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Page 97 of 1081906 · PDF PAGE 239
…estion of the possi- bility of the co-existence of God and man. The Christians, in the category of the ex- istent, enumerate among other things, whose consideration we may discard for the pur- poses of this argument, God, .an_ infinite being; man; Satan and his angels; man certainly, Satan presumably, finite beings. These are not. aspects of one being, but separate and even antagonistic existences. ESSAY IN SOME REMARKS ON CEREMONIAL MAGIC All are equally real: we cannot accept ONTOLOGY mystics of the type of Caird as being orthodox exponents o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…ad been a regular rag. I forget what about, but we built a big bonfire in the middle of the market place and otherwise spread ourselves. Things began with no definite pulse of passion discernible, but as the evening advanced, we found ourselves somehow or other at odds
1905 · PDF PAGE 202
…all not forget. It is ill to blaspheme the silence with a wicked whispered thought— How still they were, those nights ! when this web of things was wrought ! How still, how terrible! O my dolorous tender brides, As I lay and dreamt in the dark by your shameful beautiful sides ! And now you are mine no more, I know; but I cannot bear The curse—that another is drunk on the life that stirs your hair: Every hair was alive with a spark of mid- night’s delicate flame, ; Or a glow of the nether fire, or au old illustrious shame. Many, so many, were ye…
1905 · PDF PAGE 225
…swer me In that dread pomp of Triumph and of Right, The awful day: my witnesses are Ye That I have said in all men’s sound and sight The things that are to be. IN THE HOUR BEFORE REVOLT. ‘““. . , the green paradise which western waves Embosom in their ever-wailing sweep, Talking of freedom to their tongueless caves, Or to the spirits which within them keep A record of the wrongs which, though they sleep, Die not, but dream of retribution.” Adonais {cancelled passage}. WILD pennons of sunrise the splendid, And scarlet of clustering flowers Cry a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
…knowledge of his Higher Self, But he is first admitted to the Grade of Neophyte which hath no number, concealing the commencement of All-Things under the simulacrum of No-Thing. The Hegemon, the representative of the Gods of Truth and Justice, is consequently sent to superintend the preparation, thus symbolising that it is the Presider of Equilibrium who is to administrate the process of initiation by the commencement of the Equilibration of the forces in the Candidate himself, by the symbols of Rectitude and Self-control. But it is the sentine…
1909 · PDF PAGE 261
…knowledge of his Higher Self, But he is first admitted to the Grade of Neophyte which hath no number, concealing the commencement of All-Things under the simulacrum of No-Thing. The Hegemon, the representative of the Gods of Truth and Justice, is consequently sent to superintend the preparation, thus symbolising that it is the Presider of Equilibrium who is to administrate the process of initiation by the commencement of the Equilibration of the forces in the Candidate himself, by the symbols of Rectitude and Self-control. But it is the sentine…
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
… The cloud-veils of the Ain? are withdrawn. 1 The Negative, surrounded by a triple veil in the Vheogony of the Qabalists, from which all things spring and to which all shal] return. see ‘' Berashith ” in a subsequent volume.
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
…lay, the ancient saws of eld And wisdom mystical From bearded lips must fall, Old eyes behold what young eyes ne’er beheld : Namely, the things beyond the triple veil Of space and time and cause, eternal woof Of misery overproof : And aged thoughts assail The younger hopes, and passion stands aloof, And silence takes possession, and the tale Of earth is told and done. Then from the Sire of all the Gods, from War And Love and Wisdom and the eternal Sun Worship is torn afar : While unto Thee, O Hades, turn we now, Awful of breast and brow, And he…
1905 · PDF PAGE 150
… gone, and we behold her go, Haggard and weary, through the palace courts And through the temple, lusting for strange loves And horrible things, and thirsting for new steam Of thickening blood upon her altar steps. Ller body wearies of desire, and fails To satisfy the fury of her spirit ; The blood-feasts sicken her and yield no strength ; She is made one with hell, and violent force Slips and is weakness, and extreme desire Spends supple.
