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Page 69 of 1971904 · PDF PAGE 55
…ingtime of our youth is fled, And Summer comes too fierce and dry. With pale cheek and averted head The time is come to say Good-bye. On Life’s rough road we travel fast ; Some to be great, and some to wed. We are small men, the world is vast ; With our desires God is not fed. Some wield gold swords, or steel, or lead ; Some lose good heart, lay weapons by. Each lies in his own self-made bed. The time is come to say Good-bye. May God defend us from the blast, And smooth our path, and keep our head ! Be with us when we stand aghast, And quicken …
1911 · PDF PAGE 56
…he flanks of a weary horse? Nor heart nor clock could feel remorse, But kept their definite deadly course, Jeanne I Alas! for man, for his life’s disaster: The clock beats fast, but a heart beats faster.
1911 · PDF PAGE 56
…he flanks of a weary horse? Nor heart nor clock could feel remorse, But kept their definite deadly course, Jeanne I Alas! for man, for his life’s disaster: The clock beats fast, but a heart beats faster.
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
…th eyes that looked despair ; One after one they learned at school That honesty will pay ; One after one they found the rule Broken upon life's way . And now they brought their shillings back , Their shillings five or seven , And hope once more had found a crack To shine on us from Heaven . Our spending grew and counted up To two pounds ten a week ; Each body had daily bite and sup, And each grew almost sleek . It couldn 't last, the children moved And made their scattered beds , Their mother died and I had proved Too hard my vigour 's threads.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
… their identity by their diversity. For this reason do we leave much herein to the right Ingenium of the Philosophus. 12. Concernlng the life of the devotee. -— First let his way of life be such as is pleasing to the particular Deity. Thus to invoke Neptune, let him go a-fishing3 but if Hades, let him not approach the water that is hateful to Him. 392
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
…r star of the Body of Nuit, from whom, in the strictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of Him, and all our Light and Life. His vice-regent and representative in the ani mal kingdom is His cognate symbol the Phallus, representing Love and Liberty. Ra-Hoor-Khuit, like all true Gods, is therefore a Solar-Phallic deity. But we regard Him as He is in truth, eternal; the Solar-Phallic deities of the old /Eon, such as Osiris, “Christ,” Hiram, Adonis, Hercules, etc., were supposed, through our igno rance of the Cosmos, to “die” an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
…e many other questions that it cannot solve. But he implied this when he said that an element of aristocracy must be introduced into our life. Of course I do not mean the aristocracy of birth or of the purse, or even the aristocracy of intellect. I mean the aristocracy of character, of will, of mind. That only can free us. It is the full achievement of real freedom, by such means, that will be compassed by the adoption of the religion of The Book of the Law. Further, this Book gives a new illumination of death, of the meaning of death. With dea…
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…m of nature. To bring down this doctrine to a practical rule for every man or woman by which they may enjoy, in perfection, their sexual life and make it what it rightly is—the holiest part of the religious life (I say “holiest” because it redeems even physical grossness to par take with spiritual saintship)—the intention of The Book of the Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to be the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. It is not indicated here in this text, though i…
1898 · PDF PAGE 28
…manding his fell purpose, threatening ‘ My present aid to you with men of valour Chosen of all your tribes, and charging him As he loves life, and victory, to content His army with their present brief success, Lest he pass by the barrier of our suffering, And find our wrath no broken sword, and find Despair more terrible than hope. Go now. A SOLDIER. We go, my lord, less readily to sleep Than if you bade us march. No man of us But stirs a little, I warrant, in his dreams, And reaches out for sword-hilt. All hail, Jephthah! SOLDIERS. Jephthah! a…
1899 · PDF PAGE 156
