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Page 67 of 801944 · PDF PAGE 36
…nning to expend itself, or to spiritualise itself, in the cards of the Decan of Sagittarius. But the best fixation of the fiery force is found in the 9, which number is the foundation of the structure of the Tree of life. Thus the card is called The Lord of Strength. The fire has been purified, etherealised and balanced. But in the 10, showing complete materialisation and nimiety, the effect of fire is pushed to its extreme limit. Its death is impending, but it reacts against this as best it can by appearing as the Lord of Oppression, formidabl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 105
…ed.”’> And so Our bodies met, and, meeting, did not touch But interpenetrated in the kiss. This writing is engraved on lamina Of silver, found by me, the trusted friend 1 See the description of the robes and crown of the Magus in the ‘‘ Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.” And loving servant of my lady and lord, In that abandoned Vault, of late destroyed By Etna’s fury. Nothing else remained (Save in the ante-room the sword we knew So often flashing at the column-head) Within. I think my lord has written this. Now for the child, who…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…he tune Our lives were set to, and sang back Across the sky toward the moon Into the cloud’s dissolving wrack, Vanished for ever. And we found Coprolite less than chrysolite, Flowers fairer than their food, the ground ; We knew our destiny, saw how Man’s fate is written on his brow, And how our love throughout was hewn And masked and moulded by the moon. XXVIII. AND who is then the moon? Bend close, And clothe me in a silken kiss, And I will whisper to my rose The secret name of Artemis. Words were not needed then: to-day Must I begin what neve…
1944 · PDF PAGE 60
…any time. The Hindu conception of Mercury, Hanuman, the monkey god, is abominably degraded. None of the higher aspects of the symbol are found in his cult. The aim of his adepts seems principally to have been the production of a temporary incarnation of the god by sending the
1906 · PDF PAGE 47
…ven quay, Stone, like embroidery ! All the dear beauty of art’s soul sublime He looked on the last time, And trod the figured stéps, and found the ledge At the white water’s edge Where the king’s pinnace lodged; but he put by That shell of ivory, And chose a pearl-inwoven canoe, whose prow Bore the moon’s own bright brow In grace of silver sculptured ; and therein He stepped; and all the water thin Laughed to receive him ; now the city faded Little by little into many-shaded Clusters of colour. So his boat was drawn Subtly toward the dawn With …
1939 · PDF PAGE 12
…d in a very large number of cases he is unable to stand up to the strain. 'Schizophrenia,' which is a lovely word, and may or may not be found in your dictionary, is an exceedingly common complaint. It means the splitting up of the mind. In extreme cases we get the phenomena of multiple personality, Jekyll and Hyde, only more so. At the best, when a man says 'I' he refers only to a transitory phenomenon. His 'I' changes as he utters the word. Butphilosophy apartit is rarer and rarer to find a man with a mind of his own and a will of his own, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…igh- bour, One thought of winiter with one word of June, Muddled and mixed in mere dismay, Chisclled with the cunning chisel of despair, Found wanting, well aware Of its own fault, even insistent Thereon ; some fragrance rare Stolen from my lady’s hair Perchance redeeming now and then the distant Fugitive tunes. 18. Ah! Love! the hour is over! The moon is up, the vigil overpast. Call me to thee at last, () Rose, O perfect miracle lover, Call me! I hear thee though it be across The abyss of the whole universe, Though not a sigh escape. delicious…
1906 · PDF PAGE 138
… Janet ! Angus! Oh, miserable! here. Criosda ! wake ! wake !— Oh, I must take him out—no man may enter here !—It is ill luck. Old Andrew found the passage ! and the next day he was dead —murdered, murdered ! Oh, how horrible! —what a horrible place this is with all its beauty and love! and my worship—oh, how strange it all is. Criosda! come! [She begins to carry him to the great door, then notices his white robe. This must come off: they must not see the holy robes. Criosda! my darling dear brother, do look at me! [She has removed the robes. CR…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…woven in one, All things be broken of the winter winds, No soul stand up and look upon the sun ! Save only mine !—that my voice may con- found The universe, and spell the mighty sound To shake all heaven and earth, to mingle hell In chaos, in some limitless profound ; That it may tear Olympus from its place, Mix it with Hades, change the Ocean space, Level the tides of time that sink and swell, And curse my very father to his face! O father, father Apollo, did I wrong Thy chariot and thy horses in my song? Why clove thine arrow the unseated air…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…gthened dragon rests at last, 1 Referring to the story of the accidental discovery of the mine of Potosi by a man who, plucking a plant, found its roots shining with silver. 