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…ngue lolls out, a-dripping blood ; She swings my body to and fro ; She breaks me on the wheel of woe ! To her eternal rapture seems Mere nature; underneath the crown Of dusky emeralds there streams A river of bliss to sluice me down With blood and tears, to drown my thought, To bring my being into nought. The cruel teeth, the steady sneer, The marvellous lust of her, I bring Unto my body bright and clear (Dropped poison in a water spring !) To fill me with the utmost sense Of some divine experience. For who but she, the adulterous queen, Made e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 218
… ye deem it He abides in the strife that is dust. Than spirit more keen as ye dream it, He is laughter and loathing and lust. He is all. Nature’s agonies scream It ; Her joys quire it clear ; in the must Of the vat is His shape in the steam. It Is Fear, and Disgust. For the spirit of all that is, The light in the lover’s kiss, The shame and sorrow and bliss ; They are all in Pan ; The inmost wheel of the wheels, The feeling of all that feels, The God and the knee that kneels, And the foolish man. For Pan is the world above And the world that is…
1939 · PDF PAGE 46
…how much is really observed by the senses without the mind becoming conscious of it. Thirdly, there is a class of break partaking of the nature of reverie or 'day-dreaming.' These are very insidiousone may go on for a long time without realising that one has wandered at all. Fourthly, we get a very high class of break, which is a sort of abberation of the control itself. You think, 'How well I am doing it!' or perhaps that it would be rather a good idea if you were on a desert island, or if you were in a sound-proof house, or if you were sitti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
… This being, thinking, loved or loathed, Hath attributes. This sand is gold :— Deem’st thou a gilder lurks within The atom ? What should Nature hold Of aureate save a mind begin Colour-conception? Then we win To think our thought itselfa chance Grafted upon the circumstance Of cerebrin and lethicin. A. Ill fares the rifleman that holds The muzzle to his eye. Yon gold’s Mental : enough ! the mind is all. NV. No: this is but a slave in thrall To matter’s motion. We deny A causeless cause, an entity Beyond experience, that tricks Our folly with it…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…ncing tune, invades my cloud Of idle dreams, sits poised upon The couch, and with a gay embrace Cries out ‘‘ Hullo, my baby!” Shone Such nature in a holier face? We are a happy pair at least: Coffee and rolls are worth a feast, And laughing as she came she goes ! The dainty little tuberose ! She has a lithe white body, slim And limber, fairy-like, a snake Hissing some Babylonian hymn Tangled in the Assyrian brake. She stole upon me as I slept: Who wonders I am nympholept? Her face is round and hard and small And pretty—hence the name I gave her…
1929 · PDF PAGE 271
…than before of Buddhists, their parochial morality and their emphasis on the evils of existence. But I wrote a few lyrics about love and nature which are still among my best. I may mention "The Song". Dance a measure ....Of the tiniest whirls! Shake out your treasure ....Of cinnamon curls! Tremble with pleasure ....O wonder of girls! Rest is bliss, ....And bliss is rest, Give me a kiss ....If you love me best! Hold me like this ....With my hand on your breast! There was also "Said", inspired by my week in Cairo: "Patchouli", a shot of rhapsody …
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
The nature of these qualities requires careful description. In the Hindu system are three Gunas‐Sattvas, Rajas and Tamas. The word “Guna” is untranslatable. It is not quite an element, a quality, a form of energy, a phase, or a potential; all of these ideas enter into it. All the qualities that can be predicated of anything may be ascribed to one or more of these Gunas: Tamas is darkness, inertia, sloth, ignorance, death and the like; Rajas is energy, excite‐ ment, fire, brilliance, restlessness; Sattvas is calm, intelligence, hicidity and bala…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…ncalculable blue And years enwreathed in one close crown, And glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bard’s renown :-— Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight: her God Weary, his old eyes sad and dim In his intolerable abode. All things that are, unknown and known, Bending in homage to your eyes ; We wander wondering, lift alone The world’s grey load of agonies. Make me a roseleaf with your mouth, That all the savour steal afar Unto the sad awaiting South, Where sits enthroned the answering Star. IX. WILL you not…
1905 · PDF PAGE 213
… Alone amid their crag-bound solitude. Even beyond the keen delight—to Be— Steals that diviner mood Of wonder at the miracle—the plan Of Nature crowned by the astounding Man! The secret of the Lord is set with him That wonders at His majesty :? his praise Wells from no trembler’s misery: his hymn Swells the exultant day’s. His psalm wings upward, and reflected down Even in Hell makes music and renown. Yea! for the echo of the anthem rolls Down to the lost unfathomable deep. Down, to the darkness of all shades and souls, The founts of music swee…
1939 · PDF PAGE 52
