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Page 35 of 1141901 · PDF PAGE 81
…! Moonward ! on, moonward ! ” And the full moon shone, A glory for God’s eyes to dwell upon, A path of silver furrowed in the air, A gateway where an angel might have gone. And forward gleamed a narrow way of earth Crusted with salt : I watch the fairy birth Of countless flashes on the crystal flakes, Forgetting it is only death that makes Its home the centre of that starry girth. Yet, what is life ? The manhood in me wakes. The absolute desire hath hold of me. Death were most welcome in that solemn sea ; So bitter is my life. But carelessness …
1904 · PDF PAGE 30
…cy Percivale, Here is a strumpet. Ha ! have you a sword ? Enough. I am dressed. I am lovely, have communed With my dark heart : I see my way to it : — Oh joy ! joy ! joy ! — Hortense, these candles out ! The maid blows out the mirror candles. I will go down. Prepare my scented paper, My rosy wax against my coming here — When, girl ? I’ th’ morn, i’ th’ morn ! When else ? I’d write. She goes out, with a set smile on her face, yet a gleam of real laughter beneath it.
1905 · PDF PAGE 162
…nstead of travelling the straightforward road. I call them fools—well, I have been one too. “ Now then at least for the secure abode And way of luck—knight-errantry once doffed, The ox set kicking at his self-set goad, “ Here’s for the hostel and the light aloft ! Roderic, my lad ! there’s pelf to pay the score For ale and cakes and venison and a soft “ Bed we have missed this three months—now no more Of folly ! Avaunt, old Merlin’s nonsense lore ! Ho there ! Travellers ! Mine host ! Open the door ! ” [In the second part—a joyous inn fireside—t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
ROSA DECIDUA 135 Were too like heavenand heavens somehow to earn No doubtno way that I know ! Hells enough If hell would only burn And silence the one devil-word of love. Ay ! death slinks off. I have a child that claims my life To keep from knowledge of her mothers fate, To keep from heritage thereof, To shield from the worlds scoff, To watch, stamp out the seeds of madness in her. God ! that hast held me back from hate, Be merciful to me a sinner And ward me, warding her ! As it is written : Excepting Adonai build the house, they labour…
1914 · PDF PAGE 10
… star, (And that is why no woman ever loathes man.) Tf you've that star, how could I “ guess it, say,” From the inspection of your Milky Way?
1954 · PDF PAGE 325
… it has plenty of meat on it ; fine juicy meat, none of your Chilled Argentine or Canterbury lamb. It is a pelvis, what's more; for in a way the whole structure of the ethics of Thelema is founded upon it. There is some danger here; for the question is a booby trap for the noble , the generous, the high-minded . 'Selflessness', the great characteristic of the Master of the Temple, the very quintessence of his attainment, is not its contradictory , or even its contrary ; it is perfectly compatible (nay, shall we say friendly?) with it. The Book …
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
…r. VENUS. So Persephone must hold Thy life divided in Her dark domain.” TANNHAUSER. Already I have tasted once of this In its own lesser way. en years ago I loved a maiden called Elizabeth. A child she was, so delicate and frail, Far, white, and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God’s ; 1 The semi-divine woman, between Aphro- dite the divine, and Eve the human. 2 Persephone was compelled to spend six months of the year in Hades. And, to forget her, found due somnolence In such a warm brown bosom as thine own Is fire and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…enient to go to a good tailor. It was, in short, a political paganism. I don't suppose that I appreciated this fact at the time, in that way. My attitude was determined by the unquestionable beauty of ecclesiastical architecture and the comparative dignity of the ritual. But when I discovered that chapel was compulsory I immediately struck back. The junior dean halled me for not attending chapel, which I was certainly not going to do, because it involved early rising. I excused myself on the ground that I had been brought up among the Plymouth …
1919 · PDF PAGE 316
…s decidedly superior to True Ghost Stories; it is intended for read- ers of a somewhat higher type of intelligence. But Mr. Carrington’s way is not the way of those who become great. Herbert Spencer was contented to plug on year after year writing for readers barely mustering five score. Browning after 35 years of literary activity writes, “Late when he who praised and read and wrote Was apt to find himself the self same me.” I doubt whether Barabbas was a publisher, but I think Judas was. j.c. A Cuaste Man. By Louis Umrravitte Witxinson. Alfre…
