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Page 119 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 17
…Reign o’er the meadow, and possess the wold. The poet bows his head, and lays aside his lute. ParRT ITI. WHEN God bethought [im, and the world began, IIe made moist clay, and breathed on it, that man Might be ost frail and feeble, and like earth Shrink at Death's finger from the hour of birth ; And like the sea by limits of pale sand Be utterly confined; but so He planned To vivify the body with the soul, That fire and air were wedded to control The heavy bulk beneath them, so His breath Touched the warm clay and violated death, Gave to the spi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…er glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies most charming on the boat deck. We are mystics and are never bored; we are mystics and are just as happy on board a Castle l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…er glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies most charming on the boat deck. We are mystics and are never bored; we are mystics and are just as happy on board a Castle l…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
…o its vitals3 thus the breath Of Satyrs wantoning at noon with Death Strained it, and all but cast it loose; the night Drew on the outer world ; no change of light Was known within those depths, but vermin knew By some strange instinct; forth the unholy crew Of vampires and swamp-adders drew them out. Alone amid the pestilential rout Charicles’ crest did glimmer red with wrath, And, stealing from the barge, he drew him forth And writhed into the hut, for latterly So dark his soul had grown that never he For shame and sorrow wore the form of man…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
…h. For the boy grew and became a man; and his eyes kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire stirred him to see the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day, and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said: Here is a change indeed ! 1 The common formula for beginning a ‘‘ Jataka,” or story of a previous incarnation of Buddha. Brahmadatta reigned 120,000 ye…
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…es, and murmur long— A sigh half-sad, as if remembering earth And all the massy pillars of her girth ; Half-jubilant, as if foreseeing a world Fresher with starlight and with waters pearled, Sunnier days and rivers calm and clear, And music for four seasons of the year, And pleasant peoples with glad throat and voice Too wise to grieve, too happy to rejoice. So came the dawn on Ida to disclose Within her confines a delicious rose Lying asleep, a-dreaming, white of brow, Stainless and splendid. Yea, and fair enow To tempt the lips of Death to ki…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
…ere when the last echo of Napoleon's glory had died away. I was more than ever convinced that to take an interest in the affairs of this world, one must turn one's back on truth. Buddhism might be right or wrong in saying that nothing is worth while; but anyhow there could be no doubt that the conventional standards of value were simply comic. If anything were worth while, it could only be discovered by turning one's back resolutely on temporal things. In accordance with Eckenstein's puritanical ideas of propriety, no communications about the e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…e words of my entry of January 12th describe the Sign, "... the omnipresence of my body." And there She was --- in the last place in the world where one would have sought Her. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ Note too, the ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ accuracy of the ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ "Yi King" symbol ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ for ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ is, of course the symbol of our Lady, and the God below Her in the stele ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ is ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ the sun. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ All this is clear …
1906 · PDF PAGE 64
…m time to time by writers of what purports to be merely fiction. Of all the remarkable tales with which Mr. R. Kipling has delighted the world, none is more striking than that of McIntosh Jellaludin? and his mysterious manuscript. And now, only a few years after reading that incredible tale, I myself, at Yoko- Hama, come across a series of circum- stances wonderfully analogous. But I will truthfully set down this history just as it all happened. I went one memorable Wednesday night to No. 29.3 For my advent in this most re- putable quarter of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…l. i, p. 105). Finally he is driven to the utterance of one who has gained final liberation from human illusion: So lifts the agon of the world From this my end that bowed awhile Before the terror sudden! shown. The nameless fear for self, ar hurled By death to dissolution vile, Fades as the royal truth is known : Though change and sorrow range and roll, There is no self—there is no so . The essay on Science and Buddhism (p. 244, vol. ii of The Collected Works) is valuable, proving as it does that Buddhistic philosophy is a logical development f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…e man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love. Some rosebud in the garden of spices blows, Some offshoot from the Rose Of the World, the Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night, The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things 1 This poem was issued under the pseudonym ROSA MUNDI, AND OTHER LOVE-SONGS Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to God's gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the TTouse of Tire, The Rose of Honey-in-Youth ! Ah! No dim mystery of de…
