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Page 76 of 1971901 · PDF PAGE 127
…s, Sweet mockery of a thousand saintlier creeds ! Even I, that breathe your perfume, taste your breath, Know, even this hour, ye are not life, but death ! No death ye bring more godlike than desire, When seas roar tempest-lashed, and foam is flung Raging on pitiless crags, and gloomy fire Lurks in the master-cloud ; corpses are swung Helpless and horrible in trough and crest— That death were music, and the lord of rest. No death ye bring as when the storm is rolled, An imminent giant on the sun-ripped snows, L
1902 · PDF PAGE 103
…s where cattle drink ; And, when they kiss, most discontentments shrink ! Even as the stars together sing (we hear) So sings the married life, a tuneful sphere. Husband is he, and she is very dear. How truly beautiful it is to see Old age in perfect unanimity. Affections smooth, and buzzing like a bee. The sun sets, in conjunction with the moon. Death comes at last, a pleasure and a boon, And they arrive in heaven very soon. \_Immense, spontaneous, uncontrollable applause sweeps like a whirlwind through the court. An Unknown Minstrel {breaking …
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 79 OVARIOTOMY I LOVE you, lass, and you alone. What shall I say now death and life Wrangle before the jasper throne And cry to God to end the strife? Kind words? a little good advice? Patience, and fortitude, and prayer? Tracts are so suitable, and nice? “ Dear chyild, there’ll be no parting there ! "P O bourgeoisie! you read no doubt, But still you have a lot to learn. I am a lover, not a lout. My thoughts take quite another turn. I who have bitten through your skin Envy the surgeon who could dip His deft and cons…
1910 · PDF PAGE 50
…the answering flame that nods, Kissing the brows that bend, Uniting all earths periods To one exalted end ! Still on the mystic Tree of Life My soul is crucified : Still strikes the sacrificial knife Where lurks some serpent-eyed Fear, passion, or mans deadly wife Desire, the suicide !
1913 · PDF PAGE 186
…reams and soundless as the dewfall , Subtle as the lightning and splendid as the sun ; Seers are ye and symbols of ancient silence Where life , and death , and sorrow , and ecstacy are one . 167
1996 · PDF PAGE 143
…its willingness to “Strive ever to more”; it justifies itself by being “ever joyous”. It follows that “death is the crown of all.” For a life which has fulfilled all its possibilities ceases to have a purpose; death is its diploma, so to speak; it is ready to apply itself to the new conditions of a larger life. Just so a schoolboy who has mastered his work, dies to school, reincar nates in cap and gown, triumphs in the Tripos, dies to the clois ters, and is reborn to the world. Note that the Atu “Death” in the Tarot refers to Scorpio. This si…
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
…me Who by these sacred invocations draw The holy influence within myself, To strengthen and to purify my will And holy aspiration to thy Life. Purge me and consecrate until my heart Burn through the very limit of the veil, And rend it at the hour of sacrifice * Versified from the Manuscript called “ ”.2Z ni ש fo ש 6I
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
…ch for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, No serpent in the generous draught of wine? Did I guess all, who guessed your life well given Up to my kiss? Aha! the veil is riven! Beneath the smiling mask of a young bride Languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed; Beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial Of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, Beneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, A tiger snarling, or a grinning ape Resolved by every devilish device Up…
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…10 CXVv.* CXIV. CXIIL. CXII. Officers in a Masonic Passwords of the | : ws Alchemical Tree Lodge. Grades, | “A!chemical Metals (ii.). of Life (i.). a | _ Silence *. Metallic Radix . | . . e . 1 P.M. . oN JR. Ff, 2 34 JY, 6. 3 W.M. DN .»D. dD. 4 S.W. a ©. ©. 5 J.w. abaty: 8. 3. 6 S.D.. n> 8 a JY, 7 | J.D... mde 3 | ge, LG. . nD 9. JR. T. and Candidate m3 | Medicina Metallorum Mercurius Philosophorum; 10
1909 · PDF PAGE 111
…g path! XXVI Also his nostrils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breath; Nor can the curtain of eternity Cover that head with life or death. So all his body, a slim almond-tree, Knoweth no bough Nor branch nor twig nor bud, from never until now. XXVII This thought I bred within my bowels, I am. I am in him, as he in me; 101
1909 · PDF PAGE 111
…g path! XXVI Also his nostrils are shut up; for he Hath not the need of any breath; Nor can the curtain of eternity Cover that head with life or death. So all his body, a slim almond-tree, Knoweth no bough Nor branch nor twig nor bud, from never until now. XXVII This thought I bred within my bowels, I am. I am in him, as he in me; 101
