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Page 13 of 1301961 · PDF PAGE 47
…et each think as he will concerning the Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this World or any other World. Look now, though I enkindle thee to Effort in thy Way, yet it is the Way of thy Will, and I say not even that thou dost well to hasten therein, for the whole Matter lieth in thy Will, and to force thyself against thy Nature would be an Obstacle to thy Passage. But if I urge thee to run well this Race as an Athlete, it is because I have perceived in thy Nature that firce Lust and might…
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
II0 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. ISSA And then, to counterbalance the effect — What next ? JOHN I cannot say. ISSA I resurrect. JOHN What good would that do ? ISSA As I understand, It would spoil life for everyone. JOHN How grand ! How simple ! ISSA Look, boy, I am tired of things. Joy, that had legs before, hath now got wings. I am exceeding weary.
1913 · PDF PAGE 217
…, A hanging lamp, under the Firmament: There shall be no more roses, no more roses . . . Until the spring of the stars shall fall on the world; Then shall be light again, O secret Rose, And thou shalt be born anew, with radiant starlight For dew, and all thy petals shall be dreams Crystallised of the gods who swing the wheels Of the worlds in space; and at the heart of thee Shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred Word, The AOTOS of the throbbing Universe. And the years shall pass in myriads over the Tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose o’ th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 217
…, A hanging lamp, under the Firmament: There shall be no more roses, no more roses . . . Until the spring of the stars shall fall on the world; Then shall be light again, O secret Rose, And thou shalt be born anew, with radiant starlight For dew, and all thy petals shall be dreams Crystallised of the gods who swing the wheels Of the worlds in space; and at the heart of thee Shall be the secret knowledge, the sacred Word, The AOTOS of the throbbing Universe. And the years shall pass in myriads over the Tree Whereon thou bloomest, O my Rose o’ th…
1901 · PDF PAGE 8
…SS ” ......................... 99 HAPPINESS ................................................. 100 THE HOLY OF HOLIES : THE PALACE OF THE WORLD ......................... 103 THE MOUNTAIN CHRIST ................................ 107 TO ALLAN MACGREGOR ................................. 111 THE ROSICRUCIAN ....................................... 112 THE ATHANOR ............................................. 115 THE CHANT TO BE SAID OR SUNG UNTO OUR LADY ISIS .............................................. 123 A LITANY .................................…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…d—to follow them: till Konx om Pax replace Reading without Tears in every Infant School. Yet, suppose this were to happen, how would the world be advanced? In no wise. For the brilliance wherein we walk will be but thick dark ness to all those who have not become so blind that light and darkness are akin. The light wherein I write is not the light of reason; it is not the darkness of unreason ; it is the L. V. X. of that which, first master ing and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposit…
1928 · PDF PAGE 38
… of glory are not un- known to her. There are more irremediable misfortunes; there are misfortunes that have no compensation. But in the world into which she has been thrown she had never been able to believe that women could ever deserve an- other fate. Now, between ourselves, my affected dar- ling; to see the hells with which the world is crowded, what do you wish me to think of your pretty hell? You who rest only upon materials as soft as your own skin; eat nothing but well- cooked food, carefully carved by a clever ser- vant. And all thes…
1903 · PDF PAGE 79
… to Nina, and all as they die! The moon makes blackest of shade ; the star’s in the swarthiest sky. Be silent, O radiant martyr! Let the world fade slowly afar! But—had it not been for the Garter, I might never have seen the Star. 77
1898 · PDF PAGE 19
…r like live coals. And the end was to have been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awaited the voice of some great one. And now the silence is not broken. Perhaps men were not ready for those final chords. Perhaps to hear them would be to pass where he has passed! But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end! Would God he could come back only
1928 · PDF PAGE 62
…tering like a beauti- ful conception, like magnificent plate, like splendid gold-work, like a mosaic of jewels. All the treasures of the world flow to it as in the house of a man who has well toiled and has deserved well of the whole world. Strange country, superior to all others, as Art is to Na- ture, where nature is re-formed by dream, where she is corrected, beautified, re-moulded. Let them seek, let them still seek; let them ever push back the limits of their happiness, these alchemists of gardening; let them pro- pose their prizes of sixt…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
154 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. Suspend the laws of Nature, break Qismat’s insufferable boom, Incense the mountain and the plain. sufflate the forest and the combe Eternally with love, with love, with love, the lily all abloom. Love me, your poet ; pass the night from twilight gloom to twilight gloom At podex-play with El Qahar within his Garden of Perfume !
