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…to place the proofs of it in the hands of Douglas. Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands of another, no matter for what hope of gain, is one of the mysteries [268] of perverse psychology. The highest rank in the Lodge was called Thaumiel- Qeretiel, and there were two of these, "Annie" and Douglas, who were alone in possession of the full secrets of the Lodge. Only they and the Fourteen had keys to the cellar and the secret of the combination. Beginners were initiated there, and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…vil purposes, a cruelty devilishly hot as Cyril's was devilishly cold, and the assurance in those grey eyes that she had fallen into the power of creatures utterly abominable. Sister Cybele suddenly broke into a short harsh laugh, then stepped aside, and Lisa, turning quickly, only saw the door close behind her. Heedless of caution, she leapt after her in the impulse of self-preservation — but the door was entirely smooth on the inside. She beat against it, uttering a horrible, fierce cry: but only silence answered her. The impulse passed as qu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 134
…ies of our liberty Grow on Life’s crags still higher, Till on the loftiest peaks their blossom flower, The rampart of a people and their power. ELEGY, August 27/h, 18983 So have the days departed, as the leaves Smitten by wrath of Autumn blast ; So the year, fallen from delight, still grieves Over the happy past. The year of barren summer, when the wind Blew from the south unlooked-for snow, The year when Collon,? desolate and blind, Gloomed on the vale below, When logs of pinewood lit the little room, And friendship ventured in to sit Beside t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
… no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, Eternity— Seeing we have it in our power to die Before the new kiss kindle for the morrow. THE THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘* By long and vehement suit I was seduced To make room for him in my husband's bed.” King John. Morvra.s are not for nectar all the time: Ambrosia feeds not men ; nepenthe's sip Is only for a moment: then we dip Back to the earth and leave the bed sublime, 1 The imaginary river of the Ancients, which formed the circumference of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…le may be bitter. You will be amazed at the possibilities of your own mind, its fertility of [142] cunning, its fatally false logic, its power of blinding you to facts that ought to be as clear as daylight — yes, even to the things before your very eyes. It will seek to bewilder you, to make you lose your mental balance — every trick is possible. And you will be so beaten and so blind that you have only one safe — guard; which is, to adhere desperately to the literal terms of your oath. "Do that, and in a little while the mind will clear; you w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 191
… Sleep, while I pondef on the ways And secret paths of my desire ! Dream, while my restless brain probes deep The mysteries of its magic power, The secrets of forgotten sleep, The birth of knowledge as a flower ! Slow and divine thy gentle breath Wovos my warm throat: my spirit flies Beyond the iron walls of death, And seeks strange portals, pale and wise. My lips are fervent, as in prayer, Thy lips are parted, as to kiss: My hand is clenched upon the air, Thy hand's soft touch, how sweet it is ! The wind is amorous of the sea ; The sea’s large…
1906 · PDF PAGE 109
…e quest. MEDEA. But not those strains of music, though divine From Orpheus’ winged lyre, exalt at all Our joy to joy, beyond all music’s power! CHORUS. I fear Aeetes, and the Pelian guile. JASON. Fear is but failure, herald of distress ! ; MEDEA What virtue lives there in the coward’s hrate?
