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Page 158 of 1961910 · PDF PAGE 24
… moon and vowed myself knight of Artemis, to bring the truth into this England of hypocrisy, light in its superstition of rationa- lism, love in its prudery, chastity into its whoredom ! So I swore, and rose up and kissed Mabel and went home in the might of the holy vision — for the god Pan appeared to me, and abode in me and I in him — and wrote for four nights night by night, until the World’s Tragedy lay finished and perfect before me. All day I kept myself up to the mark by the stern
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
…at, Joe! I have a friend and his girl coming, too. You shall pay for all of us.” The negro beamed. " Ida Pendragonl " he spluttered. “ I love you, Ida Pendragon." “ And Ida Pendragon loves her leopard. Now leave me.” She glanced round. They were alone in the gallery. “ You may kiss the back of my neck, if you like." The negro buried his head between her shoulders. She shivered ; her hair hissed under his kiss. She writhed round, and gave her mouth to his for one clinging moment. Then she pushed herself away, and he, poor troubled animal, went s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 149
… his dilated nostrils hot and fierce; one would have said a bull in the arena. She disengaged herself. “ You see, he wants to marry me. I love him I I want to be with him for ever. But—" the great fighter was limp in his chair. " It is difficult,” she went on. “ There are complica- tions. My mother . . ." Edgar Rolles detected the false note in her voice. He understood. He was angry, angry at his implication in such an affair. His teeth snapped. " Yes ? " he said, though he wanted to shout, to break the furniture. ”We cannot marry," she went on, a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
…at, Joe! I have a friend and his girl coming, too. You shall pay for all of us.” The negro beamed. " Ida Pendragonl " he spluttered. “ I love you, Ida Pendragon." “ And Ida Pendragon loves her leopard. Now leave me.” She glanced round. They were alone in the gallery. “ You may kiss the back of my neck, if you like." The negro buried his head between her shoulders. She shivered ; her hair hissed under his kiss. She writhed round, and gave her mouth to his for one clinging moment. Then she pushed herself away, and he, poor troubled animal, went s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 149
… his dilated nostrils hot and fierce; one would have said a bull in the arena. She disengaged herself. “ You see, he wants to marry me. I love him I I want to be with him for ever. But—" the great fighter was limp in his chair. " It is difficult,” she went on. “ There are complica- tions. My mother . . ." Edgar Rolles detected the false note in her voice. He understood. He was angry, angry at his implication in such an affair. His teeth snapped. " Yes ? " he said, though he wanted to shout, to break the furniture. ”We cannot marry," she went on, a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 369
…ion to “Maya.” To interpret illusion is to make confusion more confused. 20. If thou art told that to become Arhan thou hast to cease to love all beings—tell them they lie. Here begins an instruction against Asceticism, which has always been the stumbling block most dreaded by the wise. ‘Christ’ said that John the Baptist came neither eating nor drinking, and the people called him mad. He himself came eating and drinking; and they called him a gluttonous man and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. The Adept does what he likes, or …
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
…the card is ruled by Jupiter, and Jupiter is For‐ tune. In all these watery cards, there is a certain element of illusion; they begin by Love, and love is the greatest and most deadly of the illusions. The sign of Pisces is the refinement, the fading away of this instinct, which, begun with dreadful hunger and carried on with passion, has now become “a dream within a dream”.
