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Page 54 of 1291928 · PDF PAGE 6
…est of al languages is prostituted to no other uses than those of gluttony, snobbery and greed. The condition of England and America to- day makes it a profanation to translate Baude- laire; yet such is his virtue, and such the in- nate virtue of humanity, that if this volume only fall into the hands of the young, it may produce a crop of saints and artists even in those barren fields. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1906 · PDF PAGE 39
…hastly comrades to the doméd wall That crowns the grey cathedral. There they goO— The parasites of death, decay and woe, Gorged with the day's indecent festival. I think these birds were once the souls of priests. They haunt by ancient habit the old home Wherein they held high mass in days of old. But now they soar above it—for behold ! God hath looked mercifully down on Rome, Promoting thus her children to be beasts. ADVICE OF A LETTER! THE Wingéd Bull that dwelled in the north Hath flown into the West, and uttered forth His thunders in the Mo…
1898 · PDF PAGE 134
… and corpse-flesh ! I can see even here (For changeful spectres haunt me) how a tear Of blood stood on my breast at her first bite : And day grew dusk, and twilight turned to night, And her vast coffin stood at hand. And there Naked as hell, legs wide flung out in the air, She lay and called me “ Sata ”. As I came, Feeling a Satan, such a deathly flame Of lust of loathliness was kindled here In my bad blood, I leapt upon the bier, And consummated all the strange desire That burnt and branded all my blood with fire, Buried my teeth and limbs in …
1901 · PDF PAGE 128
…rbold Son of their secrets, and like springes close On his choked throat and frozen body—Nay ! That death were twilight, and the gate of Day ! No death ye bring as his, that grips the flag In desperate fingers, and with bloody sword Flames up the thundering breach, while bastioned crag, Glacis, and pent-house belch their monstrous horde Of hideous engines shattering—this strife Clears the straight road of Glory and of Life ! Nay : but the hateful death that stings the soul Into rebellion ; the insensate death That chokes its own delight with wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
…mstrong . Through all my pulsing veins . So had I died In slavery . But last year he rode away To court , in Paris ; and the self - same day , When noon had mellowed into eventide , A thought leapt in my brain , and I took down A rusty axe and ground it on the wheel , And shaped the edge until the sharpened steel Shone like a minnow . Then I climbed the crown Of that broad slope , where girt with massy oaks His hall looks out upon the timbered lands , And heaving up the weapon in my hands Hewed at a bole . Birds scattered at the strokes . Oh , …
1961 · PDF PAGE 128
…gainst Fear. Then Men take him and set him at naught, and spit upon him and scourge him, and lead him away to crucify him; and the third Day he riseth from among the Dead, and ascendeth into Heaven, and sitteth at the right Hand of God, and cometh to judge the Quick and the Dead. This, o my son, is the History of Everyman unto whom is given a Word. k
1903 · PDF PAGE 11
He sank back contented. “ I have prayed to my god for many days,” he said, “ and by one of the least of my life’s miracles you are here ; worthy to receive my trust. For when I knew that I was to die, I destroyed all the papers which held the story of my life—all save one. That I saved ; the only noble passage, perhaps—among the many notable. Men will say that it is stained ; you, I think, should be wiser. It is the story of how the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. They were not drowned, you know (he seemed to lapse into a day dream), and they c…
1905 · PDF PAGE 121
…t some sympathy with me? That lyre that was myself, my heart’s decree And ruler, subtle at the dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground. I raise it, and its music hath not found One string or snapped or loosened, and the tune Is the old triumph garlanded and crowned ! Folly and hate! Blithe mockery of sorrow ! Shrill me no harsh lies of some sweet to-morrow! Soothe me no hateful mysteries of the moon, How one life lends what other lives may borrow! 122
1909 · PDF PAGE 19
38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! Feast! Rejoice! there.is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in …
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…s — Jesus dwells in me . Christ is the holy pattern and the way ; He is the everlasting inner light : Oh , wonderful His guidance in the day , And beautiful His presence in the night . Lazarillo . The night ? Lazarus . The night !- Unmindful of the rich , He dwells within the bosom of the poor , Comforting them in darkness — Lazarillo . All of which I often heard , far better said , before . Thy tattered raiment , and thy Christ Within Proceed from fear - if thou wouldst but confess . Thy God is but thy one besetting sin Innate , unconquerable …
