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Page 93 of 1081905 · PDF PAGE 94
…rous souls that throng We, who see our maiden queen, Desolate abodes of stone, Love has slain whom hate had spared. Barren of all comely things, Sorrow for our sister sways Given to the splendid kings, All our maiden bosoms, bared Gloomy state, and glamour dark, To the dying vesper rays, Swooping jewel-feathered wings, Where the sun below the bays Eyes translucent with a spark Of the West is stooping ; Of the world of fire, that swings All our hearts together drooping, Gates of adamant below Flowers the ocean bears. Lofty minarets of snow. All …
1905 · PDF PAGE 155
148 THE FATAL FORCE So absolute as I shall do to-day In this new infamy. For I must pass Desolate into the dusk of things again, Having risen so far-to fall to the abyss, Deeper for exaltation ; I must go Wailing and naked into the inane Cavernous shrineless place of misery, Forgetful, hateful, impotent, except The last initiation seize my soul, And fling me into Isis’ very self, The immortal, mortal. Let me know this night Whether my place is found among the stars That wander in the deep, or made secure As the high throne of her that dwells in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
…ur boat forward, or the storm and spark Of lightning lamp or shroud us in the dark, Careless if ever land again we find, Careless of all things (this love being blind), We put tosea. O gladly stand and mark The diamond headland fall behind our barque, Wrapped in shrine-shadow of love’s central mind ! We are alone to-day on the strange sea, Divider of the dawn’s divinity From sunset’s splendour: our: eternal noon
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…clairvoyance; I did not tell you that sort of a Thing to look for; yet you saw it under the same form as I did. You shall practice these things daily with Cyril if you like, always checking your results in a way which he will show you; and in a month you will be an expert. Then, if you feel you want to advertise, do. But you won't. Besides, the real trouble is that not one person in a thousand cares for [115] any form of science whatever; even such base applications of science as the steam-engine and all its family, from the telegraph to the au…
1929 · PDF PAGE 185
…which they have themselves avoided, and is therefore to them excremental in character. But to Iliel's morbidity the fascination of these things was overpowering. She took an unnatural and morose delight in watching the cuttle-fish squeeze itself slowly into a slime as black and oozy as the slug, and that again send trickling feelers as of leaking motor-oil, greasy and repulsive, with a foul scum upon its surface, until the beast looked like some parody of a tarantula; then this again would collapse, as if by mere weariness of struggle against g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…e lies dead; none wakens him. Nor life nor death must touch him now: beware! ELEAZAR. Beware now, all ye old wise men, of this. For high things spoken and unjustly heard, Or heard and turned aside, are fruitless words, Or bear a blossom evil and abhorred, Lest God be mocked. Consider well of this. CHORUS. A sword, a sword, to smite our foes withal ! ELEAZAR. A help shall come from desert lands to us. CHORUS. Toward what end? much, But uttermost destruction more, for we Llave no strong hope in any hand of man: God is our refuge and our tower of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
… infinité variety, being ail that exists.* 1 Prologue.) of being forced to attribute the qualities of human conscious- ness to inanimate things (Poincaré, “La mesure du temps”), and of asserting that we know anything of the universe in itself, though the nature of oui senses and our minds necessanly détermines our observations, so that the limit of our knowledge is subjective, just as a thermometer can record nothing but its own reaction to one particular type of Energy. Magick recognizes frankly (i) that truth is relative, subjective, and appa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…man Gates! " "I know I'm liable to be carried away by a Tarot divination; but he was himself attempting a magical murder. You can't work things except on their own plane. He who taketh the sword shall perish by the sword." "I dare say you're right; but I'm terribly afraid you've scared the game. I wanted to have Douglas and Balloch down here; then was the moment to turn loose those engines of destruction." "You might have told me." [211] "Ah, if I had only known!" Brother Onofrio gave a savage gesture. Once again he was being eluded. "I only re…
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. A word is enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived — if he lived. Slavery was hated. A million men died about it, and it was cast out of every- where but the hearts of men. Euripides hated Greek religion, and he killed the form thereof. Does Our Logician argue from these facts the vitality of slavery or Delphi ? Yes, perhaps, when Simon Legree and the Pythoness were
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…y prepared to give a description of your mind. You are in rude health, and yet you are hysterical; you are fascinated and subdued by all things weird and unusual, though to the world you hold yourself so high, proud, and passionate. You need love, it is true; so much you know yourself; and you know also that no common love attracts you; you need the sensational, the bizarre, the unique. But perhaps you do not understand what is at the root of that passion. I will tell you. You have an inexpressible hunger of the soul; you despise earth and its …