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
But neither by the natural use of His abilities, though they hâve made Him famous through the whole world, nor by the utmost rnight of his Magick, is He able to acquire material wealth beyond the minimum necessary to keep Him alive and at work. It is in vain that He protests that not He but the Work is in need of money ; He is barred by the strict Jetter of His Oath to give ail that He hath for His magical Attainment. Yet more awful is the doom that He hath invoked upon Himself in renouncing His right as a man to enjoy the Love of those whom He…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…d horseman, pennoned, ride Over the waste of ochre, swept By wind in waves, and sit beside Our tent a little, bring us news Of the great world we have lost for—this ! What fool exclaims—‘‘to lose!”? To lose ? Ay ! earth and heaven for one small kiss ! But he shall sing beside our fire The epic of the world’s desire; How Freedom fares, how Art yet revels Sane in the dance of dogs and devils. His thunder voice shall climb and crash, Scourge liars with tongue’s lightning lash, Through ranks of smitten tyrants drive, Till bosoms heave, and eyes out…
1899 · PDF PAGE 138
…r like live coals. And the end was to have been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awaited the voice of some great one. And now the silence is not broken. Perhaps men were not ready for those final chords. Perhaps to hear them would be to pass where he has passed! But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end! Would God he could come back only
1898 · PDF PAGE 13
…sins) was steadily writing day after day, night after night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises ; bye-and-bye the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they were lost, and how those frag- ments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite statements lack cor…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…nst all complaints. This is the wine the great king-angels use To inspire the souls of sinners and of saints Unto the deeds that win the world or lose. One drop of this raised Attis from the cead ; One drop of this, and slain Osiris stirs; One drop of this; before young Horus fled Thine hosts, Typhon ! — this wine is mine and hers Ye Gods that gaveit! not in trickling gonts, But from the very fountain whence 'tis drawn Gushing in crystal jets and ruby spouts From the authentic throne and shrine of dawn. Drink it? Ay, so! and bathe therein — and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 223
…re no more roses, no more roses, And the ways stretch out, unending; no god knows If thou shalt be reborn or late or soon. O poet of the world! the agony closes. Shall there be no more roses, no more roses Under the immortal moon? XX THE KEY THE sign of the lover is hidden in vain From the eyes of the mage, from the sight of the sun: The laughter of life and the pzean of pain, The chords of the lyre and the answer of one. The toil of the pilgrim shall never be done; The love of the lover shall never be over: For there is no end, ah! no end to t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 223
…re no more roses, no more roses, And the ways stretch out, unending; no god knows If thou shalt be reborn or late or soon. O poet of the world! the agony closes. Shall there be no more roses, no more roses Under the immortal moon? XX THE KEY THE sign of the lover is hidden in vain From the eyes of the mage, from the sight of the sun: The laughter of life and the pzean of pain, The chords of the lyre and the answer of one. The toil of the pilgrim shall never be done; The love of the lover shall never be over: For there is no end, ah! no end to t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 31
… a brain that was a mass of putrid pulp, and a complete lack of social status, education, and moral character, did more in the religious world than any other person had done for generations. She, and she alone, made Theosophy possible, and without Theosophy the world-Wide interest in similar matters could never have been aroused. This interest is to the Law of Thelema what the preaching of John the Baptist was to Christianity. We are now in a position to say what happened to Mo- hammed. Somehowor another this phenomenon happened in his mind. Mo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
108 KONX OM PAX THE POET BURY me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and love. They slew me for I did disparage Therefore Religion, Law, and Marriage. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! Arthur! said the big man, more tenderly than he had yet spoken, there was once a man like you. He wished your wish, not with‘tears, but with laughter; he had his wish, as you shall have yours. In spite of all, that nameless man is widely known as any in the…