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Page 89 of 1051996 · PDF PAGE 170
…this hate of the mother, /mr is the Sanskrit root = “Kill,” hence Mara, mors,1 Maria, and I suppose meer, mere, mer1 2—in short, lots of words meaning death or sea. Note Mordred as the traitor villain in Morte d’Arthur.3 In Liber Legis we have “Mary” who is to be “torn upon wheels” apparently because she is “inviolate”. Liber 418 has some explanation of this: “because she hath shut herself up,” I seem to remember is the phrase.4 1 [In Buddhism Mara is a devaputta or superhuman entity, usually char acterized as evil; he has other technical syno…
1905 · PDF PAGE 167
160 THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY CORA, O Ulric, Ulric ! bear with me awhile ! Speak no more words—each syllable strikes here, [Hand to heart. A cloud of winged scorpions, that rage In mine own deepest self; for there I know Tame harpies that had ceased to torture , me; And this more ghastly brood renews their sting, Adding a triple poison! O my soul Is torn with pangs more horrible than hell, Scorching the very marrow of my bones, Corrupting me—corrupting me, I say— O God! is any safety at Thy feet? Be silent, O be silent for awhile, And I will shrivel…
1905 · PDF PAGE 266
…nd broke your heart. ELIZABETH, Oh no, I shall not die. Have I not Mary and the angels yet? TANNHAUSER. You are so pure, so pitiful—your word Cannot bring evil. Yes, I promise you! ELIZABETH. Go then the bitter pilgrimage to Rome, Gain absolution for this piteous past From him that owns the twin all-opening keys That bar your infinite on either side. Then ! look with freshness, hope, and fortitude Still to the summit—the ideal God. TANNHAUSER. I have no hope nor trust in man at all; But I will go. Fare well, Elizabeth ! [Gotwng, returns and kne…
1939 · PDF PAGE 58
…s us that faith is 'the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things unseen.' I do not think, then, that we are to imagine this word faith to mean what that lecherous gross-bellied boor, Martin Luther, maintained. The faith of which he speaks is anything but a substance, and as for evidence, it is nothing but the power, as the schoolboy said, of believing that which we know to be untrue. To have any sensible meaning at all, faith must mean experience, and that view is in exact accord with the conclusion to which we were led in my last …
1906 · PDF PAGE 72
…of arm the sea-gray eyes And sweet clean body of my spirit’s queen, Where nothing dwells that God did not devise. THE SEVENTH DAY. ‘This word ‘love,’ which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone.” 3 Henry VI, THEREFORE I burnt the wicked pantacle, And cast my love behind me once again. I mused upon the mystery of pain, Where the Gods ‘taught me by another spell Not chosen from the armoury of Hell, But given of Mercury to cleanse the stain Of the old planet: thus I wrote me plain Secrets divi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
… of ALIM, complementary with that here discussed. 8l may be regarded as a number of Yesod rather than of Luna. The actual meaning of the word may be taken as indicating the formula. Aleph may be referred to Harpocrates, with allusion to the well-known poem of Catullus. Lamed may imply the exaltation of Saturn, and suggest the Three of Swords in a particular manner. Yod will then recall Hermes, and Mem the Hanged Man. We hâve thus a Tetragrammaton which contains no féminine component. The initial Force is here the Holy Spirit and its vehicle or …
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…fore a set of [114] fools. He will produce you poems, and infants, and events, as the case may be; but you have more or less to take his word for it that he did the acts responsible primarily for them. Another difficulty about true magick is that it is so perfectly a natural process that its phenomena never excite surprise except by their timeliness — so that one has to record hundreds of experiments to set up a case which will even begin to exclude coincidence. For instance, I want a certain book. I use my book- producing talisman. The followi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…! ELEAZAR. Beware now, all ye old wise men, of this. For high things spoken and unjustly heard, Or heard and turned aside, are fruitless words, Or bear a blossom evil and abhorred, Lest God be mocked. Consider well of this. CHORUS. A sword, a sword, to smite our foes withal ! ELEAZAR. A help shall come from desert lands to us. CHORUS. Toward what end? much, But uttermost destruction more, for we Llave no strong hope in any hand of man: God is our refuge and our tower of strength. In Him if any man abide—But if He put his faith in horsemen, or t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 153
… THE LEPER. I am a leper, but I am the king. S’AFI. Monstrous illegible horror, let thy mouth Frame from its charnel-house some pregnant word Intelligible. THE LEPER. I am king; thy mother’s limbs Clung fast to mine when I begot thy father. S’AFI. He died in battle; thou art not the king. THE LEPER. I did not fall in battle ; but my queen Saw on my breast the livid mark of sin That was the leprosy of her own soul, And drove me forth to compass my disgrace With infamies ineffable. S’AFI. I know; I shall avenge. The old gods come again. THE LEPER…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…r roar of strepitation : whirred The essential All That was Her veil: her voice I had heard Had not large sobbing fears surged; will and word Fall Down from the black pearls of the night, down, back To night’s impearléd black ; Down, from chryselephantine wall And rose-revolving ball, Doomed, fierce through Saturn’s aeons to tear, Fraught with the glory of a dead despair. VIII. FLAVIA. I KISSED the face of Flavia fair, In the deep wet dews of dawn, And the ruddy weight of my lover’s hair Fell over me and held me there On the broad Italian lawn.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 90
