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THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 83 THE WIFE-BEATER I BRUISED your body with the whip: Its wheals stand out in ridgéd azure. The savage blood upon your lip Images hurt, and hurt’s erasure. The pain transmuted into passion; And passion’s min was not pain; But my pain wears another fashion; My dead men do not rise again. You hurt me, and the silent skin Whispers no word of bleeding bruises; Your subtle hate, your cunning sin Brands and corrodes me where it chooses. I fear not them that kill the body, But rather them that hurt the soul: My soul with …
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…d 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 every advantage, let us say) moving and reposing. But these are not opposites. Zero and unity are not opposites. Bowley. Yet in another sense any two things are opposites. Bones. That is in Kether again. If you wish to cancel a number, however, zero is no use to you; you need a m…
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…nd fog to seek you in the sunny land of Spain. I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold. I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south With our passion in your body and our love upon your month— With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew! My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you! The men breathed freer. So powerfully did the song lift them that through the open window all the fragrance of Spain and its roses seemed to flow into the room. Only A…
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… the Order of The Tin Sunset-— compare Charles Baudelaire our Lord !—assist me to open the temple —my mouth, Mrs. Bones—Mouth is part of body, and body is Temple (Colossians, iv, 15), you may say I need no assistance—in the Grade of Ten equals One and don't you forget it! [Readsfrom MS.] noel An essay upon Truth by the boy O.M., Member of the Order of the A:‘: A:': To the first paragraph of “Ascension Day” (dearly beloved brethren), it is written as a Fingerpost—and worthy is it to be graven with a needle upon the eye-comers so that whoso would …
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… not thus the Intimate Gives up its secret to the soul. Truth flies beyond, inviolate, And slips beside the glancing goal. Who probes the body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! couldst thou nowhere res…
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…ran—The Wilderness of Seir—The Tents of Cushan—A Dervish stronghold—General Tetragrammaton’s flying column—City of Meroz I.V. desert in a body—A traitor in the campi—Melchizedek Pasha’s cunning move—The river Kishon sweeps away the Moabites (by Mr. Frank Parker)—Battle at last—Desperate stand of the Kings of Edom— Marshal jah’s flank attack—Everlasting Mountains scattered— Perpetual Hills bowed (by Mr. Frank Parker)—Charge of the gallant Karnaim—Rout of the Edomites—The Dukes in full flight —And Grand Finale “ Blowing up of the Tower of Babel "(by…
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… legs and arms about Like a damned dancing marionette. I could not light my cigarette: I started laughing. Laugh? I laughed— ] rocked my body fore and aft-— I fairly yelledl To crown the event Her wonder at my merriment: That beat the band. I really wonder However I came to, by thunder !— Ha! Ha! You hear—it somehow jars. Bad art, my boy! The Devil mars
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…There is a glory born of danger; What anger gat, desire may end. Give me the phrenzy of your lip! My heart accepts your usurpature. Your body leaps beneath the whip; Our pain is in love’s very nature. It is enough. 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…
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devours the dead body of his beloved, in terms which do not shock us in English any more than such descriptions usually shock us in French. This is a very exceptional accomplishment, as anyone may realize who has read French novels in English. Here is one of Mr. Crowley’s typical climaxes: The host is lifted up. Behold The vintage spilt, the broken hreadl l feast upon the cruel cold Pale body that was ripe and red. Only her held, her palms, her feet, I kissed all night, and did not eat. "But had it not been for the garter, I might never have se…
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…xcellent stores abandoned by the British left him no anxiety upon the score of hunger. In the first year be disciplined and conquered his body and its emotions. In the next six years be disciplined and conquered his mind and its thoughts. In the next two years he had reduced the Universe to the Yang and the Yin and their permutations in the trigrams of Fo-hi and the hexagrams of King Wu. In the last year be abolished the Yang and the Yin, and became united with the great Tao. All this was very satisfactory to Kwaw. But even his iron frame had be…
