FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
3,167 matching pages
Page 134 of 1591906 · PDF PAGE 85
…d again, and kissed our lives away. THE THIRTY-FIFTH DAY. ‘‘T cannot kiss, that is the humour of it, but adieu.” King Henry V. THE third time bitterly came reason back. Is it a fault in love when mornings find The soul grown sober and rethroned the ‘ mind? Or is it mere necessity to track The candid chequer cross-wise to the black, And love, not mutable, yet well inclined To take his pleasure in becoming blind After such sight mere day is wont to lack? _So we were angry with ourselves and said We would not kiss—two days, and we would part. And …
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…ion to work a machine gun, took pains to make myself a first-class rifle shot and studied drill, tactics and strategy. However, when the time came for the invasion of Spain, Don Carlos got cold feet. The conspiracy was disclosed; and Lord Ashburnham's yacht, which was running the arms, fell into the hands of the Spanish navy. This part of my mind did succeed in getting disturbed by the other parts. My reactionary conservatism came into conflict with my antiCatholicism. A reconciliation was effected by means of what they called the Celtic Church…
1906 · PDF PAGE 23
…artist finishes By memory that does not go. Behind the rocks a bitch unquietly gazed on Ourselves with eye of wrathful woe, Watching her time to return unto the skeleton For tit-bits that she had let go. Yet you are like to it, this dung, this carrion, To this infection doubly dire, Star of my eyes that are, and still my nature’s sun, You, O my angel! You, my own desire! Yes! such will you be, queen, in graces that surpass, Once the last sacraments are said; When you depart beneath wide-spreading blooms and grass To rot amid the bones of many d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…ompletely out of gear. She lay in a deep trance. [71] "A very fortunate circumstance!" remarked Simon, when he observed it. "This is the time to take her over to the Profess-House." Cyril wrapped her in her furs; between them they carried her to the boulevard, where Simon Iff's automobile was in waiting. The old mystic held up his left hand, with two of the fingers crossed. It was a signal to the chauffeur. In another moment they were running on easy speed up the Boulevard Arago. Lisa came to herself as the car, crossing the Seine, pointed at t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
… in Sanskrit gives the meaning of turning everything upside down and backwards forwards,as you would say, Hysteron Proteronat the same time producing the effect of transcendental sublimity. I find that I cannot even begin to think of a proper definition, although I know in my own mind perfectly well what the Hindus mean; if one soaks oneself in Oriental thought for a sufficient number of years, one gets a spiritual apprehension which it is quite impossible to express in terms applicable to the objects of intellectual apprehension; it is there…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…hunders, hailstones and coals of fire, to burn up Gomorrah and Sodom where Love is either shameful and secret, or daubed with dung of sentiment in order that the swinish citizens may recognize their ideal therein. We do not tell the artist that his art is so sacred, so disgusting, so splendid and so disgraceful that he must not on any account learn the use of the tools of his trade, and study in school how to see with his eye, and record what he sees with his hand. We do not tell the man who would heal disease that he must not know his subject,…
1943 · PDF PAGE 6
TO MEGA THERION is in England, devoting great energy and time to the enormous amount of work before Him. Of outstanding importance in His schedule is the publication of the Tarot, that ancient Book of Thoth, which now requires an interpretation to fit the Aeon of Horus. This is a most meticulous and arduous work, entailing the designing and engraving of an entirely new set of Cards, as well as an accom- panying Book of Tarot which gives their history, their mystic and symbolic significance. It is essential, therefore, that we wholeheartedly con…
1905 · PDF PAGE 59
…ires illunimate my brow Lit of the Tloly Ghost ; I see the angel figures bow On [feaven’s silent cvuast. Eternity, a wheel of light, And Time, a flecce of snow, I saw, and deep beyond the night, The steady mystic glow Of that lamp’s flame unearthly bright That watches Farth below.
