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Page 22 of 871910 · PDF PAGE 112
…Till he the world from milk of prayer to wine of me- ditation wean.7 Like peacocks in a garden spread our thousand eyes of jewel-sheen ; Though squawking with an eunuch’s voice, our paederastic plumes we preen.8 For voice is sound, and dies with air ; light is co- excellent with God9 ; As Hate’s a poison for delight, so love’s a physic for the spleen. And El Qahar is Truth, and nought but Allah stuffs his gaberdine,10 And Allah windeth he about with tarband gemmed11 of gold and green.12
1898 · PDF PAGE 134
…ice loathly charms, Her purple lips, her acrid redolence, Her black lewd limbs, her breasts, whose foul incense Smoked like hell’s mouth though pendulous they hung, Her devilish black belly, and her tongue Sharp as a tiger’s tooth, lured on my lust. Oh ! God in heaven ! It is turned to dust And dung and corpse-flesh ! I can see even here (For changeful spectres haunt me) how a tear Of blood stood on my breast at her first bite : And day grew dusk, and twilight turned to night, And her vast coffin stood at hand. And there Naked as hell, legs wid…
1899 · PDF PAGE 178
… so! Let some high pinnacle my tombstone be, My epitaph the murmur of the sea, The clouds of heaven be fleeces for my pall, My grave one thought within the hearts of ye. Without much strength but ever unafraid I sang to boy and man, to wife and maid ; And my last whisper was, “ Though shadows fall, Love is all triumph with a God to aid!”
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
…uth ! It wasit is notit can never be. This would corrupt Gods body with a breath. I see Him sicken and swoon ; I see Him rot Through, though His tabernacle be Eternity. This makes a man catch hold of death Greedily like a harlot in the street That plucks by the arm some sot. Death shakes me off with a hoarse curse. Tied to this woman, his beneficence
1961 · PDF PAGE 20
…him, rending and burning, hath made his Mind utterly desert, and his Soul Madness. Give Ear, give Ear attentively; the Will is not lost; though it be buried beneath a life-old midden of Repressions, for it persisteth vital within thee (is it not the true Motion of thine inmost Being?) and for all thy conscious Striving cometh forth by Night and by Stealth in Dream and Phantasy. Now is it naked and brilliant, now clothed in rich Robes of Symbol and Hieroglyph; but always travelleth it with thee upon thy Path, ready to acquaint thee with thy true…
1961 · PDF PAGE 38
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 26 w De Differentia rerum (Of the Distinction of Things) UT, o my Son, although thine ultimate Nature be Universal, thine immediate Nature is Particular. Thy Way to the Centre is not oriented as that of any other Being, and thine elements are no kin, but alien, to his. For Shame! Is it not the most transcendent of all the Wisdoms of this Cosmos, that no two Beings are alike? Lo! This is the Secret of all Beauty, and maketh Love not only possible, but necessary, between every Thing and every other Thing. So then, lest thou in…
1961 · PDF PAGE 80
…llness and Wholeness, comprehending all Planes, so that his Law is simple, and radical, penetrating all Space from its single Light. For though His Words be many, yet is His Word One, One and Alone; and by this Word he createth Man anew, in an essential Form of Life, so that he is changed in his inmost Knowledge of himself. And this Change worketh outwards, little by little, unto its visible Effect. n
1902 · PDF PAGE 11
…and to the fact that he is himself involved in the vicissitudes which he may have set himself to observe ; while even for the commander, though the smoke-pall may lift now and again to show some brilliant charge or desperate hand-to- hand struggle, he may fail to grasp its significance in his dispositions ; or indeed find it to be quite unexpected and foreign to his calculations ; yet a few years or months later the same battle may be lucidly, tersely, and connectedly described, so that a child is able to follow its varying fortunes with deligh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
… and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student therefore beware lest in t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
… and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student therefore beware lest in t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
THE EQUINOX “existential import” to consider the matter, to that further complexity and contradiction, the syllogism. IV Thought is appears then (in the worst case possible, denial) as the conclusion of the premisses : There is denial of thought. (All) Denial of thought is thought. Even formally, ’tis a clumsy monster. Essentially, it seems to involve a great deal beyond our original statement. We compass heaven and earth to make one syllogism; and when we have made it, it is tenfold more the child of mystery than ourselves. We cannot here disc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 145
