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Page 32 of 1971906 · PDF PAGE 142
…storm I ride. The winds bear me. The waves fear me. I appal ; I inform Their pride. Let him hither, Drifting ever Wrecked and lost ! His life shall wither. The dirk shall sever His rune ill-crossed. I hear him come Across the foam With a bang and a boom. The winds, hum, hum. The billows comb. Ho! Ho! the doom! Ho! Ho! I have won. I shall win. Death to the sun ! Life to sin ! They reap who sow. Ho! Ho! [4 boat driftsin, L. In it the aged CRIOSDA, Azs white hatr afloat in the storm, 7s standing with folded arms. His eyes are dull, as seeing wnwar…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…EU Phl-ThETA-SOE aO breathing, flowing Sun!” “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” aThou that flowest! Thou that goest!” aThou Satan-Sun Hadith that goest without Will!” “Thou Air ! Breath ! Spirit ! Thou without bound or bond ! ” “Thou Essence, Air Swift-streaming, Elasticity! ” aThou Wanderer, Father of Ail!” “Thou Wanderer, Spirit of Ail!” “Thou Shilling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word …
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
… eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. O brothers mightier than my mightiest word In the least sob that stirred Your lyres, bring …
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
…ded Lowing kine in gracious mood Come, drink deeply, and are glad of me, my pleasant solitude. ORPHEUS. From the breast of the snow As a life-swollen stream, Your !ove-rivers flow Soft hued as a dream, Adrift and aglow With the sunlight supreme. Come forth! I invoke ye, O torrents that fall in the mazes and gleam ! THE MOUNTAIN TORRENTS. Falling fast or lingering love-wise, Gathered into mirror-lakes, Floating sprayed through heaven dove- wise, Dreaming, dashing ; sunlight shakes Into million-coloured petals All our limpid drops, and wraps Eart…
1899 · PDF PAGE 52
… doubtful sound Of prophecy, but fix it in my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lips must wreathe smiles no more, But set in fearful strength of purpos…
1909 · PDF PAGE 42
…to write it straight off—no! I’ll be patient and tease the Spirit a little. I will be coquettish as a Spanish catamite. I. Death summons Life and clears away all other forces. 2. The Invocation of the Word. Death consecrates Life, who in her whirling dance invokes that Word. 3. They salute the Word. The Signs and M M must be a Chorus, if anything. 4. The Miraculous appearance of Iacchus, un- invoked.
1912 · PDF PAGE 120
…ll scalp thy cursèd shaven poll, proud pelican ! MONICA. [Rushing out of the church.] What ! will you see this madman take the Legates life ? Cowards ! Ill face him first, although I am his wife. [She snatches a sword from a bystander and interposes. I am the Popes ! I am the Popes ! For God and Christ ! Now, Mortadello, we cross swords ! . . . One stroke sufficed. [Putting her foot on the neck of MORTADELLO, and both hands to the hilt of the sword, she draws it from his throat. All stand aghast. Gentlemen, to your palaces ! This carrion B…
1909 · PDF PAGE 277
…s iL DracraM 23. Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Theoricus in the 2° = 9° Ritual. Yetzirah.” Before you stands the Tree of Life formed of the : The connecting paths are twenty-two in L/ DiacraM 25. The Altar Symbol in the 2° = 9° Ritual. The letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the Serpent of Wisdom, and the Sephiroth the Flaming Sword. « The two pillars right and left of the Tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female—Adam and Eve. . . . The pillars further represent the two Kerubim of the Ar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 277
…s iL DracraM 23. Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Theoricus in the 2° = 9° Ritual. Yetzirah.” Before you stands the Tree of Life formed of the : The connecting paths are twenty-two in L/ DiacraM 25. The Altar Symbol in the 2° = 9° Ritual. The letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the Serpent of Wisdom, and the Sephiroth the Flaming Sword. « The two pillars right and left of the Tree are the symbols of the active and passive, male and female—Adam and Eve. . . . The pillars further represent the two Kerubim of the Ar…
1912 · PDF PAGE 33
