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Page 56 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 274
…bacus of God! Thou the sacred snake that rears Death, a jewelled crest across The enchantment of the years, All my love that is my loss. Life and death, two and one, Hate and love, moon and sun, Light and darkness, never swerve From the norm, note the nerve, Name the name, exceed the excess Of thy lamp of loveliness, Living snake of lazy love, Ithyphallic that uprears Its Palladium above The enchantment of the years !
1954 · PDF PAGE 24
…sorts of ways, he was yet capable of lashing out, shooting someone, or poking them in the nose. Violence, for him, was as much a part of life as peace and quiet. Modern pacifism would have repelled him altogether. He had made it a rule of life to expose himself to all sorts of dangerous situations in which violence was implicit" and in which he revelled. Read "The Smoking Dog,"
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
Q2 GARGOYLES Who stood a casual on life’s slippery ledge, A blind bat hanging from the tree of sense Ifead downward, gorged with sweet banana juice, Indifferent to—incapable of—aught Beyond these simple reflexes. Is thought, Even the highest thought, of any use? IV. We are not discussing metaphysics now. I see below the beautiful low brow (Low too for cunning, like enough !) your lips, A scarlet splash of murder. From them drips This heart’s blood ; you have fed your fill on me. I am exhaust, a pale, wan phantom floating Aimless in air, than wh…
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…n my mouth is only the savour of an infinite kiss. The moist earth burns my lips; my fingers search down about the roots of the grass. The life of earth itself is my life: I shall be glad to be buried in the earth. Let my body dissolve into hers, putrefy in her reviving limbeck. He never loved who let them case him in a coffin from the supreme embrace. It is from the earth, bride of the sun, that all bodily strength derives. It is no figure that Antæus regained all his force when he touched earth. It is no pedantry and folly of the Hindus, who (fea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…n my mouth is only the savour of an infinite kiss. The moist earth burns my lips; my fingers search down about the roots of the grass. The life of earth itself is my life: I shall be glad to be buried in the earth. Let my body dissolve into hers, putrefy in her reviving limbeck. He never loved who let them case him in a coffin from the supreme embrace. It is from the earth, bride of the sun, that all bodily strength derives. It is no figure that Antæus regained all his force when he touched earth. It is no pedantry and folly of the Hindus, who (fea…
1902 · PDF PAGE 74
… So long I have held thee not to have the power To hold thee still by charm, or love, or force ? Fool, for I hate thee ! I will have thy life ! TannhAuser. Where is the cavern in the mountain side, The accursed gateway of this house of Hell ? Venus. Thou canst not find it ! Fool ! TannhAuser. And yet I will.
1905 · PDF PAGE 33
…d :-— Come forth! O ye souls of the fire, where the sound of my singing is whirled! Ye blossoms of lightning, Bare boughs of the tree Of life, where the brightening Abysses of sea Reveal ye, the whitening Swords kindled of me. Come forth! I invoke thee, O lightning, the flames of the Gods flung free! THE LIGHTNING The wand of Hermes, the caduceus wonder- working, Sweeps in mid-zther— Where we are lurking It finds us and gathers. By our mother the amber In her glorious chamber; By the flames that enwreathe her ; By the tombs of our fathers ; Awa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 104
… to that decayed Glow of wet rot in the wintry wood. Ay ! from this star disaster-rayed A very wormwood draught is brewed : The light of life shall shrink dismayed At the dawn of prostitute and prude ; And the pagan glory fade From the brows of womanhood. IST SATYR But the boy shall thrust the maid From the sunlight to the shade. He shall make her passion good. 2ND SATYR Nay ! for all the world-decay Rots from sapphirine to grey. All the leprous lichen clings Round the comeliness of things. Brothers ! sisters ! fauns and elves ! Dryads ! Oreads…
1913 · PDF PAGE 199
…THE SEER Over the billows Of soft green grass, Under the willows, The gray sprites pass. In twilight’s glamour The shadows grow,— Cadent life’s clamour ! So low, so low, That the world is hushed As the white light pales ; No longer flushed The daylight fails ; The fading light No longer glows In the west; the night Still deeper grows: O secret Rose ! O secret Rose! O secret Name! The west wind blows As the hot red flame x L 161
1913 · PDF PAGE 199
