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…st a past : A guerdon of my singing like the land’s When spring breaks forth from winter, and the blood Of the old earth laughs in every new-born bud. Ant, 2 [Echo of the Damned). O thou! because thy lyre is keen and golden And beautiful thy numbers through our veins Pouring delight, as on the starry sea Burn gems of rapture; though the houses olden Relax awhile their unredeeming pains, And through dead slaves thrill bounteous majesty ? Though the strong music of thy soul be great :— Shall thy desire avail to alter Tate? Or impious hands unloos…
1905 · PDF PAGE 46
… green, And tender hands would water it and say: ‘*( happy sister, she that went away ! “For she brought back my lover to my heart, And knew her work was perfect, and her part Most perfect when she died between the breath, And in the bridal kisses kissed to death.” So grew the newer blossom and was glad: Sweet little hopes her faint fair forehead had That one day such a death might crown her days. And so God too was glad, the story says. THE FAREWELL OF PARACELSUS TO APRILE.! THou Sun, whose swift desire to-day is dull, And all ye hosts of heav…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…Flashing through spiritual space, withdrawn Now, and now flung triumphant in the dawn Not of mere sun’s. rise, but before the birth Of a new system on the unfolded lawn Of space beyond the sceptre of the Gods! I, seeing all this, would foil Time’s periods — For one small woman on this-one mear earth, Would spoil the plan of the inane Abodes, Throw out of gear all Nature’s enginery For such a grain of tinsel dust as I, Reluctant to be mangled in the wheel-— Looks other meanness so contemptibly? Yet I persist. Zeus, When Hera to thine Io did refu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…ndered dire By dreadful magic, or as if pure jet Had taken of itself an inner light, And its own blackness filled night’s coronet With a new jewel: so I see aright Where no light is like earth’s. grows broad And lofty, till the whole hall springs to sight, The path And I am standing where the dreaded Lord And Lady of the region of the lost Hold awful sway: yet here the flaming sword Of sight is broken by the deadly frost That clusters round their thrones: a mist of fire Congealed to vital darkness: yet exhaust Like a seer’s magic glass of air: …
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…tain never dry, And of Life’s guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satisfy my soul. Fresh strength from day to Each night new failure and each day fresh strength, A sense of something nearer day by day ; Though the ill road’s intolerable length, League upon league, fling back the torrid ray Of the fierce sunlight night can scarce allay With the incessant beating of cool wings, And men’s bleached skeletons infest the way ; Yet Hope her passion like a flower brings, And Courage ranks me with unconquerable kings. So, in the power of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
…His broken bosom still abide His virginal white bride. So, in the dawn of skies unseen above, Your passion’s fiercest flakes shall catch new gold, The sun of an inmeasurable love More beautiful shall touch the chaos cold Of earth that is grown old. Then, shameful sisterhood of earth’s disdain, Your lips shall speak your hearts, and understand ; Your lovers shall assuage the amorous pain With spiritual lips more keen and bland, And ye shall take God’s hand. THE NAMELESS QUEST.! Tue king was silent. In the blazoned hall Shadows, more mute than at…
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…l to Be Nothing, which is the only state inconceivable to the mind. The old God willed to be some- thing, and the Universe appeared, The New God wills to be Nothing and be- reflection of which was caught by the body. So joyful it became that it whirled round in a mad dance, and was filled with music. It was stifled by the confines of the room; but “I” was Free, so it couldn’t matter much. (This is the second experience of rhythm filling the body, and causing it to whirl and dance in order to find expression somehow.) April 9th. Started to read …
1919 · PDF PAGE 159
…ved a letter from Frater P.A.t in answer to my previous two. I was pleased to hear from him, but he gave me a good talking to, also some new instructions. He wanted to know, what I meant by making a claim to having attained Samadhi, or something very like it, in August last, and then shortly afterwards started cutting my arm, etc. I have not answered it yet, but this much for reference: (1) I never mentioned Samadhi, 1Frater P.A. was not a Neophyte, but had been appointed to receive other Probationers for administrative convenience. This was a …
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…Ritual from r740, at least, draws upon Dionysius the Areopagite, adisciple of St Paul, and it has also a rhythmetical description of the New Jerusalem. Again, two entire degrees of the Scottish Rite of 33" are drawn from the Apocalypse, and certainly entered the Rite before 1758, and seem as if they were drawn bodily from the Rosicrucian Militia of the Cross: I allude to the 17” Knight of the East and West, and the 19" of Grand Pontiff, which treat upon the Heavenly Jerusalem, and the opening scene of the Revelations. Itwas rather a pity that w…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…Ritual from r740, at least, draws upon Dionysius the Areopagite, adisciple of St Paul, and it has also a rhythmetical description of the New Jerusalem. Again, two entire degrees of the Scottish Rite of 33" are drawn from the Apocalypse, and certainly entered the Rite before 1758, and seem as if they were drawn bodily from the Rosicrucian Militia of the Cross: I allude to the 17” Knight of the East and West, and the 19" of Grand Pontiff, which treat upon the Heavenly Jerusalem, and the opening scene of the Revelations. Itwas rather a pity that w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
