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Page 82 of 901905 · PDF PAGE 55
48 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT THE STORM. In the storm that divides the wild night from the passionate kiss of the morn- ing Stands there a tower by the sea un- shaken by wave and by wind ; Lightning assails, and the sea breaks-vain on the battlements, scorning Even to fling back the foam shattered before and behind ; Save for one window its height rears up unbroken and blind. tere may a man gaze out to the night by the stars of it stricken, Out to the blind black air that the lightning divides, and is dumb; Ifere, and look back in the tower’ where pal…
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…ost its life at last, Being mere dream to this that was indeed Life : and some utter need Of this one’s love grew up in him: he knew The spirit of that dew In his own soul; and this indeed was love. The faint girl bent above With fixed eyes close upon him ; oh! her face Burned in the rapturous grace Feeding on his; and subtly, without touch, Grew as a flower that opens at the dawn Their kiss: for touch of lips is death to love. Even as the gentle plant one finger presses, However soft the tress is Of even the air’s profane caresses, It closes, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 78
…tes the crown. For we have sinned against thee, and our souls Scathe and devour as coals, And God is wroth because of thee, to break The spirit of our pride, our lips to make Keverent toward thee, as of men ashamed. And now we pray thee for our children’s sake, and thine own pity’s sake, to come untamed, And furiously to ride against our foes, To be our leader, till one sanguine rose Spread from thy standard awful leaves of blood, And thy swords pour their long insatiate flood Through ranks of many dead! then, then to close The wounds of all th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…uickened, and her breath Grew calm as worship’s, though as dark as death Her soul had been for weary days no few ; Now, lightened by the spirit thrust anew As into a dead body breath of life, She gave sweet thanks with gentle lips that ope, Like buds of roses on the sunny slope Of lily gardens falling toward a stream That flashes back the intolerable beam Of sunlight with light heart. They fled away At Cypris’ word, beyond the bounds of day Into the awful caverns of the night, Eerie with ghosts imagined, and the might Of strange spells cast upo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…ith your kiss ; to seize the West In his gold palace where the sea-winds rest, And hurl him ravening on the breaking foam ; ‘To find the Spirit in his glimmering home And draw his secret from unwilling lips ; To master earthquake, and the dread eclipse ; To dominate the red volcanic rage ; To quench the whirlpool, conquering war to wage Against all gods not wholly made as ye, O patient, and O marvellous! I see, I see before me an archangel stand, Whose flaming scimitar, a triple brand, Quivers before him, whose vast eyebrows bend, A million com…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. O brothers mightier than my mightiest word In the least sob that stirred Your lyres, bring me, me also to the end ! Be near to me, befriend Me in the moonlit, moonless deeps of death, And with exalted breath Breathe some few flames into the embers dull O…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
30 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT THE GOAD. av’ bypov dumratnv alfépa mépow yaias ‘EdXavlas dorépas éomépous otov, olov &dyos érador, pirat. EURIPIDES. AMSTERDAM, December 237d, 1897. LET me pass out beyond the city gate. All day I loitered in the little streets Of black worn houses tottering, like the fate That hangs above my head even now, and meets Prayer and defiance as not hearing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…dreds of their kind: To know you love me; that your bod lea 5 With the quick passion of your sou : to Know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps: Ah ! in the very triumph-hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell! These lines are not flawless; yet it needs no adjectives as drums to sound their praises. The palate that cannot appreciate such a vintage to the full knows not the taste of good wine. T11: Imperialism of Lam—In many lyrics and sonnets Mr. Crowley’s dominant note is the very Imp…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
…ged of Heaven, others duly Pitched down the steep and precipice of Hell. Nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow ! These three I see in spirit and in sense, These three, O miserable seer! Sorrow, Absence of ego, and impermanence ! And at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memory, and he fell into the calm ocean of a great Meditation. Pp
1905 · PDF PAGE 200
…e it slips, her bosom to my own ! The throat leans back, to tantalise the lip :— The sudden shame of her is overthrown ! O maiden of the spirit of the wheat, One ripening sunbeam thrills thee to the soul, Electric from red mane to amber feet ! The blue skies focus, as a burning bowl, The restless passion of the universe Into our mutual anger and distress, VOL. I. To be forbidden (the Creator’s curse) To comprehend the other’s loveliness. We cannot grasp the ecstasy of this; | Only we strain and struggle and renew The utter bliss of the unending…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…? Art thou grown jealous of the fiery band? Lo! thou hast spoken, and thy strong com- mand Bade earth and air divide, and on the sea Thy spirit moved—and thou must envy me! Gird all thy godhead to destroy a man Whose little moment is a single span, Whose small desire is nothing—and thy power Must root from out his bosom the fair flower TEZEBEL 5 AND OTHER TRAGIC POEMS Of passion! Listen to thine own voice yet: “A rich man many flocks and herds did get And the poor man’s lamb.” Thou art the man ! Our love must lie beneath thy Thou petty, envious…
