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… merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. “And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old.” VI. “A brief consultation ; and the Srotapatti was reincarnated as a parrot. For the parrot, said the wicked Jehjaour, may live 500 years and never feel it. “So a grey wonder of wings flitted into the jungle. So joy ous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the ordinary passions and y ield to such majesty as his own. “But one day there came into the jungle a strange wild figure. He was …
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TO MY OLD FRIEND AND COMRADE IN THE ART BHIKKU ANANDA METTEYA AND TO THOSE FOOLS WHO BY THEIR SHORT-SIGHTED STUPIDITY IN ATTEMPTING TO BOYCOTT THIS BOOK HAVE WITLESSLY AIDED THE CAUSE OF TRUTH I DEDICATE THESE MY BEST WORDS.
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…ill us, Love the God’s scourge ? I refer you to Aeschylus ! (Nay ! that’s a slip ! Say we “Earth’s grim device, cool loss !—” Better the old Greek orthography !—Aischulos !14) Or, love be God’s cham pagne’s foam ; deat h i n m an’s trough, hock lees, Pathos our port’s beeswing ? what answers Sophocles ? Brief, with love’s medicine let’s draught, bolus, globule us ! Wise and succinct bids, I think, Aristobulus.15 Whether my Muse be Euterpe or Clio, Life, Death, and Love are all Batrachomyo16— Machia, what ? ho ! old extinct Alcibiades ? For me, …
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… kettle may call me a black pot. Here’s diamond for coke, and pink pearl for pale coral. Though his mills may grind slowly—what says the old hymn?33 Tune, Limerick ! Author ? My memory’s dim. The corn said “You sluggard !” The mill “You may tug hard,” (or lug hard, or plug hard ; I forgot the exact Rhyme ; that’s a fact “If I want to grind slowly I shall,” A quainter old fable one rarely is able To drag from its haunt in the—smoke room or stable ! You see (vide supra) I’ve brought to the test a ton Of tolerance, broadness. Approve me, friend Ch…
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…f a wheel ! And ot her wonders innumerable: they are well known, insomuch that that year is yet held notable. Now our Father, being very old, came into the venerable Grove of our August Fraternity and abode there. A nd so old was he and feeble that he could scarce lift his hands in benediction upon us. And all we waited about him, both by day and night; lest one word should fall, and we not hear the same. But he spake never unto us, though his lips moved and his eyes sought ever that which we could not see. At last, on the day of D., the mother…
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…ortals wither ; Moons fade where constellations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Numberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger ; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth ! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! Sand-founded reels the House of Faith ; Up screams the howl of runing sect ; Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith ; “God hath forsaken His elect …
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… between one and the other. Hullo, what’s that? Why, there’s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. He’ll tell m e what it all means.’ Poor silly old Lord of the Universe ! Had he carried his memory back one more step he’d have known all about Jehjaour and the con- spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had only one more birth; and might well have put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of æons which would elapse before lunch in rejoicing over his imminent annihilation. “ ‘Venerable Sir!’ said Mahabrahma, who had assumed the guise of a cowherd, ‘I kis…
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… liberation of the soul !82 This once, the truth ! In future, best Dismissing Jesus with a jest. Ah ! Christ ascends ?83 Ascension day ? Old wonders bear the bell84 away ? Santos-Dumont, though ! Who can say ? 745 750 755 760 765 770 775 780 The reader may hope. Summary. Reader dis- missed to chapel. Future plans of poet. Jesus dismissed with a jest. The Jest.
