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Page 118 of 1301907 · PDF PAGE 175
…r change’s altering coin ill-wrought, It seemed as though the soul were strange, Not fledged, not capable to range At random through the world of sense Opened so swift and so intense Unto the being. Thus she stood Impatient on the patient flood With wonder waking in her eyes. Thus the young dove droops wing, and dies, In wonder why the winged thing Loosed from yon twanging silver string Should strike, should hurt. But now she wakes, Wreathes like a waterfall of snakes The golden fervour of her hair About the body brave and bare Starred in the s…
1939 · PDF PAGE 26
… a Niyama of infinite delicacy, a spiritual intuition far, far removed from any human quality whatever. Here all is fantasy, and in this world are infinite pleasure, infinite perils. The True Niyama of Neptune is the imaginative faculty, the shadowing forth of the nature of the illimitable light. He has another function. The Yogi who understands the influence of Neptune, and is attuned to Neptune, will have a sense of humour, which is the greatest safeguard for the Yogi. Neptune is, so to speak, in the front line; he has got to adapt himself to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 217
…make my spirit whole! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come! come away! but not your mighty sounds !2 O wind of all the world! O silent river ! O sea of seas! O flower of all the flowers O fire! O spirit! Beam thou on for ever Through zons of illimitable hours ! Kiss thou my forehead, let thy tender breath Woo me to life, and my desire to death ! I shall be ready for it by-and-by, That sharp Initiation, when the whole Body is torn with sundering pangs, and I, The very conscious essence of the soul, Am rent with agony, as when t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…led by the moveless deep To sleep, sweet wife, to sleep! Yes, kiss me now ! Vv. THE ULTIMATE VOYAGE? THE wandering waters move about the world, And lap the sand, with quietest complaint Borne on the wings of dying breezes up, To where we make toward the wooded top Of yonder menacing hill. The night is fallen Starless and moonless, black beyond belief, Tremendous, only just the ripple keeps Our souls from perishing in the inane, With music borrowed from the soul of God. We twain go thither, knowing no desire To lead us 3 but some strong necessit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… its smell : And lo, he is horribly in the toils Of a coal-black giant flower of hell!” —BROWNING, Heretic's Tragedy, ix. I. Rosk of the world! Ay, love, in that warm hour Wet with your kisses, the bewitching bud Flamed in the starlight; then our bed your bower Ifeaved like the breast of some alluring flood Whereon a man might sleep for ever, until Death should surprise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my skill To find another holier name, some flower Still red, but red with the …
1939 · PDF PAGE 50
…, we have to keep on inventing ideas, which even in the proud moment of invention are seen to be unreal. How are we to get away from the world of phantasmagoria to the common universe of sense? We shall require quite a lot more acts of imagination. We have got to endow our mathematical conceptions with three ideas which Hindu philosophers call Sat, Chit and Ananda, which are usually translated Being, Knowledge and Bliss. This really means: Sat, the tendency to conceive of an object as real; Chit, the tendency to pretend that it is an object of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 195
…he curtains of the soul of me, And loved me also! It is very well. Tam well started on the road to Hell. Loved, and no sin done! Ay, the world shall] see The quest is first—a love less terrible. Yet, as I ride toward the edge of snow That cuts the blue, I think. Jor even so Comes reason to me: ‘‘ Oh, return, return! What folly is it for two souls to burn With hell’s own fire! What is this quest of woe? What is the end? Consider and discern !”’ Banish the thought! still Is the rebellious vassal to my will, Because I will it. That is God’s own mi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
…y upon her tremulous tongue, Nor fell the melody on cruel ears: The bright-throat goddess sped through many spheres Of sight, beyond the world, and flamed across All space, on wings that not the albatross Might match for splendour, stretch, or airy speed, T'rom cluster unto cluster at her need Of stars, wide waving, and from star to star Extended, in whose span the heavens are. So came she to the maiden, and unseen Gazed on her rapt. So sighed the amorous queen
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…dice ! Come back to me! Eurydice, Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power! Cast the dead laurel inthe dust! The flower Of all the world is marred, the day’s desire Distorted in the eclipse, the sun’s dead hour. Let me fall down beside thee! Let me take The kisses that thou canst not give, and slake Despair in purposeless caresses, dire Shames fang-wise fastened of the eternal snake. Is there no warmth where beauty isso bright ? No soul still flickering in the lambent light Still shed from all the body’s excellence? No lamp unchidden of t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…hy waste we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains !” So the wise, enlightened by compassion, Seeks that bliss for all the world of sorrow, Swears