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…e Formulae of the Outer. Know that in the many thousand Times that I have performed the Ritual of the Pentagram or the Invocation of the Heart girt with a Serpent, or the Mass of he Phoenix, or of the Holy Ghost, there has not been one Time wherein I did not win new Light, or Knowledge or Power or Virtue, save through mine own Weakness or Error. t
…nt To rush from star to star ; Your hair as a comet's horrent , Ye shall see things as they are ! I lift the mask of matter ; I open the heart of man ; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth -Pan ! Your loves shall lap up slaughter , And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood . I bring ye laughter and tears , The kisses that foam and bleed , The joys of a million years , The flowers that bear no seed . My life is bitter and sterile , Its flame is a wandering star .
158 THE STAR IN THE WEST My heart's black night must act the sun's eclipse ; My groans must play the earthquake , ... Still as I journey through the waste , I see A silver figure more divine arise ; The Christ usurps the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes , And he with rosy finger points the way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdal…
THE NEW WINE 213 fundamentally they at heart are one . The former hav ing postulated an eternal “ creator , ” a something out of something - God ; the latter postulated an eternal creation ,” a something for ever something — Matter . “ The mere terrestrial -minded man Knows not the things of God , nor can Their subtle meaning understand ? ” say , although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions , God .? A sage ,I Then under the daedal wand of Newton and Berke ley , Science disclosed the fact that Matter is Hylo Zoic-a fact already suppos…
…death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight …
…death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight …
… But if thou would’st Nirvana reach, or cast the prize away, let not the fruit of action and inaction be thy motive, O thou of dauntless heart. This verse is again very obscure, from overloading. The “fruit” and the “prize” both refer to Nirvana. 74. Know that the Bodhisattva who Liberation changes for Renunciation to don the miseries of “Secret Life,’ is called “thrice Honoured,” O thou candidate for woe through- out the cycles. This verse must not be interpreted as offering the induce- ment of the title of “thrice Honoured” to a Bodhisattva. …
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 202 Zs De Veritate Rerum (Of the Truth of Things) O do thou apprehend this Wisdom, o my Son, laying it to hine Heart, as a Mistress, and hiding it in the Treasury of hy Mind as a Jewel of Enlightenment. Consider a Dream, how it is unreal in Respect of thine Experience of the Objects of thy Waking Sense, but real also, both as it did in Fact impress thy Mind, and as it did express some Hunger of thy Secret Nature, as I have already shewed in this Letter. Consider the Play of the Chess, how its Law hath made for itself a Langu…
…nes be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet there fore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a fool ish word: for it is I that go. 8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. 9. Remember all ye that existence is…
…? chapel. ° I deny nothing—at the term It is just Nothing I affirm. The fool (with whom is wisdom, deem The Scriptures—rightly !) in his heart Saith (silent, to himself, apart) This secret: “ obs Pe? 9 See the good Psalm! And thus, my friend ! My diatribes approach the end And find us hardly quarrelling. And yet—you seem not satisfiedP The literal mistranslated thing © Must not by sinners be denied. Go to your Chapel then to pray ! (I promise Mr. Chesterton % Before the Muse and I have done A grand ap-pre-ci-a-ti-on . Of Brixton on Ascension Da…
…orlorn ." ? Here “ piti " is a trochee ; “ lovelier, " a spondee ; “ pity , ” a trochee . The whole metre breaks up , as if the singer's heart burst in despair . Whilst in “ Bouches d'Enfer ” we find such lines as : From the long -held leash ! The headlong , hot -mouthed girl, in which , as we read , we feel a veritable stretching of the mental leather , as it were ; our minds being held back a space by the introduction of the word “ long .' This quatorzain ends : Of smouldering infamy. Bow down in awe ! It is enough . The Gods are at feast . W…