…s. Such at least was the attitude which Gotama Buddha adopted. Nor shall he be alone. Again it may be pointed out that the contemplative life is generally opposed to the active life, and it must require an extremely careful bal- ance to prevent the one absorbing the other. As it will be seen later, the “vision of God,” or “ Union with God,” or “ Samadhi,” or whateverwe may agree to call it, has many kinds and many degrees, although there is an impassable abyss between the least of them and the greatest of all the phenomena of normal consciousne…
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
…he Geologist estimate the age of what lies beneath the chalk unless he have a piece of knowledge totally un- connected with geology, the life-history of the animals of whom that chalk is the remains? This then is a very great difficulty for the Magician. He cannot possibly have all experience, and though he may console himself philo- sophically with the reflection that the Universe is conterminous with such experience as he has, he will find it grow at such a pace during the'early years of his life that he may almost be tempted to believe in th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…ng of the body, while loosing the blood, the first projection in matter of the universal Fluid. The whole formulating the Ankh—the Key of Life! Igave moreover the signs ofthe grades from 0° =o°to7": 4°. Then did I take upon myself the Great Obligation as follows : I. I, O.M. &c., a member of the Body of God, hereby bind myself on behalf of the whole Universe, even as we are now physically bound unto the cross of suffering: II. that I will lead a pure life, as a devoted servant of the Order: III. that I will understand all things : IVA that I wil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
… farthest sea, the yet untravelled land. Where thou has trodden, I have trod ; Thy folk have been my folk, and thine abode Mine, and thy life my life, and thou, who art thy God, my God.
1913 · PDF PAGE 195
…o Time.— I will live upon the dreams thou givest me In fee for sated passion! Yea! I will be A vanquisher of genius, a dream palled With life and time, knowing naught else there be But thou, who art slime, whose fingers through the veil Transform the world to dust, the sun to fire, Life unto lust, love to polluted dreams Of rose-buds ruined by slimy worms that crawl, Seeking desire, through the crapulous bed of love. 157
1913 · PDF PAGE 195
…o Time.— I will live upon the dreams thou givest me In fee for sated passion! Yea! I will be A vanquisher of genius, a dream palled With life and time, knowing naught else there be But thou, who art slime, whose fingers through the veil Transform the world to dust, the sun to fire, Life unto lust, love to polluted dreams Of rose-buds ruined by slimy worms that crawl, Seeking desire, through the crapulous bed of love. 157
1906 · PDF PAGE 7
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1908 · PDF PAGE 60
…ice ! We gladly wake to toil and praise, Since these our purpose speed By walking humbly in Thy ways To worship Thee indeed. Let all the life and love and light Of earth and sky and sea Soar in one flame’s surpassing might To Thee—to Thee—to Thee ! Amen. N 53
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
…one of its congeners. 4. Kir — membrum virile. 5. This simile, like that of the lotus-leaf in India, is the invariable expression of the life “ unspotted from the world.” 6. Hajj — here used of the actual procession of pilgrims. 7. The official leader of the Hajj, usually ap- pointed by the Padishah.
1910 · PDF PAGE 101
…t the ape, All the wine of time run dry ? 2ND NYMPH Ah ! the grisly spoil of rape Dark with vilest ecstasy ! IST NYMPH Listen, how shall life escape From such death it breedeth by ? 2ND NYMPH Hangs there not a single grape From that nightshade galaxy ?
1996 · PDF PAGE 130
…rsal benefit. It is a form of sectarian bigotry. We should recognize the fact that the vast majority of human beings have no ambition in life beyond mere ease and animal happiness. We should allow these people to fulfil their destinies without interference. We should give every opportunity to the ambitious, and thereby establish a class of morally and intellectually superior men and women. We should have no compunction in utilizing the natural qualities of the bulk of mankind. We do not insist on trying to train sheep to hunt foxes or lecture o…