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Page 65 of 801905 · PDF PAGE 108
… came Within my soulless body as a flame. Endowing which with sacred power I sought A little while, as thought that seeks for thought. [ found his changeless love endure as mine, His passion curl around me as a vine. So clinging fibres of desire control My perfect body, and my perfect soul Shot flakes of light toward him. So my eyes, Seeking his face, were made divinely wise. So, solemn, silent, ’mid a merry folk I bound him by my forehead’s silver yoke, And grew immense about him and within, And so possessed him wholly, without sin. For I had …
1906 · PDF PAGE 29
… in delusion, the puppet show of delusion, the writhing of delusion, the fetter of delusion, are aware that the way out of the desert is found by going into the desert. (Will you, in your lonely lamaserai, accept this hymn from me, who, in the centre of civilisation, am perhaps more isolated than you in your craggy fastness among the trackless steppes of your Untrodden Land? ALEISTER CROWLEY. PARIS, A.B. 2446. I MIGHTIEST Self! Supreme in Self-Con- tentment ! Sole Spirit gyring in its own ellipse ; Palpable, formless, infinite presentment | Of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…th no more, and on the pinions of imagination or of faith seek mountain-tops of being. It was in this state or one akin to it that Iliel found herself. And gradually, as comes also to the smoker of opium, the process of bodily repose became complete; the earth was one with earth, and no longer troubled or trammelled
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
… dwindled in my—call her friend ! 1 The obscurity of this poem demands ex planation. Its thesis is the fact that human happiness is only found in strife and aspiration. Victory’ and achievement inevitably lead to discontent, because only the impossible is truly desirable. NEPHTHYS. ‘Phere ts no light, nor wisdom, nor know- ledge in the grave, whither thou goest.”— SOLOMON, A FOOLISH and a cruel thing is said By the Most Pligh that) mocks man’s emply breast, As if the grave were mere eternal rest, Or merest resurrection of the dead. All petty wi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…irl, "come away while it is time. This is the first chance I have ever had to escape; I was set to watch the chapel door to-night; and I found the spring. Oh, come away quickly! They're criminals; they corrupt you and they torture you. Oh do come, sister! I can't escape without you; the man in the automobile would stop me. But if you come, I can slip away. It's only a step through the passage. Oh God! Oh God! if I had only gone when I was as you are!" Lisa's whole soul went out in sympathy to the gentle creature." Look what they've done to me!"…
1905 · PDF PAGE 245
…Lady of my life! Who set thy stature as a wood to wave? Whose love begat thy limbs? Whose wave-washed body swims That nurtured thee, and found herselfa grave? ‘But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep! All mortals mourn and weep To see thee, seeing that all love must die Beside thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I cry for all mankind—they are slain, even as I! [TANNHAUSER pauses, bends eagerly towards VENUS, She smiling luxu- viously, he continues. Who cometh wanton, with long arms out- spread ? Who cometh with lasciv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
…Theosophist's confidence, and betrayed her foully at the proper moment. She [294] had tried the same game on another adept; but, when he found her out, and she knew it, he had merely continued his kindnesses. The alternative before her was repentance or brain fever; and she had chosen the latter. Her disbelief in magick had left her with its correlate, a belief in death. It was the one thing she feared, besides magick itself. But she did not make the mistake of being in a hurry, on that account. The strength of her character was very great, in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…m the brows of thy anguish, we see what the weight of it did To the patient despair of the brain. no God strike a blow? Shall no hero be found the unbearable burden to rid? And if these be extinct—’tis a fiend that laughs eager and low: “* Shall beauty avail thee, Caryatid ?” Shall JEUNE MERE SURELY the secret whisper of sweet life Shakes in the shell-ear murmurous memories Of the old wonder of young ecstasies In the first hours when the white word of wife She won so hardly out of dark wild strife And mystery of peace ; thine utter ease, Abando…
1906 · PDF PAGE 54
…Lotus, Taggara and Vassiki their odour rare Shed forth, their fragrant excellence is verily beyond compare. Yet little is this fragrance found of Taggara and Sandal wood : Mounts to the Gods, the highest, the scent of those whose deeds are right and good. Perfect in virtue, living lives of Earnestness, Right Knowledge hath Brought into liberty their minds, that Mara findeth not their path. As on a heap of rubbish thrown by the way- side the Lotus flower Will bloom sweet scented, delicate and ex- cellent to think upon; So ’mid the slothful worth…
1919 · PDF PAGE 158
