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Page 65 of 751905 · PDF PAGE 251
…ng were small help to you, my friends. AN INTELLIGENT PILGRIM. For your own reason, give it to us, then! TANNHAUSER. The Blessing of the Lord! May Mary’s self Be with you and defend you evermore, Most from the fearful destiny of him Men used to call the minstrel Tannhauser ! ELDEST PILGRIM. A sombre blessing ! On you and yours ! May God’s mercy fall TANNHAUSER. On mine, ah mine! Amen to that ! Amen, ELDEST PILGRIM (smiles). On her you love, my friend ! We will pass onward, by your honour’s leave: PILGRIMS (szmg’). Hail, hail, O Queen, to Thee, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 192
…, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, " My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” _-but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is always the rational sober explanation alongside to discredit the folly of the supernatural. Shakespeare is like his own Touchstone; he uses his folly as a stalking-horse, and under the presentation’of that he shoots his wit. Here, however, the mask is thrown off for any but the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…at the “almighty power of God” was an infinité quantity in presence of which ail finites were equally insignifiant. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years” is their first law of Motion. “Faith can move mountains” they sav, and disdain to measure either the faith or the mountains. If you can kill a chicken by Magic, why not destroy an army with equal exertion? “With God ail things are possible.” This absurdity is an error of the same class as that mentioned above. The facts are wholly opposed. Two and two make four in the Astral as rigoro…
1905 · PDF PAGE 180
…ooning limbs sank fainting on the sward ! Kor the fiery dart raged fiercer ; in excesses Long restrained, it cried, ‘‘ Behold! I am. the Lord !” O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! Yes, we sat with modest eyes and murmur- ing lips Downeast at the table, while the husband drank his wine. 80 thy sly, slow hand stretched furtively; there slips Deadly in his throat the poison draught divine ! O Madonna of the Golden Eyes !
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
…ped by the failure of Liege and Namur to hold out, distraction has reigned supreme, no casual mistress, but a wife, and procuress to the Lords of Hell at that!" "Do not quote Tennyson, even mixed, under the shadow of the Lion de Belfort! As to trifles, there are none in war. Ask the Germans if you don't believe me." [313] A little later, after the Rotonde Cafe' in the Boulevard Montparnasse had refreshed them with its admirable coffee, and those brioches which remind one of boyhood's earliest kisses, they walked down to the Place de la Concorde…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
… mountain, and destroyed my peace? O the misery of this world ; the fear And folly that is unattained desire ! I would be master; I, the lord of Greece; 1 The spirits of fire, air, water, and earth were respectively named salamanders (fem. -drines), sylphs, undines, and gnomes.
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
… eager-eyed The wise speeds on ; the racer so passes the hack with vigorous stride. By earnestness did Maghava? attain of Gods to be the Lord. Praise is one-pointed thought’s reward ; Dis- persion is a thing abhorred. The Bhikkhu who in Earnestness delights, who fears dispersions dire, His fetters all, both great and small, burning he moves about the fire. The Bhikkhu who in Earnestness delights, Dispersion sees with fear, He goes not to Destruction ; he unto Nibbana draweth near. Ilf. THE ARROW, Just as the fletcher shapes his shaft straightly…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
… texts (I cannot perceive it) was actually the basis of the schism. My mother thought that one of them (I forget which) "dishonoured the Lord's person"! 8 So when it came to my writing poetry myself, my work fell naturally into three divisions. Firstly, short lyrics modelled on the hymns to which I was accustomed; secondly, parodies, principally of Scottish and English songs; and thirdly, epics based on Sir Walter Scott. I must have written over a hundred thousand lines. They have all been destroyed; and I am rather sorry for it. While they pos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
Ceremony of the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon. 1 This whole matter is prophesied in the Book of the Law itself ; let the student take note, and enter the ranks of the Host of the Sun. II There is another sacrifice with regard to which the Adepts hâve always maintained the most profound secrecy. It is the suprême mystery of practical Magick. Its name is the Formula of the Rosy Cross. In this case the victim is always — in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coïncide with t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 215
…, and gloomy fire Lurks in the master-cloud; corpses are swung Helpless and horrible in trough and crest— That death were music, and the lord of rest. No death ye bring as when the storm is rolled, An imminent giant on the sun-ripped snows, Where icy fingers grip the overbold Son of their secrets, and like springes close On his choked throat and frozen body— Nay | That death were twilight, and the gate of Day ! No death ye bring as his, that grips the flag In desperate fingers, and with bloody sword Flames up the thundering breach, while bastio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
