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Page 76 of 831907 · PDF PAGE 122
… youth. | They are nearest to the secret of the world, These lovers with their lithe white bodies curled Into the rhythm of a dance; the truth Is theirs that feel, not ours that idly see ; Theirs that inhabit, and not ours that flee The intimate touch of love and think to sleuth By intellect all the scent of being, whirled In the wheel of time—roll back, slow years, and be A monument, a memory for me; That I may in their passion have a part, And feel their glory glow within my heart ! II. This holy rapture is the eternal spring. Here in the lov…
1906 · PDF PAGE 28
…The Rescuer of Matter is My Name. I am the Heart of Jesus girt about With the Swift Serpent! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hathnot formed! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness Divine In whose white Presence, even I, a god, A god of gods, prostrate myself and say : I am the spark of Thine abundant flame. I am the flowe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
…inous.| DEDICATION. i DIvINE PHILOSOPHER !? Dear Friend !? Lover and Lord !* accept the verse That marches like a sombre hearse, Bearing Truth’s coffin, to the end. Let man’s distorted worships blend In this, the worthier and the worse, And penetrate the primal curse. Alas! They will not comprehend. Accept this gospel of disease In wanton words proclanned, receive The biood-wrought chaplet that J weave, Take me, and with thine infamies Mingle my shame, and on my breast Let thy desire achicve the rest. ACELDAMA, ‘«Six months and | sit still and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
…ions over me; So many, and the next, how far! O Wisdom-crowned Ta-hu-ti,? lend Thy magic: let my light extend !3 I cannot comprehend one truth. My sight is biassed, and my mind— One snake-skin thought is of its youth ; Grows old, and casts the slough behind. O Themis,* Lady of the plume, Shed thy twin godhead in the gloom ! How ugly is this life of mine ! How slimes it in the terrene mud ! Clouds hide the beauty all-divine, The moonlight has a mist of blood. O Hathoor,® Lady of the West, Take thy sad lover to thy breast ! Even the perfumes of t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 108
…ghty chosen of the land of Greece, A tidings of deep bliss is born to you. CHORUS. Tell me that Jason has achieved the quest. MESSENGER. Truth is no handmaid unto happiness. CHORUS. What terror dost thou fill my heart withal ? MEDEA. O timorous heroes! Let the herald speak ! Who meets fear drives her back ; who flees from fear Stumbles; who cares not, sees her not. Speak on ! THE MESSENGER. Terrible bellowings as of angry bulls Broke from the stable as the first swift shaft Of dawn smote into it: and stainpings fierce Resounded, shaking the all…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…ow; delighting still In the sole laughter death derides In vain; the indomitable will, Still burning in the spirit, guides Our hearts to truth ; we see, we know How foolish were the things he said, And answer in the afterglow How good it is that we are dead. Will you not come? Or, where the surf Beats on the coral, and the palm Sways slowly in the eternal calm Of spring, I know a mound of turf Good for our love to lie on; good For breezes, and for sun and shade ; To hear the murmur of the flood ; To taste the kava subtly made To rouse to Bacchi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 39
…l the strivings of the soul be found Sufficient to beat back the waves of doubt, To pierce the void, and grasp the glorious, To find out Truth? Would God it might be SO, Since here is nothing for the soul to love Or cling to beyond self. My chamberlain Once showed me a pet slave, dwarf, savage, black, A vile, lewd creature, who would cast a staff? Far wheeling through the air :—‘twould suddenly Break its swift course, and curving rapidly Come hard upon himself who threw. Even so These vile deformities—our souls—cast forth Missiles of thought, a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
… music roll, that our desire Shall hear no sound;; shall beam a light so splendid That darkness shall be infinite: the lyre Fashioned of truth, strung with men’s heart-strings blended, Shall sound as silence: and all souls be still In wisdom’s high communion with will. JEPHTHAH. A TRAGEDY. ‘'O Jephthah ! judge of Israel !”—HAMLET, CHARACTERS. JEPHTHAH. ADULAH, his Daughter. JARED, A Gileadite, cousin to Jephthah. A Prophet of the Lord. ELEAZAR, Chief of the Elders of Israel. AHINOAM, an aged Priest. First Messenger. Second Messenger. First Hera…
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
…component things: Sorrow, Change, and Absence of any permanent principle. We constantly approach his enunciation of the first two 'Noble Truths,' as he called them. 'Everything is Sorrow'; and 'The cause of Sorrow is Desire.' By the word 'Desire' he meant exactly what is meant by 'Love' in The Book of the Law which I quoted a few moments ago. 'Desire' is the need of every unit to extend its experience by combining with its opposite. (14) It is easy enough to construct the whole series of arguments which lead up to the first 'Noble Truth.' Every…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…shold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Demons dog-faced, that show no mortal sign Of Truth, but desecrate the Light Divine, Seducing from the sacred mysteries. But, after all these Folk of Fear are driven | Before the avenging levin That rives the opening skiés, Behold that Formless and that Holy Flame That hath no name; That Fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps Snake-wise in royal robe, Wound round that vanished glory of the globe, Unto that sky beyond the starry deeps,
