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Page 107 of 1231911 · PDF PAGE 206
…d all its peace; And the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hush and cease. In the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, In the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth, Ever changing, ever growing, ever dwindling, ever dear, Ever worth the passion glowing to distil a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is …
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…me of things except just so far as he is doing the Work which he is sent to do. Why should he struggle against imprisonment, banishment, death? It is ail part of the game in which he is a pawn. “It was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory.” The Master of the Temple is so far from the man in whom He manifests that ail these matters are of no importance to Him. It may be of importance to His Work that man shall sit upon a throne, or be hanged. In such a case He informs his Magus, who exerts the power in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…nus is moreover the sign which the Sun enters when he reaches his extreme Southern déclination at the Winter Solstice, the season of the death of végétation, for the folk of the Northern hemisphere. This gave them a second cause for cursing the South. A third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous windsj the menace of deserts or océans dreadful because mysterious and impassable; these also were connected in their minds with the South. But to us, aw^are of astronomical facts, this antagonism to the South is a silly superstition which the accidents …
1905 · PDF PAGE 9
…d he loved! His lips anoint My lips with love ; with thirst insatiate He drank my breath, Absorbed my life in His, dispersed me, gave me death. 1 Unclean—from the French zmsonde, 2 Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 20.
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…reus: “The Sphinx of Egypt spake and said: ‘I am the synthesis of the Elemental Forces: I am also the symbol of man: I am Life: and I am Death: I am the Child of the Night of Time.’” Hierophant : «The priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘Thou canst nN not pass the gate of the Eastern Heaven : except thou canst tell me my name.’” Tablet Kerux, for Zelator: “Thou art Nu: oes P The Goddess of the Firmament of Air, Thou love art Harmakhis, Lord of the Eastern Sun.” das Martecty Hierophant : “ In what sign and symbol CH for, dost thou com…
1909 · PDF PAGE 275
…reus: “The Sphinx of Egypt spake and said: ‘I am the synthesis of the Elemental Forces: I am also the symbol of man: I am Life: and I am Death: I am the Child of the Night of Time.’” Hierophant : «The priest with the mask of Osiris spake and said: ‘Thou canst nN not pass the gate of the Eastern Heaven : except thou canst tell me my name.’” Tablet Kerux, for Zelator: “Thou art Nu: oes P The Goddess of the Firmament of Air, Thou love art Harmakhis, Lord of the Eastern Sun.” das Martecty Hierophant : “ In what sign and symbol CH for, dost thou com…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
… admired the year before at a dance — and whom he had craved ever since. "Tell S.R.M.D.," he roared, "that I'm in this thing for life or death; but I ask the girl for a trophy." "You'll get that, or anything else," said Balloch, "if you can put an end to the activities of Mr. Cyril Grey." Abdul Bey rushed off without another word spoken; and Balloch and the Pasha went to the rendezvous appointed. They passed that night and the next day in alternate bouts of drink and sleep. About half-past eight on the following evening the telephone rang. Doug…
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…eat His body perishes ; his life is drained; The last sweet drop of nectar has not stained Another life; his lips and limbs are wet With death-dews! Ha! The painter has attained As high a meed As his who first begot sweet music on a reed. XXX, And O! my music is so poor and thin! I am poor Marsyas?; where shall I find A wise Olympas and a lover kind To teach my mouth to sing some secret sin, Faint, fierce, and horrible; to tune my mind, And on a reed Better beloved to bid me discourse at his need P 1 Aubrey Beardsley. The dream is au- thentic. …
1905 · PDF PAGE 180
…the sea : O lover, come to me! The pall Of night is woven : fair and free, Draw to my kisses; let thy breath Mingle for love the wine of death ! MADONNA OF THE GOLDEN Nicut brings madness; moonlight dips her throat to madden us; Love’s swift purpose darts, the flash of a striking adder. Love that kills and kisses dwells above to sadden us ; Dawn brings reason back and the violet eyes grows sadder. O Madonna of the Golden [yes ! Swooned the deep sunlight above the summer stream ; Droned the sleepy dragon-Hy by the water spring3 Stood we in the n…
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
…An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands, thy feet Ooze blood, thine eyes weep bload; thine anguish is More keen than death. At last --there is no deeper vault of hell héneath ! XV. Then thine abasement brineeth back the sheaves Of golden corn of exaltation, Kipencd and sweetened by the very sun ' The conerete expression of the horror of the individual, 2 Morbid imaginations, which ever torment the traveller upon the path of asceticism,
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
