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Page 68 of 791911 · PDF PAGE 304
…Daily News. “When one comes to the poems. . . it is evident that they are written in English. . . . Ina certain oblique and sub-sensible sense, eloquent and musical. . . . Distinctly Wagnerian in their effects... — Scotsman. “Tt is full of ‘the murmurous monotones of whispering lust,’ ‘ the song of young desire,’ and that kind of poppycock.”—London Opinion. “A competent master of words and rhythms. . . .. His esoteric style i unreasonably obscure from an intelligent plain poetry-lover’s standpoint.” —Morning Leader. «A charming volume of poems.…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…Daily News. “When one comes to the poems. . . it is evident that they are written in English. . . . Ina certain oblique and sub-sensible sense, eloquent and musical. . . . Distinctly Wagnerian in their effects... — Scotsman. “Tt is full of ‘the murmurous monotones of whispering lust,’ ‘ the song of young desire,’ and that kind of poppycock.”—London Opinion. “A competent master of words and rhythms. . . .. His esoteric style i unreasonably obscure from an intelligent plain poetry-lover’s standpoint.” —Morning Leader. «A charming volume of poems.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…ystery of this Aire, and few that are new‐ born unto Understanding are capable thereof. “The cup glows ever brighter and fierier. All my sense is un steady, being smitten with ecstasy. “And the Angel sayeth: Blessed are the saints, that their blood is mingled in the cup, and can ;never be separate any more. For Babylon the Beautiful, the Mother of abominations, hath sworn by her holy kteis, whereof every point is a pang, that she will not rest 1The doctrine here set forth is identical with that of the whole Mystery of Perfection understanding i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…e fails to grasp the whole spirit of modern Science‐Philosophy. It does not aim at Truth; it does not conceive of Truth (in any ordinary sense of the word) as possible; it aims at maximum convenience. 2. To return to the picture of the Solar System. The Sun is the Hub of the Wheel; the outermost Planet is on its rim; and beyond, but laterally within that rim, are the Twelve Con‐ stellations of the Zodiac. Why twelve? The first rough division of the circle is into four, accord‐ ing to the observed seasons. This choice may also have been influenc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…gn for that period over the Jews regathered in Jerusalem. The position of these Jews is not quite clear. They were not saved in the same sense as Christians had been, yet they were not damned. The millennium seems to have been thought of as a fulfilment of god's promise to Abraham; but apparently it had nothing to do with "eternal life". However, even this modified beatitude as not open to Gentiles who had rejected Christ. The child was consequently very much relieved by the reappearance of some of the inmates of the house whom he could not ima…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…ompatibility of my various positions. Shakespeare's patriotism in John of Gaunt's dying speech and Henry V appeals directly to my poetic sense. I am quite prepared to die for England in that brutal, unthinking way. "Rule, Britannia" gets me going as if I were the most ordinary music-hall audience. This sentiment is not interfered with by my detestation of the moral and religious humbug which one is expected to produce at moments of national crisis. My patriotism is of the blatant, unintelligent variety, popularized by Kipling. I like the old ri…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
strong, O man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” “Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times gr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…e cause of order, instead of as a plastic mass on which order imposes it‐ self. No system truly Qabalistic makes air in the conventional sense the original element, though Akasha is the egg of spirit, the black or dark blue egg. This suggests a form of Harpo‐ crates. In that case, by “air” one really means “spirit”. However this may be, the actual symbol is perfectly clear, and should be applied to its proper place. Dionysus Zagreus. Bacchus Diphues. It is convenient to treat the two gods as one. Zagreus is only important to the present purpose…
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…organic reactions of the hyperbolic cells ? 1 M. I would. S. The devil you would ! M. I would. Our line becomes single? S. In the higher sense. Mf, So that the Mind of the Father riding on the subtle guiders got it right after all? S. Pretty right. M. And all things are divisible Three, not into Two? S. Into A, zot-A, and the dividing line. M. Though the Reason of Man _ has boggled often enough at this, the intuition of Woman has always perceived it. 5S. But she has gone too far, placing the importance of that dividing middle above all into oth…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
… advance into Matter. But also, in the ecstasy of the union, Light and Heat are disengaged; these phenomena are not material in the same sense as the hydrochloric acid is material; this product of the union is therefore of a spiritual nature, and corresponds to the Daughter. In the language of the alchemists, these phenomena were classified for convenience under the figure of four “elements”. Fire, the purest and most active, corresponds to the Fa‐ ther; Water, still pure but passive, is the Mother; their union results in an element partaking o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 487