…THE SEER Over the billows Of soft green grass, Under the willows, The gray sprites pass. In twilight’s glamour The shadows grow,— Cadent life’s clamour ! So low, so low, That the world is hushed As the white light pales ; No longer flushed The daylight fails ; The fading light No longer glows In the west; the night Still deeper grows: O secret Rose ! O secret Rose! O secret Name! The west wind blows As the hot red flame x L 161
1930 · PDF PAGE 18
… Mary and Jésus are really nothing but imitations of those of Isis and tiorus. Honesty is the best policy in Magick as in other lines of life. 138 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 99
…rked by wonderful visions and the acquisition of hitherto unknown powers. The Sushumna is, as it were, the central pillar of the Tree of Life, and its six stages are known as the Six Chakkras.+ To these six is added a seventh; but this one, the Sahasrdara, lies altogether outside the human organism. These six Chakkras are: 1. The Milédhara-Chakkra. This Chakkra is situated between the lingam and anus at the base of the Spinal Column. It is called the Adhar-Padma, or fundamental lotus, and it has four petals. ‘In the pericarp of the Adhar lotus …
1910 · PDF PAGE 99
…rked by wonderful visions and the acquisition of hitherto unknown powers. The Sushumna is, as it were, the central pillar of the Tree of Life, and its six stages are known as the Six Chakkras.+ To these six is added a seventh; but this one, the Sahasrdara, lies altogether outside the human organism. These six Chakkras are: 1. The Milédhara-Chakkra. This Chakkra is situated between the lingam and anus at the base of the Spinal Column. It is called the Adhar-Padma, or fundamental lotus, and it has four petals. ‘In the pericarp of the Adhar lotus …
1922 · PDF PAGE 340
… softly, standing over my mattress. “I never had a better one.” It would be impossible to give the details of even one day at Telepylus. Life there has all the fullness of the heroin life with none of its disillusions. I must simply select such incidents as bear directly on our Purgatorio. I dropped off to sleep again after a short chat with Basil about indifferent affairs, and woke in the morning very much refreshed, and yet overpowered by the conviction that it was impossible to get up without heroin. } But the bright spring sun, his rays fal…
1954 · PDF PAGE 322
…ity. Here they are: 1. The Cloud on the Sanctuary. On reading this book, Mr. X, who was desperate from the conviction that no success in life was worth a tinker's dam, decided: "This is the answer to my problem; the members of the Secret Fraternity which this book describes have solved the riddle of life. I must discover them, and seek to be received amongst them." 2. X, hearing a conversation in a cafe which made him think that the speaker might be such an one as he sought, hunted him down-he had gone on his travels-caught him, and made him pr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
…tious innocence. There was another man there too, a kind of half- baked Nonconformist parson, one Jabez Platt, who had realised early in life that his mission was to go about doing good. Some people said that he had done a great deal of good—to himself. His principle in politics was a very simple one: If you see anything, stop it; everything that is, is wrong; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs. We smiled our sympathefic assent, with sly glances at our hostess…
1954 · PDF PAGE 461
428 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Do please forget all these vague statements about the "clarification of one's dream-life" (meaning what?) and "shadow-thinking" (meaning what?). These speculations are idle, and idleness is poison. In your very next paragraph you give the whole show away! "Artistically it appeals to me-but not spiritually." You have been spiritually pOisoned. What blasphemy more hideous could be penned? What lie so base, so false, so nasty, what so devilish and deadly a doctrine? I feel contaminated by the mere fact of being in a world …
1898 · PDF PAGE 12
…oem now together. PERCY. Dear heart, dear heart! And she will give us light, our dear moon out yonder, always a pure cold light: and our life shall answer a purer, warmer flame. She is like a maiden covered with lilies; your lilies have kissed roses, ESME. And when the moon’s light fails, the light of your song. PERCY. Let that light be drawn from Heaven too. ESME. Oh, Percy, I am so glad, so glad ! PERCY. Esmé ! ESME. When will you begin your great poem—now ? PERCY [as 2f tn pain). Ah! my poem. I am in despair! It is so great,
1901 · PDF PAGE 92
…ly look of her. I cried to Mary in the House of Rest: ‘““O Madonna of the Virgin eyes!” I pierced him to the very soul: I took His whole life’s love to me before he died: Mad kisses mingled that enduring look Of death-caught passion: in his death he cried, “‘O Madonna of the Golden Eyes!”
1901 · PDF PAGE 21
…light As beautiful as God’s, bend down to me, And whisper me the secrets of thy heart, That I may follow and dispel the night, And fight life through, a comrade unto thee, Under Love’s banner with the sword of Art ! O