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Page 94 of 1051944 · PDF PAGE 37
…troduction of the dogma that Spirit rules the four elements, and the formation of the “Pentagram of Salvation” connected with the Hebrew word IHShVH, Yeheshuah. With regard to Earth, it was considered adequate to make the letter Tau, belonging to Saturn, correspond also to Earth. These additions are clear evidence that the Tarot took definite and arbitrary steps to assert the new discovery in Magick some two thousand years ago; for no system is more rigid than a Hebrew system. And the system of the Sepher Yetzirah is the deepest rooted of all t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 304
…e feels in the eternal Greek which Synge re-awakened in the wild Western world. I am thinking of Riders to the Sea. Experience dulls us; words are prostituted in the brothel of life. In Riders to the Sea, Synge says merely, “A man was drowned.” His genius sweeps away the cobwebs which time spins over the door of the cavern of our imagination. We realize the meaning of those words, “A man was drowned.” This power to make us feel is the divine thing in art. It is the creative force which answers “Yea” to the prophet’s cynical, “Lord, shall these …
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
The nature of these qualities requires careful description. In the Hindu system are three Gunas‐Sattvas, Rajas and Tamas. The word “Guna” is untranslatable. It is not quite an element, a quality, a form of energy, a phase, or a potential; all of these ideas enter into it. All the qualities that can be predicated of anything may be ascribed to one or more of these Gunas: Tamas is darkness, inertia, sloth, ignorance, death and the like; Rajas is energy, excite‐ ment, fire, brilliance, restlessness; Sattvas is calm, intelligence, hicidity and bala…
1939 · PDF PAGE 44
…ent that Dhyana stands to Samadhi rather as the jumping about like a frog, described in a previous lecture, does to Levitation. In other words, Dhyana is an unbalanced or an impure approximation to Samadhi. Subject and object unite and disappear with ecstasy mounting to indifference, and so forth, but there is still a presentation of some kind in the new genus of consciousness. In this view Dhyana would be rather like an explosion of gunpowder carelessly mixed; most of it goes off with a bang, but there is some débris of the original components…
1944 · PDF PAGE 21
…y quantity that one may choose, but not, as the layman may at first sup‐ pose, Nothing, in the “absence‐of‐anything” vulgar sense of the word. (See “Berashith”, Paris, 1902). “THE NAPLES ARRANGEMENT” The Qabalists expanded this idea of Nothing, and got a second kind of Nothing which they called “Ain Soph”—”Without Limit”. (This idea seems not unlike that of Space.) They then decided that in order to interpret this mere absence of any means of definition, it was neces‐ sary to postulate the Ain Soph Aur—”Limitless Light”. By this they seem to ha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…t Sappho and Keats and Swinburne’s early work? Again, we must have ‘direct treatment,’ Mr. Pound affirms, and we must ‘use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.’ Such pronouncements are either platitudes or untrue, they either mean nothing that can’t be taken for granted or a good deal that can’t. The last of these ‘principles’ is that one should ‘compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome.’ If this means that ‘My brother John was nine in May; And I’ll be twelve on New Year’s day…
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
… I have never read such slop. The illustrations match it. The whole pro- duction of Young India is babu in the Anglo-Indian sense of the word. The spirit of India is utterly absent. Drawings and writing alike resemble the senseless flourishes of some callow student. And all this while the babu, while accepting what he imagines to be honours, such as knighthood, from England, is plotting sneakishly in the Bengali manner against her. I would to God that the British would withdraw from India for six months, so that the men of India might exter- mi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
…stream There grew a violet, like a maiden’s dream, And when the wind passed over them, it stirred Their white soft petals with its quiet word. The sun looked on them and their leaves were glad ; Only the purple blossom there, that had No kindred by the stream, let fall a tear, Half wishing for the autumn of the year. But when the summer came, the violet guessed By some slow dream that thrilled her gentle breast, That some sweet thing might come to her; she thought Through the long days of how her dream was wrought : She guessed it woven of the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…I grope—I fall ! What name is this That strikes my spirit as a broken bell Struck by some devilish hammer? In my brain Reverberates some word impossible. O I am broken on the wheel of death ; My bones are ground in some infernal mill ; My blood is as the venom of a snake, Striking each vessel with unwonted pangs, Killing all good within me. I am—Ah! l Wife of Theseus, in love with his son. Hippolytus, by whom she was repulsed,
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
