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Page 50 of 1041919 · PDF PAGE 267
…s to the Brethren? The Priestess takes from the child the water and the salt, and mixes them in the font. Tue Priestess. Let the salt of Earth admonish the Water to bear the virtue of the Great Sea. (Genuflects.) Mother, be thou adored. She returns to the West. *K on PRIEST with open hand doth she make, over his forehead, breast, and body. Be the PRIEST pure of body and soul! The Priestess takes the censer from the child, and places it on the small altar. She puts incense therein. Let the Fire and the Air make sweet the world! (Genu- flects.) F…
1905 · PDF PAGE 122
…sweep throughout the world? What spearman sings The fearful chant of war That fires, and spurs, and maddens all the kings That rule o’er earth, and air, and ocean? Whose hand excites the star To shatter into fiery flakes? No man, No petty god, but One who governs all, Slips the sun’s leash, perceives the sparrow’s fall, . Too high for man to fear, too near for man to call. SONNETS.? TO THE AUTHOR OF THE PHRASE: ‘‘I AM NOT A GENTLEMAN AND I HAVE NO FRIENDS.” I. SELF-DAMNED, the leprous moisture of thy veins Sickens the sunshine, and thine haggar…
1898 · PDF PAGE 58
…, and horrible, to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat. O Hell! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood, But make not me the devilish minister Of such a deed as this! No respite ?—-Must? Irrevocable? I dare not call on God. Thou, thou wilt serve me if I do this thing? Oh, if this be a snare thou settest now, Who hast once already mocked our pact, I swear By God, I cast thee off. Leviathan! Accept the bargain. And I seal it—thus. [Writing in the air
1901 · PDF PAGE 133
THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 121 And shroud all earth in masterless eclipse, While my heart’s murmur through thy being flows, To carry up the prayer, as incense teems Skyward, to those immeasurable streams ! Breathe the creative Sign upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul : Cry, as the chained Eagle of the South, “ A house of death,” and make my spirit whole ! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come ! come away ! but not your mighty sounds ! O wind of all the world ! O silent river ! O sea of seas ! O flower of all the flowe…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…eadly ! — I am afraid. (He discovers Angela.) Madam, can I aid you ? ANGELA. Leave me ! Leave me ! I am the wretchedest girl on the wide earth. SIR PERCY. The comeliest, mademoiselle. (Aside.) O see this is a woman of the world. To her with speeches fit for such then.
1909 · PDF PAGE 29
…ry). (v) Clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-Olahm, Amen (to the Ages, Amen.) (vi) Turning to the East, make a pentagram (that of Earth) with the proper weapon (usually the Wand). Say (¢.e., vibrate) IH V H. (vii) Turning to the South, the same, but say A D N I. (viii) Turning to the West, the same, but say A H I H. (ix) Turning to the North, the same, but say AG L A. Pronounce: Ye-ho-wau, Adénai, Eheieh, Agla. (x) Extending the arms in the form of a Cross, say : (xi) Before me Raphael; (xii) Behind me Gabriel ; (xiii) On my right hand M…
1909 · PDF PAGE 29
…ry). (v) Clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-Olahm, Amen (to the Ages, Amen.) (vi) Turning to the East, make a pentagram (that of Earth) with the proper weapon (usually the Wand). Say (¢.e., vibrate) IH V H. (vii) Turning to the South, the same, but say A D N I. (viii) Turning to the West, the same, but say A H I H. (ix) Turning to the North, the same, but say AG L A. Pronounce: Ye-ho-wau, Adénai, Eheieh, Agla. (x) Extending the arms in the form of a Cross, say : (xi) Before me Raphael; (xii) Behind me Gabriel ; (xiii) On my right hand M…
1910 · PDF PAGE 18
…am ! Found myself in my little bed asleep Having been butted thither by the Ram. IX But in the dream of you, my starry sweet, It is my earth I lose six times in seven. I have the Freedom of the City of Heaven ; But strange (though fair) are all the stars I meet. The dull familiar and the homely drear Are lost for ever. Being asleep, I fear. Wake ! Let me cut the cable of my mind ! My harbour lies before, and not behind. Dreams are all lies ; those jetty shadows lie When the full moon doth crown the midnight sky ; But shadows image truth, and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…ed senses void of vital air And to my lyre reverberate to mock With clanging echoes and discordant, where The dome reached up, almost to earth, so high Rolled back the pillars and the walls, aglare With iron justice’ frightful symmetry Blazoned in blood-like flame, gushing from springs Unseen, unguessed, incredible! There fly The dreaded banners of the demon kings In fearful colours, and the vast inane Dome catches music from my mouth, and rings Back iron curses to the blessings vain I pour in desperate fervour from the lyre. So, baffled by the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 145
…mighty river Where ripples break, and rapids gleam and shiver, And calm rebuilds her empire by-and- by. For joy of this alliance all the earth Forgets her day of dearth, In her new birth forgets, and maddens into mirth, The stars swing censers of pale gold to God, Whose incense is the love-song of the free; Angels with mercy and with beauty shod Move in the mazes of an Eden, trod Not by the seemly spirits of the sea, But by brave men built wholly of desire And freedom’s mystic fire, To clothe its habitants with glorious attire. Clasp hands, O f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 85
…mother, that another hath reviled, Calling her bitter and barren—and am I not her child ? O mother sea, O beautiful, more excellent than earth, How is thy travail understood, except thou give me birth ? O waves of death, O saltness, O sorrow manifold ! I see beneath thy darkness azure ; deeper still, the heart of gold. Am I not true, O mother, who hast held the lives of men Sucked down to thy swart bosom—O render not again ! Keep thou our life and mix it with thine eternal sleep : Rest, let us rest from passion there, deep ! O how deep ! Deep c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 190
…Teh King. Chinese Classic on the Tao. Taro. See 777^ Equinox III and VIII, etc., etc. Tan. A "cross," Hebrew letter = Th corresponds to "Earth." See 777. Thaumiel. The demons corresponding to Kether. Two contending forces. Theosophist. A person who talks about Yoga, and does no work. Thoth. The Egyptian god of Speech, Magick, Wisdom. TiphcrctJi. " Beauty" or " Harmony," the 6th " emanation " of the Absolute. Typhon. The destroyer of Osiris. Udana. One of the imaginary "nerves" of Hindu pseudo-physiology.
