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Page 108 of 1231910 · 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. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…r plain idiocy. Again, the card ‘Tortitude”, Léo, balances Majesty and Mercy with Strength and Severity: what sense is there in putting “Death”, the Scorpion, in its stead ? There are twenty other mistakes in the new wonderful illuminated-from-on-high attribution; the student can therefore be sure of twenty more laughs if he cares to study it. 2. Equally, of course, we hâve no means of knowing what we really are. We are limited to symbols. And it is certain that ail our sense- perceptions give only partial aspects of their objects. Sight, for i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…s about her been real, they could not harm her. She heard herself repeating the old mystic's words: "Because there is in him no place of death." She became perfectly calm; for a little while her thoughts occupied her. Suddenly they fled, and she found herself (so to speak) in a small open boat, without provisions, in the midst of a limitless ocean of unutterable boredom. She had a period of fidgets; that over, she became listless, and merely prayed for sleep. Then she noticed that a square pencil of light had entered from the apex of the chapel…
1905 · PDF PAGE 96
…of Gilead yo ; Toward the hollows weird and white, Toward the sorrow of the snow 3 To desolation black and blind They move, and leave us death behind. The Lord is great: the Lord is wise Within His temple to foresee With calm impenetrable cyes The after glory that shall be ; But we, of mortal bodies born, Laugh lies consoling unto scorn. The God of Israel is strong; His mighty arm hath wrought this day A victory and a triumph-song— And now He breathes upon His clay, And we, who were as idols crowned, Lie dust upon the empty ground. She goes, ou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…. . (23 A skeleton with a scythe mowing men. The scythe | The Child of the Great Transformers. The 24 handleis a Tau Lord of the Gate of Death The Figure of Diana huntress* . . . The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer- 25 forth of Life | The figure of Pan or Priapus * The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child 26 A of the Forces of Time A tower struck by forked lightning* . The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty 27 The figure of a water-nymph disporting herself * The Daughter of the Firmament: the Dweller 28 between the Waters The waningmoon…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…C. Was his name printed on the MSS. of the Order of the Golden Dawn as the person to whom they should be returned in case of the owner’s death or disability? MATHERS. Yes. : Scorpio, K.C. And these MSS. contain practical instructions for raising devils, making yourself invisible, transforming men into animals, making gold, making rain, and all the other fabled arts of sorcerers? MATHERS. Yes. Scorpio, K.C. In shor you and Dr, Westcott were teaching the vilest practices of black magic? Matners. Yes. Scorpio, K.C. You quarrelled with Dr. Westcott…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…sham a hysterical attack and bolt if the worst comes to the worst — but don't let either of them manage to scratch you! It might be your death." His evident earnestness did more than convince her. It reassured her on her whole position. She realized that he loved her, that his manner was merely [37] an ornament, an affectation like his shaved head and his strange dress. And her own love for him, freed from all doubt, rushed out as does the sun from behind the crest of some cold pyramid of rock and ice, in mountain lands. When they returned to t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
… sense of infinite ardours thronging Fast and fast and faster athwart the heaven, Keen as light and cruel as fire, as levin Swift and as death dumb! Freedom, rapture, victory, fill the chorus, Dying, ever dying, among the billows ; Whispered, ever whispered among _ the willows :— Pour the libation ! Now springs up a notable age. Adore us Masters now of music above his magic, Lords of change, leaps pastoral up to tragic, Thanks to the Thracian! Ah, my pain! what desolate female bosoms, Smitten hearts of delicate males, uncover ; Grip not life fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
…u love me best! Hold me like this With my head on your breast ! ANICCA. H1& who desires desires a change. Change is the tale of life and death. Matter and motion rearrange Their endless coils; the Buddha saith: ‘*Cease, O my sons, to desire ! Change is the whole that we see By the light of a chaos on fire. Cease to desire—you are free !”’ Your words, good Gotama, are brave and true 3 Kasy to say, but difficult to do! TARSHITERING. NEPALI LOVE-SONG.! O KISSABLE Tarshitering ! the wild bird calls its mate—and I? Come to my tent this night of May,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 110
