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Page 81 of 1121910 · PDF PAGE 43
…voice of adverse criticism. A. L. Solon properly forbade the practice of sodomy to slaves ; and perhaps after all the English, slaves at heart as they are, do well to observe his law. Ed. 9. Besides all this, there is the question of “ na- ture ” and “ against nature.” “ Praise Lacedaemon, and despise Corinth ! God gave me Daphne ; I won Hyacinth.” All our modern devices, though applications of na- ture, are against and above nature ; therefore of God. Nature’s man is the cave-man. We take no paternal pride in the pariah dog, the product of Nat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
… infam- ous, ill-starred, ill-doing and so on. So I chose a word wide enough to include them all. 4. The Q’uran. Many Moslems know it by heart throughout. The interior riming of so many of the chapters makes this task curiously easy, even to a stranger. I found that I could readily master any of the shorter chapters in an hour or so, while the acquirement of a dozen stray words would last me the whole day. 5. This attempt to reconcile all-Power and all- Benevolence is formally identical with that of the veriest Evangelical, and is none the less…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…ite, 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 thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacra- ment of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And beholdl if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…ite, 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 thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacra- ment of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And beholdl if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of thine, then shalt thou be…
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
…ultiplied by will, the confirmation of the will in the Magical Oath, its fi.xation in Law. ' The water in this Cup (the latter is also a heart, as shown by the transition from the ancient to the modern Tarot ; the suit " Hearts" in old packs of cards, and even in modern Spanish and Italian cards, is called " Cups ") is the letter Mem (the Hebrew word for water), which has for its Tarot trump the Hanged Man. This Hanged Man represents the Adept hanging by one heel from a gallows, which is in the shape of the letter Daleth — the letter of the Emp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 71
… L. VEL LEGIS 44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shame- less before all men! 45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit. 46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 305
…hat it is not a dream. It is stronger than all the passions; it triumphs over suffering and over death; it makes God understood by every heart, and seems already to fill eternity by the begun realization of its legitimate hopes. Before charity alive and in action who is the Proudhon who dares blaspheme? Who is the Voltaire who dares laugh? Pile one upon the other the sophisms of Diderot, the critical arguments of Strauss, the “ Ruins” of Volney, so well named, for this man could make nothing but “ruins,” the blasphemies of the revolution whose …
1913 · PDF PAGE 71
… L. VEL LEGIS 44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shame- less before all men! 45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy: with my force shall she see & strike at the worship of Nu: she shall achieve Hadit. 46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 305
…hat it is not a dream. It is stronger than all the passions; it triumphs over suffering and over death; it makes God understood by every heart, and seems already to fill eternity by the begun realization of its legitimate hopes. Before charity alive and in action who is the Proudhon who dares blaspheme? Who is the Voltaire who dares laugh? Pile one upon the other the sophisms of Diderot, the critical arguments of Strauss, the “ Ruins” of Volney, so well named, for this man could make nothing but “ruins,” the blasphemies of the revolution whose …
1938 · PDF PAGE 9
…e wheel declares: The Wisdom of the Master is the Justice of Time. Attend to the Will of the Master! At this there cometh forth from the heart of the Wheel a Serpent with the head of a Sphinx, and toucheth the mouth of the Master, so that His voice breaks into Song: The Word of the law is µ»· ¼±. Many and marvelous are the mysteries of this Word, and of the Numeration thereof! Nor may I declare them, save this the simplest, for Then is all Heaven aflame with a great blast of trumpets; and the world is alight with one flash, that sundereth eve…
1906 · PDF PAGE 63
…e after one. The hill—shall they numb her? overcome her ? Demand of the sun! Their frost That uttermost death of my lady Revealed in the heart of the range Is as light in the groves long shady As peace in the halls of change. The web of the world is rended ; Stayed are the causal mills ; Time is ended ; space unextended. An end of the hills ! ,
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
…dness; these are heralds before my face of the dissolution and the night. Ye are all blinded by my glory; and though ye treasure in your heart the sacred word that is the last lever of the key to the little door beyond the abyss, yet ye gloss and comment thereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. Truth itself is but illusion. Yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. Let thy lips blister with my words! Are they not meteors in thy brain? Back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am I; back into the night of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 570
…tual and moral self beyond reach of the constant temptation of London to drown her aspiration in drink and debauchery. Betty knew in her heart that her only salvation lay in some such decision. But her almost complete lack of self- control prevented her from taking the plunge. Such were the conditions when she wrote direct to me, begging me to take her in hand and save her from the stinking mire in which she felt herself slowly being sucked down. I took this letter as a sign. It was surely strange that I should be in London still. The delays wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…reak the spirit of the bravest Greek ; While with an harlot one may leap again Free as the waters of the western main , And turn with no heart -pang the vessel's beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek. Another , this time a weird , charming little picture of a lewd little mistress with " a generous baby soul," 2 · Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol. I, p. 120. The woman is technically a harlot . 3 Ibid . vol. i, p. 121.
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
…d me in certain important respects. He was a close friend of Beardsley's and introduced me to the French and English renaissance. In his heart was a hunger for beauty which I can only call hideous and cruel, because it was so hopeless. He totally lacked illumination in the mystical sense of the word. His outlook on life was desperate, very much like that of Des Esseintes. He suffered like Tintagiles. He could not accept any of the usual palliatives and narcotics; he had no creative genius, no ideals; he could not deceive himself about life, art…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
…Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon. And that is wrong. The rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake; in the centre of the wheel is a scarlet heart; and, impossible to explain as it is, the scar‐ let of the heart and the green of the snake are yet more vivid than the blinding white brilliance of the wheel. “The figures on the wheel are darker than the wheel itself; in fact, they are stains upon the purity of the wheel, and for that reason, and because of the whirling of the wheel, I cannot see them. But at the top seems to be the Lamb and Flag, such…
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…nd the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the Eden of the intelligence, the ease of the heart, and the peace of the soul. We do not say this in the hope of convincing the scoffer, but only to guide the seeker. Courage and good hope to him; he will surely find, since we ourselves have found. The magical dogma is not that of the mediums. The mediums who dogmatize can teach nothing but anarchy, since their inspiration is drawn from a disordered exaltation. They are always predicting disasters; they …
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…nd the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the Eden of the intelligence, the ease of the heart, and the peace of the soul. We do not say this in the hope of convincing the scoffer, but only to guide the seeker. Courage and good hope to him; he will surely find, since we ourselves have found. The magical dogma is not that of the mediums. The mediums who dogmatize can teach nothing but anarchy, since their inspiration is drawn from a disordered exaltation. They are always predicting disasters; they …
1909 · PDF PAGE 237
… strong enough,” says a fourth. “I have no chart.” . . . ‘My business won't let me.” . . . “ My wife is against it.” Thus God enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Abraham in the land of Moriah. But the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his Great travel to the Summit of the Mountain of God; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way Satan follows behind h…
1909 · PDF PAGE 237
… strong enough,” says a fourth. “I have no chart.” . . . ‘My business won't let me.” . . . “ My wife is against it.” Thus God enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Abraham in the land of Moriah. But the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his Great travel to the Summit of the Mountain of God; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way Satan follows behind h…