1906 · PDF PAGE 228
… at hand. Yet I, who have been car-borne through the blue air by sphinxes, shall never be carried away, not by the whitest horses of the world. ‘To you I have no word to say. All is written in the sacred Book. To that look ye well ! Ambrose, old friend, he said, turning to me—and I wept ever sore— do thou write for the little ones, the children of my children, for them that understand not easily our high Mysteries; for in thy pen is, as it were, a river of clear water; without vagueness, without ambiguity, 1 Aum! The sacred word. 2 Oy. M (the c…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
… or the boy grew and becam e a m an; and his ey es kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire stirred him to see the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day , and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said : Here is a change indeed ! 1 T he com mon for mula for beginning a “Jataka,” or story of a previous incarnation of the Buddha. Brahmadatta reigned 120…
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…eneral truth above set forth1 and to this practical problem. I took all the mystical and magical practices of all religions all over the world, and those of the secret teachers and associations to which I had access. I have little hesitation in saying that I have not omitted any practice of importance. I stripped these methods of all their dogmatic top-hamper, all their racial and climatic limitations, and all the complications which had been introduced in the course of time or through the idiosyncrasies of their inventors. I further freed them…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…Platonic pleasures for boys. My own father-in-law, a charming old gentleman with not even a national reputation, and not an enemy in the world, but a worthless curate he had discharged, had had a whole page (inspired by the aforesaid curate) about the way in which he swindled his servant-girls out of their savings. I knew that if the great Patriot seemed to be not giving me my duty, it was from shortage of paper or writer's cramp, not from lack of kindness of heart. I had indeed ample evidence of what wealth of magnanimity was buttoned beneath …
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…ht be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of the lightest act, of the value of every moment, has been a tragically intense factor in my life. I have always grudged the time necessary for eating, sleeping and dressing. I have invented costumes with the sole object of minimizing the waste of time3 and the distraction of attention involved. I never wear underclothing. The "Magnetism" of men and women has for its …
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…of life from the tree of the knowledge of Good and of Evil, singing old songs and new, flinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world, as some stormy petrel shrillyc 'ng to the storm; or sweet notes of love, soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly.’ Captain Fuller’s language is always picturesque, and those who have not read Crowley’s poems could not discover a more enthusiastic cicerone. He insists on the superabundance of the poet’s genius and the diversity of his form, points that find ample accentuation in the course of the work.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 238
…d I see what mystery, What ninefold forest, shade impassible, Surrounds Thy heart, as with a core of light Shut in the mystery of a dead world. Thou formless sense of gloom and terror! Thou Upas,! new tree of life—by sinister Cherubim with averted faces kept ! Nay! This one secret I suspect, and gloat Over the solemn purport of the dream With subtle shuddering of joy,—and that Keener delight, a sense of deadly fear ! This secret : Thou art darkness in Thyself, and evil wrapped in light, and ugliness Vested in beauty! Therefore is my love No pet…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…t hand. Yet I, who have been car-borne through the blue air by sphinxes, shall never be carried away , not by the whites t horses of the world. To y ou I have no word to say . All is written in the sacred Book. To that look ye well ! Ambrose, old friend, he said, turning to me—and I wept ever sore—do thou write for the little ones, the children of m y children, for them that understand not easily our high My steries; for in thy pen is, as it were, a river of clear water ; w ithout vagueness, without ambiguity, 1 Aum! The sacred word. 2 Qy. j (t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
… was heavy upon us because of some undiscovered sin. I might go on for a long while, but I will not. I hope there are some people in the world happy enough to think that I am lying, or at least exaggerating. But I pledge my word to the literal truth of all I have said, and there are plenty of witnesses alive to confirm me, or to refute me. I have given throughout the actual names, addresses and other details.