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Page 166 of 1961911 · PDF PAGE 34
…thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly οί thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. Il. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacra- ment of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And beholdl if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one tho…
1919 · PDF PAGE 393
…int in Liber Aleph. Most of the pleasures in life, and most of the education in life, are given by superable obstacles. Sport, including love, depends on the overcoming of artificial or imaginary resistances. Golf has been defined as trying to knock a little ball into a hole with a set of in- struments very ill-adapted for the purpose. In Chess one is 71
1911 · PDF PAGE 112
…nd he saith: The light is come to the darkness, and the darkness is made light. Then is light married with light, and the child of their love is that other darkness, wherein they abide that have lost name and form. Therefore did I kindle him that had not understanding, and in the Book of the Law did I write the secrets of truth that are like unto a star and a snake and a sword. And unto him that understandeth at last do I deliver the secrets of truth in such wise that the least of the little children of the light may run to the knees of the mot…
1922 · PDF PAGE 38
…lcohol brutalises men. Why is Lou so superb? She has breathed the pure snow of Heaven into her nostrils.” **O Thou snow-white chalice of Love, that art
1922 · PDF PAGE 164
…ake offence; but we knew instinctively he meant brains. However, Peter stuck to his guns, like the game little devil he is. That’s why I love him. “Oh, yes, heroin,’’ said Lamus; “cocaine. We regret exceedingly to be out of it for the moment.” _ The brute seemed unconscious of our distress. He gave an imitation of an apologetic shop-walker. “ But let me show you our latest lines on morphine.” Cockie and I looked at each other wanly. Morphine would no doubt be better than nothing. And then, if you please, the beast pulled a review with a blue co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…. For the first time in my life I was brought into contact with my fellow men and women. For the first time honest friendship, wholesome love, frank, gay and courageous, became possible and actual. I had loved nature as a refuge from mankind. I now perceived the beauty of the world in conjunction with the beauty of my species. For the first time {75} the sea sparkled, the breezes whispered other songs than those in praise of solitude, the flowers lent their fragrance and their folly to light, laughing girlhood; the moon, instead of Artemis, was…
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
98 KONX OM PAX I eat her flesh: I drink her blood. God! could I love a woman more By Arno’s flower-enamelled shore, or Father Tiber‘s tawny flood? And reeking with her lusty life I back the gilded mask and burn With joy and hate. Aha! to turn to my own guts the glutted knife! 0 Satan! stand morose and cold above our bodies swimming thus And plunge thy glory into us, and fan our death with plumes of gold! Write with our blood before thee spilt on catafalque and catacomb The dire monition of our doom, the story of the Mask of Gilt! The paradox is ri…
1911 · PDF PAGE 48
…ana ought to be done before invo- cations of the Holy Guardian Angel, so that the ego may be very ready to yield itself utterly to the Beloved. And now the breeze is blowing about us, like the sighs of love unsatisfied—or satisfied. His lips move. I cannot say the words at first. And afterwards: “Shalt thou not bring the children of men to the sight of my glory? ‘Only thy silence and thy speech that worship me avail.’ ‘For as I am the last, so am I the next, and as the next shalt thou reveal me to the multi- tude.’ Fear not for aught; turn not …
1913 · PDF PAGE 497
…oses, and that they declared those which they could not imitate im- possible to human science. It is in fact more flattering to the self-love of a charlatan to deem that a miracle has taken place, than to declare himself conquered by the science or skill of a fellow-magician—above all, when he is a political enemy or a religious adversary. When does the possible in magical miracles begin and end ? Here is a serious and important question. What is certain is the existence of the facts which one habitually describes as miracles. _Magnetizers and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 497
…oses, and that they declared those which they could not imitate im- possible to human science. It is in fact more flattering to the self-love of a charlatan to deem that a miracle has taken place, than to declare himself conquered by the science or skill of a fellow-magician—above all, when he is a political enemy or a religious adversary. When does the possible in magical miracles begin and end ? Here is a serious and important question. What is certain is the existence of the facts which one habitually describes as miracles. _Magnetizers and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 14
…nglish seems to fail me!) So, as a surgeon to a man, sir, Let me excise your Christian cancer Impersonally, without vanity, Just in pure love of poor humanity ! Here’s just the chance you’d have ! Behold The warm sun tint with early gold Yon spire : to-day’s event provide My text of wrath—Ascension-tide ! Oh ! ’tis a worthy day to wrest Hate’s diadem from Jesus’ Crest ! Ascends he ? ’Tis the very test By which we men may fairly judge, From the rough roads we mortals trudge Or God’s paths paved with heliotrope, The morals of the crucified. (Both…