…her increased by various vicissitudes. The council is guided by a fool whom they ignore, being the only character with a grain of common sense, and by a prophet whose insane purpose is to deliver the city to destruction. By his inspired advice, the council are lured into one disastrous folly after another, and when the catastrophe occurs the prophet throws off the mask and bloats over the ruin he has wrought. This play was accepted by Morris Brown but as bad luck would have it, war conditions obliged him to close his theatre before it could be …
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…measured pulses quickened with the blood Of that desire which pours its deadly flood Through soul and shaken body; scarce a thought, But sense through spirit most divinely wrought To perfect feeling ; only through the lips Electric ardour kindles, flashes, slips Through all the circle to her lips again, And thence, unwavering, flies to mine, to drain All pleasure in one draught. sigh ; No change of breast; love’s posture perfectly Once gained, we change no more. The fever grows Hotter or cooler, as the night wind blows Fresh gusts of passion on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…stical fancies about the number; I accepted it for purely moral reasons and on purely rationalistic grounds. I wanted to be a man in the sense in which the word is used by Swinburne in his Hymn of Man. Having to choose a Persian name, I made it Chioa Khan (pronounced Hiwa Khan) being the Hebrew for The Beast. (Khan is one of the numerous honorifics common in Asia.) I had no conscious magical intention in doing so. (Let me here mention that I usually called my wife Ouarda, one of the many Arabic words from Rose.) As to my study of Islam, I got a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
269 of common sense, and could only meet with further failure and disaster. I foretold exactly what would happen, except that I heartily hoped that the Englishmen would be killed and their coolies escape by some miracle. It was not to be. They made the mistake against which I had warned them; they had precisely the same kind of accident as in 1905 that resulted from the mutinous violation of my orders; but, just as the doctor and Righi had escaped with their worthless lives, to go about the world with the manslaughter of their comrades on their…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…at man as best he might. Accordingly, he aimed at being the most devoted follower of Jesus in the school. He was not hypocritical in any sense. All this strikes one as absolutely natural; what is extraordinary is the sequel. A letter dating from his early school life at Cambridge: Dear Papa & Mama, For my holiday work prize I have got a splendid knife, 2 blades, a saw, a screwdriver, a thing to pull out thorns, another to get stones out of horse's shoes, another I don't know what for, a leather piercer, a gimlet & a corkscrew and name plate. It…
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
… know that, little Brother ?”’ smiled the Thrice- Honoured One. ‘‘Lord, I perceive this Truth whenever 1 Thirst: z.e. desire in its evil sense. 2 Ignorance. 3 Doubt. + ‘* Bliss-of-non-existence.'’ One of Crowley's eastern names. I consider the Universe. More, its con- sclousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this for many incarnations. I have never thought otherwise.” ‘““ Rise, Sir Abhavananda, I dub thee Arahat!” cried the Buddha, striking the neophyte gently on the back with the flat of his ear.t And he pe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…SERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mean? By O in the ordinary sense of the term we mean ‘‘ absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say ‘‘ No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs, that ‘* Absence-of-cat possesses two tails”; but that ‘‘In the category of two- tailed things, thereis no extension pf cat.’ Nothingnessis that about which no posi- - tive proposition is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘* Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sw…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…together.) All the double phenomena are only two ways of looking at a single phenomenon; and the single phenomenon is Peace. There is no sense in my words or in my thoughts. “Faces half‐formed arose.” This is the meaning of that passage; they are attempts to interpret Chaos. But Chaos is Peace Cosmos is the War of the Rose and the Cross. That was a “half‐formed face” that I said then. All images are useless. Yea, as in a looking‐glass, so in thy mind, that is backed with the false metal of lying, is every symbol read averse. Lo! everything wher…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
… testimony of conscious- ness is untrue; it is absurd, with Spencer, to refute reason; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its impro- bity. Now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly re- sponsible for its untruthfulness. We seek (also by empiric means, alas!) to control it, to con- centrate it, to observe more accurately—has this source of possible error been sufficiently recognised ?—what its testimony really is. Experience has taught me, so far as I have been able to go, that Reaso…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…ful poems. . . Westminster Review. “Full, at any rate, of high artistic endeavouris Miss Ethel Archer’s ‘TheWhirlpool.’ There isa strong sense of classical beauty and of form in_these passionate and exotic verses. ‘The Felon Flower’ is an extraordinary rhapsody, and the ‘Song to Leila’ is delicate and highly wrought.”— The Commentator. “The verse is musical and the ideas profound. . . . "—Light.