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Page 68 of 1291905 · PDF PAGE 26
…ed to live With one aim only; never to forgive The wrong the gods do me, and in my form Love his high self, by whom the earth is warm To-day, by whose defiance the universe Would crash in one inextricable curse To primal chaos. Ilear me, I have sworn.” Then, suddenly, more glorious than the morn Tipping the golden tops of autumn hills With light, more countless than the myriad rills Of bright dew running off the bracken leaves, With gold more saturated than the sheaves In the red glow that promises the day Shall glory when the night is fled awa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…ot understand all he says, he sees something that is of far greater importance to him, as shown here: So I press on. Fresh strength from day to day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high. So I depart upon the desert way; So I strive ever toward the copper sky, With lips burnt black, and blind in either eye. I move for ever to my in tic goal, Where I may drain a ountatn never dry; And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satist my souL And fitly may that pronouncement be rounded off with these four lines as a message to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…t Till the shade lengthen on the lawn light-gleaming. Now 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 and solitudes Murmur a little where the maiden moods Are sadder as the evenings kisses fall. Like silver scales of serpenthood they fall Across the blind …
1913 · PDF PAGE 474
…, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder. “Eat no meat and drink no wine, that day. “On Tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels. “Trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of Mr. Home’s pencil, and the bloody hosts of Vintras). “On Wednesday, prepare a taper of yellow wax; rise at midnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead. “Mingle with this office infernal evocations. “ Finish t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 474
…, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder. “Eat no meat and drink no wine, that day. “On Tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels. “Trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of Mr. Home’s pencil, and the bloody hosts of Vintras). “On Wednesday, prepare a taper of yellow wax; rise at midnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead. “Mingle with this office infernal evocations. “ Finish t…
1901 · PDF PAGE 48
…f a kingly sire, Less kingly for the single flower of love! I hail thee, son, the secret spouse of me, King of my body and this realm to-day! For lo! the child leapt up within my womb, Hailing me mother, and my spirit leapt, Hailing him brother! Son and spouse and king, Exulting father of the royal soul That lies here, loving me, assume thy crown And sit beside me, equal to thy queen. For look ye to the burning south, and see The Sun grown amorous, and behold his fire Leap to my godhead. For without a man I single, I the mother, have conceived …
1901 · PDF PAGE 98
…er feared I could not see (if such should cross the way), And therefore I am strange : my soul is seared With desolation of the blinding day I have come out from : yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun : my life has been the death, This death may be the life : my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air ; I know, I know it in my soul, despite of this, The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kiss,
1905 · PDF PAGE 228
… your The odds are as twenty to one! honour ! Hide, hide thy bright eyes, O Apollo! Let tyranny die! The murder is done.! Remember, this day of your glory, Your fight for the freedom you own. Those years—is their memory hoary? Your chains—is their memory flown? Your triumph is famous in story, But yours is alone. The stones should arise to declare it, Their terror and tyrannous reign ! The earth be unable to bear it, ‘Gape wide, for her motherly pain ! Shalt thou, O Columbia, share it, The shame and the stain? In the name of your Freedom I clai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
60 KONX OM PAX ll. Wednesday cardiac symptoms come; Thursday diabetic. Blow the fiddle, strum the drum! Friday I'm paretic. Chorus. m. If on Saturday my foes Join in legions serriedI Then, on Sunday, I suppose, I'll be beri-beriedl Chorus. One need not be intimately familiar with the Japanese character understand that Kwaw and his feat were forgotten in a very few day but a wealthy Daimio, with a taste for observation, took it into h head to inquire of Kwaw for what purpose he had entered the count in so strange a manner. It will simplify matter…
