His pulses pause
For his despair ineffable.

Aleister Crowley, Song of Charicles in the Tale of Archais, Part I

Hermetic quote Crowley song charicles pulses pause despair ineffable

Consider also:

  1. “These preposterous people do not understand that they insult the public and make themselves ridiculous in the the bargain when they offer to ‘improve’ Victor Hugo; to bring Dumas ‘up-to-date’; to put ‘punch’ into Ibsen; or to ‘alter’ history a bit in order to give Joan of Arc an earthly lover.”
  2. “The idea is that, by forcing the mind to follow, and as far as possible to realise, the language of Beyond the Abyss, the student will succeed in bringing his reason under control.”
  3. “You think one of the two’s yours—joy or misery,” Margaret said, “or both. Why, if you don’t, should you mind?”
  4. “Wherever there is a want, the supply will not fail to come, for there is no vacuum in nature.”
  5. Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories