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Page 81 of 2251911 · PDF PAGE 82
…ly than the sea.? Only through matter? Can spirit understand itself,? Justify itself, become itself? This mystery I heard? From the holy man of Bassu.? His beard was whiter than snow? Because it had once been blacker than burnt wood.? So will I cherish my love, The love which I owe, Which I give, to my husband The noblest of the Emirs; For I and my love and my service And my duty All are his. I have no duty to God But to obey my husband. So my heart is freer Than all other hearts,
1911 · PDF PAGE 56
…ke spurs in the flanks of a weary horse? Nor heart nor clock could feel remorse, But kept their definite deadly course, Jeanne I Alas! for man, for his life’s disaster: The clock beats fast, but a heart beats faster.
1911 · PDF PAGE 82
…ly than the sea.? Only through matter? Can spirit understand itself,? Justify itself, become itself? This mystery I heard? From the holy man of Bassu.? His beard was whiter than snow? Because it had once been blacker than burnt wood.? So will I cherish my love, The love which I owe, Which I give, to my husband The noblest of the Emirs; For I and my love and my service And my duty All are his. I have no duty to God But to obey my husband. So my heart is freer Than all other hearts,
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…g the harmony of the ceremonies: — Let ail these things be rightly considered, and at length, in language of the utmost beauty at the command of the Philosophus, accom- panied, if he has skill, by music, and interwoven, if the particular Deity be jocund, with dancing. And ail being carefully prepared and rehearsed let it be practised daily until it be wholly rhythmical with his aspirations, and as it were, a part of his being. 12. Concernlng the variety of the ceremonies. — Now, seeing that every man differeth essentially from every other man, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
WHY JESUS WEPT 47 the Baptist minister at Brixton (Zr. Chester- ton executes the cake-walk), who they say is a good man, and very much blessed of the dear Lord, my dear, in his ministrations, though of course he has not been brought out of sect as yet.! 2ND AGED SISTER (sotto voce). Dear! Dear! Very sad! Perhaps the dear Lord will open his eyes. [The praying brother sits doum sud- denly, satisfied with himself. A HoRNY-HANDED BROTHER (who rises grunting, as if the action were painful or unfamiliar). Matthew Twenty-fourth and Forty-third and he …
1898 · PDF PAGE 28
…w Jephthah to the death. All hail! JEPHTHAH. Go then, refresh yourselves, and sleep to-night. I will send messages to their dread lord Demanding his fell purpose, threatening ‘ My present aid to you with men of valour Chosen of all your tribes, and charging him As he loves life, and victory, to content His army with their present brief success, Lest he pass by the barrier of our suffering, And find our wrath no broken sword, and find Despair more terrible than hope. Go now. A SOLDIER. We go, my lord, less readily to sleep Than if you bade us ma…
1899 · PDF PAGE 31
P A R T I I WHEN God bethought Him, and the world began, He made moist clay, and breathed on it, that man Might be most frail and feeble, and like earth Shrink at Deaths finger from the hour of birth ; And like the sea by limits of pale sand Be utterly confined ; but so He planned To vivify the body with the soul, That fire and air were wedded to control The heavy bulk beneath them, so His breath Touched the warm clay and violated death, Gave to the spirit wings and bade it rise To seek its Maker with aspiring eyes, Gave to the body strength t…
1902 · PDF PAGE 43
… am not I the willing one? Indeed I feel the wonder of that same desire From mine own side of the Impassible. See then how equal God and man are made ! For I have clothed me in the veil of flesh, And strive toward thy finite consciousness As thou art reaching to my infinite, Nurturing my Godhead at the breast of Sin With milk of fleshly stings— even to pain :— Tannhauser. I see, I see the Christian mystery ! That was the purpose of High God Himself, Clothed in the Christ ! Ah ! Triumphed He at last ? Nay, not in death ! The slave— He rose again…
1910 · PDF PAGE 62
… tongues of the tender fauns In the shade of initiate yews Remote from the desert dawns ! Satyrs and Fauns, I call. Bring your beauty to man ! I am the mate for ye all ; I am the passionate Pan. Come, O come to the dance Leaping with wonderful whips, Life on the stroke of a glance, Death in the stroke of the lips ! I am hidden beyond Shed in a secret sinew Smitten through by the fond Folly of wisdom in you ! Come, while the moon (the moon !) Sheds her ambrosial splendour,
1910 · PDF PAGE 232
…ields, with rosy bosses starred ! Wardrobe of tender secrets, filled with nard, Wines, scents, liqueurs, a Comus train Fit to intoxicate mans heart and brain. Sweeping the air with that broad skirt, to me Is imaged some tall ship that puts to sea With canvas spread, that treads a measure Of love-in idleness and peace-with-pleasure ! Strong limbs that toss aside their tented veil Brew acrid draughts of madness, darkly male, Like two black witch-women that turn And stir some ghastly philtre in their urn. Thine armscould strangle a young Hercule…
1913 · PDF PAGE 128
