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Page 79 of 1001910 · PDF PAGE 354
… and IV of one volume of a series of volumes. We are charitable enough to hope that Mr. Perrycoste may be spared to produce the rest, so long as we are spared reviewing them. ELIAs ASHMOLE. THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTIONAL CHARGES OF THE GUILD FREE Masons. By Joun YARKER. William Tait, 2s. 6¢. net. This is a most learned work; the author holds Solomon only knows how many exalted degrees; but besides the title-page there is much of interest to Masons in this little volume. Some of the ancient charges are quite amusing. “That no Fellow go into town in …
1996 · PDF PAGE 29
…f grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. This form is sug gested in the Tarot card, where “The Fool” is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. Tigers and croco diles follow him, thus linking this image with that of Harpocrates. Almost identical symbols are those of the secret God of the Templars, the bisexual Baphomet, and of Zeus Arrhenothelus, equally bisexual, the Father-Mother of All in One Person. (He is shown in this full form in the Tarot Trump XV, “The Devil.”) Now Zeus being lord of Air, we…
1906 · PDF PAGE 85
… Romeo and Jultet. SWEET are the swift hard struggles ere the kiss, When the frail body blushes into tears, and short breaths cancel the long sigh3, and fears Constrain delight, until their import is Made foolish when the struggle’s synthesis Leads to hot armistice, as dewy spheres Glow, and increase the fury that reveres No God, no heaven but its own hell’s bliss. So after desperate shifts of modesty We could no more; loosened and lax we lay Breathing and holding: then in amorous play She laughed and left her body’s love to me, And kissed one …
1919 · PDF PAGE 291
…ROUGH” Suetiey’s Eropement. By ALexanper Harvey. Alfred A. Knopf. Tuts book is one of the most glorious blasphemies ever printed. I have long recognized in Alexander Harvey one of those extremely rare types of genius, of which, curiously enough, America seems to have a monopoly. The United States have not produced any all-round men of the first class, but they have produced quite a number of what I may call, without any intent of disparagement, monsters. Morphy’s games of chess are entirely sui generis. He was different not only in kind, but in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…Of course every sun, every planet, may hâve beings similarly consti- tuted.2 But when we speak of dealing with the planets in Magick, 1. Long since writing the above, an even grosser imbecility bas been perpetrated. One who ought to hâve known better tried to improve the Tree of Life by turning the Serpent of Wisdom upside down! Yet he could not even make his scheme symmetrical: bis little remaining good sense revolted at the suprême atrocities. Yet be succeeded in reducing the whole Magical Alphabet to nonsense, and shewing that he had never u…
1905 · PDF PAGE 161
…ver as I spoke? A smile, a tear? that trembling, in their deep Violet passion, of the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams Somewhat too troublous to be virginal. Speak to MADELINE. My dear kind Cora, do they lie to you, These fancies of my idle hours? Lelieve, I seem to tremble at my inward thought ; My heart is full of wonder. When I go Nightward beneath the moon, and take my thoughts Past her pale …
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…ril suddenly; "For the black bat, Night, hath flown." He took her by the arm. "Girl," he said, when they were among the flowers with his long arms about her, and a passionate kiss still flaming through every nerve of both their bodies, "I can't explain now, but you're in the most deadly danger from these people. And we simply can't get rid of them. Trust us, and wait! Till they're gone, keep away from them: make any excuse you like, 'if it's necessary; sham a hysterical attack and bolt if the worst comes to the worst — but don't let either of t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
…n; that is all part of my training as a Cabinet Minister. But what does emerge tentatively from my mental fog is that Yama, taking it by long and by large, is mostly negative in its effects. We are imposing inhibitions on the existing current of energy, just as one compresses a waterfall in turbines in order to control and direct the natural gravitational energy of the stream. 3. It might be as well, before altogether leaving the subject of Yama, to enumerate a few of the practical conclusions which follow from our premise that nothing which mi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
… worst danger is this, that the love which is its weapon should fail in one of two ways. First, if the love lack any quality of love, so long is it not idéal love. For it is written of the Perfected One: “There is no member of my body which is not the member of some god.” Therefore — 399 ~ * 7
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
…HE UNIVERSE!” After the prayer has been solemnly repeated, the Hierophant says: “Let the Can- didate rise,” * and then: “Child of Earth! long hast thou dwelt in Darkness! Quit the Night, and seek the day.” Then only at the words: “Let the Candidate rise” is the hoodwink definitely removed. The Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon join their sceptres and sword above the Candidate’s head, thus formulating the Supernal Triad, and assert that they, receive him into the Order of the Golden Dawn, in the words : “Frater X Y Z, we receive thee into the Ord…
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
…HE UNIVERSE!” After the prayer has been solemnly repeated, the Hierophant says: “Let the Can- didate rise,” * and then: “Child of Earth! long hast thou dwelt in Darkness! Quit the Night, and seek the day.” Then only at the words: “Let the Candidate rise” is the hoodwink definitely removed. The Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon join their sceptres and sword above the Candidate’s head, thus formulating the Supernal Triad, and assert that they, receive him into the Order of the Golden Dawn, in the words : “Frater X Y Z, we receive thee into the Ord…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…tion j but the circle in such a case must be protected, not only by the names of God and the Invocations used at the same time, but by a long habit of successful defence.s If you are easily disturbed or alarmed, or if you hâve not yet overcome the ten- dency of the mind to wander, it is not advisable for you to perform vessel; and it issues in due season refreshed and modified, but still essen- tially itself. The idea is the transmission of life and wisdom from a vehicle which has fulfilled its formula to one capable of further extension. The d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
…CY. You will. You have written more than this. ANGELA, If I must— Sir PERCY. You must. ANGELA. Ah love! (She yields herself up to him. A long pause.) Learn my first lesson; at these great moments of life, silence is the best. (Aszde.) There is a more important one. Had that silly gowk but the wit to lead him—d_fizz—where were I now? Nota drain on hisstores, but a—rofessor Spooner,} 1 A well-known Oxford Professor, who en- joys the reputation of having invented the blunder of the class ‘‘ half-warmed fish” for ‘¢ half-formed wish.”
