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… sandal strap, which represents by its hieroglyphic form the crux ansata, the Rose and the Cross, which in its turn gives the formula of Love under Will, the secret of at‐ tainment.
…y his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would note that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author's design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. develops the plot and is little germane to our matter, save that we catch a glimpse of the unspeakably vile Cordelia, with no pity for her father’s serious condition (though no …
…h begins ‘That which is highest as the deep Is fixed, the depth as that above ; Death’s face is as the face of Sleep; And Lust is likest Love,’ share at least Blake’s impenetrable simplicity of form, and their symbolism is, like his, curiously seductive, even where it seems turned to obscurantism; elsewhere Mr. Swinburne is (if only superficially) recalled; and ‘ Vespers’ is by no means unworthy of Rossetti. Similar preoccupations, again, direct the muse of Mr. Francis Thompson ; but the verse of ‘ Songs of the Spirit’ —essentially intimate, in…
…dispart Thy water and fire, Thy soul and thy heart, Thy hills that spring higher, Thy flowers that upstart, How quire thee, my limitless love, with a lewd and a limited art? A fortress, a sphere, An arrow of flame ; Let thy children appear At the sound of thy name! In my silence uprear The sweet guerdon of shame ! Be they choral to hymn thee, O mother, thy magic ineffable fame ! Last birth of the Sun, Best gift of the giver, Thou surely art One ! As the moon on the river, Whose star-blossoms run, Kiss, tremble, and shiver, O mother, O life, O d…
…is second occasion was multiple: I wanted to see the man with whom she is living, who has not yet returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her; and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible God. Consider now: the Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the Stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the Body of our Lady Nuit. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.6. Jane Cheron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, t…
…e Infinite Universe; Thompson was a wretch whose body was poisoned by drugs, whose mind by superstition. Francis Thompson was so much in love with his miserable self that he could not bear the thought of its extinction; Shelley was glad to die if thereby one rose could bloom the redder. This essay is disgusting; we were all trying to forget Francis Thompson, to remember his songs; and here we have his putrid corpse indecently disinterred and thrust under our noses. The worst of it all is the very perfection of the wrappings. What a poet Thompso…
…e Infinite Universe; Thompson was a wretch whose body was poisoned by drugs, whose mind by superstition. Francis Thompson was so much in love with his miserable self that he could not bear the thought of its extinction; Shelley was glad to die if thereby one rose could bloom the redder. This essay is disgusting; we were all trying to forget Francis Thompson, to remember his songs; and here we have his putrid corpse indecently disinterred and thrust under our noses. The worst of it all is the very perfection of the wrappings. What a poet Thompso…
…strand: the herons gaunt still con- sleep ; ‘ ’ template oo I hear the voices of four rivers crying What was delight, is ruin, may breed love aloud ; jo j s . again, Four angels trumpet, and earth shivers: the Even as darkness brecds the day: when life is slain, heavens shroud Their faces in blank terror for the sound of ° . . . . them : O who will hear my chant, my cry ; my The mountains are disturbed and roar ° the voice who hear, azure hem Even in this weary misery, this danker mere, (hat laps all lands is broken, lashed in fiery Me, in mine…
…unlight supreme. Come forth! I invoke ye, O torrents that fall in the mazes and gleam ! THE MOUNTAIN TORRENTS. Falling fast or lingering love-wise, Gathered into mirror-lakes, Floating sprayed through heaven dove- wise, Dreaming, dashing ; sunlight shakes Into million-coloured petals All our limpid drops, and wraps Earth with green, as water settles On the rocks and in their gaps, Mossy rainbow-tinted maidens, flowers and fernshoots in their laps. ORPHEUS, Low down in the hollows And vales of the earth, What eagle-sight follows Your length and …
…ny two ideas as such is to emancipate it from the thralldom of terror. We affirm on our altars our faith in ourselves and our wills, our love of ail aspects of the Absolute Ail. — 338
…al triangles are related to it as above stated.) One does not want even a comparatively brief extension of these “actual” states; Wedded Love, though licensed for a lifetime, is usually intolerable after a month; and marrons glacés pall after the first five or six kilograms have been consumed. But the “Happiness,” eternal and formless, is not less enjoyable because these forms of it cease to give pleasure. What happens is that the Idea ceases to find its image in those particular images; it begins to notice the limitations, which are not itself…
Further, the attitude of the magician to his weapous should be tliat of the God to the suppliant who invokes Him. It should he the love of the father for his child, the tenderness and care of the hridegroom for his bride, and that peculiar feeling which the creator of every work of art feeïs for his masterpieee. Where this is clearly understood, the magician will find no difficulty in observing the proper ritual, not only in the actual cérémonial consécration of each weapon, but in the actuai prépara¬ tion, a process which should adumbrate this…
Chapter I a Verse 51 57 Hitherto our sexual tabus have kept far ahead of Gilbert and Sullivan. We have made love the lackey to property, as who should pay his rent by sneezing. We have swaddled it in polite ness, as who should warn God off the grass. We have muddled it up with morality, as who should frown at the Himalayas on the one hand, and, on the other, regulate his behaviour by that of an ant-heap. The Law of Thelema is here! (It appears pertinent to add that the above ethical theories have stood the test of practice. Experiment shows th…
… Man must die in order to live. But now in the Aeon of Horus we know that every event is a death; subject and object slay each other in “love under will”; each such death is itself life, the means by which one réalisés oneself in a sériés of épisodes. The second main point is the completion of the A babe Bacchus by the O Pan (Parzival wins the Lance, etc.). 37
…make oath that his every thought, Word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty — symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It 238 —
…y his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would not that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author’s design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. develops the plot and is little germane to our matter, save that w e catch a glimpse of the unspeakably vile Cordelia, with no pity for her father’s serious condition (though no …
…feaven, and bud and blade Laugh at the dawn, while breezes lend Their music, till you comprehend The meaning of the world, and sigh— Yet love makes happy in the end This pleasant tale of Thessaly. Turn from my book, the poet prayed, And look to Heaven, an hour to spend Before Ilis throne who spake and bade The fountains of the deep descend, And bade the earth uproot and rend To pitch like tents the mountains high, And gave him language who hath penned This pleasant tale of Thessaly. ENVOI. Fair maiden. who hast rightly weighed The message of th…
…a manner as to make the loss îtself the least part of the pang. Every human affection that He had in His hea.it and that heart aches for Love as few hearts can ever conceive was torn out and trampled with such infernal ingenuity in intensifying torture that His endurance is beyond belief. Inexplicable are the atrocities which accompanied every step in His Initiation! Death dragged away His children with slow savagery; the women He loved drank themselves into delirium and dementia before His eyes, or repaie! His passionate dévotion with toad-col…
…“not”), and a third key involving the formula shT = ©. 93 is the numeration of thelema (Grk. deXrjgia, “will”) and agape (Grk. ayairr], “love”), as well as the name Aiwaz in Hebrew (FTP). See Crowley, Book 4, Parts I-IV, rev. ed., passim.] One of the first and most important points to be noted is that the whole Book of the Law rests upon a mathematical basis. It makes no partial appeal; it does not depend upon religious theory or racial tradition. One who knows far more than I do both of mathematics and of mysticism has thrown a clearer light t…
…ence of irresistible impulse. We glance back to the previous verse—we examine our charter. We are permitted to take our fill and will of love as we will, when, where and with whom we will, but there is nothing said about why we will. On the contrary, despite the infinite variety of lawful means, there is one end held lawful, and no more than one. The act has only one legitimate object: it must be performed unto Nuit. Further reflec tion reassures us to some extent, not directly, in the manner of the jurist, but indirectly, by calling our atten…