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Page 128 of 1541906 · PDF PAGE 121
…, be near In dreams to lift the veil, And silence from the shadowy sphere To conjure in our lady’s ear !— The voices fall and fail ; The light is lowered. O dim sleep, Over her eyelids creep ! The world of dreams is shapen fair Beyond a mortal’s nod: A fragrant and a sunny air Smiles : a man’s kisses vanish there, Grow kisses of a god ; And in dreams’ darkness subtly grows No Earth-flowered bloom of rose. O dreams of love and peace, draw nigh, Hover with shadowy wings ! I.et shining shapes of ecstasy Cover the frail blue veil of sky, And speak …
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
… double share of grief; So sum the many hours In many hopes and powers, All powers except the chief. Emotion fills our souls, And love delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were drawn who knows? Of law or Gods or chance? But, as life’s river flows, What Sea shall clasp and close Beyond }lind circumstance? Such little power we own Of vague experience, And instinct to enthrone The life’s mere needs alone, Nor answer © why” and ‘‘ whence.” Nor wandering in the night Our minds m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…s and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.” Dr. J. G. FRAZER, «The Golden Bough “So far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which men hâve passed to suprême power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, f reer life, with a broader outlook, on the worid. This is no small service rendered to humanity. And when we remember further th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…wer and fruit we do invoke Thee. Then the priest answered and said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, con- tinuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, since thou art continuous. Euring this speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
…ith Nature well cloven that comes to the lyre’s lilt silver-hewn. O bays of the wind, And shoreland of Thrace! O beaten and blind In the light of my face ! Heaven thunders behind, Hell shakes for a space, As I fling the loud sound to the sky, and the vaults of the Earth give place. O mystical tune Of a magic litten Of music, the moon, The stars unsmitten, The sun, the unhewn Stones deeply bitten By runic fingers of time, where decrees of the Fates are written ! Time listens, obeys me ; All Nature replies ; Nought avoids me, nor stays me, Nor ch…
1905 · PDF PAGE 247
240 TANNHAUSER That human light and living ! I shall win. He must have banished Her—and dreams of me. TANNHAUSER (27 sleep). Elizabeth ! VENUS. Flis far-off baby-love ! I triumph, then! The Goddess hath with- drawn. His mind works back to childhood, babydom ; Will grow to manhood and remember me. TANNHAUSER (awaking, leaps to his feet). Freedom! Elizabeth! All hail to Her! Radiant Goddess! Liberty and love! VENUS. What sayest thou? Curse Her! TANNHAUSER. My Elizabeth ! VENUS. What? art thou mad? again. Forget this nightmare. Rather, tell me it,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
… of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the sublimest of truths, until man’s eyes, no longer seeing the light, see but the flameless lantern, because of the filth that has been cast about it, 99
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…nt that the first ten breaks or so are rapid.] 6.10 p.m. 6.26 p.m. Pranayama 16 m. 8.15 p.m. 8.47 p.m. Ajna with 32m. 22 breaks, Mantra [Light coming a little, one very long break, and some sound.] 10.5 p.m. 10.173 p.m. Ajna 12m. 30s. 11 breaks, 13th. Casual Mutterings of Mantra. 10.44 a.m. Pranayama Quite hopeless, 10.48 am. I1.20am. 32 m. 30 breaks, [Went to Edinburgh to meet H. L.]§ * Not understood. + Om Tat Sat Aum. t 30.15.60. § This meeting with H. L., though of no importance in itself, led to one of the most important happenings in P.’s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
… of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the sublimest of truths, until man’s eyes, no longer seeing the light, see but the flameless lantern, because of the filth that has been cast about it, 99
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…nt that the first ten breaks or so are rapid.] 6.10 p.m. 6.26 p.m. Pranayama 16 m. 8.15 p.m. 8.47 p.m. Ajna with 32m. 22 breaks, Mantra [Light coming a little, one very long break, and some sound.] 10.5 p.m. 10.173 p.m. Ajna 12m. 30s. 11 breaks, 13th. Casual Mutterings of Mantra. 10.44 a.m. Pranayama Quite hopeless, 10.48 am. I1.20am. 32 m. 30 breaks, [Went to Edinburgh to meet H. L.]§ * Not understood. + Om Tat Sat Aum. t 30.15.60. § This meeting with H. L., though of no importance in itself, led to one of the most important happenings in P.’s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
