of Douglas was his own; that the perception of the identity of himself with all other living things had come to him, and raised him to a great Adeptship. But there was one to comprehend the nature of that initiation. As Cyril walked, leaning on the arm of Sister Cybele, to the room appointed for his prescribed solitude, he beheld a great light. It shone serenely from the eyes of the Mahathera Phang.
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…o "snap out of it" and recover my normal serenity requires only a minute effort, and the whole of my magical energy is earmarked for the Great Work. I have none left to make that effort . Of course, if the worry is enough to interfere with that Work, I must detail a corporal's fIle to abate the nuisance. The other way may be called the Taoist aspect. First, however, let me explain the point of view of the Master of the Temple, as it is so similar. You should remember from your reading what happens in this Grade. The new Master is "cast out" int…
1898 · PDF PAGE 85
…an’s love is my delight ! To feel him clamber on me, laid Prone on the couch of lust and shame, To feel him force me like a maid And his great sword within me flame, His breath as hot and quick as fame ; To kiss him and to clasp him tight ; This is my joy without a name, A strong man’s love is my delight. To feel again his love grow grand Touched by the langour of my kiss ; To suck the hot blood from my gland Mingled with fierce spunk that doth hiss, And boils in sudden spurted bliss ; Ah ! God ! the long-drawn lusty fight ! Grant me eternity o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 213
THE WILD ASS Verily and Amen! Unhewn The great grim forest menaces. What gardener may dare to prune Those woods to build me palaces? So climb, each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear— Once, twice, and thrice for every one! Once, twic…
1909 · PDF PAGE 213
THE WILD ASS Verily and Amen! Unhewn The great grim forest menaces. What gardener may dare to prune Those woods to build me palaces? So climb, each ledge an infinite stress, Lustful as light, as lechery loth, From the brutality of Besz To the plumed perjury of Thoth! I held him holy. Holier both Than aught the bearers of the bier, Thoum-aesh-neith and Auramoth, Saw in the hiding-house of fear. The sorceries that span the sphere, The spells that harness star and sun, I whispered in his siren ear— Once, twice, and thrice for every one! Once, twic…
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
…le effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the metre of x Memoriam: ‘‘ No force on earth, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man, destructive o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
…ce. I was much touched by Henley's kindness in inviting me. I have never lost {344} the childlike humility which characterized all truly great men. Modesty is its parody. I had to wait some little while before he came down. When he did so, he was obviously suffering severe physical distress. Like Marcel Schwob himself, he was a martyr to constipation. He told me that the first half of every day was a long and painful struggle to overcome the devastating agony of his body. Only three weeks later he died. He was engaged in various tremendous lite…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
Concentration. 121 not practised can realize how swift and numerous our impressions are. Under ordinary circums- tances the great majority do not rise into con- sciousness at all, for one is occupied with one main current of ideas. But once the mind seeks to check all possible currents of ideas, the simple im- pressions rise into the vacant space, which is fairly bombarded. 4. “ Into one wave all the wavelets ” is the Hindu equivalent for this. El Baab, when the orthodox took him out to be shot, having dug holes in his skin and filled them with…
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
…nning to place Ale ph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and cam e to a great Emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts . And the Emperor (who is Solomon) told him of Sheba’s Land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journey ed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour a nd light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden ; even the cubical s tone and the cro…
1898 · PDF PAGE 47
… dust, Thou has a guerdon, is it not for hire ? ” Christ came to me, alone and sorrowful, And offered me a cross, saying to me, “ I have great joys to give most bountiful. Carry this through the world, and when the sea Of death is past, then is prepared for thee A house of many mansions.” My desire Hid not from me the vileness of his plea :— “ Thou has a guerdon, is it not for hire ? ” ENVOI Prince of the air, thou offerest nought to me I serve thee, recompensed of hell-fire, More nobly than these others, verily Since none with impious word may…
1909 · PDF PAGE 105
…g his limbs in some delicious dim Depth, where the evening star May kiss his mouth, or by the black sky’s rim He makes his prayer To the great serpent that is coiled in rapture there. VII I rose to seek him. First my footsteps faint Pressed the starred moss ; but soon I wandered, like some sweet sequestered saint, Into the wood, my mind. The moon Was staggered by the trees ; with fierce constraint Hardly one ray Pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay. VIII I wandered, crying on my Lord. I wandered Eagerly seeking everywhere. The…