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Page 52 of 1001913 · PDF PAGE 462
…ted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. Near the staircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descended the staircase. The two friends returned to Mme. A——’s room. “There is a singular personage,” said Eliphas; “I think I have seen Pierrot of the Funambules playing the part of a traitor. What he said to us on his departure seemed …
1913 · PDF PAGE 462
…ted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. Near the staircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descended the staircase. The two friends returned to Mme. A——’s room. “There is a singular personage,” said Eliphas; “I think I have seen Pierrot of the Funambules playing the part of a traitor. What he said to us on his departure seemed …
1909 · PDF PAGE 318
… distant star through a hole in the roof, and then said, ‘ Journey there.’ “This I did, streaming up towards it like a comet, dressed in long white robes, with a flashing scimitar in my hand. “ After much peril, on account of suns and things very hot and glowing, through which I sped, I arrived there safely, on the shore of a lake, upon which was floating a boat in which stood a man. “On seeing me, he cried out: ‘Who art thou ?’ “And having explained to him, he brought his boat close enough to the shore to enable me to spring into it. This I di…
1909 · PDF PAGE 369
… doll presenting exactly the same appearance. Just like those figureless old women of white wood made by the Russian peasants during the long evenings of their winter season. From the first to the last there were twenty-one dolls, one inside the other. The last was scarcely bigger than a poppy- seed, but presented exactly all the particularities of the largest one. In the third compartment were two books. You may judge of my surprise when I opened them and found that no 361
1909 · PDF PAGE 318
… distant star through a hole in the roof, and then said, ‘ Journey there.’ “This I did, streaming up towards it like a comet, dressed in long white robes, with a flashing scimitar in my hand. “ After much peril, on account of suns and things very hot and glowing, through which I sped, I arrived there safely, on the shore of a lake, upon which was floating a boat in which stood a man. “On seeing me, he cried out: ‘Who art thou ?’ “And having explained to him, he brought his boat close enough to the shore to enable me to spring into it. This I di…
1909 · PDF PAGE 369
… doll presenting exactly the same appearance. Just like those figureless old women of white wood made by the Russian peasants during the long evenings of their winter season. From the first to the last there were twenty-one dolls, one inside the other. The last was scarcely bigger than a poppy- seed, but presented exactly all the particularities of the largest one. In the third compartment were two books. You may judge of my surprise when I opened them and found that no 361
1913 · PDF PAGE 63
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still ; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A …
1913 · PDF PAGE 63
LIBER L. VEL LEGIS 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still ; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A …
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
…et us leave these folk’s ingratitude, My husband ! in thy love alone I rest. This splendour and this toil alike resume Our life from the long honeymoon of love We wish at heart.
1916 · PDF PAGE 10
…ve under consideration. Mr. Stuarts style is as difficult as Wagners or Whistlers were to their contemporaries. We have acquiesced so long in the false meanings which have been placed upon the simplest words by those whose interest it is to deceive us, that when those words are used in their proper, simple sense, we hardly recognize them. For this reason we have deemed it necessary to
1913 · PDF PAGE 464
… about to die.” The magus awoke, his heart palpitating, and his forehead bathed in sweat. “What can this dream mean?” thought he. “It is long since my father died; why am I told that he is going to die, and why has this warning upset me?” The following night, the same dream recurred with the same circumstances; once more Eliphas awoke, hearing a voice in his ear repeat: “Come and see your father, who is about to die.” This repeated nightmare made a painful impression upon Eliphas: he had accepted, for the 3rd of January, an invita- tion to dinn…
1913 · PDF PAGE 464
… about to die.” The magus awoke, his heart palpitating, and his forehead bathed in sweat. “What can this dream mean?” thought he. “It is long since my father died; why am I told that he is going to die, and why has this warning upset me?” The following night, the same dream recurred with the same circumstances; once more Eliphas awoke, hearing a voice in his ear repeat: “Come and see your father, who is about to die.” This repeated nightmare made a painful impression upon Eliphas: he had accepted, for the 3rd of January, an invita- tion to dinn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…elf before no awful deity. Yet his power, great as he believes it to be, is by no means arbitrary and unlimited. He can wield it only so long as he strictly conforms to the rules of his art, or to what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by — XIII —
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…as she possibly could. He even slept with her till he was eighteen : and we may guess the result. H...s was a snivelling shit. L..s wore long hair, never washed and rarely shaved. His pictures were beneath criticism, and his manners Mean little skunks, the slimy pair of them ! Now in an attic in the same building lived S...y B.....s, the common road of the quarter : an illustra- tion of Euclids position that the Hole is greater than its Quarter. This was a dirty split-arse me- chanic with nigger blood peeping through her low- caste white par…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…e . So men pray everywhere . God did first work in earth when womankind He chipped from Adam's rib-a thankless task I wot His wisdom has long since repined . When I am dead remember me for this That I bade workers work , and lovers kiss ; Laughed with the Stoic at the dream of pain , And preached with Jesus the evangel - bliss .' Whilst such lines as the following in the second poem also remind us of the astronomer poet : O thou , zelator of this Paradise , Tell thou the secret of the pillar ! None Can hear thee , of the souls beneath the sun. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…for ever and ever, that never again, neither to save life, nor to retain honour, wilt thou set foot in the Street of the Four Winds ; so long as life shall last.’ “Even as he bade me, I rose with lifted hand and swore. “As I did so there resounded in the room ten sharp knocks, as of ivory on wood, in a certain peculiar cadence. “This was but the first of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of know…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…for ever and ever, that never again, neither to save life, nor to retain honour, wilt thou set foot in the Street of the Four Winds ; so long as life shall last.’ “Even as he bade me, I rose with lifted hand and swore. “As I did so there resounded in the room ten sharp knocks, as of ivory on wood, in a certain peculiar cadence. “This was but the first of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of which he was a master; but, though he supplied me with all conceivable channels of know…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…, rested on me like a honeycomb, all giddy and vibrant with perfume and emotion. “And once an old mother’s head, gray and weary with its long rolling down the years, found on me the unexpected peace and happiness of the old. For the old are so lonely, and no one is their friend. . . . So, my brothers, I give you the key of all her secrets except that secret which she shares with Time and herself. “T can make all plain except my own mystery, which is the tragedy of everyone, worm, or man, or God. “Blaspheme no more in such childish, imitative fa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…, rested on me like a honeycomb, all giddy and vibrant with perfume and emotion. “And once an old mother’s head, gray and weary with its long rolling down the years, found on me the unexpected peace and happiness of the old. For the old are so lonely, and no one is their friend. . . . So, my brothers, I give you the key of all her secrets except that secret which she shares with Time and herself. “T can make all plain except my own mystery, which is the tragedy of everyone, worm, or man, or God. “Blaspheme no more in such childish, imitative fa…
1911 · PDF PAGE 1
… soul is the sulphur of the spring and the poisonous mist that plays upon it. "Come, Love, nor list to tired dreams that twist thy lithe long limbs in fierce abandonment," fierce as Pasiphae in Edmond d'Haraucourt's secret masterpiece; all the joyous torture of the damned in a phrase. Dear lady, when this flask of perfume comes from the bookseller, you shall tire your hair, and paint your face, and gild your nails; you shall anoint yourself with the witch- ointment, and in the rosy twilight touch with a flame the pastilles of musk and ambergris…