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Page 72 of 771905 · PDF PAGE 217
…flung dart. , Yea! from the limit of the fallen day, And barren ocean of ungathered Time, Bring Night, and bring Eternity, and stay With white wings pointing where tired feet may climb: Even the pathway where shed blood ran deep To build red roses in the land of Sleep. O guardian of the pallid hours of night ! O tireless watcher of the smitten noon ! O sworded with the majesty of light, O girded with the glory of the moon ! Angel of absolute splendour! Link mine Old weary spirit with the All-Divine! of Ship that shalt carry me by many winds Dri…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
… his diadem The ruby rocks that flash The sunlight like a lash When sunlight touches, and sweeps over them A crown of light! Behold! The white seas touch the gold, And flame like flowers of fire about the prow. It is the hour for sleep :— Lulled by the moveless deep To sleep, sweet wife, to sleep! Yes, kiss me now ! Vv. THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE? THE wandering waters move about the world, And lap the sand, with quietest complaint Borne on the wings of dying breezes up, To where we make toward the wooded top Of yonder menacing hill. The night is falle…
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
…ing it, Volcanic, airy, and celestial. T rose wiuun the elemental ball, And lo! the Ancient One of Days did sit ! His head and hair were white as wool, His eyes A flaming fire: and from the splendid mouth Flashed the Eternal Sword ! 1 Lo! Lying at his feet as dead, I saw The leaping-forth of Law: Division of the North wind and the South, he lightning of the armies of the Lord ; East rolled asunder from the rended West ; Height clove the depth: the Voice begotten said : ‘* Divided be thy ways and limited !” Answered the reflux and the indrawn br…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…ower! Thou canst not see His I woke! and in a well’s untroubled pool I saw my face—and I was ugly now! Blood-spattered ebony eyelash and white brow ! Blood on my lips, and hair, and breast! ‘‘ Thou fool !” A horrid torture in my heart—and then I licked my lips: the tigress tasted blood. My changéd features—wash them in the flood Of murder! This is power over men And angels. I will lift the twisted rod, And make my power as the power of God ! I made my beauty as it was before. I learned strange secrets; by my love and skill I bent creation to my…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… at end. No headlines. Edition: 6 copies on Japanese vellum, 500 copies on machine-made paper. Issued in royal-blue boards, linen backs, white paper back-label, ‘Crowley | Tann- | haiiser! | a story of | all time | Kegan Paul, |/ Trench, | Triibner & | Co. Ltd. | rg02. Price 5s. od. [NEW YEAR’S CARD, 1903] New Year, 190 A sonnet printed in gold on fily-sheets of Roman vellum (12) and hand-made paper (50) within a broad scarlet border, size 5% x 6%, ‘from Aleister Crowley, | wishing you a speedy termination of existence.” Printed throughout in c…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
… out the individual, and weeps on For the united sorrow of all things. For if I die, it is not Tannhduser, Rather a spark of the supreme white light That dwelt and flickered in him in old time ; That Light, I say, that hides its flame awhile To shine more fully—to redeem the world ! I say, then, ‘‘ I”; and yet it is not “I” Distinct, but ‘‘ I” incorporate in All. I am the Resurrection and the Life ! The Work is finished, and the Night rolled back ! I am the Rising Sun of Life and Light, The Glory of the Shining of the Dawn! Iam Osiris! I the Lo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 78
…dead! then, then to close The wounds of all the land, and bid it bud And blossom ; as when two-and-thirty men, The sons of Jair, on milk-white asses rode, And judged us righteously, and each abode Safe in the shadow of his vine; as when The peace of Joshua lay upon the land, And God turned not away His piteous eyes, Nor smote us with the fury of His hand, Nor clouded over His mysterious skies. Then storm and wind had no more might at all, And death and pestilence forgotten were ; Then angels came to holy men that call, And gracious spirits thro…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
… and all the seas, And all the air, and all the periods Of seasons and of stars gave ear, and these Vaults of the heaven heard The great white Light that shaped its secrecies Into one holy terrible word, Higher than all words spoken ; for He said : ‘‘ Death is made change, and only change is dead.” For the most holy spirit of a man Burns through the limit of the wheels that ran Through all the unrelenting skies When Icarus died, And leaps, the flight of wise omnipotent eyes, When Deedalus espied An holy habitation for the shrine Solitary, ’mid …
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…ng. Swiftly whirled, It flings in circles closing serpent-like On the abominable devil-horde I summon to the mastery of the sword. In my white palace, where the flashing dawn Leaps from the girdling bastions, where the light Flames from the talisman as if a fawn Glode through the thickets, where the soul, withdrawn From every element, gleams through the night Into that darkness palpable, where They Lurk from the torment of the light of day. Swings the swift sword in paths of vivid blue ; Rings the sharp summons in the halls of fear ; Flames the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 239
