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Page 153 of 1731905 · PDF PAGE 122
… The hoary trees Stagger; the foam is angry on the sea: I know the secret mountains are at ease, And in the deepest ice-embroidery Where great men’s spirits linger there is peace. Heed not the unquiet wind! Dawn’s finger shall be raised, its wrath shall cease, The sun shall rouse us whom the tempest lulled, And thy poor poet’s mind For respite by its own deep anguish dulled Shall wake again to watch the cruel day Drift slowly on its chill and. wasted way With but thy smile to inspire some sad melodious lay. From whose rude caverns sweep these g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 145
…r sudden fate. With new-born love and ardour unrepressed, Let Lethe steep in its unquiet rest The old years whose red hands have made us great. O fair republic, strong and swift, unbind The shackles of thy mind: More than our kin ye are; henceforth not less than kind. Bind on the splendid sandals, and unloose The burning horses, and fling widethe reins ! From cold Archangel unto Syracuse Iurope shall see and tremble and ask truce, And new blood pour through Asia’s wasted veins. Our Empire from Guiana to Hong Kong, In your new love made strong, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 38
…epetl’s? steep. The chattering voices of the day depart. Earth folds her limbs and leans her loving breast Even to all her children: the great heart Beats solemnly the requiem of rest. The sea keeps tune; the silent stars upstart Seeming to sentinel that sombre crest Where of old time burst out the vulture fire Cyclopean, that is dead, now, as a man’s desire. 1 Called by the Spaniards Orizaba. The drowsy cries of night birds, then the song Lovely and lovelorn in the listening vale, So wild and tender, swooping down in long Notes of despair, the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 175
…lt backwards: Tem. o. h. p. ab. =Templi omnium hominum pacis pater (Heb. Ab, father). Some assert the word to be really a synthesis of a great body of secret doctrine, discoverable by any one who knows the Qabalistic meaning of each letter. Fall down, my baby ; worship him with me. There, go; I give you to his monster kisses ! Take her, my God, my God, my infamy, My love, my master! take the fruit of me! — Shrieks every soul and every demon hisses ! Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discover The s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 214
…vest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about thee: till thy ways Gleam with the splendour of that secret goal Whose long war grows the great abiding peace. THE ROSICRUCIAN. A SA MAJESTE JACQUES IV D'ECQSSE.” I ser the centuries wax and wane. I know their mystery of pain, The secrets of the living fire, The key of life: I live: I reign: For I am master of desire. Silent, I pass amid the folk Caught in its mesh, slaves to its yoke. Silent, unknown, I work and will Redemption, godhead’s master-stroke, And breaking of the wands of ill. 1 Now a Bu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 133
…ugh again with mirthless glee, As knowing also I am he. A fool in gorgeous attire ! An ox decked bravely for his doom ! So step I to the great desire. Sweet winds upon the gathering gloom Bend like a mother, as I go, Foreknowing, to my overthrow. NEW YEAR, 1903. O FRIENDS and brothers! Hath the year deceased, And ye await the bidding to fare well? How shall ye fare, thus bound of fate in hell? How, whom no light hath smitten, and released ? Ye trust perchance in God, or man, or priest ? Ay! Let them serve you, let them save you ! Spell The name…
1905 · PDF PAGE 203
…itual aspect. catch breath As if I choked ; some horror creeps between The spirit of my will and its desire, Some just reluctance to the Great Unseen | That coils its nameless terrors, and its dire | fear round my heart ; a devil cold as ice Breathes somewhere, for I feel his shudder take My veins: some deadlier asp or cockatrice Slimes in my senses: I am half awake, Half automatic, as I move along Wrapped in a cloud of blackness deep .as hell, i Hearing afar some half-forgotten song As of disruption ; yet strange glories dwell | Above my head,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 196
…Eternity Shake as I loose the loud indignant string. Hail, Hades! hear thy wrong proclaimed aloud, And thou the wronger safe because too great, To like offence harden thy neck, and proud Blow thou the dismal challenge unto Fate ! Thou who hearest not my In Asia, on the Nysian plains, she played, A slender maid, With the deep-bosomed Oceanides ; Where the tall trees Girded the meadow with grave walls of green. Alone, unseen, The tender little lady strayed, Moving across the breeze.
