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Page 82 of 1061906 · PDF PAGE 76
…ts wave retire. Not so: this trial was the tiniest Man ever knew, confronted afterward With giant fears and passions ;—long to fight And last to yield a Maenad-swelling breast Unto a furious Dionysian horde Drunk not with wine, but with aveng- ing night. THE SIXTEENTH DAY. ‘« My chastity’s the jewel of our house Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i’ th’ world For me to lose.”’ All's Well. THERE was no secret cave of the wood’s womb Where we might kiss all day without a start Of fear that meant to stay and must …
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
…s a preliminary — ?" how do you stand with Germany?" Abdul shrank back, startled out of his presence of mind. "Germany!" he stammered at last. "Why, [319] Colonel," (he emphasized the title) "I know nothing. I have no instructions from my Government."He met the eye of his master, and read its chill contempt. "I—er—er—" "Dare you play with me?" The young man protested that no such thought had crossed his mind. "In that case," pursued the sorcerer, "you won't know what that means?" Douglas took from his pocket a fifty-franc note. The Turk caught …
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
…e. It must cease to know itself as anything but the Will. It must not have the will; it must transform itself completely to be the Will. Last of all, the act must be supreme. It must do and it must die. From that death it must rise again, purged of that Will, hav ing accomplished it so perfectly that nothing is left thereof in its elements. It must have emptied itself into the vehicle. So shall the child be whole of spirit. But this is not enough. The ground in which the seed is cast must be suitable for its reception. The climate must be favo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…n well? With every watchman’s cheery cry, ‘‘Land ho!” through all the journeying years Our ever-hoping hearts reply, ‘A land of bliss at last appears.” But what land laps a foreign foam So sweet as is the hero's home? At every port the novel sights Charm for an hour—delusive bliss. On every shore the false delights Of maidens ply the barbarous kiss. But where did hero think to stay Lulled in their love beyond a day? No shoreland whistles to the wind So musically as Thrace: no town So gladdens the toil-weary mind As brave Athenae: no renown Stan…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…or. But when they asked for Kwaw, he was not to be found. He had left trained men to carry out the discipline and the initiations, these last being the chief purpose of the building, saying that he was home sick for the lions and lizards of Wei-Hai-Wei, and that anyway he hadn’t enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. There is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…tion that my thoughts had been very important. roth. 7.12-7.34 Pranayama. Seven minutes 5. 10. 20; and 10 minutes am.am. 10. 20. 30. The last was very good and regular. 11.50-12.5 Pranayama. Fourteen minutes 5. 10. 20. Ida stopped up. a.m. a.m, 6.15-6.50 Dharana on nose 22 minutes. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. 10. 20. 30. 9.15-9.34 Dharana on nose. During this I heard a Siren-cooing p.m. p.m. Nada; it sounded very audible and continuous; but loudest during Rechaka, 1.23 am, I awoke, lying on left side. This being unusual... . I did not know I had been …
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…tion that my thoughts had been very important. roth. 7.12-7.34 Pranayama. Seven minutes 5. 10. 20; and 10 minutes am.am. 10. 20. 30. The last was very good and regular. 11.50-12.5 Pranayama. Fourteen minutes 5. 10. 20. Ida stopped up. a.m. a.m, 6.15-6.50 Dharana on nose 22 minutes. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. 10. 20. 30. 9.15-9.34 Dharana on nose. During this I heard a Siren-cooing p.m. p.m. Nada; it sounded very audible and continuous; but loudest during Rechaka, 1.23 am, I awoke, lying on left side. This being unusual... . I did not know I had been …
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…Logos as divine and human; the interlacing of the upright and averse triangles in the hexagram. It is the first number of the Sun, whose last number 1 is 666, “the number of a man”. The letter M exhibits the termination of this process. It is the Hanged Man of the Tarot ; the formation of the individual from the absolute is closed by his death. We see accordingly how AUM is, on either System, the expres¬ sion of a dogma which implies catastrophe in nature. It is cognate with the formula of the Slain God. The “résurrection” and “ascension” are n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…nsisted Amy Brough, "I think it means Hasty News." "That's extraordinary!" cried Lisa, suddenly awake. "That's what Bunyip said my dream last night meant! That's absolutely wonderful! And to think there are people who don't believe in clairvoyance!" From the depths of an armchair came a sigh of infinite sadness "Gimme a peach!" Harsh and hollow, the voice issued cavernously from a lantern-jawed American with blue cheeks. He was incongruously clad in a Greek dress, with sandals. It is difficult to find a philosophical reason for disliking the co…
1996 · PDF PAGE 113
…ation that self-fulfilment in the sensible world is but a sym- 1:57 bol of the universal sublimity of the formula “love under will.” The last two sentences demand careful attention. There is an apparent contradiction with verses 59 and 60. We must seek reconcilement in this way: Do not imagine that any King can die (v. 21) or be hurt (v. 59); strife between two Kings can therefore be nothing more than a friendly trial of strength. We are all inevi tably allies, even identical in our variety; to “Love one another with burning hearts” is one of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
388 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Try another aspect. We tracked the cause: it was frustration . Good: then we must counter it. How? Only (in the last event) by getting the mind firmly fixed in the complete philosophy of Thelema. There is no such thing as frustration . Every step is a step on the Path. It is simply not true that you are being baulked. The height of your irritation is a direct measure of the intensity of your Energy. Again, you soon come to laugh at yourself for your impatience . Probably (you surmise) your trouble is exactly that: you a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…e sound of thy name! In my silence uprear The sweet guerdon of shame ! Be they choral to hymn thee, O mother, thy magic ineffable fame ! Last birth of the Sun, Best gift of the giver, Thou surely art One ! As the moon on the river, Whose star-blossoms run, Kiss, tremble, and shiver, O mother, O life, O desire, my soul is a bird in thy bowers,! And roll into ultimate space, and are lost to man’s vision for ever.
