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Page 74 of 1281911 · PDF PAGE 303
…hyllus—The Mantra-Yogi—The Poet and his MuseiLilith—Sportand Marriage— The TwinSaThe Convert—The Sorceress—The Child—Clytie— A Slim Gilt Soul—The Silence of Columbine—The Archaeologist ——The Ladder—Belladona—ThePoet at Bay—Ut—Rosa Decidua— The Circle and the Point—In Memoriam—Ad Fidelem Infidelem— The Sphinx—~The ]ew of Fez—The Pentagram—Song—An Hymn —Prologue to Rodin in Rime—The Camp Fire——Ave Adonai—The Wild Ass—The Opium-Smokervln Manu Dominæ. Mr Todd : a Morality, TRANSLATIONS: L’Amour et le CräneA-L'Alchimie de Douleur—Le Vampire—LeBalcon—…
1912 · PDF PAGE 57
… the Abyss to that great obligation of a Master of the Temple, “I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul”) (A night of shocking and terrible nightmare.) 24. A again a shade better. 25. A good. Vision more convincing. 26. A still good. 27. A poor (heavy sea). (Off Hoi-How.) 28. A again poor (heavy sea). 29. (At Hongkong). A poor (indigestion). 30. A good : very good. 3i. A fairly good. I. A poor—sleepy. 2, A again poor, in spite of two attempts. 3, A mediocre (left Hongkong per ss. Nippon Mam). (He had sent h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 57
… the Abyss to that great obligation of a Master of the Temple, “I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul”) (A night of shocking and terrible nightmare.) 24. A again a shade better. 25. A good. Vision more convincing. 26. A still good. 27. A poor (heavy sea). (Off Hoi-How.) 28. A again poor (heavy sea). 29. (At Hongkong). A poor (indigestion). 30. A good : very good. 3i. A fairly good. I. A poor—sleepy. 2, A again poor, in spite of two attempts. 3, A mediocre (left Hongkong per ss. Nippon Mam). (He had sent h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 231
…th his breath, Thou knowest me; dost thou not understand ? Thou hast sought Love; he hath eluded thee In the shadows; life hath worn thy soul away; Wilt thou not dwell in endless rest with me, No more deceived by hope, nor burned by day? Wherefore delay? My love is calm and sure, Not passionate, but certain of its end ; Wilt thou not come—and gladly? I can cure Alone the weariness of time, O friend. I shall not weary of thee; thou shalt sleep For ever on my breast, nor wake, nor weep. (xm) Still must I sing of thee? O Fate, delaying The last re…
1913 · PDF PAGE 231
…th his breath, Thou knowest me; dost thou not understand ? Thou hast sought Love; he hath eluded thee In the shadows; life hath worn thy soul away; Wilt thou not dwell in endless rest with me, No more deceived by hope, nor burned by day? Wherefore delay? My love is calm and sure, Not passionate, but certain of its end ; Wilt thou not come—and gladly? I can cure Alone the weariness of time, O friend. I shall not weary of thee; thou shalt sleep For ever on my breast, nor wake, nor weep. (xm) Still must I sing of thee? O Fate, delaying The last re…
1928 · PDF PAGE 108
…much evil, am sometimesto employ one of your vulgar phrasesa devilish good fellow, to compensate you for the irremediable loss of your soul, I will give you the stake which you would have won had you been lucky, namely, the power to sustain and conquer during your whole life the strange malady called boredom, which is the source alike of all your diseases and of your wretched progress. Never shall you form a desire but I will help you to realize it; you shall reign over your vulgar fellows; at your service shall be all flatteries, even all ad…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
CURRICULUM OF A A.-. COURSE I. General Reading. SECTION i. — Books for Serious Study: The Equinox. The standard Work of Reference in ail occult matters. The Encyclopædia of Initiation. Collectée! Works of A. Crowley. These Works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy. The Yi King. (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press.) The “Classic of Changes”; gives the initiated Chinese System of Magick. The Tao Teh King. (S. B .E. Sériés.) Gives the initiated Chinese System of My…
1899 · PDF PAGE 20
…iolate; To live in life, breathe freedom with each breath, As God breathed tyranny and died in death ; Secure the sacred fastness of the soul, Uniting self to the absolute, the whole, The universal marriage of mankind, Free, perfect, broken from the chains that bind, Force infinite, love pure, desire untold, And mutual raptures of the age of gold, The child of freedom! So the moulder, man, Shakes his grim shoulders, and the shadows wan Fall to forgetfulness ; so life revives, And new sweet loves beget diviner lives,
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
… To take their maunderings for mine .? We will now end the poet's utter contempt for this worn-out old creed with the following : Vex My soul no more with mistranslations From Genesis to Revelations , But leave me with the Flaming Star Jeheshua (see thou Zohar !) And thus our formidable Pigeon Lamb -and -old -Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke , and I am found Attacking nothing 2 1 Sword of Song, Ascension Day, vol . ii , pp . 160, 161. ? Ibid . vol . ii, p. 162.