…e current swirl That bore us out to sea . Eight bouncing children tumbled in , And though we overlaid One, and another died of gin , Too many with us stayed . I' ve often thought that it would beat The man who tried to tell (Even if he had felt ) the heat And hungriness of hell : But even in hell there is no pain Such as is known on earth , To parents who a child have slain Before or after birth . The devil doesn 't know the cramp That settles round the heart, When yesterday was a hopeless tramp For work , and it's time to start ; In morning fo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…round importance of believing the truth? But Mr. Crowley has got something into his soul stronger even than the beautiful passion of the man who believes in Buddhism; he has the passion of the man who does not believe in Christianity. He adds one more testimony to the endless series of testimonies to the fas- cination and vitality of the faith. For some mysterious reason no man can contrive to be agnostic about Christianity. He always tries to prove something about it—that it is un- philosophical or immoral or disastrous—which is not true. He c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…pon. eg. Q. Is A. pious? A, If he grows large, yes he is very pious, Q. Is B. a villain? A. If he shrivels, he is a svad/ villain, not a man to be afraid of. Also of ordinary occult things—eg. change of face, expressions, etc. There are also further theories regarding the disintegration of man. Theories concern- ing the danger of this process to the meditator and meditatee alike.* The next practice was to meditate upon the image of D. A. standing. The figure remained in the same place, but altered much like a form reflected in glasses of variou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…pon. eg. Q. Is A. pious? A, If he grows large, yes he is very pious, Q. Is B. a villain? A. If he shrivels, he is a svad/ villain, not a man to be afraid of. Also of ordinary occult things—eg. change of face, expressions, etc. There are also further theories regarding the disintegration of man. Theories concern- ing the danger of this process to the meditator and meditatee alike.* The next practice was to meditate upon the image of D. A. standing. The figure remained in the same place, but altered much like a form reflected in glasses of variou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 138
…in appearance. But that is the wrong way to look at it. We get our number two, for example, as "that which is common to a bird's legs, a man's ears, twins, the cube root of eight, the greater luminaries, the spikes of a pitchfork," etc., but having got it, we must not go on to argue that the number two being possessed of this and that property, therefore there must be two of something or other which for one reason or another we cannot count on our fingers. The trouble is that sometimes we can do so; we are very often obliged to do so, and it co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…ple". I. The Second Order to be summoned at various times during two or three days. They to find, on being admitted one by one, a masked man in authority and a scribe. These questions, etc. pass, after pledge of secrecy concerning interview. A. Are you convinced of the truth of the doctrines and knowledge received in the grade of 5° = 6ř? Yes or No? If yes (1) Then their origin can spring from a pure source only? If no (2) I degrade you to be a Lord of the Paths in the Portal in the Vault of the Adepts. B. If he reply "yes", the masked man cont…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…ASTERS 321 1 It was part of my plan for The Equinox to prepare a final edition of the work of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly. I had a good many of the data and promised myself to complete them by studying the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford-which , incidentally, I did in the autumn; but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, I had the convenie…
1902 · PDF PAGE 124
…g and uniting even here : The middle path — life interfused with death — Pure love ; the secret of Elizabeth ! This is my secret —in the man's delight To lose that stubborn ecstasy for God ! To this clear knowledge hath my path been trod In deepest hell— in the profoundest sky! This knowledge —the true immortality, I came unto through pain and tears. Tigerish hopes, and serpent loves, and dragon fears, Most bitter kisses, salted springs and dry ; In those deep caverns and slow-moving years. When dwelt I, in the Mount of Venus, even I ! [ The sp…
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
52 TRANSLATIONS FROM BAUDELAIRE Who taught frail man, to make his suffering lighter, Consoling, to mix sulphur with salt nitre ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! O subtle complice, who as blatant Beast Brandest vile Crœsus, him that pities least ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Who in girls’ eyes and hearts implantest deep Lust for the wound, the twain that wound bids weep ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Staff of the exiled, the inventor’s spark, Confessor of hanged men and plotters dark ! O Satan, have pity of my long mi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…eaves no egg of thought to hatch its serpent Thrice detested for unnatural breeding— Basilisk, to slay the maddened gazer. Thus the wise man, for no glory-guerdon, Hope of life or joy in earth or heaven, Works, rejecting all the flowers of promise Dew-lit that surround his path ; but keepeth Steady all his will to one endeavour, Till the light, the might, the joy, the sorrow, Life and death and love and hate are broken : Work effaces work, avails the worker. Strength, speed, ardour, courage and endurance (Needed never more) depart for ever. All…