1905 · PDF PAGE 87
…with a joyous neigh As if he understood the victory. But look you, Enter Second Messenger. SECOND MESSENGER. Rejoice, O Israel, for this day hath seen Utter destruction overtake, and death Ride furious over, trampled necks of men Desperate in vain; hath seen red hell gape wide To swallow up the heathen. Victory Swells the red-gleaming torrent of pursuit, And Israel shakes her lazy flanks at last A lion famished, and is greedy of death. CHORUS. O joyful day! And where is Jephthah now? MESSENGER. Faint with the heat of a hard battle fought, But f…
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
… to my hand. We understand. We must go forth together, not to part. O perfect heart ! O little heart that beats to mine, away Before the day Ring out the tocsin for our flight ! Ts keen to dip Her plunging forehead in the silvering sea. ‘To-morrow we Shall be so far away, and then to-morrow Shall shake off sorrow And be to-morrow and not change for ever : No dawn shall sever The sleepy eyelids of the night, no eve Shall fall and cleave The blue deep eyes of day. queen ! My ship Your hand, my Look down and lean Your whole weight on me, then leap…
1929 · PDF PAGE 294
…rder to cut ours more efficiently later on. I only wish we could stop the second part of the process. We reached Yunchangfu on the fifth day from Tengyueh. Our first march took us up the valley of the Shweli, which we crossed on a floating bamboo bridge. The road from there to Pingho winds uphill for about five thousand feet. The road was nowhere really bad, but in some places so steep that riding was difficult. The third day took us to Lu Chiang Chiao, in the valley of the {480} Salween. The gorge is indescribably sublime. It is sentinelled by…
1899 · PDF PAGE 57
…, And wrestle with th’ accuser. So, depart! CHORUS OF ELDERS. When the countenance fair of the morning And the lusty bright limbs of the day Race far through the west for a warning Of night that is evil and gray, When the light by the southward is dwindled, And the clouds as for sleep are unfurled, The moon in the east is rekindled, The hope of the passionate world. The stars for a token of glory Flash fire in the eyes of the night, And the holy immaculate story Of Heaven is flushed into light. For the night has a whisper to wake us, And the su…
1905 · PDF PAGE 77
…f death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they ? They rise at mine appointed hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 306
…le. S.S.F. : Sphere of the Fixed Stars. L.T.N. : Lesser Angel governing Triplicity by Night. L.T.D. Lesser Angel governing Triplicity by Day. Κ.ΟΙἹ.Β᾿ = Kether—Chokmah—Binah. (Ch.) : Chaldee. S.D. Siphra thenioutha. I.R.Q. _ Idra Rabba Qadisha. Tet. : Tetragrammaton. LA. Angel = Lesser Assistant Angel. I.Z.Q. : ldra. Zuta Qadisha. M.T = Magister Templi. W = Shemhamphorasch. W. = Wands. C. Cups. S. = Swords. P. = Pentacles. K, of s. = Key of Solomon. O P A A. = Oriens—Paimon—AritonfiAmaimon. 'T‘ = Aries. h = Saturn. ö = Taurus. Θ : Sun. : ?םGemin…
1912 · PDF PAGE 306
…le. S.S.F. : Sphere of the Fixed Stars. L.T.N. : Lesser Angel governing Triplicity by Night. L.T.D. Lesser Angel governing Triplicity by Day. Κ.ΟΙἹ.Β᾿ = Kether—Chokmah—Binah. (Ch.) : Chaldee. S.D. Siphra thenioutha. I.R.Q. _ Idra Rabba Qadisha. Tet. : Tetragrammaton. LA. Angel = Lesser Assistant Angel. I.Z.Q. : ldra. Zuta Qadisha. M.T = Magister Templi. W = Shemhamphorasch. W. = Wands. C. Cups. S. = Swords. P. = Pentacles. K, of s. = Key of Solomon. O P A A. = Oriens—Paimon—AritonfiAmaimon. 'T‘ = Aries. h = Saturn. ö = Taurus. Θ : Sun. : ?םGemin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 124
…a sort of mad syllogism. Nobody whom I respect does this. I respect So-and-so. Therefore, So-and-so did 7iot do this. The moralist of to-day is furious when one points to the fact that practically every great man in history was grossly and notoriously immoral. Enough of this painful subject ! As long as we try to fit facts to theories instead of adopting the scientific attitude of altering the theories (when necessary) to fit the facts, we shall remain mired in falsehood. The religious taunt the scientific man with this open-mindedness, with th…
1926 · PDF PAGE 18
38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! Feast! Rejoice! there.is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in …
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
… AUTHORISED BY THE A. % A. •. LIBER HHH SUB FIGURA CCCXLI. CONTINET CAPITULA TRIA: MMM, A AA, ET SSS. I. MMM. “I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the Year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out$ when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife. I remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was there another: thy kisses abide.” — Liber Lapidis Lazuli. vu. 15. 16. o. Be seated in thine Asana, wearing the robe of a Néophyte, the ho…