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Page 24 of 1151906 · PDF PAGE 104
98 THE ARGONAUTS The silent thought, the hand unseen, The rayless majesty of light Shed from the splendour of our Queen Athena! mystery and might ; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep ; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep ; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban kin…
1898 · PDF PAGE 118
…, though time be So sure and so swift for thy feet, Though far from this England thy clime be In years that sway slow as the wheat, Take thought, for an hour let my rhyme be not wholly unsweet. For truth and desire and devotion May lend through the verses a voice, They tremble with violent motion, They yearn to be fair for thy choice As billows and winds of the ocean that roar and rejoice. For winds that are shaken and riven I bound by my power unto me ; For these have I battled and striven With winds that are rapid and free ; With weapons of w…
1899 · PDF PAGE 5
… beneath her eyelids, where her eyes Like stars were deep, and dim like summer skies ; I looked beneath their lashes; and behold! My own thought mirrored in their maiden gold. Shame drew to them to cloud their light with lies, . And shrank back shamed ; and Love waxed bright and bold. | ) The devilish circle of the fiery ring Became one moment like a littlé thing, And Truth and God were'near us to withdraw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. - We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. Only our looks and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 123
…! my whole being wakes Into a world of rapture. I am I At last — the little fool that wondered why ! I am abreast of God’s whole tide of thought. Like gold into fine linen, I am wrought Into the royal vesture of the globe. I am the Empress of the City of Sin, Wrapped in its purple robe Stained with mine own maid’s blood. Yea ! for all glorious within Am I, most like the daughter of a king, Voluptuously languishing Like a great queen afloat upon the flood In gilded barge
1922 · PDF PAGE 59
…w when one was beaten, nothing could ever go wrong. We are losing the Empire because we have become “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” The intellectuals have made us like “the poor cat i’ the adage.” The spirit of Hamlet has replaced that of Macbeth. Macbeth only went wrong because the heart was taken out of him by Macduff’s interpretation of what the witches had said. Coriolanus only failed when he stopped tothink. As the poet says, ‘‘ The love of knowledge is the hate of life.”’ Cocaine removes all hesitation. But our forefathers …
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
234 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS realized that the task approximated to impossibility. His very simplest ideas, the primitive elements of his thought, had no true correspondences in any European terminology . The very ftrst word "Tao" presented a completely insoluble problem. It had been translated "Reason," "The Way," "TO ON." None of these convey any true conception of the Tao. The Tao is Reason in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements of thought which determines the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…Stonehenge was dedicated to Eugenics. Listen to Johnny Bobson on Cleopatra’s Needle | The Needle is square in section. The old Egyptians thought the earth had four corners. Argal, The Needle was built to commemorate the theory. Or, even worse! The Needle is square in section. It must have been built so for a religious reason. Argal, The Egyptians thought that the earth had four corners. It is impossible to commit all possible logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A. The Rationali…
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…Stonehenge was dedicated to Eugenics. Listen to Johnny Bobson on Cleopatra’s Needle | The Needle is square in section. The old Egyptians thought the earth had four corners. Argal, The Needle was built to commemorate the theory. Or, even worse! The Needle is square in section. It must have been built so for a religious reason. Argal, The Egyptians thought that the earth had four corners. It is impossible to commit all possible logical fallacies in a single syllogism. This must be very disappointing to the young bloods of the R.P.A. The Rationali…
1954 · PDF PAGE 490
…; she cared for nothing beyond her personal comfort and pleasure. When the communications ceased, she dropped the whole affair without a thought. She nearly always referred to the authors of these messages as "They"; when asked who "They" were, she would say haltingly and stupidly "the gods," or some equally unhelpful term. But she was always absolutely clear and precise as to the instructions . The New Aeon was to supersede the old; my special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the …
1899 · PDF PAGE 141
