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Page 23 of 1081903 · PDF PAGE 108
…e fragrance of regret ? For me, at least, a pang of perfect grief ? Had it been otherwise, I would be chief And drive her to abandon all things yet In mere despair, that bye and bye shall get Young comfort in a babe beyond belief. God would not curse and bless us to such measure ; We were not sad enough nor glad enough ! A little time of misery and pleasure ; Pain strangling half the ecstasy thereof— Such all our gain, who gained the utmost treasure, Gift of the wizard wand and cup of love. 88
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
…‐coloured, many‐wiled, of Life itself. Constantly whirling, all possibilities are enjoyed, under the phantom show of Space and Time: all things are real, the soul is the surface, precisely because they are instantly com‐ pensated by this Adjustment. All things are harmony and beauty; all things are Truth: because they cancel out. She is the goddess Maat; she bears upon her nemyss the ostrich feathers of the Two‐ fold Truth. From this Crown, so delicate that the most faintest breath of thought must stir it, de‐ pend, by chains of Cause, the Scal…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…pose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a résolution of ail complexities into their éléments, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on, other things. 8. The Grade of Adeptus Exemptus confers authority to govern the two lower Orders of R. C. and G. D. The Adept must préparé and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposais for its welfare and progress. He wil.1 thus be known as the leader of a school of thought. (Eliphas Levi’s Clef des …
1898 · PDF PAGE 7
Showed me things wonderful, unbound The fetters that beset me round, Opened my waking ear to sound That may not by a man be found, except in sleep. Thy presence was as subtle flame Burning in dawny groves ; thy name Like dew upon the hills became, And all thy mind a star most bright ; And, following with wakeful eyes The strait meridian of the wise, My feet tread under stars and skies ; My spirit soars and seeks and flies, a child of light. Thus eager, may my purpose stand Firm as the faith of honest hand, Nor change like castles built of sand …
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
…ulting stings, Whose starry shape shone in the west, Held of the glimmering wings. Her shadowy soul perceived the jest Of man and mortal things. And there I vowed a solemn oath To Aphrodite fair, Sealing that sacramental troth With a long curl of hair, And the strange prayer’s reiterant growth Sent shining through the air. (Invoking Aphrodtte) Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the Father of all, the A‘gis-bearing King! Spouse, daughter, mother of God, Queen of the blest abode In Cyprus’ splendour singly glittering. Sweet sister …
1954 · PDF PAGE 73
40 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Bu t this is only part of the story. As things are, we have all adventured into an Universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of Evolution. Man is a marine monster; when he decided that it would be better for him somehow to live on land, he had to grow lungs instead of gills. When we want to travel over soft snow, we have to invent the ski; when we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written…
1903 · PDF PAGE 54
…s. I learnt at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thoughts immense Like this I thought : plumes of my amorous quill I tickled her withal : then grave and still Waited secure : the silence grew intense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not overbold ; quite powerless to destroy Her life’s long peace, the ten-year-walléd city. Why be too cruel, check such baby …
1905 · PDF PAGE 47
… forth in your pleasure, O fountains and springs |. Come dance me a measure Unholpen of wings! Show, show the deep treasure, Unspeakable things ! Come forth! I invoke ye, O fountains, I sweep the in- vincible strings. THE FOUNTAINS In the heather deeply hidden, From the caverns darkly drawn, In the woodlands man-forbidden, In the gateways of the dawn, In the glad sweet glades descended, On the stark hills gathered high, Where the snows and trees are blended, Kissed at birth by sun and sky; We have heard the summons: we are open to the day- spri…
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
…d there is no strength save in Him the exalted, the great. 2. Thus did V. V. V. V. V. become mad, and wend about naked. 3. And all these things fled away, for he understood them all, that they were but as old rags upon the Divine Perfection. 4. Also he pitied them all, that they were but reflections distorted. 5. Also he smote them, lest they should bear rule over the just. 6. Also he harmonized them into one picture, beautiful to behold. 7. And having thus conquered them, there 57
1910 · PDF PAGE 39
…nar-chaste With the satyrs were embraced, Spelled the secret of the key : Sic pervenias. And he Went his wizard way, inweaving Dreams of things beyond believing. When he will, the weary world Of the senses closely curled Like a serpent round his heart Shakes herself and stands apart. So the hearts blood flames expanding, Strenuous, urgent, and commanding ; And the key unlocks the door Where his love lies evermore. She is of the faery blood ; All smaragdine flows its flood. Glowing in the amber sky To ensorcelled porphyry. She hath eyes of glit…
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
