FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
4,494 matching pages
Page 205 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 158
…It was a gallant hunting-party. For she perceived that these were no longer stars, but souls. Had not Simon Iff once said to her: "Every man and every woman is a star"? And even as she understood that, she saw that Artemis regarded them with reverence, with awe even. This was no pleasure chase; he who won the victory was himself the quarry. Every soul was stamped with absolute heroism; it offered itself to itself, like Odin, when nine windy nights he hung in space, his own spear thrust into his side. What [223] gain might be she could not under…
1905 · PDF PAGE 91
…en snow, And influences, white and wide, Descend, re-gather, kindle, grow, Till from one virgin bosom flows a river Of white devotion adamant for ever. Enter ADULAH and her Maidens. ADULAH. Fathers of Israel, we are come to you With many maidens praising God, for this The victory of my father. Happy girls! Whose brothers struck to-day for Israel, Whose fathers smote the heathen ; happiest, Ye blushing flowers, beyond your younger spring That bends in you toward summer, faint and fair, Whose lovers bared their swords to-day ; and ye, O reverend …
1905 · PDF PAGE 212
THE HOLY OF HOLIES 205 No angel, but the very light And fire and spirit of Her, Unmitigated, eremite, The unmanifested myrrh, Ocean, and night that is not night, The mother-mediator.! O sacred spirit of the Gods !? O triple tongue !* Descend, Lapping the answering flame that nods, Kissing the brows that bend, Uniting all earth’s periods To one exalted end. Still on the mystic Tree of Life My soul is crucified ; 4 Still strikes the sacrificial knife Where lurks some serpent-eyed Fear, passion, or man’s deadly wife Desire, the suicide ! Before me…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…s of Earth, which go masked as men and women. Know therefore that this Law of Thelema Do what thou wilt is the first Law ever given to man which is a true Law for all men in every place and time. All earlier Laws have been partial, according to the faith of the hearer, or the customs of a people, or the philosophy of their sages. Nor is there need, with this Law of Thelema, of threats or promises: for the Law fulfilleth itself, so that the one reward is
1905 · PDF PAGE 116
DE PROFUNDIS 109 Where he lay sleeping. Purity And joy beyond the speech of man Dwelt on his face, divinely wan. ‘* How beautiful is sleep!” he saith, Bends over him. There is no breath, No sound, no motion: it 1s death. And gazing on the happy head ‘* How beautiful is Death!” he said. A SONNET IN SPRING. O CHAINLESS Love, the frost is in my brain, Whose swift desires and swift intelligence Are dull and numb to-day; because the sense Only responds to the sharp key of pain. O free fair Love, as welcome as the rain On thirsty fallows, come, and l…
1944 · PDF PAGE 35
…pt, because all thinking is bound by the laws of the mind itself, and Mind has been formed rough thousands of years of evolution in each man by the thoughts of his ancestors. The cells of all living brains are just as much the children of the great thinkers of the past as the development of the organs and limbs. There are very few people today who have heard of Plato and Aristotle. Not one in a thousand, perhaps ten thousand, of those have ever read either of them, even in translations. But there are also very few people whose thinking, such as…
1919 · PDF PAGE 169
…hitis! O.M.) July 9, 7.20-7.24 A.M. Dragon. Rather bad. Tried to do practice outside in the rain, there being no room in the tent. Note:—Man, wife and baby together with all one’s earthly belongings in a tent 12’x10’ in wet weather, is certainly a record. (I’ve been one of 5 big men in a tent 7’6x6’ in a hurricane blizzard on a glacier. But you win. O.M.) Aug. 8. Note. I begin to feel the fuller life again. These few pages of Edward Carpenter have acted like a draught of living water and revived me a great deal. 161
1905 · PDF PAGE 30
…eeks his way Through night and sleep and love to all the dreams of day. Love, sleep, and death ! The three that melt together, mingle so Man may not know The little change of breath (Caught sigh that love desires,) When love grows sleep, and sleep at last in death expires. © lamp of love! The hissing spray shall jet thee with desire And foaming fire, And fire from thee shall move Her spirit to devour, And fuse and mingle us in one transcendent hour. Godhead is less Than mortal love, the garland of the spheres, Than those sweet tears That yield …
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…ne! As sunlight enkindles the ocean, As moonlight shakes earth with emotion, As starlight shoots trembling in wine, So be thy soul for a man ! Teach my young fingers to span That musical lyre of thine ! Passion and music and peace, Teach me the singing of these ! Teach me the tune of the vine ! Teach me the stars to resemble, As tide-stricken sea-cliffs to tremble Thy strings, as the wind-shaken pine ! Let these and their fruits and the soul of their being be mine, very mine!