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…ision, as it were. So trivial a "regrettable incident" was negligibly normal. Akbar had no thought but of S.R.M.D. as a Being infinitely great in
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
…its perfection. To this end hath he proclaimed his Law; so also to that end, which is also thine, do thou add thy little strength to His great might. As it is written: And blessing and worship to the Prophet of the lovely Star! Thou, thereforego on, go on in my strength, saith the Lord of the Aeon, and ye shall turn not back for any. While he thus spoke, I felt constantly in myself a cleansing of heart; and my stature was increased, because of the straightening of my nature. And as I thought thus, mine instructor, perceiving it, smiled upon me…
1919 · PDF PAGE 305
…e gone mad. It is impossible to go into details with regard to this book. In every page Yvette Guilbert unconsciously reveals her unique greatness. Her brain is great enough to comprehend the minutiz of technique without in the smallest degree forgetting the fact that technique is absolutely worthless without genius. America is full of technicians, and I suspect that a number of geniuses are born. But the genius is strangled before he can acquire technique, and the technician unfortu- nately is not strangled at all. But any one who wants to do …
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…unately, before the demons could fire, Mrs. Mathers came into the room, thus formulating the symbol of the blessed Trinity, of which her great purity of character would naturally fit her to be a prominent member. Now, the only probability about He (Crowley) had, as we have bled himself was equally anxious to 7
1905 · PDF PAGE 222
…m- prehend ! The nations keep their mocking carnivals : She hath not left a friend ! England, mighty England, The harlot that men called great Babylon, In crimson raiment and in smooth attire, The scarlet leprosy that shamed the sun, The gilded goat that plied the world for hire ;— Her days of wealth and majesty are done: Men trample her for mire ! 1 The House of Hanover.
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
… Will of Zeus: the after scheme And primal fate and most primordial plan Shaped from the earth’s first protoplasmic dream Up to the last great mischief that is man. All this I challenge: that the suns and stars Work in due order and procession meet Without caprice in viewless, changeless bars, Nor self-determinate in their wingless feet. All nature and all consciousness and thought He hath thrown asunder and divided them; Fixing a gulf of agony athwart, Where rolls a tide no soul of man may stem. Himself fixed high, he mocked us with his name O…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
… appear Shaped in the image of a little hand Far up the rocky cavern: warm and clear The good air sends its fragrance: glory then To the great work accomplished even here, Promise and purpose unto little men Bound in life’s limits: death indeed I sever By will’s efficiency and speechless ken Of power not God’s but man’s. Forget this never, O mortals chained invlife’s detested den ! I leave this heritage to you for ever. O light of Apollo! O joy of the sky! We see thee, we follow, We draw to thee nigh.
1906 · PDF PAGE 239
…ld, I have but one hope of making any profound impression, viz.—that my theory has the merit of explaining the divergences between three great forms of religion now existing in the world—Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and of adapting them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of Mohamme- danism I shall not now treat, as, in whatever. light we may decide to regard it (and its esoteric schools are often orthodox), in any case it must fall under one of the three heads of Nihilism, Advaitism, and Dvaitism. Taki…
1939 · PDF PAGE 42
…e practices recommended in The Equinox. There should bethere must bea definite routine of acts calculated to remind the student of the Great Work. 9. The classic of the subject is Liber Astarte vel Berylli, the Book of Devotion to a Particular Deity. This book is admirable beyond praise, reviewing the whole subject in every detail with flawless brilliancy of phrase. Its practice is enough in itself to bring the devotee to high attainment. This is only for the few. But every student should make a point of saluting the Sun (in the manner recomm…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…il the lightning spat, sharp to divide Bone from its marrow for their blasphemies ! So I should curse, unless indeed my grief Be not too great to yield me such relief. Methinks a sob must start and mar the roar Of loud harsh laughing bitter unbelief Scarring the sky with poisonous foam of song. Also, what curse might remedy the wrong? Are not all feuds forgotten in a war? All stars exhausted in Astrzea’s throng When the swift sun leaps skyward? Let me speak Words rather of wisdom: hate may rage and wreak Vengeance if vain if wisdom smile beyond…
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
…ll encompass thee ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! [TANNHAUSER perceives that he ts in the palace of a Great Queen. Rise, rise, my knight! My king! My love, arise ! See the grave avenues of Paradise, The dewy larches bending at my breath, Portentous cedars prophesying death! ¢ See the long vistas and the dancing sea, The measured motion of fecundity ! Bright winds set swaying the sofi-sounding flowers (Here flowers have music) in my woven bowers, Where sweet birds blossom, and in chorus quire The rapt beginning…
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
…blind (unredeemed). Answer: She shall be what she doth not, z.e. see. She shall be the sea, z.e. ‘‘ exalted to the throne of Binah” (the great sea), the Qabalistic phrase to express her redemption. We leave it to the reader’s ingenuity to solve the rest. . Each refers to the - Sephira indicated by the number, but going upward.