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Page 29 of 921912 · PDF PAGE 45
…ut to obey. Finish the draft as I said. Note down our new intents In the matter of Turin ; rejoin me in an hour. THE SECRETARY. I humbly take my leave, my lord. [THE DOGE goes to the window. THE DOGE. The heavens lower Surly and sultry still, black fiends of cloud that threat And dare not break. [He turns, GABRIELE has entered. Well, sir, and is the battle set ? GABRIELE. Alls won, my lord. Fate turns your humble ministress. The Countess Magdalene is lodged with the Princess.
1912 · PDF PAGE 47
…re, and nothing particular coming of this, he lost interest. It is what he calls “The way of the Tao” to do everything by doing nothing. Take no trouble or care about a matter; it will come to pass. It seems to us a sort of happy fatalism; to him it is the highest of magical formulae. The upshot of all was that on the birth of a child he had completely put everything aside. He played at Yoga for about a week during the summer, and he took some little trouble to disperse the wreckage of the “ Rosicrucians,” which constituted a danger to navigati…
1912 · PDF PAGE 47
…re, and nothing particular coming of this, he lost interest. It is what he calls “The way of the Tao” to do everything by doing nothing. Take no trouble or care about a matter; it will come to pass. It seems to us a sort of happy fatalism; to him it is the highest of magical formulae. The upshot of all was that on the birth of a child he had completely put everything aside. He played at Yoga for about a week during the summer, and he took some little trouble to disperse the wreckage of the “ Rosicrucians,” which constituted a danger to navigati…
1919 · PDF PAGE 36
…edge of the whole system of At- tainment, and of the practices tending to this goal, so that he may choose freely as to what way he will take in his Beginning. For this is always left by the A... A.. to his Free Will; They only begin to advise and criticize him on the information supplied to Them by himself in the Magical Record which he prepares for Their Instruction. COURSE III The following books are officially appointed for the study of the Neophyte: Lrper CCXX. Liper L Vet Lecis Sub Figura CCXX. as delivered by XCIII. unto DCLXVI. This boo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 60
…e to occur in conformity with Will. (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore · take "magical weapons," pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" -these sentences-in the "magical langUage" i.e., that which is understood by people I 27
1954 · PDF PAGE 81
… Memory Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Now you must learn Qabalah. Learn this Alphabet of Magick. You must take it on trust, as a child does his own alphabet. No one has ever found out why the order of the letters is what it is. Probably there isn't any answer. But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey Davy, coming out of his famous illumination (with some help from Nitrous Oxide he got in) exclaimed : The Universe is composed solely of ideas. We…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of wome…
1912 · PDF PAGE 65
…ver ready to receive his kiss; but not to pursue openly and to use force. Yet “the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” May it not be, though, that such violence should be used againstoneself in order to attain that passive state? And, of course, to shut out out all rivals? Help me, thou Holy One, even in this; for all my strength is weak as water, and I am but a dog. Help me, O self-glittering onel draw nigh to me in sleep and in waking, and let me ever be as a wise virgin, and expect thy coming with a lamp …
1912 · PDF PAGE 65
…ver ready to receive his kiss; but not to pursue openly and to use force. Yet “the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” May it not be, though, that such violence should be used againstoneself in order to attain that passive state? And, of course, to shut out out all rivals? Help me, thou Holy One, even in this; for all my strength is weak as water, and I am but a dog. Help me, O self-glittering onel draw nigh to me in sleep and in waking, and let me ever be as a wise virgin, and expect thy coming with a lamp …
1961 · PDF PAGE 160
…ce, should some Varlet come behind him, and strike at his Hoofs? Nay, Son, pursue thy Path in Peace, that thy Brother beholding thee may take Courage from thy Bearing, and Comfort from his Confidence that thou wilt not hinder him by thy superfluity of Compassion. Let me not begin to tell thee of the Mischiefs that I have seen, whose Root was in Kindness, whose Flower was in Self-sacrifice, and whose Fruit in Catastrophe. Verily I think there should be no End thereof. Strike, rob, slay thy Neighbour, but comfort him not unless he ask it of thee,…
1901 · PDF PAGE 36
