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THE EARTH of Paradise. Then, if he have kept the holy fire alight, perhaps with much false fuel, that fire shall instant blaze and fill the temple 01 his soul. By its insistent energy it shall destroy even the memory of all those marsh—lights that came to greet it; and the priest shall bow down in the glory, and grasp the altar with his hands, and strike it with his forehead seven times. Now this altar is the earthen altar of Demeter. Then understanding all things by the light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 119
THE EARTH be strong and comely, and the blessing 01 the Most High shall be upon you. Then let your grasp relax in the satiety 01 death, and your weight shall cumber the earth, and the little children of the earth shall make merry with you until the rose strike its root into your breast. Then shall your body be one again with the Mother, and your soul one with the Father, as it is written in the Book 01 the Law. All this have I been taught by her whose purity and strength are even as Earth’s, chosen before the foundation of Time. Lioness with li…
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…ipp, and his failures are those who retain decorum and melancholy, who follow the letter and not the spirit, cold- blooded treaders upon earth instead of passionate lovers of its strength. It is no accident of mythology that the Titans made war upon the Gods, and in Prometheus overthrew them. It was when Canute failed to drive back the sea that his dynasty was lost to that Norman William who caught hold of Mother Earth with both hands. When I was a child I fell; and the scars of the earth are on my forehead at this hour. When I was a boy I was …
1911 · PDF PAGE 262
…ble iynx Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When (rom the bluest bowers And greenest—hearted hours Of Heaven thou smil'st toward earth, a miracle of flowers! Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate, where the shade of earth is black, Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face! The glory of the comet-tailed track Blinds all black earth with tears Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the starry spheres. Wrapped in rose, green, and gold, Blues many and manifold, Α cloud of incense hides thy splendo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 116
THE EARTH THE child of miracle to the world, greeting. I reach my hands to the leaves and dabble in the dew: I sprinkle dew on you for kisses. I kneel down and hold the grass of the black earth to my bosom; I crush the earth to my lips as if it were a grape. And the wine of Demeter flushes my cheeks; they burn with joy of youth Why should I greet the world? Because my heart is bursting with love for the world. Love, say 1? Why not lust? Is not lust strength, and merriment, and the famine that only the infinite can stay? And why do I call myself t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
…s ever sure, We fall asleep and never wake again ; Nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, Whose elements dissolve and merge afresh In earth, air, water, plants, and other men. We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its Cycle, and give place To other beings, with their own time-doom Infinite aeons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after the last man Has joined the mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kindness, love or hate : If toads and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 238
… in the sacred snake of Khem; Come to face the Babe and Lion, come to measure force with them! Ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth’s before the Sun, As the earth’s before the sunset, and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool, gain the God by clean endeavour; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. [He lurus and falls dasþing SOL'S feel. All þmsz'mte themselves in adoration. SOR. SCORPIO film/5 her solar?ששחה [SOL in ARIES recites : The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth l…
1911 · PDF PAGE 216
…drink! AGAVE. Run wild! Mountain and mountain let us leap upon Like tigers on their prey! MAENADS. Crush, crush the world I AGAVE, Tread earth as ’twere a winepressl AUTONOE. Drink its blood, The sweet red wine! M/ENADS. Ay, drink the old earth dry! AGAVE. Squeeze the last drops out till the frame collapse Like an old wineskin! AUTONOE. So the sooner sup Among the stars ! AGAVE. The swift, swift stars! MlENADS. 0 night! Night, night, fall deep and sure! AUTONOE. Fall soft and sweet! AGAVE. Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land L…
1911 · PDF PAGE 27
…of Initiation, Amen. x. I fly and I alight as an hawk : of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. 2. I swoop down upon the black earth ; and it gladdens into green at my coming. 3. Children of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not come to rebuke you, or to enslave you. 7. I bid you not turn from your voluptu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 282
