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Page 64 of 2031910 · PDF PAGE 98
90 God’s constant affection. 2. Chob-chini, wood of China, a root highly re- puted as an aphrodisiac. In China the jinseng of Sze-chuan and Korea is most esteemed. That of America is not so good, in the fatherland-dizzied eyes of the Celestial. [See note to IXth Ghazal. Ed.] 3. Suleiman — our King Solomon, as historical as King Brahmadatta, who reigned 120,000 years in Benares. 4. Isa — Jesus. Muslim hold that a phantom was crucified in the place of Jesus. See Q’uran III. 5. Gold — noon, not sunrise, or sunset, whose colours are rose and grey. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 50
…ramp. Now were the Desolation fain to stamp The congealed Spirit of Man into the pit, Save that, unquenchable because unlit, The Love of God burns steady, like a Lamp. It burns! beyond the sands, beyond the stars. It burns! beyond the bands, beyond the bars, And so the Expanse of Mystery veil by veil Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over The dissolved heart of the amazéd lover— The angel wings over the Holy Grail!
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…op home! But the screams of pain that stab him, drunk with lust of spur and rod, As the rowels and the whalebone send his spirit back to God! So in madness is attainment that inspirits and endures. —Who are you to blame their folly, ask them to assent to yours? Be ye sure, the Eye Unlidded measures by another rod! Be ye sure, the human balance looks distorted to a God! To yourselves be slaves and masters; stand or fall to self alone; Human ethics will not loosen our Astarte’s crimson zone. You will never fit your forehead with your father’s fanc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…arrel rages . Yet will they not unite ? for the blending of Virtue and Vice means the loss of some supposed comfort , and comfort is the God of man's heart , the Vampire which sucks its life from his shrivelling soul . In laughter alone we shall never solve the riddle of life , only in the mingling of our smiles with our sobs shall we realize the kiss of God on our brow . Yet the dangers are terrible . How many of us can listen to the voice of Circe without becoming swine ? and in the full melancholy of so vast a contemplation , the poet sings …
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…pless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I reign, I am, alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish My own life’s being, that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and thy Motherr f 75
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…pless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I reign, I am, alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish My own life’s being, that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and thy Motherr f 75
1944 · PDF PAGE 137
…he standeth in the lake of crystal, in the sea of glass. “This is she that hath bedecked her hair with seven stars, the seven breaths of God that move and thrill its excellence. And she hath tired her hair with seven combs, whereupon are written the seven secret names of God that are not known even of the Angels, or of the Arch‐ angels, or of the Leader of the armies of the Lord. “Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be thy name for ever, unto whom the Aeons are but the pulsings of thy blood.”
1898 · PDF PAGE 12
…ht A spider-tapestry ; the old blood-stain Spreads through the air Some hot contagious growth to slay men unaware. II. I have discovered God ! His ghastly way ; Of burning ploughshares for my naked feet Lies open to me—shall I find it sweet To give up sunlight for that mystic day That beams its torture whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head, to wither Love’s desire ? 1 2
1898 · PDF PAGE 108
…eadly steam Of murder’s black intolerable might. The stagnant pools rejoice ; the human feast Revels at height ; the sacrament is come ; God wakes no lightning in the broken East ; His awful thunders listen and are dumb ; Earth gapes not for that sin ; the skies renew At break of day their vestiture of blue. 98
1905 · PDF PAGE 40
…wly opens out Its willing petals to the tender dawn, My soul may open to the knowledge of iA dawn of new thought that may lead Votce. To God. Ph, Wope hardly dared to name it! Enter Messenger. Afess. My lord, the king’s command ! Ph. I heed it not. See thou disturb not my high meditation. Away! Voice. With meditations centred in thyself. Mess. Who spoke? Lh. Speak thou. I obey the king. Tess. My lord, Ile lids thee to his court, to hold the reins Tight on the fretful horses of the state Whose weary burden makes them slip—-nay, fall On the stern…
1905 · PDF PAGE 263
…hen formulate In thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, The Lion of the Light, a child that stands On the vast shoulders of the Steed of God: Or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod With the flame-sandals. Then, lift up thine hands ! Centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought Limpid with brilliance of the Light above ! Draw into nought All life, death, hatred, love : All self concentred in the sole desire— Hear thou the Voice of Fire! This hope was Zoroaster’s—this is mine! Not one but many splendours hath the Shrine: Not one but many…