… beneath her eyelids, where her eyes Like stars were deep, and dim like summer skies ; I looked beneath their lashes; and behold! My own thought mirrored in their maiden gold. Shame drew to them to cloud their light with lies, . And shrank back shamed ; and Love waxed bright and bold. | ) The devilish circle of the fiery ring Became one moment like a littlé thing, And Truth and God were'near us to withdraw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. - We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. Only our looks and…
1901 · PDF PAGE 28
…xes the eight-fold ecstasy ; exceeds The minor sestet, where some passion bleeds Or truth discourses : or eclipse may end, Proof against thought ; but if man comprehend The stars in all their stations sing together. II. What power or fascination can there lie In this fair garden of the straight-kept rows, The sonnet ? Surely some archangel knows Why, having written in mere ecstasy T
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
… men have heard of all these ships not one, not one for ever more again. VIII EEING your naked body in the bed Against the jetty silk, I thought you lay Just as the Milky Way Lies in the unkenned hollows of the sky. One swarthy ray of red Leapt from your hither eye, And straight my dream began To map that heavenyour eye, Aldeboran ! I launched the magic boat, and early found The Pirates cave and the Enchaunted Ground ; The cedared Lebanon, The Wizards Grot, the well of spice, The Hanging Gardens of great Babylon : All these then did I visit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…against that bitter day , and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said : Here is a change indeed ! 1 T he com mon for mula for beginning a “Jataka,” or story of a previous incarnation of the Buddha. Brahmadatta reigned 120,000 years. 2 The Sun. 3 The Moon. 4 Perdurabo. Crowley’s motto. “Now it came to pass that after many years he looked upon his love, the bride of his heart, the rose of his garden, the jewel of his rosary; and behold, the olive loveliness of…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…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 Grands Mystères, the Works of Swedenborg, von Eckartshausen, Robert Fludd, Paracelsus, Newton, Bolyai, Hinton, Berkeley, Loyola, etc., etc., are examples of such essays. ) He will hâve attained ail but the suprême summits of médita¬ tion, and should be already prepared to perceive that the only possible course for him is to devote himself utterly to heiping his fellow créature…
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…air may pay The joy to hold thee for a day! JASON. Athena’s servant recks not much of Ares. PELIAS, Are thine eyes kindled at the golden thought? JASON. * Mine eyes see farther than the Fleece of Gold. PELIAS. What heroes can attain so fair a thing? JASON. I have some friends who would esteem this quest
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
… His boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion. By virtue of his LAW he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the Rapture of Silence, and some new World unguessed of Phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmonies with every hour…
1929 · PDF PAGE 500
…ing, looking for something under my pillows, I found my revolver was missing. I did not like it. The evening before, both the boys and I thought we saw a strange man on the island just after dark. We gave chase and thought we saw him slipping through the trees, but failed to report him. I decided to call on my friend the colonel and report. He was very pleased with my solution of the mystery of the alleged signals, and agreed that the incident of the boat looked bad. On his part, he had a new yarn. An old boatman, as steady and sober as one cou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 121
ACTUS QUINTUS ITS MEDEA. One thing remember! While you say the spell— Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise In any of your minds !1 ALCESTIS. [Zo her Sisters.] Remember that ! MEDEA. Else—Ototototoi ! FIRST DANAID. What woe is this? MEDEA, The charm is broken. SECOND DANAID., And our father MEDEA, Lost ! DANAIDES. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai! MEDEA, Ai Ai! Aji Ai! ALCESTIS, Be brave, dear sisters, pluck your courage up ! Easy this one condition! All is safe. MEDEA. . Haste then! Good luck attend you!) When the hunt Returns, how joyful 1 Tt isa c…
1903 · PDF PAGE 54
…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 joy ? She said “ I think the poem very pretty.” 34
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
… shoddy, Dung and ethics and dust VIII Thou as I art Fate. Come then, conquer and kiss me ! Come ! what hinders Believe me : This is the thought we await. The mark is fair ; can you miss me Nay, you catch me, you cleave me ! XI See, how subtly I writhe ! Strange runes and unknown sigils I trace in the trance that thrills us. Death ! how lithe, how blithe Are these male incestuous vigils ! Ah ! this is the spasm that kills us ! X Wherefore I solemnly affirm This twofold Oneness at the term. Asar on Asi did beget Horus twin brother unto Set. Now …