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Page 61 of 1211912 · PDF PAGE 61
… and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which a cruciform table was spread, a naked man being nailed thereto. Many venerable men sat around, feast- ing on his living flesh and quaffing his hot blood. These (I was told) were the Adepts, whom I might one day join. This I understood to mean that I should get the power of taking only spiritual nourishment—but probably it means much more than this. Next I came into an apparently empty hall, of white ivory worked in filigree. A square slim altar was in the midst. I was questioned as to what …
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…[Persian text] which Arab mys- tics describe as being “ of a watery, lunar nature, and consonant to dogs, jackals, beetles, pools, old women painted, dreams, water pots, drunkenness, illusion, broken spears, and astrologers.” In this case the watery nature symbolizes the rose-water through which the smoke is drawn to purify and soften it. 3. Cannabis — Hashish, bhang, ganja, mariju- ana, kif, a drug much used by Yogis and Fakirs. It induces maniacal attacks, destroys the sense of proportion in time and space, and give powerful emotions to its v…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
… and sunwarmed hair, Burning in dawny cheeks as the fresh air Kissed, cleansing them from that infested den Of obscene deities and apish men, Rivalling their gods in petty filthiness. So Love’s white-bosomed Queen gat full success In the first season of her sojourning. Then, on the verge of night, she went a-wing To that most damnéd pestilence-rid marsh, And, changing her bright shape, she donned the harsh Vile form of woman past the middle age, Who hath not virtue that may charm the sage When the desire of folly is gone by, And wrinkles yield …
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…k there is the ringing note of mastery. But when he has seen the wisdom of not flinging splendid lines away on those subjects which wiser men remember only to themselves, when he has ceased to prefer the lurid and quickly evanescent gems of the rubbish-heap of sensations for the enduring and unsurpassable beauty of the stars, then will he give us more and better even than Hush—the music swells apace, Rolls its silver billows up Throu h the void demesne of space To l. e heavens' azure cup! Hush, my love, and Sleep shall sigh “ This is immortality…
1910 · PDF PAGE 62
…shir.2 When they saw thee of old, with thy tunic hang- ing upon thy jutting buttocks, like the flowing dra- peries of the Caliph’s tent, men said of thee : “ The complexions of the women are well shaded from the sun.” Now it is thin and transparent, that tun- ic of thine, and people are saying : “ Please Allah it may not rain ; else will the horses catch cold and die ! ”.3 Every gossip comes to me and prates of thy mis- demeanours ; my beard waves with anger like an old goat’s. Come to me, and I will beat thee sound- ly ; and if thou offendest …
1941 · PDF PAGE 13
…reak up civilization. To repeat: the event will establish the kingdom of the Crowned and Conquering Child over the whole earth, and all men shall bow to the Law, which is love under will. Magick, pp. 112-113, written in 1922, published 1929. THE DEAD RELIGION OF THE OLD AEON OF OSIRIS Days of National Prayer. No. 1 There followed: the colossal military disaster to the B.E.F. No. 2 There followed: the collapse of the French Armies and the treachery of the French Government. No. 3 There followed: the Huns drove us and our allies from Cyrena…
1901 · PDF PAGE 98
… some unformulated thought, the flame And smoke of mighty pillars ; yet my mind Is clouded with the horror of this same Path of the wise men : for my soul is blind Yet : and the foemen I have never feared I could not see (if such should cross the way), And therefore I am strange : my soul is seared With desolation of the blinding day I have come out from : yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun : my life has been the death, This death may be the life : my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler ai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…on with the " and . ” But I myself should not pass it, though in the following I should : Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan5 In the last line of the succeeding verse the metre ( I should say) is not unimpeachable : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 205. Ibid . vol . i, p. 209. : Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p. 107. 4 Ibid . vol . i, p. 98. 5 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 210.