…8. Headlines throughout. Editions ; 1000 copies on machine-made paper, 6 copies on India paper. Issued in brick-red boards, linen backs, white paper label, ‘‘ Crowley | Jephthah | & other | mysteries | lyrical & | dramatic | Kegan Paul, | Trench | Triibner & | Co, Ltd. | 1899| Price 7s. 6d." The six India-paper copies issued in old gold coloured buckram, lettered on cover ‘‘ Jephthah”’ in red. [SONGS OF THE SPIRIT: 1898] Songs of the Spirit | by | Aleister Crowley | ‘*Sublimi feriam sidera vertice” Hor. | London | Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner &…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…roven False at dewfall, at the dawn Sin and sorrow, interwoven, Like a veil are drawn Over love and all delight; Grey desires invade the white. Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me! and woe is man! The sound stood trembling in the forest dim Lingering a little, yet there taketh him A strong man’s one short moment of despair. He fell, the last of Titans, his loose hair Tangled in roses ; while his heart and mind Broken and yet imperishable, blind, Hateful, desire they know not what, and turn Lastly to pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And…
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
…serably long ! I was a maiden—oh how rich and rare Seemed the soft sunshine woven in my hair! How keen the music of my body’s song ! How white the blossom of my body’s light ! How red the lips, how languorous the eyes, How made for pleasure, for the sleepy sighs Softer than sleep; amorous dew-dreams of night That draw out night in kisses to the day ! So was I to my seeming as I lay. That soft smooth-moving ocean of the west Under the palm and cactus as it rolled, Immortal blue, fixed with immortal gold, Moving in rapture with my sleeping breast…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
… hours before, had been too archaic for the dictionary. With open mouths they jostled each other to get a good view of the plunge of the white sewn outline of a man.” Now, Joseph, draw it mild; don’t put the sugar in your tea with a trowel! we have seen many burials at sea, more than we should care to count, but we have never seen the corpse surrounded by “ fag-ends” and a gay pyjamaed mob, Perhaps one of the passengers was on his way to the bath-room, in a Swan and Edgar “sleeping suit,’ when you went to have your own little peep—or have you b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
… hours before, had been too archaic for the dictionary. With open mouths they jostled each other to get a good view of the plunge of the white sewn outline of a man.” Now, Joseph, draw it mild; don’t put the sugar in your tea with a trowel! we have seen many burials at sea, more than we should care to count, but we have never seen the corpse surrounded by “ fag-ends” and a gay pyjamaed mob, Perhaps one of the passengers was on his way to the bath-room, in a Swan and Edgar “sleeping suit,’ when you went to have your own little peep—or have you b…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
JEPHTHAH 77 Fought he against us, while three hundred years © We dwelt in Hl[eshbon and her towns, and Aroer And her white cities, and by Ammon’s coast? Why therefore did ye not recover them Then and not now? I have not sinned against thee ; But thou dost me foul wrong to bring thy sword And torch of rapine in my pleasant land. Between the folk of Ammon and the folk Of Israel this day be God the judge. [Exzt Second Herald. ELEAZAR. Well spoken: but the ear that will not hear Is deafer than the adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. IT know it, and wil…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
… air Kissed, cleansing them from that infested den Of obscene deities and apish men, Rivalling their gods in petty filthiness. So Love’s white-bosomed Queen gat full success In the first season of her sojourning. Then, on the verge of night, she went a-wing To that most damnéd pestilence-rid marsh, And, changing her bright shape, she donned the harsh Vile form of woman past the middle age, Who hath not virtue that may charm the sage When the desire of folly is gone by, And wrinkles yield to no false alchemy. So, lewd of countenance, dressed all…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
…eeping in, To spread corruption, and destroy the earth. sut in the holy hour and happy birth That swam through stars propitious, meadows white, And fresh with newer flowers of the night In the pale fields supernal, when his sire Took from the nurse the child of his desire, Aman, the prayers of many maidens sent So sweet a savour through the firmament That no false spirit might draw nigh. And still THis angel ministers defend from ill The head they nurtured. Evil dreams and spells, Cast at the dimmest hour, the sword repels And drives them down …
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
…through the splendid portals of re- birth, Completing Truth in its amazing span :— ‘** Godhead is made the Spirit that is Man.” To whose white mountains, and their arduous ways, Turn we our purpose, till the faith that slays Yield up its place to faith that gives us life, The faith to conquer in the higher strife ; Our single purpose, and sublime intent, With their spilt blood to seal our sacra- ment, Who stand among Light ; Our single purpose, by incarnate might Begotten after travail unto death, To live within the light that quickeneth ; To t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 53
…hining gossamers of the thought- web! I have only been trying to break it to you gently. I proceed to brush away with a sweep of my lily-white hand all this tenuous, filmy stuff, 'such stuff as dreams are made of.' We will get down to modern science. 24. For general reading there is no better introduction than The Bases of Modern Science, by my old and valued friend the late J. W. N. Sullivan. I do not want to detain you too long with quotations from this admirable book. I would much rather you got it and read it yourself; you could hardly make…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…al or ac- quired affections of the soul are laid open to view.”—PLAto, Gorgias. IMMORTALITY. I. I MOVED. Remote from fear and pain | The white worms revelled in my brain. Who travelled live may travel dead ; The soul’s no tenant of the head. They had hanged my body by the neck ; Bang went the trap. A little speck Shot idly upon consciousness Unconscious of the head’s distress When with dropped jaw the body swung So queer and limp; the purple tongue Shooting out swollen and awry. Men cheered to see the poisoner die. Not he! He grinned one visibl…