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Page 54 of 901907 · PDF PAGE 30
…d Iseult.” It is as follows : He sprang , he caught her to his breast ; the maid Smiled and lay back to look at him . He laid Her tender body on the sloping field , And felt her sighs in his embraces yield A sweeter music than all birds . But she , Lost in the love she might not know , may see No further than his face, and yet, aware Of her own fate , resisted like a snare Her own soft wishes . As she looked and saw His eager face, the iron rod of law Grew like a misty pillar in the sky . In all her veins the blood's desires die, 2 Jephthah , v…
1907 · PDF PAGE 88
…orrors from a many hells --- Though I had fathomed Fate ; though I had seen Chastity charm - proof arm and sea gray eyes And sweet clean body of my spirit's queen , Where nothing dwells that God did not devise .' The sonnets relating the events of the seventh to the tenth day are dismal , attempting to drown Love in Lust . On the twelfth a little flame burns up , then comes the poem , which Alice receives and reads . Every verse is as charming , simple , and fascinating as the following two : One kiss , like snow , to slip , Cool fragrance from…
1910 · PDF PAGE 271
…ted experiment, which fall into their place here as aptly as they can in the course of my narrative. First: At two different times, when body and mind are apparently in precisely analogous states, when all circumstances, exterior and interior, do not differ tangibly in the smallest respect, the same dose of the same preparation of hasheesh will frequently produce diametrically opposite effects. Still further, I have taken at one time a pill of thirty grains, which hardly gavea perceptible phenomenon, and at another, when my dose had been but ha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 271
…ted experiment, which fall into their place here as aptly as they can in the course of my narrative. First: At two different times, when body and mind are apparently in precisely analogous states, when all circumstances, exterior and interior, do not differ tangibly in the smallest respect, the same dose of the same preparation of hasheesh will frequently produce diametrically opposite effects. Still further, I have taken at one time a pill of thirty grains, which hardly gavea perceptible phenomenon, and at another, when my dose had been but ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 518
… any more than we can live in earth or in water. For an airy, or rather an ethereal, spirit, it would be necessary to have an artificial body similar to the apparatus of our divers, in order that it might come to us. All that we can see of the dead are the reflections which they have left in the atmospheric light, light whose imprints we evoke by the sympathy of our memories. The souls of the dead are above our atmosphere. Our respirable air becomes earth for them. This is what the Saviour declares in His Gospel, when He makes the soul of a sai…
1913 · PDF PAGE 518
… any more than we can live in earth or in water. For an airy, or rather an ethereal, spirit, it would be necessary to have an artificial body similar to the apparatus of our divers, in order that it might come to us. All that we can see of the dead are the reflections which they have left in the atmospheric light, light whose imprints we evoke by the sympathy of our memories. The souls of the dead are above our atmosphere. Our respirable air becomes earth for them. This is what the Saviour declares in His Gospel, when He makes the soul of a sai…
1919 · PDF PAGE 86
…a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. She hath played the harlot in divers palaces; she hath given her body to the beasts. 41. She hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods. 42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the Wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it. 43. The fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment. 44. She hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful Sea. 45.…
1961 · PDF PAGE 218
…l have I done this, being oftentimes seated without Motion save of the Hands, while Earth rolled from Twilight unto Twilight, so that my Body became cold and rigid, even as is a Corpse. Also, in the Intervals of this Scripture, have I been given to Contem- plation and to Works of High Magick, notably the Mass of he Holy Ghost, in the Concentration of my Will to impart this Wisdom unto thee, and to reveal the Mysteries of Truth. Now of all these this is the Root, that Truth is not fixed with the Rigour of Death, but vital with Lust of Change, an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 189
…y out, but I don’t like the idea of a strange girl coming here. One never knows what may go wrong. It doesn’t really matter, either. The body is merely a nuisance, and it hurts. “So blood wrenches its pain Sardonic through heart and brain.” I am beginning to hate that horrible poem. It haunts me. I don’t know why I should remember it like I do. Have I been reading it, I wonder? Or perhaps it is the incredible access of intellectual power which heroin gives that has improved my memory. Anyhow, the fact is that odd bits of it come swimming into m…
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
