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Page 70 of 1281913 · PDF PAGE 564
THE EQUINOX selfishness, the limbs dry up or become encumbered with fat. Nature, in making of our body the portrait of our soul, guarantees its resemblance for ever, and tirelessly retouches it. You pretty women who are not good, be sure that you will not long remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 19
…e that Men have made, not comprehending the Law of Change, and of Evolution Through Variation, and the independent Value of every living Soul. Learn this also, that even the Will to the Great Work may be misunderstood of Men; for this Work must proceed naturally and without Overstress, as all true Works. Right also is that Word that the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth Violence, and the violent take it by Force. But except thou be violent by Virtue of thy true Nature, how shalt thou take it? Be not as the Ass in the Lion.s Skin; but if thou be born …
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…emosh and these Elohim, Life’s pandars in the brothel, Death! Cloudy imaginings, a dream Built up of fear and words and woe. All, all my soul must overthrow. For these are devils, nothing doubt ! Yet nought should trouble me: I see My folk secure from foes without, Worship in peace and amity Baal and Jehovah, sects appeased By peace assured and wealth increased. Yet am [ troubled. Doubt exists And absolute proof recoils before me. Truth veils herself in awful mists, And darkness wakens, rolling o’er me When I approach the dreadful shrine, In my…
1905 · PDF PAGE 86
…y virginal depths lie. The peace of God, that passeth understanding, that am I ! Even I, perceiving deeply beneath the eyes of flame The soul that, kindling, is not kindled : I have known thy Name. Awake, O soaring billows ! Lighten the raging dome, Wrap the wide horizon in a single cloak of flaming foam, Leap in your fury ! Beat upon the shores unseen ! Devour your food, The broken cliff, the crumbled bank, the bar. I know the mood. Even so I see the terror of universal strife : Murderous war, and murderous peace, and miserable life : The pang…
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
THE HERB DANGEROUS I “The girders of the Soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed.” “Nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good.” ZOROASTER. CoMPaRABLE to the Alf Laylah was Laylah itself, a very Tower of Babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the Herb—Hashish—the Herb Dangerous. Of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
THE HERB DANGEROUS I “The girders of the Soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed.” “Nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good.” ZOROASTER. CoMPaRABLE to the Alf Laylah was Laylah itself, a very Tower of Babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the Herb—Hashish—the Herb Dangerous. Of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 107
…gy, and psychology. . Can you give me a brief abstract of this method? . The main idea is that the Infinite, the Absolute, God, the Over- soul, or whatever you may prefer to call it, is always present; but veiled or masked by the thoughts of the mind, just as one cannot hear a heart-beat in a noisy city. . Yes? . Then to obtain knowledgeof That, it is only necessaryto still all thoughts.
1913 · PDF PAGE 172
134 THE EQUINOX Oh! Woe to me whose soul’s wings are unfurled, Within my heart’s core ever shall be curled A little tendril softly that doth cling, Softly impearled, a thing from heaven hurled ; Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! A minstrel through a forest wayfaring Hath brought his love a shy and tender thing, A gentle bloom of the gods’ gardening. Oh! woe to me who have to tell this thing! The Rose doth sing : my song hath here its sting: Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! O Rose Unknown! I heard the secret Call Out of the da…
1913 · PDF PAGE 403
…of God and of the world, one in essence, triple in substance, mortal and immortal. Q. You say, “triple in substance.” Has man, then, two souls or two bodies ? A. No; there is in him a spiritual soul, a material body, and a plastic medium. What is the substance of this medium ? Light, partially volatile, and partially fixed. . What is the volatile part of this light? Magnetic fluid. And the fixed part? The fluidic or fragrant body. Is the existence of this body demonstrated ? Yes; by the most curious and the most conclusive experiences. We shall…
1913 · PDF PAGE 172
134 THE EQUINOX Oh! Woe to me whose soul’s wings are unfurled, Within my heart’s core ever shall be curled A little tendril softly that doth cling, Softly impearled, a thing from heaven hurled ; Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! A minstrel through a forest wayfaring Hath brought his love a shy and tender thing, A gentle bloom of the gods’ gardening. Oh! woe to me who have to tell this thing! The Rose doth sing : my song hath here its sting: Oh! Woe to me who have to sing this thing! O Rose Unknown! I heard the secret Call Out of the da…
1913 · PDF PAGE 403