…ented spring to draw me From moods of dreamy dread. O wingéd passion! traveller Too near to God ta see ! O lyrical unraveller Of knotted life to me! O song! O shining river Ofthought and sound! O giver Of goodly words of glee! — Like to a star that singeth, — A flower that incense bringeth, A love-song of the free ! Oh f let me sing thy glories While spring winds whisper stories Of winter past, whose shore is Beyond a shoreless sea. Spring, with the sea for raiment — Adorned with winds of night ; Summer, with fruit for payment Of a sun’s kiss t…
1902 · PDF PAGE 107
…er, e7ttranced, imagines himself to be still in Venusberg. Tannhauser {aside). I have been dreaming that I left this place, Escaped with life, wooed my Elizabeth ; My dreams are always strange in Venusberg. [ Taking his harp. Sing thee again, dear lady, of our joy .•* Listen, then, listen ! For some sombre finger. Other than mine, impulses on the string. This tune I knew not ! See, the strings are moved Subtly as if by witchcraft — or by God ! [Sings. In the Beginning God began, And saw the Night of Time begin ! Chaos, a speck ; and space, a sp…
1902 · PDF PAGE 128
…and slew him. We, scarce an hundred ! Yes, believe it, sirs We are not so feeble ! — But death anyhow Cuts and not loosens the entangled life. Be mine the harder and the better way, The single chance : not hope ; appeal no more ; Hardly the arrowy wisdom of despair ; Hardly the cowardice or courage yet To drift, nor cursing nor invoking God. 126
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…e sigh like the old sighs! Open your eyes! I cannot leave you so, Eurydice. Come back to me! Just in the triumph, in love’s utmost hour, Life’s queenliest flower— All shattered, overblown. Eurydice, Come back to me! 112
1910 · PDF PAGE 458
…ne saith) The unknown may lurk within the vile. So he who sought the Beauteous Breath, Desired the Goodly Gift of Grace, Went equal into life and death, But oh! the foulness of his face! Not here was anything of worth ; He turned his back upon the place, Sought the blue sky and the green earth, Ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse That filth that stank about his girth,
1910 · PDF PAGE 458
…ne saith) The unknown may lurk within the vile. So he who sought the Beauteous Breath, Desired the Goodly Gift of Grace, Went equal into life and death, But oh! the foulness of his face! Not here was anything of worth ; He turned his back upon the place, Sought the blue sky and the green earth, Ay! and the lustral sea to cleanse That filth that stank about his girth,
1910 · PDF PAGE 62
…. Bring your beauty to man ! I am the mate for ye all ; I am the passionate Pan. Come, O come to the dance Leaping with wonderful whips, Life on the stroke of a glance, Death in the stroke of the lips ! I am hidden beyond Shed in a secret sinew Smitten through by the fond Folly of wisdom in you ! Come, while the moon (the moon !) Sheds her ambrosial splendour,
1911 · PDF PAGE 219
…AD. Ionian surges Roar back to our chant. 4th M/ENAD. Aha I for the taunt Of Theban sages Is lost, lost, lost! The wine that enrages Our life is enforced. We dare them and daunt. AGAVE. The spirits that haunt The rocks and the river, The moors and the woods, The fields and the floods, Are with us for ever I 39
1911 · PDF PAGE 219
…AD. Ionian surges Roar back to our chant. 4th M/ENAD. Aha I for the taunt Of Theban sages Is lost, lost, lost! The wine that enrages Our life is enforced. We dare them and daunt. AGAVE. The spirits that haunt The rocks and the river, The moors and the woods, The fields and the floods, Are with us for ever I 39
1913 · PDF PAGE 228
…t god come ? or must we bear about With us the torment of a sleepless wit ? Still shirk acceptance ? Still desire to prove ? And even in life 's best moment , paled with doubt , Between the passion and the chill of it Be cursed with wonder “ Is this really love ? " * THE LITTLE OWL . ( On the Upper River , Cambridge .) W E glide and are still on the stream w In quiet that drugs the wit , The sun has charmed our hearts As the day is charmed with it; 209
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
… that they begin to wonder whether they are suited to their original environment. In this particular case the most trifling incidents of life were necessarily interpreted as part of a prearranged plan, like the beginning of Candide. The underlying theory of life which was assumed in the household showed itself constantly in practice. It is strange that less than fifty years later, this theory should seem such fantastic folly as to require a detailed account. The universe was created by God 4004 B.C. The Bible, authorized version, was literally …