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Page 81 of 901906 · PDF PAGE 128
122 AHAB Ah, that was life! I feel my sword Live, bite, and shudder in my hand, Smite, drink, the spirit of its lord Exulting through the infinite brand ! My chariot dyed with Syrian blood ! My footmen wading through the flood ! Ay! that was life! Before the night Dipped its cool wings, their hosts were stricken Like night itself before the light. An hundred thousand corpses sicken The air of heaven. Yet some by speed Escape our vengeance—ours, indeed ! Fate, the red hound, to Aphek followed. Some seven and twenty thousand died When the great w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…broken brain. Yet we shall know; 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 s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 39
32 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT Now backwards, inwards still my mind Must track the intangible and blind, And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New life for many mystic lives, and strange new forms and faces. My mind still searches, and attains By many days and many pains To That which Is and Was and reigns Shadowed in four and ten,! And loses self in sacred lands, And cries and quickens, and understands Beyond the first Amen.” THE ALCHEMIST. THIS POEM WAS INTENDED AS THE PRO- LOGUE ‘YO A PLAY…
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
…ver read such slop. The illustrations match it. The whole pro- duction of Young India is babu in the Anglo-Indian sense of the word. The spirit of India is utterly absent. Drawings and writing alike resemble the senseless flourishes of some callow student. And all this while the babu, while accepting what he imagines to be honours, such as knighthood, from England, is plotting sneakishly in the Bengali manner against her. I would to God that the British would withdraw from India for six months, so that the men of India might exter- minate these…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
TM* 38 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT Lay them together, breast to maiden breast, Limb linked with limb, and lips to pallid lips, So beautiful in death—the moth o’ th’ mind Tells the grief-numbéd senses ‘‘’Tis but sleep. See ! the pale glimmer of a ghostly arm Flashes a spot of light !”” Ah! weary day! "Tis but the flickering of the candle-light And the unmanning sorrow of the heart That lends the reins to fancy’s charioteer. Lay them together, let us leave them there! There comes a vision to my mortal eyes Of things immortal. swell Of some wild clarion t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…l damned afresh Since my redemption, that is vocal at all, For Lam wrapt away from light and call In the sweet heart of the red rose. My spirit only knows This woman and know more? I, I am concentrate In the unshakable state Of constant rapture. Who should pour lis ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tales ; then, not before, O rose, Red rose ! shall the beloved of thee, Infinite rose ! pen puerile poetry That turns in writing to vile prose.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…d soft laughter and desire About her breasts in bliss embowered, And subtle and devouring fire Leapt in live sparks about her limbs. Her spirit shields me, and bedims My sight: she needs me: I need her. Destiny ; manhood; fear; delight; Desire; accomplishment ; ere night Dipped her pale plumes to greet the sun She was not ; all is past and done. A dream? I wake from blissful sleep, But is it real? Well, I keep An accidental souvenir Whence thus to chronicle small beer 31 There is the garter. Launched our boat, The stately pinnace once afloat, Y…
1906 · PDF PAGE 47
…ard Without the lute’s own word. So on the soul of Zohra grew A fashioned orb of fiery dew: Yet (as cool water on a leaf) It touched his spirit not with grief, Although its name was sorrow. ‘*Q for a name to borrow ” (He mused) ‘‘ some semblance for this subtle sense Of new experience ! For on my heart, untouched, my mind not used : To any metre mused, Save the one tranquil and continuous rhyme Of joy exceeding time, | Here the joy changes, but abides for ever, Here on the shining river | Where the dusk gathers, and tall trees begin To wrap the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…e, and on his left hand and his right marched the Eagle and the Man. But his b ack was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. And the Spirit of the Path met him. It was a y oung girl of two and twenty y ears, and she warned him that without the Serpent5 his way s were but as wool c ast into the dy er’s vat. Two-and-twenty scales had t he Serpent, and every scale was a path, and every path was alike an enemy and a friend. So he set out, and th e darkness grew upon him. Yet could he well perceive a young maiden6 having a necklace o f two-and-s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 175
… intones a song I know no word of? Who am I, Love, and where? What is the wonder of this troublous sing- ing ? What is the meaning of my spirit’s clinging Sull to the two sweet words: repeat, repeat ! ‘Ves, Love!” and ‘' Yes, Love!” Oh the murmur sweet ! The fragrance in the air! I know not, I ; amid the choral gladness Steals an essential tremor as of sadness, A grace-note to the bosom
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…omewhere we live between the savage bars In all the skies. 1 Space or Ether. The Hindus say that all actions, especially important (z.e. spiritual) ones, are written therein. It is an Automatic Recording Angel. Let God’s highest heaven receive the man who dies— All hath an end: he falls: the stains and scars Are his throughout unwatched eternities. The roses and the scented nenuphars Give hope—oh! monolith! oh house of lies ! We change and change and fade, strange avatars In all the skies, Ill. One way sets free. That way is not to tread Throug…
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
…bone. I mention this incident, not only on account of its extraordinary features, but to compare it with the "horrors of Denshawai". The spirit of the natives was entirely friendly. Our administration of Egypt was characterized by paternal firmness; everyone was in the right, everyone respected himself and others; no one complained. Yet, within three years, our prestige had been completely destroyed by the intelligentsia of England --- everyone was in the wrong, no one respected himself or anyone else, and every one complained. I have dwelt on …
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…mply turned my sovereign head, Had I not seen, ’mid their obscene herd led, Crime, that the sun has not yet brought to book, Queen of my spirit with the peerless look. And she laughed with them at my dark distress, And turned them oft some dirtiest caress. LE VIN DU SOLITAIRE. THE strange look of a woman of the town, Who glides toward us like the rays that slake The wave-wrought moon within the trembling lake, Where she would dip her careless beauty down ; The last crowns unto which a gambler’s fingers cling ; A libertine caress from hungry Ade…
1907 · PDF PAGE 244
…ies on Roman vellum, 50 on hand-made paper numbered and signed, 300 copies on machine-made paper. Issued in facsimile to ‘‘ Songs of the Spirit.”’ No price, but sold at 3s. 6d. net cash to the trade. [ROSA MUNDI: 1905] Rosa Mundi | a poem | by | H. D. Carr | with an original composition by | Auguste Rodin | prix: vingt francs | price: sixteen shillings net | Paris: Ph-Renouard, rue des Saints Peres | London—of H. D. Carr, care of E. Dennes, 22 Chancery Lane | and through all booksellers | 1905. Collation :—Foreign glazed paper, measuring 13” xX…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…to ‘ pronounce the name”’ of Jehovah ; if this be correctly done, the universe (z.e. of sense) is annihilated, and the true universe, of spirit, is made present to the consciousness. 2 To stop or silence ; to spoil the plans of. 3 The four lines above are in the metre of Tennyson’s poem ‘‘In Memoriam.” Its lack of manliness prompts Crowley's satire. 4 Mountains in Mexico climhed by Crowley in Igor. The gross and bestial demand prose. (Glance at the page, lass, stop your nose, And turn to where short lines proclaim That purity has won the game !…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…of hell To sear my brain and blast my being now? A band of most corroding poison wound Dissolving with its venom the profound Deep of my spirit with its terrible Sense without speech and horror without sound. A devil intertwining in my heart Its cold and hideous lust, a twiforked dart Even from the fatherly and healing hand— The double death without a counterpart In hell’s own deepest pit, far, far below Phlegethon’s flame and Styx’s stifling flow, Far below Tartarus, below the land Thrust lowest in the devilish vertigo. IfI could weep or slumb…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
… initiation is spontaneous and, so to speak, automatic. You may begin in the most modest way with the evocation of some simple elemental spirit; but in the course of the operation you are compelled, in order to attain success, to deal with higher entities. Your ambition grows, like every other organism, by what it feeds on. You are very soon led to the Great Work itself; you are led to aspire to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and this ambition in turn arouses automatically further difficulties the conquest of which c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
… me, madden Once with the light of passion, not to miss Uttermost rapture till the sweet loves sadden To sweeter ecstasy— Ah! man’s high spirit may not reach to Me! peace thrilled with young 1 J.e,, terrestrial: from Gaia, a form of yj, the earth. Iam Nature and God: I reign, Iam, alone. None other may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is, to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish My own’s life being, that is, and js not other $ For I a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
… spoken formerly, and its Image is The Fool. 0, my son, gather thou all these Limbs together into one Body, and breathe upon it with thy Spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with Lust of thy Manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be One Flesh. Now at last in the Reinforcement and Ecstasy of this Consummation thou shalt wit by what Inspiration thou didst choose thy Name in the Gnosis, I mean PARZIVAL, “der reine Thor”, the True Knight 1From Lieber Aleph: The Booh of Wisdom or Folly. that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…That weot! O mystery of Love! Clasping my hands upon the-scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom, the keen thorns Pierced me and slew! My spirit was with- drawn Into Her godhead, and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above, beyond the Tomb of Time, Blending the darkness into the profound Chasms of matter—so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space, 1 Revelations xii. I, Limitless fields of Time…