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Page 81 of 951907 · PDF PAGE 105
…not hear those men below? spoke Of one I think you have forgotten long ; Talked of his ruined life—half as a joke— But I— But I—it is my whole heart’s song| They I love you when I think of his pale:lips Twitching, and all his curls of gold awry; Your smile of poison as he sighs and sips ; Your half-scared laughter as his heart- beats die— Let him creep on, a shattered, ruined thing ! A ship dismasted on a dreadful sea! And you—afar—some word of largesse fling Pitifully worded for more cruelty! His death lends savour to our passionate life ; His…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
…ee will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the Higher Soul, or by the ceremony. But the Will consenting, the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched forth their wings over the form of Osiris to restore him again unto life, The Mystic Circumambulation then followeth in the Path of Light to represent the rising of the Light in the Candidate through the o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 267
…ee will of the Candidate as a natural man is never obsessed, either by the Higher Soul, or by the ceremony. But the Will consenting, the whole of the ceremony is directed to the strengthening of its action. And as this badge is placed upon him, it is as though the two Great Goddesses, Isis and Nephthys, in the places of the columns, stretched forth their wings over the form of Osiris to restore him again unto life, The Mystic Circumambulation then followeth in the Path of Light to represent the rising of the Light in the Candidate through the o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 188
… and aiinister. THE SUMMIEP OF THE AMOROUS MOUNTAIN. To love you, Love, is all my happiness 5 Yo kill you with my kisses: to devour Your whole ripe beauty in the perfect hour That niagles us in one supreme caress 3 To drink the purple of your thighs ; to press Your beating bosom like a living flower3 To die in your embraces, in the shower Thatdews like death your swooning loveliness To knew you love me; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 138
JEZEBEL 131 Her hate, her scorn, her cruel blows, Fill my whole life, consume my breath ; Her red-fanged hatred in me glows, I lust for her, and hell, and death. I see that ghastly look, and yearn Toward the brands of her that burn. Sleep shuns me; dreams divide the night, (My parched throat thirsty for her veins) That she and I with deep delight Suck from death’s womb infernal pains, Whose fire consumes, destroys, devours Through night’s insatiable hours. And altogether filled with love, And altogether filled with sin, The little sparks and no…
1905 · PDF PAGE 175
…ave seen it ! Even as thy cold devouring kisses roll Over my corpse; I hear its death-cry thrill me! Thine !—O my God! I render thee the whole, My broken body and my accurséd soul ! Come, come, come, come! Ah! conquer me and kill me ! THE BRIDEGROOM. No passion stirs the cool white throat of her ; No living glory fills the deep dead eyes ; No sleep that breaks her Southern indolence ; Not all the breezes out of heaven, that stir The sleepy wells and woodlands, bid her rise 3 Nor all a godhead’s amorous violence. _She is at peace ; we will go he…
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
…our loves may make a mirror of the dreadful soul of war! For love is an equal soul, and shares an equal breath. I am nought—and thou the whole? It were not love, but Death. Give me thy life and strength, let us struggle for mastery, As the long shore’s rugged length that battles with the sea. I am thine, I am thine indeed! My form is vaster grown, And our limbs and lips shall bleed on the starry solar throne. My life is made as thine; my blessing and thy curse Beget, as foam on wine, a different universe. I foam and live and leap: thou laughest…
1906 · PDF PAGE 15
…n her red lips, When first they clung to mine and rested there ; Lightnings of love were eager to eclipse That earlier sunshine, and her whole soul clips } My soul—I kissed out life within her hair Upon her lips. We parted lips from lips and soul from soul To new strange passions in unholy lands, Where love’s breath chars and scorches like a coal. So she is dead to-day—the sweet bells toll A lost, lost soul, a soul in Satan’s bands, A lost, lost soul ! ODE TO VENUS CALLIPYGE.! WHERE was light when thy body came Out of the womb of a perished pra…
1906 · PDF PAGE 96
…ign, the fleeceis called golden. Ares or Mars (4) is in Astrology the ruler of this sign. His other house is Scorpio (1) the Dragon. The whole legendis thus a glyph of the Magnum Opus. That Crowley neglects this is a significant mark of the change to his maturer manner. Distinguish from
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
…e, universal woe Hath yet its shadows in a singer’s soul, He feels the arrow from a party bow Who yet hath strength to struggle with the whole. I love my wife. The many-coloured throne Of Grecian meadows hath nor charm nor lure Now she is gone. Lamenting and alone My dulled heart aches, most that it must endure. Give this decree, O masters! Few the days And light the hours since Heracles de- scended The dusky steep, the intolerable ways, And one prey—Theseus—from your prisons rended By might of godhead and the skill of man. But now with music f…
1938 · PDF PAGE 25
