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…the hollows ; The hollows are one with the heights In that pallid grave dawn of Apollo’s Confusion of shadows and lights. Unreal save to sense that can sense her That maiden of sunrise refills The air’s grey censer with perfumes intenser The higher the hills. So, vague as a ghost swift faded, Steals dawn, and so sunset may see How her long long locks deep-braided Fall down to her breast and her knee. So night and so sunrise discover No light and no darkness to heed. Night is above her, and brings her no lover ; And day, but no deed. Such a sens…
1906 · PDF PAGE 111
…of time If thy bewitching beauty be the theme. MEDEA. Sing me thy song, sweet poet, of the sea, That song of swimming when thy love lost sense Before the passion of the Infinite. JASON. The more so as my master warns me oft Of late how near that island is, where dwell The alluring daughters of Melpomene. 1 The ‘‘ fable" is Crowley's own, ORPHEUS.! Light shed from seaward over breakers bend- ing Kiss-wise to the emerald hollows : light divine Whereof the sun is God, the sea his shrine; Light in vibrations rhythmic; light unending ; Light sideway…
1906 · PDF PAGE 40
…us virginity) Are set in all the sky and earth and sea. Shining with solar fire, The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! ‘The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns; and so fallen from the heights above Stern and free, | Immeasurable, the influence unseen Of music and of spiritual fire, That t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…led with comet and with meteor. Behold within that crested House of War, One central glory of a sapphire stone, Whereon there breathed a sense, a mist, a sun! I stood and Jaughed upon the Ancient One. For He was silent as my body’s kiss, , And sleeping as my many-coloured hair, And living as my eyes and lips ; and where The vast creation round him cried “ He Is!’’, No murmur reached ]1im ; He was set alone, Alone and central. Ah! my eyes were dim. I worshipped even; for I envied Him. So, moving upward to the azure throne, I spread my arms unto …
1906 · PDF PAGE 181
…es Pillar by pillar, and is lost. Life after life in wild appeal Cries to the master ; he remains And thinks not. The polluting tides Of sense roll shoreward. Arid plains Of wave-swept sea confront me. Nay! Looms yet the glory through the grey, And in the darkest hours of youth I yet perceive the essential truth,
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
260 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM I take my refuge in the Sangha. These are not isolated efforts on my part ; although in one sense isolation is eternally perfect and can never be overcome,! in another sense associates are possible and desirable. One third of humanity are Buddhists ; add men of Science and we form an absolute majority; among Buddhists a very large proportion have deliberately gone out from social life of any kind to tread these paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to come ? Others are work- ing, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 122
116 THE ARGONAUTS The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice An unseen hand has caught the uplifted knife, A grinning face lurked out from the blank air Between me and that filthy sorceress. SECOND WOMAN. Daily I poison the she-devil’s drink, And nothing harms her ! THIRD WOMAN. I have a toad whose breath Destroys all …
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
…rd ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I-do not feel myself inclined, The Advaitist In spite of my irreverent mind, position. So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams; For the first word in India here From Koromandl to Kashmir Says the same thing these Germans said : “Ekam Advaita!” one, not two! Thus East and West from A to Z…
1906 · PDF PAGE 186
…n “ Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. Objectivity of But then you argue, and with sense ; 645 universe not ‘‘T have this worthy evidence discussed. That things are real, since I cease The painter’s ecstasy of peace, And find them all unchanged.” To-day I cannot brush that doubt away ; 650 It leads to tedious argument Uncertain, in the best event : Unless, indeed, I should invoke The fourth dimension, clear the smoke Psychology still leaves. This question G55 Needs a more adequate digestion.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
…alk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense . And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinions, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are pleased to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think y…
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… truth. Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference *Twixt spirit and the things of sense. What is the quarrel between us ?- Why do our thoughts so idly clatter? — I do not care one jot for matter, | One jot for spirit, while you say One is pure ether, one pure clay. I’ve talked too long : you’re very good— Practical ad- I only hope you’ve understood ! vice. Remember that ‘‘ conversion ” lurks Nowhere behind my words and works. Go home and think! my talk refined To the sheer needs of your own…
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
…eld dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,* and count my beads, Murmur my mantra,” till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 600 505 610
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…tian (or any other) religion literally, we are at once over- whelmed by its inherent impossibility. Our credulity is outraged, our moral sense shocked, the holiest foundations of our in- most selves assailed by no ardent warrior in triple steel, but by a loathly and disgusting worm. That this is so, the apologists for the religion in question, whichever it may be, sufficiently indicate (as a rule) by the very method of their apology. The alter- native is to take the religion symbolically, esoterically; but to move one step in this direction is …
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…ts thus re- vealed to him ; that he would cheerfully re- nounce years of normal life to obtain minutes of that dream-life; that his time sense is uprooted as never before, and that these influences are permanent. Then, you will say, delirium tremens (and the intoxication of hashish, in respect more particularly of the time sense) afford us a parallel. But the phenomena of delirium tremens do not occur in the healthy. As for the suggestion of auto-hypnosis, the memory of the ‘‘ dream ” is a sufficient reply. Ilowever this may be, the simple fact…
1906 · PDF PAGE 188
…dower ; But ah! they used that fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act. ‘This may be fancy or a fact ; At least it squares with super-sense Or “spiritual experience.” You do not well to swell the list Of horrid things to me imputed By calling me “materialist.” At least this thought is better suited To Western minds than is embalmed Among the doctrines of Mohammed, The dogma parthenogenetic * As told me by a fat ascetic. He said : “ Your worthy friends may lack you late, But learn how Mary was immaculate !” I sat in vague expectant bliss. | T…
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…ring. Their position is radically weak, but at least we may say for them that they have tried to square their religion with their common sense. The Christians, on the other hand, though they saw whither the Manichean Heresy! must lead, and crushed it, have not officially admitted the precisely similar con- clusion with regard to man, and denied the existence of the human soul as distinct from the divine soul. Trismegistus, Iamblicus, Porphyry, Boehme, and the mystics generally have of course substantially done so, though occa- sionally with rat…
1906 · PDF PAGE 171
PENTECOST 165 I lived, Elijah-like, Mt. Carmel in : 35 All gave me nothing. I slid back To common sense, as reason bids, And “hence,” my friend, “the Pyramids.” At last I met a maniac My Mahatma. With mild eyes full of love, and tresses What price . ‘, Kut Humi? 40 Blanched in those lonely wildernesses Where he found wisdom, and long hands Gentle, pale olive ‘gainst the sand’s Amber and gold. At sight, I knew him ; Swifter than light I flashed, ran to him, 46 And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “ …
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
… supernormal phenomena of mind as we are in advance of our fathers in the sciences of the physical world.? Note carefully this practical sense of my intention. I care nothing for the academic meanings of the steps inthe Path ; what they meant to the Arahats of old is indifferent to me. ‘‘ Let the dead past bury its dead!” What I require is an advance in the Know- ledge of the Great Problem, derived no longer from hearsay revelation, from exalted fanati- cism, from hysteria and intoxication; but from method and research. Shut the temple; open th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
… world above Which he denominated ‘ Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
…ot increase their burden, so we aspire to become pitiful and loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though we aspire to renounce the pleasures of sense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accomplishment of our aspiration. But if the desire to become pitiful and pure be but honest and earnest, we have gained the Second Step upon the Path-—Sammasankappo, Right Aspiration. He w…