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Page 207 of 2251907 · PDF PAGE 11
…laugh, The girls of Askalon rejoice, Writing for us this epitaph: ‘They chose, and were not worth the choice ” ? You are so pure: I am a man. I will assume the courage tried Of yonder luckless suicide, And you—awaken, if you can, The courage of the courtezan ! X, To sea! Tosea! The ship is trim; The breezes bend the sails. They chant the necromantic hymn, Arouse Arabian tales. To sea! Before us leap the waves ; The wild white combers follow. Invoke, ye melancholy slaves, The morning of Apollo! There’s phosphorescence in the wake, And starlight …
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…onless than mortals’: central sits Throned on pure iron, with brass for cara- pace, Minos: and either side of him befits The mighty Khadamanthus throned on gold And canopied with silver : sternly knits [lis brows the awful .lacus, in cold Splendour of justice throned on carven lead ; And o’er his head twin dragons bend and hold A cobra’s hood made of some metal dread Impossible on earth : how calm, how keen Flash their wise eyes, those judges of the dead, In silent state : how eager, how serene Are the broad brows: the heart shrinks up and sink…
1906 · PDF PAGE 38
…lent stars upstart Seeming to sentinel that sombre crest Where of old time burst out the vulture fire Cyclopean, that is dead, now, as a man’s desire. 1 Called by the Spaniards Orizaba. The drowsy cries of night birds, then the song Lovely and lovelorn in the listening vale, So wild and tender, swooping down in long Notes of despair, then lifting the low tale In golden notes to skyward in one throng Of clustered silver, so the nightingale Tunes the wild flute, as dryads he would gather To roof with music in the palace of the weather, With love …
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
… nor cursing nor invoking God. ELIZABETH. I heard, I pure, I virginal, your song; The shameful story of your intercourse With—fiend or woman? And your burning will, Even in that horror, to the Highest ; at last Your choice of me—the middle course of them, Pure human love? And, if your song be true, As I, who heard the voice, the earnestness, Saw the deep eyes, and truth aflame in them, Know—then the choice be Mary’s and not mine } I love you better, were that possible ; Will make you a true wife, and lead your hand, Or be led by you, in the ple…
1939 · PDF PAGE 19
…is the law of liberty, everybody's particular hair stands on end like the quills of the fretful porpentine; they scream like an uprooted mandrake, and flee in terror from the accursed spot. Because: the exercise of liberty means that you have to think for yourself, and the natural inertia of mankind wants religion and ethics ready-made. However ridiculous or shameful a theory or practice is, they would rather comply than examine it. Sometimes it is hook-swinging or Sati; sometimes consubstantiation or supra-lapsarianism; they do not mind what t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 133
… fare well? How shall ye fare, thus bound of fate in hell? How, whom no light hath smitten, and released ? Ye trust perchance in God, or man, or priest ? Ay! Let them serve you, let them save you ! Spell The name that guards the human citadel, And answer if your course hath checked or ceased. Path of the eightfold star ! Be thou revealed ! Isle of Nirvana, be the currents curled About thee, that the swimmer touch thy shore ! Thought be your sword, and virtue be your shield ! ress on! Who conquers shall for evermore Pass from the fatal mischief …
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…he shadow of a lover’s lips. The awful steel of Death divides The alternation of the tides Of consciousness, and binds in bliss The dead man to the girl’s live kiss. So sped my wooing: now I surely think Suspended here upon the burning brink Of this dim agony, invading sense, That bliss should still abide: but now I shrink, Fall from the crags of memory, and abide Now in this nature-life, basilisk-eyed, And serpent-stinging : yea, I perish thence. That perishes which was: and I am tied Unto myself: the ‘‘I” springs up again Bound to the wheel o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…ating gradually faded, she became aware that she was no longer in the wood, but in a strange city. It was crowded with men and women, of many a race and colour. In front of her was a small house, very poor and squalid, in whose doorway an old man was sitting. A long staff was by his side, leaning against the door; and at his feet was a lantern — was it a lantern? It was more like the opposite of one; for in the full daylight it burned, and shed forth rays of darkness. The ancient was dressed in grey rags; his long unkempt hair and beard had lac…
1905 · PDF PAGE 203
…h your chambers, where the secret bolt was drawn, To the chambers of the Highest and the secrets of the Dawn ! You have brought me to command you, and not to be denied ; You have taught me in perfection to be unsatisfied ; You have taught me midnight vigils, when you smiled in amorous sleep ; You have even taught a man the woman’s way to weep. So, even as you helped me, blindly, against your will, So shall the angel faces watch for your own souls still. A little pain and pleasure, a little touch of time, _And you shall blindly reach to the subt…
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
