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Page 42 of 1971912 · PDF PAGE 40
…ight is breaking overhead? What blaze of blue and gold envelops us? Crassus. O marvel! O miraculous! Abeta. ‘What is it? Why, my lover's life, in me Once concentrated, now diffused, illumes ‘The endless reaches of eternity With infinite brilliance, with intense perfumes. Autcia. then your lover was some god’s disguise. ADELA. And you have robbed me. Now beware your eyes! [Ste springs at Arscis, who guards herself easily. But in the struggle her robe tears. Autcia. Take care! ADELA. A boy! 43
1913 · PDF PAGE 35
…The golden cups and pour the kindling wine. So shall we drink and see , with hearts made wise, Dead rocks and metals tense with whirling life ; Rivers and seas and meres and the streaming winds Sure, ceremonial, move to the pulse of change : Yea , Spirit shall see how from the teeming earth Waving trees and the beautiful lives of flowers Flicker like tongues of flame ; Shall see how man , the bright untameable spirit , Leaps and aspires and burns upward for ever , A quivering flame , beyond the flaming stars .
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
… phenomena which accompany his Attainment. This means the récognition of the Angel as the True Self of his subconscious self, the hidden Life of his physical life. The Adept réalisés every breath, everv word of his Angel as charged with Creative fire. Tiphereth is the Sun, and the Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soûl of the Adept. Here is summed the entire process of bringing the conditioned Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
SONNETS AND QUATORZAINS 119 BOUCHES D’ENFER. Loox how it leaps towards the leaper’s curl OF vivid ecstasy, life loosed at last From the long-held leash! The headlong, hot-mouthed girl Upon her sister like a star is cast, Pallid with death-in-life achieved. O force Of murder animal in the dead embrace ! The implacable ardour, unavenged remorse For time’s insulting loss, quickens the pace Unto its prey that gathers, like a storm Shrouding invisibly the crater’s rim Whence fury yet shall wake, and fire in- form The inane basalt and coruscations di…
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…egarded as frag- mentary and absurd, even as the remembrance of a dream is to the waking man. Can we not conceive then of a “ dreamless” life, of 1 Mahasatipatthana (Sec. VIII.) d oes ad mit this perhaps. Yet its very object is to correct consciousness on the lines indicated by reason. which our dreams are the vague and disturbed transition to normal consciousness? The physiological evidence goes literally for nothing. Even were it proved that the recipio-motor apparatus of a “dreamless” sleeper was relatively quiescent, would that supply any v…
1898 · PDF PAGE 20
…embrace : And now you will not let me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah ! the hour ! He moves. Come back, come back, my lifes one flower ! Come back. One kiss before your leave me. So ! Stopturnone little kiss before you go ; It is my rightyou must. Oh no ! Oh no !
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…d His being to a nameless naught, Brake all the wings and waves of time and thought, So in the quivering flame that hurled Its founts of life to the remotest world Supreme stood Death, and sware Destruction to all things that were ! IV Child, father, warrior, I worshipped Thee before ; Friend, bridegroom, now I yield me to the rod. My God, and very God of very God As breath, as death, as all, as naught, unknown, Known, is there not an end, when one alone Stand I, and thou, and He Arisen above all things that be ?
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
THE BLUE DWARF. 9I For life or death. Now ! — — Stretch ! — Plague on the wretch ! Friends, ease me — with a scimitar ! ALEXANDER We learnt not that from the dark Star. MIRIAM Why then, be cursed ! My belly is about to burst. The hag and the baboon come forward. THE HAG Ho ! we will lift the prudish latch. Dear apeling, hold the torches while I catch This monster. So. Dispatch ! MIRIAM God ! let it be a boy. I would enjoy His love. Who hath come forth with such keen pain Owes keener pleasure, going back again. A curse upon that Dove.