… to his own Taste, to make Clothes according to Fancy, with Variety of Individuality, and to practice the manifold Crafts of Love. These Things being first secured, thou mayst afterward lead them into the Heav ens of Poesy and Tale, of Music, Painting, and Sculpture, and into the Lore of the Mind itself, with its insatiable Joy of all Knowledge. Thence let them soar! 59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him. Commentary: We must abolish the shadows by the Radi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
…is no good your starting anything of any kind unless you can see clearly into the simplicity of truth. All this humming and hawing about things is moral poison. What is the use of being a woman if you have not got an intuition, an instinct enabling you to distinguish between the genuine and the sham? Your state of mind suggests to me that you must have been, in the past, under the influence of people who were always talking about things, and never doing any real work. They kept on arguing all sorts of obscure philosophical points; that is all v…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…ght Made years the servants of its might. There is no soul. A. These stars thou seest Are but the figuring of thy brain. NV. Then of all things the soul were freest 4. Move then the centre of thy pain! XN. *Tis done. A. A trick to cheat a child. NV. It is the truth that I am naught. Hear what I have gathered in the wild, Flowers of imperishable thought With glory and with rapture clothed. This being, thinking, loved or loathed, 26
1909 · PDF PAGE 62
…I. And All and One and Naught were slain in the slaying of the Warrior 418, 12. In the slaying of the subtlety that ex- panded all these things into the Twelve Rays of the Crown, I3. That returned unto One, and beyond One, even unto the vision of the Fool in his folly that chanted the word Ararita,and beyond the Word and the Fool; yea, beyond the Word and the Fool.
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
…beetle, the reiterate stings Of fouler vermin, the hot breath that brings The sunset’s garlic to the midnight’s rose, The red whore’s writhings, clutches swift to close On this worn limb, exact the woman-debt To the last mite, the cold grey glutinous sweat — These things, I say, assailed me, bade me pause Praising the goodness of the great First Cause. JOHN Yet all we know His vast benevolence. ISSA Thou hast religion, but no common sense. The cud of wisdom is not duly chewed When whoredom’s whittled with a platitude.
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
… I crave Doubtful liaisons with the grave and loves of Parthia for sport. I think perhaps no longer yet, but dream and lust for stranger things Than ever sucked the lips of kings, or fed the tears of Mahomet. Quaint carven vampire bats, unseen in curious hollows of the trees, Or deadlier serpents coiled at ease round carcasses of birds unclean ; All wandering changeful spectre shapes that dance in slow sweet measure round And merge themselves in the profound, nude women and distorted apes
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
…oble Eightfold Path, of which I propose to give a short resumé. First, however, of the goal. It may be readily syllogised : All existing things are (by nature, inevi- tably) subject to change. In Nirvana is no change. .'. No existing thing is or can be in Nirvana. Now here is the great difficulty; for this syllogism is perfectly sound, and yet we speak of attaining Nirvana, tasting Nir- vana, &c. [We must distinguish the Hindu Nirvana, which means Cessation of Existence in certain Lokas; never absolute Cessation, as the ’ Or International Buddh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
….-XL.—The vagueness and extent of these attributions is shown in this table from Agrippa, who is too catholic to be quite trust- worthy. Things under the Sun which are called Solary. Among stones— 1. The eye of the Sun. 9. Topazius. 2. Carbuncle. ro. Chrysopassus, 3. Chrysolite. 1r. Rubine. 4. Iris (stone). 12. Balagius. 5. Heliotrope (stone). 13. Auripigmentum and 6. Hyacinth (stone). things of a golden 7. Pyrophylus (stone). colour. 8, Pantaura. Among plants— 1. Marigold. 17. Mastic. 2. Lote-tree. 18. Zedoary. 3. Peony. 19. Saffron. 4. Sallen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 110
…of William James.1 2 Thelemites are “thrice-born”; we accept everything for what it is, without “lust of result,” without insisting upon things conforming with a priori ideals, or regretting their failure to do so. We can therefore “enjoy all things of sense and rapture” according to their true nature. For example, the average man dreads tuberculosis. The “Christian Scientist” flees this fear by pretending that the disease is an illu sion in “mortal mind.” But the Thelemite accepts it for what it is, and finds interest in it for its own sake. …
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
…estroy conventional Logic, for that is exactly what it is intended to do. I may also mention briefly one line of analysis. 1 [Lat., “all things go forth into mystery,” and “the highest knowledge is to know nothing.”] I ask “What is (e.g.) a tree?” The dictionary defines this simple idea by means of many complex ideas; obviously one gets in deeper with every stroke one takes. The same applies to any “Why” that may be posed. The one existing mystery disappears as a consequence of innumerable antecedents, each equally mysterious. To ask questions …