…reth himself who hindereth others from their Path, or who constraineth them to some motion improper to their Nature. Note also this that many men, feeling themselves the bitterness of Restriction, seek to relieve their own pain by imposing a like burden upon their fellows: as it were a cripple who should seek ease by mutilating the bearers of his carriage. Also, to deny the Law of Thelema is a restriction in oneself, affirming conflict in the Universe as necessary. It is a blasphemy against the Self, assuming that its Will is not a necessary (a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…oward By such a craven’s cunning. Nay, my soul Must move unflinching to what bitter goal The angry gods design—if gods be froward I am a man, nor fear to drain the bowl. Now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned, But living in her life, had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device As made her belly yearn for sacrifice. She leered like love on me, and smiled, and shammed, And did not pity for all her breast of spice. They thrust me in her hateful jaws, and I Even then resisted not, so fain to die Was my desire, so weary…
1905 · PDF PAGE 206
… clove The foam, incarnate Love, Maiden; as light leaps the dawn-gardens in, So in the Love and Light, Life slain, yet infinite, The God-Man’s night, Leaps pure the Soul re-arisen from the embrace of Sin. Yet, in the terror of that Breast, abides So sweet and deadly a device, a lure Deep in the blood and poison of her sides, Swart, lean, and leprous, that her stings endure. Even the soul of grace Abideth not her face Without vague longing, infinite desire, Stronger because suppressed, Unto the wide black breast, The lips incarnate of blood, fle…
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
… effect of this is to seal finally into the Sphere of Sensation of the Candidate the Pillars in Balanced Formulation, For in the natural man the symbols are unbalanced in strength, some being weaker and some stronger, and the effect of the ceremony is to strengthen the weak and purify the strong, thus gradually commencing to equilibrate them, at the same time making a link between them and their corresponding forces in the Macrocosm. The Hierophant then says: «Honoured Hegemon, the final consecration of the Candidate having been performed, I co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
… effect of this is to seal finally into the Sphere of Sensation of the Candidate the Pillars in Balanced Formulation, For in the natural man the symbols are unbalanced in strength, some being weaker and some stronger, and the effect of the ceremony is to strengthen the weak and purify the strong, thus gradually commencing to equilibrate them, at the same time making a link between them and their corresponding forces in the Macrocosm. The Hierophant then says: «Honoured Hegemon, the final consecration of the Candidate having been performed, I co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
…g. On p. 228 he quotes as an example of original sign-language that he “watched with interest our bluejackets leaning over the side of a man-of-war talking to one another” by means of their hands and fingers. Of course what they are really doing is semaphore signalling without flags after the official signalling with flags has ceased. In spite of these small over-eagernesses, this book is a revolutionary volume, a work that should stimulate argument and comment; and we hope that it will induce others to collect and discover the secrets of the p…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
…g. On p. 228 he quotes as an example of original sign-language that he “watched with interest our bluejackets leaning over the side of a man-of-war talking to one another” by means of their hands and fingers. Of course what they are really doing is semaphore signalling without flags after the official signalling with flags has ceased. In spite of these small over-eagernesses, this book is a revolutionary volume, a work that should stimulate argument and comment; and we hope that it will induce others to collect and discover the secrets of the p…
1905 · PDF PAGE 177
170 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST With strange eyes kindling, as the fleet Implacable untiring feet Weave mystic figures manifold That draw down angels to behold The moving music, and the fire Of their intolerable desire. For, maddening to fiercer thought, The fiery limbs requicken, wheel In formless furies, subtly wrought Of swifter melodies than steel That flashes in the fight : the peal Of amorous laughters choking sense, And madness kissing violence, Rings like dead horsemen ; bodies reel Drunken with motion ; spirits feel The strange constr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 18
… than ocean, higher than the sky, Vaster than petty loves that dream and die, Insatiate, angry, terrible for lust, Who shrivel God to adamantine dust By our fierce gaze upon him, who would strive Under our wrath, to flee away, to dive Into the deep recesses of his heaven. But we, one joy, one love, one shame for leaven, Quit hope and life, quit fear and death and love, Implacable as God, desired above All loves of hell or heaven, supremely wed, Knit in one soul in one delicious bed More hot than hell, more wicked than all things, Vast in our si…
1906 · PDF PAGE 56
…t erst He had esteemed such foolish devil’s craft Part of his quest, his quest when fair and first He flung the last, the strongest horseman back With such a buffet that no skill amerced Its debt but headlong in his charger’s track He must be hurled, rib-shattered bythe shock; And the loud populace exclaimed ‘‘ Alack !”, Their favourite foiled. stock Of holy kings from Christ to Charlemagne Hailed him, anointed him, fair lock by lock, But oh! the royal With oil that drew incalculable gain From those six olives in the midst whereof Christ prayed…
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
… a brazen morning, iil, 215 Would God that I were dead, ii. 124 YE rivers, and ye elemental caves, i. 197 Yes! it’s all so blessed and romantic, my dear, thank the Lord! iii. 46 ‘* Yes !"’ said Ganesha gloomily, li. 226 Yes, there are other phases, dear ! iii. 9 Yet by-and-by I hope to weave, li. 146 Yet ere the stars paled slowly in the east, li. 79 Yet God created (did he not ?), ii. 158 ‘* You are sad!" the Knight said, li, 140 You are silent, That we always were, iii. 2 You buy my spirit with those peerless eyes, 1. 132 You do not well to s…