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…a dream Or little more, a vision from the Maid~ That rules by Phlegethon's sepulchral streain. Nay ! it is more: by magic art compel (My soul!) my maiden’s body to appear Visible, tangible, enjoyable Even to the senses of the amorous seer, Whose demon ministers through the gulphs and glooms Convey his mistress 6n their meteor plumes. VIL? More, I will visit you, forlorn who lie Crying for lack of me; your very flesh Shall tingle with the touch of me as I Wrap you about with the ensorcelled mesh Of my fine body of fire: oh! you shall feel My kis…
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…r grows the exulting rose Your face; and like a Malay with his kriss ° That runs amok your passion gleams and grows. It shakes me to the soul: by that you arestilled : You hold yourself together, like a man Stabbed to the heart, who, knowing he is killed, Lets his whole life out in his yataghan, ° And strikes one masterstroke. So now you breathe Close on my face; you strip me of defence; You sing in obscure words whose crownsenwreathe My forehead with their viewless violence, So that I lie, as at the appointed term, Awaiting the foul kisses of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
…hy Head. One may add a little grimly that the same remark applies to my excursions into the regions of the mind, the conscience, and the soul. This bombastic prelude to a simple note on the precautions which I took in my experiments. First, the use of the minutest care in estimating doses. Secondly, the rule never to repeat my experiment before the lapse of at least a month. 54
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
…hy Head. One may add a little grimly that the same remark applies to my excursions into the regions of the mind, the conscience, and the soul. This bombastic prelude to a simple note on the precautions which I took in my experiments. First, the use of the minutest care in estimating doses. Secondly, the rule never to repeat my experiment before the lapse of at least a month. 54
1910 · PDF PAGE 32
…g corn shafts back the sudden glint Of sunshine that brings healing with the breath Of western winds that sign, they hint Of sleep, twin soul with death. Death, death ere dawn. The night is over dark ; Trees are grown terrible ; the shadows wan Make shudder all the tense desires of man ; No gleam of moonlight bears the golden mark Of sunny lips, nor shines upon Our sleepLoves birchen bark. Love, love to-night. To-night is all we know, Is all our care ; lips joined to lips we lie, Tender hands touching, hearts in tune to die, With willing kiss…
1913 · PDF PAGE 120
…d, and all marks are bad marks. Hope and fear are only opposite phases of a single emotion; both are incompatible with the purity of the soul. With the passions of man the case is somewhat different, as they are functions of his own will. They need to be disciplined, not to be suppressed. But emotion is impressed from without. It is an invasion of the circle. As the Dhammapada says: An ill-thatched house is open to the mercy of the rain and wind ; So passion hath the power to break into an unreflecting mind. A well-thatched house is proof again…
1922 · PDF PAGE 1
THE ALTAR OF ARTEMIS (By Aleister Crowley. From The Soul of Osiris. 1901) WHERE, in the coppice, oak and pine And mystic yew and elm are found, Sweeping the skies, that grow divine With the dark wind’s despairing sound, The wind that roars from the profound, And smites the mountain-tops, and calls Mute spirits to black festivals, And feasts in valleys iron-bound, Desolate crags, and barren ground;— There in the strong storm-shaken grove Swings the pale censer-fire for love. The foursquare altar, rightly hewn, And overlaid with beaten gold, Stan…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
AThOR-e - BAI, - (3 “ i hou Goddess of Beauty and Love, whom Satan, beholding, desireth!” ABRAIT uIhe Fathers, male-female, desire Thee! ” (The conception is of Earth, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Hippopotamus * 1 of a Venereal nature.) Hear IVfe. and make ail Spints subject unto ]Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether: upon The Earth and under the Earth: on dry land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire: and every Spell and Scourge of God may be Spirit. aMale-Female Spints!” aMale-Female Sires!” a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
…old are words !—his lips repeat Their faint sweet savour, but her rosy feet Held in his hands and touched with reverent lips Revived her soul more perfectly. Soon slips Her gentle answer ; now her timid eyes So tender with the lifted lashes rise To meet his gaze. He spoke: ‘‘ Have pity on me Who wronged thee for my perfect love of thee, i Panpipe. My perfect love, O love! for strange and dread Delights consume me ; I am as one dead Beating at I]eaven’s gate with nerveless wing, Wailing because the song the immortals sing Is so fast barred behin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…d disaster, That even my song may pierce the iron night, Invoking dawn in thy great name, O Master ! Till to the stainless heaven of the soul Even my chariot-wheels on thunder roll. And so, most sacred soul, most reverend head, The silence of deep midnight shall be bound, And with the mighty concourse of the dead That live, that contemplate, my place be found, Even mine, throughall theseasons that areshed Like leaves upon the darkness, where the sound Of all high song through calm eternity Shall beat and boom,thine own maternal sea. For in the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 100
…ek some red-nosed ranter jarred Her tender ears—(yes, life was very hard }). Then she guessed Love. A village boy she took, And drew his soul out with her amorous look. The stream sang merrier and the grass grew green ; The leaves made murmur as she drew him down Into her maiden arms: the far-off queen She guessed so happy in her golden crown She never envied after: for she wrung Love’s secret, understanding, heart and tongue, Its strange desire; sage heads the linnets nod, Chirping: ‘‘So Lilian has found her God!” No! For she might not in her …