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
… down, a short but very steep ridge with one decidedly bad patch, to the great snowfield at the head of the valley. At the bottom of the last pitch a scree-strewn slope, easy going, led
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…owledge; and yet so far may the Adept fall from his Samadhic consciousness that he is found with atavistic ardour recalling his father’s last instructions ere he left home for school—“ and, Talbot, mind you always tell the truth, what ever comes of it I” the “ Talbot ” itself being a deliberate lie told under the sacred seal of baptism in the silly snobbish hope of persuading strangers that his ancestors were all Talbots, and that it is but by some complication of the 102' Salz'gue that his surname is Stubbs—even though that is notoriously but …
1905 · PDF PAGE 221
… God’s own finger-birth ; the stars Caught in the storm of lies and tossed,| _ may weep, forbid to wrestle? The sun rejoice, thit see at last His ven- Shall not the sun rise lively yet, the rose geance strike; yet bloom, The fury of destruction’s blast; the fiery The crown yet lift me, life beget flowers on spike the tomb? As of an arrow of adamant, comet or I was born fighter. Think you then my task meteor : . ‘** The dog returneth to his vomit : the ancient is done, £ whore My work, my Father’s work for men, the rising sunf 1 A mountain on Lo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 468
…or his murderer. The day was falling, and the church was beginning to grow dark. The Archbishop, his arms raised to heaven, lighted by a last ray which penetrated the casements of the nave, stood out upon a dark background, where one could scarcely distinguish a pedestal without a statue, on which were written these two words of the Passion of Christ: Ecce Homo! and farther in the background, an apocalyptic painting representing the four plagues ready to let themselves loose upon the world, and the whirlwinds of hell, following the dusty traces…
1913 · PDF PAGE 468
…or his murderer. The day was falling, and the church was beginning to grow dark. The Archbishop, his arms raised to heaven, lighted by a last ray which penetrated the casements of the nave, stood out upon a dark background, where one could scarcely distinguish a pedestal without a statue, on which were written these two words of the Passion of Christ: Ecce Homo! and farther in the background, an apocalyptic painting representing the four plagues ready to let themselves loose upon the world, and the whirlwinds of hell, following the dusty traces…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…grammaton once more, but expressed in identical équations in which every term is perfect in itself as a mode of Naught. ShT supplies the last element; making the Word of either five or six letters, according as we regard ShT as one letter or two. Thus the Word affirms the Great Work accomplished : 5° = 6D- ShT is moreover a necessary resolution of the apparent opposi¬ tion of LA and AL, for one could hardly pass to the other without the catalytic action of a third identical expression whose function should be to transmute them. Such a term must…
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
… see Old age in perfect unanimity, Affections smooth, and buzzing like a bee. The sun sets, in conjunction with the moon. Death comes at last, a pleasure and a boon, And they arrive in heaven very soon. [ /mmense, Spontaneous, uncontrollable applause sweeps like a whirlwind through the court. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL (breaking tn unheralded), Tender the phrase, and faint the melody, When poets praise a maiden’s purity ; Platitude linked to imbecility. [Murmurs of surprise. As ’mongst spring’s sprigs sprouts sunshine’s constant face ; Or as a mill gr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 314
…of my sniffing. I became my own master again, and broke out into a fit of yelling laughter. “So that’s the game, is it?’”’ I answered at last. “You are selling me out to buy a third share in that cad |” I stopped to try to think of some viler insults; but my brain refused to work. It merely prompted me to abuse of the type usually associated with bargees. I spluttered out a torrent of foul language; but I felt even at the time that I was not doing myself justice.