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…conciles the living numbers of Pythagoras with the monadic Word of St. John ;! so much, science and reason will agree. It is then in the eyes of reason and of science them- selves the most perfect, that is to say the most complete, dogma which has ever been produced in the world. Let science and reason grant us so much; we shall ask nothing more of them. “God exists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 327
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Soft tears come to moisten the eyes, and sighs escape like incense smoke. One feels oneself in love, ineffably in love, with all that is beauty, truth, and justice; one throbs with a new life, and one fears no more to die. For prayer is the eternal life of intelligence and love; it is the life of God upon earth. Love one another—that is the Law and the Prophets! Meditate, and understand this word. And when you have understood, read no more, seek no more, doubt no more—love ! Be no more wise, be no more learned—love! Tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…conciles the living numbers of Pythagoras with the monadic Word of St. John ;! so much, science and reason will agree. It is then in the eyes of reason and of science them- selves the most perfect, that is to say the most complete, dogma which has ever been produced in the world. Let science and reason grant us so much; we shall ask nothing more of them. “God exists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 49
…35 girl was about to collapse. The owner of the studio was bending over her. He looked at me over his shoulder out of the corners of his eyes. ‘ “A case of indiscretion,’ he observed, with bitter irony. For the next quarter of an hour he fought for the girl’s life. King Lamus was a very skilled physician, though he had never studied medicine officially. But I was not aware of what was going on. Cocaine was singing in my veins. I cared for nothing. Lou came over impulsively and flung herself across my knees. She held the goblet of Benedictine to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 323
… hair. Her face was very lovely, but her expression was ablaze with intense desire, and through her wild floating hair could be seen her eyes, in which glittered madness. “On seeing me, she knelt down before me, and I, trying to comfort her, extended my hands to her, which she in turn kissed. Behind her stood the white astrals of weeping women—these were her many lovers. “ After a whileI brought her into the circle in which I was standing, and raising her up, caressed her upon the forehead. Then I changed to my usual shape, at which she was exc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 323
… hair. Her face was very lovely, but her expression was ablaze with intense desire, and through her wild floating hair could be seen her eyes, in which glittered madness. “On seeing me, she knelt down before me, and I, trying to comfort her, extended my hands to her, which she in turn kissed. Behind her stood the white astrals of weeping women—these were her many lovers. “ After a whileI brought her into the circle in which I was standing, and raising her up, caressed her upon the forehead. Then I changed to my usual shape, at which she was exc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 340
…I say that she was good, for she was human and she loved, oh! so sweetly, so delicately, so tenderly. “ What you did, you, her lips, her eyes and her other senses, was but to make vain effigies of our interior delight, to shatter in the broken shards of translation the mysterious silent beauty of the vase itself. “J, the woman’s heart of her, was like to a cave were thousands of voices of unborn children cried softly in the dark, where one felt their outstretching hands in pale and piteous appeal, as one may hear the early lilies break through …
1910 · PDF PAGE 340
…I say that she was good, for she was human and she loved, oh! so sweetly, so delicately, so tenderly. “ What you did, you, her lips, her eyes and her other senses, was but to make vain effigies of our interior delight, to shatter in the broken shards of translation the mysterious silent beauty of the vase itself. “J, the woman’s heart of her, was like to a cave were thousands of voices of unborn children cried softly in the dark, where one felt their outstretching hands in pale and piteous appeal, as one may hear the early lilies break through …
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
… planet Jupiter. Most nations seem to attribute a blue or violet colour to it ; for mystical reasons, doubtless, but also because (to my eyes at least) it actually has that colour. 6. I suspect, maugre Mahbub’s head, that this is “ writ sarcastic.” The pompous old dullard must have seemed to our lively Abdullah very much as Southey did to Byron. Yet the Eastern is a terrible slave to convention, and may perhaps acquiesce in Hafiz as the undergraduate of to-day acquiesces in Milton. 7. The central thought of these two chapters is represented in …
1913 · PDF PAGE 510