…who sorroweth is not of us.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious langour, force and fire, are of us.” Later, concerning death, He says: “Think not, O king, upon that lie: That Thou must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood : if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever.” When you know that, what is left but delight? And how are we to live meanwhile ? “It is a lie, this folly against itself_Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture : fear not that any …
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
46 ORACLES Il. EARNESTNESS,. Amata’s! path is Earnestness, Dispersion Death’s disciples tread : The earnest never die, the vain are even as already dead. Who understand, have travelled far on con- centration’s path, delight In concentration, have their joy, knowing the Noble Ones aright. In meditation firmly fixed, by constant strenu- ous effort high, They to Nibbana? come at last, the incom- parable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
37 reputation. It was only when I got among the crags themselves that I was happy. I demanded to be at grips with death in one way or another. The bourgeois ambition to get through life without unpleasantness seemed to me the lowest vileness and entirely in keeping with the moral attitude of the heavenly people in Paradise Lost. I was allowed to read Tennyson and Longfellow, but it is impossible to class them as poets. The emasculation of all the characters disgusted me beyond measure. Their very sins are suburban. {81} 1. The alleged antithesi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…g its force to such a way as will naturally compel the obedience of the portion of Nature which we are trying to change. If one will the death of a sinner, it is not sufficient to hâte him, even if we grant that the vibrations of thought, when sufficiently powerful and pure, may modify the Astral light sufficiently to impress its intention to a certain extent on such people as happen to be sensitive. It is much surer to use one’s mind and muscle in service of that hâte by devising and making a dagger, and then applying the dagger to the heart o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
… the lowest streets in Paris, and turned in at the den where Douglas lodged. S.R.M.D. was lying on a torn soiled sofa, his face white as death; a mottled and empurpled nose, still showing trace of its original aggressive and haughty model, alone made for colour. For his eyes were even paler than the doctor's. In his hand was a bottle half full of raw whisky, with which he was seeking to restore his vitality. "I brought you some whisky," said Balloch, who knew the way to favour. "Put it down, over there. You've got some money." Balloch did not d…
1906 · PDF PAGE 84
…that ended with a sterile sting The earlier hour whose heart was full of spring 3 And the large love grew piteously lean; Dreadful, like death; withdrawn and epicene At the mad crisis of the eventful thing. O that such tender fondness like a flower’s Should take such nameless infamy! That we Should pluck such bitter bloom, rooted in fear, 1 On the westward voyage across the Pacific a day is ‘lost’ on the 180th degree. Salt with the scurf of some diseaséd sea, Foul with the curse of God: that we are here, Hating the night’s: inexorable hours. TH…
1906 · PDF PAGE 114
… deep, soft, sleepy breast! Here is thy rest ! O mortal, sad is life! But in my kisses Thou may’st forget its fever-parched thirst. Age, death, and sorrow fade in slender blisses : My swoon of love drinks up the draught accurst. And all thy seasons grow as sweet as this is, One constant summer in sleep’s bosom nursed. All storm and sunlight, star and season, cease, Ilere is thy peace. © mortal, sad is Jove! But my dominion Extends beyond love’s ultimate abode. Eternity itself is but a minion, Lighting my way on the untravelled road. Gods shelte…
1996 · PDF PAGE 16
…ly charlatan works that can be so quickly and easily grasped as that. It is impossible to write rewardingly on such matters as religion, death, sex, the conduct of life, and at the same time to make no more than slight and sim ple demands on the reader’s brain. Unless he makes the effort not only to attend but to cooperate, no one can gain anything of importance from any book. The gain that the reader will get from this book will be prima rily religious. For the “Law” is in its essence a religious Law; its sanctions, its injunctions, and its …
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
… half automaton when he performs it. It is a gawky stumbling across a black foul bog, oozing a thou sand dangers. It threatens him with death, disease, disaster in all manner of forms. He pays the coward’s price of fear and loathing when pedlar Sex holds out his Rat-Poison in the lead-paper wrap ping he takes for silver; and pays again with vomiting and with colic when he has gulped it in his greed. All this he knows, only too well; he is right, by his own lights, to loathe and fear the act, to hide it from his eyes, to swear he knows it not.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
…is Mr. Blackwood’s! When it comes to a father hating his twin sons because (why?) he wanted one son very badly, going mad, and after his death turning the two into one in spite of a clergyman’s reading aloud of Job—— Well, hang it, Mr. Blackwood, the woman has the best of it yet. It is a very foolish girl who cannot hold her own for ten years. But you who have been writing hardly half the time are only fit for the Literary Lock Hospital. JoNnATHAN HuTCHINSON, Natu Minimus. AMBERGRIS. A Selection of Poems by ALEISTER CROWLEY. Elkin Mathews. 3s. …