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
…ere of rushing light was recognized as a commonplace idea, accepted unquestioningly and treated with drab indifference because it had so long been assimi lated as a natural and necessary part of the order of Nature. At first I was shocked and disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant researches should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood that what I had done was to live over again the triumphant career of conquering humanity; that I had experienced in my own person the succession of winged victories that had been sealed by …
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
…ddle close and crown me king! Drink, drink our full of love at last—a little while and we shall die, O kissable Tarshitering ! Droop the long lashes: close the eyes with eyelids like a beetle’s wing ! Light the slow smile, ephemeral as ever a painted butterfly, Certain to close into a kiss, certain to fasten on me and sting! Nay? Are you coy? Then I will catch your hips and hold you wild and shy Until your very struggles set your velvet buttocks all a-swing, Until their music lulls you to unfathomable ecstasy, O kissable Tarshitering ! 1 Possib…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
… gloom ! But stronger my chords Shall lift in your womb The love of your passage and time, imme- morial ages, your tomb. | Ye linger for long, But ye pass and are done: But I, my sweet song Outliveth the sun ! Ye are many and strong; I am stronger, and one ! Come forth! I invoke ye, O years, in my evening orison. THE YEARS. Crowned with Eternity, beyond beginning; Sandalled with wings, Eternity’s ; the end Far beyond sight of striving soul or sinning ; Ourselves see not, nor know, nor compre- hend. Reeling from chaos, unto Chronos winning, Devo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 486
…n, who appears later, in "the Urn", as "the Cat Officer". This woman possessed a unique atmosphere. I can only describe it as "sweetness long drawn out". This translated itself in terms of rhythm. I quote a typical sonnet: IN THE RED ROOM OF ROSE CROIX The bleeding gate of God unveils its rose; The cavernous West swallows the dragon Sun: Earth's darkness broods on dissolution, A mother-vulture, nested on Repose. Ah then, what grace within our girdle glows, To garb thy glee-gilt heart, Hilarion, An Alpenbluehn on our star-crested snows.
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
… Things ; Let every kiss Melt on my lips to flame, fling back the gates of Dis 13 XXII, Give me a master! not some learned priest Who by long toil and anguish has devised A train of mysteries, but some despised Young king of men, whose spirit is released From all the weariness, whose lips are prized By men not much— Ah! let them only once grow warm, my lips to touch. XXIII. Ah! under his protection, in his love, With my abasements emulating his, We surely should attain to That which Is, 1 A name contracted from Dives, sometimes given to Pluto a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 24
…HE FOUNT OF BI.OOD. SOMETIMES-I think my blood in waves ap- pears, Springs as a fount with music in its tears ; I hear it trickling with long murmuring sound, But search myself in vain to find the wound. Across the city, as in closéd meres, Making the pavements isles, it disappears ; In it all creatures’ thirst relief hath found ; All nature in its scarlet hue is drowned. I have often prayed these fickle wines to weep For one day Lethe on my threatening fear— Wine makes the ear more sharp, the eye more clear. I have sought in Love forgetfulness…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
… | Adonis, awake! Adonis, awake! We are colour and song And form, we are Muses most tender to take Thy life up to Art that was lost over long. Adonis, awake! Adonis, awake! thou hast risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love ! Adonis, awake ! 1 Properly the sequel to Mort d’Adonis on p. 122,