…s passion, this intolerable Desire, this flame of hell; you fed it full, Sunned it and watered—O my brain will snap !— Only to blast it. Take your story back ; Be what you will except that infamous! For as my mother—I should spit on you! [CORA zs at his feet grovelling. She half rises to listen. ' Ignoble is your foul maternity, The cattle-kinship. But the other crime Is viler than the first one. ‘‘ Look!” you say: “His passion threatens to defile my bed!” And put a hideous abiding curse On both our lives to save your modesty From my incestuous…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
… She rises up. Mine is the spoil Of the grimly toil . Gloomy , gloomy ! Ah ! but I laugh . He is but a fool . He has lost ! He is lost ! Take the staff ! Trace the rule Of the circle crossed ! 3 We have now seen , more or less , some of the chief influences which have exerted their sway over our poet's mind ; and I think we have shown him to be a 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 40 . | Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 39 . 3 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 135 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
… anything beyond a not una- miable imbecility. However, there was but one thing to be done, to argue her into conviction. They agreed to take eight-hour shifts ; and for all I know, they are arguing still, and neither of the Meetings at Oban can meet ! A BOYHOOD IN HELL The Revd. H. d’Arcy Champney M. A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, had come out of sect. He had voted at the Parliamentary elections by cros- sing out the names of the candidates and writing : “ I vote for King Jesus ”. He had started a school for the Sons of Brethren at 5…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely at the sacred One. And the barbed arrow on its way shall run More swiftly; my swift heart tt shall obey ; And it shall hit! And thou no more shalt say The archer was blind, for the thing that I have done. Swift night, slow-burning stars, the wavering lyre Breathes fitfully beneath the moon's white fire, In vrhythin to the cadence of the sigil Whose symbo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
…of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely at the sacred One. And the barbed arrow on its way shall run More swiftly; my swift heart tt shall obey ; And it shall hit! And thou no more shalt say The archer was blind, for the thing that I have done. Swift night, slow-burning stars, the wavering lyre Breathes fitfully beneath the moon's white fire, In vrhythin to the cadence of the sigil Whose symbo…
1914 · PDF PAGE 24
…Y Could we not trick this trickery of hell's ?— ‘Suppose we died in one another's arms! Let us not wait for age to dull our eyes! Let us take death by his black throat and die! Let us add murder to our mysteries, ‘And face the devil together, you and I Let us find hope in uttermost despair, Delight in our division, new desire In the black fate that takes us unaware, In death's dark water the eternal fire! Come, Laylah, come, my sister and my spouse, Bedeck yourself with nakedness, prepare To enter the most high, most holy house, Careless what g…
1926 · PDF PAGE 16
me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of wome…
1954 · PDF PAGE 130
…ss, a magnificent story-don't miss it!) and Wartime Scotch as sold in most British pubs in 1944, era vulgari. One pretty good plan is to take a masterpiece, pick out a page at random, translate it into French or German or whatever language you like best, walk around your chair three times (so as to forget the English) and then translate it back again. You will gather a useful impression of the value of the masterpiece by noticing the kind of difficulty that arises in the work of translation; more, by observing the effect produced on you by read…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…covers, Nor is my bed made lovely with my lovers! I long for purple and the holier kiss Of mortal lyrist ; in these arms to gladden ; To take him to the spring and source of bliss, And in his vast embrace to rouse me, madden Once with the light of passion, not to miss Uttermost rapture till the sweet loves sadden To sweeter peace thrilled with young ecstasy— Ah! man’s high spirit may not reach to Me! Iam Nature and God: I reign, I am, alone. None other may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is, to bea…
1912 · PDF PAGE 175
…t no one shall touch it after me but my dear lad, Jack Adams. jACK. No, no, Father! we’ll talk ο’ that this twenty years hence. Will you take the lantern, Father? the nights are main dark. MARTIN. Ay, lad, I will ; [turns away .' JACK’S who/'e manner changes, and HE fol/0705 MARTIN with a farting look of hate. MARTINgets and lights [autem ; when HE tams, JACK z': again all 51nz'le5]—and do you see to the shutters. I hear a—many Ι33