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
…e gold!” }# But don’t worry about it! theories OF ors I, you, or Simpkin * can get on without it! Browning’s "If life’s task be work and love’s (the soft-lippéd) ease, summary. Death’s be God’s glory ? discuss with Euripides ! 30 * The numbered notes are given at p. 190. + Bacon, ‘‘ Essay on Truth,” line 1. + ‘‘ Childe Roland to the dark Tower came.’ —BROWNING. 144
1906 · PDF PAGE 155
…glish seems to fail me !) So, as a surgeon to a man, sir, Let me excise your Christian cancer Impersonally, without vanity, Just in pure love of poor humanity ! Here’s just the chance you'd have! Behold The warm sun tint with early gold Yon spire: to-day’s event provide My text of wrath—Ascension-tide ! Oh ! ’tis a worthy day to wrest Hate’s diadem from Jesus’ Crest ! Ascends he? ’Tis the very test By which we men may fairly judge, From the rough roads we mortals trudge Or God’s paths paved with heliotrope, The morals of the crucified. (Both st…
1909 · PDF PAGE 5
… horrible utterances has to unfold is alas! too common. Its study may be useful to us as showing the logical outcome of Atheism and Free Love. For the former, death ; for the latter, the death- in-life of a frightful, loathsome, shameful disease. “ Receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet ”. It may seem almost incredible to many of us, perhaps safely established in our comfortable cures, among a simple and Godfearing people, that any man should have been found to pen the disgusting blasphemies, the revolting obsceni…
1913 · PDF PAGE 543
… and one might say after having met her at church: “I have seen the devil at prayer.” On leaving the first, one feels one’s self full of love for all that is beautiful, good and generous. One is happy to have well said to her all the noble things with which she has inspired you, and to have been approved by her. One says to one’s self that life is good, since God has bestowed it on such souls as hers; one is full of courage and of hope. The other leaves you weakened and baffled, or perhaps, what is worse, full of evil designs; she makes you dou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 543
… and one might say after having met her at church: “I have seen the devil at prayer.” On leaving the first, one feels one’s self full of love for all that is beautiful, good and generous. One is happy to have well said to her all the noble things with which she has inspired you, and to have been approved by her. One says to one’s self that life is good, since God has bestowed it on such souls as hers; one is full of courage and of hope. The other leaves you weakened and baffled, or perhaps, what is worse, full of evil designs; she makes you dou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 544
544 And then she struck a snag. She had taken it for granted that my love for her would make me forget my friendship, cancel my obligations and abrogate my affection. She was amazed and angry to find that my attitude to the Ape had not been altered in any way whatever by my liaison with her. She supposed the conventional stupidities, cruelties and crimes were laws of nature; not understanding the Law of Thelema and hankering after exclusive possession, she fell into a frenzy of mistrust and jealousy. It made things worse that I smilingly accept…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…s universal ; hot , cold ; good , bad , etc. This duality is in reality only apparent , there being no definite line of division . So in Love , if one system of Ethics tends towards abuse , then we may be certain that the reverse will be uselessly sterile , and that the only possible system to follow will as usual lie directly between these extremes , and in this case , in the region of Use . If now , supposing at one end of our pole we find Lust seated crimson as a rose , then at the other we shall find Chastity white as a lily . This system o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
…ofafurnace. “I shall perish with thirst,” Icried. “ Yet one more trial. There must be people in all these immense houses. Doubtless they love the dying traveller, and will give him to drink. Good friends! water! water!” A horribly deafening din poured down on me from the four sides of the square. Every sash of all the hundred stories of every house in that colossal quadrangle flew up as by one spring. Awakened by my call, at every window stood a terrific maniac. Sublimely in the air above me, in front, beside me, on either hand, and behind my b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
…ofafurnace. “I shall perish with thirst,” Icried. “ Yet one more trial. There must be people in all these immense houses. Doubtless they love the dying traveller, and will give him to drink. Good friends! water! water!” A horribly deafening din poured down on me from the four sides of the square. Every sash of all the hundred stories of every house in that colossal quadrangle flew up as by one spring. Awakened by my call, at every window stood a terrific maniac. Sublimely in the air above me, in front, beside me, on either hand, and behind my b…