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Aleister Crowley . Far above Space and Time that earth environ With bands and bars we strive against in vain , Far o'er the world , and all its triple iron And brazen chain ; Far from the change that men call life ; fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep , We see our loved one , and vain eyes desire In vain to weep . Woeful our gaze , if on lone Earth descendent , To view the absence of yon flame afar Yet in the Heavens , anew , divine , resplendent , Behold a star ! One light the less , that steady flamed and even Amid the dusk of Earth…
1913 · PDF PAGE 189
…of the pale brow, And pale, most pale, blue eyes, Upon thy bosom Oh, the bud and blossom! The flaunting wanton leaps on the stage of the world, And cries: lam the love, the love that never dies, Being born with the lover's death, Yielding mine easy breath Under the never-failing skies, That fail not for shelter over the dim world. And so am I closely curled Upon myself, with petals still, still furled. .. . Over the plains of Art with scornful feet And trailing amber robes, a nymph of time Floats, nimbly fleet Before the vision, And in derision…
1913 · PDF PAGE 189
…of the pale brow, And pale, most pale, blue eyes, Upon thy bosom Oh, the bud and blossom! The flaunting wanton leaps on the stage of the world, And cries: lam the love, the love that never dies, Being born with the lover's death, Yielding mine easy breath Under the never-failing skies, That fail not for shelter over the dim world. And so am I closely curled Upon myself, with petals still, still furled. .. . Over the plains of Art with scornful feet And trailing amber robes, a nymph of time Floats, nimbly fleet Before the vision, And in derision…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…uture must be? It will be the dogma of the Gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of Voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the world, by the genius of the Christian Napoleon. Those who will not march will be dragged or trampled by events. Immense calamities may again hang over the world. The armies of the Apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. The sanctuary will be cleansed. Rigid and holy poverty will send forth its apostles to uphold what staggers, lift up again what is broken, and anoint all wounds with sacred…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
…uture must be? It will be the dogma of the Gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of Voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the world, by the genius of the Christian Napoleon. Those who will not march will be dragged or trampled by events. Immense calamities may again hang over the world. The armies of the Apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. The sanctuary will be cleansed. Rigid and holy poverty will send forth its apostles to uphold what staggers, lift up again what is broken, and anoint all wounds with sacred…
1911 · PDF PAGE 109
… and many other things of great and delicate beauty; for such things are informed by Her spirit, for they are cast off from her into the world of the Qliphoth, or shells of the dead, that is earth. For every world is the shell or excrement of the world above it. I cannot bear the Vision. A voice comes, I know not whence: Blessed art thou, who hast seen, and yet hast not believed. For therefore is it given unto thee to taste, and smell, and feel, and hear, and know by the inner sense, and by the inmost sense, so that sevenfold is thy rapture. (M…
1905 · PDF PAGE 150
DHAMMAPADA I45 IV FLOWERS O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power ? Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower ? The seeker shall subdue this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power ; The seeker find that Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends aright, Breaking dread Mara’s flower-pointed shaft he goes, Death’s monarch shall not meet his sight. Like one who strayeth gathering flowers, is he who Pleasure lus…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…, to accomplish no less a task than the mastering of the forces of the Universe, the sur- render of the gross vibrations of the external world to the finer vibrations of the internal, and then to become one with the subtle Vibrator—the Seer Himself. We have mentioned the six chief systems of Yoga, and now before entering upon what for us at present must be the two most important of them,—namely, Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga, we intend, as briefly as possible, to explain the remain- ing four, and also the necessary conditions under which all methods…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…, to accomplish no less a task than the mastering of the forces of the Universe, the sur- render of the gross vibrations of the external world to the finer vibrations of the internal, and then to become one with the subtle Vibrator—the Seer Himself. We have mentioned the six chief systems of Yoga, and now before entering upon what for us at present must be the two most important of them,—namely, Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga, we intend, as briefly as possible, to explain the remain- ing four, and also the necessary conditions under which all methods…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
54 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. With the sun glittering amorously. But now, o Pan, the whole world falls With its reeling rout of Bacchanals Into the gulf, and thy wild note Shrills up from the black Nothing’s throat Like an enchanted harp that playeth Melodies, melodies magniloquent of death. Yea ! o thou golden wan strange-smiling one, Thou art not only cold. Thine ivory came from fierce bull-elephants That trampled Persians in their battle-rage ; Thy gold was found by men most grave and sage Among the sands of a strange river. How my breast pants ! …
