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Page 45 of 1031901 · PDF PAGE 46
…Turn to me, touch me, mix thy very breath With mine to mingle floods of fiery dew With flames of purple, like the sea shot through With golden glances of a fiercer star. Turn to me, bend above me ; you may char These olive shoulders with an old-time kiss, And fix thy mouth upon me for such bliss Of sudden rage rekindled. Turn again, And make delight the minister of pain, And pain the father of a new delight, And light a lamp of torture for the night Too grievous to be borne without a cry To rend the very bowels of the sky And make the archangel…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
I rubbed her greasy gammon ; Her grotto I did futter. I smoked her old red herring ; I hogged her periwinkle ; I fulked her maiden erring : I watched her lower twinkle. I went in to her tunnel ; Put on Hans Carvels ring ; Was filtered in her funnel, And goose-and-ducked her thing. I split her rump, and vaulted The star above her garter ; Her strong-room I assaulted, And occupied her farter. From which you all may gather That it will not be long Before I am a father . . . And that is all my song. There ! Let me alone now, and I will continue th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…very member of the Order; hence the Society of Jesus became the most formidable of the religious organizations of the world. That of the Old Man of the Mountains was perhaps the next best. The defect in Loyola's system is that the General was not God, and that owing to various other considerations he was not even necessarily the best man in the Order. To become General of the Order he must have willed to become General of the Order; and because of this he could be nothing more. To return to the question of the development of the Will. It is alw…
1913 · PDF PAGE 222
…bling waters ; Midst the antic winds; through the red heart of the fire; How shall I know thee in the maze of things, In the monotonous gold of the rolling worlds? The mage hath seen thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maze how can I understand? 184
1913 · PDF PAGE 474
THE EQUINOX for he told me he had seen you, and it is I who sent him to you.” No more doubt, then; the unhappy priest had found the fatal grimoive, he had done the evocation, and prepared himself for the murder by a series of sacrileges. For this is in what the infernal evocations consist, according to the grimotre of Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 222
…bling waters ; Midst the antic winds; through the red heart of the fire; How shall I know thee in the maze of things, In the monotonous gold of the rolling worlds? The mage hath seen thee with the eye of Fire ; The lover hath known thee in the sea of Air. The worlds hath hung all trembling on the lyre That the old god bears still with unwearying hand, Touching the strings to passionate mortal prayer, Answering or answering not, immortal still. Oh, through the maze how can I understand? 184
1913 · PDF PAGE 474
THE EQUINOX for he told me he had seen you, and it is I who sent him to you.” No more doubt, then; the unhappy priest had found the fatal grimoive, he had done the evocation, and prepared himself for the murder by a series of sacrileges. For this is in what the infernal evocations consist, according to the grimotre of Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and…
1919 · PDF PAGE 241
… evident that one of them is mistaken in supposing that it is essential to his Will to eat it. The question is to be decided in the good old way by fighting for it. All that we ask is that the fighting should be done chivalrously, with respect to the courage of the vanquished. “As brothers fight ye!” In other words, there is only this difference from our present state of society, that manners are improved. There are many persons who are naturally slaves, who have no stom- ach to fight, who tamely yield all to any one strong enough to 227
1941 · PDF PAGE 13
… all men shall bow to the Law, which is love under will. Magick, pp. 112-113, written in 1922, published 1929. THE DEAD RELIGION OF THE OLD AEON OF OSIRIS Days of National Prayer. No. 1 There followed: the colossal military disaster to the B.E.F. No. 2 There followed: the collapse of the French Armies and the treachery of the French Government. No. 3 There followed: the Huns drove us and our allies from Cyrenaica and Greece, and overran Jugoslavia.