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…OX by sending all business to the devil, the solitude difficulty by borrowing a vacant flat; but the British climate beat me. I hope one day to be rich enough to build a little house expressly for the purpose; but at present there is on the horizon no cloud even so large as the littlest finger of aman! If only, therefore, I could reduce the necessary period to a few hours ! Moreover, I could persuade other people that mysticism was not all folly without insisting on their devoting a lifetime to studying under me; and if only I could convince a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…OX by sending all business to the devil, the solitude difficulty by borrowing a vacant flat; but the British climate beat me. I hope one day to be rich enough to build a little house expressly for the purpose; but at present there is on the horizon no cloud even so large as the littlest finger of aman! If only, therefore, I could reduce the necessary period to a few hours ! Moreover, I could persuade other people that mysticism was not all folly without insisting on their devoting a lifetime to studying under me; and if only I could convince a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
… which has been given me to correct, and doing it. Please the pigs, the Visconti will cheer me up in the evening; and I shall get a good day in to—morrow. Still at Liber DCCCCLXIII. [Το be published shortly by “ The Equinox."——ED.] I should like to write mantrams for each chapter. Still at Liber DCCCCLXIII. I need hardly say that I am perfectly aware that in one sense all this working and ritual making and copying and illuminating is but a crowd of dog-faced demons, since the One Thought of Unity with Adonai is absent. But I do it on purpose, m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 104
…tation into sleep, and there his Lord gave him sweet rest thereof. He will arise, and take a drink—a citron presse—at the Dome ; for the day is yet exceeding hot, and he has had little One ought to remark that all this sleep is full of extravagant dreams ; rarely irrational and never (of course) unpleasant, or one would be up and working with a circle every night. But O.M. thinks that they show an excited and unbalanced condition of John St. John‘s brain, though he is almost too cowed to express an opinion at all, even were the question, Is gra…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…right, it must, however, be understood that the “ Standard of Living ” goes up at an incredible rate The same achievement would, say five days ago, have been entered as “ High degree of concentration ; unhoped-for success." The phenomena which to-day one dismisses with annoyed contempt are the same which John Ξε. John worked four years continuously to attain, and when attained seemed almost to outstrip the possible of glory. The flood of the Chittam is again being heaped up by the dam of Discipline. There is less headache, and more sense of being…
1912 · PDF PAGE 113
…s partly due Indeed, the most of itto you, dear friends, to you. I do not hesitate to say that, bar my wife. This is the very proudest day in all my life. [He raises his cup, and drinks. Heres health to you in turn ! Where is your dancing girl ? You promised I should learn the nature of a pearl ! ALESSANDRO. Ho ! let the girls come in ! [THE MAJOR-DOMO goes out to obey. Ah. Doge her eyes are stars !
1904 · PDF PAGE 138
… stable : There was Copulating Cora And beautiful Mensurating Mabel And Defecating Dora. Of all they did to tell you the story I may one day not be chary For it all redounds to the honour and glory Of Micturating Mary. But the Bishop ruined the Vicars daughter. Though he usually kept it hidden, he Had a tool in length a yard and a quarter. And it jiggered a hole in her kidney. Her beautiful golden urine turned To a mucus ropy and glairy And the meaning of pains in the back was learned By Micturating Mary. The doctors did all they could to …
1911 · PDF PAGE 280
…S as the night sky—blue! Thou whose skin is of flaming orange, as though it burned in a furnace: Thee, Thee we invoke! Behold, I am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of The Morrowl Iam born again and again. Mine is the unseen force from which the Gods are sprung; that giveth life unto the dwellers in the watch—towers of the Universe. I am the charioteer of the East, Lord 01 the Past and the Future. I see by mine own inward light; Lord of Resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the House of Death. Ο ye two divine ha…
1911 · PDF PAGE 280
…S as the night sky—blue! Thou whose skin is of flaming orange, as though it burned in a furnace: Thee, Thee we invoke! Behold, I am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of The Morrowl Iam born again and again. Mine is the unseen force from which the Gods are sprung; that giveth life unto the dwellers in the watch—towers of the Universe. I am the charioteer of the East, Lord 01 the Past and the Future. I see by mine own inward light; Lord of Resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the House of Death. Ο ye two divine ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…A business conducted on such lines would be in a terrible mess; and wc find in fact that man is in just such a mess. While he is working day and night at some unimportant detail of his affairs, some giant force may be advancing /d'^^ claudo to overtake him.
1913 · PDF PAGE 210
…ngel stood all hooded , by my bed . And here , there , with anxious decided steps , The doctors walked . My left hand lay in yours . The day broke , and the pale light all unreal , Came creeping in my room . Then all the birds Chorused with deafening clamour from the trees , The sun weighed down the earth with heavy bars 191