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…ve. They see no sight: they hear no sound ; But look toward the chill profound End and abyss of love. The water and the skies are fallen Far beyond sight of them. All earth and fire gasp and expire: The night hath lost her starry host, Shattered her diadem. Eternity uplifts its brink To bar the wizard wings. The lightning stoops to let them drink. They silently espouse, and think Unutterable things. The nightmare neighs! The untravelled ways Are past on fervid feet. The limits of the limitless Flash by like jewels on a dress, Or dewdrops fallen…
1905 · PDF PAGE 244
TANNHAUSER 237 The fact, and leave the dream, and so disdain These far-off splendours, catch the nearer joy, Take squalid kisses, banish crested love Intangible. Delights it thee, my friend, To reach the summits unattained before, And stumble on their snows? Thine old desire Was just to touch the mere impalpable, To formulate the formless. Otherwise Christ did as well—thine own words turn again ! TANNHAUSER. Ah, if pure love could grow material ! There are pure women ! VENUS. There you make me laugh! Remember—I have known such. But besides You …
1905 · PDF PAGE 74
…and our reverence, and whose mouth Foams with the presence of some nearer god Insatiate of thy body frail, give tongue, If tongue may so far master deity As give his fury speech, or shape thy words From the blind auguries of madness. Our PROPHET. Ha! The rose has washed its petals, and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my heart. The fire consumes the light; and rosy flame Leaps through the veins of blue, and tinges them With such a purple as incarnadines The western sky when storms are amorous And lie upon the.breast of toiling oc…
1905 · PDF PAGE 156
… of the seas profound ; The thundet of death; the might Of the eloquent silence of black ight ! RATOUM. The noise of many planets fallen far ! CHORUS. Death listens for the voice of life; mght waits dawn of wisdom: spring ! winter seeks the The RATOUM. ‘The music of all stars arisen; the breath Of God upon the valley of the dead ! CHORUS. The silence of the awaiting soul asleep ! RATOUM. The murmur of the fountain of my life! CHORUS. The whole dead universe awaits the Word. RATOUM. Now is the hour of life ; my voice leaps up In the dim halls of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 89
…e too strong to know Or care for that it takes its substance of— As if life’s burden were not drear enough Or death’s deliverance not so far and slow. Our bodies almost perish, with one thought Crowned and completed, consecrate and shrined : A perfect temple of fine amber wrought, Whose shrine’s the body and whose lamp the mind. The heart is priest and sacrifice in one ; And, where it sinned or sorrowed, shall atone. 1 Proserpine, ravished by Hades, was sought by her mother Demeter. But as she had eaten (a pomegranate) in Hell, Hades retained a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 225
…ts; you must give these volumes to the young athletes, that they may learn wherefore I failed—wherefore it was given unto me to run thus far. For, if I have put nothing else therein, most surely that is there. ALEISTER CROWLEY. EPILOGUE AND DEDICATION OF VOLUMES L., IL, HI. ELEUSIS. observe, in an obscure corner, the savage attack of Jones minor upon Robinson mini- THOSE who are most familiar with the spirit} mus, in deducing that the former has only of fair play which pervades our great public|just got over the ‘‘jolly good hiding” that school…
1905 · PDF PAGE 43
…ompel matter to the soul’s desire, To make [leaven aid the mind that would aspire To touch its borders, and to drink their fill At those far fountains whence one drop of dew! Descends upon my head from yonder blue. IN the grim woods when all the bare black branches Creak out their curses like a gallows-tree, When the miasmal pestilence-light dances, A. spectre-flame, through midnight’s in- famy, My blood grows chill and stagnant with my shame, O Love, to speak thy name! © Life! O Tleaven! Ve Spirits Rising unbidden from [lope’s cobwebbed * door…
1907 · PDF PAGE 152
…all the birds change tune, and all the light Glows lowlier, musing on departed day. Strange wings and sombre, heralding the night, Fleet far across the woods; and gleaming bright The evening star looks from the orient way. Shadow and silence deepen : all the woods Take on a tenderer phrase of musical Breezes: the stream-sought homes solitudes Murmur a little where the maiden moods Are sadder as the evening’s kisses fall. and Like silver scales of serpenthood they fall Across the blind air of the evening; Shadowy ghosts arise funereal And seek u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…sh of the surf, On the long low ground, The trees and the turf; In front the profound, The warrior seas, Upstirred of the breeze, by the far reef bound— I know the low music of love, I feel the sweet murmur in me, My soul is in tune with the sea. The stars are above me, The rocks are below me, The sea is around! Great Gods that love me Lead me, and show me Their powers profound. Their lightnings move me To stir me, to throw me As into a swound, The song of the infinite surf that is beaten and bound As a fierce wolf-hound, The song that lures me…
1907 · PDF PAGE 197
… too beautiful, Eager to gather the fresh floral birth. The grim black earth Gaped; roared athwart the gulf the golden car ; And flaming far The four white horses with their flashing manes | The might-resisting reins Lay in the ghastly hands, the arms of fear Of that dread charioteer, Death; and great Hades armed stood glitter- ing, Stooped to his spring, And whirled the child to the beneath abode. O heavy load! O bitter harvest of rich-rolling tears ! What cry who hears? A shrill shrill cry to father Zeus cried she, Forlorn Persephone ! Heard …
