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Page 81 of 1121913 · PDF PAGE 529
…he exact image of the monkey of the nightmare, equally absurd, equally terrible, even making the same grimaces. He could not believe his eyes; he remained nearly half an hour motionless, observing this singular phenomenon, and asking himself whether he was delirious or mad. Ultimately, he approached the phantasm to touch it, and it vanished. Cornelius Gemma, in his Al¢stotve critique universelle, says that in the year 454, in the island of Candia, the phantom of Moses appeared to some Jews on the sea-side; on his forehead he had luminous horns,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…ibuted to a bearded demon the accomplishment of the Great Work. At this word, the vulgar hastened to cross themselves, and to hide their eyes, but the initiates of the cult of Hermes-Pantheos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a great deal of trouble to compile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 529
…he exact image of the monkey of the nightmare, equally absurd, equally terrible, even making the same grimaces. He could not believe his eyes; he remained nearly half an hour motionless, observing this singular phenomenon, and asking himself whether he was delirious or mad. Ultimately, he approached the phantasm to touch it, and it vanished. Cornelius Gemma, in his Al¢stotve critique universelle, says that in the year 454, in the island of Candia, the phantom of Moses appeared to some Jews on the sea-side; on his forehead he had luminous horns,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
…e of the Juggler? For he is wisdom, and by wisdom hath he made the Worlds, and from that wisdom issue judgements 70 by 4, that are the 4 eyes of the double-headed one; that are the 4 devils, Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan, Belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world. * 5,5, and 3,(@, #, and my), the Sun, the Balance or plumes of Maat, and the Snake. Added they make 280. 142
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…he may call her Angela , and forgets his poor village girl , and utterly overcome when she says , “ I am a poor and simple girl , and my eyes are aching with the sight of you , and my lips are mad to kiss you !") falls into her arms learning his first great lesson ; for as Angela says , “ it is dangerous as well as cruel to leave a lover standing ." To wake again to all the effervesence of efflorescent youth : Awake ! awake ! There is a secret in our subtle union That masters the grey snake . Awake , O Love ! and let me drink my fill Of thee-an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
… , and yet so few attain ; and it is on account of the fewness of its adepts , that the magic of their worship has become to the clouded eyes of
1910 · PDF PAGE 270
…h I lived. I came into the house as one would approach a fountain in the desert, with a wild bound of exultation, and gazed with miserly eyes at the draught which my friend poured out for me until the glass was brimming. I clutched it—I 252
1910 · PDF PAGE 270
…h I lived. I came into the house as one would approach a fountain in the desert, with a wild bound of exultation, and gazed with miserly eyes at the draught which my friend poured out for me until the glass was brimming. I clutched it—I 252
1922 · PDF PAGE 129
…d week, I discover from Lou’s Diary (I had lost all count of time myself), that he came in one day with a smile of subtle triumph in his eyes. “ T’ve got on to the ropes,” he said, ‘‘ but I think I ought in fairness to warn you that the Gatto Fritto is a pretty hot place. I wouldn’t mind taking you as long as you go in disguise and have a gun in your pocket, ~but I really can’t take it on my conscience to have Lady Pendragon along.”’ I was so full up with cocaine I hardly knew what he was saying. It was the easiest way out to nod assent and wat…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…t why revile, ii, 147 By palm and pagoda enchaunted, il. 121 By Wisdom framed from ancient days, ii. 97 CALL down that star whose tender eyes, i. 171 Can you believe the deadly will’s decree, i. 254 Chaldean fools, who prayed to stars and fires, lil, 19 Clear, deep, and blue, the sky, i. 49 Cloistral seclusion of the galleried pines, ili, 119 Clytie, beyond all praise, i. 120 Coiled in the hollow of the rock they kiss, iii. 122 Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice ! lil, 158 Come, child of wonder, i. 167 Come, love, and kiss my shoulders, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 45
…ty than is customary between well-bred strangers in England. And as he did so, he looked me straight in the face. His deadly inscrutable eyes burned their way clean through to the back of my brain and beyond. Yet his words were entirely out of keeping with his actions. ‘‘ What does the poet say ? ”’ he said loftily—'' Rather
1906 · PDF PAGE 135
…t which seems ! The long hair sobs in closer fold And deeper curves of dawn ; The arms bend closer, and the gold Burns brighter, and the eyes are cold With life at last withdrawn. And all the spirit passing down Involves my heart with gray: So the pale stars of even crown The glow of twilight ; dip and drown The last despairs of day. Oh ! closer yet and closer yet The pearl of faces grows. The hair is woven like a net Of moonlight round me : sweet is set The mouth’s unbudded rose. Oh never! did our lips once meet The dream were done for ever, A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…e flower ; And we indeed were born of drudging wives, Pale spouses whom his heart despised , but thou Wast of a fairer face and brighter eyes , And limbs more amorous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell Street , its celebration mis understood and prostituted by the Church , and its life threatened and blackguardized by the Law . But wherever two he…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…mit of the world ? ” Why, to kiss my boy is a canzonet, to suck him off a sonnet ; his mouth is a madrigal, his lips are lyrics, and his eyes idylls ; to be be-
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…. 9. Thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly οί thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. Il. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite …
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…. 9. Thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly οί thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. Il. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite …
1996 · PDF PAGE 133
134 The Law is for All 61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Commentary: “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1 1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l) [(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laught…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…ing lyric , which the carping whisky - and - water critic will at once demolish as weak , troubled , vague , etc. , etc. Not long ago my eyes lit on the following which I considered a charming verse from a poetic point of view , if not from that of a morbid anatomist : Look down into the river . Can you see The mingled images the water shows ? So lies my soul in yours . As close as lie The folded petals in an unblown rose .
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
… . I cannot even attach a meaning to the phrase! I am blinder than shorn Samson. Both must be equal, equally true, equally false, in His eyes wherein all is false and true, He being beyond them. Only the brains of a child—of The Child —-can grasp it. ‘Except ye become as little children, ye 124
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
… . I cannot even attach a meaning to the phrase! I am blinder than shorn Samson. Both must be equal, equally true, equally false, in His eyes wherein all is false and true, He being beyond them. Only the brains of a child—of The Child —-can grasp it. ‘Except ye become as little children, ye 124