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Page 48 of 2031910 · PDF PAGE 5
…ain, of sun and wind ! We are the Greeks ! and to us the rites of Eleusis should open the doors of Heaven, and we shall enter in and see God face to face . . . Under the stars will I go forth, my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew : I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free. Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips, a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 62
…of the sea Than her waves deep-merging and striving and surging That deem they are free. In spirit I stand on the mountain, My soul into God’s withdrawn, And look to the East like a fountain That shoots up the spray of the dawn. And the life of the mountain swims through me (So the song of a thrush in me thrills) And the dawn speaks to me, of old for it knew ne The soul of the hills. I stand on the mountain in wonder As the splendour springs up in the East, As the cloud banks are rended asunder, And the wings of the Night are released. As in tr…
1898 · PDF PAGE 18
…w sorry I am for that ! PERCY [fo Vaughan]. Good-bye, my dear, dear friend. Take care of Esmé for me. I hall watch over her myself, I an God together. is so frail and white, and she ¢< understands. sees my soul, and Heaven is, always open to her eyes when she looks up, and she is so beautiful. Will it seem long, Esmé, till we kiss again beyond the moon there—it is the moon, isn’t it, come to see that Esme¢ is not too sad about my dying? Be kind to her ‘always, moon, when I am gone beyond you! You must finish my poem, Esmé; there is only a littl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…ture till the sweet loves sadden To sweeter peace thrilled with young ecstasy— Ah! man’s high spirit may not reach to Me! Iam Nature and God: I reign, I am, alone. None other may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is, to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish My own’s life being, that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and thy Mother. I am the thousand-breasted milky spouse, Virginal also: Tartarus and Gaia Twinned in my womb…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…; for his analysis of space is based on the ontological assertion of the absoluteness of the Qabalistic Zero . Worshippers of a personal God are by nature ultra materialistic . Their God is but a friend , a mighty man who will eventually pull them out of the present bog of existence ; being too lazy to do so themselves , they invest him with special powers ; once fashioned , the next step was to endow him with an immortalizing 1 Principles of Human Knowledge , p. 62. 2 The Dialogues , p. 35.
1912 · PDF PAGE 34
…are ready ? Loves the tune ! Bare me your beauty to the night and the lagoon ! MAGDALENA. I am ready. [She disappears. ORLANDO. To meet God ! your sulky soul must glide In a darker boat than mine, and cross a colder tide. [MAGDALENA opens the door, and comes out. MAGDALENA. See ! but a silken shawl between you and your lover ! [She opens it, spreading her arms to enfold him. ORLANDO. Between you and your thrall what mysteries uncover ! MAGDALENA. What do you mean ? ORLANDO. Behold this crater-cup concealed. A flower of dusky gold upon the lili…
1913 · PDF PAGE 220
…leaping lights, the flames of spring; And the waters of the world and the Underworld Are stirred by the quickening breath of the unknown god. Life, a strong pulse within the heart of Day, Glows in the western skies; the morning pales Before the influx of this newer dawn.— This for the argent dream that stands apart, The image of Activity unveiled, The violation of Life by the thorn of Time. Ah! fever of a strong distempered god, Stirred into life by the mystery of birth : Sure and secure is set the secret Way Through all this endless maze of wh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 220
…leaping lights, the flames of spring; And the waters of the world and the Underworld Are stirred by the quickening breath of the unknown god. Life, a strong pulse within the heart of Day, Glows in the western skies; the morning pales Before the influx of this newer dawn.— This for the argent dream that stands apart, The image of Activity unveiled, The violation of Life by the thorn of Time. Ah! fever of a strong distempered god, Stirred into life by the mystery of birth : Sure and secure is set the secret Way Through all this endless maze of wh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 128
… in the holiest place of the most secret temple there is an empty shrine. But whoso goes there in the first instance thinks ; There is no God. He who goes there at the End, when he has adored all the other deities, knoweth that No God.