…t, fleeting, To lands that, know no sea, Where ocean’s stormy greeting Fills no man’s heart with glee ; Where lovers die or sever, . And death destroys for ever, And God bears slavery :— Fly thither, so thou leave us That no man’s hand may reave us Of this—that we are free. Free all men that may heed thee, On freemen’s praises feed thee, Who chorus full, ‘*‘ God speed thee, Live lyre of Liberty !” DREAMS. War words are these that shudder through my sleep, Changing from silver into crimson flakes, And moltén into gold Like the pale opal through …
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…reserve anything as it is by positive action upon it. Its integrity demands inaction; and inaction, résistance to change, is stagnation, death and dissolution due to the internai putréfaction of the starved éléments. 100
1905 · PDF PAGE 223
…e Shall sink in peace, I see thy rotten power Break as the crumbling ice-floe in the thaw. Destruction shatters thy blood-builded tower. Death has thee in his maw. Stand, Russia! peace, Beneath the constant rule, the changing Czar. Thy many, thine inhospitable seas Shall ring thee round, a zodiac to thy star, And Frost, the rampart of thine iron ease, Laugh at the shock of war. Let thy freedom grow in Turn, Italy! The Voice is unto Thee! Return, poor wounded maiden, to thy home ! Thou hast well tried a spurious liberty : Thou art made captive; …
1912 · PDF PAGE 6
… conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. In a cave by the sea, feeding on limpets and roots, Sir Palamede abideth, sick unto death. Himseemeth the Beast questeth within his own bowels: he is the vii
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…o strike off his fetters." "All Europe will be scream and stench for years to come. But the new generation will fear neither poverty nor death. They will fear weakness; they will fear dishonour." [301]
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…o behold; but he spoke wonderful words like dying nightingales that have sorrowed for the fading of the roses, and pressed themselves to death upon the thorns; and one’s whole body became a single eye, 50 that one saw as if the unborn thought of light Qflvngé. brooded over an eternal sea. Then was light as the lightning flaming Zlilrb‘llrsi-bus spe- out of the east, even unto the west, and it was fashioned as the swift ness of a sword. By and by one rose up, then one seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the mo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 192
…e the occult arts have never been in doubt on the subject. The dynamic virtue of living substance does not depart from it immediately at death. Those ideas, therefore, which seek manifestation in life, must do so either by incarnation or by seizing some still living matter which the idea or soul in possession has abandoned. Sorcerers consequently employ the fumes of fresh blood as a vehicle for the manifestation of the demons whom they wish to evoke. The matter is easy enough; for fiends are always eager to take hold on the sensory life. Occasi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 375
… conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. In a cave by the sea, feeding on limpets and roots, Sir Palamede abideth, sick unto death. Himseemeth the Beast questeth within his own bowels: he is the vii
1910 · PDF PAGE 375
… conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. In a cave by the sea, feeding on limpets and roots, Sir Palamede abideth, sick unto death. Himseemeth the Beast questeth within his own bowels: he is the vii
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
…r little girl! If only I didn’t love her, with what a good will would I marry her. The nearer one comes to it, the clearer one sees that death is a dark and dusty corner, where a man lies hidden and forgotten till the archangel’s — broom. I have few friends now : once I am dead I shall have none. BLANCHE. [ Falters.] You forget Blanche de Maleé- troit, DENYS. You have a sweet nature, Mademoiselle, and you are pleased to estimate a little service far beyond its worth. BLANCHE. No, sir, I say more: I recognise in you a spirit that should not give…
1907 · PDF PAGE 153
…n ; in the dale Some distant notes of lovely music climb, Thrown from the golden-throated night- ingale, Pale sobs of love and life With death and fear at strife, Fiercely beset and hardly conquering, When spring’s bright eyes at last Flash through the sullen past, And tune its pain to tears, its peace to sing. The earth's lips cling To the child’s bosom, and low smiles revive ; Love is new-born upon the golden hour, And all the life of all the exultant spring Breathes in the wind that wakes the world alive Into the likeness of a flower. SUMMER…