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Page 50 of 871913 · PDF PAGE 535
…firm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and will what ought not to be, is to destroy. Axiom XIII Light’ is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the will; it lights those who know how to use it, it burns those who abuse it. Axiom XIV The empire of the world is the empire of the light.t Axiom XV Great intellects whose wills are badly balanced are like comets which are aborted suns. Axiom XVI To do nothing is as fatal as to do evil, but it is more cowardly. The most unpardonable of mortal sins is inertia. 1 Meaning ag…
1929 · PDF PAGE 489
…ad been rebuilt. The old charm had vanished completely. It had become a regular fellow. The earthquake had swallowed up romance, and the fire burnt up the soul of the city to ashes. The phoenix had perished and from the cinders had arisen a turkey buzzard. I hurried south, stopping off at Santa Cruz, to see the famous big trees. I snatched a meal in the town and walked out in the gloaming. My sweetheart was waiting for me in the dusk just beyond the town limits. "How glad I am you have come," she whispered. "Let us walk together to the grove. Y…
1898 · PDF PAGE 34
… My open spirit by their influence, And taught mine ears to catch no doubtful sound Of prophecy, but fix it in my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lip…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration). (The Grade of4° = 7ais particularly attributed to the element Fire; it refers to the Planet Venus j the paths of P, ¥ and )D are attributed to this degree. For other attributions see “777” ^nes 7 and 31). The Pentagrams of Water. Name A L (El). The signs of 3° = 8°. Raise the arm till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touch- ing the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards. (See illustration). (The G…
1912 · PDF PAGE 32
…d. I loved him so. Ah God ! I touched. How my soul itched let God not know ! That strong black breast ! Those cruel lips ! Those eyes of fire ! O bitter best, to whirl the whips of black desire ! Bruise me with lust, and tear my flesh, and drink my blood, One poniard thrust, one flail to thresh, one storm to flood My life with death, my soul to charO speak the spell !
1919 · PDF PAGE 359
…r CXI for a full and proper account of this. 81. Where is thy individuality, Lanoo, where the Lanoo himself? It is the spark lost in the fire, the drop within the ocean, the ever-present ray become the ALL and the eternal radiance. Again principally poetical. The man is conceived as a mere accretion about his ‘Dwarf-Self,’ and he is now wholly absorbed therein. For IT is also ALL, being of the Body of Nuith. 82. And now, Lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radiation, Light in the Sound, and the Sound in the Light. Imp…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…rit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dry land and in the waterj of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me. I. Il he letter F is used to represent the Hebrew Vau and the Greek Digamma; its Sound lies between those of the English long o and long 00, as in Rope and Tooth. — 267 —
1909 · PDF PAGE 191
…le Word reads: a This is the Magical History > Of the Dawning of the Light. x Begun are the Whirling Motions; w Formulated is the Primal Fire ; ’ Proclaimed is the Reign of the Gods of Light n At the Threshold of the Infinite Worlds! Now compare this with the Particular Exordium (G.". D.. MSS. Z3): ‘At the ending of the NIGHT 3 At the Limits of the LIGHT Thoth stood before the Unborn Ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe. 4 (Thea came forth the Gods thereof, The AZons of the Bornless Beyond. * x Then was the Voice Vibrated. tw Then was…
1909 · PDF PAGE 191
…le Word reads: a This is the Magical History > Of the Dawning of the Light. x Begun are the Whirling Motions; w Formulated is the Primal Fire ; ’ Proclaimed is the Reign of the Gods of Light n At the Threshold of the Infinite Worlds! Now compare this with the Particular Exordium (G.". D.. MSS. Z3): ‘At the ending of the NIGHT 3 At the Limits of the LIGHT Thoth stood before the Unborn Ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe. 4 (Thea came forth the Gods thereof, The AZons of the Bornless Beyond. * x Then was the Voice Vibrated. tw Then was…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…wind’s serpent hair, And track the East wind to his mighty lair Even in the caverns of the womb of dawn ; To take the South wind and his fire with- drawn And clothe him with your kiss ; to seize the West In his gold palace where the sea-winds rest, And hurl him ravening on the breaking foam ; ‘To find the Spirit in his glimmering home And draw his secret from unwilling lips ; To master earthquake, and the dread eclipse ; To dominate the red volcanic rage ; To quench the whirlpool, conquering war to wage Against all gods not wholly made as ye, O…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
…y and_ night apart, Know not where frost has laid his iron hand Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate ; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.
1899 · PDF PAGE 52
… My open spirit by their influence, And taught mine ears to catch no doubtful sound Of prophecy, but fix it in my mind, A lambent liquid fire of poetry Full of all meaning as the very stars. Yet of my own life they have never breathed One chilly word of fear, or one divine Roseate syllable of hope and joy. Still less of love. For no sweet life of love Lies to my hand, but I am bound by Fate To the strong compulsion of the sword; my lips Shall fasten on my wife’s not much; nor those Pure lips of innocent girlhood that call me Father ; but my lip…
1907 · PDF PAGE 288
…ce at lowest ebbs Anæmic nerves weave frailest webs.3 And the five senses stand naked and shivering in the freezing night of doubt , the fire is dead , and on the hearth crouch the spectral ashes no longer to flame in the starlight . Foolish prostitute ! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence , decay Of care to hold him - can I tell you which ? Down goes the moon - one sees the howling bitch !" 4 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 170 . Huxley's Hume , p . 157 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 85 . 4 Ib…
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…bout it. It says something for human innocence that after four years of this insane treatment I was still absolutely ignorant, though on fire in every nerve to learn the practice that people made so much fuss about. But really — my tutors ! Of all the surpassing prigs ! I was so mentally shattered by the disease and torture — for both continued — that I remember practically nothing of the next two years. But at least I shall take care that this book comes into the hands of the Very Reverend Armitage Robinson Esq., M. A., D. D., Dean of Westmins…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…uds as for sleep are unfurled, The moon in the east is rekindled, The hope of the passionate world. The stars for a token of glory Flash fire in the eyes of the night, And the holy immaculate story Of Heaven is flushed into light. For the night has a whisper to wake us, And the sunset a blossom to kiss, And the silences secretly take us To the well of the water that is?; For the darkness is pregnant with being, As earth that is glad of the rain, And the eyes? that are silent and seeing Are free of the trammels of pain. Like light through the po…
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
…From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; anot…
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
…From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; anot…
1901 · PDF PAGE 48
… assume thy crown And sit beside me, equal to thy queen. For look ye to the burning south, and see The Sun grown amorous, and behold his fire Leap to my godhead. For without a man I single, I the mother, have conceived Of my own loins, and made me no less god Than all your gods! Ye people and ye priests, Behold the burden of my life, and fear, And know me Isis. Worship me, and praise The goodliest ruler of the world, the queen Of all the white immeasurable seas, And that vast river of our sowing-time, And of your Sun. Behold me made a god Of my…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…my sex forbids I should describe how seven’s stretcher skids; but, generously giving up his briar, Bow (who sits next him) with unwonted fire holds it in place with his divine white ivories; how stroke increased to 50, which is high—very! Six (who’s a villain) sees upon a E 63
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
…nattained desire ! I would be master : I, the lord of Greece : I the bright Deva of the golden sphere ; I the swift spirit of the primal fire : — All these I 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 peering lightwards through a coffin-lid, On…