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
… Each One with its Contradiction, as I have shewed formerly in many Writings. And thou shalt clap the one to the other with Vehemence of Spirit, swiftly as Light itself, that the Ecstasy be Spon‐ taneous. So therefore it is expedient that thou have travelled already in this Path of Antithesis, knowing perfectly the Answer to every Griph or Problem, and thy Mind ready there with. For by the Property of this Grass all passeth with Speed incalculable of Wit, and an Hesitation should confound thee, breaking down thy Ladder, and throwing back thy Mi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…she said. ‘* The parrot was only-eight years old. VII. *** You're a muddler and an idiot !’ said the infuriated God. ‘Why not make him a spiritual thing? A Nat? lives 10,000 years.” ‘Make him a Nat then !’ said the magician, already beginning to fear that fate would be too strong for him, in spite of all his cunning. ‘There’s some one working against us on the physical plane. We mist transcend it.’ No sooner said than done: 1 **O the Jewel in the Lotus! Aum!” most famous of the Buddhist formularies. 2 The Burmese name for an elemental spirit. T…
1919 · PDF PAGE 319
…full of falsity, and Mr. Klein demonstrates it very much as I have myself done in many places. But how are people to use the eyes of the spirit, unless they are taught? The A.. A... offers a technique of attainment infinitely subtle and varied, so that the need of every man is met by processes of actual practice, scientifically tested and confirmed. It is not enough merely to accept Mr. Klein’s explanation of the universe. That is the Giant’s Robe. You must get your own clothes made to fit you. You cannot persuade yourself to think in any way c…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…ged of Heaven, others duly Pitched down the steep and precipice of Hell. Nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow ! These three I see in spirit and in sense, These three, O miserable see ! Sorrow, Absence of ego, and impermanence ! And at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memory, and he fell into the calm ocean of a great Meditation.
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
… Delphian gold, the Ephesian quiver, To float down Time for ever and for ever ;— [am thy lyre and thou mine harper: thou My music, I thy spirit: thou the lover And I the bride: the glory of my brow Deeper delight, new ardour, to discover Stoops in thine heart; my loveand light endow Thy life with fervour as I bend me over The starry curve and surface of the sea, And kiss thy very life out into ine. O central fountain of my yearning veins ! O mountain single-soaring, thou art blended Into my heaven: prescient of the pains That shall bring forth …
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
… Samael, the Hebrew destroying angel.) So also, in the initiated symbolism, the act of devouring is the 1The Black Egg of the element of Spirit in some Hindu schools of thought. From it the other elements Air, Water, Earth, Fire (in that order) proceed.
1906 · PDF PAGE 282
…tion- less for hours gazing into space, so that his pupils thought him idle or insane ! Scept. Spencer Myst. The noble, ascetic, retired spirit; the single-hearted, the courageous, the holy —~ Scept. Yes: all these and many others. But what mean your comments? Myst. That extreme virtue is a necessary condition for one who is desirous of atfaining this state of bliss. Scept. There, my friend, you generalise from three. Let me _ stand fourth (like Ananias) and tell you that after many vain attempts while virtuous, I achieved my first great result…
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
…o conscious personal relation with the centre of our system; and thirdly, for advanced students, to make actual magical contact with the spiritual energy of the sun and thus to draw actual force from him. LIBER CCVI. The Book of Breathing describes various practices of controlling the breath, how to ensure success, what results to strive for, and how to use them for the Great Work. LIBER CCXXXI is a technical treatise on the Tarot. The sequence of the 22 Trumps is explained as a formula of initiation. LIBER CCCLXX, The Book of Creation or of th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…k!’ she said. “The parrot was only eight years old. VII. “ ‘You’re a muddle and an idiot !’ said the infuriated God. ‘Why not make him a spiritual thing ? A Nat2 lives 10,000 years.’ ‘M ake him a Nat then !’ s aid the magician, already beginning to fear that fate would be too strong for him, in spite of all his cunning. ‘There’s some one working against us on the phy sical plane. W e must transcend it.’ No sooner said than done : 1 “O the Jewel in the Lotus! Aum!” The most famous of the Buddhist formularies. 2 The Burmese name for an elemental …