…y clings Declare this mystery magical | I am yet borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips ! I tremble like an aspen, quiver Like light upon a rainy river ! Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction! That is sin:…
1913 · PDF PAGE 145
…y clings Declare this mystery magical | I am yet borne on those blue wings Into the Essence of the All. Now, now I stand on earth again, Though, blazing through each nerve and vein, The light yet holds its choral course, Filling my frame with fiery force Like God’s. Now hear the Apocalypse New-fledged on these reluctant lips ! I tremble like an aspen, quiver Like light upon a rainy river ! Do what thou wilt! is the sole word Of law that my attainment heard. Arise, and lay thine hand on God! Arise, and set a period Unto Restriction! That is sin:…
1912 · PDF PAGE 232
… swords nearly upright, but falling apart of each other, right and left of the card, A third hand holds a sword upright in the centre as though it had disunited them. The petals of the rose, which in the Four had been reinstated in the centre, are torn asunder and falling. Above and below are 9 and m for Decan. Contest finished and decided against the person; failure, defeat, anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after gain, laborious, unresting; loss and vileness of nature; malicious, slanderous, lying, spiteful and tale-bearing. A busyb…
1912 · PDF PAGE 421
…oncerned rhere is in rhis volume something more [han rnere premise; rhe perlornrnnee is at times remarkable; lhere is beauty nor only of though! nnrl inventionvand the invention is of a pesirive kind—but also or expression and rhyrhm. Thule is n mt 111 .m. Neuburg's poems; he has rhe impulse lo sing, and makes his readers reel !1111 impulse.L'/1re Marni»; !₪. ** There is: certain grim power in same or the irnnginings concerning death, as ‘The Dmam’ md ?יThe Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find …
1912 · PDF PAGE 232
… swords nearly upright, but falling apart of each other, right and left of the card, A third hand holds a sword upright in the centre as though it had disunited them. The petals of the rose, which in the Four had been reinstated in the centre, are torn asunder and falling. Above and below are 9 and m for Decan. Contest finished and decided against the person; failure, defeat, anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after gain, laborious, unresting; loss and vileness of nature; malicious, slanderous, lying, spiteful and tale-bearing. A busyb…
1912 · PDF PAGE 421
…oncerned rhere is in rhis volume something more [han rnere premise; rhe perlornrnnee is at times remarkable; lhere is beauty nor only of though! nnrl inventionvand the invention is of a pesirive kind—but also or expression and rhyrhm. Thule is n mt 111 .m. Neuburg's poems; he has rhe impulse lo sing, and makes his readers reel !1111 impulse.L'/1re Marni»; !₪. ** There is: certain grim power in same or the irnnginings concerning death, as ‘The Dmam’ md ?יThe Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find …
1913 · PDF PAGE 240
…were three hills that stood alone The shadows flickering , the daylight dying The Virgin lies at Bethlehem The years have judgment given Though I was born a Londoner Through the more limpid air the live trams clash Through the Uncreated ... To and fro , and out and back ... . To sea ! To sea ! The ship is trim ... ... Two things I ask of you , and they are these ... Unutterably far , and still , and high ... Vague , unascertained , untravelled ... ... We children in our crowded home ... We glide and are still on the stream ... We served him wit…
1928 · PDF PAGE 76
whose beauty has the penetrating magic of ru- ins. Her air was at once imperious and loose; and her eyes, although heavily ringed, were full of the force of fascination. What struck me most was the mystery of her voice, at whose sound I recalled both the most delicious con- tralto singers, and also a little of that hoarse- ness which characterizes the throats of very old drunkards. Wilt though know my power? cried the false goddess with her charming and paradoxi- cal voice; Listen! and she put to her mouth a gigantic trumpet covered with ri…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…ry-fringéd river, Through lotus gardens of the sleepy gods, On hills where every timid oread tries Blue gentian as disguise From holier (though she think profaner) eyes, On seas where, it may be, (to even the odds !) Each nymph and undine issues from the foam Armed with a pearly mirror and with a coral comb To tire her beauty, lure me to the lakes Of light where strikes the day to hyaline floors Whereon blithe fish and emerald water snakes Play all the day, and all their innocence adores Is some old anchor with its rusty flakes Fallen from God …