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…ritheth upon the earth ready to sting. And, because he is himself, therefore he is no self; the terror of darkness, and the blindness of night, and the deafness of the adder, and the tastelessness of stale and stagnant water, and the black fire of hatred, and the udders of the Cat of slime; not one thing, but many things. Yet, with all that, his torment 95
…s inhibited. I have tried to say a lot, and it has always got lost on the way. Holy art thou, O more beautiful than all the stars of the Night! There has never been such peace, such silence. But these are positive things. Singing praises of things eternal amid the flames of first glory, and every note of every song is a fresh flower in the garland of peace. This child danceth not, but it is because he is the soul of the two dances,—the right hand and the left hand, and in him they are one dance, the dance without motion. There is dew on all the…
… friendly manner when they saw me leave the box and walk towards them. I must have been a long time lying over it, a whole afternoon and night, maybe, during my unnatural sleep. I bowed gracefully before them; but they seemed amazed 375
… friendly manner when they saw me leave the box and walk towards them. I must have been a long time lying over it, a whole afternoon and night, maybe, during my unnatural sleep. I bowed gracefully before them; but they seemed amazed 375
…clotted and black, so that everything is blotted out; because it coagulates, coagulates. And then at the top there steals a dawn of pure night-blue,—Oh, the stars, the stars in it deeply set!—and drives the blood down; so that all round the top of the oval gradually dawns the figure of our Lady Nuit, and beneath her is the flaming winged disk, and below the altar of Ra-Hoor-Khuit, even as it is upon the Stele of Revealing. But below is the supine figure of Seb, into whom is concentrated all that clotted blood. And there comes a voice: It is the…
… hath subdued their strength. For in that union thou didst wxder- stand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night! This is that which is written, ““O my God, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many.” For she is 83
…ch injured. Mrs. Webster smiled her subtlest smile. “T quite agree,”’ she said silkily, ‘“‘ Lou is the most beautiful woman in London to-night.” “Q Thou fragrance of sweet flowers, that art wafted over blue fields of air! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” The state of the girl was extraordinary. It was as if she possessed two personalities in their fullest pos- sibilities—the divine and the human. She was intensely
…t the terror of things, the fastness of the Most High, the legions of eternal vigilance; these are they that keep watch and ward day and night throughout the aeons. Set in them is all the force of the Mighty One, yet there stirreth not one plume of the wings of their helmets. 88
THE EQUINOX night, and at sunrise. And if he be able, he shall pray also four times between sunrise and sunset. The prayer shall last for the space of an hour, at the least, and he shall seek ever to extend it, and to inflame himself in praying. Thus shall he invoke his Holy Guardian Angel for eleven weeks, and in any case he shall pray seven times daily during the last week of the eleven weeks. And during all this time he shall have composed an invo- cation suitable, with such wisdom and understanding as may be given him from the Crown, and th…
…ust have divested herself completely of her robe. See CCXX. I. 62. THE Priestess. But to love me is better than all things; if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of eart…
… and doubt whether it is so much better than your present best, or whether it will be finished in time . Then, wear that present best to-night (wet , of course) knowing you are sure to soil it. 3. Obviously, all the usual conditions of a Magical Operation apply in this as in all cases; your aim must conform with your True Will, and all that; but there is one curious point about an Act of Truth: this , that one should resort to it only when there is no other method possible. In the explorer's case, above, it won't do if he has any means of hurry…
…u know?" "Why. it's Captain Fuller that told us so. " "And how do you know that Fuller was right?" "I'm afraid you're a wicked man; good-night. " While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness. Sometimes, note well! they are even frank about it, and say plainly that there would be no merit in it if there were any reasonable basis for it! This position is at the worst both honest and intelligible; the only trouble is that there is no possible means of deciding which of two conflicting statements to accept. In fai…
…st , and , as a flash of lightning , it must be vivid , bright , flaming for a moment , awful , eloquent , rush ing from the darkness of night through the flashing elements of day into the silence of eternity . And this is exactly the poetry we here find . No poems are of any great length , no poems here contain a labour on the part of the reader to attain the end , though in some places the labours of Hercules seem insignificant compared with the labours of mental un knotting , but even in such places ( where the sense becomes tangled in the r…
…m a savant and a nobleman, known all over the world, I daresay.” “T am no fool, and I shall keep you. Come, I must be off to Brighton to-night ; I have left my thoughts in the cover- less box there.” “T shall not go to Brighton, sir! Are you mad? Dol look like a piece of wood?” “The appearance has nothing to do with the case. As to madness, I fear I should have gone mad 7 I had not found you at last. Come; my men are waiting, ready for any 358
…m a savant and a nobleman, known all over the world, I daresay.” “T am no fool, and I shall keep you. Come, I must be off to Brighton to-night ; I have left my thoughts in the cover- less box there.” “T shall not go to Brighton, sir! Are you mad? Dol look like a piece of wood?” “The appearance has nothing to do with the case. As to madness, I fear I should have gone mad 7 I had not found you at last. Come; my men are waiting, ready for any 358
…o find how many of the ideas which I had derived from my reading were utterly incorrect. Once, for instance we arrived at an inn late at night. It was shut. We had heard that when the coach arrived they would open, so we decided to wait for the half hour or so, as we needed food and sleep. It was a cold, drear night. To pass the time we took a stroll across the sand, intending to climb a small hill and get a moonlight panorama from the top. As we walked I awoke to the fact that my feet were freezing cold. I could not understand this at all --- …
THE VIRGIN 69 “ Can that have been human ? ” I see you point through the drizzling night to a cramped and shivering form . Can that have been a woman ? That living death , de graded by crime , brutalized by vice , vitiated , unsouled ; lower than a slave , worse than a dog ; spurned by man , shunned by woman , a human wreck , a growing horror ? Even so , once a smiling girl , sweet as a rose , pure as a lily ; now the bedraggled gin -sodden har ridan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human min…
…n reveal and accomplish . THE ADEPTS It is this something , this light which every Adept sets out to discover ; for, whether in the dark night of the neophyte , or the noonday brilliancy of the supreme magus , Reason deserts us , and we at length are forced to seek a diviner illumination beyond those dark realms of rational understanding . Crowley writes on thispoint, in " Eleusis ," as follows : Not while reason is , as at present , the best guide known to men , not until humanity has developed a mental power of an entirely different kind . Fo…
…ania, her immediate neighbourhood was crowded with foul larve. In a legal and womanly manner she had despatched her first husband to the night of a Sanatorium and thence to an early grave. She had suffered badly at the hands of her second. This we may take as being the coarsest form of that automatic justice, which is dealt only to the coarsest natures. It had not, however, extirpated an iota of her fund of self-esteem and lust for authority. To the latter, Lionel had often fallen a victim. He was born bright and happy; the Houses had done well…
…ania, her immediate neighbourhood was crowded with foul larve. In a legal and womanly manner she had despatched her first husband to the night of a Sanatorium and thence to an early grave. She had suffered badly at the hands of her second. This we may take as being the coarsest form of that automatic justice, which is dealt only to the coarsest natures. It had not, however, extirpated an iota of her fund of self-esteem and lust for authority. To the latter, Lionel had often fallen a victim. He was born bright and happy; the Houses had done well…