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Page 49 of 2571954 · PDF PAGE 504
…nute, as people did seventy years ago. In fact, one may suspect that the majority of well-instructed men expect nothing but that History will repeat itself, and our civilization go the way of all the others whose ruins we dig up in every quarter of the earth. Well, if we have to wait for the calamity, and for evolution to begin all over again in a number of centuries-with luck!-one thing is at least quite certain: we can do nothing about it. Any form of activity must be as futile and as fatuous as any other; and the only sensible philosophy mus…
1898 · PDF PAGE 35
… black with pine, Where the clear stream shall sing us into sleep With murmuring faintly, and divine device : Come with me there, and we will surely twine Bright wreaths of Alpine gentian for thine head, Those glowing tresses, auburn in the sun, And in the night, dim fires of matchless red To hold my love, and lead my kisses on From night to night upon the purple bed Of dark embraces ; till the summer is gone We will forget in love the world of tears Whose tumult reaches not our amorous ears. 3 Come with me thither. Let the chaster snow Blush a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
…NDRO enters from R. ALESSANDRO. Your pleasure, say ? [He draws his sword. MORTADELLO. Put up your sword. I have your measure. What ? you will force me to arrest you ? [MORTADELLOS attendants come forward. LUCREZIA staggers, and falls into ALESSANDROS arms. LUCREZIA. [Aside] Sandro, stay ! Follow the course agreed. ALESSANDRO. The dog must have his day. Oh ! but youre hurt ! MORTADELLO. Young man ! she shall be tended. ALESSANDRO. Well. No ! take my shirt. Staunch the dear breast ! MORTADELLO. A miracle It missed her heart. Give thanks to God…
1961 · PDF PAGE 46
…iberty, of Rights, of Wealth, or of Social Esteem; but this Freedom shall be respected of all, seeing that it is the Right of the Bodily Will. For this same Reason thou shalt cause full Restriction and Punishment of any who may seek to limit that Freedom for the sake of his own Profit, or Desire, or Ideal. Every Man and every Woman has full right either to grant or to deny the Body, as the Will speaketh within. This being made Custom, the Evils of Love, which are many, extending to the Disturbance not only of Body but of Mind, and that in obscu…
1899 · PDF PAGE 80
58 JEPHTHAH. And we too, changing these funereal vestments Will clothe in moonlike splendour, candid robes Of priestly purity, our joyous selves. O fortunate day! O measured steps of noon, Quicken, if once ye stayed for Joshua, To keep sweet music to our hearts. Away! [Exeunt all but Jared. JARED. I will await, and hide myself away Behind yon bushes, to behold the plot Bud to fulfilment. Then, Leviathan, I am thy master. Mockery of a God That seest this thing prosper—Ha! thine altar! Let me give thanks, Jehovah! O thou God That rulest Israel as…
1910 · PDF PAGE 196
…ks, angle [Above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more or less constant (presumably) between 1901 and now. It will be useless to attempt to devise any means of measuring the length of a break. The only possible suggestion is to count the links in thought back to the object. But I do not think it is worth the trouble.] Note in White Triangle above: I get considerably toward identification of self and object. This is probably a good result of my philosophy-work. It will perhaps be more scientific if in these tests (and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 196
…ks, angle [Above observation perhaps unimportant, as limit of variability is more or less constant (presumably) between 1901 and now. It will be useless to attempt to devise any means of measuring the length of a break. The only possible suggestion is to count the links in thought back to the object. But I do not think it is worth the trouble.] Note in White Triangle above: I get considerably toward identification of self and object. This is probably a good result of my philosophy-work. It will perhaps be more scientific if in these tests (and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES them; when they are sick with the nostalgia of God—will they not rise up like the prodigal son, and come to throw them- selves at the feet of the successor of Peter, saying: “ Father, we have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and we are no more worthy to be called thy sons, but count us among the humblest of thy servants” ? We will not speak of the criticism of Voltaire. That great mind was dominated by an ardent love of truth and justice, but he lacked that rectitude of heart which the intelligence ot faith gives…
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES them; when they are sick with the nostalgia of God—will they not rise up like the prodigal son, and come to throw them- selves at the feet of the successor of Peter, saying: “ Father, we have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and we are no more worthy to be called thy sons, but count us among the humblest of thy servants” ? We will not speak of the criticism of Voltaire. That great mind was dominated by an ardent love of truth and justice, but he lacked that rectitude of heart which the intelligence ot faith gives…
1929 · PDF PAGE 185
… within its sphere of sensation. It struck her that such creatures were images of Desire, a cruel and insatiable craving deprived of any will or power to take a single step towards gratification; and she understood that this condition was the most hideous and continual torture, agony with no ray of hope, impotence so complete as even to inhibit an issue in death. And she knew, too, that these shapes were born of her own weaknesses; yet, so far from rousing herself to stamp them out in her mind, she gloated upon their monstrosity and misery, too…
