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Page 95 of 1081929 · PDF PAGE 188
…eate a permanence of his complexities, as who should try to fashion gold from the dust-heap. But most sorcerers do not go so deeply into things; they are set upon the advantage of the moment. Douglas probably did not care a snap of the fingers for his ultimate destiny; it may be that he deliberately avoided thinking of it; but however that may be, there is no doubt that at this moment he was ruthlessly pursuing his hate of Cyril Grey. For great operations — the "set pieces" of his diabolical pyrotechnics — the sorcerer had a place set apart and…
1905 · PDF PAGE 157
…n Amenti hears, Speak, that I rise from chaos, from the world Of shapeless and illusionary forms, Of dead men’s husks, and unsubstantial things. O mother, mother, mother! TI arise! RATOUM. Tlorus, dread godhead, child of me, arise ! Arise Osiris, to the sacred rites And marriage-bed of fuller deity. Now, at the serpent-motion of this wand, Rise from the dead! Arise, dead ITorus, rise To be Osiris. Isis speaks! Arise! [ The coffin ts opened. Tue LEPER és rarsed out of i swathed tn bandages. Out of the sleep of ages wake and live ! [ The wrapping…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…edness was inconceivable! But besides that, it was sheer madness. Did not these people in Glasgow understand the God did not permit such things to happen with impunity? So on the first Saturday night the people betook themselves to points of vantage on the surrounding hills in order to see the works destroyed by the divine wrath. No explanation has ever been offered why it did not come off!
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…lting stings, Whose starry shape shone in the west, Held of the glimmering wings. [fer shadowy soul perceived the jest Of man and mortal things.
1905 · PDF PAGE 179
…all light and flame ; Timeless, above all age and grade ; Moveless, beyond the mighty name ; A mystic mortal and a maid, Filled with all things to fill the same, To overflow the shores of God, Mingling our proper period. The agony is passed: behold How shape and light are born again ; How emefald and starry gold Burn in the midnight ; how the pain Of our incredible marriage-fold And bed of birthless travail wane ; And how our molten limbs divide, And self and self again abide. The agony of extreme joy, And horror of the infinite blind Passions …
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…two contradictory phases." But it was beyond her still, in each case as it came up "That is the Net!" a riddle? It might mean a thousand things; and to a woman of her positive and prosaic temperament (which she had, for all her hysteria and romanticism) doubt was torture. Love itself always torments women of this type; they want their lovers under lock and key. They would like love itself to be a more substantial commodity, a thing that one could buy by the pound, and store in a safe or an ice-chest. Doubt and jealousy, those other hand-maidens…
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…ake it simpler to proceed to summarize the above statements. Here is a simple statement of the plan of the Tree of Life. The numbers, or Things‐in‐ Themselves, are ten, successive emanations from the triple veil of the Negative. The small cards numbered I to 10 correspond to the Sephiroth. These cards are shown in fourfold form, because they are not the pure abstract numbers, but particular symbols of those numbers in the universe of manifestation, which is, for convenience, classified under the figure of four elements. The Court cards represen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…a, that lay there in its cradle. And she saw that the body was a dead thing, as dead as the cradle itself; it was unreal; all "material" things were unreal, shells void of meaning, geometrical abstractions, as Simon Iff had explained to her on their first meeting. But this body was different to the other husks in one respect, that it was the focus of a most startling electrical phenomenon. (She could not think of it but as electrical.) An incandescent cone was scintillating before her. She could see but the tip of it, but she knew intuitively t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 169
…ut hands over eyes before rising, and saw a light so peculiar that it is worth mentioning. It had the appearance of being three distinct things at once. Dead black, a beautiful night-sky-blue, but at the same time the very essence of it was brilliant light. Quite indescribable in words. (Seems very good. O.M.) It may be remarked that Fra. V.I.O. had occupied himself with the contempla- tion of the Stélé of Revealing, completed therefrom a Pantacle of Nuit, and had obtained a sigil for same, during this day. (This peculiar light is stigmatically…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…darkness to me. CALLIOPE. Child of Thracian sire, on me begotten,. Knowest thou not the laughter and the life ? Knowest thou not how all things are for- gotten, — . | Being with a maiden wife ? How a subtle sense of inmost being Wraps thee in, and cuts the world away ; Sight and sound lose hearing and lose seeing, All the night is one with all the day ? Hearken to her sighing ! Life droops down as dying, Melting in the clasp of amorous limbs and hair; All the darkening world Round about ye furled— Dost thou know, or, knowing, dost thou care ? a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
