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… he reaches the holy ground of Mecca. So you may imagine the horror of the Muslim on hearing it float cheerfully up from Hell! Talking of Black Magic, said the big man, the belief in it is probably as strong as ever. I myself am inclined to laugh: “Who believes in Black Magic proves himself to be bewitchedl” I had a horrible case of it once—I shudder yet! I could imagine the time when my poor friend’s disease was epidemic; when the panic madness seized even on the govemment— I hae my dootsl said the scholar. Popular beliefs furnish con venient s…
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…s on the sunrise side, and they were russet, like dead leaves are in autumn in one’s dreams. The place we had come through was perfectly black everything, and only used for offices and such things. There were the most horrid things everywhere about; black beetles and cockroaches, and goodness knows what; but they can’t hurt when the Fairy Prince is there. I think a little girl would be eaten though if she went in there alone. Then he said: “ Come on! This is only the Servants’ Hall, nearly everybody stays there all their lives." And I said: “Ki…
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
102 KONX OM PAX He saw in every passer-by Black Magic and the Evil Eye, Interpreting the simplest act As being a Satanic Pact. Of course at times there were a few In some sort victims of the crew; For when his Countess coughed or sneezed, “ Obsessed! ” the poor old fellow wheezed. He sought the Mighty Powers of Good, Invoked the Great White Brotherhood. Like smart and punctual business men, They sent a man round there and then. How gladly reverent doth he greet The sage’s venerable feet! But in a while suspicion grows. “ This fellow, now, by Jo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…gerbeer” —That night he happened to be sick: “ Poisoned,” he yelled, “ with Arsenic !" He left—his boomerang suspicions Created hosts of Black Magicians.
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…ough. The woe is over, The woe begins; the vial brims, And all the anguish of your lover And you is hidden in wrestling limbs. Drain the black cup of bruiséd bloodl Its bitter shall beget devotion, And Bacchus sweep its frenzied flood Into the Eleusinian oceanl Certainly, the plane is very low indeed. We hardly came here to learn thatl said Basil indignantly. We all know that cold-blooded murder (even) may become a duty—witness Hodson and the pistolling of the Delhi Princesl His brother laughed: I don’t know about duty, but to murder you in cold…
1907 · PDF PAGE 130
…. 89, green camel’s hair wrapper, 1:. THE ARGONAUTS. Crown 8vo, pp. 102, 5:. THE SWORD OF SONG. Post 4to, pp. ix+194, printed in red and black, decorative wrapper, 20:. [A few of the first edition, 42:.] GOETIA. Demy 4to, pp. ix + 65, with illustrations, decorative wrapper, 21:. WHY JESUS WEPT. Post 4to, pp. 16 + 80, wrapper, 21:. ORACLES. Demy 8vo, pp. viii + 176, wrapper, 5:. ORPHEUS. Demy 8vo, pp. 156 + 147. Two vols. , handmade paper, boards, 10:. ROSA MUNDI. Royal 4to, pp. 17, rose wrapper, 16:. ROSA INFERNI. Royal 4to, pp. 8, orange wrappe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
…he domes of ivory gilt that soar on Allah’s holy hill. I saw the threescore iron kings smite thrice upon the Burning Throne Till Mecca’s black enchaunted stone resolved the rapture of their wings. The proud Emirs bowed low before the awful fervour of the wind
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…but my soul-devouring kiss. “ Its satyr lips shall writhe in prayer to nameless Nubian whores that mate With swinish kisses to abate the black desire of Baudelaire. “ So after many a house of sin it finds at last a pungent home Sweet as a poisoned honeycomb—a fairer fouler Katherine!