… point we may well be led to consider once more what we call the objective universe, and what we call our subjective experience. What is Nature? Immanuel Kant, who founded an epoch-making system of subjective idealism, is perhaps the first philosopher to demonstrate clearly that space, time, causality (in short, all conditions of existence) are really no more than conditions of thought. I have tried to put it more simply by defining all possible predicates as so many dimensions. To describe an object properly it is not sufficient to determine i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 60
…so subtle and so tenuous, on these exalted planes of thought, that definition is impossible. It is not even desirable, because it is the nature of these ideas to flow one into the other. One cannot do more than say that any given hieroglyph represents a slight insistence upon some particular form of a pantomorphous idea. In this card, the emphasis is upon the creative and dualistic character of the path of Beth. In the traditional card the disguise is that of a Juggler. This representation of the Juggler is one of the crudest and least satisfac…
1939 · PDF PAGE 12
… and rarer to find a man with a mind of his own and a will of his own, even in this modified sense. (18) I want you therefore to see the nature of the obstacles to union with the Absolute. For one thing, the Yoga which we constantly practice has not invariable results; there is a question of attention, of investigation, of reflexion. I propose to deal in a future instruction with the modifications of our perception thus caused, for they are of great importance to our science of Yoga. For example, the classical case of the two men lost in a thic…
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…her Taro t symbols can be traced by any one who possesses, and to som e degree understands, a pack of the cards. The occult views of the nature of these symbols are in some cases Crowley’s own. Opus Prima Materia. A. O. Custodes.4 Sapiens dom- inatibur astris. S. S. D. D.
1905 · PDF PAGE 211
…n is set. 1 Describes the spiritual aspect of the ‘‘Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram,” which we append, with its explanation. The abstruse nature of many of these poems is well reflected in this one. (i.) Touching the forehead, say Ateh (Unto Kingdom). (iii.) Touching the right shoulder, say ve- Geburah (and the Power). (iv.) Touching the left shoulder, say ve- Gedulah (and the Glory). ({v.) Clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-Olahm, Amen (to the Ages, Amen). (vi.) Turning to the East, make a pentagram with the proper weapon. Say Mit’. (vi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 156
…f Ceremonial Magick, except from reading; my results have not been accompanied by visions. What results I have obtained have been in the nature of becoming the thing itself, not seeing it. However, to pass on: Is the idea of coming back to help others (see Sun. Apr. 16) only a form of the Dweller on the Threshold and caused through fear of annihilation or madness? Or is it a concession to my own weakness, a pandering to my ‘self’ because I am really nowhere near ready to hurl myself into the Gulf, instead of which I come back to normal consciou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…The World is done : When in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature ; fatal is her name ! It fitteth not thy body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pure gold! For, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Demons dog-faced, that show no mortal s…
1939 · PDF PAGE 26
… in this world are infinite pleasure, infinite perils. The True Niyama of Neptune is the imaginative faculty, the shadowing forth of the nature of the illimitable light. He has another function. The Yogi who understands the influence of Neptune, and is attuned to Neptune, will have a sense of humour, which is the greatest safeguard for the Yogi. Neptune is, so to speak, in the front line; he has got to adapt himself to difficulties and tribulations; and
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…will availed, nor quailed, Intimate with the naked probe ? I know the husks! to strip; name, form, Sensation, then perception, stress Of nature thither ; last, the swarm Of honey-bees called consciousness. These change and shape a myriad shapes. Diverse are these, not one at all, What gain I if my scalpel scrapes, Turning before some final wall Of soul? Not so, nothing is there. The qualities are all: for this I stop as I have stopped ; intrude No science, for I love the fair ; No wedlock, for I love the kiss ; No scalpel, for I love the nude. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…zzle’s grief I did not share Because on earth J did not care. I met a grave philosopher— *Had sought most nobly not to err Probing God’s Nature. See his lobes Swell with hell’s torment! Still he probes The same fool’s problem. I explain The simple state of things in vain. He chose to study God, and die in it. He made his bed, and he must lie in it. VI. After my dinner I debate (Urged to the task by habit’s Fate) The project of a poisoning. In hell one finds that everything Is easy. Poison to my hand ; A cunning potion cool and bland Fit to admi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
… with exhalations fetid. {378} Upon this rottenness the sun shone deadly straight ....As if to cook it to a turn, And gave back to great Nature hundred-fold the debt ....That, joining it together, she did earn. The sky beheld this carcase most superb outspread ....As spreads a flower, itself, whose taint Stank so supremely strong, that on the grass your head ....You thought to lay, in sudden faint. The flies swarmed numberless on this putrescent belly, ....Whence issued a battalion Of larvae, black, that flowed, a sluggish liquid jelly, ....Alo…