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Page 86 of 1591913 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX (now) inspiring it, at one time in processional hymns, at another in standing songs, turning and re-turning in the dance. “Then when each band has feasted (that is, has sung and danced) apart by itself, drinking of God-pleasing (nectar), just as in the Bacchic rites men drink the wine unmixed, then they join together, and one chorus is formed of the two bands, in imitation of the joined chorus on the banks of the Red Sea, because of the wonderful works that had been there wrought. For the sea at God’s command became for one party a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX (now) inspiring it, at one time in processional hymns, at another in standing songs, turning and re-turning in the dance. “Then when each band has feasted (that is, has sung and danced) apart by itself, drinking of God-pleasing (nectar), just as in the Bacchic rites men drink the wine unmixed, then they join together, and one chorus is formed of the two bands, in imitation of the joined chorus on the banks of the Red Sea, because of the wonderful works that had been there wrought. For the sea at God’s command became for one party a …
1922 · PDF PAGE 118
…thought. We were both breathing rapidly and deeply. Our faces were flushed, suffused with the sunlight splendour of our bloods that beat time to the waltz of our love. | Waltz? No, it was something wilder than a waltz. The Mazurka, perhaps. No, there was something still more savage in our souls. : I thought of the furious fandango of the gipsies of
1922 · PDF PAGE 329
…rently sitting down to lunch. with a choice selection of Olympian Deities; and the food seemed to be in keeping! Besides that, we had no time to be critical; we were overwhelmed by the beauty of our surround- -ings. Far away to the west, a line of hills ran out into the sea, the farther peaks were over fifty miles away, yet in that ‘translucent atmosphere of spring they stood out sharply. We could even see in front of the range a small, dark line of crags which jutted out parallel with them and about ten miles nearer. Thence the coast line swep…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…R IN THE WEST And verily My life was borne on the dark stream of death Down whirling aeons , linked abysses , columns Built of essential time " 2 we In “ The Violet's Love Story ,” or in “ Dora , have as simple a poem as could be written , and in one of the verses of a chorus in “ Jephthah , " beginning “ There flashes the heart of a rose , one of the most mystical . Here is a furious inspiration in blank verse (the prophet in “ Jephthah " speaks ) : Ha ! The rose has washed its petals , and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…an , and man greatens into Deity ." I Nothing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existence to that great road , the road of the Soul . From the supernal flights of Idealism , we now find Crowley in th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…tice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, and eventually goes on work- ing backwards through sleep, back, back, through birth and previous states until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t know what it means!” I think it right to mention that I never obtained any sort of success in this med…
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…g back from Kether is behind and beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite Time.+ Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes—sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, * Here used in its true meaning of “the marshalling forth by number.” Qabalah, 71 p, by Tarot, “ The Mystery shown forth in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…tice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, and eventually goes on work- ing backwards through sleep, back, back, through birth and previous states until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t know what it means!” I think it right to mention that I never obtained any sort of success in this med…
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…g back from Kether is behind and beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite Time.+ Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes—sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, * Here used in its true meaning of “the marshalling forth by number.” Qabalah, 71 p, by Tarot, “ The Mystery shown forth in …
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…he sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I wasnot in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun. And now, with time, space expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distance widened. The whole atmo- sphere seemed ductile, and spun endlessly out into great spaces surrounding me on every side. We were in a vast hall, of which my frie…
1910 · PDF PAGE 305
… FAMOUS MAHATMAS little man sat down to ruminate over lead piping, and solder at twopence a stick. During the summer of ’o7 I had little time to waste at number 60, and had almost forgotten about the Mahatma, who, so I had been told, had left England for America, when I received a card announcing his return, and asking me to be present at a general meeting. This I did, and as usual was more than bored. After business was over the Mahatma entered the room, all his sheep flocking round him to seek the turnips of his wisdom. On these occasions he …
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…he sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I wasnot in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun. And now, with time, space expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distance widened. The whole atmo- sphere seemed ductile, and spun endlessly out into great spaces surrounding me on every side. We were in a vast hall, of which my frie…
1910 · PDF PAGE 305
… FAMOUS MAHATMAS little man sat down to ruminate over lead piping, and solder at twopence a stick. During the summer of ’o7 I had little time to waste at number 60, and had almost forgotten about the Mahatma, who, so I had been told, had left England for America, when I received a card announcing his return, and asking me to be present at a general meeting. This I did, and as usual was more than bored. After business was over the Mahatma entered the room, all his sheep flocking round him to seek the turnips of his wisdom. On these occasions he …
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…ious,domestic, fascinating crowd. “I kiss your hands and your feet, and I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…ious,domestic, fascinating crowd. “I kiss your hands and your feet, and I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…ter, kicked on the thigh by a mule.” lt is of no purpose here to deal with Fra. P.‘s private affairs; but one must mention that all this time of interior insanity he was “ playing the man” very vigorously. His moral force no doubt saved the Europeans of Tengyueh from a panic which might easily have resulted in massacre. After the death, perhaps by poison, of the Consul, the admirable and undervalued Litton, he was the only person who kept his head, and knew how to assert the authority of the white man. So that we must understand that this “blac…
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…ter, kicked on the thigh by a mule.” lt is of no purpose here to deal with Fra. P.‘s private affairs; but one must mention that all this time of interior insanity he was “ playing the man” very vigorously. His moral force no doubt saved the Europeans of Tengyueh from a panic which might easily have resulted in massacre. After the death, perhaps by poison, of the Consul, the admirable and undervalued Litton, he was the only person who kept his head, and knew how to assert the authority of the white man. So that we must understand that this “blac…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…e shall place upon the still bleeding forehead of our well-beloved Christ the triple crown of pearls of the mystical Trimurti. From that time, Venus, purified under the veil of Mary, will no more weep for her Adonis. The bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…e shall place upon the still bleeding forehead of our well-beloved Christ the triple crown of pearls of the mystical Trimurti. From that time, Venus, purified under the veil of Mary, will no more weep for her Adonis. The bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely f…