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
… forms a protection j but the circle in such a case must be protected, not only by the names of God and the Invocations used at the same time, but by a long habit of successful defence.s If you are easily disturbed or alarmed, or if you hâve not yet overcome the ten- dency of the mind to wander, it is not advisable for you to perform vessel; and it issues in due season refreshed and modified, but still essen- tially itself. The idea is the transmission of life and wisdom from a vehicle which has fulfilled its formula to one capable of further e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 8
…ant things made reasonably quick and easy for them. He never troubles to condense for their benefit, he never does anything to save them time. In fact, he has never troubled to cultivate a single one of the practical, cunning tricks of the literary trade, and he never had any flair whatever for “what puts a reader off.” His innocence in this respect is one of the most singular of his many singularities.1 2 1 Wilkinson is referring to this book. It was Wilkinson himself that was asked to contribute this second commentary to The Book of the Law, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 146
…sical works of the first order—but that’s only what it’s cad/ed, you know.” ‘* Well, what zs the song then?” said Alice, who was by this time completely be- wildered. ‘If I wished to be obscure, child,” said the Knight, rather contemptuously, “I should tell you that the Name of the Title was ‘ What a man of 95 ought to know,’ as endorsed by eminent divines, and that.. Seeing that she only began to cry, he broke off and con- tinued in a gentler tone: ‘‘it means, my dear .”’ Hestopped short, for she was taking no notice;; but as her figure was be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…s nutritive value within a very few minutes after the death of the animal, and that this loss proceeds with ever-diminishing rapidity as time goes on. It is further generally conceded that live food, such as oysters, is the most rapidly assimilable and most concentrated form of energy. * 1 Laboratory experiments in food-values seem to be almost worthless, for reasons which we cannot here enter into; the general testimony of mankind appears a safer guide. It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of those savages who tear the hear…
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
…s were stupid. The reason was that they represented the summing-up of trains of thought, each of which was superb in every detail at one time. A platitude was like a wife after a few years; she has lost none of her charms, and yet one prefers some perfectly worthless woman. I now found myself able to retrace the paths of thought which ultimately come together in a platitude. I would start with some few simple ideas and develop them. Each stage in the process was like the joy of a young eagle soaring from height to height in ever-increasing sunl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
…nd partly of the Order of Thrones. His Mark, Seal, or Character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc. (21.) Marax.—The Twenty-first Spirit is Marax.' He is a Great Earl and President. He appeareth like a great Bull with a Man’s face. His office is to make Men very knowing in Astronomy, and all other Liberal Sciences; also he can give good Familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of Herbs and Stones which be precious. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, which must be m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…e it. Glou- cester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to axiomania in its crudest form,— “We have seen the best of our time : machi- nations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our grave” (Sc. ii. ll. 125-127). Edmund, once rid of him, gives us the * H e le aves he r in c harge of M arshal Le Fer, whom a lone he c ould trust to be impervious to her wiles, he being devoted to a nother ; for a s a n in- valuable co ntemporary MS . h as i t, “ Seccotine colle même Le Fer.” † This may be, but…
1905 · PDF PAGE 119
…, and know no certain path— Yet their worst shades are tinged with dawn- ing beams ! 1 The all sion betrays Crowley's ignorance (at this time) of the results of modern criticism of the New Testament.
1929 · PDF PAGE 486
… a trout rod. The editor is tacitly boycotted. This and my work with Evangeline Adams kept me going through the summer. I had a glorious time, what with love and sea bathing. I wrote a good deal of poetry; in particular "The Golden Rose", and a set of lyrics, mostly sonnets to Hilarion, who appears later, in "the Urn", as "the Cat Officer". This woman possessed a unique atmosphere. I can only describe it as "sweetness long drawn out". This translated itself in terms of rhythm. I quote a typical sonnet: IN THE RED ROOM OF ROSE CROIX The bleeding…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…ed at her surroundings. She rose and began to stretch her arms in a dozen physical exercises. Just as she touched her toes for the tenth time the door behind her opened. Sister Cybele was standing there. "Come, Sister!" she cried, "it will be dawn in three minutes; first we must make the Adoration of the Sun, and then comes breakfast!" The horror of the night returned to Lisa in a flash. But somehow it had receeded into a deeper stratum of her being; when it came to a question of any possible action, she seemed remote. She had the horrible fanc…
1904 · PDF PAGE 36
Gryphon’s Wings, and a Serpent’s Tail, and Vomiting Fire out of his mouth. But after a time, at the command of the Exorcist he putteth on the Shape ofa Man. And he isastrong fighter. He was of the Order of Dominations. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits. He told his Chief, who was Solomon, that after 1,200 years he had hopes to return unto the Seventh Throne, And his Seal is this, to be made and worn as a Lamen, etc. (36.) Sroxas, or Stotos.—The Thirty-sixth Spirit is Stolas, or Stolos. He is a Great and Powerful Prince, appearing in the Shape …
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…ld not see. She had only a feeling that it was black, that it was icy cold, and that it wished to take the tablet from her. Her first sentiment was that of acute hatred and repulsion; but the thing, whatever it was, seemed so wretched, that she felt she would like to help it. Then she suddenly glowed hot — the arms of Abdul Bey were round her, and his face was looking into hers. She dropped the tablet hastily; she was back again in a ball-room somewhere, thousands of miles and thousands of years away. And then she saw the moon, near her setting…