1913 · PDF PAGE 386
…ng, in one of his most eloquent paradoxes, represented the hangman as a sacred being, and a permanent incarnation of divine justice upon earth, suggested that one should raise to the old man of Ferney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, also was, in the world, a being at the same time providential and fatal, endowed with insensibility for the accomplishment of his terrible functions. He was, in the domain of intelligence, a hangman, an extirminator armed by the justice of God Himself. God sent …
1913 · PDF PAGE 386
…ng, in one of his most eloquent paradoxes, represented the hangman as a sacred being, and a permanent incarnation of divine justice upon earth, suggested that one should raise to the old man of Ferney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, also was, in the world, a being at the same time providential and fatal, endowed with insensibility for the accomplishment of his terrible functions. He was, in the domain of intelligence, a hangman, an extirminator armed by the justice of God Himself. God sent …
1914 · PDF PAGE 7
…ck! God save us! Is there one thing worth Gold buys? You bought love; here's the goods! For health, Look at the ploughman toiling in the earth ! Disease and hatred won you by your wealth, ‘And scorn—foul scorn—even from the tipsy knaves ‘You fling your dollars to, and think them slaves! Each one of all the maggots that swarm round ‘Your swollen carcass knows exactly that; What is too rotten, what is fairly sound, ‘How much is flesh, and how much more is fat. Not one thinks otherwise than “ Here is meat: God sends His maggots carrion to eat.” No…
1961 · PDF PAGE 63
…g enough to overcome its Inertia. To win that Battle I must call Time and Pick-axe to mine aid. But how could I retard the Motion of the Earth in Space? I am myself Party of its Momentum. Yet every Stroke of my Pen affecteth that Motion by changing the Equilibrium thereof. The Problem of every Act of Magick is then this: to exert a Will sufficiently powerful to cause the required Effect, through a Menstruum or Medium of Communication. By the common Understanding of the Word Magick, we however exclude such Media as are generally known and unders…
1899 · PDF PAGE 174
…t a stone—if but thou wilt. And yet the days stream by; night shakes the day From his pale throne of purple, to allay The tremors of the earth ; day smiteth dark With the swift poignard dipped in Helios’ ray. The days stream by; with lips and cheeks grown pale On their indomitable breast we sail. There is a favouring wind ; our idle bark Lingers, we raise no silk to meet the gale.
1899 · PDF PAGE 186
…sweep throughout the world? What spearman sings The fearful chant of war That fires, and spurs, and maddens all the kings That rule o’er earth, and air, and ocean? Whose hand excites the star | To shatter into fiery flakes? No man,. No petty god, but One who governs all, Slips the sun’s leash, perceives the sparrow’s fall, Too high for man to fear, too near for man to call. O virgin Poesy, the link is thine To bring us near ; the suffering of thy path Hath its reward, desire that is divine Strengthens and gladdens, and thy beauty hath This joy …
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…dy of the Starlight and the Moon ! Come and be absolute within my mind, That I may take no dim remembrance back To drown this glory with earth’s quivering gloom. But, O abide within Me ! Every hour I need the lofty and the limpid stream Of that White Brilliance : Leave me not alone, O Holy Spirit ! Come to comfort me, To draw me, and to make me manifest, Osiris to the weeping world ; that I Be lifted up upon the Cross of Pain And Sacrifice, to draw all human kind And every germ of matter that hath life, Even after me, to the ineffable Kingdom o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 13
…s a ray of my light, as a messenger unto that small dark orb. 3. Then V.V.V.V.V. taketh up the word, and sayeth: 4. Men and women of the Earth, to you am I come from the Ages beyond the Ages, from the Space beyond your vision ; and I bring to you these words. 5. But they heard him not, for they were not ready to receive them. 6. But certain men heard and understood, and through them shall this Knowledge be made known. 7. The least therefore of them, the servant of them all, writeth this book. 8. He writeth for them that are ready. Thus is it kn…