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Page 91 of 1971944 · PDF PAGE 84
…the Strength of Geburah, but the influence from Chesed upon Geburah, the Path bal‐ anced both vertically and horizontally on the Tree of Life (see diagram). For this reason it has been thought better to change the traditional title. Lust implies not only strength, but the joy of strength exercised. It is vigour, and the rapture of vigour. “Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.” “Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…r tresses, And led him to the river, Caught him and kissed with young caresses, And then—her cruel smiles quiver ! Beneath the waves his life represses For ever and for ever ! I knew the danger of the deed The while enrapt I gladdened. My eyes upon the dancer feed As one by daylight saddened After long night whose slumbers bleed, By dreams deceived and maddened ! It might be—the delusive dance, The shadowy form I saw, Apollo’s misty quivering lance Thrown to elude God’s law; It might be—doth the maid advance, Evanish, or withdraw? So stung by c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 224
… not sound as if I were still wholly lunatic in the rays of the honeymoon. The explanation is that the mere fact of getting back to camp life reawakened in me the old ambitions and interests. It may be part of my feeling for ritual that to put on certain types of clothes is to transform my state of mind. However lazy I may be, I have merely to change trousers for knickerbockers to feel athletic at once. There is also the point that I make a profession of virtue when reminded of certain dates, just as a totally irreligious man might go to church…
1901 · PDF PAGE 40
…hadst cast the dies Whence no appeal, in any other wise! I am the soul of the grim face of things; Mine are the Sphinx’s wings; Mine own life lives with this event! Yet even I, its very self, lament The execrable tyranny, The rayless misery Of this wild whirlpool sea of circumstance. Mine old eyes look askance: It is my punishment to dwell In mine own self-created hell. [CORA vushes in. MADELINE. What curse of God hath smitten you? I see Exceeding horror in abiding shape, Blasting the countenance of peace and love With some distortion. O your m…
1903 · PDF PAGE 30
…iosDA. Why then The Luck may avail if that wried tongue can speak Straight ! Hast thou aught to bid me do? To me naught matters more. My life I cast On the one throw ; and, having lost, I have lost.
1905 · PDF PAGE 43
…ers, whose passing pain Ripens to marvellous after-gain. Thou art the fair, the wise, the divine ! Thou art our mother, our goddess, our life ! Thou art our passion, our sorrow, our strife ! Thou, on whose forehead no lights ever shine, Thou, our redeemer, our mistress, our wife, Thou, barren sister of deathlier brine, Venus Callipyge, mother of mine !
1909 · PDF PAGE 22
…the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One. 66. Write, and find ecstasy in writing! Work, and be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life and death! Ah! thy 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 and, rejoice! We are one; we are none. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! 68. Harden! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep—die! 21
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
…nto me in the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 221
…s hands in blessing, he recites :] C.I.C4T. I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollow and height, In the festal mystical revel, The rapturous Bacchanal rite ! The rocks and trees are yours, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will ! Ι kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet's horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! 41
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
…nto me in the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love; but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 221
…s hands in blessing, he recites :] C.I.C4T. I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love, And life for every one. Ye shall dance on hill and level ; Ye shall sing in hollow and height, In the festal mystical revel, The rapturous Bacchanal rite ! The rocks and trees are yours, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will ! Ι kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star; Your hair as a comet's horrent, Ye shall see things as they are! 41
1944 · PDF PAGE 193
…DS This card derives from Netzach (Victory) in the suit of Fire. But the Seven is a weak, earthy, feminine number as regards the Tree of Life, and represents a departure from the bal‐ ance so low down on the Tree that this implies a loss of confidence. Fortunately, the card is also attributed to Mars in Leo. Leo is still the Sun in his full strength, but the marks of decadence are already to be seen. It is as if the wavering fire sum‐ moned the brutal energy of Mars to its support. But this is not enough to counter‐ act fully the degeneration o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
12 over him." It seems possible that this early impression determined his course in later life when he came to take up Magick; for the one document which gripped him was The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, in which the essential work is "To obtain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel". It is very important to mention that the mind of the child was almost abnormally normal. He showed no tendency to see visions, as even commonplace children often do. The Bible was his only book at this period; but neither the…
1899 · PDF PAGE 173
… that may not forget “The wasted hours!” Ah, bitter interest Of our youth’s capital—forgotten zest _ In all the pleasures of o’erflowing life, Wine tasteless, tired the brain, and cold the breast ! Ah! but if with it is one good deed wrought, | One kind word spoken, one immortal thought Born in thee, all is paid, the weary strife Grows victory. “ Love is all and Death is nought.”
1902 · PDF PAGE 40
…Thy heart, as with a core of light Shut in the mystery of a dead world. Thou formless sense of gloom and terror ! Thou Upas, new tree of life—by sinister 38
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
…n my spirit a more subtle fire Of God, that I may comprehend the more The sacred purity of thy divine Essence ! O Queen, O Goddess of my life, Light unbegotten, Scintillating spark Of the All-Self ! O holy, holy Spouse Of my most godlike thought, come forth ! I say, And manifest unto thy worshipper In more candescent fulgours ! Let the air Ring with the passion of my holy cry Unto the Highest. For persistent will
1905 · PDF PAGE 119
…gladly to the door I rushed And flung it wide. Why ! no one’s there ! Arouse ! I am asleep. What horror came and crushed My whole soul’s life out as some shadow brushed My body and passed in ? All sense allows At last the fearful truth—This is the house ! This is my old house on the marsh, and here, Here is the terror of the distant sea Moaning, and here the wind that wails, the drear Groans like a ghost’s, the desolate house of fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house ! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlest…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…ght sun broadens over all the earth. The green leaves fall, fall into his caresses, And all the world’s heart leaps, again addresses Its life, and girds it in the golden girth. Then noon full-fashioned lies upon the steep. The large sun sighs and turns his bridle-rein, Thinks of the ocean, turns his heart to sleep, Laughing no longer, not yet prone to weep, Feeling the prelude of the coming pain. The hills and dales are dumb beneath the heat, And all the world lies tranced or mutely dreaming, Save some low sigh caught up where pulses beat Of wa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 7
No serpent in the generous draught of wine ? Did I guess all, who guessed your life well given Up to my kiss ? Aha ! the veil is riven ! Beneath the smiling mask of a young bride Languorous, luscious, melancholy-eyed ; Beneath the gentle raptures, hints celestial Of holy secrets, kisses like soft dew, Beneath the amorous mystery, I view The surer shape, a visage grim and bestial, A purpose sly and deadly, a black shape, A tiger snarling, or a grinning ape Resolved by every devilish device Upon my murder. This I clearly see Now you arefor an ho…
1912 · PDF PAGE 273
…forgive me if I call thee Child— The weight of my mortality in years, I reckon not, but tribulations wild, With stormy battle, stress of life and fears. I see thee once again athwart the mist Of Time, and past the wane of many moons Not changed, with still a change—the same, I wist, Yet not—as purest daylight’s change from noon. ΙΙ I then beheld thee with thy tresses rolled In darkling curls and masses long adown : A child thou wert, in maiden’s youthful mould, \Vith childhood‘s pensive magic round thee thrown. 231