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Page 117 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 203
…annot do you wrong. I saw in your dying embraces the birth of a new embrace ; In the tears of your pitiful faces, another Holier Face. Unknowing it, undesiring, your lips have led me higher ; You have taught me purer songs that your. souls did not desire ; You have led me through your chambers, where the secret bolt was drawn, To the chambers of the Highest and the secrets of the Dawn ! You have brought me to command you, and not to be denied ; You have taught me in perfection to be unsatisfied ; You have taught me midnight vigils, when you smi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 227
…ous frown, O Lord of Renown ! In terror and tumult and battle Thy breath smiteth forth as a sword ; The Saxons are driven as cattle ; We know Thee, that Thou art the Lord! Forth Freedom flings skyward, a maiden Rejoicing, upsprung from the sea, And the wild lyre of Erin is laden At last with the songs of the free! Hail! Hail unto Thee! 1 Egyptian God of the Sun, and of War. Cf. p. 212, note 5. EPILOGUE. TO THE AMIERICAN PEOPLE ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR INDEPENDENCE, THE ship to the breezes is bended; The wind whistles off to the lee; The stn …
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
… first, of their dirty Order; and we sometimes think he's the most powerful of the whole damned crew. That fool Grey's a child to him. I know now how the Watcher was destroyed. Oh! S.R.M.D. will pay somebody for this! But listen, man — you bring that old beast's head on a charger — or Grey's, either! — and you can have any grade you dare ask for! And that's no lie, curse it! Why," he went on with increasing vehemence, "the whole thing's a plant of ours. Monet-Knott's one of us; we use him to blackmail Lavinia King — about all he's fit for, the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…cry in the sunlight; moon pities my passion in vain. Dark to my eyes is the one light, aching in bosom and brain. Surely, O Mother, thou knowest! not followed thy star? I have gone whither thou goest, bitterly followed afar, Have I 1 A secret Order, probably established by Crowley himself, Buried my heart in thy sorrow, cast down my soul at thy knees. Thou, thou hast left me no morrow. Days and desires, what are these? Nay, I have torn from my breast passion and love and despair : Sought in thy palaces rest, sleep that awaited me there ; Sleep …
1919 · PDF PAGE 305
…ill strike the tyrants dead. Axetster CROWLEY. GITANJALI AND Frurit-GaTHERING. By RaBinDRANATH TacorE. The Macmil- lan Co. Price, $2.50. Known that whatever is good in Rabindranath Tagore is due to the style of W. B. Yeats, I expected the introduction to be by that individual, who might have been romantic if he had been willing to wash his face and put on a clean collar every month or so. The introduction begins, “A few days ago I said to a dis- tinguished Bengali doctor of medicine, ‘I know no German.’” Apart from the question as to whether Si…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
…andering corpse of night ! return Into thy shadowy world! My symbols burn cgainst thee, shade of terror! Go!” It spoke: “Yea! Tam human. Know my actual truth: I am that ghost, the father of thy youth !” ‘* Poor wandering phantom !”—the exultant yell And wolfish howling of all damnéd souls Peals from the ravening jaws and gulfs of hell: Leaps that foul horror through the terrible Extinguished circle of the burning bowls. Then I remember, fling the gleaming rod Against him: “ Liar, back ! For I am God !” Back flung the baffled corpse. the air Loo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…r own decree, Withclanging rocks sky-piercing forour tomb, We call the thunder from our own black womb, We hear the voice and we obey—we know not whom ! We hear thee, who are cliffs and pinnacles lligher than heaven’s hase, founded far in hell’s ; We hear, that sunder the blue skies of heaven ;
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…s, really in touch with the Supreme Chiefs, had yet finally decided to say with Christ upon the Cross ; “ Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” even though this theory was some- what rudely shaken by Mathers spending the whole of one Sunday afternoon in rattling a lot of dried peas in a sieve under the impression that they were the revolted members : as subsequent events proved, they were only the ideas in his head. So we find Aleister Crowley still loyal, if a little sceptical, and searching within himself to discover a touchs…
1905 · PDF PAGE 222
…n I, will break it flat: my curse ful- filled. No stone of London soon shall stand upon another, No son of her throughout the land shall know his brother, I will destroy her who is rotten: from the face Of earth shall fail the misbegotten, root and race } And the fair country unto them again I give, Whom in long exile men contemn: for they shall live.” Yea, they shall live! Amen! And I Give praise, and close mine eyes, cover my face, and laugh—and die. Her breath I take The Celtic race! “CARMEN SAECULARE.,” ‘*T prophesy, with feet upon a grave,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…song pours forth its utterance, keen with pain, Mad with delight, and calm beyond woe and pleasure. Yea, every son of this my soul shall know In the swift concourse of his music’s measure One thing impatient of this to and fro March of hell’s dancers. I perceive a key To lock the prison of the world on him That built the iron walls and made decree Long past in zeons now grown gray and dim, Like halls ancestral whence their folk have fled, The marbles all are broken, and the weeds Grown o’er the bones of the unquiet dead, And time’s remorse avai…