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…ging beards alike, , - As from the bowels of the earth quacked an ironical “ Labbaik! ” The moral is—if all your folk are sure you are a black magician, You may as well enjoy the joke; you cannot damage your position. The moral is—when mothers crossed perform the usual Christian revel And tell their children they are “lost,” they simply drive them to the deviL
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…s. I trust to your honour. Where were we? Anyway, I tell you this: it 's a ripping good formula as such. Bowley. Now we come down to the Black Magician and his circle again; all right, I am with you. I can never help suspecting you of morality, though ; you’re a devilish deep Johnny, but the atavism comes through. As long as you wear a tie that the Neanderthal cave man would have discarded as out of date I can never quite class you with this century. Bones. Before Abraham was, I am. Bowie]. [Taking no notice] I call it a Christian tie. Faith in…
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… scent is borne An herald of the awaking morn to that unhappy brotherhood; An herald of the healing kiss of maids with eyes of white and black Whose heavenly lips shall woo them back into a bright eternal bliss. O laughter of delicious boys that bring the cup and pour the wine And with their rosy limbs entwine fresh garlands of mirific joys! The boy is prone upon the sand; he lies as one who nestles in Some arbour delicate of sin built by the Everlasting Hand. His lover is the Open Eye, that kindles Light within the Abyss, And wakes with His imm…
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…ntil you have genuinely conquered the Illusion of the Pairs of Opposites. Truthfulness and Lying are just as much opposites as white and black, good and evil—— Bones. I sometimes doubt if any of these are opposites at all. Next time you run up to Kether, look down the Tree and see what Truth looks like from there! Take the case of heat and cold, at one time the typical opposites. Nowadays we conceive of a hot body as one in violent internal motion, a cold body as in moderate motion. Bowley. Fast and slow. Bones. Or even (to allow the enemy ever…
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…pened. Bones. Consciously refuse to admit that your sensorium is not another's—that is all. About my second advantage—Brother, what is a Black Magician?
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…hall do little who champions either; rather snare both, tame both, ride both, as the charioteer of the Tarot with the opposing sphinxes, black and white. Nor, 0 man, believe thou that finality is anywhere to be reached in words. I balance A and not-A (a), and finding both false, both true, transcend with B. But whatever B is, it is as false and true as b ; we reach C. So from C to c, and for ever. Not, as Hegel thought, until we reach an idea in which no seed of self-contradiction lurks; for that can never be. The thinkable is false, then? (once …
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…ng a picture of the former, under the image of its physical instruments. Hence the Rose and Cross, Sphinx and Pyramid, Sulphur and Salt, Black and White Pillars of the temple—in short, all the “pairs of opposites” in the world. (Politely, to the big man.) As you were saying just now. Their literature? hinted the scholar. Basil took up the glove. The Eastern is such a paradox that one hates to lay down the law. A Sufi (for example) no doubt writes erotic verse for the divine reason I have stated; but also, I believe him to be very glad of the exc…
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…re is no other God but he—for such a thought is hardly an illusion—but Bones must not and shall not think that there is an opposition of black and white, good and evil, truth and falsehood. One of our weaker brethren (and I alas! had relied on him as strong among the strong 1) recently plumed himself vastly on this per ception of the Illusion of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil— though “Why in the name of Glory was he proud?” considering that he had the authentic dictum of very Tikkunim for referring that Tree to Malkuth, the first and eas…
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THE WAKE WORLD 21 sphinxes, one black and one white. The charioteer is a most curious person; he is a great big crab in the most lovely glittering armour, and he can just drivel His name is the mysterious name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The …
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…ely. You must remember that I never let go of my Fairy Prince for a single instant, or of course I should have been turned into a horrid black toad. Then there was another passage called the Arrow by Day, and there was a most lovely lady all shining with the sun, and moon, and stars, who was lighting a great bowl of water with one hand, by dropping dew on it out of a cup, and with the other she was putting out a terrible fire with a torch. She had a red lion and a white eagle, that she had always had ever since she was a little girl. She had fou…
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…t kind, because one never thinks of them as one’s own clothes, but only as clothes. It is a House of utmost Darkness. There is a pool of black solemn water in the shining obsidian, and one is like a vast veiled figure of wonderful beauty brooding over the sea; and by and by the Pains come upon one. I can’t tell you anything about the Pains. Only they are different from any other pains, because they start from inside you, from a deeper, truer kind of you than you ever knew. By and by you see a tremendous blaze of a new sun in the Sixth House, and…
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…o day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high. So I depart upon the desert way; So I strive ever toward the copper sky, With lips burnt black, and blind in either eye. I move for ever to my in tic goal, Where I may drain a ountatn never dry; And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satist my souL And fitly may that pronouncement be rounded off with these four lines as a message to all mankind: So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time; And, by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God. 9