…of God and of the world, one in essence, triple in substance, mortal and immortal. Q. You say, “triple in substance.” Has man, then, two souls or two bodies ? A. No; there is in him a spiritual soul, a material body, and a plastic medium. What is the substance of this medium ? Light, partially volatile, and partially fixed. . What is the volatile part of this light? Magnetic fluid. And the fixed part? The fluidic or fragrant body. Is the existence of this body demonstrated ? Yes; by the most curious and the most conclusive experiences. We shall…
1922 · PDF PAGE 167
…tle He never was known to win. Slave to the thirst—not thirst As here it is weakly written, Not thirst in the brain black-bitten, In the soul more sorely smitten | One dare not think of the worst! Beyond the raging and raving Hell of the physical craving Lies, in the brain benumbed, At the end of time and space, An abyss, unmeasured, unplumbed— The haunt of a facel | She it is, she, that found me In the morphia honeymoon ; With silk and steel she bound me, In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me, Stifling me into the…
1961 · PDF PAGE 133
… the Web of that Fate, as it is certain that every Phenomenon is (as thou art sworn to understand) a particular Dealing of God with thy Soul. Yea, and more also, it is a necessary Rubric in this Ritual of Perfection. Turn not therefore away thine Eyes, for that they are too pure to behold Evil; but look upon Evil with Joy, comprehending it in he Fervour of this Light that I have enkindled in thy Mind. Learn also that every Thing soever is Evil, if thou consider it as apart, static and in Division; and thus in a Degree must thou apprehend the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 108
96 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Mine eyes peer deeper in the quivering gloom— What horrors crowd upon the aching sight ! Behold ! the phantom ! Icy as the tomb, His head of writhing scorpions in the womb Of deadlier terrors : how a charnel-light Gleams on his beetle frame ! What poison drips Of slime and blood from his disastrous lips ! What oceans of decaying water steam For his vast essence ! And a voice rolls forth With miserable fury from that stream Of horror : “ Thou hast called me by the beam Of glory, by the devastating wrath Of thine accurséd g…
1912 · PDF PAGE 108
… every twitch of their veiled fury of storm. A witcha very witch ! MORTADELLO. Most excellent. ALESSANDRO. A form. Pure as a sylphs, a soul like Satanspride and lust, And something in the whole to humble to the dust I care not who. Shes force, pure elemental rage Of love without remorse. MORTADELLO. The wonder of the age ! Indeed and I must see the little lady soon. ALESSANDRO. Ill send for her, trust me. To-morrows the full moon
1913 · PDF PAGE 239
… temples . . . .. . . . . Softly she rises, with a child 's clear eyes ... Something of joy I feel and something fear .. . So , my proud soul, so you , whose shining force Tenderly , day that I have loved, I close your eyes . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . The agelong rest of trees swept wide and far The cool December breezes ... The fragrant gateways of the Dawn ... , The haunted image -bearing minds of men . .. The King cried , “ Bring me colour , the heart's wine .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . The labour of the fields is hard . The lapping , la…
1922 · PDF PAGE 166
…w-starred fields Where the opium poppy’s aflower. Only the prick of a needle Charged from a wizard well! Is this sufficient to wheedle A soul from heaven to hell? Was man’s spirit weaned From fear of its ghosts and gods To fawn at the feet of a fiend? Is it such terrible odds—
1901 · PDF PAGE 76
64 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Loved, and no sin done ! Ay, the world shall see The quest is first—a love less terrible. Yet, as I ride toward the edge of snow That cuts the blue, I think. For even so Comes reason to me : “ Oh, return, return ! What folly is it for two souls to burn With hell’s own fire ! What is this quest of woe ? What is the end ? Consider and discern ! ” Banish the thought ! My working reason still Is the rebellious vassal to my will. Because I will it. That is God’s own mind. I cast all thought and prudence to the wind : On, to th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
…ered dazzling diamonds, And Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! rings Ever and again on these inchaunted ears, And Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! swings My soul across to those inchaunted spheres Where Lola is God and priest and wafer and wine — O Lola! Lola! mystic maiden o' mine!
1911 · PDF PAGE 162
…to God or to man. It is for thee and me! Aha! Aha! A ka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. . .. My spirit is no more; my soul is no more. My life leaps out into annihilation! Aka dua Tuf ur biu Bi a’a chefu Dudu ner af an nuteru. It is the cry of my body! Save me! I have come too close, I have come too close to that which may not be endured. It must awake, the body; it must assert itself. It must shut out the Aethyr, or else it is dead. Every pulse aches, and beats furiously. Every nerve stings like a serpent. And my skin is icy…