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…nally coffin, ease, Love being filth? let us ask Aristophanes ! Or, heaven’s sun bake us, while Earth’s bugs and fleas kill us, Love the God’s scourge ? I refer you to Aeschylus ! (Nay ! that’s a slip ! Say we “Earth’s grim device, cool loss !—” Better the old Greek orthography !—Aischulos !14) Or, love be God’s cham pagne’s foam ; deat h i n m an’s trough, hock lees, Pathos our port’s beeswing ? what answers Sophocles ? Brief, with love’s medicine let’s draught, bolus, globule us ! Wise and succinct bids, I think, Aristobulus.15 Whether my Mus…
1899 · PDF PAGE 137
…w sorry I am for that ! PERCY [fo Vaughan]. Good-bye, my dear, dear friend. Take care of Esmé for me. I hall watch over her myself, I an God together. is so frail and white, and she ¢< understands. sees my soul, and Heaven is, always open to her eyes when she looks up, and she is so beautiful. Will it seem long, Esmé, till we kiss again beyond the moon there—it is the moon, isn’t it, come to see that Esme¢ is not too sad about my dying? Be kind to her ‘always, moon, when I am gone beyond you! You must finish my poem, Esmé; there is only a littl…
1911 · PDF PAGE 246
…r the Heaven in Thy Bark in the Splendour of noon 1 [ARIES and LEO resume thrones. 68 [A PROBATIONER recites the 12 fold Glorg'flmiion of God from 963.] [Enter SCORPIO-APOPHIS dressed in a filmy white robe, her hair in dz’sora’er.] [ARIES and LEO rise and bow. ARIES. Hail thoul Whence comes’t thou? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. From the House of God. ARIES. What bringest thou as an offering to our Lord ?
1911 · PDF PAGE 246
…r the Heaven in Thy Bark in the Splendour of noon 1 [ARIES and LEO resume thrones. 68 [A PROBATIONER recites the 12 fold Glorg'flmiion of God from 963.] [Enter SCORPIO-APOPHIS dressed in a filmy white robe, her hair in dz’sora’er.] [ARIES and LEO rise and bow. ARIES. Hail thoul Whence comes’t thou? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. From the House of God. ARIES. What bringest thou as an offering to our Lord ?
1912 · PDF PAGE 166
…zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe I A I D A. THE EIGHTEENTH KEY Ο ΤΗου mighty Light and burning Flame of Comfort! that unveilest the Glory of God to the centre of the Earth, in whom the 6332 secrets 01 Truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom “Joy" and not to be measured, Be thou 3 window 01 comfort unto me! Move and Appearl Unveil the mysteries of your Creation, be friendly unto me, for I am the servant 01 the same your God, the true worshipper 01 1116 highest, The Angle of V 01 A, in the tablet of Δ. The Princess of the Shining Flam…
1912 · PDF PAGE 166
…zodiredo Noco Mada, hoathahe I A I D A. THE EIGHTEENTH KEY Ο ΤΗου mighty Light and burning Flame of Comfort! that unveilest the Glory of God to the centre of the Earth, in whom the 6332 secrets 01 Truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom “Joy" and not to be measured, Be thou 3 window 01 comfort unto me! Move and Appearl Unveil the mysteries of your Creation, be friendly unto me, for I am the servant 01 the same your God, the true worshipper 01 1116 highest, The Angle of V 01 A, in the tablet of Δ. The Princess of the Shining Flam…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…things) an attempt to prove the proposition : Reward is the direct and immediate consequence of Work. Of all the holy illuminated Men of God of my acquaintance, I am the only one that holds this opinion. But I think that this Record, when I have time to go through it, and stand at some distance, to get the per— spective, will be proved a conclusive proof of my thesis. I think that every failure will be certainly traceable to my own dam foolishness; every little success to courage, skill, wit, tenacity. IfI had but a little more of these! I furt…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…SCENSION DAY 1. I flung out of chapel.1—Browning, Xmas Eve, III. last line. 3. Venus Bower and Osiris Tomb.2— Crowley, Tannhaäuser. 5. God.3—Hebrew, \yhla, Gen. iii. 5. 5. gods.4— Hebrew, \yhla, Gen. iii. 5. The Revisers, seeing this most awkard juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by “God.” In other passages, however, they have been compelled to disclose their own dishonesty and translate \yhla by “gods.” For evidence of this the reader may look up such passages as Ex. xviii. 11; Deut . xxxii. 17; Ps. lxxxii.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 321
…he aroma of perfumes and sweet flowers , nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No , it is none of these that I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find a light , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no syllables : thence there breathes a perfume which no breezes waft away : there food is always savoured and never eaten : there are embraces which never ask to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 40
… is more satisfactory. St. Paul says : " Where sin abounded, there did grace much more abound. Then shall we do evil that good may come? God forbid." But (clearly!) it is exactly what God Himself did, or why did He create Satan with the germ of his " fall " in him? Instead of condemning the three qualities outright, we should consider them as parts of a sacrament. This par- ticular aspect of the Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain, suggests the sacrament of penance. The Scourge is Sulphur: its application excites our slug- gish natures; and it m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 112
…. David said: " I hate thoughts." The Hindu says: "That which can be thought is not true." Paul said: "The carnal mind is enmity against God." And every one who meditates, even for an hour, will soon discover how this gusty aimless wind makes his flame flicker. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." The normal man is less than a straw. ^ ' But as it is said, Shnilia similibus curanttir, we find this Ruach also the symbol of the Spirit. RVCh ALHIM, the Spirit of God, is 300, the number of the holy letter Shin. As this is the breath, which by its n…