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Page 90 of 1281996 · PDF PAGE 135
…u hast given me of Thy flesh to eat and of Thy blood for an offering of intoxication. 39. Thou hast fastened the fangs of Eternity in my soul, and the Poison of the Infinite hath consumed me utterly. 40. I am become like a luscious devil of Italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. She hath played the harlot in divers palaces; she hath given her body to the beasts. 41. She hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods. 42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the Wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
… press the monster to her golden teats, Feed its desire on all her sweets with many a masterful caress. “Its wisdom shall invigorate her soul to heights of hideous joy To match her with the equal boy that shall be master of her fate. “ She shall attain a man to excel her strong satanic womanhood: Their love shall break the mask of wood, reveal the authentic face of Hell." All this the craftsman heard with pride: he called: his sickness and his whore Together at his vitals tore, and rent him that he laughed and died. 50, with the last convulsive…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…ch opens as follows: Man's days are dim , his deeds are dust, His span is but a little space , He lusts to live , he lives to lust , His soul is barren of love or trust, His heart is hopeless , seeing he must Perish , and leave no trace.5 He bids her gaze into his eyes , With love, my cheeks with passion burn As thy clear eyes may well discern By gazing into mine . 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p. 7. 3 Ibid . vol. i, p. 8. • Ibid . vol. i, p. 9. 2 Ibid . vol. i, p. 8. 4 Ibid . vol. i, p. 8. 6 Ibid . vol. i, p. 9.
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…" And so are we ; entwined within us , as in the poem of Tannhäuser , lie the countless threads of inherited tendencies . To suspend our soul on one alone leads only to utter destruction ; to climb to heaven we must grasp the whole tangled skein of our experiences and mount from Malkuth to Kether through the gates of Knowledge , Wisdom , and Understanding . That we 1 1 Vide Hosea .
1919 · PDF PAGE 342
… This Hallis dangerous in its per- fidious beauty, is needed but for thy probation. Beware, Lanoo, lest dazzled by illusive radiance thy Soul should linger and be caught in its deceptive light. This is a résumé of the previous seven verses. It incul- cates the necessity of unwavering aspiration, and in particu- lar warns the advanced Student against accepting his re- wards. There is one method of meditation in which the Student kills thoughts as they arise by the reflection, “That’s notit.” Frater P. indicated the same by taking as his motto, i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 424
…red all the mental changes in thy Self and slain the army of the thought sensations that, subtle and insidious, creep unasked within the Soul’s bright shrine. It is the mental changes and the invading thoughts which distress us. These are to be understood in a rather ad- vanced sense, for of course thought must have been con- quered earlier than this, that is to say, the self must have been separated from its thoughts, so that they no longer disturb that self. Now, however, the fortress walls must bethrown down, and the mind slain in the open f…
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
…nd crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar con- clusion with regard to man, and denied the existence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblicus, Porphyry, Boehme, and the mystics generally have of course substantially done so, though occa- sionally with rather inexplicable reservations, similar to those made in some cases by the Vedantists themselves. Man then being disproved, God the Person disappears for ever, and becomes Atman, Pleroma, Ain Soph, what name you will, infinite in all dire…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
… For I am Yesterday , and I To-day, and I to -morrow , born Now and again , on high , on high Travelling on Dian's naked horn ! I am the Soul that doth create The Gods , and all the kin of Breath . I come from the sequestered state ; My birth is from the House of Death . I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather , and my wings the world enfold . I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light ; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night . Yea , with gladness did they pæan ,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
… Unco Gude " : What's done we partly may compute But kenna what's resisted . It is this resistance alone which sanctifies man , body and soul . There is sparse morality in the well - fed , the well - housed , the well - dressed , their existence is indolent , comfortable , affluent ; but in the ill - fed , the houseless , the unclothed , there may be much . There is nothing sublime in an oily gourmet passing a baker's shop without wishing to steal a loaf ; but in a hungry child whose hollow bowels growl for food the oppor tunity of theft if res…
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
…ously variable, and to transform themselves with an astonishing facility. Their tendency to give themselves a body in order to attract a soul, makes them condense and assimilate naturally the corporeal molecules which float in the atmosphere. Thus, by coagulating the vapour of blood, they remake blood, that blood which hallucinated maniacs see floating upon pictures or statues. But they are not the only ones to see it. Vintras and Rose Tamisier are neither impostors nor myopics; the blood really flows; doctors examine it, analyse it; it is bloo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
…ously variable, and to transform themselves with an astonishing facility. Their tendency to give themselves a body in order to attract a soul, makes them condense and assimilate naturally the corporeal molecules which float in the atmosphere. Thus, by coagulating the vapour of blood, they remake blood, that blood which hallucinated maniacs see floating upon pictures or statues. But they are not the only ones to see it. Vintras and Rose Tamisier are neither impostors nor myopics; the blood really flows; doctors examine it, analyse it; it is bloo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
172 THE SWORD OF SONG Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair? So says Mansel. That masks the primal cause of being. With all respect to Buddha, fleeing The dreadful problem with the word ‘* Who answers, as who asks, hath erred,” I must decidedly insist On asking why these things exist. My mind refuses to admit All-Power can be all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What though…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…njoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. One cannot express the horror of this thought; it is The thought that murders the soul—and there is no answer to it. So universal is it that it is impossible to prove the contrary. So one must play the man, and master it and kill it utterly, burying it in that putrid hell from which it sprang. Luckily I have dealt with it before, Once when I lived at Paddington J—s and F—r were with me talking, and, when they went, thoughtfully left this devil-thought behind—the agony is with me yet.