1919 · PDF PAGE 177
…Gate. (2) You are inclined to vagueness. This is evidently partly caused by the fog of emotion. Before you can pass to Zelator, you must know and rule the Astral Plane throughout. Astral journeys, however interesting and even splendid and illuminating, don’t count unless they are willed. If you want to go to your office, and find yourself at the Town Hall in- stead, it’s no excuse that the Town Hall has fine columns! You should drop all “Meditations on Love.” What’s the matter with Hate, anyway? From beyond the Abyss, they look as like each oth…
1906 · PDF PAGE 129
…eaches her length against my length, And breaks my spirit ; life succumbs— A nameless avatar of death Incarnate in her burning breath. I know her gorgeous raiment folded In snaky subtle draperies, All stalwart captains mighty-moulded To lure within her sorceries, Within her bed—and I, who love, See, and am silent, and approve! Strange! Who shall call the potter knave Who moulds a vessel to his will? One, if he choose, a black-browed slave: One, if he choose, a thing of ill, Writhing, misshapen, footless, cruel: One, like a carved Assyrian jewel…
1919 · PDF PAGE 313
… in attitudes suggestive of a violent dislocation of the hipjoint. Whether such figures were actually cultivated at the period, I do not know; but even if this could be proved, the sculptures could only be regarded as conventional exaggerations of an unhealthy fashion.” “Finally, and coming back to the Buddha-figures in particular, what are we to say of the marvellous spirituality of expression often attributed to them? It is to me, I own, far from apparent. The drooped eyelids, and the immobile pose do, indeed, express the idea of contemplatio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 8
…heart’s soft pulse did go, Devils had it in their bands. Doctors keep it in a row, Now, on varnished wooden stands : And I really do not know If it is in different hands. SPOLIA OPIMA. | My home is set between two ivory towers, | Fresh with the fragrance of a thousand flowers. And the twin portals of a ruby door, Portcullissed with the pearls of India’s shore, Loosed with a smile and opened with a kiss, Bid me a joyous welcome there, I wis. My home is on the brink of heaven's delight, But for that endless day a lovelier night Is in my home, tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…kes of my retainers, I will with- draw myself and them that you may talk in greater privacy with the Lady Blanche. I fought at Arcy, and know what wonders may happen in an hour. [DENYS ‘furas bitterly, almost savagely, toward BLANCHE.| You will not disfigure your last hour by want of politeness to a lady? [DENYS flushes, accepts the rebuke, bows to both and says simply: DENYS. I give you my word of honour. [//zs deciston ts not uncoloured by the pathetic petitioning of the mute SLANCIIE, ALAIN, I thank you, sir; then I will leave you. [Zurns to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…- that Wilkinson be forthwith kicked out of Cambridge. The tutor sent for the offender and the following dialogue ensued: "I believe you know Mr. So-and-So, Mr. Wilkinson." "I have that honour, sir." "Dean of Blank, Oxford, I understand." "That is so, sir." "I have a letter from him, which I propose to read to you." "Thank you, sir." The tutor read through the letter, made no comment, asked no questions. He tore it slowly in pieces and threw them into the fire. "May I hope that you will be with us at breakfast tomorrow?" "Thank you, sir." "Good…
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
… very deed Is keen to echo song well tuned from Milton’s reed. O lovers, and ye happy groves that hear Their whispers, and ye vales that know their feet, And all ye mountains that incline your ear To the still murmur of the love-lorn sphere, And all ye caves their murmurs who repeat; Your music throbs in unison with mine ; The world is flushed with wine Bubbling from Freedom’s well, warm, luminous, divine. Burn, changeful purple of the vine’s cool stream ! Burn, like the sunset ofa stormy sky When white winds gather, and white horses gleam Upon…
1905 · PDF PAGE 163
…Some one circumstance: ‘‘ At last That, and its effects, are past.” Some one terror—subtle foe !— ‘*T have laid that spectre low !” They know not, learn not, cannot calcu- late How subtly Fate 1 The crystal sphere is habitually used by clairvoyants and others for purposes of divina- tion. Such a globe should be ceremonially consecrated and vitalised. . 2 From say, all, a diminutive. The word thus means ‘‘a universe in little,’ It is usually a square or circle of vellum or other material, designed and painted appropriately to its purpose; aspiri…
1905 · PDF PAGE 202
…errible! O my dolorous tender brides, As I lay and dreamt in the dark by your shameful beautiful sides ! And now you are mine no more, I know; but I cannot bear The curse—that another is drunk on the life that stirs your hair: Every hair was alive with a spark of mid- night’s delicate flame, ; Or a glow of the nether fire, or au old illustrious shame. Many, so many, were ye to make one Womanhood— A thing of fire and flesh, of wine and glory and blood, In whose rose-orient texture a golden light is spun, A gossamer scheme of love, as water in th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
…217 the Serpent should be his at last. ‘* None for the fool,” they laughed back—nay, even his maiden queen. For she would not any should know thereof. Yet were all right, both he and they. But truth ran quickly about ; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Hammer of Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree bor. was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed…