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Page 98 of 1041905 · PDF PAGE 262
… their abode, the Wretched Ones, Of all unhappiness the sons ! And when, invoking often, thou shalt see That formless Fire; when all the earth is shaken, The stars abide not, and the moon is gone, All Time crushed back into Eternity, The Universe by earthquake overtaken ; Light is not, and the thunders roll, The World is done : When in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature ; fatal is her name ! It fitteth not thy body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…rime 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 with the mire of the slough b…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…orth Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Ele‐ ments rule, going Eastward, 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 t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 217
… Tiphereth, thejLesser Countenance. Press the twin dawn of thy desirous lips In the swart masses of my hair ; bend close, And shroud all earth in masterless eclipse, While my heart’s murmur through thy being flows, To carry up the prayer, as incense teems Skyward, to those immeasurable streams ! Breathe the creative Sigh upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul: Cry, as the chainéd Eagle of the South, ‘* A house of death,” ! and make my spirit whole! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come! come away! but not your mig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…p and look upon the sun ! Save only mine !—that my voice may con- found The universe, and spell the mighty sound To shake all heaven and earth, to mingle hell In chaos, in some limitless profound ; That it may tear Olympus from its place, Mix it with Hades, change the Ocean space, Level the tides of time that sink and swell, And curse my very father to his face! O father, father Apollo, did I wrong Thy chariot and thy horses in my song? Why clove thine arrow the unseated air, The heaven void of thee, why the thunder- thong Slipped from the teth…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…eying, We went forth blindly to the horrible Damp darkness of the pines above. there Strange beasts crossed path of ours, such beasts as earth Bears not, distorted, tortured, loathable, Mouthing with hateful lips some recent blood, Or snarling at our feet. But these attacked No courage of our hearts, we faltered not, And they fell back, snake’s mouth and leopard’s throat, Afraid. But others fawning came behind With clumsy leapings as in friendliness, Dogs with men’s faces, and we beat them off With scabbard, and the hideous path wound on. And t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…ss caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His mercies murmur in the skies. His Name is mighty in us to the end. In Him wecry : Move, answer, and descend ! Apply yourselves to us; arise! Forwhy? We are the Wisdom of your God most high } They rise at mine appointed 1 This Fragment is a paraphrase of one of the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…d in fin and gill You reel unskilfully—he darts away. Alas! you devil, but vou hold me still ! So the blind III. QO first and fairest of Earth’s darling daughters ! How could I sing you?—you have always seemed Unto the saucy driveller as he dreamed Like a rich sunset seen on tropic waters— (Your eyes effulgent from a _ thousand slaughters Looked tenderly upon me !) all the red Raving round you like a glory shed Upon the excellent wonder of your head ; The blue all massed within your marvellous eyes; The gold a curtain of their harmonies As in a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 34
…oosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I break the royal wand. Mortal, a plaything for a thousand fears, I found the earth; I found a lonely place To gaze for ever on the ocean’s face, Lamenting through the lamentable years ; Without a god, deprived of life and death, Sensible only to that sombre breath. Thus wait I on the spring-forgotten shore ; Looking with vain unweeping eyes, for aye Into the wedding of the sea and sky, (That do not wed, ay me !) for evermore Hopeless, forgetting even to aspire Unto that Wisdom ; misera…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…ver! Nature is a lie, The godsa lhe. Myself? but I am found Sole serious in the hateful comedy. Blackness, all blackness! How I hate the earth, The curse that brought my being into birth. I, loving more her loveliness, am bound And broken—thrice more bitter for my mirth ! Song, was it song I trusted in? Or thou, Apollo, was it thou didst bind my brow With laurel for a poison-wreath of hell To sear my brain and blast my being now? A band of most corroding poison wound Dissolving with its venom the profound Deep of my spirit with its terrible Sen…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…olts. Hebe and Ganymedes bring me wine; the Queen of the Gods is throned at my side, and for my playmates are the fairest maidens of the earth. 7. Now what is all this but to do in a partial (and if I may say so, romantic) way what the Yogi does in his more scientifically complete yet more austerely difficult methods? And here the advantage of Magick is that the process of initiation is spontaneous and, so to speak, automatic. You may begin in the most modest way with the evocation of some simple elemental spirit; but in the course of the opera…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…e detested for unnatural breeding— Basilisk, to slay the maddened gazer. Thus the wise man, for no glory-guerdon, Hope of life or joy in earth or heaven, Works, rejecting all the flowers of promise Dew-lit that surround his path; but keepeth Steady all his will to one endeavour, Till the light, the might, the joy, the sorrow, Life and death and love and hate are broken : Work effaces work, avails the worker. Strength, speed, ardour, courage and endur- ance (Needed never more) depart for ever. All dissolves, an unsubstantial phantom, Ghost of mo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…ing is very common, it may well be doubted whether, on their own showing, there is a single "just, lawful and regular mason" left on the earth! By the end of 1910, thanks to my relations with the Grand Hierophant 97° of the Rite of Memphis (a post held after his death by Dr. Gerard Encausee, Theodor Reuss, and myself), I was now a sort of universal inspector-general of the various rites, charged with the secret mission of reporting on the possibility of reconstructing the entire edifice, which was universally recognized by all its more intellig…
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
…and “Justice”: they are inadequate or misleading. with two vases, one pouring water, a symbol of Light, upon herself, the other upon the earth. This is a glyph of the Economy of the Universe. It continually pours forth energy and continu‐ ally reabsorbs it. It is the realisation of Perpetual Motion, which is never true of any part) but necessarily true of the whole. For, if it were not so, there would be something disappearing
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…card a Man, an Eagle, a Bull, and a Lion. Within the circle a naking shining figure with female breasts, with closed eyes in the sign of Earth —right foot advanced, right hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. The hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiral, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand lzvo-rotary. A red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter 5. Such is the conventional hieroglyph.
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
… “Many members in one body,” and it is also written, “I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” Do not even the 303
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
…st his fate ; So is the desolate visage of the wan Lord of Amenti? covered, and the gate Of Ra made perfect. So the waters flow Over the earth, throughout the sea, Till all its deserts glow, And all its salt springs vanish, and night flee The pinions of the day wide-spread, and pure Fresh fountains of sweet water that endure Assume the crown of the wide world, and lend A star of many summits to his head That rules his fate and compasses his end, And seeks the holy mountain of the dead To draw dead fire, and breathe, and give it life ! But thou,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 226
…e more than archaeological interest; for the New Aeon demanded a new system of symbolism. Thus, in particular, the old conception of the Earth as a passive, immobile, even dead, even “evil” element, had to go. It was imperative to restore the King‐Scale colour attribution to that of the Aeon of Isis, Emerald Green, as was understood by the Egyptian Hierophants. This green is, however, not the original vegetable green of Isis, but the new green of spring following the resurrection of Osiris as Horus. Nor are the Disks any more to be considered a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…ver Above the lonely river Aloft: no more I saw than this, The shadowy bending to the first sweet kiss That surely could not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…noon I came Blind in the desert, saw the sun Leap o’er the edge, a fury of flame Shouting for rapture over his prize, The maiden body of earth. Outrun The violent rays; the dawn is dashed In one swift moment into dust. Long lies the Jand with sunlight splashed, Brutally violate to his lust. Alone and naked I watched through The appalling hours of noon ; I parched ; I blistered: all the ghastly crew Of mind’s sick horror mocked me; arched The flaming vault of hell and pressed Its passionate murder in my breast. Seven times I strove to slay me: f…