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…g-Ghost is abroad. His spectre legions ....Sweep from their icy lakes and bleak ravines Unto these weary and untrodden regions ....Where man lies penned among his Might-have-beens. ........Keep us in safety, Lord, ........What time the King-Ghost is abroad! {519} The King-Ghost from his grey malefic slumbers ....Awakes the malice of his bloodless brain. He marshals the innumerable numbers ....Of shrieking shapes on the sepulchral plain. ........Keep us, for Jesu's sake, ........What time the King-Ghost is awake!
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…Because it wears so holy a garb of light Of perfumed fire immaculately made. These sins are deadly. God is merciless For Love that joins Man’s passion with His power, And makes to bloom on earth a fairer flower Than heaven bears. Our token of success Is that displeasure toward our sin unnamed Of a fierce demon jealous and ashamed. A SAINT'S DAMNATION. You buy my spirit with those peerless eyes That burn my soul; you loose the torrent stream Of my desire ; you make my lips your prize, And on them burns the whole life’s hope: you deem You buy a h…
1906 · PDF PAGE 229
… Mystic Mountain. For, as fot him that understandeth not thy writing, and that easily and well, he ye well assured all that he is a vile man and a losel of little worth or worship; a dog, an unclean swine, a worm of filth, a festering sore in the vitals of earth : such an one is liar and murderer, debauched, drunken, sexless, and spatulate ; an ape-dropping, a lousy, flat-backed knave: from such an one keep ye well away! Use hath he little: ornament maketh he nothing: let him be cast out on the dunghills beyond Jordan ; let him pass into the S.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…s the metal cold, And burns upon the brazen lips That, parted like a poppy bud, Have gemméd curves like moons of blood. The mazes of her many arms Delude the eye; they seem to shift As if they spelled mysterious charms Whereby some tall grey ship should drift Out to a windless, tideless sea Motionless from eternity. This then I seek, O woman-form ! O god embowelled in curves of bronze ! The shuddering of a sudden storm To mix me with thy minions The lost, who wait through endless night, And wait in vain, to see the light. For I am utterly consu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…py a golden thread Veined in the strength of the obsidian Flowing and growing, joining vein to vein, Like fresh blood in the arteries of man, Up to the very heart. And as I go Loosen the knees of anguish and grow dim The shattering flames of pain: the songs of woe Flicker and alter to a solemn hymn Chanted in slowest measure in deep awe. Now as a yew-tree sends a mighty limb Shooting to sunset, the black road’s black maw Gapes to the westward; the great trunk divides And all the armies of infernal law Stand ranked about the venerable sides Of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…ren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that he had won into, and that s o hardly. For of this shall no man speak. Now therefore let it be spoken of our Father’s journeyings in the land of Vo 5 and of his sufferin therein, and of the founding of our holy and illustrious Order. Our Father, Brethren, having attained the mature age of three hundred 1 Kether adds up to 620. 2 These are the letters of Ain Soph Aur , the last two of which he destroys so as to leave only Ain, Not, or Nothing. 3 To (1 + 10 + 50) 3 × 2 h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
…pe of slaughter Laughing a lipless laugh - a mockery, A ghastly memory to wake and weep —-Shouid Sorrow let me sleep. No current draws a man, to his fair seem- ing, Yetall the while he whirlsa stealthy sweep Narrower, nearer, where the wave is steam- ing With the slight spray tossed from that funnel deep Which dips, one wide black shaft, most horrible, Down to the nether ITell. Yet there seems time. God’s grief has not forgotten Ilis mighty arm, and with [lis pitying breath A strong wind woke me ere my boat grew rotten With venom of the stream,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…behind, I move Deathlike for dearth and for despair of soul ; At last Idrop. From Heaven there comes a Dove Bearing the semblance of the Man I love, And fountains and fresh grass by magic spell Are suddenly around me. And above I hear the voice my visions know so well : ‘Well striven all this day against the power of Hell!” I know these mercies still diviner grow Each day I strive. But should I sit and rest One hour of dawn, and cry, ‘‘I will not go Another step without more sleep,” that blest' Dove flies away, the fountains are re- pressed, 1 …
1905 · PDF PAGE 54
…within him quail, And all the armaments of sin assail With deadly tramp - And swordless fury. Ilell devours and tears The heart of any a man, whom heavenly airs Shield and lead on afar, Where beyond storm and passion is the sky, And where the sacred hand of the Most High Holds out a star. Ife stands amid the storm, a mighty rock ; His long hair blows about, the demons mock I]Jis entry to their kingdom, and despair. Groans in the blackness, infamous and bare, ~ And hateful shapes and eyes surround his head— O for the magic of those mightier dead…
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
…he king was silent. Tense the high-strung air” Must save itself by trembling—if it dare. Then a long shudder ran across the space ; Each man ashamed to see his fellow’s face, Each troubled and confused. He did not spare Our fear—he spake not yet a little space. 1 This poem has no foundation in tradition. 2 Here and in several other passages intense energy of will, or importance of situation, is represented as producing an actual condition of strain in the air or the ether. The fact observed is at least subjectively true to many people. After a …
