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Page 69 of 841907 · PDF PAGE 154
…, and the earth gets gladness, Till the last winter’s traces Fall from the spring’s last cold wind—shining sadness !— And from the frail new faces Blushing through moss; and all the world is light With the unsufferably bright Full joy and guerdon of that sunny season By Love’s sweet trap of treason. So the bright girl is now a woman brighter; And childhood sees a reason Beneath the strong stroke of the goodly smiter For all the past: and love at last is hers. No more the bosom’s pride demurs, While in her womb the first faint pulse of motherhoo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
… developed the most surprising powers of mediumship and was obtaining messages from Herr P. Geist, which seemed of unusual importance. A new world was open to our view. I have always fancied myself as a Columbus; and, as I had recently made a considerable sum of money by a fortunate speculation in oil, I did not hesitate to go to the expense of a telegram. I have always fancied myself as a Caesar, and I endeavoured to emulate his conciseness. 'Come stay winter' was the expression employed. A week later those simple and pious souls, escaping the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…of hurt." He flushed inwardly, knowing it for a lie, and therefore useless to avert the blow which he felt poised above him. He sought a new form of words. "I swear that we will not seek to break through your defences." This, he thought, should satisfy the captain of the gate, and yet permit him to do as he intended in the matter of trying to attack from within. Abdul Bey gasped out that it was well, that no more could be done, that the link with the White Lodge was broken. "But now our own blow strikes us to the earth." He fell backwards, as o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 60
…t is come; God wakes no lightning in the broken East ; His awful thunders listen and are dumb; Earth gapes not for that sin; the skies renew At break of day their vestiture of blue. ASTROLOGY. A LONELY spirit seeks the midnight hour, When souls have power To cast away one moment bonds of clay, And touch the day With pallid wistful lips beyond the earth, And bring to birth New thoughts with which life long has travailed ; As if one dead
1913 · PDF PAGE 4
…Scottish Rite of 33° (and received certificate dating from 1811), January 27th, 1871. Admitted 33° of Cerneau Rite and honorary member in New York, August 21st, 1871. Installed Grand Master 96° of Ancient and Primitive Rite at Freemasons’ Hall, London, October 8th, 1872. 4
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
must employ to this end the formula called “The Beast conjoined with the Woman” which establishes a new incarnation of deity; as in the legends of Leda, Semele, Miriam, Pasiphae, and others. He must set up this ideal for the orders which he rules, so that they may possess a not too abstract rallying point suited to their unde- veloped states. to. The Grade of Adeptus Minor is the main theme of the instructions of the A..A.. It is characterised by the Attain- ment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. (See the Equinox, Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…ou once get Mars going, so to speak, it is easy to make him comply with Queensberry rules; but the moon is so passive that the slightest new influence throws her entirely out. And, of course, the calmer the pool the bigger the splash! Hence, in order to draw down to Iliel only the holiest and serenest of the lunar souls, no precaution could be too great, no assiduity too intense. The waking vision which came to her after about a month of the changed routine was of good cheer and great encouragement. It was an hour after sunset; the night was cu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 160
…for the sake of its forgetfulness. Yet the light in his eyes was so pure and noble and magnetic that it might have been that he saw in a new birth the chance to repair his error. And now her attention was drawn to a yet nobler and still more fantastic form[4]. It was a kingly figure, and its eyes blazed bright with an enthusiasm that was tinged almost with madness. His creations, like those of the last seen, were something vague and unsubstantial. They lacked clear draughtsmanship. But they made up for this by their extravagance and brilliance.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 120
… Profit of mine Intoxication of this holy Herb, The Grass of the Arabs, that it hath shewed me this Mystery (with many others), not as a New Light, for I had that aforetime, but by its swift Synthesis and Manifestation of a long Sequence of Events in a Moment. I had Wit to analyze this Method, and to discover its Essential Law, which before had escaped the Focus of the Lens of mine Understanding. Yea, O my Son, there is no True Path of Light, save that which I have formerly made plain; yet in every Path is Profit, if thou be cunning to per‐ cei…
1905 · PDF PAGE 250