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…ble and menacing—‘ by Him that sitteth upon the Holy Throne and liveth and reigneth for ever and ever, that never again, neither to save life, nor to retain honour, wilt thou set foot in the Street of the Four Winds ; so long as life shall last.’ “Even as he bade me, I rose with lifted hand and swore. “As I did so there resounded in the room ten sharp knocks, as of ivory on wood, in a certain peculiar cadence. “This was but the first of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of whi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…ble and menacing—‘ by Him that sitteth upon the Holy Throne and liveth and reigneth for ever and ever, that never again, neither to save life, nor to retain honour, wilt thou set foot in the Street of the Four Winds ; so long as life shall last.’ “Even as he bade me, I rose with lifted hand and swore. “As I did so there resounded in the room ten sharp knocks, as of ivory on wood, in a certain peculiar cadence. “This was but the first of a very large number of inter- views. I sought, indeed, steadfastly to learn from him the occult wisdom of whi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…guage of the world within the next two years. Your overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least part of his contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…guage of the world within the next two years. Your overworked Editor, too, has been able to take the longest and happiest holiday of his life. River and forest have given him all that nature can ; and this was the least part of his contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 375
…. Thy shadows live and vanish; that which in thee shall live for ever, that which in thee knows, for it is knowledge, is not of fleeting life: it is the Man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall never strike. Compare Levi’s aphorism, “The Magician should work as though he had omnipotence at his command and eternity at his disposal.” Do not imagine that it matters whether you finish the task in this life or not. Go on quietly and steadily, unmoved by anything whatever. 36. If thou wouldst reap sweet peace and rest, Disciple, so…
1906 · PDF PAGE 16
…gle; ye children of such a queen, Mingle, and meet, and sow never a seed ! Mingle, and tingle, and kiss, and bleed With the blood of the life of the Lampsa- cene,! ) With the teeth that know never a pitiful deed . But fret and foam over with kisses obscene— Mingle and weep for what years have been. Never a son nor a daughter grow From your waste limbs, lest the goddess weep; Fill up the ranks from the babes that sleep Far in the arms of a god of snow. Conquer the world, that her throne may keep _- More of its pride, and its secret woe Flow thro…
1919 · PDF PAGE 343
…d to call this light ‘evil’ in any com- monplace sense. It is the two-edged sword, flaming every way, that keeps the gate of the Tree of Life. And there is a further Arcanum connected with this which it would be im- proper here to divulge. 33. The moth attracted to the dazzling flame of thy night lamp is doomed to perish in the viscid oil. The unwary Soul that fails to grapple with the mocking demon of illusion, will return to earth the slave of Méra. The result of failing to reject rewards is the return to earth. The temptation is to regard on…
1898 · PDF PAGE 19
…old With strange intoxications mad and manifold. XVI. Only beware gross pleasure—the delight Of fools : the ecstasy, the trance of love— Life's atom-bonds must strain—aye, and most move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. 1 9
1898 · PDF PAGE 23
…est heaven, in one sweet lover’s kiss, So sweet, so strong That with it all my soul should unto him belong. XXIV. An ecstasy to which no life responds, Is the enormous secret I have learned : When self-denial’s furnace-flame has burned Through love, and all the agonizing bonds That hold the soul within its shell are turned To water weak ; Then may desires obtain the cypress crown they seek. 2 3
1901 · PDF PAGE 136
…he down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and mother and wife ! Hail unto Isis ! Hail ! For She is the Lady of Life ! Isis crowned !
1903 · PDF PAGE 76
…t of the tides, The sea, whose drink is death by thirst. The triumph anthem overrides The ocean's lamentable sides, And we are done with life: accurst Who linger; lost who find ; but we Follow the gold wake of the first Who found in losing ; who reversed The dictates of eternity. Lo! in steep meditation hearsed, Coffined in knowledge, fast we flee Unto the island from the sea. 74
1906 · PDF PAGE 82
…moping down the street, That youth—scarce thirty—bowed like sixty?” ** Oh, A woman jilted him.” ‘‘ Absurd!” ‘* Conceit! Some youths take life—are Puritans, you know!” I heard it, sitting in the window—glowed, Rushed to my wife and kissed her. Lithe and young The rapture of some ardent madness flowed ; And—by-and-by—its miracle found tongue. Guess, guess the secret why I burn for you These years so cold to woman as I was! Guess why your laugh, your kiss, your touch run through My body, as it were a tunéd glass! 74