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…ar beliefs furnish con venient stalking-horses for political subterfuge. No! said the Doctor. Disease of the mind as well as that of the body attacks all classes. While man is as subject to suggestion as he is, the simulation of belief is almost surrender to the belief itself. Constantine probably became a real Christian in the end. Tell us about your friend, though! from Basil. “I hitched it into verse and good,” said the big man. But as it ’s a tale with a moral, please imagine yourselves to be a set of children. I wrote it for them. Here goe…
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…pside down. Millions of yen have been expended monthly; he has even mortgaged this very palace in which your lordship has been asleep; a body of madmen has seized the reins of government—” “The Synagogue of Satan ! " gasped the outraged Daimio. “ --And you are everywhere hailed as the Godfather of your country l ” “ Do not tell me that the British war has ended disastrously for us!” and he called for the elaborate apparatus of hari-kari. “On the contrary, my lord, the ridiculous Sa Mon, who would never go to sea because he was afraid of being s…
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…e. Morbid or no, continued the doctor, most saints have used this method. What I was about to say was that since we wish to overcome the body by fatigue, we shall do just as wisely to seek Union with God / in excessive debauch. If done with the same purpose, and sleep successfully banished, the same result will occur. If your Messalina failed—well, what does the poet say? Try, try, try again! Re your verses, Jack! And with a disdainfu! glance at his clothes, as much as t “ Where ’5 my toga?” the scholar began: THE RETURN OF MESSALINA FROM the m…
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…PAX the love of his only brother burnt strong in him, and the hunger for his face. Basil, looking upon the blind face of the desert, his body withered in the furnace of the sand, had seen God face to face, and died. Basil spoke, therefore, as a dead God speaks, and only children understood him. At Gibraltar, on the way home, he had fallen in with Denzil Roberts, that foolish globe-trotter, secularist, and philanthropist-at-large. Den zil had just returned from a silly “ sentimental journey” through Spain, and gazing on the sunset from the weste…
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…ise. In theory all were equal; in practice the permanent ofi‘icials, the real rulers of the country, were a distinguished and trustworthy body of men. Their interest was to govern well, for any civil or foreign dis turbance would undoubtedly have fanned the sparks of discontent into the roaring flame of revolution. And discontent there was. The unsuccessful cheesemongers were _ -
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…alanced perfectly the Yang and the Yin. Easier still is it to rule the sixfold star of Intellect ; while for the base the control of the body and its emotions is the earliest step. “ Equilibrium is the great law, and perfect equilibrium is crowned by identity with the great Tao.” He emphasized this sublime assertion by adeliberate blow upon the protruding abdomen of the worthy Juju. “ Pray continue your honourable discourse!” exclaimed the half awakened Daimio. Kwaw went on, and I think it only fair to say that he went on for a long time, and t…
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…ook at the inmost as well as the middle. Under correction, sir (politely to the doctor), I find that human beauty fades if we dissect the body. Yet your microscopist (in the first place) will find the detail of blood beautiful, just as I its banners in my lady’s face. And in the second place, does the dissection table reveal all? Is there no spirit, lovely even to me, of which my lady’s bones and nerves are but the weak expression? 50 strongly do I agree with you, returned the madman, that I have written a poem on the unattractive subject of ovari…
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…t us consider the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, brother, this is fulsome. Bones. Ass! . . . He lives (it is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certa…
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…like dying nightingales that have sorrowed for the fading of the roses, and pressed themselves to death upon the thorns; and one’s whole body became a single eye, 50 that one saw as if the unborn thought of light Qflvngé. brooded over an eternal sea. Then was light as the lightning flaming Zlilrb‘llrsi-bus spe- out of the east, even unto the west, and it was fashioned as the swift ness of a sword. By and by one rose up, then one seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the most brilliant light it is possible to th…
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12 KONX OM PAX Domus VI v. Pulchritudo H315 Ceremonium 5. = 6. Humilitns Supplicium was nobody there but an old gentleman who had put on his bones out side, and was trying ever so hard to cut down the grass with a scythe. But the faster he cut it the faster it grew. My Fairy Prince said: “Everybody that ever was has come along this path, and yet only one ever got to the end of it.” But I saw a lot of people walking straight through as if they knew it quite well; he explained, though, that they were really only one; and if you walked through tha…