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…e Essay on Silence (p. 120) for a parallel: the Negative Form of the Positive Idea. See also the Essay on Chastity (Little Essays Toward Truth, pp. 70‐74) which concludes: Sir Knights, be vigilant: watch by your arms and renew your oath; for that day is of sinister augury and deadly charged with danger which ye fill not to overflowing with gay deeds and bold of masterful, of manful Chastity. Witness also Catullus: domi maneas paresque nobis Novem continuas futationes. Nor does he misunderstand the gesture of Harpocrates; Silence and Chastity ar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… within the ring! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes! amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute ! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of care to hold him—can I tell you which? Down goes the moon—one sees the howling bitch ! The salmon you had hooked in fin and gill You reel unskilfully—he darts away. Alas! you devil, but vou hold me still ! So the blind III. QO first and fairest of Earth’s darling daughters ! How co…
1905 · PDF PAGE 29
… love would I Consent to be a man, consent to die, Put off my godhead.” ‘‘ If thou sayest sooth, And thy fair words bedew the flowers of truth Nor wander in the mazy groves of lying, I will be thine—speak not to me of dying Or abdication, sith I deem so far To tempt thee were unwise—we mortals are Chary to ask too much---didst thou refuse Kither my honour or thy love to lose Were a hard portion, for in sooth I love.’ ‘Ah happy hour, sweet moment! Fairest vrove Of all fair Ida, thou hast sealed my bliss Then with one long intense unpitying kiss …
1939 · PDF PAGE 67
…my eyes change in the course of my life, what my sight tells me is different. The point is that we are quite unable to judge what is the truth of the vision. Why then do I put on my glasses to read? Only because the particular type of illusion produced by wearing them is one which enables me to interpret a prearranged system of hieroglyphics in a particular sense which I happen to imagine I want. It tells me nothing whatever about the object of my visionwhat I call the paper and the ink. Which is the dream? The clear legible type or the indeci…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…n art within an art; and this is the true explanation of such movements as surrealisme. I want to impress upon you that the artist is in truth a very much superior being to the Yogi or the Magician. He can reply as St. Paul replied to the centurion who boasted of his Roman citizenship 'With a great sum obtained I this freedom'; and Paul, fingering the Old School Tie, sneered: 'But I was free born.' 18. It is not for us here to enquire as to how it should happen that certain human beings possess from birth this right of intimacy with the highest…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…ewers, and has been one of the most talked-of books of the season. We append a few criticisms : Mr. ALeIster CROWLEY: “ This book is, in truth, a masterpiece ; so intense is the impression that one almost asks, ‘Is this a novel or a confession? Did not Frank Harris perhaps throw the bomb?’ At least he has thrown one now. . . . This is the best novel I have ever read.” The Times: “*The Bomb’ is highly charged with an explosive blend of Socialistic and Anarchistic matter, wrapped in a gruesome coating of ‘exciting’ fiction. . . . Mr. Harris has a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…ewers, and has been one of the most talked-of books of the season. We append a few criticisms : Mr. ALeIster CROWLEY: “ This book is, in truth, a masterpiece ; so intense is the impression that one almost asks, ‘Is this a novel or a confession? Did not Frank Harris perhaps throw the bomb?’ At least he has thrown one now. . . . This is the best novel I have ever read.” The Times: “*The Bomb’ is highly charged with an explosive blend of Socialistic and Anarchistic matter, wrapped in a gruesome coating of ‘exciting’ fiction. . . . Mr. Harris has a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
THE TANK In the meanwhile, Mr. Bishop writes a book to prove the truth of all this pre- historic nonsense. Mr. Bishop’s intelligence is very far beneath the human level. For example, he actually maintains that the claws and teeth of predatory animals have been given to them out of kindness towards their prey! You would think it was impossible for any one to miss the point of the argument that nature is cruel. The fact is that Mr. Bishop’s ideas of kindness are a little crude, like his ideas of writing a book. This is not really a book at all. I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
…s made a little part of God.” ! Till the response, full chorus of the earth, Flash through the splendid portals of re- birth, Completing Truth in its amazing span :— ‘** Godhead is made the Spirit that is Man.” To whose white mountains, and their arduous ways, Turn we our purpose, till the faith that slays Yield up its place to faith that gives us life, The faith to conquer in the higher strife ; Our single purpose, and sublime intent, With their spilt blood to seal our sacra- ment, Who stand among Light ; Our single purpose, by incarnate might…
1905 · PDF PAGE 200
…bundant ease, That bound the stately head. What joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind? What pride of being? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind? to I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above ; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love ! | The leopard changed his spots; for in me leapt The mate, the tiger. Murderous I sprang Across the mellow earth: my senses swept, * One torrent flame, one soul-dissolving pang. How queenly bent her b…