The Book of Thel, Thel's Motto (1789–1792)
1780s
“Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?
Or Love in a golden bowl?”
The Book of Thel, Thel's Motto (1789–1792)
Context: Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?
Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?
Or Love in a golden bowl?
“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.”
The Comment; this is a summary combination and restatement of the assertions of I:40 and I:57.
The Book of the Law (1904)
“If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?”
Book title (1978)
Source: When God Created Mothers
Tractatus VII, 8 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/170207.htm
Latin: "dilige et quod vis fac."; falsely often: "ama et fac quod vis."
Translation by Professor Joseph Fletcher: Love and then what you will, do.
In epistolam Ioannis ad Parthos
“Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.”
p 438
On the Mystical Body of Christ
Context: Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow. Thou mayest say, "I love only God, God the Father." Wrong! If Thou lovest Him, thou dost not love Him alone; but if thou lovest the Father, thou lovest also the Son. Or thou mayest say, "I love the Father and I love the Son, but these alone; God the Father and God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ who ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father, the Word by whom all things were made, the Word who was made flesh and dwelt amongst us; only these do I love." Wrong again! If thou lovest the Head, thou lovest also the members; if thou lovest not the members, neither dost thou love the Head.
“Who stunned the dirt into noise?
Ask the mole, he knows.”
"The Lost Son," ll. 66-70
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Context: Who stunned the dirt into noise?
Ask the mole, he knows.
I feel the slime of a wet nest.
Beware Mother Mildew.
Nibble again, fish nerves.
Give
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
De Oculo Morali quoted in Georg Herzfeld (ed.) An Old English Martyrology (1900)
Context: Formerly the Church with its prelates of old time, was golden in wisdom, silver in cleanness of life, brazen in eloquence, which are three things needful to a preacher; that is, brightness of wisdom, cleanness of life, and sonorousness of eloquence. But of the feet, the last, that is the modern prelates, part is iron through their hardness of heart, and part is clay by their carnal luxury.
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