… I am counting up the gains And losses of a life afire With dust of thought and dulled desire. II. So, all is over. I admit Futility the lord of will. Life was an episode, for me ‘indirectly, and through man’s struggle with the elemental powers. In these poems you shall hear the laughter of the gods and of the devils; understand their terrors and ecstasies; live in their heavens and hells. But I not only heard and understood and lived; I sounded and imposed and begat: you must also do both, or the universe will still be a mystery to you as to t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…birds that circled about it to keep watch and ward on Paris. The next morning he reported himself to the British authorities; and it was Lord Antony Bowling who presented him to the President and Commander- in-Chief. At the banquet he found himself an Officer of the Legion of Honour; but his brilliancy and buoyancy were gone. He dined in dull decorum. His thoughts still turned to the shameful corpse in the ditch by the wayside. He excused himself early, and left the Elysee. At the gate stood an automobile. In it sat Lisa la Giuffria. She jumped…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…on eunuchs swing the sword So swift, so curved,—-let voiceless awe Sit on the palace dome, to draw Some god’s destruction on its smiling lord ! May many a maiden comely clad Revolve in convoluted curls, Till from each pliant pose I had (By virtue of her wondrous whirls) The illusion of a thousand dancing-girls ! Let harlots robed in gold and green Sit slowly waving ivory plumes And wings of palm ; the while their queen Lurks in some horror-house unseen, Damned to be smothered in divine per- fumes ! Let there be scenes of blood and pain, Some Sl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, “M y lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” —but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is always the rational sober explanation alongside to discredit the folly of the supernatural. Shakespeare is like his own Touchstone; he uses his folly as a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. Here, however, the mask is throw n off for any but the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
…icy lakes and bleak ravines Unto these weary and untrodden regions Where man lies penned among his Might- have-beens. Keep us in safety, Lord, What time the King-Ghost is abroad ! The King-Ghost from his grey malefic slumbers Awakes the malice of his bloodless brain. He marshals the innumerable numbers Of shrieking shapes on the sepulchral plain. Keep us, for Jesu’s sake, What time the King-Ghost is awake !
1996 · PDF PAGE 29
…lly bisexual, the Father-Mother of All in One Person. (He is shown in this full form in the Tarot Trump XV, “The Devil.”) Now Zeus being lord of Air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of Air. As Air we find the “Wandering Fool” pure wanton Breath, yet creative. Wind was supposed of old to impregnate the Vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the Mother-Goddess. He is the Wandering Knight or Prince of Fairy Tales who mar ries the King’s Daughter. This legend is derived from certain cus toms among exogamic tribes, for which see…
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
…be formulated once more in the Invisible station of Harpocrates. The Hierophant then says: “ Let the Candidate kneel, while I invoke the LORD OF THE UNIVERSE!” After the prayer has been solemnly repeated, the Hierophant says: “Let the Can- didate rise,” * and then: “Child of Earth! long hast thou dwelt in Darkness! Quit the Night, and seek the day.” Then only at the words: “Let the Candidate rise” is the hoodwink definitely removed. The Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon join their sceptres and sword above the Candidate’s head, thus formulating t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 265
…be formulated once more in the Invisible station of Harpocrates. The Hierophant then says: “ Let the Candidate kneel, while I invoke the LORD OF THE UNIVERSE!” After the prayer has been solemnly repeated, the Hierophant says: “Let the Can- didate rise,” * and then: “Child of Earth! long hast thou dwelt in Darkness! Quit the Night, and seek the day.” Then only at the words: “Let the Candidate rise” is the hoodwink definitely removed. The Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon join their sceptres and sword above the Candidate’s head, thus formulating t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ies, and in some initiations, e.g. that of a King, who needs force for his whole kingdom. Or again, in the Consécration of a Temple. See Lord Dunsany, “The Blessing of Pan” — a noble and most notable prophecy of Life’s fair future. 2. This is a matter of concentration, with no ethical implication. The danger is that one may get something which one does not want. This is “bad” by définition. Nothing is in itself good or evil. The shields of the Sabines which crushed Tarpeia were not murderous to them, but the contrary. Her criticism of them was …
1929 · PDF PAGE 199
… and tinged the pale blue of the firmament with rosy fingers. The whole company was gathered together, an ordered phalanx, to salute the Lord of Life and Light. Iliel could not join in that choir of adoration. In her heart was blackness and hate, and nausea in her mouth. What vileness lay beneath this fair