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Page 84 of 901944 · PDF PAGE 117
…and its Name is MAT, whereof I have 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. t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
…ound she lies Struggling, and rending Heaven with her cries. Like light, in one convulsive pang the snake Leapt in the sunlight, and its body brake With glistening scales that golden skin of hers, And writhing with pure shame, the long grass whirrs With her sharp flight of fury and despair. Vhen Charicles at last became aware Of the fell death that had him by the throat To mar his music ; like one blind he sinote The quivering air with cries of sorrow ; then, Jisdaining fear and sorrow, cried to men And gods to help him ; then, resolved to dare…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
… bourgeoisie calls life is not the only feature of experience. St. Paul has prophesied of the future of the church, “Many members in one body,” and it is also written, “I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” Do not even the 303
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…ate. At noon I came Blind in the desert, saw the sun Leap o’er the edge, a fury of flame Shouting for rapture over his prize, The maiden body of earth. Outrun The violent rays; the dawn is dashed In one swift moment into dust. Long lies the Jand with sunlight splashed, Brutally violate to his lust. Alone and naked I watched through The appalling hours of noon ; I parched ; I blistered: all the ghastly crew Of mind’s sick horror mocked me; arched The flaming vault of hell and pressed Its passionate murder in my breast. Seven times I strove to sl…
1939 · PDF PAGE 68
…. I am quite certain that the blurred surface will become clear when I do so. Of course, I may be wrong. I may have picked up some other body's glasses by mistake. I might go blind before I could get them into position. Even such confidence has limits; but it is a real confidence, and this is the explanation of why we go ahead with the business of life. When we think it over, we know that there are all sorts of snags, that it is impossible to formulate any proposition which is philosophically unassailable, or even one which is so from a practic…
1939 · PDF PAGE 70
…ddenly dashed down the steep little path like a mountain goat, threw off his cloak and plunged into the sea. When he came back, his very body had become luminous. I saw that he needed to be alone for a week to complete his experience, so I fixed him up in an Alpine tent in a quiet dell under broad-spreading trees at the edge of a stream. From time to time he sent me his magical record, vision after vision of amazing depth and splendour. I was so gratified with his attainment that I showed these records to a distinguished literary critic who was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
… scattered to the four winds of heaven. Sir Isaac Newton to the rescue! His first law of motion is sufficient to make the point clear. A body either keeps its course (or else remains at rest) Unless by some external force its motion is impressed. The effect of my ordeal had been to remove all forces soever which had impinged on my normal direction. My star had been diverted from its proper orbit by, had been held back by, the attraction of other heavenly bodies. Their influence had been removed. For the first time in my life I was really free. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…sis of spiritual fervour, But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces ofthe body and the soul and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has give…
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…sis of spiritual fervour, But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces ofthe body and the soul and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has give…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
…erect, and passed within Its rotten doorway. Then the thing of Sin That mocked the name of woman fondled him, Stroked his flaf head, his body curved and slim, And from the fire brought milk. He drank it up From the coarse pewter of the borrowed cup And cried: ‘‘Jn eating, swear. JI have vowed to make The gods infernal on their couches quake With fear before I die; I have vowed to live With one aim only; never to forgive The wrong the gods do me, and in my form Love his high self, by whom the earth is warm To-day, by whose defiance the universe …
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…o fair, her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters, though he knew Ilis drowning body drowned her image too. ¥et she seemed gentle. Never thorn assailed The tender finger that would touch, nor failed The strong desire of Zeus, who wisely went, As was his wont, with amorous intent Among those pastures, and fresh fragrant lawns, And dewy wonder of new woods, where dawns A new flower every day, a perfect flower, Each queenher than her sister, though the shower Of early dew begemmed them all w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 372
…cks; and, wishing to ask, "What shall be the Sign?" got instantly the reference in CCXX to Our Lady Babalon: "... the omnipresence of my body." But this is not quite clear; I took it mentally as referring to the expected arrival of Our Lady, but it might mean a trance, or almost anything. So I will ask Yi, as my last magical act for the time being. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ I think this means the arrival of ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ our Lady. I have serious doubts ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ whether the hexagram should not ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ have been: ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…erfect.” AL. I, 42‐4. It is further to be remarked that the trunk of the Tree pierces the heavens; about it is indicated the ring of the body of Nuith. Similarly, the shaft of the Wand goes down indefinitely to the centre of earth. “If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If 1 droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.” (AL. II, 26). The formula of this card is then the complete appreciation of all existing things. He re‐ joices in the rugged and the barren no less than in the sm…
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
…mankind by the labour and ingenuity of scientific investi- gators. But no sane man has ever pre- tended, since science became a definite body of doctrine, that we know or ever can hope to know or conceive of the possibility of knowing, whence this mechanism has come, why it is there, whither it is going, and what there may or may not be beyond and beside it which our senses are incapable of appreciating. These things are not ‘explained’ by science, and never can be,”’ he gives a curious example of that quaint scientific pride which knows the li…
1905 · PDF PAGE 104
… here lewd fishes snapped at us, And watersnakes writhed silently toward Our craft. But these I fought against, and smote Head from foul body, to our further ill, For frightful jelly-monsters grew apace, And all the water grew one slimy mass Of crawling tentacles. My sword was swift That slashed and slew them, chiefly to protect The toiling woman, and assure our path Through this foul hell. And now the very air Is thick with cold wet horrors. sword Trenchant, that tore their scaly essences— Like Lucian’s sailor writhing in the clutch Of those w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 422
…is of spiritual fervour. But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces of the body and the soul; and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has giv…
1912 · PDF PAGE 422
…is of spiritual fervour. But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces of the body and the soul; and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has giv…
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 157 Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll To make one tear in my superb caresses, When on myself myself begets a child, A system of a thousand planets piled ! Iam: the least, the greatest: the frail life Of some small coral-insect still may tremble With love for me, and call me queen and wife ; The shy plant of the water may dissemble Its love beneath the fronds; reply to strife With strife, and all its tiny being crumble Under my rough and warrior husband-kiss, Whose pain shall burn, and alter, and be bliss! I am: no wo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
…stone, annoy us, Queen Morphia, grant thy sleep! Let worms, the dears, enjoy us ! IV. But since a chance remains That ‘‘I;’ survives the body (So talk the men whose brains Are made of smut and shoddy), I'll stop it ifI can. (Ah Jesus, if Thou couldest !) I'll go to Martaban To make myself a Buddhist. V. And yet: the bigger chance Lies with annihilation. Follow the lead of France, Freedom's enlightened nation ! Off! sacerdotal stealth Of faith and fraud and gnosis! Come, drink me: Here's thy health, Arterio-sclerosis ! * Let me die in a ditch, D…
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…gen. It is not virtuous of a hydra to be hermaphrodite, or contumacious on the part of an elbow not to move freely in all directions. Anybody who knows what his job is has only one duty, which is to get that job done. Anyone who possesses a function has only one duty to that function, to arrange for its free fulfilment. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 8. We shall not be surprised therefore if we find that the perfectly simple term Yama (or Control) has been bedevilled out of all sense by the mistaken and malignant ingenuity of …