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Page 57 of 871906 · PDF PAGE 13
… ! Fiercer our lips engage ; Limbs, eyes, ears, gather rage; Sharp grows desire. Hear thy short bitter cries? Pity thine agonies? Loose, though love tire? Nay, neither hear nor spare ; Frenzy shall mock at prayer ; Torture’s red torch shall flare Till thou expire. IV. Stars stud a cloudless sky ; Moon silvers blue ; Breeze is content to die; Lightly falls dew. Calm after strain and stress Now to our weariness Brings love anew. Peace brings her balm to us, Lying as amorous Still, and as true, Linked by new mystery, Lovers confessed. A sigh Sobs …
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…a foam against him , as he makes for the Paphian isle to seek aid from the goddess of Love ; and in his blinding anger he sees her not , though she is by his side journeying homeward from Rome . She raises the swimmer to her pearly car and carries him to her fair home , where in the following beautiful symbolic action she promises to restore him his lost love-Archais . Then Aphrodite loosed a snake of gold From her arm's whiteness , and upon his wrist Clasped it. Its glittering eyes of amethyst Fascinate him . “ Even so ," the goddess cried , “…
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
… of them bends forward so that I may whisper the pass-word. The Angel prompts me to whisper: “There is no god.” So they let me pass, and though there was indeed nothing visible therein, yet there was a very strange atmosphere, which I could not understand. Suspended in the air there is a silver star, and on the forehead of each of the guardians there is a silver star. It is a pentagram,—because, says the Angel, three and five are eight; three and eight are eleven. (There is another numerical reason that I cannot hear.) And as I entered their ri…
1922 · PDF PAGE 113
…ck in my gizzard. It annoyed me so much that we took a lot more cocaine to get the taste out of our mouths. But the irritation remained, though it took another form. The bourgeois atmosphere of Paris got on my nerves. Well, there was no need to stay in the beastly place. The thing to do was to hunt up old Feccles and pay him the cash, and get to some place like Capri where one isn’t always being bothered by details. I was flooded by a crazy desire to see Lou swim in the Blue Grotto, to watch the phosphorescent flames flash from her luminous bod…
1922 · PDF PAGE 145
…of all morally. I lacked the spirit to stand up under this sudden burst of drum fire. But Lou stuck to it gamely. She was on her mettle, though I could see that she was almost fainting from the stress of the various circumstances,
1922 · PDF PAGE 301
… ame with all the sublime intoxication of recovered ivinity. “I must admit that it seems to me excellent,” I pronounced with lofty calm, though my blood was singing in my ear. I handed back the bottle. “ Keep it, I beg of you, my dear Sir Peter,”’ protested Platt enthusiastically. ‘‘One never knows when a little household medicine may not come in handy.” Something set me off into roars of internal laughter.
1954 · PDF PAGE 24
…any such references. I was profoundly impressed by this particular letter. (3) He was no "flower-child" dedicated to peace at any price. Though squeamish in all sorts of ways, he was yet capable of lashing out, shooting someone, or poking them in the nose. Violence, for him, was as much a part of life as peace and quiet. Modern pacifism would have repelled him altogether. He had made it a rule of life to expose himself to all sorts of dangerous situations in which violence was implicit" and in which he revelled. Read "The Smoking Dog,"
1996 · PDF PAGE 171
…f sex. Hence the pretence that a woman is “pure,” modest, delicate, aesthetically beautiful and morally exalted, ethereal and unfleshly, though in fact they know her to be lascivious, shameless, coarse, ill-shapen, unscrupulous, nauseat- ingly bestial both physically and mentally. The adver tisements of “dress shields,” perfumes, cosmetics, anti sweat preparations, and “Beauty Treatments” reveal
1929 · PDF PAGE 173
…ohammedan. The anthropomorphic and antropotheistic ideas connected with the Incarnation shock people whose conception of God, irrational though it be, is at least sublime. "God hath neither equal, son, nor companion. Nothing shall stand before His face." The ethical implications of the Atonement are equally repulsive to the Moslem. As Ibsen said, "Your God is an old man whom you cheat." Mohammedanism {296} teaches a man to respect himself; his relation with his supposed creator is direct; he cannot escape the penalty of his sins by paying the p…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
…Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood ; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intent to explain the beauty of the Buddhist philosophy ; he knows a great deal about it ; he believes in it. But as he went on writing one thing became stronger and stronger in his …
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
THE NEW WINE 219 by unthinking things are thought to have a natural subsistence of their own distinct from being perceived by spirits . This ... is the very root of Scepticism ... For how can it be known that the things which are perceived are conformable to those which are not per ceived , or exist without the mind . ” ? Shortly before arriving at this conclusion , he had already stated that as “ the infinite divisibility of matter ” was now uni versally allowed by the most approved and consider able philosophers , hence it follows that there …