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
THE MOTHER 141 Force , ” we find that of Motherhood . The true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover , and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children . This is no paradox , no riddle , no twisting of words ; for Crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of Eternity the sacred blood of the Bull , the Second Christ ; and as the first, the Lamb of God, sprang from the immaculate womb of the Virgin -Mother , so shall this second incarnation spring blood -red from the snowy lips of the great Sup…
1910 · PDF PAGE 367
…ruelty! Thou hast replaced the Trappist cell by the Court Theatre! For this, I, who prefer the study to the theatre, forgive thee; for I love not the badger-reek of Suburbia and Bohemia in my nostrils. But for this also I praise thee, that lion-like thou turnest at last upon the jackal-crowd at thy heels. That ungainly dragon, the Chesterbelloc, hast thou ridden against, 349
1910 · PDF PAGE 367
…ruelty! Thou hast replaced the Trappist cell by the Court Theatre! For this, I, who prefer the study to the theatre, forgive thee; for I love not the badger-reek of Suburbia and Bohemia in my nostrils. But for this also I praise thee, that lion-like thou turnest at last upon the jackal-crowd at thy heels. That ungainly dragon, the Chesterbelloc, hast thou ridden against, 349
1919 · PDF PAGE 419
…is dissatisfaction should be so conscious and so universal as appears to be implied in the text. : 26. Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure before the gate of Dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the Path. 27. Behold, O happy Pilgrim! The Portal that faceth thee is high and wide, seems easy of access. The road that leads there-through is straight and smooth and green. ’Tis like a sunny glade in the dark forest depths, a spot on earth mirrored from Amitabha’s paradise. There nightingales of hope and…
1904 · PDF PAGE 36
…not be that one step further “’This lotused Buddha roaring murther !” ?39 Nibbana is the state above you Christians and them Hindus—Lord love you !— Where Nothing is perceived as such. This clever thought doth please me much. But if das Essen ist das Nichts— Ha ! Hegel’s window ! Ancient Lichts ! And two is one and one is two— “Bother this nonsense ! Go on, do !” My wandering thoughts you well recall ! I focus logic’s perfect prism : Lo ! the informing syllogism ! The premiss major. Life at best Is but a sorry sort of jest ; At worst, a play of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
… , but an almost orthodox adoration for the Christ Himself . In the last two verses of “ Aceldama " this is strongly brought out . “ Thy love will stand while ocean winds en dure "; and again , “ Here I abandon all myself to thee .” ? In “ Songs of the Spirit ” we find this venera tion acutely portrayed , and the Christ as depicted in “ The Goad ” closely resembles the one as described in “ The Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile .” Here is a passage from each : I contemplate the wound Stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver Christ . He hangs in a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
100 THE STAR IN THE WEST has plunged through the Cytherean sea as a winter in Gaul . Thus Ignorance has bound , fettered , and manacled love to the dingy fornices of the lupanar . Once sink , and instead of extending a helping hand , your head is thrust for a second and third time beneath the waters of affliction by the hands of lechers and louts . The drama entitled “ Tannhäuser " is (as the author states in his preface ) almost identical with “ The Pilgrim's Progress .” It is an intricate mass of psycho logy and philosophy closely interwoven …
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
…he mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kindness, love or hate : If toads and vultures are obscene to sight, If tigers burn with beauty and with might, Is it by favour or by wrath of fate ? All substance lives and struggles evermore Through countless shapes continually at war, By countless interactions interknit: If one is born acertain day on earth, All times and forces tended to that birth, Not all the world could change or hinder it. Ι7
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
…he mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kindness, love or hate : If toads and vultures are obscene to sight, If tigers burn with beauty and with might, Is it by favour or by wrath of fate ? All substance lives and struggles evermore Through countless shapes continually at war, By countless interactions interknit: If one is born acertain day on earth, All times and forces tended to that birth, Not all the world could change or hinder it. Ι7
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
… I am the Fool that heedeth not the Play of the Magician. Me doth the Woman of the Mysteries instruct in vain; I have burst the bonds of Love and of Power and of Worship. 59. Therefore is the Eagle made one with the Man, and the gallows of infamy dance with the fruit of the just. 60. I have descended, O my darling, into the black shining waters, and I have plucked Thee forth as a black pearl of infinite preciousness. 61. I have gone down, O my God, into the abyss of the all, and I have found Thee in the midst under the guise of No Thing. 62. Bu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 386
…his crimson veils his “Eye” sweeps over slumbering Earth. Behold the fiery aura of the “Hand” of Lhagpa (Mercury) extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. Both are now servants to Nyima (the Sun), left in his absence silent watchers in the night. Vet both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future “Days” again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in Nature. The astronomy of the Author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. Mercury can hardly be said to have a fiery aura, or to bea …
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
…agle or Dragon. Moreover, this Sphinx is an Eidolon of the Law, for the Bull is Life, the Lion is Light, the Man is Liberty, the Serpent Love. Now then his Sphinx, being perfect in true Balance, yet taketh the Aspect of the Feminine Principle that so She may be partner of the Pyramid, that is the Phallus, pure Image of Our Father the Sun, the Unity Creative. The Signification of this Mystery is hat the Adept must be Whole, Himself, containing all Things in true Proportion, before he maketh himself Bride of the One Universal Transcendental, in i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…thy brow Twine , and the disc of flaming light Is on thee , seated in the prow Of the Sun's bark , enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee , thee girt round With leopard's pell , and golden sound Of planets choral in their course ! O thou self-formulated sire ! Self -master of thy dam's desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! I adore the insuperable might : I bow before the unspoken Name . For I am Yesterday , and I To-day, and I to -morrow , born …