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Page 7 of 831913 · PDF PAGE 441
… thing that often happens to me; whenever I wish, that is to say, whenever I am prepared and hope humbly to be worthy of it! Yes, sir, I find the host when I ask for it; I find it real and palpable, but often ornamented with little hearts, little miraculous hearts, which one might think had been painted by Raphael.” Eliphas Levi, who felt ill at ease in discussing facts with which there was mingled a sort of profanation of the most holy things, then took his leave of the one-time Catholic writer, and went out meditating on the strange influence…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
A TERZAIN King of myself, I labour to espouse An equal soul. Alas ! how frail I find The golden light within the gilded house. Helpless and passionate, and weak of mind ! Lechers and lepers ! — all as ivy cling, Emasculate the healthy bole they haunt. Eternity is pregnant ; I shall sing Now— by my power — a spirit grave and gaunt Brilliant and selfish, hard and hot, to flaunt Reared like a flame across the lampless west, Until by love or laughter we enchaunt, Compel ye to Kithairon’s thorny crest — Evoe! Iacche ! consummatum est. — XxI —
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…; in fact, they have never been settled. The problem of the origin of evil, alone, has quite baffled Theology. "Science advances; we now find that all things are subject to law. There is no need of any mysterious creator, in the old sense; we look for causes in the same order of nature as the effects they produce. We no lounger propitiate ghosts to keep our fires alight. "Now, at last, I and a few others are asking whether the whole universe be not illusion, in exactly the same way as a true surface is an illusion. "Perhaps the universe is a fo…
1898 · PDF PAGE 8
…alls it waste of time. VAUGHAN. He may be right. What do you write about? PERCY. I write about all the horrible things I see, and try to find beauty in them, or to make beauty; and I write about all the beautiful things I only dream of. I love them all ; yes, even that woman yonder.
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…es as your experience may suggest. 4. And soon. We cannot here enter at length into all the necessary preparations; and the student will find them fully set forth in the proper books, of which the “ Goetia” is perhaps the best example. These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the con- trary the student should do nothing the object of which he does not understand; also, if he have any capacity whatever, he will find his own crude rituals more effective than the highly polished ones of other people. The general purpose of all this prepara…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…es as your experience may suggest. 4. And soon. We cannot here enter at length into all the necessary preparations; and the student will find them fully set forth in the proper books, of which the “ Goetia” is perhaps the best example. These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the con- trary the student should do nothing the object of which he does not understand; also, if he have any capacity whatever, he will find his own crude rituals more effective than the highly polished ones of other people. The general purpose of all this prepara…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
… To holy thoughts (the holy deeds Precede success) and reverent gaze Upon the Ancient One of Days, Beyond which fancy lies the Truth. To find which I have left my youth, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,48 and count my beads, Murmer my mantra,49 till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 500 505 510 Fact replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware. For I speak subtly. Results of prac- tice. The poet abandons all to find Truth.
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
… them with the cross of Hidden Mystery, and cried: “ Fiat Lux!” Youth strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the ou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
… them with the cross of Hidden Mystery, and cried: “ Fiat Lux!” Youth strides on with hasty step, and by the summer of this year—1898—we find P. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with St. John, Boehme, Tauler, Eckart, Molinos, Levi, and Blake: “Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the ou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…eardsley , especially , suc ceeded Rossetti just as Crowley is now superseding Swinburne . A poetic iconoclast to the very backbone , we find Crowley , especially in his later works , break ing away from every poetic convention and restraint . At first it makes itself apparent in “ The Star and the Garter ,” which was unwound from that same tangled skein from out of which Browning had ravelled “ Fifine," and then , in the full power of manhood , in “ Why Jesus Wept ” ; which one day will find its historic niche in the temple of Poetry , somewhe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
…rowsy sleepers of the night , and wash from their gluey eyes the nightmare of Christian Supremacy . In the earlier poems of Crowley , we find not only a reverential handling of the Christ idea , but an almost orthodox adoration for the Christ Himself . In the last two verses of “ Aceldama " this is strongly brought out . “ Thy love will stand while ocean winds en dure "; and again , “ Here I abandon all myself to thee .” ? In “ Songs of the Spirit ” we find this venera tion acutely portrayed , and the Christ as depicted in “ The Goad ” closely …
1899 · PDF PAGE 127
…alls it waste of time. VAUGHAN. He may be right. What do you write about? PERCY. I write about all the horrible things I see, and try to find beauty in them, or to make beauty; and I write about all the beautiful things I only dream of. I love them all ; yes, even that woman yonder.
1899 · PDF PAGE 199
…rtwined, Breath desires breath and hand imprisons hand, Breezes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—and found Death kind.
1954 · PDF PAGE 457
424 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS very different points of view; wrought subtly and accurately into final shape, you should find no further difficulty in understanding fully at least the theoretical and abstract aspects of the business. But as to your own wit of judgment as to the general rules of your own private Code of Morals, what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' for you, that will emerge only from long self-analysis such as is the chief work of the Sword in the process of your Initiation. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
PENTECOST 37 An explanation different For this particular event. Though surely I my find it queer That you should talk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinion, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are please to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely in…
1898 · PDF PAGE 76
…God’s angels, and His fire, Consume the soul’s desire, And strike a lighter lyre. I seek ; the angels lead me on, all light and truth to find. 66
1913 · PDF PAGE 84
…ll things; they are reborn in other shapes. I gave up all for One; this One hath given up its Unity for all? I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH. I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
… but a kind of poetic prose as found in the Prophetic Books of Blake , and in the works of Walt Whitman . Yet in Blake , I think , we do find many consistent irregularities , which have been entirely misunderstood by many of his editors and critics . However , it was not till Swinburne loomed athwart the conscious regularity of the Tenny sonian era , a poetic pre - Raphaelite , that , strictly speaking , a conscious and musical irregularity became admissible , wedging its way in , and splitting up the metrical structure of perfect scansion . In…
1909 · PDF PAGE 132
…citement I took the wrong turning, or whether—but you will hear !—in short, I do not clearly under- stand even now why I did not at once find the road. But at least I did fail to find it, discovered, as I supposed, my error, corrected it, failed once more. . . . In theend I got flustered— so much hung on my speedy return !—I fluttered hither and thither like a wild pigeon whose mate has been shot. I stopped short, pulled myself together. Let me think it out! Where am I now? I was under the shadow (the dawn just lit its edge) of the mighty shoul…
1909 · PDF PAGE 132
…citement I took the wrong turning, or whether—but you will hear !—in short, I do not clearly under- stand even now why I did not at once find the road. But at least I did fail to find it, discovered, as I supposed, my error, corrected it, failed once more. . . . In theend I got flustered— so much hung on my speedy return !—I fluttered hither and thither like a wild pigeon whose mate has been shot. I stopped short, pulled myself together. Let me think it out! Where am I now? I was under the shadow (the dawn just lit its edge) of the mighty shoul…