1901 · PDF PAGE 82
70 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. Only the quest ! if any quest there be ! What is my purpose ? Could the Godhead guess ? So the long way seemed moving as I went, Flashing beneath me ; and the firmament Moving with quicker robes that swept the air. Still Dian drew me to her bosom bare, And madness more than will was my content. I moved, and as I moved I was aware ! The plain is covered with a many dead. Glisten white bone and salt-encrusted head, Glazed eye imagined, of a crystal built. And see ! dark patches, as of murder spilt. Ugh ! “ So thy fellows of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 238
… wakens not ... Nothing of strange or exquisite or rare Now your grey eyes are filled with tears .. . O brilliant blossoms that strew my way O dearest , if the touch of common things O eyes that stop the souls of men
1899 · PDF PAGE 98
… sorrow and fear; Your lips were so set to the lips of me here. Surely the victory ripens to perfect conquest of every- thing set in our way. We must be free as our hearts are, and gather strength for our limbs for the heat of the fray: The battle is ours if you say me not nay. Fly with me far, where the ocean is bounded white by the walls of the northernmost shore, | Where on a lone rocky island a castle laughs in its pride at the billows that roar, My home where our love may have peace ever- more. Yes, on one whisper the other is waiting pati…
1909 · PDF PAGE 62
… to use a microscope. And when I have learned—a matter of some months, maybe years—how can I convince the next sceptic? Only in the same way, by teaching him to use the instrument. And suppose he retorts, “You have deliberately trained yourself to hallucination!” What answer have I? None that I know of. Save that microscopy has revolutionised 52
1909 · PDF PAGE 62
… to use a microscope. And when I have learned—a matter of some months, maybe years—how can I convince the next sceptic? Only in the same way, by teaching him to use the instrument. And suppose he retorts, “You have deliberately trained yourself to hallucination!” What answer have I? None that I know of. Save that microscopy has revolutionised 52
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…ngenium devise a Deed to represent the Universe. Let his Dominus Liminis approve thereof. Let the Philosophus perform the same in such a way that the Baculum may be partaker therein. 18
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…ngenium devise a Deed to represent the Universe. Let his Dominus Liminis approve thereof. Let the Philosophus perform the same in such a way that the Baculum may be partaker therein. 18
1912 · PDF PAGE 64
…y 1. A fair. No tendency to sleep. 24 n וו n (The Ο (operation) is a great test of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of blue splitting matter; the upright triangle is the human flame aspiring. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the ex…
1912 · PDF PAGE 64
…y 1. A fair. No tendency to sleep. 24 n וו n (The Ο (operation) is a great test of faith and will; not at all of wit. Just what I have always lacked Ι) Yesterday’s attribution of the hexagram given in vision clearly right. The descending triangle is the divine drawing down to man, the wedge of blue splitting matter; the upright triangle is the human flame aspiring. (Compare the doctrine of the two arrows in Liber 418.) 2. Worked hard at day at Comment on?!!!לשLegis.- lamentably little result. A good, considering excessive fatigue. 2623*. (the ex…
1961 · PDF PAGE 127
…of he Soul in its true Nature Eternal and Unchangeable, comprehending all Change, is Silence; and the Voice of the Soul, dynamic, in the Way of its Will, is song. Nor is there any Form of utterance that is not, as song is, the Music proper to that Motion, according to the Law. Thus, as thy Cousin Arthur Machen hath rejoiced to make plain unto Men in his Book called Hieroglyphics, the first Quality of Art is its Ekstacy. So, night to all Men at one Time or other, cometh Joy of Creation, with the Belief that their Utterance is holy and beautifu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…e wisdom of the world ; for the Question was important—how many teeth were there in a horse’s mouth. For many days the debate swung this way and that, as Father was quoted against Father, Gospel against Epistle, Psalm against Proverb; and the summer being hot, and the shade of the monastery gardens pleasant, a young monk wearied of the discussion, and rising presumptuously among those reverend men, impudently proposed that they should examine the mouth of a horse and settle the question. Now, there was no precedent for so bold a method, and we …