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Page 68 of 1231905 · PDF PAGE 46
… my heart, And knew her work was perfect, and her part Most perfect when she died between the breath, And in the bridal kisses kissed to death.” So grew the newer blossom and was glad: Sweet little hopes her faint fair forehead had That one day such a death might crown her days. And so God too was glad, the story says. THE FAREWELL OF PARACELSUS TO APRILE.! THou Sun, whose swift desire to-day is dull, And all ye hosts of heaven, whose lips are mute, And trees and flowers and oceans beautiful Among whose murmurs I have struck this lute With joy …
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
… star, My sun, my star, the vault that span, Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law? Their death-embrace A simple accident of space? Vv. Where is thy fame, when million leagues OF flaming gas absorb the roll Of many a system ruinous hurled With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy victory over Time? VI. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build thee an house,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 76
… of some ghostly flame Rejoicing in some lone secreted star Beyond the visible heaven. Come to me! Come closer ! Is not this as close as death? Are we not one to all eternity Jewelled with joy? Mix me your subtle breath Into the words well-known and never worn, Into the kiss well-kissed and never tired, Into the love well-loved and not forlorn, The love beyond all that ever was desired ? Ay. all the cloudy must of life is strained To clearer liquor that our souls attained.
1911 · PDF PAGE 236
…n ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death [He uah/ames fo altar. Hail l ye twin hawks high pinnacled That watch upon the universe! Ye that the bier of God beheld! That bore it onwards, ministers Of peace within the House of Wrath, Servants of him that cometh forth At dawn with many-coloured lights, Mounting from underneath the North, The shrine of the celestial Heights! [At altar.
1911 · PDF PAGE 236
…n ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath. I come from the sequestered state; My birth is from the House of Death [He uah/ames fo altar. Hail l ye twin hawks high pinnacled That watch upon the universe! Ye that the bier of God beheld! That bore it onwards, ministers Of peace within the House of Wrath, Servants of him that cometh forth At dawn with many-coloured lights, Mounting from underneath the North, The shrine of the celestial Heights! [At altar.
1924 · PDF PAGE 13
well-known to your editorthis infamous lie was quite strictly murderous : for a man may be done to death by venomous libels far less mercifully than by cruder poisons. 11. My Lord, you cannot escape the gravest personal responsibility in this matter. Your editor could not, with any private resour- ces of his own, undertake a protracted news- paper campaign of libel. It is your wealth, in particular, that he relies on when he challenges Mr. Crowley to fill his pockets by means of an action at law. It is your capital, in various kinds, that he u…
1926 · PDF PAGE 11
…so is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: cer- tainty, not faith, While in life, upon death; peace unalterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods and gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is II, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, and the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are seen of the seeing. Also I …
1961 · PDF PAGE 116
…ow then the Black Brothers by this true Sign of their Initiation of iniquity, that that they resist Change, restrict and deny Love, fear Death. Percutiantur. o
1961 · PDF PAGE 134
…stress; for she invoketh in her Fancy a thousand Obstacles to Love, so that she shuddereth at a Touch, swooneth at a Kiss, and suffereth Death and Hell in the Ekstacy of her Body. And this is her Art, and it is of Nuit Our Lady, for it is the Drama of Commemoration of the whole Mystery of By-coming. r
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…sing of white hands raised up, These perfumed infamies unsung; For God’s breath, her sharp tainted breath ; For marriage bed, the bed of death. The hounds that scavenge, fierce and lean, Snarl in the moonlight ; in the sky The vulture hangs, a ghost unclean ; The lewd hyzena’s sleepless eye Darts through the distance ; these admit My lordship over her—and it. The host is lifted up. Behold The vintage spilt, the broken bread ! I feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red. Only, her head, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 64
…loves abound, Listening the answer of our dancing throng. Joy, sleep, peace, laughter, thought, remembrance, came Even at our prelude, a death-quickening flame, And earth rejoiced throughout to hear Demeter’s name. We come, in bass deep-swelling, rocks and caves, A hollow roar across the golden waves Hidden in islands set deep in the untravelled sea. Across the corn from storm-cleft mountain-sides Our voice peals, like the thunder of the tides, Into the darkling hills that fringe Eternity. Dire and divine our womb unfruitful bears Deep music da…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…meless harrow, Mingle a cup from those our common pains To intoxicate us with an extreme pleasure Keener than life’s, more dolorous than death’s Till these infernal blisses pass the measure Of heaven’s imagined by the tremulous breaths Ot silly saints and silly sinners, swaying From scraps of blasphemy to scraps of praying?
1909 · PDF PAGE 31
…one who travels there ; his pain forgets The golden bliss of all those other lands Where he was happy. So the blizzard frets Its sterile death across my soul, and chills All hope of life even from the rare sad seeds It blows from sunnier vales and happier hills, Though at the best they be but worthless weeds. I stand — I scan the infinite horizon Of hopeless hope — yet I must travel on.
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
… floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis—lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore : dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, When,Where and with whom ye will '. But always unto me. 52. If this be not …
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
…d had torn Their wood to splinters—‘‘ Jesus! I dying ! Send me Thy cross to fashion some un- born Oarage of Truth to quit this stream of Death!” O vain, O wasted breath ! am Ihave no strength. Upright I kneel, lament- ing The days when Love seemed fair, the bitter years When pain might have found truth, ere un- relenting I shipwrecked Life! O agony of tears! Vain tears! In silence, with abated breath I drift, drift on to Death ! PRIEST SPEAKS. Duy 1V. Vale VET) THE ( Proccdee to. LAY them together for the sake of Love Within a little plot of pi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 150
… said: ‘The child that shall be born of thee is called Fear.) He shall save a people from their sin 5 For the old gods indeed go down to death, But the new gods arise from rottenness.” ‘Then said the goddess: ‘‘ I indeed am pure In my impurity 5 immaculate In misconception ; maiden in my whoredom ; Chaste in my incest, being made a god Through my own strength.” The leper with smooth words Turned, and went laughingly towards the west, And took of his own leprosy and threw Its foul flakes in the censer. So he passed, Laughing, and on the altar th…
1899 · PDF PAGE 6
… from the other, and we had not kissed. Only the perfume of her lips and hair Love’s angel wafted slowly to me there, And as I went like death away I wist _Its savour faded, nor my soul aware. I turned and went away, away, away, Out of the night that was to me the day, And_rode to meet the sun to hide in light The sorrow of the day that was the night. So I rode slowly in the morning gray, And all the meadows with the frost -were white. And lo! between the mountains there uprose The winter sun; and all the forest glows, And the frost burns like …
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
…DAPTATION I9 (Rev. xxi. 8), and that they “ shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death ” (Rev. xxi. 8), “ where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched ” (Mark. ix. 44). Let me only add that they are “ a herd of many swine feeding ” (Matt. viii. 30). “ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ? ” (Matt. xxiii. 33). And now, belovèd brethren, with every prayer that this adaptation may prove of lasting blessing to You all, bringing forth “ the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…lay, And to your troth-plight lover played the whore When mouth to mouth we clung, and breath for breath Exchanged the royal accolade of death, I love you for your cruelty to them; Y love you for your cruelty to me; I see their blood glittering a diadem Upon your dazzling brows; my blood I see Sucked deep into your body, curling round Like fire in every artery and vein Massed in your heart, colossal and profound. Iam mad for you to brand me with the stain Of your own vice. Our souls, a murdering crew Of itching Mullahs, wallow, dervish-drunk. L…
1926 · PDF PAGE 9
… floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis—lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore : dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, When,Where and with whom ye will '. But always unto me. 52. If this be not …