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…while the consciousness of the unreality of the “T” lasts. With the loss of “the ego” comes the consciousness that the whole universe of things and people is but a part of the State then arrived at. That if this little body dies, existence still remains in all the other part of the Universe and therefore the change called Death, occurring in different atoms, all the time, makes no difference. Is there any reason why one should not look upon every- thing and everybody as parts of Oneself, since one is equally willing to allow any other body to c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 159
… roughly attempted a short and incom- plete review of my whole life, which although brief, was much fuller than I expected. I remembered things connected with early childhood quite accurately, but of course not with full connections. Then something occurred that I really did not expect, and only later trials will prove if it was an illusion or not. Having tried hard to pierce the blank, back of all, I had a sudden clear sensation of lying on a bed with people around, and in particular an elderly man in black velvet and knee breeches, whom I at …
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
…he alluring amber-touch of sweet to sweet, The ageless awe of the new love revealed, The reverence of the new love hovering nigh ; These things are mazes flowery on the field, Measures to trace a-dancing by-and-by. Here in the statued pose the rhythm is sealed That all who are human dance to evermore. Before this ecstasy all ages yield: Eternity breaks foamless on time’s shore, And I, because of this delight in me, Am one in substance with eternity. ACROBATES My little lady light o’ limb Twirls on her lover’s twisting toes- Lithe as a lynx, red…
1904 · PDF PAGE 98
…estion of the possi- bility of the co-existence of God and man. The Christians, in the category of the ex- istent, enumerate among other things, whose consideration we may discard for the purposes of this argumen t, God, an infinite being; man; Satan and his angels; man certainly, Satan presum ably, finite beings. These are not aspects of one being, but separate and even antagonistic existences. All are equally real; we cannot accept mystics of the type of Caird as being orthodox exponents of the religion of Christ. The Hindus enumerate Brahm, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…zeval logician. My heart in these? I want you there. For whom but you do I ply pen, Talk with unmentionable men Of proofs and types—dull things !— for whom But you am I the lover? Bloom, O flower, immortal flower, love, love! Linger about me and above, Thou perfumed haze of incense-mist ! The air hath circled me and kissed Here in this room, on mountains far, Yonder to seaward, toward yon star, With your own kisses. Yes! I see The roseate embroidery Yonder—I know: it seems to give The lie to me in throat and teeth. That is the surface: undernea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…ght Made years the servants of its might. There is no soul. A. These stars thou seest Are but the figuring of thy brain. NV. Then of all things the soul were freest. 4. Move then the centre of thy pain ! NV. ’Tis done, A, A trick to cheat a child. NV. Itis the truth that I am nought. Hear what I have gatheredin the wild, Flowers of imperishable thought With glory and with rapture clothed. 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…
1905 · PDF PAGE 106
…s the fragrance fallen from the night, When soul to soul is locked, and eyes are wed, And lips not touched kiss secretly by sight. These things we fear, and move as in a mist One from the other, and we had not kissed. Only the perfume of her lips and hair Love’s angel wafted slowly to me there, And as I went like death away I wist Its savour faded, nor my soul aware. I turned and went away, away, away, Out of the night that was to me the day, And rode to meet the sun to hide in light The sorrow of the day that was the night. So I rode slowly in…
1905 · PDF PAGE 276
APPENDIX 269 The difference, you will say, is that the Qabalists maintain a Mind of each Kind behind each Class of Things of one Kind ; but so did Berkeley, and his Argument in that Respect is, as the great Huxley showed, irrefragable. For by the Universe I mean the Sensible ; any other is Not to be Known ; and the Sensible is dependent upon Mind. Nay, though the Sensible is said to be an Argument of an Universe Insensible, the latter becomes sensible to Mind as soon as the Argument is accepted, and disappears with its Rejection. Nor is the Qab…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
…art from the One ; And the sweep of the wings of the weather, - Marked bright with the silvery ghylls For flickering feather, brings all things together To nest in the hills. Like a great bird poised in the ether, The mountain keeps watch over earth, On the child that lies sleeping beneath her Wild-eyed from a terrible birth. But by noise of the world unshaken, By dance of the world not bedinned, The hill bides forsaken, yet only to waken Her lover, the wind. Like a lion asleep in his fastness, Or a warrior leant on his spear, The hill stands u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 355
…ked out of it as well as the front; it must utterly perish. From the natural, that is, the common-sense point of view, there are no such things as moral or immoral unions, for all nature demands is healthy parents and healthy children, healthy pleasures and healthy pains. The Church, the Chapel, and the Registry Office must go; for, so long as they remain, prostitution will spell degradation, and marriage falsehood and hypocrisy. Chaos will not result when Virtue weds with Vice, for what is possible to the savage is possible for us, and the chi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 355
…ked out of it as well as the front; it must utterly perish. From the natural, that is, the common-sense point of view, there are no such things as moral or immoral unions, for all nature demands is healthy parents and healthy children, healthy pleasures and healthy pains. The Church, the Chapel, and the Registry Office must go; for, so long as they remain, prostitution will spell degradation, and marriage falsehood and hypocrisy. Chaos will not result when Virtue weds with Vice, for what is possible to the savage is possible for us, and the chi…