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…once already mocked our pact, I swear By God, I cast thee off. Leviathan! And I seal it—thus. [ Writing in the atr. I will keep silence, though they tear my tongue Blaspheming from my throat. now ! My servant
…ee, the bold, the lover! Far o’er the green his new-starred eyes dis- cover A kirtle glancing in the breeze, a foot That lightly dances, though the skies be mute Of music. Forth she flies, the distant dove, And calls the woodland birds to sing of love ; Forth leaps the stag and calls his mates; the stream Flashes a silver sunbeam, a gold gleam Of leaping laughter, that the fish may know The goodly tidings; all the woodlands glow With olive and pure silver and red gold, And all sweet nature’s marvels manifold Combine together in the twilight dim…
… prejudice the formidable problems which have been raised by the growth of civilization. Man has advanced so far from the social system, though it was not a system, of the cave man, from the primitive conception of property in human flesh. Man has advanced so far from crude anatomical classification of the soul of any given human being; he has accordingly landed himself in the most dreadful mire of psychopathology and psycho‐analysis. Tiresome and tough are the prejudices of the people that date morally from about 25,000 B.C. Largely owing to t…
…ips relax and fade, Her body slackens with a sigh Reluctant, like a maid. I said : O vainpire ? Lover, weep, Who cannot follow me above, Though Death may masquerade as Sleep, And Lust laugh out like Love. But God’s strong arms set under me Lifted my spirit through the air Beyond the wide supernal sea,* Beyond the veil of vair. 1 Ash-covered, 2 Any being who, under the guise of love, draws the strength from another. ~ 3 Binah. God said: My ways are sweet and deep: The sceptres and the swords thereof Change: for Death’s face is fair as Sleep; And…
…ar as a fountain, that trembles With wind, is arisen, and hides The light of your love, and dissembles The roar of the passionate tides; Though a flickering flame it resembles, love is, and abides. I see through the moonlight that covers (As a mist on the mountain) your head The flame of your heart as a lover’s Shine out in your face and be shed, A ruby that flashes and hovers and droops and is dead. As a saint in a vision half hidden I see the sweet face in a mist, A nimbus of glory unbidden That shades you or shows as you list. But I, as a br…
…e strength of her character was very great, in its own way; and she possessed infinite reserves of patience. She played the game with no thought of the victory; and this is half the secret of playing most games of importance. To do right for its own sake is Righteousness, though if you apply this obvious truth to Art the Philistine calls you names, and your morals in question. Cremers was a genuine artist in malice. She was not even glad when she had harmed a friend and benefactor, however irreparably; nothing could ever make her glad — but she…
…: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge. Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and grace to God that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom. And, after days, did my Guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying: “Is it not written that if thine Eye be single thy whole body shall be full of Light?” Adding: “In thee is no power of mental concentrati…
…: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from such a Brother of the Great White Lodge. Yea! though he spake unto me words all of disapproval, did I give thanks and grace to God that he had deemed my folly worthy to attract his wisdom. And, after days, did my Guru not leave me in my state of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying: “Is it not written that if thine Eye be single thy whole body shall be full of Light?” Adding: “In thee is no power of mental concentrati…
…infinitely great. The Clash of these produces a finite positive Idea which happens (see MUNI, 22/ra, vol. ii., for a more careful study, though I must not be understood to indorse every Word in our Poet-Philosopher’s Thesis) to be Light, WW. This word “N& is most important. It symbolises the Universe immediately after Chaos, the Confusion or Clash of the infinite Opposites. is the Egg of Matter; is &, the Bull, or Energy-Motion ; and ‘1 is the Sun, or organised and moving System of Orbs. The three Letters of WIN thus repeat the three Ideas. The…
…ill consenting, the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched forth their wings over the form of Osiris to restore him again unto life, The Mystic Circumambulation then followeth in the Path of Light to represent the rising of the Light in the Candidate through the operation of self-sacrifice ; as he passeth the Throne of the East, the red Cavalry Cross is astrally formulated above…