…de as : 1 Ye are as children ... I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling .' Or again , in “ The Nameless Quest ," God's heart ! the antics , as they toil and shove ! One grabs a coin , one life , another love . All shriek .2 Cora Vavasour made a pretty just estimate of society when she called its stulti “ prurient licksores of society ,” for that is exactly what they are ; when poor , squalid ; when rich , vulgar ; the men fond of kitchen - maids , and the women painted and cosmetic ized , not only to hide the ravages of debauc…
…f his host stood in her night-garments, a poem in pale green and white. She said nothing; and he imitated the wisdom of her silence. His heart began a wild, unhealthy fandango; his temples ached; his legs shook under him. He felt himself paling; strange impulses prompted him to a return to ances- tral savagery. Alas, he sadly lacked experience. However, the woman had burned her vessels, and meant to help him. “Lionel,” she said, “I have come.” “T see,” he managed to answer hoarsely, but the words in his throat seemed to feel like two huge hard …
…f his host stood in her night-garments, a poem in pale green and white. She said nothing; and he imitated the wisdom of her silence. His heart began a wild, unhealthy fandango; his temples ached; his legs shook under him. He felt himself paling; strange impulses prompted him to a return to ances- tral savagery. Alas, he sadly lacked experience. However, the woman had burned her vessels, and meant to help him. “Lionel,” she said, “I have come.” “T see,” he managed to answer hoarsely, but the words in his throat seemed to feel like two huge hard …
(THE EARTH) The DEACON. Mother of fertility on whose breast. lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun’s fire, womb of ail life, recurring grâce of seasons, answer favourably the prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE PRINCIPLES) The DEACON. Mysterious energy triform, mysterious Matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division ; the interplay of which things weave the dance of the Veil of Life upon the Face of the Spirit, let there be harmony and beauty in y…
…m of the Tree of Life, shewing the ten principal bodies of the solar system. But this Tree is not visible except to those of wholly pure heart. 1. The primum mobile, represented by Pluto. (Compare the doctrine of the alpha particles of radium.) 2. The sphere of the Zodiac or fixed stars, represented by Neptune. 3. Saturn. The Abyss. This is represented by Herschel, the planet of disintegration and explosion. 4. Jupiter 5. Mars. 6. The Sun. 7. Venus. 8. Mercury. 9. The Moon. 10. The Earth. (The Four Elements). All these symbols swim and dance in…
…near, Whispering enchanted words in every curving ear! O Dionysus, start As the Apollonian dart ! Bury thy hornéd head in every bleeding heart! AGAVE. He is here! He is here! AUTONOE. Tigers, appear ! AGAVE. To the clap of my hand And the whish of my wand, Obey ! A'UTONOE. 1 have found A chariot crowned With ivy and vine, And the laurel divine, And the clustering smell Of the sage asphodel, And the Deedal flower Of the Cretan bower ; Dittany’s force, And larkspur’s love, And blossoms of gorse Around and above. AGAVE. The tiger and panther Are h…
…nd her loneliness. 48. Even instantly rode Hades heavily upon her, and ravished her away. 49. (Then the scribe knew the narcissus in his heart; but because it came not to his lips, therefore was he shamed and spake no more.) 50. Adonai spake yet again with V.V.V.V.V. and said: The earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of her grapes, and be drunken thereon. 51. And V.V.V.V.V. answered and said: O my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. And He answered him: Not as thou canst see. It is certain th…
…say Come up upon the mountains! the celestial waters flow at my word. But thou art the Water beyond the waters. 28. The red three-angled heart hath been set up in Thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god. 29. Yet all the while Thou wast hidden therein, as the Lord of Silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus. 30. Thou art Sebek the crocodile against Asar; thou art Mati, the Slayer in the Deep. Thou art Typhon, the Wrath of the Elements, O Thou who transcendest the Forces in their Concourse and Cohesion, in their Deat…
…hat it is in some way or other the host’s own fault. The party that he planned was just a little bit above his capacity; perhaps he lost heart at the last moment. The Eight of Swords is called Interference. At first sight, it would seem easy to confuse it with the Eight of Cups; but the idea is, in reality, quite different. The card is attributed to Jupiter and Gemini; accordingly, there is no weighing down of the will by internal or external stress. It is simply the error of being good‐natured when good‐nature is disastrous. Gemini is an airy …