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Page 51 of 1041911 · PDF PAGE 13
…s a ray of my light, as a messenger unto that small dark orb. 3. Then V.V.V.V.V. taketh up the word, and sayeth: 4. Men and women of the Earth, to you am I come from the Ages beyond the Ages, from the Space beyond your vision ; and I bring to you these words. 5. But they heard him not, for they were not ready to receive them. 6. But certain men heard and understood, and through them shall this Knowledge be made known. 7. The least therefore of them, the servant of them all, writeth this book. 8. He writeth for them that are ready. Thus is it kn…
1911 · PDF PAGE 7
…e thee? Who are they that slew thee? O Light! Come thou, who art joined with me to bruise the Dragon’s head. We, who are wedded, and the Earth per- ceiveth it not! O that Our Bed were seen of Men, that they might rejoice in My Fertility: that My Sister might partake of My Great Light. O Light of God, when wilt thou find the heart of man— write not! I would not that men know the Sorrow of my Heart, Amen! I turned me to the West, and the Archangel bore a flaming Book, on which was written AN in Enochian. Within was drawn a fiery scorpion, yet col…
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
… the vast flood and trembles in its tide. Serene and splendid shine the mystic ones, Exult, appal, reiterate, abide. Timid and fleet the earth Comes rushing back to birth, Brighter and greener, radiant with gold Of a diviner sun, An exultation Of life to life, of light to light untold. I? I remain, and see Across eternity My lover’s face, and gaze, and know the worth Of love’s life to the glowing earth, The kiss that wakes all life unto a better birth. So the swoon broke. I saw the face (Shining with Love’s reverberate grace) Of my own love acr…
1899 · PDF PAGE 8
viii DEDICATION. Let there be light! and there was light: the womb Of Earth resounded, and the empyréan Roared: and the thunder of the seas averred The presence of thy recreating word. The stone rolls back: the charioted night, Stricken, swings backwards on her broken pinions: Faith sickens, drunken tyranny reels, the spite Of monarchs, ruinous of their chained dominions: The splendid forehead, crowned with Love and Light, Flames in the starry air: the fallen minions Drop like lost souls through horrid emptinesses To their own black unfathomabl…
1899 · PDF PAGE 76
…, and horrible, to blister me With infamous tearing at my throat. O Hell! Vomit thy monsters forth in myriads To putrefy this fair green earth with blood, But make not me the devilish minister Of such a deed as this! No respite ?—-Must? Irrevocable? I dare not call on God. Thou, thou wilt serve me if I do this thing? Oh, if this be a snare thou settest now, Who hast once already mocked our pact, I swear By God, I cast thee off. Leviathan! Accept the bargain. And I seal it—thus. [Writing in the air
1905 · PDF PAGE 100
…own self begotten ! O vision laughterless! O shadowy tale! O brain that halts before its thought forgotten ! Once all ye knew me—ere the earth grew pale, And Time began, and all its fruit lay rotten, Once, when thou knewest me indeed, and fed At these strong breasts—Ah! but the days are dead ! Now, in the dusty corridors of Time, I am forgotten: Gaian language falters If I would teach thee half an hint sublime Shed of the rayless fire upon my altars. IO]
1910 · PDF PAGE 28
…land, and the oldsters may totter unconverted to their graves. Then these boys, becoming men, may bring about the new heaven and the new earth. You are not a Crowleian till you can say fervently “ Yes, thank God, I am an atheist.” For the ’ transvaluation of all values ’ must yet again take place, when those are all dead and damned who have forced us into the painful position we now occupy. The “ man-eating beasts because of whom we dare not love thee ”, once gone, we can revive the true cultus of the Logos ; the chastitymongering masturbators …
1914 · PDF PAGE 11
…eld them with his soft, strong, tiny hands? Well, history says it happened. But a man After all doesn't want to kiss Queen Anne! Ix fall Earth's hateful names I most abhor ‘The name of Mary. "Tis a bleat. Of course You must be Mary. Was there not one sore God could have spared to such a willing horse? Turn stripes to satire! So the only way Has been to cut the R out, and say “* May.” R, “the dog’s letter.” Why you are all R's! —I pray you pardon the two-pointed prong— ‘Must you keep up the stale romantic farce That you love sculpture, harmony, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 107
…en as the Sun standeth eternal in the heavens, equal at midnight and at noon. He riseth not: he setteth not: it is but the shadow of the earth which concealeth him, or the clouds upon her face. Let me then declare unto you this Mystery of the Law, as it hath been made known unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also in great cities, which thing I speak for your comfort and good courage. And so be it unto all of you! Know first, that from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the centre of y…
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
…g that dwells like moon-enkindled night. We draw from low palm groves and cedar hills, From stern grey slumbers, for thy music fills All earth with unimaginable delight. Have we not brought the leaves dew- diamonded, The buds fresh-gleaming, star-blossoms, and shed Our scent and colour and song around thy sacred head ? We that are flowers are kindled in thy praise, Even as thy song shed lustre and swift rays, Darting to brighten and open the folded flowers. The violet lifts its head, the lily lightens, ‘he daisy shakes its dew, the pansy bright…
1901 · PDF PAGE 81
…ew some deadlier trap Some worm more poisonous would set—mayhap ! I turned—the path ? My horror was complete— A flaming sword across the earthquake gap. I cried aloud to God in my despair. “ The quest of quests ! I seek it, for I dare ! Moonward ! on, moonward ! ” And the full moon shone, A glory for God’s eyes to dwell upon, A path of silver furrowed in the air, A gateway where an angel might have gone. And forward gleamed a narrow way of earth Crusted with salt : I watch the fairy birth Of countless flashes on the crystal flakes, Forgetting i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
…ion has o the precipice. Serene, august, untroubled, cold, her prayers are worth More than our steel, more than our gold, that bind the earth.
