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Page 186 of 1961913 · PDF PAGE 20
…rs of age he was installed a Knight Templar in the Jerusalem Conclave on the 11th of July, 1856, In 1861 he was elected Commander of the Love and Friendship Precep- tory, Stockport, and in 1863, succeeding Brother William Romaine Callendar, M.P., D.L., he became the Commander of the Jerusalem Conclave. Further honours fell to his share, and he was elected Grand Vice-Chancellor of the Province under Brother William Courtenay Cruttenden, P.G.C., and in 1864 was appointed Grand Constable of England. In the same year he was called abroad on commerc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…rs of age he was installed a Knight Templar in the Jerusalem Conclave on the 11th of July, 1856, In 1861 he was elected Commander of the Love and Friendship Precep- tory, Stockport, and in 1863, succeeding Brother William Romaine Callendar, M.P., D.L., he became the Commander of the Jerusalem Conclave. Further honours fell to his share, and he was elected Grand Vice-Chancellor of the Province under Brother William Courtenay Cruttenden, P.G.C., and in 1864 was appointed Grand Constable of England. In the same year he was called abroad on commerc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…w. One day thou shalt moan upon the stones, and Florimond de Champdivers shall shut his door tothee. Damn and damn and damn! What served love shall serve hate: ‘tis a poor game that only works one Way. [Curtacn.
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
… but the medium had already reached the next and final stage. She went to the Pasha, sat on his knee, and began to make the most violent love to him, with wanton kisses and caresses. "That's the best trick of the lot," explained Cyril; "It goes wonderfully with a great many men. It gets their powers of observation rattled; she can pull off the most obvious 'miracles,' and get them to swear that the control was perfect. That's how she fooled Oudouwitz; he was a very old man, and she proved to him that he was not as old as he thought he was. Grea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…counted them successes. For his third experiment he chose "The Wonder-working Serpent," whose possession confers the power of attracting love. The appeal lay in the failure of Abdul to make any impression upon Lisa, whom he had courted in characteristically local manner by appearing, guitar in hand, below the terrace where she had been dedicated to the moon. He caught her [162] there alone, and called her by her name. She recognized him instantly; she had been violently attracted to him at the ball where they had originally met; and, until she …
1905 · PDF PAGE 130
… that glittereth ! The stars surround the moon, and Nereids drown Their rippled tresses in her golden breath. Let us keep watch, my true love, caught at last Between my hands, and not remember death. Only bethink us of the daylight past, The Jong chase oversea, the storm, the speed Whereby we ran before the leaping blast, And left the swift pursuers at our need With one wrecked dragon and one shattered; yea! And on their swiftest many warriors bleed, Having beheld, above the gray seaway Between them and the sun, my sword arise, Like the first d…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…knee coloured eyes, bearing a sword A man of like figure (to the ascendant), with | A woman with jong and beautiful hair, clad in |; 16 cloven hoofs like an ox flame-coloured ro An eagle-headed man, with a bow and arrow. | A beautiful woman, with her two horses . . .| 17 Wears crowned steel helmet A beautiful woman wreathed with myrtle. She | A man with distorted face and hands, a horse’s | 18 holds a lyre and sings of love and gladness body, white feet, and a girdle of leaves man crowned with a white myrtle wreath | A man in sordid raiment, wi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
…pelagoes Of fallen stars ; where fiery passion flows A curious bitumen ; where among The glowing medley moved the tune unsung Of perfect love: thence grew the Mystic Rose. Its myriad petals of divided light ; Its leaves of the most radiant emerald ; Its heart of fire like rubies. At the sight I lifted up my heart to God and called : How shall I pluck this dream of my desire? And lo! there shaped itself the Cross of Fire! HAPPINESS. Ir is the seasonable sun of spring That gilds the all-rejuvenescent air— New buds, young birds, so‘happy in the ra…
1905 · PDF PAGE 157
… is in the soul ; Men’s spirits to the loftiest turn ; Light is extended and made whole. The waters of the whispering Nile Lisp of their loves a little while, Then break, like songsters, into sighing, Because the lazy days are dying; And swift and tawny strcams must rise World’s world to fertilise. The lotus is afire for love, | Its yearnings are immortal still ; But in its bosom, fed thereof, Lust, like a child, will.have his will. Immortal fervour, strangely blent With mystic sensual sacrament, Fills up its cups its petals tremble With faint …
1905 · PDF PAGE 176
…murmurs of the dusky breeze That passed, like silken tapestries that feel The silkier cheeks of maidens as they cleave Tender to patient lovers, for the ease Of lips fulfilled of harmonies. Such songs were hers. What song is hers to-night When she is smitten in her bridal bed, Because I would not trust the God that gave Her smooth virginity to godlier might, My glory? There she lies divine and dead Because I would not trust the sullen wave | Of time ; and chose this way-—her grave. I had not thought the poison left her so— Smiling, enticing, ex…
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
