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Page 68 of 1301911 · PDF PAGE 86
…ee; and, I think, a monster. You are mad with pride and conceit of your own wisdom. SoI know you for a fool. RINALDO, The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. LAYLAH. Prate on I Even the dust mocks at you. RINALDO. There are snakes in the dust. LAYLAH. What do you mean? RINALDO. I saw it in your eyes three minutes since. I did not need to turn my head to know that on the horizon gallop your husband and his band. LAYLAI-I. You are clever. RINALDO. And you were forced despite yourself to drop a hint that might warn me to rejoin my knight…
1913 · PDF PAGE 219
… steadfast gloom ; Twilight is slain by the old black, wandering god. Summer is buried. There is no more light. But in the breast of the world there stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their immortal sleep ; Wakening the murmuring sigh, the spirit’s spring— The bitter pangs of the birth…
1913 · PDF PAGE 338
…leaves to God the secrets of justice, and understands only charity. He looks on the wicked as invalids whom one must pity and cure ; the world, with its errors and vices, is to him God’s hospital, and he wishes to serve in it. He does not think that he is better than any one else ; he says only, ‘So long as I am in good health, let me serve others; and whenI must fall and die, perhaps others will take my place and serve.” IX THE NUMBER NINE Tuis is the hermit of the Tarot; the number which refers to initiates and to prophets. The prophets are s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 379
…ve invented God. Charity does not invent itself, it reveals itself by its works, and it is then that one can cry with the Saviour of the world: “ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!” To understand the spirit of charity is to understand all mysteries. G 81
1913 · PDF PAGE 219
… steadfast gloom ; Twilight is slain by the old black, wandering god. Summer is buried. There is no more light. But in the breast of the world there stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their immortal sleep ; Wakening the murmuring sigh, the spirit’s spring— The bitter pangs of the birth…
1913 · PDF PAGE 338
…leaves to God the secrets of justice, and understands only charity. He looks on the wicked as invalids whom one must pity and cure ; the world, with its errors and vices, is to him God’s hospital, and he wishes to serve in it. He does not think that he is better than any one else ; he says only, ‘So long as I am in good health, let me serve others; and whenI must fall and die, perhaps others will take my place and serve.” IX THE NUMBER NINE Tuis is the hermit of the Tarot; the number which refers to initiates and to prophets. The prophets are s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 379
…ve invented God. Charity does not invent itself, it reveals itself by its works, and it is then that one can cry with the Saviour of the world: “ Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!” To understand the spirit of charity is to understand all mysteries. G 81
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
196 THE SWORD OF SONG OO night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains, How they were lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told vy relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only …
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
… I loved the child , the only human love I ever tasted , and I sacrificed The popularity , the infamy, Of my old life ; I sought another world . I “ got religion " -how I hate the phrase ! So jest the matron newspapers . ... For I will do without a mother's name If only I may keep a son's love still ! ' It is not here that we can enter on the fearful tragedy of these short dozen pages , suffice it to say , that it was that of Phædra and Hippolytus , the sexes however being reversed . Shamed , insulted by her son , she still dares kiss him : Why…
1909 · PDF PAGE 51
…d 01 pleasure and pain consequently so different from the sane man’s as to be incomprehensible. Look at my Uncle Toml who goes about the world bragging of his chastity. The maniac is probably happy—a peacock who is all tail! And squawk. Look at the Vegetarians and Wallaceites and all that crew of lunatics. They are paid in the coin 01 self- conceit. I shall waste no pity on them! υ 49
1909 · PDF PAGE 52
…dian Angel. Aye! Ο my Lord Adonai, Thou art the Beginning and the End of the Path. For as Thou?התאthou art also 406 =?ותTau the material world, the Omega. And as He mn Thou art 12, the rays of the Ineffable Crown. (A disaster has occurred; viz., a sudden and violent attack of that which demands a tabloid of Pepsin, Bis- muth, and Charcoal—and gets it. On my return, [1.34, I continue.) And as?ינאAni “I” thou art also?ויאthe Negative, that is beyond these on either side! But this illness is a nuisance. I must have got a little chill somehow. Its …
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
…—truth—lights—liver—mind—blessing —heart——-one and not of a series—ante and pass the buck." The common sense of the practical man of the world is good enough {or me! Will G. R. S. Mead or somebody wise like that tell me why it is that if I get out of my body and face (say) East, I can turn (in the “ astral body") as far as West-Sou’-West or thereabouts, but no further except with very great difficulty and after long practice? In making the circle, just as I got to West, I would swing right back to West—Nor’-West: turn easily enough, in short, to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
THE EQUINOX The old enchanted palace of the will Is thine, and god-like dreams of Eld are thine, Of the Underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, Beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. Ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee | Fallen to idle sleep, and borne within The temple of Mind, the soul of Night is laid Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most …
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
THE EQUINOX The old enchanted palace of the will Is thine, and god-like dreams of Eld are thine, Of the Underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, Beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. Ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee | Fallen to idle sleep, and borne within The temple of Mind, the soul of Night is laid Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most …
1954 · PDF PAGE 253
…(W.E. Henley· ) There are two ways of looking at the problem. One is what I may call the mathematical. If I have ten and sixpence in the world and buy a half-guinea cigar, I have no money left to 1. An English poet. 220
1906 · PDF PAGE 27
…21 Of the vast ocean of the unmanifest Limitless Negativity of Light Flowing, in Jesus manifest, through space, In equilibrium, upon the world Illumined by the White Supernal Gleam Through the red Cross of Calvary : Come forth, My actual Self! Come forth, O dazzling one, Wrapped in the glory of the Holy Place Whence I have called thee : Come thou forth to me, And permeate my being, till my face Shine with thy light reflected, till my brows Gleam with thy starry symbol, till my voice Reach the Ineffable: Come forth, I say, And make me one with t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
…nt want her. Im too happy. How I love him ! How proud I amwhen another girl would be so shamed ! I love him ! I love him ! Oh, what a world of ecstasy is this ! To be his, and he mine ! to beoh ! oh ! I can- not bear the joy of it. I want to sit down and have a good cry. [Sits, crying and laughing with the joy of it.]
1910 · PDF PAGE 34
PREFACE. XXIX It is in a way extremely trying to live in a world where connotation varies so wildly. The Sicilian peasant who can roar with laughter at some blasphemous obscenity of his village priest while pre- serving his devotion to the deities satirized, will justly be astonished and disgusted with me. He will hardly credit that anyone can take deities so seriously as to do anyone an injury on their behalf. He is at heart a Pagan ; Mary is his mistress and Jesus his « Bambino », and he loves to play with them in the woods where the sunlight…
1919 · PDF PAGE 445
…EVEN PORTALS is symbolised as a swift and powerful stream, and the great mystery is revealed that the Path itself is the Goal. “Were the world understood Ye would see it was good, A dance to a delicate measure.” This is also the doctrine indicated in all the works of Fra Perdurabo. You can see it in Liber 418, where, as soon as a certain stage is reached, the great curse turns into an inef- fable blessing. In the Book of Lies, too, the same idea is stated again and again, with repetition only unwearying because of the beauty and variety of the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 129
…e. So sitteth she from age to age, and the righteous are never weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is manifested the glory of my Father, who is Truth. (“This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the in‐ toxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compas‐ sion. I understand by ‘Compassion’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true wor‐