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Page 1 of 31911 · PDF PAGE 107
THE SCORPION LAYLAH. Lord Bishop, I have heard that phrase thrice in three score years. The first time a man used it to destroy a child : the second time a child used it to murder her brother; this time you use it to torture and burn an honourable adversary. BISHOP. Child of the devil, you blaspheme, Be silent! On the first count, guilty. [Several JUDGES, hut uot R1NALDo,echo “ Guilty.” Through- out this same RINALDO sits absolutely sileut amt motionless, except that how and theu he makes a gesture of weg;/iners and z'mþatz'eme. THE CLERK. Second…
1911 · PDF PAGE 159
…n 1 I am weary Of all things; let me sleep my life away! The breast 01 Fate is pregnant with despair Got on her by the piercing shaft of Time. Ah ! Unborn child of Fate and Time, I am weary Of them that gave thee birth. Shall I love thee? O darling, wilt thou come to me in the silence, Saying : I hear the mystery 01 Time, And the secret of Fate? I know not yet, but surely Thou shalt know of the Rose, the Rose, the Rose of the world ; With thee shall I bear the chalice of blood-tipped lilies, The chalice of red, sweet lilies under the moon ? But…
1911 · PDF PAGE 158
THE EQUINOX And I am in despair of Thee and Time. Weeping the trees, and all the streams grown sullen Under the lowering skies, and the bitter winds There is no living thing in the temple of Summer, And the ashes of Spring lie cold on the hearth of day. Gray dreams again I And all my hope is fled. Gray dreams, gray dreams, and the day is tired and dead The bitter aftermath of Summer brings Time’s memory back to the world: there are no stings, In the world’s pain, but only bitterness Of the memory of Time; no sore distress, Save for the thought o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
…d smashed him here, there, and everywhere. It was as oneusided asa man beatinga carpet. Twice he knocked him through the ropes. The first time he rose unsteadily, only to fall instantly. The second time his friends, careless of the rules, helped him to rise. A mistaken kindness; the black rushed him round the ring under a hail of pitiless blows, and with a last smashing drive flung him clean through the ropes out of the ring before the referee had time to stop the fight. Edgar Rolles drove Ida Pendragon back to his studio in Montparnasse. All the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 166
THE DANCERS OF MYSTICISM humility is worth an ounce of honest pride; the man who works has no time to bother with either. And let him remember Christ’s statement of the Law “to love God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself.” ALEISTER CROWLEYi
1911 · PDF PAGE 153
…ack dazed. " Read Nietzsche ! ” snapped the Brother. " But—but—” he stammered. " Oh I this is it. Miss Pendragon comes out in four days‘ time . . ." “I wish you’d learnt twiddling,” said the Brother sadly. " But what am I to do, sir?” “Twiddle, you damned fool ! " “I know you always mean something . . . " Never. There is Nothing to mean l " " Oh I " " Be off, I can’t be bothered with you—be off! I send you packing. Is l'ha! clear ? " " You have nothing to say to me?” “What have I been saying this priceless past fourteen minutes twenty-seven sec…
1911 · PDF PAGE 94
…X deserved a beating, old scandal-manger! And often thou hast had it. FATMA. It was not a beating that thou didst earn, princess. Many a time I have fetched water from the well by— LAYLAH. Abdul Khan! take out this prating hag and beat her soundly. Fatma! this is the last time I leave thy lying tongue in that camel—lipped old face of an unbelieving Jinneeyah! [The emam/z drags her om‘, streaming and sea/ding. What news ? What news? LEDMIYA [at the window]. A horseman gallops from Jerusalem. LAYLAH Oh, quick, quick, quick, his tidings! For pity’…
1911 · PDF PAGE 148
…t the truth about the Second Empire—~and if Zola’s facts were all false, it would not alter the truth he came to tell, poor, provincial, time-serving truth as it is.” “ Take Ibsen l It is no accusation to say that Norwegians never act as his characters do; no defence to prove that Norwegians always do act so. It has nothing to do with the question. Romeo and Juliet make love in English—nobody minds! Macbeth is not obliged to say, ‘Hoots! ma leddy!’ every time he addresses his wife. The fool who bothers with local colour misses the sunshine. The…
1911 · PDF PAGE 51
…rush, new flowers to pluck. White waif, white champak-blossom blown From the jungle to the lost lagoon ! White lily swayed by the wind of time ! Grey eyes that crave the chrism of crime ! Blanched face like a note on a clarion I Red mouth like the sun through simoon, typhoonl Hurricanes howl, howl in her heart; Serpents sleep in her smile; I hear Horrible happenings long ago, Direful deeds, weirds of woe, 43
1911 · PDF PAGE 142
THE EQUINOX “ God! God ! why must we part? It’s my fool vanity that makes mewant the martyrdom. And all the time I only want your" “ But you’re not only Edgar Rolles.” “ And when I return, be more than Ida Pendragon. Keep a stout heart, wench ! " So, with a thousand tears and kisses, they parted She would not come to see him off; her self-command was weakened alike by her new love and by the terrible ordeal that she had undergone, Her mind remembered nothing of it— such is the merciful order of things ; but her soul, beaten with rods, was sore.…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
