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Page 36 of 1151928 · PDF PAGE 32
…t us go over the days work. I saw several men of letters, one of whom asked me if it was possible to go to Russia by land. He doubtless thought Russia was an island. I disputed enthusiastically with the editor of a review who replied to every ob- jection: This is an honest newspaper; implying that all other newspapers were edited by scoundrels. I saluted a score of people, of whom I do not know fifteen. I scattered hand-
1938 · PDF PAGE 15
…I. The issue of the Vulture, Two-in-One, conveyed; this is the chariot of Power. T R I N C : The last oracle! VIII. Balance against each thought its exact opposite! For the Marriage of these is the Annihilation of Illusion.
1961 · PDF PAGE 72
…issa (Allegory of Chess) ONSIDER for an Example the Game and Play of the Chess, which is a Pastime of Man, and worthy to exercise him in Thought, yet by no means necessary to his Life, so that he sweepeth away Board and Pieces at the least Summons of that which is truly dear to him. Thus unto him this Game is as it were an Illusion. But insofar as he entereth into the Game he abideth by the Rules thereof, though they be artificial and in no wise proper to his Nature; for in this Restriction is all this Pleasure. Therefore, though he hath All-Po…
1905 · PDF PAGE 124
ANIMA LUNAE II9 Or moonlight seen through trees—so came the lashes Over—and strong sight flashes !) Travelled in thought to life, and in its gleam Saw but a doubtful dream. His was a city crescent-shaped whose wall Was brass and iron : in the thrall Of the superb concave Lay orbed a waveless wave. Four moons of liquid light revolved and threw Their silvery fountains forth, whose fruitful dew Turned all the plain to one enamelled vale Green as the serpent’s glory, and—how still !— To where the distant hill Shaped like an Oread’s breast arose bey…
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…y know he is the Lord. Then, with that sharp division, Did He divide our wit sublime ? Our knowledge bring to nought ? We had no need of thought. We brought His malice in derision.
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…w and look at the whole course of events from without, as if he had had no share in them. But people who saw him only in the first phase thought him easily hoodwinked. The second of the guests of Simon Iff, or, rather, of the Order to which he belonged, was a tall man bowed with ill-health. A shock of heavy black hair crowned a face pallid as death itself; but his eyes blazed formidably beneath their bushy brows. He had just returned from Burma, where he had lived for many years as a Buddhist monk. The indomitable moral valour of the man shone …
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…Waxes the eightfold ecstasy ; exceeds The minor sestet, where some passion bleeds Or truth discourses: or eclipse may end, Proof against thought ; but if man com- prehend The stars in all their stations sing together. measured in the sonnet’s Il. What power or fascination can there lie In this fair garden of the straight-kept rows, sonnet ? knows Why, having written in mere ecstasy One sonnet-thought, the metre cannot dic But urges, but compels me to compose More and still more,! and still my spirit The Surely some archange] FCS Striving up gli…
1901 · PDF PAGE 29
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE. 17 One sonnet-thought, the metre cannot die But urges, but compels me to compose More and still more, and still my spirit goes Striving up glittering steeps of symphony. There is an angel who is guardian. Surely her wings are rosy, and her feet Black as the wind of frost ; but oh ! her face ! Whoso may know it is no more a man, But walks with God, and sees the Lady sweet Whose body was the vehicle of grace. III. Eternal beauty in eternal truth, Isis ! And Thoth, the scribe of destiny, And Mary’s excellent virginity ! Y…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
… and noble view of the universe. He seems to love to play off one against the other, and the result is a perpetual jarring : stimulus of thought, perhaps allowable, xix
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…d closed upon itself That matter should move mind—Ay ! darker yet That mind should work on matter? And the proof Extant, implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain. These twain be one ;
1912 · PDF PAGE 7