1929 · PDF PAGE 184
… and incoherent horrors. Her foolish thoughts and senseless impulses took shape, usually in some distortion of an animal form, with that power of viscosity which is to
1905 · PDF PAGE 41
…and fear Cowers far away amid the shades of even. ‘* Hope,” is thy whisper, ‘‘ hope, and trust in Night; My realm is the eternal, and my power The absolute. My child, gird on thy strength 5 Clothe limbs with lustiness, and mind- with might, That, communing with me, though for an hour, Thou mayest conquer when day comes at length.” THE PHILOSOPHER’S PROGRESS. That which ts aboue, ts Vike that whitch ts below ; and that which ts below, ts like that which ts above. HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. THAT which is highest as the deep Is fixed, the depth as that …
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE very hard up. The power to retreat into that part of me which is Peace, free from all strife, remains with me. To be an onlooker at my thoughts and actions and remain the while in perfect rest—very seldom disturbed by outside influences— this is indeed something. Another important thing I would mention. I have an intense longing for more Love, a sort of unsatisfied craving to embrace people, particularly women, and sometimes natural things (this was not meant for sar- casm) such as the earth, the grass, etc. I do not thin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 246
…y being in the womb of Death? Blistering fire runs, Scorching, terrific suns, Through body and soul in this abominable Marriage of demon power Subtle and strong and sour, A draught of ichor of the veins of Hell! Curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean, The soul of the Obscene Incarnate in the spirit: and above Hangs Sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! VENUS. This man was drained of music! Five new songs Chase the three ancient to oblivion! Oh! Love is grown fury!…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
an imbecile could have doubted his sincerity — the cause lay in his power to fool the mediums he was investigating to the top of their bent. He would enter into every phase of their [73] strange moods as if he had been absolutely one with them in spirit; then, when they were gone, he would withdraw and look at the whole course of events from without, as if he had had no share in them. But people who saw him only in the first phase thought him easily hoodwinked. The second of the guests of Simon Iff, or, rather, of the Order to which he belonged…
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…ay end, Proof against thought ; but if man com- prehend The stars in all their stations sing together. measured in the sonnet’s Il. What power or fascination can there lie In this fair garden of the straight-kept rows, sonnet ? knows Why, having written in mere ecstasy One sonnet-thought, the metre cannot dic But urges, but compels me to compose More and still more,! and still my spirit The Surely some archange] FCS Striving up glittering steeps of symphony. 1 This is a singular psychological fact. There is an angel who is guardian. Surely her …
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
… his Seal is this, which wear thou, etc. (32.) Asmopay.—The Thirty-second Spirit is Asmoday, or Asmodai. He is a Great King, Strong, and Powerful. He appeareth with Three Heads, whereof the first is like a Bull, the second like a Man, and the third like a Ram; he hath also the tail of a Serpent, and from his mouth issue Flames of Fire. His Feet are webbed like those of a Goose. He sitteth upon an Infernal Dragon, and beareth in his hand a Lance with a Banner. He is first and choicest under the Power of Amaymon, he goeth before all other. When t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 60
…r that sin; the skies renew At break of day their vestiture of blue. ASTROLOGY. A LONELY spirit seeks the midnight hour, When souls have power To cast away one moment bonds of clay, And touch the day With pallid wistful lips beyond the earth, And bring to birth New thoughts with which life long has travailed ; As if one dead
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
…hyr; also Liber Samekh, etc. etc.) This is the essential work of every man; none other ranks with it either for personal progress or for power to help one’s fel- lows. This unachieved, man is no more than the unhappiest and blindest of animals. He is conscious of his own incomprehensible calamity, and clumsily incapable of repairing it. Achieved, he is no less than the co-heir of gods, a Lord of Light. He is conscious of his own consecrated course, and confidently ready to run it. The Adeptus Minor needs little help or guidance even from his su…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…this, thy Tower of Toil. Grow up the grades! record the tasks These arduous phantoms have achieved! The growth of mind to mortals asks A power not swift to be believed. What bosoms heaved ere Nature’s age From monkey-man deduced the sage ! So be thy spiral tower the type Of higher convolutions drawn From hunger’s woe and murder’s gripe And lust’s revulsion to the dawn Of days that spawn on holier soil Thy loftier sons, O Tower of Toil. There is a flower of native light That springs eternal on the earth. Carve us, O master-hand, aright That ecst…
1929 · PDF PAGE 35
…ack of hospitality toward the visitors. "Akbar Pasha came here for blood: a drop of your blood, my dear; Cyril's and mine are not in his power — you saw how contemptuously the boy played up to his trick! So I persisted in offering him salt, and nothing but salt." [52] "But why should he want my blood? And why should you give him salt?" "If he accepts salt it limits his powers to injure the house where he accepts it, or its inmates; and it exposes him to a terrible riposte. Why he should want your blood — that is another question, and a very ser…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…er. She had designs on the Pasha; she had agreed to certain proposals in respect of this very seance with a view to getting him into her power. He was apologizing for her in the conventional way to Simon Iff. She had no consciousness or memory of this state at all, it appeared. "She will grow up in a little while; wait a few moments only." And so it happened; soon she was prattling to [44] the Pasha, who thoughtfully produced a doll for her to play with. Finally, she came over on her knees to Lisa, and began to cry, and simulate fear, and stamm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…ates, he would have counted them successes. For his third experiment he chose "The Wonder-working Serpent," whose possession confers the power of attracting love. The appeal lay in the failure of Abdul to make any impression upon Lisa, whom he had courted in characteristically local manner by appearing, guitar in hand, below the terrace where she had been dedicated to the moon. He caught her [162] there alone, and called her by her name. She recognized him instantly; she had been violently attracted to him at the ball where they had originally …