… ” Perhaps the {act that “ My wife was very ill " accounts for the variation Mr Stratford D. Jolly is much too busy a man to devote much time to the “Serious study ofthe occult,” and it is a pity he should have spent so much time upon the forty-five chapters which comprise this work, instead of upon some other subjects with which he might be more conversant, In short, it is a flabby, gentlemanly book, which should find a ready sale among the more “ goody " portion of Suburbia, the only place where the Hero could be appreciated 1 Despite the author…
1911 · PDF PAGE 192
PART II The Temple in Darkness MAGISTER TEMPLI. 1.11 Brother Aquarius, what is the time? AQUARIUS. Midnight. MAGISTER TEMPLI. I. Brother Capricornus, what is the place ? CAPRICORNUS. The Fortress that is upon the Frontier of the Abyss, MAGISTER TEMPLI. 1. Brothers Aquarius and Capricornus, is the Beloved with us? AQUARIUS (md CAPRICORNUS. The Mother of Heaven is enthroned. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Mother of Heaven, let us lament together! [Remi/es Swinéume’s “ [licel ".* [MATER cam flay: a:carding/;1/.T MAGISTER TEMPLI. r. Brother Aquarius, to what end…
1911 · PDF PAGE 278
…ark night-wings glow With iridescent indigo, Shot with some violet ray ; And all the vision flames across the horizon The millionth of no time—and when we say: Hail !—Thou art gone! The Moon is dark beside thy crown ; the Sun Seems a pale image of thy body bare; And for thine hair Flash comets lustrous with the dewfall rare Of tears of that most memorable One, The radiant Queen, the veiléd Paphiani The wings of light divine Beneath thy body shine ; The invisible Rayed with some tangible flame, Seeking to formulate a name,
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…issedl Lie there, love—if I love you indeed Who adore and wonder and faint for drouth Of the passion-flower fallen from the other side Of time and space the tedious tide. Lie there, lie there, and let me bleed To death in the breath of the murderous mouth I 45
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…s Court (where we were) over to the Great Court 01 Trinity—well out of all hearing. I was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody 01 being a confederate. He was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction. The medium was then (at a given time) to return, and tell the card. Now it happened that in the course 01 general argument about {air- ness, which 1 encouraged to enable myself to plot unnoticed in the confusion of talk, that I had stipulated {or my sceptic to write down the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 150
…her chair crashed backwards to the floor, and the black leopard was upon her, his teeth sunk in her throat. Edgar Rolles was only just in time. His boot caught the murderer behind the ear—and Edgar Rolles had played football The beast was dead. Edgar stooped and caught her up, blood leaping from her throat, while Ninon, shriek upon shriek rising in torment, rushed to rouse the people of the restaurant. “ Oh, my brother,” gasped the girl. “ Could you not understand? I wanted to die, so." They were her last words for long. Lavenue’s was a storm of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 277
…þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe; Then came forth the Gods thereof, The aeons of the Bornless Beyond. Then was the Voice vibrated ; Then was the Name declared. At the Threshold of Entrance, Between the Universe and the Infinite, In the Sign of the Enterer Stood Mercury, as before him The æons were proclaimed In Symbols did he record them ; In Breath did he vibrate them ; For between the Light and the Dark…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
… as he chose. I gave up all hopebut in bringing ofi'the 9to ! chance 01 my medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cann…
1911 · PDF PAGE 209
… For this is the secret of Jupiter, that He who created you is in each of you, yet apart from all; before Him ye are equal, revolving in Time and in Space; but he is unmoved and within. [A fame. TYPHON. l. [TYPHON recites. Sweet, sweet are May and June, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing ; The bed, of moss and roses; The night, as long as death! Still, breath! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden, The motley months of gold, Swoop down wi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 213
…usa ! Even Greece Forget! they are not there ! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayerr Leave the illusions, life and time And Death, and seek that star sublime, Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through Eternity Exists alone the Star, And utter Knowledge rise, and cease In that which is beyond the Peace! [GANYMEDE 4411665 4114/4115 45 dead. TYPHON. O that the banquet of Jupiter might begin I HERMANUBIS. O that the banquet of Jupiter might begin ! SPHINX. Ο that the banquet of Jupiter might begin…