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Page 173 of 1971905 · PDF PAGE 233
… I may attain the Solitary Sphere, Achieve the Path ; or, haply, if I fail, Gain the Elixir, or behold the Grail.} I seek the mystery of Life and Time, The Key of all that is not and that is, And that which — climb, imagination ! climb !— Transcends them both—the mystical abyss Where Mind and Being marry, and are Bliss.” So have I journeyed—likea fool ! Ah, well! Let pass self-scorn, as love of self is past ! But—am I further forward? Who can tell? God is the Complex as the Protoplast : He is the First (not ‘‘ was”), and is the Last (Not ‘‘will…
1935 · PDF PAGE 7
…d and deed, but to withdraw Himself at once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of all modes of existence; that is, his being is entirely free from internal or external
1996 · PDF PAGE 74
…y of every artist, the greater he the more fierce his despair, that he cannot compass expression. And what they cannot do, not once in a life of ardour, is done in all fulness by the body of any that, loving, hath learnt the lesson of how to love. Addendum: More generally, any act soever may be used to attain any end soever by the magician who knows how to make the necessary links. 53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart 8c my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…t love and—I am feeling ill- [CoRA recovers her mental balance. CORA. A blood-grey vapour and a scorpion steam To poison the unrighteous life of God ! [ULRIc looks on tn a completely dased manier, uncouprehend&ing. Cora (takes rasor and puts tt in his hand). Wall yourself. ULRIC (smiling, as tf with some divine and ineffable joy, draws the razor across hts throat, cutting in deeply. He falls bleeding.) My dear! Cora. That is my duty to my motherhood. Let me now think of all this happening. [Ske sinks slowly into a chatr tremb- ling. She puts he…
1919 · PDF PAGE 291
…ure ridiculous by making him real. Shaw’s method is mere clowning. Alexander Harvey’s is perfect artistic perception of the realities of life. In this book he shows you the characters concerned with the absolute fidelity of a Balzac. 277
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…itor's brand, old man, ....1You bear a liar's brand; I will not shake thy hand, old man, ....I will not shake thy hand. And I didn't. My life at Cambridge did nothing to make me think more deeply. With regard to foreign politics, the position was parallel. It was pure Kipling; but (in another watertight compartment) I was passionately enamored of the views of Shelley, though I did not correlate them with any practical programme. There was yet another compartment. Scott, Burns and my cousin Gregor had made me a romantic Jacobite. I regarded the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…ince writing the above, an even grosser imbecility bas been perpetrated. One who ought to hâve known better tried to improve the Tree of Life by turning the Serpent of Wisdom upside down! Yet he could not even make his scheme symmetrical: bis little remaining good sense revolted at the suprême atrocities. Yet be succeeded in reducing the whole Magical Alphabet to nonsense, and shewing that he had never understood its real meaning. The absurdity of any such disturbance of the arrangement of the Paths is évident to any sober student from such exa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 71
… rose, being the spring: in utter peace She was with me and in me: thus I saw Ours was not love, but destiny, and law. REINCARNATION. IN Life what hope is always unto men? Stories of Arthur that shall come again To cleanse the Earth of her eternal stain, Elias, Charlemagne, Christ. What matter then ? 1 At Eryx, in Sicily, was a famous temple of Venus, E
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
…nd harmony of the mind must be permitted. Social existence of any kind renders any serious Yoga absolutely out of the question; domestic life is completely incompatible with even elementary practices. No doubt many of you will say, 'That's all very well for him; let him speak for himself; as for me, I manage my home and my business so that everything runs on ball bearings.' Echo answers . . .
1944 · PDF PAGE 95
… event, a completely elastic and completely rigid vehicle of the True Will of the alchemists. It is to fertilize and bring to manifested Life the Orphic Egg. The Arrow, both in this card and in Atu VI, is of supreme importance. The Arrow is, in fact, the simplest and purest glyph of Mercury, being the symbol of directed Will. It is right to emphasize this fact by a quotation from the Fourth Aethyr, LIT, in The Vision and the Voice. (See Appendix.)