…d themselves to their judgment. There is no vice which does not leave its trace, no virtue which has not its sign. Thus, for the trained eyes of the observer, no hypocrisy is possible. One will understand that such a science is already a power indeed sacerdotal and royal. The prediction of the principal events of life is already possible by means of the numerous analogical probabilities of this observation : but there exists a faculty called that of pre- sentiments or sensitivism. Events exist often in their causes before realizing themselves i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 510
…d themselves to their judgment. There is no vice which does not leave its trace, no virtue which has not its sign. Thus, for the trained eyes of the observer, no hypocrisy is possible. One will understand that such a science is already a power indeed sacerdotal and royal. The prediction of the principal events of life is already possible by means of the numerous analogical probabilities of this observation : but there exists a faculty called that of pre- sentiments or sensitivism. Events exist often in their causes before realizing themselves i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 119
…light, and making little scabs of mire upon the torrid trampled sand. I thought of the mcenads and Bacchus; I saw them through the vivid eyes of Euripides and Swinburne. And still unsatisfied, I craved for stranger symbols yet. I became a Witch-Doctor presiding over a cannibal feast, driving the yellow mob of murderers into a fiercer Comus-rout, as the maddening beat of the tom- tom and the sinister scream of the bull-roarer destroy every human quality 1in the worshippers and make them elemental energies; Valkyrie-vampires surging and shrieking…
1922 · PDF PAGE 325
…ckie,” said Lou. “Well, Hermes, but why don’t you read? ” “The Big Lion doesn’t want us to learn,” he said. “We have to learn to use our eyes, and reading spoils them.” “ But why?” asked Lou, in surprise. “I don’t understand. I ‘thought reading was the best way to get knowledge.” Dionysus put his foot down. Enough of Betause, be he damned for a dod.” It wasn’t physical fatigue this time. These amazing children had made us forget all physical sensation. But when one is walking up-hill it is impossible to D.D.F. X
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…is wet ,” mingling in life till “ ten thousand little loves were brought to birth ”; then came the one woman who looked so deeply in his eyes till hers grew , shielding the sun , as a purple ring : Then in the uttermost profound I saw The veil of Love's unalterable law Lifted , and in the shadow far behind Dim and divine , within the shadow blind My own love's face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind . O suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body , as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey - bee ! I f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 49
…ethyr, for therein are the chariots of fire, and the tumult of the horsemen; whoso entereth here may never look on life again with equal eyes. I insist. 47
1922 · PDF PAGE 196
…leapt away from him. He panted heavily. When he got his breath back, he glared at me horribly with the pin-point pupils of his sightless eyes. He began with romantic sadness, changing to demoniac glee. | “She was incarnate love In the hours when I first awoke her. Little by little I found The truth of her, stripped of clothing, Bitter beyond all bound, Leprous beyond all loathing.” We shouted with delight, and fell into a fit of hysterical laughter. We came out of it completely exhausted. I must have slept for a while. | When I woke he was sitt…
1911 · PDF PAGE 107
…oud and delicate, and beyond imagination fair. She is like a child of twelve years old. She has very deep eye-lids, and long lashes. Her eyes are closed, or nearly closed. It is impossible to say anything about her. She is naked; her whole body is covered with fine gold hairs, that are the electric flames that are the spears of mighty and terrible Angels whose breast- plates are the scales of her skin. And the hair of her head, that flows down to her feet, is the very light of God himself. Of all the glories beheld by the seer in the Aethyrs, t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
…irst benign That calls the worker to wine; Not the bodily thirst (Though that be frenzy accurst) When the mouth is full of sand, And the eyes are gummed up, and the ears Trick the soul till it hears Water, water at hand, When a man will dig his nails In his breast, and drink the blood Already that clots. and. stales Ere his tongue can tip its flood.” His mind had gone back to infancy. He thought that I was his mother, and came to me to be nursed. But when he came near, he recognised me and crawled away again, hurriedly, like a wounded animal tr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 6
…—you must. Oh no! Oh no! A SAINT’S DAMNATION (By Aleister Crowley. From The Soul of Osiris. 1901) YOU buy my spirit with those shameless eyes That burn my soul, you loose the torrent stream Of my desire, you make my lips your prize, And on them burns the whole life’s hope: you deem You buy a heart; but I am well aware How my damnation dwells in that supreme Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare, And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair That clothe my body from your head; you win The devil’s bargain; I am yours …
1909 · PDF PAGE 310
… what to say, with faltering voice I asked, ‘Why speed ye?’ Whereupon the answer came: ‘ There is haste!’ Then a great gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of t…