… is wine, And both are blessd in the shrine; Nor is he for priest designated. Who partakes only in one kind. I suited the action to the word. There was also the poem "A Birthday", written on August 10th for Leila Waddell, who was then twenty-six. She had gone to England to fulfil an engagement as leader of the Ladies' Orchestra in The Waltz Dream. The poem describes the history of our liaison. I wrote also two short stories. The hero of "The Woodcutter" is a forester who "chops to live and lives to chop". A silly Frenchman and his mistress are…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…ng of a living rose. The bright eyes gleam—night’s spotless stars Glimmering through folded nenuphars. The red mouth moves, still to the word: ‘* Ves, love!” and ‘‘yes, love!” Then I heard No sound and saw no sight—the world Folded its mighty wings, and curled Its passion round us; bade forget The joy with which our eyes were wet. All faded, folded in the bliss ; Unfolded the first fadeless kiss. Then my soul woke, not sundering lips, But winged against the black eclipse Of sense: my soul on wings did poise Her glory in the vast turquoise Of th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…f its own fire, soiled of its own stain, Falls conquered as a bird Bolt-stricken through the brain, To the resounding plain : The double word, The seesaw of all misery—begin The alluring mysteries of lust and sin ; Ends their delight !—and are they clear to sight ? Or mixed with death, compact of night ? Begin—the bitter tears of impotence, The sad permuted sense , Of this despair—what would you? and re- new The long soft warfare—the enchanted arms, , The silken body’s charms, The lips that murmur and the breasts that sting ; The eyes that sink…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…ake, and its friend remorse. Crime we snatch, between spell and spell. Man is aglare, and is off unheard. Woman hath speech, of a single word. Hell may be heaven, for earth is hell! So do I laugh, and the hideous coarse Peals like applause re-echo and cease. Here in the close and noisome cave, Drunk on the breath of the thieves and whores Close as they cram in the maw of the pit, Sick with the stench of the kisses that rave . Round me, surfeiting sense, in scores } Mad with their meaning, I smoke and sit Rhyming at random through my teeth, Grey…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…moon Solemn into the midnight ? You Shone your inviolate violet eyes Into my eyes less sad, and drew Back from the slender witcheries Of word and song: and silence knew What splendour in the silence lies, The soul drawn back into itself. It was the deep environing Wood that then shielded us: the elf And fairy in an emerald ring, And hamadryad of the trees, And naiad of the sleepy lake, That watched us on the mossy leas Look on each other’s face, and take The secret of the universe To sleep with us : you knew, and I, The purport of the eternal c…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…ward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Thus, roughly, Aces‐Princesses Wands cover Asia, Cups the Pacific Ocean, Swords the Americas, Disks Europe and Africa. To make this relationship clear, one may go a little into the symbol of the pentagram, or Shield of David. It represents Spirit ruling the four elements, and is thus a symbol of the Triumph of Man. The idea of the element of Spirit is very difficult to grasp. The letter Shin, which is the letter of Fire, has to do double duty by representing Spirit as well. Generall…
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
THE TALE OF ARCHAITS 17 The sea-nymphs haunt, could say a word of him}; No stars, to whom she looked, had seen the grim Abodes of Charicles, for deadly shade Lowered o’er their top, nor any light be- trayed The horror of their core. Despairing then Of nature’s prophets, and of gods and men, She cast her arms wide open to the sky, Cried loud, and wept, and girt herself to die. It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs Thrust up by magic, in the direst pangs Of Earth, when Earth was yet a whirling cloud Of fire and…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…achieve this? By exalting the will to the point where it is master of circumstance. And how do we do this? By so ordering every thought, word and act, in such a way that the attention is constantly recalled to the chosen object. 6. Suppose I want to evoke the 'Intelligence' of Jupiter. I base my work upon the correspondences of Jupiter. I base my mathematics on the number 4 and its subservient numbers 16, 34, 136. I employ the square or rhombus. For my sacred animal I choose the eagle, or some other sacred to Jupiter. For my perfume, saffronfo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…me hold my crystal cross up to the moon! A guess of gold were at a loss to tell its tune. 7. After the first and fifth feet: No news! No word of Mortadello's fate! No hope To bruise the head of the old snake, the State. No scope. 8. After the first half foot and the second foot: Come, save me, save Thy Maiden! Strike each barbed dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart. 9. After the fifth foot: Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud and fraud. 10. After the second and fourth feet, but…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…rne up, borne up by hands invisible Into a firmament of secret light Manifest, open, permeating me ! Then, then, I cried upon the mystic Word ! (That once begot in me the Venusberg) And lo! that light was darkness—in the , face Of That which gleamed above. And verily My life was borne on the dark stream of death Down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns Built of essential time. © And lo! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and horndd as the moon; Clothed with a sun to which the sun of earth Were tin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 225
…tion isa great Mysterium of our art. Whence a light hidden ina Cross. Now therefore having brooded upon the ocean, and smitten with the Sword, and the Pyramid being builded in its just proportion, was that Light fixed even in the Vault of the Caverns. With one stroke he rent asunder the Veil; with one stroke he closed the same. And entering the Sarcophagus of that Royal Tomb he laid him down to sleep. Four guarded him, and One in the four; Seven enwalled him, and One in the seven, yet were the seven ten, and One in the ten. Now therefore his di…