…Universe as necessary. It is a blasphemy against the Self, assuming that its Will is not a necessary (and therefore a noble) part of the Whole. In a word he who accepts not the Law of Thelema is divided against himself: that is, he is insane, and the upshot shall be the ruin of the Unity of his Godhead. Yet hearken again; the opposition of two movements is not always evidence of conflict or error. For two opposite points upon the rim of a wheel move one North, the other South; yet are they harmonious parts of the same system. And the rowlock wh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…ithin the shadow blind My own love’s face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. O suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body, as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey-bee ! I felt a perfect soul embracing me, And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea. IT. Hk did not kiss me with his mouth ; his eyes Kissed mine, and mine kissed back; it was not wise, But yet he had the strength to leave me; so I was so glad he loved enough to go, My arms could never have released his ne…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…L.,1 No. 9, Central America. MISTRESS and maiden and mother, im- mutable mutable soul! Love, shalt thou turn to another? I give thee the whole ! Light, shalt thou flicker or darken? Thou and thy lover are met. Bend from thy heaven and hearken! Life, Surely Surely my songs are gone down as leaves in the dark that are blown;. Surely the laurel and crown have faded and left me alone. Vainly I cry in the sunlight; moon pities my passion in vain. Dark to my eyes is the one light, aching in bosom and brain. Surely, O Mother, thou knowest! not followe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 206
…ror, The face of God, to sink before His Shrine, Weeping: O Beauty, Majesty, and Terror, Wisdom and Mind and Soul, Crown simplex, Mighty Whole, Lord of the Gods! O Thou, the King of Kings ! To me a sinner, me, Lowest of all that be, Be merciful, O Master Soul of things ! Show me thy face of ruth, And in thy way of truth Guide my weak youth, That stumbles while it walks, makes discord when it sings ! So, Mighty Mother! Pure, Eternal Spouse, Isis, thou Star, thou Moon, thou Mightiest, Lead my weak steps to thine Eternal House ! Rest my vain head …
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
… ; “ Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” even though this theory was some- what rudely shaken by Mathers spending the whole of one Sunday afternoon in rattling a lot of dried peas in a sieve under the impression that they were the revolted members : as subsequent events proved, they were only the ideas in his head. So we find Aleister Crowley still loyal, if a little sceptical, and searching within himself to discover a touchstone by which he might prove beyond doubt the authenticity of Mathers’ claim to represent the Masters…
1919 · PDF PAGE 257
…Degree. From its members the Supreme and Holy King appoints a Supreme Grand Council. “This Council is charged with the government of the whole of the Second Triad, or Lovers. All members of the Seventh Degree travel as Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Order, and report, on their own initiative, to the Supreme and Most Holy King, as to the condition of all Lodges, and Chap- ters; to the Supreme Council, on all affairs of the Second Triad; and to the Electoral College, on those of the Third. “The Eighth Degree is a Philosophical Body. It…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…oes and black, Constraining eloquence and mighty thrall Of cosmic agony, and wrung me back From my poor plea to challenge in my song The whole domain of deeply-seated law, Taunch thunders not Olympic at the strong Bars of the Order backed with strength and awe That men call Will of Zeus: the after scheme And primal fate and most primordial plan Shaped from the earth’s first protoplasmic dream Up to the last great mischief that is man. All this I challenge: that the suns and stars Work in due order and procession meet Without caprice in viewless…
1939 · PDF PAGE 42
…he subject is Liber Astarte vel Berylli, the Book of Devotion to a Particular Deity. This book is admirable beyond praise, reviewing the whole subject in every detail with flawless brilliancy of phrase. Its practice is enough in itself to bring the devotee to high attainment. This is only for the few. But every student should make a point of saluting the Sun (in the manner recommended in Liber Resh) four times daily, and he shall salute the Moon on her appearance with the Mantra Gayatri. The best way is to say the Mantra instantly one sees the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 16
…out of [leaven no sound ol might, No tongue of flame gave answer. Still as night, Silence and sunlight, stream and mead, pos- sessed The whole wide world. The maid’s re- luctant breast Heaved with soft passion nowise under- stood, and her pulse quickened. quiet wood Iler answer rang: ‘‘ My voice with thine shall break The woodland stillness, for the fountain’s sake. I'll sing thee—I.amia! mother, I obey !” In vain the desperate boy pursued the way With awful eyes ; no bruiséd flower betrayed The tender footsteps of a goddess maid ; No butterfly…
1919 · PDF PAGE 258
…; but in addition they must be prepared to act as direct representatives of the Supreme and Most Holy King, radiating his light upon the whole world. Yet, from the nature of their initiation, they must veil their glory in a cloud of darkness. They move unseen and unrecognized among the youngest of us, subtly and loftily leading us into the holy ineffable mysteries of the True Light. “The Supreme and Most Holy King is appointed by the O.H.O. His is the ultimate responsibility for all within his holy kingdom. The succession to the high office of …