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… Ill find a finer fantasy ! LUCREZIA. [Rising and unveiling.] No, you shall not ! Here, for the dagger-stroke you struckthis to your heart ! And this across your face for luckand this for art ! [She stabs her thrice. ZELINA. O devil ! We have slept and waked and played together. LUCREZIA. And now my lust of you is slaked ! Now snaps the tether. Curst whore ! [ZELINA dies. Fair ladies, drink ! move hence at your own peril ! This night is trembling on the brink of stark and sterile Dooms that roar loud ! O laugh ! O sing ! O dance ! Ill play …
1912 · PDF PAGE 249
… Η R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hidden things, to the glory of thine ineffable Name. Amen. 3. Hand the cards to Querent, and bid him think of the question attentively, and cut. 4. Take the cards as cut, and hold as for dealing. First Operation This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you. I. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left. 2…
1912 · PDF PAGE 249
… Η R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hidden things, to the glory of thine ineffable Name. Amen. 3. Hand the cards to Querent, and bid him think of the question attentively, and cut. 4. Take the cards as cut, and hold as for dealing. First Operation This shows the situation of the Querent at the time when he consults you. I. The pack being in front of you, cut, and place the top half to the left. 2…
1961 · PDF PAGE 168
…of the Sphinx. This then is thy Liberty, that the Impulse of the Lion should become conscious by means of the Man; for without this thou art but an Automaton. This Man moreover maketh thee to understand and to adjust thyself with Environment, else being devoid of Judgment, thou goest blindly upon an headlong Path. For every Star in his Orbit holdeth not his Way obstinately, but is sensitive to every other Star, and his true Nature is to do this. Oh how many are they whom I have seen persisting in a fatal Course, in Sway of the Belief that their…
1905 · PDF PAGE 226
…ith the Gorgon made horrid Hath blood on its bull-battled bars— Thou God of me, Mars ! He strides through the vibrating aether ; Spurns earth from His warrior feet ; Shakes fire from the forges beneath her ; His glances are fervid and fleet. With a cry that makes tremble the thunder, Light-speared, with a sword that is flame, He bursts the vast spaces asunder. His angels arise and proclaim : The Lord is His Name! O Lord! Thou didst march out of Edom! Thou leapedst from the Mountains of Seir! The breath of hy voice was as Freedom ! The nations d…
1905 · PDF PAGE 93
88 VENUS Buried my heart in thy sorrow, cast down my soul at thy knees. Thou, thou hast left me no morrow. Days and desires, what are these ? Nay, I have torn from my breast passion and love and despair : Sought in thy palaces rest, sleep that awaited me there ; Sleep that awaits me in vain : I have done with the hope of things ; Passion and pleasure and pain have stung me, and lost their stings. Only abides there a hollow, void as the heart of the earth. Echo may find it and follow, dead from the day of her birth. Life, of itself not insatiate…
1910 · PDF PAGE 104
…o- dex-muscle upon the member of El Qahar, that thou hast no remembrance of any circumstance connected with my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his tongue. For he said that in a certain holy meditation both Allah and himself were destroyed, and that nought re- mained, but only the consciousness of bliss.1 This is contrary to reason, for how can blis…
1912 · PDF PAGE 86
…Im tied by the leg ! Where have you been to-day ? ALESSANDRO. I wasted half an hour, I am ashamed to say, With an astrologerwho by his art infers A most unlucky day for the prison governors ! GOVERNOR. Oh God, yes ! Hear that noise ? ALESSANDRO. No. What ? that murmuring ? GOVERNOR. Thats a crowd somewhere. ALESSANDRO. Yes ? GOVERNOR. Therell be more rioting. I wonder what about. ALESSANDRO. I really cant conceive Why, in this weather, too, folks arent content to leave Things quiet. GOVERNOR. Well, they wont. Look, heres a lunatic ! Chr…
1928 · PDF PAGE 61
… lemnity. Upon glittering panels or upon gilded leather, darkly rich, live pictures; pictures blesséd, calm and deep as the souls of the art- ists which created them. The setting suns which so richly colour the dining-room or the drawing-room are sifted by fair stuffs or by high windows of stained glass; the furniture is vast, curious, bizarre, weaponed with locks and with secrets, like refined souls. Mirrors, metals, stuffs, jewelry, porcelain, play a silent and
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…l and ink, And give it to the children for a drink ! I’ll wait till she is dead, to bring those tears. I doubt not in the garden of my heart Whence she is torn that flowers will bloom again. May those be flowers of weeping, flowers of art. Flowers of great tenderness and pain, Broad lilied meers Lying in a lonely leafless forest Silent and motionless beneath the moon. I feel my weakness, O thou soul that soarest Into a heaven beyond imagining On the unfaltering wing. Of the magic swan ! I know this tune Should swell to a strong note, a triumph …