1913 · PDF PAGE 160
…as nothing in His sight. Outside the Church there is not any hope For any man of knowing wrong from right: In Heaven God is the Law , on earth -- the Pope, Moreover learn , O thou vainglorious man , That crimson fires in deepest Hell await All those unfaithful who refuse to scan Him in the mystery immaculate. High on a lofty rock one castle stands , Which , stormed and battered , shall not ever lurch , Impregnable to all the faithless bands : Founded on catholic truth - The Catholic Church , (Caustio enters , 141
1954 · PDF PAGE 325
…e its words. AL,II: 18, 19, 20, 21 : These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk . Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen; who sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languour, force and fire, are of us. 292
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
248 INDEX OF FIRST LINES We ride upon the fury of the blast, i. 47 What ails thee, earth? ii. 31 What change of language! lil, 18 What is my soul? The shadow of my will, 1. 194 What makes God then of all the curses, ii. 17 What power or fascination lie, i. 180 What sadness closes in between, ili. 2 What words are these that shudder through my sleep, i, 103 When a battle is all but lost and won, ii. 270 When, at the awful Judgment-day, God stands, ili, 115 Whence the black lands shudder, ii. 55 When God bethought Him, i. 10 When God uplifted han…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…ng and silent, steadfast and alone, And change my music at the call of Fate. For while ye spake in tumult, in this ear A music rang from earth’s remotest mine, From star and comet, flaming wheel and sphere, From Hell’s deep vault and from the Ilouse divine. A voice diverse, a voice identical Called me this hour from bitterest woes and black, Constraining eloquence and mighty thrall Of cosmic agony, and wrung me back From my poor plea to challenge in my song The whole domain of deeply-seated law, Taunch thunders not Olympic at the strong Bars of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
… shall be birds in our bowers, Our couches the delicate heaps of the wind, Where the lily-bloom showers all its light, and the powers Of earth in our twinning are wedded and twinned. So singing I make reverence and retire; Not with high words of worship fairly flung To that sad monarch from the magic lyre, And half the triumphs in my heart unsung, Surpassing, as such triumphs must, all praise Of golden strings and human- fashioned tongue. But now I follow the uprising ways By secret paths indubitably drawn Straight from the centre of the trackl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 175
…hood in other lands or planets matters nothing here—he bequeathed to me a beautiful Garden, the like of which hath rarely been seen upon Earth. It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon this arcane knowledge, long treasured in my heart, watered alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned by that all- glorious Ray that multiplieth itself into an Orb ineffable. In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite discourse; I beg my readers to pluck it and lay it in their hearts. It should be studied in connection with the Book 777,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 175
…hood in other lands or planets matters nothing here—he bequeathed to me a beautiful Garden, the like of which hath rarely been seen upon Earth. It has been my pious duty to collate and comment upon this arcane knowledge, long treasured in my heart, watered alike by my tears and my blood, and sunned by that all- glorious Ray that multiplieth itself into an Orb ineffable. In this Garden no flower was fairer than this exquisite discourse; I beg my readers to pluck it and lay it in their hearts. It should be studied in connection with the Book 777,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…e in the sad funereal ground With faces turnd back, My face averted ! I shall consummate The awful act of worship, O renowned Fear upon earth, and fear in hell, and black Fear in the sky beyond Fate ! I hear the whining of thy wolves ! I hear The howling of the hounds about thy form, Who comest in the terror of thy storm,