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…THE SWORD OF SONG Et praeter—such as Huxley tells) I’ll pierce your rotten harness-joints, Dissolve your diabolic spells, With the quick truth and nothing else. So not one word derogatory To your own version of the story ! I take your Christ, your God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation. For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteem the Nazarene. Where’s the wet towel? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascensio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…hink not . To some it may seem curious that these poems are published by a society called “ The Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth ." By whom is the Bible published ? Is it not also a religious society , and is the Bible immaculate ? Was it not Sir Richard Burton , the greatest of Orientalists , who resolved in case the rabid pornophobic suggestions of certain ornaments of the home press were acted upon , to appear in court with the Bible and Shakespeare under one arm , and Petronius Arbiter and Rabelais under the other ? And I reme…
1919 · PDF PAGE 119
…atency of the fertilized ovum, say you, to a zenith whence it declines to the nullity of death? Rightly consid- ered, this is not wholly truth. The life of man is but one seg- ment of a serpentine curve which reaches out to infinity, and its zeros but mark the changes from the plus to minus, and minus to plus, coefficients of its equation. It is for this cause, 113
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…their features, The twin fiends “ Might-have-been” and ‘¢ Should-have-done.” Keep us, by Jesu’s ruth, What time the King-Ghost grins the truth ! The King-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature; For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by enduring nature, The twin gods ‘‘ Thus-will-I”’ and “* May- be-yet.”” God, keep us most from ill, What time the King-Ghost grips the will ! Silver and rose and gold what flame re- surgesP What living light pours forth in emerald waves?P What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? -—Shrieking they …
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
…initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to under- stand; some few obtain the truth. The technical ability of the artist is the lucidity of his language ; it has nothing to do with the degree of his illumination. Bougereau is better technically than Manet; he explains more clearly what he sees. But what does he see? He is the priest oia false God. Form has no importance except in this sense; we must not be revolted by the extravagance of new symbolic systems. Gauguin and Matisse may liv…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
…initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to under- stand; some few obtain the truth. The technical ability of the artist is the lucidity of his language ; it has nothing to do with the degree of his illumination. Bougereau is better technically than Manet; he explains more clearly what he sees. But what does he see? He is the priest oia false God. Form has no importance except in this sense; we must not be revolted by the extravagance of new symbolic systems. Gauguin and Matisse may liv…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…articular “Lion-Serpent”, continuing conscious thereof until it finds its proper place in Space, when its secret self flowers forth as a truth, which the Adept may then take back to earth with him. This is but a side issue. The main purpose of the Ritual is to establish the relation of the sub- conscious self with the Angel in such a way that the Adept is aware that his Angel is the Unity which expresses the sum of the Eléments of that Self, that his normal consciousness contains alien enemies I. These phenomena are not wholly subjective; they …
1954 · PDF PAGE 68
… rays which we now use f or wireless telegraphy was sterile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth, and transmit it to the world of action by means of mechanical and economic instruments.) 22. Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the Universe.- (IIlustration: A microscope, however perfect, is useless in the hands of savages. A poet, however sublime, must impose himself upon his generation …
1929 · PDF PAGE 221
… I bear thee down unto ....the tomb, beyond the tomb, Rose on the breast of the world of spring! I went upstairs. I began to suspect the truth, that my absolute indifference to rose, combined with my perfectly casual willingness to marry her in order to do her a service, as one might offer a stranger one's place in an omnibus, had purged her heart of its passion for the fat sensuality of Frank Summers, and hurled her head over heels in love with me. We arrived at Boleskine, where I learnt that Red-headed Arabella was due to arrive at Inverness …
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
…t have the strength of the lion, and the secrecy of the hermit. And thou must turn the wheel of life. And thou must hold the balances of Truth. Thou must pass through the great Waters, a Redeemer. Thou must have the tail of the scorpion, and 170
1906 · PDF PAGE 259
