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…ver gate Flames to my fierier face ? What angel, as I contemplate The unsubstantial space , Move with my lips the laws of Fate That bind earth 's carapace ? No angel, but the very light And fire and spirit of Her, Unmitigated , eremite , The unmanifested myrrh , Ocean , and night that is not night, The mother -mediator .
56 ORACLES Though the earth be disparted and rended, Thus only the great peaks change That their image is moulded and blended Into all that a fancy may range ; And the silence my song could refigure To the note of a bird did I will, Of glory or rigour, of passion or vigour— The change were to ill! For silence is better than singing Though a Shelley wove songs in the sky, And hovering is sweeter than winging; To live is less good than to die. The secret of secrets is hidden Not in lives nor in loves, but in wills That are free and unchidden, tha…
…ling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. 27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason. 28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin! 29. May Because be accursed for ever! 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks …
70 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Than earthly stars and flowers That beam lasciviously through nights empurpled hours ! O well of fire ! O fountain of delicious spurting flame Grown sad with shame, Whose imminent desire Drinks in the dew of earth, Gives its own limpid streams to quench mans deathly dearth. O gardened rose ! The fern-fronds gird thy fragrant beauty round. Thy ways are bound With petals that unclose When the sun seeks his way Through night and sleep and love to all the dreams of day. Love, sleep, and death ! The three that melt together,…
…ial yet hath never ceased. That was the best : far sundered by the tide Dolorous, endless as Oceanus, A serpent-river girdling the large earth, Still in that pure embrace we bring to birth A thousand pleasant children born of us, Sacred and sinless, if unsanctified. 76
…opped poison in a water spring!) To fill me with the utmost sense Of some divine experience. For who but she, the adulterous queen, Made earth and heaven with all its stars, The storm, the hunger epicene, The raging at invisible bars, The hideous cruelty of the whole?— These are of Kali, O my soul! The sterile force of bronze and gold Bends to my passion, as it grips With feverish claws 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;…
… The dance is done, the spell is broke, And marred the merry measure ! Yea ; my small kiss is somehow worth The love of all the boys on earth ! The shy sweet smiles, the tender eyes And bodies slim that woo me ;
…HREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY CIRCE. BY .₪!-?טיהARCHER THE ELECTRIC SILENCE SONG THE SCORPION. By ALEISTER CROWLEY THE EARTH. BY FRANCIS (?עמושש SLEEP. Βγ ETHEL ARCHER THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON. BY MARTIAL NAV THE AUTUMN WOODS‘ BY VICTOR I. I. NEUBURG THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM THE BIG STICK‘ BYחו-?]םצYARKER, E.?"!שממשAnus-rm CROWLEY, ETC. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT THE RITES OF ELEUSIS no: I7 23 29 33 52 53 66 67 103 1x2 ”3 149 !53 x6e [n: παπαῖ;;מ”חש/חן !ןושמש/: ?”!!!ושש/,וto tit: tm uf::!}?! ?ז/װof !:`/;»:!: ,... Wigzd u: :, Μ!mr !…
…HREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY CIRCE. BY .₪!-?טיהARCHER THE ELECTRIC SILENCE SONG THE SCORPION. By ALEISTER CROWLEY THE EARTH. BY FRANCIS (?עמושש SLEEP. Βγ ETHEL ARCHER THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON. BY MARTIAL NAV THE AUTUMN WOODS‘ BY VICTOR I. I. NEUBURG THE DANGERS OF MYSTICISM THE BIG STICK‘ BYחו-?]םצYARKER, E.?"!שממשAnus-rm CROWLEY, ETC. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT THE RITES OF ELEUSIS no: I7 23 29 33 52 53 66 67 103 1x2 ”3 149 !53 x6e [n: παπαῖ;;מ”חש/חן !ןושמש/: ?”!!!ושש/,וto tit: tm uf::!}?! ?ז/װof !:`/;»:!: ,... Wigzd u: :, Μ!mr !…
…s come when I may know her whom I have so long desired . And when the sun is no more , my body shall be blown to the four corners of the earth . But I shall be free to mingle with her whom I love . I shall be one for ever with the uttermost parts of the dim constellations .