…e, And how the hateful system stank there- of: I let her go, both weeping, both enough —- Heart-broken: no farewell went ever - through— Words came not: only ever: ‘I :love you !” - With broken kisses and stained cheeks of love. So all day long and. half the night we. wan- dered oO Down deep lanes and in gardens, like lost souls. Strong kisses that had surfeited a score Of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered ; And tears like fire, and looks like burn- ing coals, Without a word passed on for evermore. THE FIFTIETH DAY. Suffolk, ‘‘IfI depart…
1907 · PDF PAGE 103
…— The Hoang-Ho, its note, the monstrous Kung !2 Or let Kailasha’s ? godded peak Summon the oread and the gnome To leave their toils, the word to speak That shakes its azure-splitting dome With the reverberation—listen !—Aum ! Let olive fail, and mangostin ! O’erturn the dark forbidden draught ! Give me the taste, the taste unclean Of human flesh and blood that inean Some infinite horror to the light that laughed ! So let the scent of lily and rose, Of jasmine, taggara,® pass away ! Let patchouli, patchouli, repose My nostrils with your odour gr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…t is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar taste sweet in the mouth. Attempts to explain these simple matters always progress into a learned lucidity, and on furth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
…ood a sign-post, the lance of a Spahi, thrust into the bank of a ditch; nailed to it was a placard on which was coarsely chalked the one word ESPION. A fatal curiosity drew him to the spot; as he approached, the wild dogs that were fighting around the sinister signal fled in terror from their ghastly meal. A sword had been thrust through the belly of the corpse; the tongue had been torn out. One could recognize at a glance the work of Algerian troops — men who had lost a third of their effectives through the treacheries of the German spies. But…
1905 · PDF PAGE 224
…ness catches at my feet ! A tongue of fresh, impossible, keen light Burns on my brow—a silver stream of heat. Iam constrained: The Awful Word I write From the one Paraclete. The Reign of Darkness hath an_ end. Behold! Eight stars are gathered in one fery sign.? This is the birth-hour of the Age of Gold; The false gold pales before the Gold divine. The Christ is calling to the starry fold Of Souls—Arise and shine ! 1 Eight planets were together in the ‘‘ fiery” sign, Sagittarius, towards the close of the year 1899.
1919 · PDF PAGE 311
… of art or of religion, I, for my part, cannot conceive. Who the figures represent I am not sure; . . . “Yes, the horror—thatis the only word for it. I do not mean that nowadays any particular horrors are perpetratedin the grim recesses of these giant fanes. I do not know that at any time they were the scenes of great cruelty or other abominations, though certainly they present the completest mise-en-scéne for such excesses. What I do know is that, from the corner-stone to the coping of the highest gopura, they are the product of gloomy, perver…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
For four weeks no word came from outside; with one exception, when Sister Clara brought a telegram to Cyril. It was unsigned, and the message curt. "About August First" was all its purport. "The better the day, the better the deed!" cried Cyril gaily. Iliel questioned him. "Just magick!" he answered. She did not pursue the subject: she divined that the matter did not concern her, and she regretted even that microscopical interruption. But although Iliel was kept from all knowledge of external events, it was by dint of steel. The Black Lodge had…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…up which would put him out of business." "But what is their business?" "Ultimately, you may call it selfishness — only that's a dreadful word, and will mislead you. We're [112] just as selfish; only we realize that other things beyond our own consciousnesses are equally ourselves. For instance, I try to unite myself as intimately as I can with every other mind, or body, or idea, that comes in my way. To take that cone simile, I want to be all the different curves I can, so as to have a better chance of realizing the cone. The Black Lodge magici…
1929 · PDF PAGE 178
… of equal rights. Now Iliel was at present a microcosm of the Moon, and her resentments were either changed into enthusiasms by a timely word from Sister Clara or one of the others, or else ignored. The public is a long-suffering dumb beast, an ass crouching beneath heavy burdens, and it needs not only unendurable ill-treatment, but leadership, before it will revolt. All Iliel's impulses were purposeless, negative things, ideas rather of escape than of any definite programme. She wanted to jump out of the frying-pan, neither fearing the fire no…
1905 · PDF PAGE 191
…r without sense and horror without shape Most surely there ! O melancholy ! charming child of folly, Where is thy comfort told without a word ? Where are choly, Familiar bird ? thy plumes, beloved melan- I]. THE GATE OF TO LAURA. Misrress, I pray thee, when the wind Exults upon the roaring sea, Come to my bosom, kissed and kind And sleep upon the lips of me! Dream on my breast of quiet days, Kindled of slow absorbing fire ! Sleep, while I pondef on the ways And secret paths of my desire ! Dream, while my restless brain probes deep The mysteries…