…in Vision, and an Angel, visiting him, imparteth a Truth contrary o his Prejudice, as it fell out in mine own Case, when I inhabited the Body of Sir Edward Kelly, or so do I in Part remember, as it seemeth dimly. This nevertheless is sure (or the learned Casaubon, publishing the Record of that Word with the Magician Dee, sayeth falsely) that an Angel did declare unto Kelly the very Axiomata of our Law of Thelema, in good Measure, and plainly; but Dee, afflicted by the Fixity of his Tenets that were of the Slave- Gods, was wroth, and by his Auth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
THE OLD BOTTLE 165 1 Her body wearies of desire , and fails To satisfy the fury of her spirit ; The blood feasts sicken her and yield no strength ; She is made one with hell , and violent force Slips and is weakness , and extreme desire Spends supple . Inane revivals stir her muddy waters , as rise gusts of fetid gas from a disturbed cesspool . Maniacs like Piggott and Evans arise , as also do such religious Ananiases as Dowie and Torrey ; all battening as greedy vultures on the mental dead , as they take their place on the eternal towers of si…
1907 · PDF PAGE 259
…n The likeness of a Man in glory set ; The sun is blotted , and the skies are riven A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and His love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather ." In many other of these poems do we find depicted other phases of the philosophy of the Qabalah ; one , Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 190 . • Songs of the Spirit , vol . …
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
… the groundwork of the Hindu system. Let him master Asana, posture, so that he can sit motionless for hours without any message from his body reaching and so disturbing his brain. Let him include in his accomplish- ments Pranayama, control of the breath and of the vital nervous currents which react in sympathy with it. Let him then exalt to the utmost his soul by the appro- priate ritual of ceremonial magic; and when by this means he has most thoroughly identified himself with the Supreme, let him, as that Supreme One, continue to meditate with…
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
… the groundwork of the Hindu system. Let him master Asana, posture, so that he can sit motionless for hours without any message from his body reaching and so disturbing his brain. Let him include in his accomplish- ments Pranayama, control of the breath and of the vital nervous currents which react in sympathy with it. Let him then exalt to the utmost his soul by the appro- priate ritual of ceremonial magic; and when by this means he has most thoroughly identified himself with the Supreme, let him, as that Supreme One, continue to meditate with…
1913 · PDF PAGE 79
… represents the three principles of the Moon, the Sun, and Fire, the three principles which, according to the Hindus, have course in the body.* This is the Cup of Purification; as Zoroaster says: '*So therefore first the priest who governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral water of the loud-resounding sea." It is the sea that purifies the world. And the " Great Sea " is in the Qabalah a name of Binah, " Understanding." stands in the Circle, and the spirit in the Triangle; so the Magician is in the Triangle with respect to his o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstacy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and B2 19
1913 · PDF PAGE 268
…therms, and on the tongue Follicular papilla weave Their lustral locks, and rosy eve Sheds her soft toenails as she swings Her brilliant body into Spring’s, Befell a woe—and here the bard His sacral plexus with the yard Planged, and the Ammonites of Song Blew their shrill spirals loud and long. On y Cassiopeae first The grave old Hippocampus curst Black Oxyrrhynchus ! who would dare To camp in Berenice’s Hair ‘Whose vesper censers amorous Smoke monocotyledenous, What time the twisted ibex mars The parallax of double stars, And the pale hate of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstacy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and B2 19
1913 · PDF PAGE 268
…therms, and on the tongue Follicular papilla weave Their lustral locks, and rosy eve Sheds her soft toenails as she swings Her brilliant body into Spring’s, Befell a woe—and here the bard His sacral plexus with the yard Planged, and the Ammonites of Song Blew their shrill spirals loud and long. On y Cassiopeae first The grave old Hippocampus curst Black Oxyrrhynchus ! who would dare To camp in Berenice’s Hair ‘Whose vesper censers amorous Smoke monocotyledenous, What time the twisted ibex mars The parallax of double stars, And the pale hate of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
…cation of some undesirable bias by using the words “order,” “circle,” “chapter,” “society,” “brotherhood,” or any other to designate the body of ini- tiates. 23. Deliberately, therefore, did he take refuge in vague- ness. Not to veil the truth to the Neophyte, but to warn him against valuing non-essentials. Should therefore the candidate hear the name of any God, let him not rashly assume that it refers to any known God, save only the God known to himself. Or should the ritual speak in terms (however vague) which seem to imply Egyptian, Taoist,…