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Page 29 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 226
…dying on her breast, love’s face I see: Love calls me back from death; my spirit slips Back to the old forgetfulness, ere I Was risen to life’s surface, virgin-pure To tinge my soul with the blueness of the sky, The sun’s gold, and earth’s blacknesses secure. Wherefore shall I repine that I must fade? Shall there not alway be immortal roses? How, losing life then, shall I be afraid If at the sunset my tired soul reposes? Oh, I shall lie on my love’s breast for ever, For we, being dead, shall lose each other never! (111) I turn to mortal love ; …
1899 · PDF PAGE 220
198 MYSTERIES: Wake from the innocent dear sleep Of childhood’s life: An English maiden must not weep To be a wife. So shall our love bridge space, and bring The tender breath Of sun and moon and stars that sing To gladden Death. I see your cheek grow pale and cold, Then flush above. Kiss me; I know that I behold The birth of Love.
1944 · PDF PAGE 80
… who is Wisdom; he is the highest form of Mercury, and the Logos, the Creator of all worlds. Accordingly, his representative in physical life is the spermatozoon; this is why the card is called The Hermit. The figure of the Hermit himself recalls the shape of the letter Yod, and the colour of his cloak is the colour of Binah, in whom he gestates. In his hand he holds a Lamp whose centre is the Sun, portrayed in the likeness of the Sigil of the great King of Fire (Yod is the secret Fire). It seems that he is contemplating—in a certain sense, ado…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
…oved, him dead, O Hebrus, ever downward on thy bosom iron-red ! RIVER HEBRUS. All Nature’s tunes are dull. The beautiful, The harmony of life is null. CALLIOPE. What unto us remains But in these broken strains To hymn with voices jarred the jarred world’s shriek of woe? O!0! RIVER FELEBRUS. This discord is an agony Shuddering harsh in me; My waters will empoison the fair fresh-water sea ! CALLIOPE. Nay ! all is ended now. Cover the beaten brow ! Carry the brain of music into the wide Aggean ! No priest pronounce thy pzean Ever again, Apollo, Th…
1898 · PDF PAGE 20
… task to have to write in cold blood the dreadful truth about her death. She had the misfortune to contract, in the last few days of her life with him, the same terrible disease which he describes in the last poem of this collection. This shock, coming so soon after, and, as it were, as an unholy perpetual reminder of the madness and sequestration of her lover, no less than of his infidelity, unhinged her mind, and she shot herself on July 5th, 1869. Her last letter to Madame J . . . S . . . is one of the tenderest and most pathetic ever writte…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…ree Breath. (U) through Willed Breath. (M) and Stopped Breath. (GN) to Continuous Breath, thus symbolizing the whole course of spiritual life. A is the formless Hero; U is the six-fold solar sound of physi- cal life, the triangle of Soûl being entwined with that of Body; M is the silence of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identical Point!” “Nuith ! Hadith ! Ra-Hoor-Khuit ! ” “Hail, Great Wild Beast!” “Hail, I A O ! ” I. Sacred to AHAThOOR. The idea is that of the Female conceived as invulnérable, reposeful, of enormou…
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
IN MANU DOMINÆ 171 She laughs outright as she gains the goal Of her dark and deadly dream ; And the white life leaps from his control Wild, in a choking scream. She curves white lips to a cup of death ; Her eyes gleam, and her wise brows nod ; Her hand makes music with her breath Dancing upon the ivory rod The dying priestess offereth The sacrifice to God
1905 · PDF PAGE 39
…t track the intangible and blind, And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New life for many mystic lives, and strange new forms and faces. My mind still searches, and attains By many days and many pains To That which Is and Was and reigns Shadowed in four and ten,! And loses self in sacred lands, And cries and quickens, and understands Beyond the first Amen.” THE ALCHEMIST. THIS POEM WAS INTENDED AS THE PRO- LOGUE ‘YO A PLAY—AT PRESENT UN- FINISHED.? An old tower, very lofty, on a small…
1898 · PDF PAGE 13
…hey were lost, and how those frag- ments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite statements lack cor-
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
…ight. 19 The Daughter of the Flaming Sword, 20 The Prophet of the Eternal, the Magus of the Voice of Power. 21 The Lord of the Forces of Life. 22 The Daughter of the Lords of Truth; The Ruler of the Balance. 23 The Spirit of the Mighty Waters. 24 The Child of the Great Transformers. The Lord of the Gâte of Death. 25 The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer-forth of Life. 26 The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child of the forces of Time. 27 The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty. 28 The Daughter of the Firmament; the Dweller between the Water…
1939 · PDF PAGE 40