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…ral up to tragic, Thanks to the Thracian! Ah, my pain! what desolate female bosoms, Smitten hearts of delicate males, uncover ; Grip not life for poet or sage or lover, Feed on derision. Yea, in these mature me avenger blossoms Swift as swords to sever the subtle ether, Lift the earth, see infinite space beneath her, Swoon at the vision. This, O Orpheus, this be a golden guerdon Unto thee for gift of amaze and wonder! This thy sorrow, sword of a heart asunder, Beareth a flower. This the heart of woman—a bitter burden !— Thou hast filled with se…
1906 · PDF PAGE 112
… THE ARGONAUTS Through me and burns me: all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the fires of life abate And leave me languid, man-forgotten, deem- ing I see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light ! ever light ! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light in- vades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow . . The bitter draught of Truth; no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
…st— Sir PERCY. You must. ANGELA. Ah love! (She yields herself up to him. A long pause.) Learn my first lesson; at these great moments of life, silence is the best. (Aszde.) There is a more important one. Had that silly gowk but the wit to lead him—d_fizz—where were I now? Nota drain on hisstores, but a—rofessor Spooner,} 1 A well-known Oxford Professor, who en- joys the reputation of having invented the blunder of the class ‘‘ half-warmed fish” for ‘¢ half-formed wish.”
1935 · PDF PAGE 14
own success, the witness of his Life to the Law that hath given him light in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to the Law that hath Freed him by working its will to free all men; and he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his fellows into freedom. By thus ordering his disposition, he will fit himself in the best possible manner for the task of understanding and mastering the divers technical methods prescribed by the A.. A-. for Mystical and Magical attainment. He will thus prepare hims…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…the act.—A.C. § A catch wo rd f or t he s tomach, f rom J .M. Barrie’s play “Little Mary.” THE FIRST PRECEPT. This forbids the taking of life in any form.* What we have to note is the impossi- bility of performing this; if w e can prove it to be so, either Buddha was a fool, or his com- mand was rhetorical, like those of Yahweh to Job, or of Tannhäuser to himself— “ Go! seek the stars and count them and explore! Go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea!” Let us consider what the words can mean. The “taking of life” can only mean the re- duction…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…he bush and the bird’s on the wing | Adonis, awake! Adonis, awake! We are colour and song And form, we are Muses most tender to take Thy life up to Art that was lost over long. Adonis, awake! Adonis, awake! thou hast risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love ! Adonis, awake ! 1 Properly the sequel to Mort d’Adonis on p. 122,
1912 · PDF PAGE 6
… sunlit wood, this is discovered to be a certain hunchback, who doubteth whether there be at all any Beast or any quest, or if the whole life of Sir Palamede be not a vain illusion. Him, without seeking to conquer with words, he slayeth incontinent. xxxvii. In a cave by the sea, feeding on limpets and roots, Sir Palamede abideth, sick unto death. Himseemeth the Beast questeth within his own bowels: he is the vii
1939 · PDF PAGE 39
…ne sense they represent the eternal framework, are not, so to speak, original. For instance, when we place Tetragrammaton on the Tree of Life, the Ten Sephiroth or numbers, we do not include the first Sephira. Yod is referred to the second, He to the third, Vau to the group from 4 to 9, and Hé final to the tenth. No. 1 is said to be symbolised by the top point of the Yod. It is only in No. 10 that we get the manifested universe, which is thus shown as the result of the Yoga of the other forces, the first three letters of the name, the active el…
1906 · PDF PAGE 136
…) Eve cheated Adam. Unless (most probable of all) God cheated the Devil, and the fruit was a common apple after all. Cf. H. Maudsley, ‘‘ Life in Mind and Conduct. PERSONS. CRIOSDA, aged 33. MAuRYA, Ais sister, aged 16. RuPHA, the Hag of Eternity. The scene of the Tragedy ts laidin an anctent Scottish Hall, very remote. The time is the One-and-Twentteth Century after Christ. The action of the play occupies many years. THE GOD-EATER. ACT I. CriospA, MAURYA. [Zhe Scene ts an old Barontal Hall, elabor- ately, yet somewhat grotesquely (from the inco…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
… was a really lovely passage, Via t v. Mantis like a deep wood in Springtime, the dearest old man came along who had lived there all his life, because he was the guardian of it, and he didn’t need to travel because he belonged to the First House really from the very beginning. He wore a vast cloak, and he carried a lamp and a long stick; and he said that the cloak meant you were to be silent and not say anything you saw, and the lamp meant you were to tell everybody and make them glad, and the stick was like a guide to tell you which to do. But…