The World’s Tragedy
…gical posi- tion, they were found shifting as best they might from compromise to compromise. But this they never saw themselves ; and so far did they take their principle that my father would refuse to buy railway shares because
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…gical posi- tion, they were found shifting as best they might from compromise to compromise. But this they never saw themselves ; and so far did they take their principle that my father would refuse to buy railway shares because
… of Magick ceremonies is the Eucharist. It consists in taking common things, transmuting them into things divine, and consuming them. So far, it is a type of every magick ceremony, for the reabsorption of the force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. Take a substance 1 symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be clas- sifîed according to the number of the éléments of which the sacra- ment is composed. The highest form o…
…: So lifts the agony of the world From this mine head , that bowed awhile Before the terror suddenly shown. The nameless fear for self , far hurled By death to dissolution vile, Fades as the royal truth is known : Though change and sorrow range and roll , There is no self - there is no soul !? TIME AND SPACE One question still remains before we dismiss the question of Time and Space , and that is their homo geneity and accidental reality in the Ego . Being forms of extension , Space permits Size , and Time , Number , i.e., in Consciousness . Th…
… think the hurt is healed, for (by the law That forms our being) you must suffer as I, Hunger as I, rejoice as I, withdraw Into the same far transcendental sky Of this initiated rapture. Hurt Of shame for me is past, beholding Gods Only a little part of me, and dirt Such as men fling and women paste, no odds. Moreover, by the subtle and austere Vintage we drain, albeit we drain the lees, There is no headache for the morning drear, No fluctuant in our tideless ecstasies — Whereby, o maiden o’ mine, the runic rime Tells me we have ree’d the riddl…
…uardian Angel.” One thing at a time. But here he finds himself discussing and disputing with himself the nature of that Knowledge. Better far act as hitherto, and aspire simply and directly, as one person'to another, careless of the critical objec- tions (quite insuperable, of course) to this or any other conception. For as this experience transcends reason, it is fruitless to argue about it. Adonai, I invoke Thee! Simpler, then, to go back to the Egoistic diction, only remembering always that by “I” is meant John St. John, or O. M., or Adonai a…
… there are two things, in order to be able to talk about them at all. But one cannot say that they are near each other, or that they are far apart; one can only say that they are distant. In order to discriminate between them at all, there must be a third thing. We must have another point. One must invent The Surface; one must invent The Triangle. In doing this, incidentally, appears the whole of Plane Geometry. One can now say, “A is nearer to B than A is to C”. But, so far, there is no substance in any of these ideas. In fact there are no ide…
…he smallest risk. The paradoxical result is that I have walked hundreds of miles unroped over snow-covered glaciers, and that nobody (so far as I know) has even attempted to repeat my major climbs on Beachy Head. One may add a little grimly that the same remark applies to my excursions into the regions of the mind, the conscience, and the soul. This bombastic prelude to a simple note on the precautions which I took in my experiments. First, the use of the minutest care in estimating doses. Secondly, the rule never to repeat my experiment before…
…he smallest risk. The paradoxical result is that I have walked hundreds of miles unroped over snow-covered glaciers, and that nobody (so far as I know) has even attempted to repeat my major climbs on Beachy Head. One may add a little grimly that the same remark applies to my excursions into the regions of the mind, the conscience, and the soul. This bombastic prelude to a simple note on the precautions which I took in my experiments. First, the use of the minutest care in estimating doses. Secondly, the rule never to repeat my experiment before…
…g alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, one love, one death; and Death at last Is master of all life to be, far passed
…g alone Shall yield the calm man seeks— the upright stone. One life, one love, one death; and Death at last Is master of all life to be, far passed
…atu. But we pushed on, gasping, up hill, down dale, all through the night. Dawn broke, chill and grey, on the crest of a great mountain. Far in the distance I saw specks. I left my pony, and ran headlong down the slopes. I had got almost to the bottom of the hill when I saw the Consul’s litter. Forrest ran forward. I turned sadly back, for I saw that the Consul’s legs were tied. I knew that he was dead. In that country where a thousand plagues hunt down mankind, it was most urgent that a medical man should certify the cause of death. How lucky …