…ally unknown in Latin countries, increase one's admiration at the Anglo-Saxon temperament. Thus also Iliel's stagnant mind bred fearsome things. Hour after hour, the pageant of diseased thoughts passed through the shadowy gulfs of her chaotic spirit. Actual phantoms took shape for her, some seductive, some menacing; but even the most hideous and cruel symbols had a fierce fascination for her. There was a stag-beetle, with flaming eyes, a creature as big as an elephant, with claws in constant motion, that threatened her continually. [256] Horrib…
1906 · PDF PAGE 19
… I crave Doubtful liaisons with the grave and loves of Parthia for sport. I think perhaps no longer yet, but dream and lust for stranger things Than ever sucked the lips of kings, or fed the tears of Mahomet. Quaint carven vampire bats, unseen in curious hollows of the trees, Or deadlier serpents coiled at ease round carcases of birds unclean ; All wandering changeful spectre shapes that dance in slow sweet measure round And merge themselves in the profound, nude women and distorted apes Grotesque and hairy, in their rage more rampant than the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 29
…t that young godhead in thine eyes Pierce mine, fulfil me of their secrecies, Thy peace, thy purity, thy soul impenetrably wise. II. All things which are complete are solitary ; The circling moon, the inconscient drift of stars, The central systems. they, vary? Theirs is no motion beyond the eternal bars. Seasons and scars ) Burn they, change
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
…nge fact! are we Of God’s own purpose of fecundity. Exactly! You have read the golden rede. Yet robbed (you say) That is the pity of all things on earth: That all must have its consequence again. Life ends in death and loving ends in birth. All’s made for pleasure: man’s device is pain. And in that pain and barrenness men find Triumph on God; and glory of the mind.
1919 · PDF PAGE 309
…ve a brilliant career before you.” “You are fond of the world.” “You have a great deal of tact and diplomacy.” “You are fond of the good things of this life.” “You are fleeting in your affections, and will have a good many love affairs in your life.” However, “you are eminently domesti- cated.” Sometimes it is rather funny. Literary ability on Conan Doyle’s and Marie Corelli’s birthdays. Poetic talent on that of Ella Wheeler Wilcox!!! Enough has been said to show the absolute worthlessness of this slipshod method of dodging the trouble of doing…
1929 · PDF PAGE 197
…ce came: "What I said outside was nonsense, just to put the Gwalkins off the trail, my dear; there is only one rule, and that is to take things as they come — in this country." She pushed Iliel deliberately from the window-sill; with a scream she flew through the blackness. But the chubby little old clergyman explained to her that she must go into the castle on the islet. It was only a little way to walk over the ice of the lake, but there was no sign of an entrance. The castle was fitted cunningly to the irregularities of the rock, so that one…
1944 · PDF PAGE 100
…ection) is Nothinguess. Hence all manifestations, however glorious, however delightful, are stains. To obtain perfec‐ tion, all existing things must be annihilated. The destruction of the garrison may therefore be taken to mean their emancipation from the prison of organized life, which was confining them. It was their unwisdom to cling to it. The above should make it clear that magical symbols must always be understood in a double sense, each contradictory of the other. These ideas blend naturally with the higher and deeper significance of the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 173
…in to Spirit that it is not a substance at all, but a phenomenon, yet so integral to Matter that it is the very heart and essence of all things soever. The characteristic of Kan in the Yî King is rest; each line of the comment describes re‐ pose in the parts of the body in turn, and their effects; the toes, the calves, the loins, the spine, and the jaws. This chapter is a close parallel in this respect, line by line, with the 31st, Hsien, which begins the second section of the Yi. The Rosicrucian doctrine of Tetragrammaton could hardly be more …
1905 · PDF PAGE 154
…the young men by the robe, and take The maidens for her sacrifice, and burn With great unquenchable dead lustrous eyes Toward impossible things grown possible In Egypt. I will cleanse the land of this. Let me remember I am yet a god! Re-enter THE LEPER. THE LEPER. Thou must be brought before her presently Borne in a coffin. See thou fill it not, But take the lion’s mask and play his part Before the throne. Be ready, and be strong. S’AFI. I shall do so. Come, let us go together In hateful love and sacrilegious hate, Disease and godhead. I am sti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
…sed sheer promiscuity; an exquisitely beautiful woman of the middle classes did worse, and actually married a most hideous dwarf. To-day things are very much the same. A very celebrated dancer from America never goes on the stage without previously dragging a stranger—a man from the street, a stage carpenter, it matters nothing—to her dressing-room. One of our best known women art critics haunts the lowest brothels of the Bd. St. Germain in search of adventure; a very distinguished poetess of the nobility supports a burly negro from North Afric…