1919 · PDF PAGE 159
…hard to pierce the blank, back of all, I had a sudden clear sensation of lying on a bed with people around, and in particular an elderly man in black velvet and knee breeches, whom I at once felt was my Tutor, leaning over me. The ideas that came with this were that I was quite young, and had some disease like consumption, that the family was wealthy, and the house a Country Resi- dence. These impressions were very real and quite unexpected, but as I used to have a dread of consumption, am still young, and meditation took place lying down, it w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 28
22 I am the Godhead manifest in flesh. I stand above, among the Holy Ones. I am all-purified through suffering, All-perfect in the mystic sacrifice, And in the knowledge of my Selfhood made One with the Everlasting Lords of Life. The Glorified through Trial is My Name. The Rescuer of Matter is My Name. I am the Heart of Jesus girt about With the Swift Serpent! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hathnot formed! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One! O Lord of…
1939 · PDF PAGE 37
…roves anything. These practices, Asana and Pranayama, are, to a certain extent, mechanical, and to that extent it is just possible for a man of extraordinary will power, with plenty of leisure and no encumbrances, to do a good deal of the spade-work of Yoga even in England. But I should advise him to stick very strictly to the purely physical preparation, and on no account to attempt the practices of concentration proper, until he is able to acquire suitable surroundings. But do not let him imagine that in making this very exceptional indulgenc…
1905 · PDF PAGE 47
…s th: shrine Where Love his holy incense used to burn. He mocks those thoughts, those songs, those looks divine While his lewd visage no man may dis- cern, And baffling darkness hides his terror if I turn. Fighting and falling ever, wearicst Even of beating off the tempter’s blows, Struggling in vain to what one hopes the best, A distant river over many snows, On whose green bank the purple iris glows, And the anemone in some wild cleft, With the white violet, and the briar rose, And the blue gentian from the heavens reft— Lo! ’Twas that golden…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
…itch- craft and the New Testament—here is a joyous revival, in the Twentieth Century! We have a girl, Doris Fischer, born in 1889 (of German parents), who de- veloped, in all, five distinct personalities, each of which received a special name. Besides the original “Doris,” we find “Sick Doris,” “Margaret,” and “Sleeping Margaret,” and “Sleeping Real Doris.” These five personalities are said to have shown varied characteristics (as is invariably the case) and to be essentially dif- ferent, from the psychological point-of-view. As usual, also, se…
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
…! The mighty pomp of desolate Dead kings, a pageant, moves along ; Dead queens unite in desperate, Unsatisfied, unholy song. O Khephra,? manifest in flesh, Arise, create the world afresh ! The silence of my heart is one With memory’s insatiate night ; I hardly dare to hope the sun. I seek the darkness, not the light. O Lord Harpocrates,? be still The moveless centre of my will ! My sorrows are more manifold Than His that bore the sins of man. My sins are like the starry fold, My hopes their desolation wan. O Nuit,’ the starry one, arise, And se…
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
…orth to him and said : The second riddle : Detegitur Yod. Quoth our Father : The moon is full. So also a third virgin the third riddle : Man and woman : O fountain of the balance! To whom our F ather answered with a swift f lash of h is sword, so swift she saw it not. Came a fourth virgin, having a fourth riddle : What egg hath no shell ? And our Father pondered a while and then said : On a wave of the sea : on a shell of the wave : blessed be her name ! The fifth virgin issued suddenly and said : I have four arms and six sides : red I am, and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 23
…ss—then may we wage A more successful war against his power.” But Charicles: “Shall I for one short hour Fly from his tyranny? Am I such man As should flee from him? Let the pale and wan Women have fear—in strength of justice, I {lis vain fierce fury do this hour defy !” There shot through Heaven an awful tongue of fire, Attended by its minister, the dire Black thunder. In clear accents, cold and chill, There sounded: ‘‘ Boldest mortal, have thy will! I do reverse the doom of Archais And lay it on thyself; nor ever this Shall lift its curse fro…
1905 · PDF PAGE 276
…de.) It is identical with the Kundalini of the Hindu Philosophy, the Kwan-se-on of the Mongolian Peoples, and means the magical Force in Man, which is the sexual Force applied to the Brain, Heart, and other Organs, and redeemeth him. ; The gradual Disclosure of these magical Secrets to the Poet may be traced in these Volumes, which it has been my Privilege to be asked to explain. It has been impossible to do more than place in the Hands of any intelligent Person the Keys which will permit him to unlock the many Beautiful Chambers of Holiness in…
1910 · PDF PAGE 355
…G STICK ing—and clean-minded withal. To say that all end in the Lock or the river is to say that you know nothing about the subject; for many marry, as Mayhew points out; in fact, Mayhew, in his classic “London Labour and the London Poor” is the only author I know—always excepting Charles Drysdale—who in any way saw the modern London hetaira as she really is. Drysdale in his courageous work, “ The Elements of Social Science,” also points out that the life of the ordinary prostitute is a very much healthier one than that of the average factory g…