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…t of the depths of darkness, to show him that there is light even in this dreadful night through which he has to journey. He learns that though Adonai is in Kether, Kether also is in Malkuth; but the Rituals which follow the 0°=o°, excepting the Portal, which consist more of symbols and their explana- tions than of rites and ceremonials, are more inclined to obsess than to illuminate. Of course it may be urged that as they constitute four great trials, it is after all a greater test to be placed under a false guide than an honest one. But indee…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…t of the depths of darkness, to show him that there is light even in this dreadful night through which he has to journey. He learns that though Adonai is in Kether, Kether also is in Malkuth; but the Rituals which follow the 0°=o°, excepting the Portal, which consist more of symbols and their explana- tions than of rites and ceremonials, are more inclined to obsess than to illuminate. Of course it may be urged that as they constitute four great trials, it is after all a greater test to be placed under a false guide than an honest one. But indee…
1911 · PDF PAGE 61
… the holiest of the Mysteries. And it is the holiest of the Mysteries because it is the Next Step. And those Mysteries which lie beyond, though they be holier, are not holy unto thee, but only remote. (The sense of this passage seems to be, that the holiness of a thing implies its personal relation with one, just as one cannot blaspheme an unknown god, because one does not know what to say to annoy him. And this explains the perfect inefficiency of those who try to insult the saints; the most violent attacks are very often merely clumsy complim…
1929 · PDF PAGE 306
…she had not only stood it but flourished exceedingly. When we started, she had been rather empty-headed and frivolous; while physically, though healthy, she could not be called an athlete. At the end she had acquired the kind of soul that is evoked by intimate contact with naked nature. Her figure was straight and supple, scorning corsets. Her limbs were lithe; her eyes bright and eager; her face aflame with the joy of perfect physical well-being and her heart exulting with the expectation of producing a new token of our tenderness before the e…
1919 · PDF PAGE 197
…on one tiny spot, the Earth. What happens? It is burnt up, it is consumed, it disappears. But in our Solar Conscious- ness is Truth, and though we glance for a moment at the little sphere we have left behind us, and it is no more, yet there is “that which remains.” What remains? What has happened? We realize that “every man and every woman is astar.” We gaze around at our wider heritage, we gaze at the Body of Our Lady Nuit. We are not in darkness; we are much nearer to Her now. What (from the little planet) looked like specks of light, are now…
1954 · PDF PAGE 222
…s food very quietly (from time to time) into the room adjoining that where he was working. One day he missed two successive meals, and I thought I ought to look into his room to see if all was weI/. I must explain that I have known only two European women and three European men who could sit in the attitude called Padmasana, which is that usually seen in seated images of the Buddha. Of these men, Allan was one. He could knot his legs so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. When …
1954 · PDF PAGE 472
EDUCATION 439 chosen for reference. (Nuttall's is fairly good, though some very well-known words are omitted. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in "Basic English" -and [I suppose I Oxonians. No proper names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. Bobby, a flatfoot, a beetlecrusher , a harness bull; or Xantippe, a shrew, a lady. X-rays is given in the plural only: ditto "Roentgen-rays," and they give "Roentgenogram." "You never can tell!" Participles, plurals and the like are not "words" u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…at school had been called "the little Chinese girl", so his daughter, Lola Zaza, has the Mongolian physiognomy even more pronounced. His thought follows this indication. He has never been able to sympathize with any European religion or philosophy; and of Jewish or Mohammedan thought he has assimilated only the mysticism of the Cabbalists and the Sufis. Even Hindu psychology, thoroughly as he studied it, never satisfied him wholly. As will be seen, Buddhism itself failed to win his devotion. But he found himself instantly at home with the Yi Ki…
1954 · PDF PAGE 408
… cobbler, as it could, it would not empower the New Fellow to perform a boiling-point determination, or read a Vernier. In our own case, though Our authority is at least as absolute as that of the Pope and the Church of Rome, it does not confer upon me any power transferable to others by any act of Our will. Our own authority came to Us because it was earned, and when We confer grades upon other people Our gift is entirely nugatory unless the beneficiary has won his spurs. To put it in a slightly different form of words: Any given degree is, as…