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
…ING withdraw himself to pray. He has become a priest unto him- self his own Guardian, he may administer to himself the holy sacrament of God in Truth and in Right, he has become Exempt from the shackles of Earth. He is the Supreme Man, one step more he enters the Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistic…
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
…ING withdraw himself to pray. He has become a priest unto him- self his own Guardian, he may administer to himself the holy sacrament of God in Truth and in Right, he has become Exempt from the shackles of Earth. He is the Supreme Man, one step more he enters the Sanctuary of God and becomes one with the Brotherhood of Light. Up to this stage progress has meant Work, work terrible and Titanic, one great striving after union which roughly may be compared to the five methods of Yoga. From this fifth stage work gives place to knowledge, Qabalistic…
1905 · PDF PAGE 201
…ine immortal eyes ! THE TWO LOVES. Wuar is my soul? The shadow of my will. What is my will? The sleeper’s sigh at waking. Osiris! Orient godhead ! Jet me still Rest in the dawn of knowledge, ever slaking My lips and throat where yon rose-glimmer- ing hill, The Mountain of the East, its lips is taking To Thy life-lips: I hear Thy keen voice thrill ; Arise and shine! the clouds of earth are breaking! The clouds are parted: yes! And there above I bathe in ether and self-shining light ; My soul is filled with the eternal love; I am the brother of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…ill find in this book a satisfaction of many a heartache. The SEEKBR says: Years ago, the saintly Novalis called Baruch de Spinoza “ that God-intoxicated Man.” What would he have said had he lived to-day, and looked upon the face of Aleister Crowley, that glory revealed to us by the genius of Captain 1. F. C. Fuller? Crowley has been reproached in some thoughtless or malicious quarters for his ignorance or tolerance of evil. But is this not because the holiness of his life and thought keeps him so close to his divine Master that he can only see …
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
90 KONX 0M PAX destroy them. Only morbid “Union with God ” is attained by fast, vigil, scourging, and the like. Morbid or no, continued the doctor, most saints have used this method. What I was about to say was that since we wish to overcome the body by fatigue, we shall do just as wisely to seek Union with God / in excessive debauch. If done with the same purpose, and sleep successfully banished, the same result will occur. If your Messalina failed—well, what does the poet say? Try, try, try again! Re your verses, Jack! And with a disdainfu! g…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…has nothing whatever to do with it. All this time he has been walking round the circumference of a wheel, cheerfully singing “Nearer, my God, to Thee; Nearer to Thee!” while his God is in the centre. He has done the medicine-man trick, and wasted a lot of maidens in the hope of making rain. So—one must suppose, for here I reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This wil…
1909 · PDF PAGE 198
…ge. Carved of that polished black granite of Egypt, which seems, as it were, the very bodily form of the Night of Time, there squatted a god upon his pedestal ; an inscrutable god, smiling, ever smiling with a smile that spoke unfathomable lust and cruelty resolved—by what theurgic alchemy ?—into a pure and passionless bliss. It was a thing eternal as the stars—nay, before it the very stars might bow as in the reverence of Youth toage! Yet in it stood a strength and beauty as of golden youth. Its skin was polished and shining, not as if reflect…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…has nothing whatever to do with it. All this time he has been walking round the circumference of a wheel, cheerfully singing “Nearer, my God, to Thee; Nearer to Thee!” while his God is in the centre. He has done the medicine-man trick, and wasted a lot of maidens in the hope of making rain. So—one must suppose, for here I reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This wil…
1909 · PDF PAGE 198
…ge. Carved of that polished black granite of Egypt, which seems, as it were, the very bodily form of the Night of Time, there squatted a god upon his pedestal ; an inscrutable god, smiling, ever smiling with a smile that spoke unfathomable lust and cruelty resolved—by what theurgic alchemy ?—into a pure and passionless bliss. It was a thing eternal as the stars—nay, before it the very stars might bow as in the reverence of Youth toage! Yet in it stood a strength and beauty as of golden youth. Its skin was polished and shining, not as if reflect…