THE TANK are “obsessing” the poor girl, and causing all the disturbance. Shades of witch- craft and the New Testament—here is a joyous revival, in the Twentieth Century! We have a girl, Doris Fischer, born in 1889 (of German parents), who de- veloped, in all, five distinct personalities, each of which received a special name. Besides the original “Doris,” we find “Sick Doris,” “Margaret,” and “Sleeping Margaret,” and “Sleeping Real Doris.” These five personalities are said to have shown varied characteristics (as is invariably the case) and to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…; thoughtful he seems, Pure and happy and holy; as one would who dreams In the day-time of deep delights no kin to the day, But a flower new-born of the night’s in Hecate’s way. Love is his name, and he bears the ill quiver no more. He has aged as we all, and despairs; but the lady who bore Him, Eros, to ruin the ages, has softened at heart ; He is tamed by the art of the sages, the magical art. No longer he burns and blisters, consumes and corrodes ; He hath Muses nine for sisters; the holy abodes Of the maiden are open to him, for his wrath i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
… strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated deed of mere brute muscle and nerve! Thence, by great Will new- freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarco- phggus! an end! an end! Resounds the echo in the stone, incalculable myriads of tons p…
1944 · PDF PAGE 37
…g to Saturn, correspond also to Earth. These additions are clear evidence that the Tarot took definite and arbitrary steps to assert the new discovery in Magick some two thousand years ago; for no system is more rigid than a Hebrew system. And the system of the Sepher Yetzirah is the deepest rooted of all the ele‐ ments of the Hebrew system, the most dogmatic of them all. The Tarot is justified not by faith, but by works. The departures from the original bone‐ dry Qabalah have been justified by experience. The point (raised above) about the way…
1939 · PDF PAGE 44
…nd object unite and disappear with ecstasy mounting to indifference, and so forth, but there is still a presentation of some kind in the new genus of consciousness. In this view Dhyana would be rather like an explosion of gunpowder carelessly mixed; most of it goes off with a bang, but there is some débris of the original components. These discussions are not of very great importance in themselves, because the entire series of the three states of meditation proper is summed up in the word Samyama; you can translate it quite well for yourselves,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…e of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.’ If this means that ‘My brother John was nine in May; And I’ll be twelve on New Year’s day’ is not fine poetry, let’s shake hands: but if it means that ‘Till the maid, knowing her mother near, Sobs with love, aching with sweet fear’ are not poetic lines, it means nonsense. In either case, the dictum is pointless, it leads nowhere at all. We do not need an official censure of crude and jingly rime, and we need something more than the mere comparison of the regular se- quence of rime to…
1906 · PDF PAGE 47
…is spirit not with grief, Although its name was sorrow. ‘*Q for a name to borrow ” (He mused) ‘‘ some semblance for this subtle sense Of new experience ! For on my heart, untouched, my mind not used : To any metre mused, Save the one tranquil and continuous rhyme Of joy exceeding time, | Here the joy changes, but abides for ever, Here on the shining river | Where the dusk gathers, and tall trees begin To wrap the shallop in, Sweet shade not cast of sun or moon or star, But of some light afar Softer and sweeter than all these—what light Burns pa…
1939 · PDF PAGE 51
…The beginning, however, is clear enough in my memory. 19. I was on a Great Magical Retirement in a cottage overlooking Lake Pasquaney in New Hampshire. I lost consciousness of everything but an universal space in which were innumerable bright points, and I realised that this was a physical representation of the universe, in what I may call
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
… its transition from Aries to Taurus. It is too often forgotten that Taurus is the House of Venus, and that Luna is exalted therein. The new doctrine set forth in this pre‐ sent Essay makes the primary colour of Earth not black, but green; it insists that every Disk is a living and revolving symbol. The central thesis of the Book of the Law asserts the Perfection of the Universe. In its pantheistic conception all possibilities are equal in value; each and every Point‐Event is “a play of Nuit”, as it is written in the Book of Wisdom or Folly, “B…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…xed with death, compact of night ? Begin—the bitter tears of impotence, The sad permuted sense , Of this despair—what would you? and re- new The long soft warfare—the enchanted arms, , The silken body’s charms, The lips that murmur and the breasts that sting ; The eyes that sink so deep Beyond the steeps and avenues of sleep, And of their wonder bring No ultimation from the halls of night, The slippery staircase, and the Fatal Throne, The Evil House, the Fugitive of Light, The great Unluminous, the Formless One ! Stoop not! Beneath, a precipice…