1909 · PDF PAGE 79
… asleep at good deal——one long dream in which P t, Lord M y of B—n and my wife are all staying with me in my mother‘s house. My room the old room, with one page torn out—for I conceived it as part of a book, somehow! Oh such a lot of this dream! Most of it clearly due to obvious sources—I don’t see where Lord M y comes in. Very likely he is dead. I have had that happen now and again. [P.S.—This was not the case] The dream changed, too, to a liner; where Japanese stole my pipe in a series of adventures of an annoying type—every one acted as badl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 314
…ashion to the stars of the Celestial Vault of Heaven; eyes that were but the imperfect mirror of the soul behind. Such was the ten-years-old Ljubov of the goodly countenance. When, later on, the usual legend grew around her, it was said that wolves had once entered the village, in the midst of 296
1910 · PDF PAGE 314
…ashion to the stars of the Celestial Vault of Heaven; eyes that were but the imperfect mirror of the soul behind. Such was the ten-years-old Ljubov of the goodly countenance. When, later on, the usual legend grew around her, it was said that wolves had once entered the village, in the midst of 296
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…ription is payable on taking the Third Degree; if this is taken after June 30 in any year, only half the amount is due. Subscriptions of old members are due on January 1, but the Brother is considered in good standing, and he does not lose his rights, if it is paid by March 1. Should he fail to discharge his obligation by this date, he ceases ipso facto to be a member of the Order, but may be reinstated on paying arrears and one guinea extra. If his lapse extend to the next year following, he can only be nstated under special conditions, and by…
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…ing round her the iron gates of hell In gloomy strength: so sweet, so terrible, So fair, her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters, though he knew Ilis drowning body drowned her image too. ¥et she seemed gentle. Never thorn assailed The tender finger that would touch, nor failed The strong desire of Zeus, who wisely went, As was his wont, with amorous intent Among those pastures, and fresh fragrant lawns, And dewy wonder of new woods, where dawns A new flower every day, a perfect flower, …
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
16 o’ the time !—cold, logical to a fault !—Ay ! and a crime, acrime at which the stars shake in the heaven ; men might think. Yet the stars, I will wager, are indifferent. True, the news has not reached them : true, that star I see is not a star; it was so six, ten, twenty thousand years ago— logical, I say !—and I will drink, for parenthetical is a poor substitute— [Drinks.] Why, how thou fir’st me! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. It well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
…ys loved me best, And even when lured by lips of wanton girls Would turn away and sigh and touch my curls And slip half-conscious to the old em- brace: And now you will not let me see your face Or hear your voice or touch you. Ah! the hour! Fle moves. Come back, come back, my life’s one flower ! Come back. One kiss before you leave me. So! Stop—turn—one little kiss before you go ; It is my right—you must. Ohno! Ohno! EPILOGUE. To die amid the blossoms of the frost On far fair heights; to sleep the quiet sleep Of dead men underneath the snowy st…
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
… are called so because of the quotation from Vergil which I dis- remember, but hope to find when I can borrow an Æneid.2 The sense is of old leaves swept into the dusty corners of the mind, no part of the main current of my thought ; yet curious, not altogether bad, in a sense worth saving. Maybe I had done better to entitle the book “ Resurrec- tion Pie ” ; but all’s one.3 They are not completed, and never will be, till they fall under the eyes of the literary heir of the Chicago Professor who rewrote Keats. I cannot complete them, for the men…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK Vv We are of course no happier when we examine the Many, separately or together. They converge and diverge, each fresh hill-top of knowledge disclosing a vast land unexplored ; each gain of power in our telescopes opening out new galaxies ; each improvement in our microscopes showing us life minuter and more incomprehensible. A mystery of the mighty spaces between molecules ; a mystery of the ether-cushions that fend off the stars from collision! A mystery of the fulness of things ; a mystery of the emptiness of th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 244
…hey go out together. [GRANDFATHER wheeled into the room by THOMAS, CHARLEY walking by him. The servant leaves them. GRANDFATHER. Bitter cold, Charley, for us old people! 226
1910 · PDF PAGE 244
…hey go out together. [GRANDFATHER wheeled into the room by THOMAS, CHARLEY walking by him. The servant leaves them. GRANDFATHER. Bitter cold, Charley, for us old people! 226