Constantine Michaelides. And we who live in the loud age of steam Are but the children still Of those who ploughed the earth with wooden share And ground the sunburnt grain With their own hand, or fought with simple Sword and shield . The din of men Who march , the vanguard of mankind to -day , Is far from you ; your home Is left untortured by the strife of souls A strife religion -born , For that blind change which we salute in faith As progress . Overbold Dictating wisdom to a silent God We grasp the wrist of Fate Immovable , and hearken not …
…ist is vain for you ; appeal In vain to his shed blood ; nor pray I will not slay. “ I will most utterly destroy Your souls from off the earth ; your power Sealed by your Satan I will cloy With subtle strength ; your church shall flower No further hour. “ Because ye set your hands to this, Blaspheming nature and my name,
VII O Love! and were I with thee ever! Come with me over the round earth, O’er lake and fountain, sea and river ! Girdle the world with angel girth Of angel voyage! Shall we roam In teeming jungles poisonous? Or make ourselves an eyrie-home Where the black ice roars ravenous In glittering avalanche? Or else Hide in some corrie on the fells Of heather and bracken, or delight In grottos built of stalactite ? Or be our lonely haunt the sand Of the Sahara : let us go Where some oasis, subtly planned For love, invites the afterglow! There let us liv…
…re cheaply paid Since Satan introduced Free Trade; And necessaries—woe is me !|— Are furnished to the damned soul free. Ill. God’s hell, Earth’s heaven, are not so far. Dinner brought oysters, caviar, ) Anchovies, truffles, curried rabbit (Bad for the apoplectic habit) While ancient brandy and champagne Washed down the dainties. Once again 1 Money-changer. Mexican dollars were long the sole currency on the Chinese coast. 101
…old times! I nodded, laughed, Poisoned my neighbour, a young girl Sent here for marrying an earl. Of course she did not die. But then On earth I never killed my men; They only die whom one forgets. Remember that each action sets Its mark still deeper in the mind! 104
…th enthusiastic confidence that the present publication will abundantly contribute to the fulfilment of my True Will for which I came to earth. Let us wring from labour and sorrow the utmost of which humanity is capable. Fulfil my Will to open the portals of spiritual attainment to my fellowmen, to bring them to the enjoyment of that realization of Truth , beneath all veils of temporal falsehood, which has enlightened mine eyes and filled my mouth with song. So there you are. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
…ht of the Body of Our Lady Nuit in which we live and move and have our being. Then, from this height we look back upon the little planet Earth, of which we, a moment ago, were a part, and think of Ourself as shedding our Light upon all those little individuals we have called our brothers and sisters, the slaves that serve. But we do not stop there. Imagine the Sun concentrating His rays for a moment on one tiny spot, the Earth. What happens? It is burnt up, it is consumed, it disappears. But in our Solar Conscious- ness is Truth, and though we …
…egenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss . .. . But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! ... Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. There is a veil, that veil is black. It is th(, veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the c…
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS 2. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir; when thou marchedst out 01 the Field of Edom; the earth trembled, and the heaven dropped: the clouds also dropped waterr 3. Curse ye Meroz, saith the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the Mighty! 4. The river Kishon swept them away: that ancient river, the river Kishon ! ;. Oh, my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! ι. He bowed the Heavens also and came down: and darkness was …
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS 2. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir; when thou marchedst out 01 the Field of Edom; the earth trembled, and the heaven dropped: the clouds also dropped waterr 3. Curse ye Meroz, saith the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the Mighty! 4. The river Kishon swept them away: that ancient river, the river Kishon ! ;. Oh, my soul, thou hast trodden down strength! ι. He bowed the Heavens also and came down: and darkness was …