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…e centre of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals on the Altar. And he first kneeleth in adoration of that symbol, as if the natural man abnegated his will before that of the Divine Consciousness. The Hierophant now orders the Candidate to kneel (in the midst of the triad Arouerist, Horus and Themis), to place his left hand in that of the initiator, and his right hand upon the white triangle as symbolising his active aspiration towards his Higher Soul. The Candidate then bows his head, and the Hierophant gives one knock with his sceptre ; a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…e centre of the White Triangle of the Three Supernals on the Altar. And he first kneeleth in adoration of that symbol, as if the natural man abnegated his will before that of the Divine Consciousness. The Hierophant now orders the Candidate to kneel (in the midst of the triad Arouerist, Horus and Themis), to place his left hand in that of the initiator, and his right hand upon the white triangle as symbolising his active aspiration towards his Higher Soul. The Candidate then bows his head, and the Hierophant gives one knock with his sceptre ; a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 132
… receives the kiss of the dainty-lip runlet. Ifere the green moss is my seat, Beech is a canopy o’er me, Calm and:‘content the retreat ; Man, my worst foe, cannot bore me: Life is a closed book behind—Shelley an open before me. Shelley’s own birds are above Close to me (why should they fear me ?) May I believe it—that love Brings his bright spirit so near me That, should I whisper one word—Shelley’s swift spirit would hear me. Heaven is not very far ; Soul unto soul may be calling When a swift meteor star Through the quick vista is falling. Loo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 133
…tan fury shall the rocks spring clear, And smite the fiends below? Shall] poisonous wind and avalanche combine To wreck swift justice, human and divine? 1 ‘The extinct Wiid Bull of Iurope. Priests thrive on poison. Carrion Their eager teeth Tear, till the sacramental sun Its sword unsheath, And bid their horrid carnival be done, And smite beneath In their cold gasping valleys, and bid light Break the battalions of the angry night. That sword that smote from Hleaven was so keen, Its silver blade No angel’s sight, no fairy’s eye hath seen, No ten…
1906 · PDF PAGE 39
…lame: The Eagle of the High Lands yet that came By the red sunset to an eastern sky Shall plume himself and gather him and fly Even as a Man that rideth on a Beast Trained, to the Golden Dawn-sky of the Kast. Therefore his word shall seek the Ivory Isle By double winds and by the double Style, Twin doorways of the Sunset and the Dawn. And thou who tak’st it, shalt be subtly drawn Into strange vigils, and shalt surely see The ancient form and memory of me, Nor me distinct, but shining with that Light Wherein the Sphinx and Pyramid unite. ON WAIK…
1919 · PDF PAGE 318
… there is nothing in spiritualism and kindred subjects. Sir William Bar- rett has marshalled his facts and fictions in a very creditable manner. It is quite surprising how much he knows, and how clever he is, considering the limitations imposed on him by the fact that, like most psychical researchers, he has no sort of initiation, and has therefore no organized but only haphazard material at his disposal. He exhibits quite remarkable intelligence in dealing with the problems which he discusses. It is a very marked advance upon the absolutely bl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…e proved. The range of our senses is extremely limited. Our sensorial apparatus only works properly with reference to a very few of very many things. Every child knows how narrow is the spectrum, how confined the range of musical tone. He has not yet been drilled properly to an understanding of what this may mean, and he has not been told with equal emphasis many similar facts relating to other forms of perception. In particular, he has not learnt the meaning of diluted impression, in spite of an admirable story called The New Accelerator by Mr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 10
…th” (Rev. xxi. 8), ‘‘where their worm dieth not, and the fire is net quenched” (Mark. ix. 44). Let me only add that they are ‘‘a herd of many swine feeding ” (Matt. vill. 30). ‘* Ve serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ?’”’ (Matt. XXlli, 33). And now, belovéd brethren, with every prayer that this adaptation may prove of lasting blessing to You all, bringing forth ‘‘the fruits of the Spirit’ (Gal. v. 22), especi- ally ‘‘faith, hope and charity.” ‘But the greatest of these is charity”’ (1 Cor. xiii. 13). “ONW…
1929 · PDF PAGE 197
…r that's how they talk — in that country. And whatever you do, you must find a false reason for doing it — in that country. If you rob a man, you must say it is to help and protect him: that's the ethics — of that country. And everything of value has no value at all — in that country. You must be perfectly commonplace if you want to be a genius — in that country. And everything you like you must pretend not to like; and anything that is there you must pretend is not there — in that country. And you must always say that you are sacrificing yours…
1944 · PDF PAGE 173
…Doth wrap us round, our nature cannot hear it. Let every student of this Essay, and of this book of Tahuti, this living Book that guides man through all Time, and leads him to Eternity at every page, hold fast this simplest, most far‐reaching Doctrine in his heart and mind, inflaming the inmost of His Being, that he also, having explored each recess of the Universe, may therein find the Light of Truth, so come to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and accomplish the Great Work, attain the Summum Bonum, true Wisdom and pe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 129
122 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC A SONNET OF BLASPHEMY. EXALTED over earth, from hell arisen, There sits a woman, ruddy with the flame Of men’s blood spilt, and her uncleanly shame, And the thrice-venomous vomit of her prison. She sits as one long dead: infernal calm, Chill hatred,- wrap her in their poisonous cold. She careth not, but doth disdainly hold Three scourges for man’s soul, that know no balm. They know not any cure. The first is Life, A well of poison. Sowing dust and dung Over men’s hearts, the second scourge, abuve All shameful…