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
… read to all good Muslim at the point of death, whenever possible. 5. Musalla, near Shiraz ; as Richmond, near London ; or the Cafe d’Hermenonville, near Paris. 6. Azrael — the angel of death. 7. Arafat — the holy mountain near Mecca. 8. The Vindu-Siddhi, power of retaining the se- men, is one of the most interesting and important branches of Hathayoga, the Hindu “ Physical Cul- ture.” The following from the Shiva Sanhita, concern- ing the Vajroli Mudra, affords an adequate example of the method and aim. 53. Actuated by mercy for my devotees, I…
1928 · PDF PAGE 121
…me to time clashed his cymbals with an extraordinary violence. They were so pleased with themselves that they kept on playing their wild mens music even after the crowd had dispersed; finally they gathered up the half- pence that had been thrown them, slung their luggage on their backs, and went off. I wanted to know where they lived, so I followed them a long way off, right to the edge of the forest, and only then did I understand that they did not live anywhere. The one said, Shall I undo the tent? Lord, no! said the other, on a night l…
1954 · PDF PAGE 281
…iousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 1 (26) o Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! (27) None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. (28-30) Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek…
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
… is my right—you must. Ohno! Ohno! EPILOGUE. To die amid the blossoms of the frost On far fair heights; to sleep the quiet sleep Of dead men underneath the snowy steep Of many mountains ; ever to have lost These cares and these distrusts 3 to lie alone, Watched by the distant eagle’s drowsy wing, Stars and grey summits, and the winds that sing Slow dirges in eternal monotone. Such is my soul’s desire, being weary of This vain eternity of sleepless dreams That is my life; withal there still may be In other worlds, the hope of other love Than thi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
… will be, till they fall under the eyes of the literary heir of the Chicago Professor who rewrote Keats. I cannot complete them, for the men are verily dead who wrote them ;4 yet respect for their memory forbids me to destroy them.5 But they cumber the case of stout leather and royal vellum wherein they have long6 reposed, if writings can repose which evoke but disgust each time the master’s eye7 falls saturnine upon them. The devil take them !8 so, lest I should be thought to swear—never9 a habit of mine !—to the “ devil ” they shall go.10 ALE…
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…th like a deer. His face is like the moon that shines upon The labouring Hajj,6 its camel-throned Emir.7 For like a column of innumerous men Doth serpentine his body ; he is here With hugs to break this breath, and with his mouth To stop the mouth of El Qahar the seer. 1. A river which flows by the ruins of Chilminar. 2. Cedar — dove’s down. By no means chosen at random ; symbolically chosen, or perhaps even because these substances have a reputed value in mystical practices. Apollonius of Tyana ( ? connec- tion with Dhyana) was accustomed to w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…be explained in any of the ordinary ways. There is not the smallest ground for the contention that these were from the start exceptional men. Mohammed would hardly have driven a camel until he was thirty-five years old if he had possessed any talent or ambition. St. Paul had much original talent; but he is the least of the five. Nor do they seem to have possessed any of the usual materials of power, such as rank, fortune, or influence. Moses was rather a big man in Egypt when he left; he came back as a mere stranger.
1912 · PDF PAGE 69
OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 51 GABRIELE. Canonical ! Straight from the bridge, the merry men ! to the canal. MORTADELLO. Hes drowned ? GABRIELE. They fished him like a lobster. MORTADELLO. Have I troops ? Is it not I that speak and strike ? GABRIELE. Your eagle swoops, But wheres the use ? The lamb is hidden underground. MORTADELLO. Is it your Doge or dupe I am ? GABRIELE. She shall be found. [He turns to go. SCENE III. A Charnel-House beneath the Convent of the Ursulines. It is a cellar piled with skulls and bones. There is a truckle bed, above …
1913 · PDF PAGE 210
…in . Between these two an angel stood , all grey , With grey wings softer than a seamew 's breast And eyes all shrouded from the gaze of men . " Lo , this is Death ,” I mused , “ all robed in grey ." And still th' enchanted drowsy stream flowed on, Beating some rhythmic music in my ears Until the sea should silence all at last . Overhead my children slept . And I thought “ What when they wake , and , calling for me , Find that there is no longer Mother there ? " Then gathered I my strength and fashioned it To prayer , and took my love and made …
1928 · PDF PAGE 120
…ys believe that I should be better anywhere else but where I am. Well, let me tell you! I saw at the last Fair in the next village three men, who live as I should like to live. You never noticed them; they were tall, almost black, and very proud, although in rags, with the air of having need of nobody. Their large dark eyes became quite brilliant while they made music; a music so surprising, so exciting, that it makes one want first to dance and then to weep and then to do
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…rognosticatress of calamity.) Alexan- dra ! Alexandra ! 2. Cancelled passage : verse III. Will not some hero, loyal, leal, and true, (Men fainting cried) the accursed chromo take ? The nation took the chromo, queen, and you, You took the cake. 3. Clearly refers to the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale. 4. Suggested restoration by Dr Verrall and Brugsch Bey : . . . and made allowance for A first attempt. 5. v. I. . . . his Hoffmanns violet Aniline eyes.
1909 · PDF PAGE 80
…is the best I know of—and in Loyola’s “ Exercitios Espirituales,’ whose discipline and method is, in my opinion, unsurpassed. These phenomena are nearly always tainted with sexuality, and are excessively dangerous from this cause. “Dirt is matter in the wrong place,” and to mix, consciously or unconsciously, either morality or immorality with religion is dirty; and dirt makes disease. The victim becomes a fanatic at the best, at the worst and most frequent a driveller. Of a lower type are the loves of Magi and invoked elementals. As Levi says, …