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…ch music as once Sadi Made Persia ring with ! I who fish up No such from soul may yet cry: Vade Retro, Satanas ! Tom Bond Bishop !40 You old screw, Pegasus ! Gee (Swish !) up ! (To any who correctly rhymes41 With Bishop more than seven times I hereby offer as emolum- Ent, a bound copy of this volume.) These strictures must include the liar Copleston,42 Reverend F. B. Meyer, (The cock of the Dissenter’s midden, he !) And others of the self-same kidney:— How different from Sir Philip Sidney ! But “cave os, et claude id, ne Vituperasse inventus si…
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…m Genesis to Revelations, But leave me with the Flaming Star,75 Jeheshua (See thou Zohar !)76 And thus our formidable Pigeon-77 Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground, Pistols, and coffee—three in one, (Alas, O Rabbi Schimeon !) But never a duellist—no Son, No Father, and (to please us most) Decency pleads—no Holy Ghost! All vanish at the touch of truth, A cobweb trio—like, in sooth, 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 740 Mystical mean-ing o f “Ascen-sion Day.” Futility of whole discus- si…
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…ram, mystically referred to Jeheshua. 732. Zohar.76—“Splendour,” the three Central Books of the Dogmatic Qabalah. 733. Pigeon.77—Says an old writer, whom I translate roughly : “Thou to thy Lamb and Dove devoutly bow, But leave me, prithee, yet my Hawk and Cow : And I approve thy G reybeard dotard’s smile, If thou wilt that of Egypt’s crocodile.” 746. Lost ! Lost ! Lost !78—See The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 759. Ain Elohim.79—“There is no God !” so our Bible. But this is really the most sublime affirmation of the Q abalist. “A in is God” For the…
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…as much for your Three As they do for their One ? I have seen—may you see ! They sleep and know not what a mat is ; Seem to enjoy their cold chapaties ;* Are healthy, strong—and some are old. They do not care a damn24 for cold, Behave like children, trust in Allah ; (Flies in Mohammed’s spider-parlour !) They may not think : at least they dare Live out their lives, and little care Worries their souls—worse fools they seem Than even Christians. Do I dream ? Probing philosophy to marrow, What thought darts in its poisoned arrow But this ? (my wis…
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… these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they w ere lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the biographer is the letters of Mathilde Doriac to Mdme. J. S., who has kindly placed her portfolio at my service. A letter dated O ctober 15, 1866, indicates that our author was …
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…obs into som ething very like a note of in- terrogation: “You want to know what it is, CALLED BY CH E BOOK OF THE BEAST 1904 TO MY OLD FRIEND AND COMRADE IN THE ART BHIKKU ANANDA METTEYA AND TO THOSE FOOLS WHO BY THEIR SHORT-SIGHTED STUPIDITY IN ATTEMPTING TO BOYCOTT THIS BOOK HAVE WITLESSLY AIDED THE CAUSE OF TRUTH I DEDICATE THESE MY BEST WORDS. [This book is so full of recondite knowledge of va rious kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage. Where refere nces and explanations can be concisely given this h…
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…he ox ! One, and one, and one: Creater, Preserver, Destroy er, ho ! the Redeemer ! Thunder-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho ! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded with gem s, one on each knee. Dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. A horn g rew from her forehead; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, y et our F ather bow…
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…e in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to the rhy thm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his hands, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him . But it is written that m isfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the s eed of the Bany an Tree. It groweth and is of stature as a mountain, and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. F or the boy grew and becam e a m an; and his ey es kindled with the l…
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…lied the neophyte, “they are unstable, every thing is sorrow, in them is no inward Principle, as some pretend, that can avoid, that can hold itself aloof from, the forces of decay.” “And how do y ou know that, little Brother?” smiled the Thrice-Honoured One. “Lord, I perceive this Truth wheneverI 1 Thirst: i.e. desire in its evil sense. 2 Ignorance. 3 Doubt. 4 “Bliss-of-non-existence.” One of Crowley’s eastern names. consider the Universe. More, its consciousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this for many i…
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… rose and came into his ancient tem ple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever ! Nay, not for ever !), and therewith the Teacher m ade him a master of Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. F or the S word, s aid the Teacher, is but the S tar unfurled. 2 And our Father being cunning to place Ale ph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence …
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…nary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say “No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs , that “Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” ; but that “In the category of two-tailed things, there is no extension of cat.” Nothingness is that about which no posi- tive proposition is valid. We cannot truly affirm: “Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call tim e, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. 1 If a man be heavy 1 I cannot her e discuss the pr opriety of repr…
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…e end of Genesis iii., and cut down the tree, and all the Nats perished. “Jehjaour heard and trembled. Perdu’ R Abu was only three years old. VIII. “It really seemed as if fate was agains t him. Poor Jehjaour ! In despair he cried to his partner, ‘O Ganesha, in the world of Gods only we shall be safe. Let him be born as a flute-girl before Indra’s throne !’ ‘Difficult is the task,’ replied the alarm ed deity, ‘but I will use all m y influence. I 1 The Gover nment, in th e intersts of Bud- dhists themselves, r eserves all gr ound within 50 feet …