1954 · PDF PAGE 183
…"Not that, not that!" to whatever it is that presents itself as Tat Sat-reality, truth.) Need I remind you how urgent the wish to escape will assuredly become, how fantastic are the mind's devices and excuses, amounting often to deliberate revolt? In Kandy I broke away in a fury, and dashed down to Colombo with the intention of painting the very air as red as the betel-spittle on the pavements! But after three days of futile search for satisfying debauchery I came back to my horses, and, sure enough, it was merely that I had gone stale; the rel…
1898 · PDF PAGE 73
A RONDEL. REST, like a star at sea Thrice loved, thrice blest, Burns. Will there come to me Rest ? By these suppressed Desires my soul must flee, By heaven’s crest, I pray that secretly Toward God’s breast I draw, to find, maybe, Rest ! 63
1922 · PDF PAGE 270
…t something about being grateful. “You needn’t talk that nonsense,” he retorted severely. ‘‘ It’s my business to help people to do their wills. The gratitude is on my side. I want you to understand from the beginning that you are helping me to justify my existence by allowing me to do what I can to straighten out this tangle. But my conditions are that you give me a fair chance by doing what I say.” He did not even wait for acquiescence. “You are a bit excited nervously,” he went on. ‘‘ Depression is only another form of excitement. It means a …
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…echanically ; the former pro pels the latter , whilst the latter reacts as a drag on the former . If the former is in a healthy state so will the latter be ; if the latter becomes corrupt it will then react and contaminate the former . This is the law of all Form - i.e ., Government - and Reform . The outlaw of to - day was the citizen of yesterday , so the law of to - day will become the crime of to morrow . Man being inherently lazy , and hence conservative , this power is forever reacting on him , and binding him down to a government unsuite…
1922 · PDF PAGE 339
At Telepylus 325 no right but to do thy will.’ That is why the old hierophants shut up the candidate in silence and darkness. He had the choice between going mad or knowing himself. And when he was brought out into light and life, restored to love and liberty, he was in very truth a Neophyte, a man new-born. Big Lion puts us through it without our knowing what he’s doing. Though I’ve been through it myself, I didn’t know in this clear way what had really happened until I tried to explain it to you.” The sense of being enchanted came over me aga…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
26 WHY JESUS WEPT I the bright Deva! of the golden sphere ; I the swift spirit of the primal fire :— All theseI am, not will be. O blind ape! All these are shapeless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat! Ugh! Ugh! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi | * tell me of the mage; Of him who would; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed; of him who. fell ; One peéring .lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards—and achieving hell! O let me…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…attained , and so did Shelley and Browning . Read the last verses of the “ Prometheus Unbound ” and “ A Grammarian's Funeral , ” and all will be plain ;' and it is this same ecstasy that burns white in these two superb poems , which flames a bright star of beauty guiding us on our long journey across the hundred thousand leagues of the empire of Crowley's pen . We find it shining brightly over almost every page , a fact which renders the task of quoting nigh endless . Already we have cited a dozen or more examples . Volume I flames like a subtl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 108
…d Becoming Being, is the Key to the Golden Palace of this Law. Lastly, by Liberty is the power to direct your course ac- cording to your Will. For the extent of the Universe is with- out bounds, and ye are free to make your pleasure as ye will, seeing that the diversity of being is infinite also. For this also is the Joy of the Law, that no two stars are alike, and ye must understand also that this Multiplicity is itself Unity, and without it Unity could not be. And this is an hard say- ing against Reason: ye shall comprehend, when, rising abov…
1919 · PDF PAGE 448
…and the Candidate for Woe, and all that, as it is for Theseus and Hippolyta to decide that Pyramus and Thisbe may amuse them. The Public will then kindly excuse the Magus if He be of a nature, and in a mood, to decline to take the tragedy too seriously, and to mock the crude buffooneries of Bottom. Perhaps it would be better taste in Him to draw the curtains of His box. But it is at least His pleasure to reward the actors. Love is the law, love under will.” 85. Alas! when once thou hast become like the pure snow in mountain vales, cold and unfe…
1922 · PDF PAGE 327
…ow you're more awake than they are.” We nodded encouragingly, and carried out the pro- gramme with success. “Love is the law, love under will,” answered the three people in the doorway. ‘‘ Welcome to the Abbey of Thelema! ” In a moment, as by the breaking of a spell, the seriousness broke up. We were introduced warmly to the women, and began jabbering as if we had known each other all our lives. Basil had taken the two gods on his knees, and was listening happily to Hermes’ story of how he had acquitted himself of his responsibility A table had…