2 "Yhe Spiritual Journey towards the Supreme IWnowledge which is life and bliss. And by whose borders we have made a home, More like a squirrel’s bower than a house. For in this blue Sicilian summertime The trees arch tenderly for lovers’ sleep, And all the interwoven leaves are fine To freshen us with dewdrops at the dawn, Or let the summer shower sing through to us, And w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…r fortune telling, especially by gypsies, so that it was customary to speak of the “Tarot of the Bohemians”, or “Egyptians”. When it was found that the gypsies, despite the etymology, were of Asiatic origin, some people tried to find its source in Indian art and literature. There is here no need to enter into any discussion of these disputed points.1 THE THEORY OF THE CORRESPONDENCES OF THE TAROT Unimportant to the present purpose are tradition and authority. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity does not rest on the fact that, when 1It is supposed b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 255
…o comment. Pride, humility, is a form of delusion. (9) Is like unto it, but on the moral plane. (10) The great enemy. Theists alone have found the infamous audacity to extol the merits of this badge of servitude. We see, then, that in this classification a scientist will concur. We need not discuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. Buddhism may not be com- plete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate. like
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…elty. My wife! my wife! I am broken, I cannot sleep, I cannot die. Pain, pain for ever! Nature is a lie, The godsa lhe. Myself? but I am found Sole serious in the hateful comedy. Blackness, all blackness! How I hate the earth, The curse that brought my being into birth. I, loving more her loveliness, am bound And broken—thrice more bitter for my mirth ! Song, was it song I trusted in? Or thou, Apollo, was it thou didst bind my brow With laurel for a poison-wreath of hell To sear my brain and blast my being now? A band of most corroding poison w…
1939 · PDF PAGE 67
… hardship itself that helped, that more and more my magical operation became implicit in my own body and mind, when a few months later I found myself performing in full operations involving the Formula of the Neophyte (for which see my treatise Magick) without any external apparatus at all. 10. A pox on all these formalistic Aryan sages! Unless one wants to be very pedantic, it is rather absurd to contend that this form of ritual forced upon me, first by external and next by internal circumstances, was anything else but a new form of Asana, Pra…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…re phantoms. In reality the cheese is nothing but a series of electric charges. Even the most fundamental quality of all, mass, has been found not to exist. The same is true of the matter in our brains which is partly responsible for these perceptions. What then are these qualities of which we are all so sure? They would not exist without our brains; they would not exist without the cheese. They are the results of the union, that is of the Yoga, of the seer and the seen, of subject and object in consciousness as the philosophical phrase goes. T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…of silver smokes with perfume. Cot. CLXXXI. (continued)— Line 26.—Levi’s Baphomet is sound commentary on this Mystery, but should not be found in the text. Linz 27.—Human figures thrown thence suggest the letter y by their attitude. Ling 28.—A woman, naked, and kneeling on her left knee, pours from a vase in her right hand silver waters into a river, by which grow roses, the haunts of coloured butterflies. With her left hand she pours golden waters over her head, which are lost in her long hair. Her attitude suggests the Swastika. Above flames …
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…The stream, and drew its mist Up through their silent atmosphere. Some sorrow drawing near That slow, dark river would for sympathy Have found its home and never wandered out Into the sunlight any more. A sigh Stirred the pale waters where the moonlight stood Upon the sleepy flood | In certain bough-wrought shapes of mystic meaning, As if the moon were weaning The king her babe from milk of life and love To milk new-dropped above From her sweet breast in vaporous light Into the willowy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange …
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…ioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality rarély to be found in fiction.”
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…ioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality rarély to be found in fiction.”
1905 · PDF PAGE 72
… if thy soul have gotten Its throne in so sublime a fatherland, Above these miscreants and misbegotten ; If even already thy spirit have found peace, Among the thronged immortal secrecies ; If with the soul of Aé’schylus thy soul Talk, and with Sappho’s if thy music mingle ; If with the spirit infinite and whole Of Shakespeare thou commune; if thy brows tingle With Dante’s kiss; if Milton’s thunders roll Amid thy skies ; if thou, supreme and single, Be made as Shelley or as Hugo now, And all their laurels mingle on thy brow— Then (as Elijah, wh…