…in such a state is conditional on sound mental health, and terminable by disease or death at any moment. Were it not so, the First Noble Truth would | be a lie. The two further stages Sankhara and Viii- fianam pursue the analysis to its ultimation, ‘‘There is a consciousness of a tendency to perceive the (pleasant or unpleasant) sensa- tion of a raising of a right foot” being the final form. And I suppose no psychologist of any standing will quarrel with this.! Reasoning in fact leads us to this analysis; the Buddhist goes further only so far a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…sobedient ge-Dorebesa Das t babalonu, od ge-30dameranu gohola liaida marebe one who is wicked and appearest not, speaking the secrets of truth according to jijipabé: Dl, elonusabe Diada, Ya-i-Don CElazodape komesalahe, the living breath: I, exalted in the power of God, the All-powerful, the centre of the circle, micaclazodo Mada Das apila lu ipamis, Jebevohbe Cetragrammaton, powerful God who liveth, whose end cannot be, Iehevohe Tetragrammaton, ela go-a-al pe-ripesol, caosago, od faoresita oresa, oD tofajilo Das the only creator of heaven, eart…
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
…E SWORD OF SONG 10 Et præter—such as Huxley tells) I’ll pierce your rotten harness-joints, Dissolve your diabolic spells, With the quick truth and nothing else. So not one word derogatory To your own version of the story ! I take your Christ, your God’s creation, Just at their own sweet valuation, For by this culminating scene, Close of that wondrous life of woe Before and after death, we know How to esteme the Nazarene. Where’s the wet towel ? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascensi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 255
… Notariqon , which on the very face of the argument seem to condemn a system which aimed at supplying mankind with a great and beautiful truth . We should not like to say that Aleister Crowley's poems are entirely guiltless of the accusation of ob scurity ; but to the uninitiated more lies below the surface than is ever dreamt of ; and we do not consider that the use which he frequently makes of words , or rather names of an inward grace , should be considered as obscure . It is not difficult for the most uninstructed in the Qabalah to discover…
1922 · PDF PAGE 185
…od of the recording angel. I am living in eternity, and temporal things have become tedious and stupid symbols. My words are veils of my truth. But I experience quite definite delight in this diary. King Lamus is always at the root of my brain. He is Jupiter and I have sprung from his thought ; Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom ! The most tremendous events of life are unworthy trifles. The sublimity of my conceptions sweeps onward from nowhere to nowhere. Behind my articulate anthem is a stainless silence. I am not writing for any reason, not even for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 78
…d of answering it by another, though I know it may sound as if I were. Let me set out by restating our original problem; what we want is Truth; we want an even closer approach to Reality; and we want to discover and discuss the proper means of achieving this object. Very good; let us start by the simplest of all possible enquiries-and the most difficult- "What is anything?" "What do we know?" and other questions that spring naturally from these. I see a tree . I hear it-rustling or creaking in the wind. I touch it-hard. I smell it-acrid. I tast…
1906 · PDF PAGE 263
…re- gards their obvious meaning on the moral plane, I can do no better than quote my friend Bhikkhu Ananda Maitriya, in his ‘ Four Noble Truths.” ‘¢He who has attained, by force of pure understanding, to the realisation of the Four Noble Truths, who has realised the fact that depends from that understanding, namely that all the constituents of being are by nature endowed with the Three Character- istics of Sorrow, Transitoriness, and Absence of any immortal principle or Atma—such a one is said to be Sammaditthi, to hold right views, and the ter…
1922 · PDF PAGE 324
…’s the only true kind of tale,” replied Hermes, evidently prepared to argue the subject at great length if necessary. But I admitted the truth of his statement without difficulty. “ That’s the Abbey,” he went on, as we turned the corner of the hillside. And a long, low, white building came into sight. “ But that isn’t an Abbey,” I protested. ‘‘ That’s a villa.” “ That’s because you’re looking with the wrong kind of eyes,’’ objected Hermes. ‘I used to think the same myself before I was educated.” “Do you think Mr. Lamus will be able to educate u…
1954 · PDF PAGE 209
176 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS possibility and therefore one facet of Truth. "Rest" is an idea: so immobility is one of the moving states. A certain state of mind is (almost by definition) "eternal," yet it most assuredly begins and ends. And so on for ever-I fear it would be nugatory, pleonastic (and oh! several other lovely long adjectives!) to try to guard you from these hydra-headed and protean booby-traps; you must tackle them yourself as they arise, and deal with them as best you can; always remembering that often enough you cannot tell which i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 368
…d who can scarcely define the difference between Dedekindian and Cantorian cuts, and whose nights are not disturbed by anxiety about the truth of Fermat's last theorem. A fortiori, we had better swoop on the Straits of Gibraltar and tell a tale of Tangiers. (I will confine myself to mentioning that I got a charming letter from my exquisite Dorothy, to which I replied by the poem "Telepathy" in The Winged Beetle.) In point of fact, we may not be much better off even here. Most true tales worth telling are either incredible, improper or both. One…