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Page 83 of 1121910 · PDF PAGE 336
…fastnesses of earth. Every rose, every lily is a message from our dead: a sigh or a smile: something simple like the daisy from a simple heart, something of weird and oppressive beauty from some poet’s brain, like the passion flower or the fuchsia. In the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, there are three worms, sweet, clean, wavy, little maggots that will one day carry all the charm and delight of the dead back into the world again, will quicken and nourish seeds and roots, so that in the pink glamour of an April almond tree, the glory of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 336
…fastnesses of earth. Every rose, every lily is a message from our dead: a sigh or a smile: something simple like the daisy from a simple heart, something of weird and oppressive beauty from some poet’s brain, like the passion flower or the fuchsia. In the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, there are three worms, sweet, clean, wavy, little maggots that will one day carry all the charm and delight of the dead back into the world again, will quicken and nourish seeds and roots, so that in the pink glamour of an April almond tree, the glory of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…of Abdullah el Haji ? ” and when they denied all knowledge of him quoting : “ Forget, an if thou wilt, the scribe ! The lovely script to heart by laid ! ” The reason is of course that it is held exquisitely sacred : and seeing that the nature of the symbol- ism renders it open to the prurient jest or prudish reproach of the notoriously foul-minded Anglo- Saxon, the Persian, who is nothing if not dignified, is justly chary of casting his pearls before swine. Indeed, a certain scent-seller with whom I once argued against all this secrecy replied …
1913 · PDF PAGE 53
…ledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so; I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue ; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. 33. Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the Queen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals ; write unto us the rituals ; write unto us the law! 13
1913 · PDF PAGE 53
…ledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so; I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue ; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. 33. Then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon, & said unto the Queen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals ; write unto us the rituals ; write unto us the law! 13
1919 · PDF PAGE 115
… so absence of Love is the greatest craving. Whoso is balked in Love suffereth indeed, but he that hath not actively that passion in his heart towards some object is weary with the ache of craving. And this state is called mystically “Dry- ness.” For this there is, as I believe, no cure but patient per- sistence in a Rule of Life. 109
1954 · PDF PAGE 191
158 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS You must lay most closely to your heart the theory of the Magical Link (see Magick, pp. 107-122) and see well to it that it rings true; for without this your talisman is worse than useless. It is dangerous; for all that Energy is bound to expend itself somehow; it will make its own links with anything handy that takes its fancy; and you can get into any sort of the most serious kind of trouble. There is a great deal of useful stuff in Magick, pp. 92-100, and pp. 179-189. I could go on all night doing nothing but indicat…
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…t, but as the whole. Let him extend his consciousness to regard both birth and death as incidents trivial as systole and diastole of the heart itself, and neces- sary as they to its function. To fix the mind in this apprehension of Life, two modes are preferred, as preliminary to the greater realizations to be discussed in their proper order, experiences which tran- scend even those attainments of Liberty and Love of which Ihave hitherto written, and this of Life which I now inscribe in this my little book which I am making for you so that you …
1909 · PDF PAGE 73
… sinner, and keep me in the way of Truth!” Nay, for those of us who know what triple silver cord of moonlight binds the red blood of our heart to the Ineffable Crown of Brilliance, who have seen what Angel stands in the moon-ray, who have known the perfume and the vision, seen the drops of dew supernal stand on the silver lamen of the forehead—for us is neither fear nor pride, but silence in the one thought of the One beyond all thought. The world of phantoms has no terror left ; we can take the blood of the Black Dragon for our Red Tincture. W…
1909 · PDF PAGE 73
… sinner, and keep me in the way of Truth!” Nay, for those of us who know what triple silver cord of moonlight binds the red blood of our heart to the Ineffable Crown of Brilliance, who have seen what Angel stands in the moon-ray, who have known the perfume and the vision, seen the drops of dew supernal stand on the silver lamen of the forehead—for us is neither fear nor pride, but silence in the one thought of the One beyond all thought. The world of phantoms has no terror left ; we can take the blood of the Black Dragon for our Red Tincture. W…