1907 · PDF PAGE 322
…n knowable , and as “ it is just as grave an illusion to attribute morality to a stone as it is to think to find the supernatural in the world of phenomena ," ? so in the inmost depths of the ego alone , itself unthinkable , lies the source of all mystic experience . “ I live , yet not I, but God in me .” This is the suspense of Job , the sleep of Solomon , the silence of St. John , arrived at by fixing the mind upon one single object of thought , so that the treasures of representation which lie dormant in the memory , flow towards that one ob…
1913 · PDF PAGE 449
…e? For it is transcendental magic which, basing the universe upon the two columns of Hermes and of Solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of God, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of Satan. The sign of the lingam borne upon the forehead is in India the distinguishing mark of the worshippers of Shiva the destroyer; for that sign bei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 449
…e? For it is transcendental magic which, basing the universe upon the two columns of Hermes and of Solomon, has divided the metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of God, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of Satan. The sign of the lingam borne upon the forehead is in India the distinguishing mark of the worshippers of Shiva the destroyer; for that sign bei…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…n. Sun sired, Moon bore, this unique Universe; Air was its chariot, and Earth its nurse. Here is the root of every talisman Of the whole world, since the whole world began. Here is the fount and source of every soul. Let it be spilt on earth! its strength is whole. Now gently, subtly, with thine Art conspire To fine the gross, dividing earth and fire. Lo! it ascendeth and descendeth, even And swift, an endless band of earth and heaven; Thus it receiveth might of duplex Love, The powers below conjoined with those above, So shall the glory of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
28 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. HERACLEITUS Ah ! but some evil things have brooded here Over the sleepers. May it be indeed The truth that some strange fate threatens the world ? That Art and Love and Beauty, to renew Their glory, must be bathed in their own blood ? But who shall understand the Soul of Pan ? Involved in All and still apart from All ! For steeped therein as I am all my life, I know but exquisite beatitude, Knowing the whole, Then who shall know or care What may befall the part ? One must remain ; Many must change. Then all is well. The …
1902 · PDF PAGE 121
The evil, and the barren, and the vile, In God's undying smile ! Stoop not, O stoop not, to yon splendid world, Yon darkly-splendid, airless, void, inane, Blind confines in stupendous horror curled, The sleepless place of Terror and distress. Luring damned souls with lying loveliness, The Habitation and the House of Pain. For that is their abode, the Wretched Ones, Of all unhappiness the sons ! And when, invoking often, thou shalt see That formless Fire ; when all the earth is shaken, The stars abide not, and the moon is gone, All Time crushed …
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
H . 0 . Meredith . How should the world or sea or land The senseless grass , the unthinking beast , Reach up to God ? How understand What links the greatest with the least ? Or how should God , who throws afar Time 's weft across the warp of space , Who communes not with any star , Nor the sun 's radiance finds his face , Stoop and observe a spinning ball His hand in one slight moment twirled , Half idly sundering from the All That last least particle , the world ? Man 's flesh is rooted in the ground , Whose mind , yet , reaching up the sky Fa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
… the stupendous powers he had acquired, helped his fellows to realize the right path by the most universal of all symbols—the woe of the world, the sorrow of mankind. Like the Vedantist, he saw that the crux of the whole trouble was Ignorance (Avijja). Dispel this ignorance, and illumination would take its place, that insight into the real nature of things, which, little by little, leads the Aspirant out of the world of birth and death, the world of Samsara, into that inscrutable Nibbana where things in themselves cease to exist and with them t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
… the stupendous powers he had acquired, helped his fellows to realize the right path by the most universal of all symbols—the woe of the world, the sorrow of mankind. Like the Vedantist, he saw that the crux of the whole trouble was Ignorance (Avijja). Dispel this ignorance, and illumination would take its place, that insight into the real nature of things, which, little by little, leads the Aspirant out of the world of birth and death, the world of Samsara, into that inscrutable Nibbana where things in themselves cease to exist and with them t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
…at one is hurried on to a similar examination of the next thought. It is curious, though, to notice how this analysis corresponds to the worlds of the Qabalah, the single ‘“ pure soul” at the back of all, the shadowy “creative” world, the varied “formative world,” and the single though concrete “ material ” world. It puzzles one, too (at the time, in the very course of the analysis), to ask: If the external simple impression be made up of so many glyphs, and each of these again of many more, how can one ever return to the “ pure soul”? For all …