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
THE VISION AND THE VOICE her desolation, and greater far is mine, who sought to be my naked self. Knowest thou that in my soul is utmost fear? And such is my force and my cunning, that a hundred times have I been ready to leap, and for fear have missed. And a thousand times am I baulked by them of the City of the Pyramids, that set snares for my feet. More knowledge have I than the Most High, but my will is broken, and my fierce- ness is marred by fear, and I must ever speak, speak, speak, millions of mad voices in my brain. With a heart of fur…
1913 · PDF PAGE 161
…ing. There is a secret meaning, a blessing in everything. And this is his reward— the Daughter of BABALON the beautiful. She is the pure soul, glorified by virtue of his attainment. In the 8th A2thyr this is continued. The Master becomes a Holy Guardian Angel unto another, the Bridegroom of his Bride. This marriage is now accomplished in the 7th Abthyr. There is Samadhi, but now no longer from below, but from above. 121
1913 · PDF PAGE 161
…ing. There is a secret meaning, a blessing in everything. And this is his reward— the Daughter of BABALON the beautiful. She is the pure soul, glorified by virtue of his attainment. In the 8th A2thyr this is continued. The Master becomes a Holy Guardian Angel unto another, the Bridegroom of his Bride. This marriage is now accomplished in the 7th Abthyr. There is Samadhi, but now no longer from below, but from above. 121
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
… Goat whose secret name is Pan! Before that Rod Heaven knows itself unjust; Beneath those hoofs the stars are puffs of dust. Rise up, my soul! One stride, and space is spanned; Time, like a poppy, crushed in thy left hand, While with thy right thou reachest out to grip The Graal of God, and tilt it to thy lip? Lo! all the whirring shafts of Light, a web Wherein the Tides of Being flow and ebb, One heart-beat, pulsing the Eternal stress, Extremes that cancel out in Nothingness. Light thrills through Light, the spindle of desire, Cross upon Cross…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
… tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existence to that great road , the road of the Soul . From the supernal flights of Idealism , we now find Crowley in the most infernal depths of realism striving through a sea of blood towards that flaming pentacle which flares on the dim horizon of Hope . All is night , yet all is expectation ; herculean is the task , yet the heart is that of a Titan . Blake saw that “ Prisons are built with stones of Law ; brothels with bricks of Religion ,” and so does …
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…ools alone reject . In the spiritual contemplation of life the slags of existence fall to the bottom of the burning furnace of the human soul ; the power of em pire and glory is shattered , “ The golden image with the feet of clay ,” and the marred vessels of the ( All) mighty potter are cast outside , from the wheel of Fate —why contemplate what is so unprofitable and use less ? Yet in this mysticism which is more intrinsically of the East , we find an intricate web of Egotism tangled with the utilitarianism of the West ; for it seems on readi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 20
… ” what of the curse of a child on those who betrayed him in their bigotry and meanness to such tor- ture as I have described ? My whole soul cramped ; society denied me ; books debarred me, with the rare exceptions of Scott, Ballantyne, and some Dickens, with a few even worse ! To illustrate the domestic principles of literary criticism : I was forbidden David Copperfield because of “ little