…k” I experienced some mental visions and ‘telephone-cross voices,’ but cannot say if they were connected with any dream; then suddenly I found myself lying in bed with the last thoughts of the previous night in mind. Yes- terday, I read the article on the subject (Training of the Mind) carefully, also learnt the formula of the four great meditations on Love, Pity, Happiness and Indifference. At night, I again attempted “thinking backwards,” but experienced rather more difficulty as conditions were bad. However, once started, I got back through …
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…n New York, and it was forbidden to heat office buildings on Mondays. He merely took away his mail and went home. O11 Tuesday morning He found on his desk a letter which had arrived on Monday for the general editor, who had sent it across to Him for reply, as it concerned The Master Therion rather than himself. This letter had been written and posted on Sunday evening, at about the same time — 258 —
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…dow—glowed, Rushed to my wife and kissed her. Lithe and young The rapture of some ardent madness flowed ; And — bye-and-bye —its miracle found tongue. Guess, guess the secret why I burn for you These years so cold to woman as I was! Guess why your laugh, your kiss, your touch run through My body, as it were a tunéd glass ! 1 Holy Queen-—one of the many thousand titles of the Goddess. You cannot guess ?—false devil that you are! To Cruelty’s add calm’s analysis ! You love me? Yes—then crown me a bearded Sar Bull-breasted by my sleek Semiramis !?…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
… fall A gentle influence in the place of pain. Oh now the central glory of the place Falls splendid on the unbewildered brain, And IT am found contemplating a face More passionless than mortals’: central sits Throned on pure iron, with brass for cara- pace, Minos: and either side of him befits The mighty Khadamanthus throned on gold And canopied with silver : sternly knits [lis brows the awful .lacus, in cold Splendour of justice throned on carven lead ; And o’er his head twin dragons bend and hold A cobra’s hood made of some metal dread Imposs…
1905 · PDF PAGE 145
…r Fear. Who will deliver. brake, Lone wood, and sleepy lake, Are peopled with bright shapes that sing for freedom’s sale. Deliverers are found Mountain, stream, and Rocks, and pale fountains, and tall trees that quiver, And all the clouds that deck the sunset sky Move like the music of a mighty river Where ripples break, and rapids gleam and shiver, And calm rebuilds her empire by-and- by. For joy of this alliance all the earth Forgets her day of dearth, In her new birth forgets, and maddens into mirth, The stars swing censers of pale gold to G…
1905 · PDF PAGE 275
… sacred Word of the Gnostics. That is, IAO. From the Character of the Deities and their Functions are deduced their Signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the Word Lux (WS), which itself is contained in the Cross. A careful Study of these Ideas, and of the Table of Correspondences, which one of our English Brethren is making, will enable him to discover a very great Deal of Matter for Thought in these Poems which an untutored Person would pass by. To return to the general Dogma of the Qabalists. The Figure of Minutum Mundum will show…
1919 · PDF PAGE 305
…erman.’” Apart from the question as to whether Silly Willy counts his fortune in marks or not, I was much distracted by his reference. I found myself back again in Teng-Yueh. We were sitting at dinner in the Consul’s house, when the messenger broke in to tell us that the Consul—who was away among some unruly tribes—was ill, perhaps dying. We jumped up, George Forrest, the botanist, and I, and made ready. We were delayed two hours in starting by the “distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine,” who needed to finish his rice. It was nine o’clock be…
1905 · PDF PAGE 194
… me! in my heart this thing be- came My sacrament, my pentecostal flame. And with it grew a fear—a fear of Ller. What Her? Shame had not found itself a name, I brood the Simply I knew it in myself. Ten years—so seemed it-—O! food In my mouth nauseate! In the silent hall One might have heard God’s sparrow in its fall. But I was lost in mine own solitude— 1 should not hear Mikhael’s ! trumpet-call. bitter Yet there did grow a clamour shrill and loud : , One cursed, one crossed himself, another vowed His soul against the quest ; the tumult ran Ind…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…desire ! Be near as I lift the first notes impassioned of fervour and fire! Not ever before Since Nature began Hath one cloven her core, Found the soul of her span ; No son that she bore Her spirit might scan ; But I, being born beyond Nature, have known her and yet am a man.
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…market place and otherwise spread ourselves. Things began with no definite pulse of passion discernible, but as the evening advanced, we found ourselves somehow or other at odds
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…d me sad and slow Pacing the green flower-lighted turf, and leap Into my body’s kisses, into sleep :— Sweeter this latter bridal than we found The first, now lost in time’s eternal deep. It is not cruel if the ripe fruit fall— But never an elegy funereal Wept for untimely burial, but cried Aloud against the Fates, forebore to call In pity or passion on the Gods of peace ; But cursed, but wailed, nor bade its sharp tongue cease Until the lightning spat, sharp to divide Bone from its marrow for their blasphemies ! So I should curse, unless indeed…