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…ay there asleep by the wayside, I heard a voice call to me, low in the silence, There in the darkness the summer called to me: “Thou who art hidden in the green silence, Let a time of quietness come now upon thee. Lay thine head on the earth and slumber on her bosom: Time and the gods shall pass darkling before thee.” There in the silence I lay, and I heeded The slow voice that called me, the grave hand that beckoned, That beckoned me on through the hall of the silence. There in the silence there was a green goddess, Folden her wings, and her h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…ay there asleep by the wayside, I heard a voice call to me, low in the silence, There in the darkness the summer called to me: “Thou who art hidden in the green silence, Let a time of quietness come now upon thee. Lay thine head on the earth and slumber on her bosom: Time and the gods shall pass darkling before thee.” There in the silence I lay, and I heeded The slow voice that called me, the grave hand that beckoned, That beckoned me on through the hall of the silence. There in the silence there was a green goddess, Folden her wings, and her h…
1961 · PDF PAGE 170
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 158 #b De Quattuor Virtutibus S#inu (Of the Four Powers of the Sphinx) EE now our Sphinx, with what Subtility and Art is She made Whole! Here is thy Light, the Lion, the Necessity of thy Nature, fortified by thy Life, the Bull, the Power of Works, and guided by thy Liberty, the Man, the Wit to adapt Action to Environment. These are three Virtues in One, necessary to all proper Motion, as I may say in a Figure, the Lust of the Archer, the propulsive Force of his Arm, and the equilibrating and directing Control of his Eye. Of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
16 THE STAR AND THE GARTER Gone down in the glare of the sun ; and the twilight perfumes Steal soft in the wake of the One that abides in the glooms. Walking he is, and slowly; thoughtful he seems, Pure and happy and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart ; He is tamed by the art of the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
110 Ecstasy master of circumstance. XXIX THE MIRAGE Thou art perfect, Habib, in love ; for yesterday when as a test of thy virtue I had thee beaten by the eunuchs, there was no cry of pain. Entirely lost in our love, thy knowledge was only of my member, and not of the blows ; nor could any application of the staves, however vigorous, take away from thee that delight thou hast in me. Thou wast indeed unconscious of thy beating, crying only : “ Press harder and deeper, O mas- ter ! ”, though my member was entirely remote from thy podex, being eng…
1910 · PDF PAGE 149
…l and ink, And give it to the children for a drink ! Ill wait till she is dead, to bring those tears. I doubt not in the garden of my heart Whence she is torn that flowers will bloom again. May those be flowers of weeping, flowers of art. Flowers of great tenderness and pain, Broad lilied meers Lying in a lonely leafless forest Silent and motionless beneath the moon. I feel my weakness, O thou soul that soarest Into a heaven beyond imagining On the unfaltering wing. Of the magic swan ! I know this tune Should swell to a strong note, a triumph …
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…sses, The soul thereof exhaling scented dew Born in the utmost world where we in truth Abide like Bacchus with a Bassarid Drunk with our art, love, beauty, force and youth ; But place that head upon a pyramid Of snaky lightnings, lest — but that shall be Alwaysa secret between you and mie. —_ y i Or, an you will, evoke me as the Sphinx With lion’s claws, bull’s breast, and eagle’s wings ! You are my riddle, and the answer sinks Below the deep essential base of things, Rises above the utmost brim of thought And bubbles over as impatient song. Ye…
1928 · PDF PAGE 62
…to it as in the house of a man who has well toiled and has deserved well of the whole world. Strange country, superior to all others, as Art is to Na- ture, where nature is re-formed by dream, where she is corrected, beautified, re-moulded. Let them seek, let them still seek; let them ever push back the limits of their happiness, these alchemists of gardening; let them pro- pose their prizes of sixty and one hundred thousand florins for whoever shall solve their ambitious problems; for me, I have found my black tulip and my blue dahlia. Incompa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
CHAPTER XX OF THE EUCHARIST AND OF THE ART OF ALCHEMY I One of the simplest and most complété 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 acc…
1961 · PDF PAGE 95
…all thy Spells and conjurations, with Mind concentrated and Will vehement, toward him, as I have written in many Books. But because thou art NEMO, thou mayst safely invoke him, no matter of what Nature, within thy Circle. Now then do thou confer on him as a Guerdon of his Obedience the Dignity of a Soul seeking Incarnation, and so precede to consecrate thine Act by performing the Mass of the Holy Ghost. Then shall that Spirit make himself Body from those Elements, and thou partaking thereof makest thine own Body his Machinery of Manifestation, …