…ter Perdurabo. Ex- perience shows that his writing is too concentrated, too abstruse, too occult, for ordinary minds to apprehend. It is thought that this record of disjointed fragments of his casual conversation may prove alike more intelligible and more convincing, and at least provide a pre- liminary study which will enable the student to attack his real work from a standpoint of some little general knowledge and understanding of his ideas, and of the form in which he figures them. Part II, “ Magick,” is more advanced in style than Part I ; t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…now two sexes in one person throughout, so that each individual is self-procreative sexually, whereas Isis knew only one sex, and Osiris thought the two sexes opposed. Also the formula is now Love in ail cases; and the end is the beginning, on a higher plane. The I is formed from the V by removing its tail, the A by balancing 4 Yods, the O by making an inverted triangle of Yods, which suggests the formula of Nuit — Hadit — Ra-Hoor-Khuit. A is the éléments whirling as a Svastika — the créative Energy in equilibrated action. 3»
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…th repeated disasters because God was jealous, as He had been of the tower of Babel. In 1917 my cousin, Lawrence Bishop, told me that he thought that "the Lord prepared a great iceberg" for the Titanic in annoyance at the claim of the shipbilders that she was unsinkable. William Whiteley had several fires, which my mother took as the repartee of the Almighty to the merchant's assumption of the title "Universal Provider", which could be properly attributed only to God. It is the modern fashion to try to dismiss these barbarous absurdities as exc…
1899 · PDF PAGE 6
…e ocean noises find a tongue To voice the clamour of a righteous boast— That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the womb of thought, And all the bygone days be held for things of nought. What matter though our fathers did you wrong ? Though brave sons brake our bitter yoke ? Though we Strove to compel you to a cruel thong ? What, though the stronger did defeat the strong ? Both, wild and patient as the steep strong sea ? What matter that some strive to waken hate, Traitors to either state, Hang them in chains ! Our way to Freedom c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…God or Satan, do thou master my death- pang with thy life-pang, and possess All that I am with all thou art, my Vampire, my Siren that I thought a nightingale ! Abase me ! Spit on me ! Scourge me ! Murder me ! Take thy wolfs meal of my loveliness ! Give me the reek of thy foul breath, and show me the lepers face behind the shining veil ! Yea ! Though I sink through measureless abysses, I trace the incommensurable curve. Thy foursquare wedge that rages in my circle shall match it at the infinite period. Polluted body, violated spirit, corrupte…
1913 · PDF PAGE 90
…n Genesis. A model of Qabalistic ratiocination. Crass “D” Lrser III.—Liber Jugorum. An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought. Lier VIII.—See CCCCXVIII. Lrser XI.—Liber NV. An instruction for attaining Nuit. Liser XIII.—Graduum Montis Abiegnt. An account of the task of the Aspirant from Probationer to Adept. 50
1913 · PDF PAGE 90
…n Genesis. A model of Qabalistic ratiocination. Crass “D” Lrser III.—Liber Jugorum. An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought. Lier VIII.—See CCCCXVIII. Lrser XI.—Liber NV. An instruction for attaining Nuit. Liser XIII.—Graduum Montis Abiegnt. An account of the task of the Aspirant from Probationer to Adept. 50
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…s table, a poem so spiritual, so profound, and of such jewelcraft, that she knew why the few people whom he had allowed to read his work thought him the match of Milton. So apt were the similes that there could be no doubt that he had thought it out line by line, in that trance which he had marred, for her, by his brutal anti-climax. She had asked him about it. "Some people," he had said quite seriously, "have one brain; some have two. I have two." A minute later: "Oh, I forgot. Some have none." She had refused to be snubbed. "What do you mean …
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…il our shoe-heather." Despite her years of practice in the art of not understanding English, "Baby " winced momentarily. For her dearest thought was the social prestige which she enjoyed. It was terrible to see that the Real Thing was not under the slightest illusion. She did not mind a thousand "exposures" as a fraud; but she did want to keep up the bluff of being a Countess. She was past thirty-five; it was high time she found an old fool to marry her. She had designs on the Pasha; she had agreed to certain proposals in respect of this very s…
1901 · PDF PAGE 130
…rown-stained fingers wring the petals white, And weary lips seek lotus-life in them Vainly : the lotus burns above the tomb— Yea, but in thought’s unfathomable womb ! For spiritual life and love and light Climb the swayed ladder of our various fate