…While morn is cold and gray ! So, match thy blushes to the dawn ; Thy bosom to the rising moon, Until our loves to earth have drawn Some new bewitching tune. Come, Gretchen, in the dusk of day, Where nymphs and dryads creep away Beneath the oaks, to laugh and play And sink in lover’s swoon. We'll sing them sister songs, and show What secrets mortal lovers know. TANNHAUSER. The simple life of love and joy therein ! -Merely to love—to take such pride in it Hark ! he tunes again. Gods must behold! The childish easiness, Impossible to me, who am be…
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…cottish Rite of 33° (and received certificate dating from 1811), January 27th, 1871. Admitted 33° of Cerneau Rite and honorary member in New York, August 2ist, 1871. Installed Grand Master 96° of Ancient and Primitive Rite at Freemasons’ Hall, London, October 8th, 1872. XX
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…cottish Rite of 33° (and received certificate dating from 1811), January 27th, 1871. Admitted 33° of Cerneau Rite and honorary member in New York, August 2ist, 1871. Installed Grand Master 96° of Ancient and Primitive Rite at Freemasons’ Hall, London, October 8th, 1872. XX
1905 · PDF PAGE 183
…blue seas ; Eyes that understand, the slaughters Of a thousand ecstasies Re-embodied, as they wrought us Garlands of strange sorceries ; New desires and mystic passion Infinite, of starry fashion ; The mysterious desire Of the subtle formless fire. Vainly may the Tyanzean 4 Throw his misconceiving eye To bewitch our empyrean Splendours of the under sky ! If the loud infernal pcean Be our marriage-melody, We are careless, we Achzean Moulders of our destiny. Hell, it may be, for his playing, Renders Orpheus the decaying Love—in Hell, if Hell ther…
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
…sire? And lo! there shaped itself the Cross of Fire! HAPPINESS. Ir is the seasonable sun of spring That gilds the all-rejuvenescent air— New buds, young birds, so‘happy in the rare Fresh life of earth: myself am bound to sing, Feeling the resurrection crown me king. I am so happy as men never were. Of sorrow much, of suffering a share, Leave me unmoved, or leave me conquering. 1 The symbol of the ‘‘ Rose and Cross” now replaces that of the ‘‘Golden Dawn.” We may suppose from this that Crowley was about this time received into the former fratern…
1906 · PDF PAGE 20
…t in her heart my sorceress has songs more sinful, that I learn As she sings slowly all their shame, and makes me tingle with delight At new debaucheries, whose might rekindles blood and bone to flame. The circle gathers. Negresses howl in the naked dance, and wheel On poniard-blades of poisoned steel, and weep out blood in agonies ; Strange beast and reptile writhe; the song grows high and melancholy now ; The perfume savours every brow with lust unutterable of wrong. Clothed with my flower-bride I sit, a harlot in a harlot’s dress, And laugh …
1907 · PDF PAGE 222
…e azure-eyed. No longer Sappho sings her spell ; His heart divorced, her heart insatiable. There is deep silence. Earth hath passed To a new kingdom. In a purpose vast Her horoscope is cast. NUITH. Enough. It is ended, the story Of magical zeons of song ; The sun is gone down in his glory To the Houses of Hate and of Wrong. Would ye see if he rise? In Hesperian skies Ye may look for his rising for long. The magical xeon beginneth Of song in the heart of desire, That smiteth and striveth and sinneth, But burns up the soul of the lyre :— There is…
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
134 THE GOD-EATER Did make in very deed: so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma- juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 277
…),X, xix LN.R.I. (Manifesto of O.T.O.: revised) (Aleister Crowley), VIII, IX, X, Prefatory Matter Lnsit N.aturae R.egina Lsis (Victor B. New- burg), IV, 2% Interpreter, The (Aleister Crowley), IV, 119 Jane Chéron, Three Poems for (Aleister Crowley), V1, 4t Janus, The Garden of (Aleister Crowley), U1, 91 John St. John (Aleister Crowley), 1, Special Supplement Mr. Justice Scrutton please note. L. vel Legis (Liber CCXX), X, 9 Laylah, Eight - and-Twenty, To (Aleister Crowley), X, 235 Liber I vel Magi (Aleister Crowley), VII, 5 Liber III (Aleister C…
1913 · PDF PAGE 277
…),X, xix LN.R.I. (Manifesto of O.T.O.: revised) (Aleister Crowley), VIII, IX, X, Prefatory Matter Lnsit N.aturae R.egina Lsis (Victor B. New- burg), IV, 2% Interpreter, The (Aleister Crowley), IV, 119 Jane Chéron, Three Poems for (Aleister Crowley), V1, 4t Janus, The Garden of (Aleister Crowley), U1, 91 John St. John (Aleister Crowley), 1, Special Supplement Mr. Justice Scrutton please note. L. vel Legis (Liber CCXX), X, 9 Laylah, Eight - and-Twenty, To (Aleister Crowley), X, 235 Liber I vel Magi (Aleister Crowley), VII, 5 Liber III (Aleister C…
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
…o obtain it. ALEISTEK CROWLEY. THE APOCALYPSE UNSEALED. Being an Exatm‘c Intznþretatian of THE INITIATION or IOANNEs. By JAMES Μ. PRVSE. New York: John M. Pryse, 9-15 Murray Street, 1910. London: J. Μ. Watkins. 85. δεῖ. net. It is possible to write upon this book in a freer manner, without ofi'ence, than upon any other book in the Canon of Scripture, for there is no other book which has caused so much disquiet to theologians, in all ages, as has the “ Revelation of St John the Divine,” and it is but in comparatively recent times that it has been…