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…hose primitive qualities had in fact been swallowed up in the results of their disappointment. For in her eye raved bitter a hate of all things, born of the selfish envy which regarded the happiness of any other person as an outrage and affront upon her. Every thought in her mind was a curse — against God, against man, against love, or beauty, against life itself. She was a combination of the witch-burner with the witch; an incarnation of the spirit of Puritanism, from its sourness to its sexual degeneracy and perversion. Douglas put the broken…
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
…ve forgotten all the days of fear, The nights of torment when the kiss expired, Lost upon lips with love not overtired, But fearing many things—the after year, The end, the man—O no, not him! the tear, The children’s sorrow, and our own shame fired Not less in doing all that love desired: We have forgotten, surely—being here! We have forgotten every shape of sorrow, Knowing no end to one night’s ecstasy In the night’s kiss from morning that we borrow, From the hard usurer, Eternity— Seeing we have it in our power to die Before the new kiss kind…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…ures, The holy heaven of will ! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star ; Your hair as a comet’s horrent, Ye shall see things as they are ! I lift the mask of matter ; I open the heart of man ; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth—Pan ! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid flood. I bring ye laughter and tears, The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and steril…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…y of [142] cunning, its fatally false logic, its power of blinding you to facts that ought to be as clear as daylight — yes, even to the things before your very eyes. It will seek to bewilder you, to make you lose your mental balance — every trick is possible. And you will be so beaten and so blind that you have only one safe — guard; which is, to adhere desperately to the literal terms of your oath. "Do that, and in a little while the mind will clear; you will understand what empty phantoms they were that assailed you. But if you fail, your on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…o happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar taste sweet in the mouth. Attempts to explain these simple matters always progres…
1905 · PDF PAGE 224
…d soar through the unsulled skies, And careless watch the destiny of kings. Then only shall truth’s angel in thine eyes Perceive eternal things. The oracle is suddenly grown still. Only, mine eyes, unweary of the sight, Pierce through the dawn-mist of the sacred hill And yearn toward the rose of love and light. My lips, that drank the Heliconian rill, Murmur with slow delight. I see the faces of the lyric Nine! The Rose of God its petals will unfold ! I madden with the ecstasy divine ! My soul leaps sunwards, shrieking—and behold ! Out of the o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 31
…nd palaces of day, Beyond the night, beyond the skies, Beyond eternity’s Tremendous gate; beyond the immanent miracle.4 O secret self of things ! I have nor feet nor wings Except to follow far beyond Heaven and Earth and Hell, Until I mix my mood And being in thee, as in my hermit’s hood I grow the thing I contemplate—that selfless solitude ! THE STORM. Written on the North Atlantic Ocean. In the sorrow of the silence of the sunset, when the world’s heart sinks to sleep, And the waking wind arises from the wedding of the aether and the deep, Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
…l forces still unrecognized by the vulgar; but those forces are just as real, just as material — if indeed you can call them so, for all things are ultimately spiritual — as properties like radio-activity, weight and hardness. The difficulty in defining and measuring them lies principally in the subtlety of their relation to life. Living protoplasm is identical with dead protoplasm in all but the fact of life. The Mass is a magical ceremony performed with the object of endowing a material substance with divine virtue; but there is no material d…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…he Secret Wisdom and in the name Zabaoth das Sosheb cameliatza, od tofajilo 30dinu asa ta kanila: od Zabaoth which Mosheh spake, and all things of water were as_ blood; and Do-o-a-ipe Asher Ehpeh Driston, das Mosheh cameliatza od tofasilo inthe name Asher Ehyeh Oriston, which Mosheh spake, and all sodinu asa polaki bami Das vaugesi Das goholore puso salamanu, Das waters were bringing forth creatures who wax strong, which lifted up unto the houses, which quasabeé tofajilo: od Do-0-a-ipé Elion, das Aposheh cameliatza, od asa destroy allthings and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…y have never been settled. The problem of the origin of evil, alone, has quite baffled Theology. "Science advances; we now find that all things are subject to law. There is no need of any mysterious creator, in the old sense; we look for causes in the same order of nature as the effects they produce. We no lounger propitiate ghosts to keep our fires alight. "Now, at last, I and a few others are asking whether the whole universe be not illusion, in exactly the same way as a true surface is an illusion. "Perhaps the universe is a four-dimensional…