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS And of the Ether, Of the Earth, And under the Earth, On dry land, And in the Water, Of whirling Air, And of rushing Fire, And every spell and scourge of God, may be obedient unto Me! [A pause. [MERCURYgoes to his throne. FR. GEMINI. 1. Brother Virgo, didst thou hear the Voice? VIRGO. Ay, Brother. FR. GEMINI. Tell me, Brother, is not Mercury a great God .< VIRGO. Indeed, Son of Maia, the greatest of all Gods that tread upon the Milky Way. FR. GEMINI. It is so. SOR. GEMINI. Yet, Brother, there is the Sun-God! VIRGO. Is not Me…
1911 · PDF PAGE 23
LIBER TVRRIS Το the One who sent the Seven Glory in the Highest Heaven! To the Seven who are the Ten Glory on the Earth, Amen! 16. And of the difficulties of this practice and of the Results that reward it, let these things be discovered by the right Ingenium of the Practicus. Ι5
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
…ain, And loves, and weeps, and dies. A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shorei Oh, write no more the tale of Troy, If earth Death’s scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joy Which dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and g…
1911 · PDF PAGE 280
…e who pilot the Ship of Ra, ever ad— vancing onwards unto the heights of Heaven ! Lord of the Shrine which standeth in the centre of the Earth! Behold He is in me and I in Him! Mine is the radiance in which Ptah floateth over his firmament. I travel upon high. I tread upon the firmament of Nu. I raise a flashing flame with the lightning of mine eye, ever rushing forward in the splendour of the daily glorified Ra, giving my life to the dwellers of Earth. If I say “come up upon the mountains,” The Celestial waters shall flow at my word ; For I am Ra inc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 266
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS I am the mother! I the speaking sea! I am the earth and its fertility! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! Hathoör am I, and to my beauty drawn All glories of the Universe bow down, The blossom and the mountain and the dawn, Fruit’s blush, and woman, our creation’s crown. I am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, I am the love and life of the divine! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mink Are mine ! Venus am I, the love and light of earth, The wealth of kisses, the delight o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 29
…ly, the poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them. 26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers. 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers : ye must not fade in your season. 28. I love you ; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of immortality. 29. This immortality is no vain hope beyond the grave: I offer you the certain consciousness of bliss. 30. I offer it at once, on earth ; before an hour hath struck upon the bell, ye shal…
1911 · PDF PAGE 289
…i: thrzmed, Cancer m her ,!!/?ודצTgum: tm her left. Beyond these the Satyr and the Nymph At the apex 0/ a de::endz'ng Tn'angle, upon the earth, Pan.
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
…stral wine, that giveth you delight both at the sunset and the dawn. 12. Come with me, and I will give you allthat is desirable upon the earth. 13. Because I give you that of which Earth and its joys are but as shadows. 14.. They flee away, but my joy abideth even unto the end. 15. I have hidden myself beneath a mask: Iam a black and terrible God. 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. 17. But the first kiss of love shall be radiant on your lips; and a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…of the foam. The sea’s flower folded, charioting me risen Where dawn‘s rose stole from its pearlvglimmering home, And heaven laughed, and earth: and mine old prison, The seas that lay beneath the mighty dome, Shone with my splendour. Light did first bedizen Earth with its clusters of fiery dew and spray, When I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes, Long, tender rays of night ; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With so…
1911 · PDF PAGE 261
…ere is a smallflame thereah.] TAURUS ane! LIBRA draw the imter veil aflarl. LIBRA 761717775 and hneels. LIBRA. Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the Father of all, the [Egis-bearing King! 83
1911 · PDF PAGE 7
…HREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY CIRCE. BY .₪!-?טיהARCHER THE ELECTRIC SILENCE SONG THE SCORPION. By ALEISTER CROWLEY THE EARTH. BY FRANCIS (?עמושש SLEEP. Βγ ETHEL ARCHER THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON. BY MARTIAL NAV THE AUTUMN WOODS‘ BY VICTOR I. I. NEUBURG THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM THE BIG STICK‘ BYחו-?]םצYARKER, E.?"!שממשAnus-rm CROWLEY, ETC. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT THE RITES OF ELEUSIS no: I7 23 29 33 52 53 66 67 103 1x2 ”3 149 !53 x6e [n: παπαῖ;;מ”חש/חן !ןושמש/: ?”!!!ושש/,וto tit: tm uf::!}?! ?ז/װof !:`/;»:!: ,... Wigzd u: :, Μ!mr !…