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…a manger for slothful animals. Look at the unworthy priests, contemplate these pretended servants of the altar! What do they say to your heart, these obese or cadaverous men with the lack-lustre eyes, and pinched or gaping mouths ?? Hear them talk: what does it teach you, their disagreeable and monotonous noise? They pray as they sleep, and they sacrifice as they eat. They are machines full of bread, meat and wine, and of senseless words. And when they plume themselves, like the oyster in the sun, on being without thought and without love, one …
1913 · PDF PAGE 337
…a manger for slothful animals. Look at the unworthy priests, contemplate these pretended servants of the altar! What do they say to your heart, these obese or cadaverous men with the lack-lustre eyes, and pinched or gaping mouths ?? Hear them talk: what does it teach you, their disagreeable and monotonous noise? They pray as they sleep, and they sacrifice as they eat. They are machines full of bread, meat and wine, and of senseless words. And when they plume themselves, like the oyster in the sun, on being without thought and without love, one …
1919 · PDF PAGE 91
…e! let the Towers of the Universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! For my Lord hath revealed Him- self as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of His body. 27. I am like a love-sick courtesan of Corinth. I have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. To-day I am the slave of the little asp of death; and who shall loosen our love? 28. Weary, weary! saith the scribe, who shall lead me to the sight of the Rapture of my master? 29. The body is weary and the soul is sore weary and sleep weighs down their eyelids; yet eve…
1996 · PDF PAGE 209
…death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted? 70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight …
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…te hands, i, I13 The crowns of Gods and mortals within, ii. 141 The essential features of Buddhism, ii. 244 The eternal spring is in the heart of youth, ili, 116 The Evolution of Things is thus described by - the Qabalists, i. 265 The figure of the Marquis of Glenstrae, iii. 38 The foolish bells with their discordant clang, i, 202 The fragrant gateways of the dawn, i. 204 The frosty fingers of the wind, iil, 62 The ghosts of abject days flit by, i. 211 The Hand. From mystery that is cloud, control, iii. 115 The heart of a man as the sea, i. 68 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 536
…n "make-believe". That is why Huckleberry Finn is the one masterpiece of character drawing that America has produced. The American is at heart acutely ashamed of his defects. His ideal of perfection is intensely dear to him, and I am the last person to blame him for refusing to admit that its attainment is impossible. But his nerves are constantly raw from realizing in his inmost heart that he is, after all, lacking in all sorts of ways.
1907 · PDF PAGE 329
322 THE STAR IN THE WEST Nevertheless , though at heart one , many extraneous differences do exist , and it behoves any true searcher after Truth to discover for himself the straightest road towards his ultimate home which he long ago first left ; to ask help of none , to live alone , as he will have to die alone , to heed no man , to work out his own salvation , to see that his staff is stout , and that his lamp burns brightly , lest he fall into that great slough of rational dung -wallowing which besets his path . To voyage like our father Am…
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
…peak of the criticism of Voltaire. That great mind was dominated by an ardent love of truth and justice, but he lacked that rectitude of heart which the intelligence ot faith gives. Voltaire could not admit faith, because he did not know how to love. The spirit of charity did not reveal itself to that soul which had no tenderness, and he bitterly criticized the hearth of which he did not feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 385
…peak of the criticism of Voltaire. That great mind was dominated by an ardent love of truth and justice, but he lacked that rectitude of heart which the intelligence ot faith gives. Voltaire could not admit faith, because he did not know how to love. The spirit of charity did not reveal itself to that soul which had no tenderness, and he bitterly criticized the hearth of which he did not feel the warmth, and the lamp of which he did not see the light. If religion were such as he saw it, he would have been a thousand times right to attack it, an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…l in the distance, bestially beneath our sparkling snows, or shoreless sky, our sacred sun and sentinel stars. Alice had broken my boy's heart; she had taught me what women were worth. For her I had surrendered my single-iminded devotion to my spiritual Quest; I had sold my soul to the devil for sixpence, and the coin was counterfeit. True, one of me knew all along the augury of the adventure; but then, all the worse! For if Alice had been a real danger, might not I have damned {228} myself for her, as many a knight for Venus of the Hollow Hill…