the bitter oath of Vajrapani: ‘‘ Ere the cycle rush to utter darkness Work I so that every living being Pass beyond this constant chain of causes. If I fail, may all my being shatter Into millions of far-whirling pieces !” Swears that oath, and works, and studies silence, Takes his refuge in the triple jewel, Strangles all desires in their beginning, Leaves no egg of thought to hatch it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…in rage, "why dost Thou not wither this impudent impostor with Thy fire from heaven? Sir, begone! You are not a Mason at all! As all the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of course, every single English or American visitor to our Lodge in Z--- stood in peril of instant and irrevocable expulsion on detection. So I said nothing, but walked to another room in Freemasons' Hall over his head, and took my seat as a Pa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…he fine flower and fragrance of my tresses ! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses ! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. Nature my name is called. O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless! O shadowy tale! O brain that halts before its thought for- gotten! Once all ye knew me—ere the earth grew pale, And Time began, and a…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…about all this. The study of the principles of Yoga is very useful to the average man, if only to make him think about the nature of the world as he supposes that he knows it. Let us consider a piece of cheese. We say that this has certain qualities, shape, structure, colour, solidity, weight, taste, smell, consistency and the rest; but investigation has shown that this is all illusory. Where are these qualities? Not in the cheese, for different observers give quite different accounts of it. Not in ourselves, for we do not perceive them in the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…ower Moved the light craft, and lower Murmured the waters and the wind com- - plained ; And ever the moon waned ; Not wheeling round the world, But subtly curved and curled
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…ne strong desire of life, that never came. For Aphrodite sought in vain the woods, The silent mountains, and impetuous floods In all the world, nor had she knowledge of Such dens as him concealed ; (for what shotild Love Know of such vile morasses ?) in despair Waved angry wings, and, floating through the air, Came unto Aphaca, lewd citadel Of strange new lusts and devilries of hell, Where god Priapus dwelt; to him she came— She, Love !—and, hiding her fair face for shame, Nor showing aught the quivering scorn that glowed Through all her body, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…‘* Behold, he rules as I the abyss of flame. Forlo! heknoweth, and hath said, My Name!” THE EVOCATION. FRoM the abyss, the horrible lone world Of agony, more sharp than moonbeams strike The shaken glacier, my cry is hurled, As the avenger lightning. Swiftly whirled, It flings in circles closing serpent-like On the abominable devil-horde I summon to the mastery of the sword. In my white palace, where the flashing dawn Leaps from the girdling bastions, where the light Flames from the talisman as if a fawn Glode through the thickets, where the sou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
… other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep: Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the respite of a little sleep; Sleep, just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise, Long has the day drawn out; a bitter frost Sparkles along the streets; the shipping heaves With the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…le; our souls are fed On a strange new nepenthe from the cup Of the vast firmament. Nor do we dream, Nor think we aught of the transient world, But are absorbed in our own deity : And our clear eyes reflect—(who dares to gaze Shall see and die !)—the changeless empyréan Eternity, the concentrated void Of space, for being the centre of all things, Time is to us the Now, and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates, is a part Of our own thoughts and souls ; because we love. Thou shudderest, clinging to me; though the night Jewels her empire w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…t the doctrines of resurrection or re‐incarnation. Thus we have Oannes and Dagon, fish gods, in western Asia; in many other parts of the world are similar cults. Even in Christianity, Christ was represented as a fish. The Greek work IXThUS, “which means fish and very aptly symbolizes Christ”, as Browning reminds one, was supposed to be a notariqon, the initials of a sentence meaning “Jesus Christ Son of God, Saviour”. Nor is it an accident that St. Peter was a fisherman. The Gospels, too, are full of miracles involving fish, and the fish is sa‐…
1939 · PDF PAGE 66
…tices of Yoga are almost essential to success in Magickat least I may say from my own experience that it made all the difference in the world to my magical success, when I had been thoroughly grounded in the hard drill of Yoga. But I feel absolutely certain that I should never have obtained success in Yoga in so short a time as I did had I not spent the previous three years in the daily practice of magical methods. 9. I may go so far as to say that just before I began Yoga seriously, I had almost invented a Yogic method of practising Magick in…