…l, Hideous rapture of death. That’s for thee, man! Thine are the scalding tears of sympathy, Strange that the outer Man, thou The tender love for the young flower. And these Are none of the priest’s. Enough! [Hxit. The door clangs again. The curtain falls; a _ scene drops. RuPHA, an aged and wizened hag, of gigantic stature, 7s adiscovered seated, C. The scene represents a lonely hill-top covered with stones. A little coarse grass grows in places. Three great menhirs stand up, C. Moonlight, RuPpHaA. The rune of the breath. The saga of death. Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
… His forehead shall be diademmed With the faint light of stars, wherein The Eye gleams dominant and keen, Thereat thou swoonest; and thy love Shall catch the subtle voice thereof ... It was given me during these days to experience fully once more every incident in my initiation, so that I might describe them while still white-hot with their wonder. It is this that assures me that this poem is unique of its kind. Its only rival is the Bhagavad-Gita, which, despite its prolixity, confines its ardour to Vishvarupa-darshana. Apart from this, it tre…
1906 · PDF PAGE 55
…ncient grief! Now is the hour! The drink is poured! Wake! fatal and avenging sword ! Brave men of Erin, hand in hand, Arise and free the lovely land ! Death to the Saxon! Slay nor spare ! O God ofJustice, hear us swear ! THE EARL’S QUEST. Written at Camp Despair, 20,000 ft., Chogo ki Lungma, Baltistan. So now the Earl was well a-weary of The grievous folly of this wandering. Had he been able to have counted Love Or Power, or Knowledge as the sole strong thing Fit to suffice his quest, his eyes had gleamed With the success already grasped. The s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 278
…ith Famous (/. F.C. Fuller), WV, 284 Man Cover, The (George Raffalovich), 11, 353 Mantra-Yogi, The (Aleister Crowley), IV, 275 Memory of Love (Herbert Close), VII, 291 Mermaids, Among the (Vorman Roe), 11, 335 Midsummer Eve (Ethel Archer), IV, 310 Mind, The Training of the (Alan Bennett), V, 28 Mountaineer, How I Became a Famous (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 275 My Lady of the Breeches (George Raffalovich), IV, 25 Mystery, The Brighton (George Raffalovich), II, 287 Mysticism, The Dangers of (Aleister Crowley), 1V, 201 New Evelyn Hope, The (Victor B. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 278
…ith Famous (/. F.C. Fuller), WV, 284 Man Cover, The (George Raffalovich), 11, 353 Mantra-Yogi, The (Aleister Crowley), IV, 275 Memory of Love (Herbert Close), VII, 291 Mermaids, Among the (Vorman Roe), 11, 335 Midsummer Eve (Ethel Archer), IV, 310 Mind, The Training of the (Alan Bennett), V, 28 Mountaineer, How I Became a Famous (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 275 My Lady of the Breeches (George Raffalovich), IV, 25 Mystery, The Brighton (George Raffalovich), II, 287 Mysticism, The Dangers of (Aleister Crowley), 1V, 201 New Evelyn Hope, The (Victor B. …
1905 · PDF PAGE 179
…ten fire Before our mouths, that mingle yet In this ; the mighty-moulded lyre Of many stars still strikes above Chords of the mastery of love. This subtle fire, this secret flame, Flashes between us as she goes Beyond the night, beyond the Name, Back to her unsubstantial snows; Cold, glittering, intense, the same Now, yesterday, for aye! she glows No woman of my mystic bed ; A star, far off, forgotten, dead. Only to me looks out for ever From her cold eyes a fire like death ; Only to me her breasts can never Lose the red brand that quickeneth ;…
1906 · PDF PAGE 226
…on was wroth and shrieked : ‘‘ Thy mother to black hell! She is mine!” So the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. But our Father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs-many, and good, with which ou: Father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven ofterings : ? The first offering, dust ; The second offering, ashes ; The third offering, sand ; The…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…th, Honey and poppy! as her mouth hot- tongued Spews out its hideous lust. O loathéd life! Thou nameless horror of the bestial strife Of love and hate, I straitly charge thee quit This bed of nastiness, this putrid sea3 For not by any amorous tricks of wit Shalt thou regain thine empire over me. O virgin, O my sister! Hear me, death! Thou hast a sleep compelling soul and mind. Thine is the sweet insufferable breath That comes like Bessarabia’s twilight wind To bring a quiet coolth from day’s long heat, Peace to the belly gorged with blood and m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 267
…oes glory flame A crown, acincture? What befell you there ? TANNHAUSER. I came to Rome across the winter snows Barefoot, and through the lovely watered land Rich in the sunshine—even unto Rome. There knelt I with the other sinful folk At the great chair of Peter. Sobbed they out From full repentant hearts their menial sins, And got them peace. But I told brutally (Cynical phrase, contempt of self and him) My sojourn in the Venusberg ; then he Rose in his wrath, and shook the barren staff Over my head, and cried—I heard his voice Most like the d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
the iron signal staff. Fix love on that, and you have a lighthouse, and your ship comes safe to harbour!" " I may now apologize," remarked Cyril, as they seated themselves at the table, "for leaving you the other night to dine at Miss Badger's. I had given my word to her, and nothing but physical inability would have stopped me from going. I didn't want to go, any more than I wanted to drown myself; and that is a great compliment to you, for she is one of the two nicest women in London; but I would have faced a thousand deaths to get there." [5…