1910 · PDF PAGE 51
…eek Asar. O Nepti, sister! Arise in the dusk From thy chamber of mystery and musk! Come with me, though weary the way, To bring back his life to the rended clay! See! are not these the hands that wove Delight, and these the arms that strove With me? And these the feet, the thighs That were lovely in mine eyes? Lo! I lament. I gather in my car Thine head, Asar. 39
1910 · PDF PAGE 51
…eek Asar. O Nepti, sister! Arise in the dusk From thy chamber of mystery and musk! Come with me, though weary the way, To bring back his life to the rended clay! See! are not these the hands that wove Delight, and these the arms that strove With me? And these the feet, the thighs That were lovely in mine eyes? Lo! I lament. I gather in my car Thine head, Asar. 39
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…eir own blood ? But who shall understand the Soul of Pan ? Involved in All and still apart from All ! For steeped therein as I am all my life, I know but exquisite beatitude, Knowing the whole, Then who shall know or care What may befall the part ? One must remain ; Many must change. Then all is well. The strife Is but the ferment of the forward still Immune from grief, intolerant of ill, Fronting the double foe — of pain and joy — With equal eye — in the meantime — Dear boy, Wake ! Let us revel it the while we may, Love dawning ever with the d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 483
…ETTERS BETH. Reflection, thought, the moon, the Angel Gabriel, Prince of mysteries. GIMEL. Love, will, Venus, the Angel Anael, Prince of life and death. DALETH. Force, power, Jupiter, Sachiel, Melech, King of kings. KAPH. Violence, strife, work, Mars, Samael Zebaoth, Prince of Phalanges. PE. Eloquence, intelligence, Mercury, Raphael, Prince of sciences. RESH. Destruction and regeneration, Time, Saturn, Cassiel, King of tombs and of solitude. Tau. Truth, light, the Sun, Michael, King of the Elohim. 185
1913 · PDF PAGE 483
…ETTERS BETH. Reflection, thought, the moon, the Angel Gabriel, Prince of mysteries. GIMEL. Love, will, Venus, the Angel Anael, Prince of life and death. DALETH. Force, power, Jupiter, Sachiel, Melech, King of kings. KAPH. Violence, strife, work, Mars, Samael Zebaoth, Prince of Phalanges. PE. Eloquence, intelligence, Mercury, Raphael, Prince of sciences. RESH. Destruction and regeneration, Time, Saturn, Cassiel, King of tombs and of solitude. Tau. Truth, light, the Sun, Michael, King of the Elohim. 185
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…r in nature, were in the nature of excrements, because they did not grow. The first problem of alchemy was to raise mineral to vegetable life; the adepts thought that the proper way to do this was to imi‐ tate the processes of nature. Distillation, for instance, was not an operation to be performed by heating something in a retort over a flame; it had to take place naturally, even if months were required to consummate the Work. (Months, at that period of civilization, were at the disposal of enquiring minds.) A great deal of what people now con…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…anscending them. There is no attempt to get rid of death by denying it, as among the once-born; nor to accept death as the gâte of a new life, as among the twice-born. With the A.*. A.*, life and death are equally incidents in a career, very much like day and night in the history of a planet. But, to pursue the simile, we regard this planet from afar. A Brother of A.*. A.*, looks at (what another person would call) “him- self”, as one — or, rallier, sonie — among a group of phenomena. He is that “nothing” whose consciousness is in one sense the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…the Mage. That Angel wrote on the lamen the Word of the Aeon. The Book of the Law is this writing. To this lamen the Master Therion gave life by devoting His own life thereto. We may then regard this talisman, the Law, as the most powerful that has been made in the world’s history, for previous talismans of the same type hâve been limited in their scope by conditions of race and country. Mohammed’s talisman, Allah, was good only from Persia to the Pillars of Hercules. The Buddha’s, Anatta, operated only in the South and East of Asia. The new ta…
1905 · PDF PAGE 9
…bows kissed Into one sphere that stood, a circumambient mist. Vit. I climbed stillinwards. At the moveless point Where all power, light, life, motion con- centrate, I found God dwelling. Strong,immaculate, He knew me and he loved! His lips anoint My lips with love ; with thirst insatiate He drank my breath, Absorbed my life in His, dispersed me, gave me death. 1 Unclean—from the French zmsonde, 2 Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 20.