… command service 5 ail this is a question of the general Magical attainment of the student. He must be absolutely at ease in his Body of Light, and hâve made it invulnérable. He must be adept in assuming ali God- forms, in using ail weapons, sigils, gestures, words, and signs. He must be familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. He must be alert, sensitive, and ready to exert his authority; yet courteous, gracious, patient, and sympathetic. 16) There are two opposite methods of exploring the Astral Plane. (a) . One may …
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
…ink I am fair if I say that the first step on the Qabalah which may be called success, is when you make an actual discovery which throws light on some problem which has been troubling you. A quarter of a century ago I was in New Orleans, and very puzzled about my immediate course of action; in fact I may say I was very much distressed. There seemed literally nothing that I could do, so I bethought myself that I had better invoke Mercury. As soon as I got into the appropriate frame of mind, it naturally occurred to me, with a sort of joy, "But I…
1938 · PDF PAGE 7
…g with poison. But the shambles is now dimly to be seen. What? Can the Voice have spoken Truth after all? Is then that Star a Sun, whose light is at last piercing the foul mists of massacre, whose heat is forcing the congealed miasma to steam skyward in those murky banks of dim grey cloud? Hark! Yes, the few that are still alive have seen what rouses them to lift their crippled arms, to star with blear bloodshot eyes, to jabber with broken jaw-bones and torn tongues. For Christ's sake, screams an emasculate rag of flesh, don't look at that d…
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
…hedrin, or the Oracle of Apollo, or the tribal Medicine-Man, nonetheless expressed truly his own Wish to abdicate responsibility. In the light of this Book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord ing to the requirements of his crops.) Th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
… that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 32. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my…
1899 · PDF PAGE 250
… where they touch definite things more sensual than sensuous. A poet’s dreams are not often so persistently full of ‘miasmal pestilence- light’ as these. We do not like ‘dawny’ and ‘ frondage,’ and cannot say these verses deserve to be read—sung they could hardly be."— Zhe Athenzum. “Mr. Aleister Crowley has merits as well as faults, although the latter are the more patent. He lacks a sense of humour, but on the other hand he has a high seriousness, which is full of promise, even if it be a trifle ludicrous and monotonous. He has but little ski…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
… expansion of the consciousness ; it will penetrate ail space, and this will finally undergo a crystallization resplendent with interior light. Such modifications of the original Will may be observed in the course of the invocations when they are properly performed. The peculiar dangers of each are obvious — that of the first is a flash in the pan — a misfire; that of the second, a falling into dreaminess or reverie; that of the third, loss of concentration. A mistake in any of these points will prevent, or injure the proper formation of, the f…
1938 · PDF PAGE 20
…e middle point of the summit of an high mountain apart, the range Jebel-el-Asharah. Now being brought after many days into a Place where Light was, being shed through a carven screen of topaz, graved with a Rose of nine-and-forty petals on a Greek Cross, from the Sun, and that also at midnight, I found myself in the presence of a certain aged man (for it was written that His days should be an hundred and twenty years) who stood before a table of seven sides, whereon were fire, and incense in a thurible, and bread. Of these did he bid me partake…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…ath. Let him aspire to knowledge, and the Second Step is under his feet. The rest lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum ! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge lowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
1906 · PDF PAGE 91
…the lake the dewy lotus-flowers That lift their jewelled hearts toward the East. AFTER. Now, when the sun falls in the dismal sky And no light leaps beneath the plunging prow, I know the fulness of my sorrow now :-— That all my talk and laughter was a lie; That as each hour widens the gulfs that sigh Between us; the truth scores upon my brow Sigils of silence, burns in me the vow ‘‘T love you, and shall love you till I die.” Whether next year, as fondly we made oath, Shall see us meet at least, whether as wife I shall at last gather the whole v…