…ill consenting, the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched forth their wings over the form of Osiris to restore him again unto life, The Mystic Circumambulation then followeth in the Path of Light to represent the rising of the Light in the Candidate through the operation of self-sacrifice ; as he passeth the Throne of the East, the red Cavalry Cross is astrally formulated above…
… impotence of human prayer, Choke hope, sting all but Love; and never care . If man or flower or sparrow perisheth. Thee, T invoke thee, though no mercy move Thy heart! No power is to thy hate assigned On love (sing, poets! shrill, Pandean reecls !), But me, look on me, how my bosom bleeds— Invoke new power of cruelty ; be kind, And ask authority to quench my love! COENUM FATALE. ‘* La cour d’appel de la volonté de ’homme— C’est le ventre !"’— Old proverb. THE worst of meals is that we have to meet. They trick my purpose and evade my will, Remi…
… Far from my quest, assuredly to fall Sideways each step towards the House of Wrong, ‘Were but one choice demented. Choice is small Here though. (A flash of insight in his mind) Which of these three gets answer to its call? ‘‘Yon shallop?—leave to Galahad! Re- signed Yon hermit be to welcome Lancelot ! For me—the inn—what fate am I to find ? ‘Who cares? wot P— But in the outré, the obscure, the occult? My Master is of might to lift me what Shall I seek ever—do ye “Hangs, veil of glamour, on my ‘ Quisque vult,’ The morion’s motto: to exhaust the…
… PERDURABO.! EXILE from humankind! The snow’s fresh flakes Are warmer than men’s hearts. My mind is wrought Into dark shapes of solitary thought That loves and sympathises, but awakes No answering love or pity. What a pang Hath this strange solitude to aggravate The self-abasement and the blows of late! No snake of hell hath so severe a fang ! I am not lower than all men—TI feel Too keenly. Yet my place is not above, Though I have this—unalterable Love In every fibre. I am crucified Apart on a lone burning crag of steel, Tortured, cast out ; an…
… the author of this present volume, had in store the reward of his labours. They introduced to him a skilled artist, Frieda Harris, who, though she had little or no previous knowledge of the Tarot, possessed in her own right the Essential Spirit of the book. Together they bent their energies to the formidable task of preparing the 78 cards of the Book of Thoth.
…yes and mine to-day, my Queen? Now IT. You are silent. That we always were. The racing lustres of your hair Spelt out its sunny message, though The room was dusk: a rosy glow Shed from an antique lamp to fall On the deep crimson of the wall, And over all the ancient grace Of shawls, and ivory, and gems! To cast its glamour, till your face The eye might fall upon and rest, 1 The description is of Crowley’s rooms in the Quartier Montparnasse, The temperate flower, the tropic stems. You were silent, and I too. Caressed The secret flames that curle…
…ces fall Distant, and irk me, and appal. Two men have sworn the solemn oath : ‘‘God and the king this dog blasphemed,” Two judges, just, though little loth, Weigh, answer. As on one who dreamed Comes waking—in my soul there groaned : ‘* Carry forth Naboth to be stoned !”’ Nine days! And still the king is sad, And hides his face, and is not seen. The tenth ! the king is gaily clad ; The king will banquet with the queen ; And, ere the west be waste of sun, Enjoy the vineyard he hath won. All this I hear as one entranced. The king and I are friend…
…such an isle of Monte Cristo, it is impossible here to pick from this bewildering casket of precious gems the best from the perfect. But though we cannot find 5 ace here to touch on Crowley's try, which offers us the concen trated essence 0 all that is divine from the days 0 Sappho to Lord Alfred Dou has, neither on his philosophy which sums in a few chapters our total knowledge 0 the universe, robing all opposites in a. dazzling garment of understanding, and crowning all with the flashing diadem of the Highest; we would, however, like to enter u…
…d of superintending his fourth and final consecration.” The East of the Altar is the place of the Evil Triad, and he is brought there as though affirming that he will trample upon and cast out his evil persona, which will then become a support unto him, but it must first be cast down unto its right place. The Hiereus now confers the secret signs, &c., and during this part of the ceremony the position of the three chief officers is as follows: The Hierophant on the throne of the East; the Hiereus at the East of the Black Pillar ; and the Hegemon…
…d of superintending his fourth and final consecration.” The East of the Altar is the place of the Evil Triad, and he is brought there as though affirming that he will trample upon and cast out his evil persona, which will then become a support unto him, but it must first be cast down unto its right place. The Hiereus now confers the secret signs, &c., and during this part of the ceremony the position of the three chief officers is as follows: The Hierophant on the throne of the East; the Hiereus at the East of the Black Pillar ; and the Hegemon…