…oint of view, to emphasise the exactness of the analogy that exists between the Yogic and the sexual process. If you look at the Tree of Life, you see that the Number One at the top divides itself into Numbers Two and Three, the equal and opposite Father and Mother, and their union results in the complexity of the Son, the Vau Group, while the whole figure recovers its simplicity in the single Sephira of Hé final, of the Daughter. It is exactly the same in biology. The spermatozoon and the ovum are biologically the separation of an unmanifested…
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…me practical importance, and are guarded in the Sanctuary with a two-edged sword flaming every way 2 y for this sacrament is the Tree of Life itself, and whoso partaketh of the fruit thereof shall never die 3. Unless he so will. Who would not rather work through incarna¬ tion; a real renewal of body and brain, than content himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth ? 1. The Lance and the Graal are fïrstly dedicated to the Holy Spirit of Life, in Silence. The Bread and Wine are then fer…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…athwart the course Of the bright moon, due path of pestilence And terror. Ere the last bone fell to earth The accurséd harvest sprang to life. Armed men, Fiery with anger, rose upon the earth While Jason stood, one witnessing a dream, Not one who lives his life. The sword and spear Turn not to him, but mutual madness strikes The warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades Their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged They fell upon each other silently And slew, and slew. As in the middle seas A mirage flashes out and passes, so The phantoms faded,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…! that is misery! For this, Lord Christ, is it that thou wouldst be, Thou yesterday, to-day, and thou to-morrow? The mystery of this our life is sorrow. BO
1913 · PDF PAGE 223
… immortal moon? XX THE KEY THE sign of the lover is hidden in vain From the eyes of the mage, from the sight of the sun: The laughter of life and the pzean of pain, The chords of the lyre and the answer of one. The toil of the pilgrim shall never be done; The love of the lover shall never be over: For there is no end, ah! no end to the Way, As there is no end to the love of the lover. And there is no cry: but some god shall obey, And there is no toil that shall ever know ending; And there is no answer to life and to love, The mystical union unb…
1913 · PDF PAGE 223
… immortal moon? XX THE KEY THE sign of the lover is hidden in vain From the eyes of the mage, from the sight of the sun: The laughter of life and the pzean of pain, The chords of the lyre and the answer of one. The toil of the pilgrim shall never be done; The love of the lover shall never be over: For there is no end, ah! no end to the Way, As there is no end to the love of the lover. And there is no cry: but some god shall obey, And there is no toil that shall ever know ending; And there is no answer to life and to love, The mystical union unb…
1954 · PDF PAGE 52
…tuals to 111° as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. The plan of the grades is this: 0° Attraction to the Solar System 1° Birth W Life IIIo Death IVo "Exaltation" P.1. "Annihilation" yo -IXo Progressive comment on 11° with very special reference to the central secret of practical Magick. There is thus no connection with the A :. A:. system and the Tree of Life. Of course, there are certain analogies. Your suggested method of study: you have got my idea quite well. But nobody can "take you through" the Grades of A:. A : . . The Grades con…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…ffort of will and a strict arbitrary selection. It would, as a matter of fact, be easy for me to choose any one of fifty meanings for my life, and illustrate it by carefully chosen facts. Any such method would be open to the criticism which is always ready to devastate any form of idealism. I myself feel that it would be unfair and, what is more, untrue. The alternative has been to make the incidents as full as possible, to state them as they occurred, entirely regardless of any possible bearing upon any possible spiritual significance. This me…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…fore its own “materia magica77. It is utterly unscientific to treat “God77 as a universal homogeneity, and use the same means to prolong life as to bewitch cattle. One does not invoke “Electricity77 indiscrimi- nately to light one7s house and to propel one’s brougham; one Works by measured application of one7s powers to intelligent analytical compréhension of the conditions of each separate case. There is a Eucharist for every Grâce that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select suitable Eléments, and devise p…
1901 · PDF PAGE 102
…ry; her passion broke Her history’s prison, from that hour to endure Mighty as tempest and as spring wind pure. After a year her changed life met its fate. There came a man and loved her, and her soul The first time knew true sympathy. Elate, That pure joy filled her body’s broken bow! With infinite fresh fire and purer wine; Her whole life grew one exquisite divine Flower of the sunlight; memory alone Held its stern sceptre on a cruel throne. She simply fled and would not see his face. A noble folly! In the countryside Where her harsh youth wa…