…r amorous look. The stream sang merrier and the grass grew green ; The leaves made murmur as she drew him down Into her maiden arms: the far-off queen She guessed so happy in her golden crown She never envied after: for she wrung Love’s secret, understanding, heart and tongue, Its strange desire; sage heads the linnets nod, Chirping: ‘‘So Lilian has found her God!” No! For she might not in her joy discern The real fountain of delight. She took The carrion crow to be the golden erne, Saw dainty covers, and misread the book. The world was open to…
…fall And breathe—but no breath answers me at all. All of my kisses stir no blush, no sigh ; She will not hear me ever if I call! Let the far music of oblivious years Sound in the sea beneath! Are not its waters one with all my tears? Hath Atropos no comfort in her shears? No Muse for me one wreath? Were I now dead and free to travel far Whither I will, ah me! Not whither I must—were there no avatar Drawn like my love from some close kindred star? No shape seen on the sea? Were I now free of this intense desire, By swift magician power I might f…
…nt water, in a sun That was the heart of spring. But the green land Seemed distant, with a sense of aery height ; As if it were below us far, that seemed Around. And as we gazed the water grew Ethereal, thin, most delicately hued, Misty, as if its substance were dissolved In some more subtle element. We heard “O passers over water, do ye dare To tread the deadlier kingdoms of the air?” . Whereat I cried: Arise! And then the pearl Budded with nautilus-wings, and upward now Soared. And our souls began to know the death That was about to take us. …
…thralled : the piercing flame Of love struck through him , till his tortured mind Drove his young limbs , the wolf that hunts the hind , Far through the forest . 1 And then again bursts from his lips the enraptured song : Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the sun , Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by one , To the vineyard comes the shower , No sweet rain to fresh the flower , But the thunder rain that cleaves , Rends and ruins tender leaves . Ere the crimson lips have planted Paler roses , warmer grapes , Ere the maiden br…
…t Made us abandon it. JOANNA. Nay, by inscrutable Law of all Life it fell. Jutta. Is that the light? JOANNA. The boon Of the pure moon? [Far above glimmers a crescent, and sheds a wan light. A horvible discord arises: the howling of wolves, the moaning of dogs, the wailing of cats, the crying ofjackals. And in the half light appear first marsh-lights wandering, then giant illusions of gods and men, all of which disappear in turn, their evanishment awaking a peal of mocking laughter. The women shrink into themselves, clinging to the tree, and mi…
…t Made us abandon it. JOANNA. Nay, by inscrutable Law of all Life it fell. Jutta. Is that the light? JOANNA. The boon Of the pure moon? [Far above glimmers a crescent, and sheds a wan light. A horvible discord arises: the howling of wolves, the moaning of dogs, the wailing of cats, the crying ofjackals. And in the half light appear first marsh-lights wandering, then giant illusions of gods and men, all of which disappear in turn, their evanishment awaking a peal of mocking laughter. The women shrink into themselves, clinging to the tree, and mi…
…ry of the relations of the soul and the Holy Guardian Angel. Liser DCCCLX. Joun St. Joun. A model of what a magical record should be, so far as accurate analysis and fullness of description are concerned. Lier VIII. See CCCCXVIII. Lizer XI. LiperNV. Aninstruction for attaining Nuit. Lizer DLV. Liser HAD. An instruction for attaining Hadit. Liper DCCCXXXI. LiserIOD, formerly called VESTA. An instruction giving three methods of reducing the mani- fold consciousness to the Unity. This course is specially adapted to facilitate the Task proper to th…
…ding like the rolling of con- tinuous thunder. The Prince himself, carried away, mingled his applause with that of his Court. Yet, for a far-seeing eye, his intoxication, his own, was not unmingled with other ele- ments; did he feel himself abased, his despots power broken? Humiliated in his art, that of
…horoughly with a given subject in a single page. It was an acute agony, similar to that of Asana, to write, and the effort removed me so far from normal human consciousness that there was something indicibly ghastly in its unnaturalness when I got into bed in full daylight in the hope of acquiring a particle of warmth from the complacent Camel. I may now deal thoroughly with the complex and astounding incident which I promised to describe above. The Camel was a doctor of pharmacy, employed in pathological analysis, and later in manufacturing pe…