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…cat, twin star, ’lis night; the owl and bat Ifoot, scream; ‘tis us they call--to love or (ie. Twin cat, our broomsticks wait: we’ll fly afar ! We'll blaze about the unlighted sky, twin star ! ALI AND HASSAN, FROM TIT ALF LAYLAIL WA LAYLALL, Att bade Hassan to his house to sup. They ate, passed round the full forbidden cup, Till, in an interval of dance and song, Hassan forgot his manners—loud and long. Struck with confusion, forth he fares, takes ship To utmost Ind and far-off Serendip. Full forty years he there abides: at last, Rich and respec…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…enting, with these pangs Tearing my liver, more Promethean Than ever Titan knew—the sunbright span Of narrow water mocks me, brightening Far to the indigo Ionian. The sun hangs high, as in the Arabian tale Enchanted palaces defy the gale, Perched upon airy mountains, on the wing Of genii poised, souls suffering and pale With their long labour: wizard spire and dome That maidens grown magicians had for home, Where the charmed sword and graven talisman Held them supremely floating on the foam Where cloudier seas innavigably roll, Misty with eleme…
1905 · PDF PAGE 124
…by The sward of our delicate pillow, Yvonne ! Where the mosses so lusciously He For the sward of our delicate pillow. For a bride fairer far than the flower Ts the couch spread by fingers of even, The blossom of apples for bower, Its roof-tree the sapphires of heaven, Yvonne! For the bride of the mystical hour, Its roof-tree the sapphires of heaven ! With songsters the heavy sweet air Is trembling and sighing and sobbing, With meteors magically fair The sky is deliciously throbbing, Yvonne ! With splendour and subtlety rare The sky is delicious…
1905 · PDF PAGE 192
… Virgin unto death! O kissing daughters of the unfed brine! O sisters of the west wind’s pitiful breath, There is One that pitieth ! One far above the heavens crowned alone, Immitigable, intangible, a maid, Incomprehensible, divine, unknown, Who loves your leve, and to high God hath said : ‘¢To me these sungs are made !”’ So in a little from the silent Hell Rises a spectre, disanvinted now, Who bears a cup of poison terrible, The seal of God upon his blasted brow, To whom Lis angels bow, Rise, Phantom disanointed, and proclaim Thine own destruc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
one is bound to strain one's theories of the limits of fraud as far as it is humanly possible — especially when one is dealing with a lawyer or a broomstick. So I returned from the parts of the tribes even unto the modern Babylon, where I abode for a season. A little while later I received a card announcing my friend's marriage to the heiress of Sitkab, and, a year later again, in response to kind enquiries, he had the honour to announce that the manifestations of the Poltergeist had totally ceased since time day of the wedding. Some of these A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…ay be just the opposite for another . . . all suffering is nothing but unfulfilled or crossed willing” (pp. 178-182). “When a man has so far got rid of this veil that it no longer causes an egoistical distinction between his own person and that of another, he will recognize his innermost and true self in all beings, regard their endless suffering 340
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…ay be just the opposite for another . . . all suffering is nothing but unfulfilled or crossed willing” (pp. 178-182). “When a man has so far got rid of this veil that it no longer causes an egoistical distinction between his own person and that of another, he will recognize his innermost and true self in all beings, regard their endless suffering 340
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
… in the case of a comparatively simple and straightforward planet like Saturn, this is not the case. And the planets with a backbone are far easier to control. If you once get Mars going, so to speak, it is easy to make him comply with Queensberry rules; but the moon is so passive that the slightest new influence throws her entirely out. And, of course, the calmer the pool the bigger the splash! Hence, in order to draw down to Iliel only the holiest and serenest of the lunar souls, no precaution could be too great, no assiduity too intense. The…
1906 · PDF PAGE 132
126 AHAB What mighty weakness stays the king If he arise, and cast desire Far from its seat and seed and spring To Hinnom the detested fire? Ay! both were wise. Madness alone Sits throned on the king’s vacant throne. Dogs! Who dares break on me? ‘‘ Dread lord ! Mightiest of monarchs !”—‘‘ Cease, thou crow ! Thine errand ! ere the eunuch’s sword Snatch thy bald head off at a blow.” “* Mercy, World’s Light !” Swings clear and clean The call ‘‘ Room for the Queen! The Queen !” Strong as a man, the Queen strides in. Even she shrank frighted !—my as…
1906 · PDF PAGE 30
…upreme grey head Watching the groves: single the foaming amber floods, And O! most lone The melancholy mountain shrine and throne, While far above all things God sits, the ultimate alone ! Ill. I sate upon the mossy promontory Where the cascade cleft not his mother rock, But swept in whirlwind lightning foam and glory, Vast circling with unwearying luminous shock To lure and lock Marvellous eddies in its wild caress ; And there the solemn echoes caught the stress, The strain of that impassive tide, Shook. it and flung it high and wide, Till all…