Clouds Without Water

Ir. I. 5. IT. 1. HL 7. IV. q sqq. VIL In TX. 1, THE ADEPT Ra. — The 'Sun-God’ Horus. — The hawk, also a ’Sun-God’ Apollonius of Tyana, the notorious pseudo- Christ, used to cover himself in wool in order to meditate. Fellatrix. —- Only a Latin dictionary can unveil the loathsome horror of this filthy word, — Impossible to comment on this shocking ‘sin against the Holy Ghost’ To compare the very Spirit or Breath of God to — Oh, Lord, how long? Basilisk. — a fabulous creature that slew all that it looked upon. Lingam. — The Hindu God(') — the male organ of generation. Yoni — Its feminine equivalent. That the poor Hindus should worship these shameful things! And we? Qh how poor and inade- quate is all our missionary effort! Let us send out more, and yet more, to our perishing brothers! Pheedra was repulsed by her son Hippolytus; Semiramis receved the willing embraces of her son Ninus. XI. 1. Io, AIT. 6, XV, Io. L 8, V. 1-6, LX, 3. Only Nothing is. — Thereis much metaphy- sical nonsense culled from German Atheistic philosophy, in these poems. A wicked philo- sopher is far more dangerous than a mere voluptuary, Doomisday. — An affected archaism for the Day of Judgment. How can the writer dare to speak of this great day, on which he shall be damned for ever? “ For he that believeth not 1s condemned already, Mother. — Nature. How true would be these striking words, if only for “ the love-taught magus, the hermaphrodite ” with all its su- perstition, blasphemy, and obscenity, one were to write “ The Christ-saved sinner, brought into the light”, The arcanum in the adytum. — More classical affectation for “ the secret thing in the holy place ”, THE VAMPIRE Savonarola. — An ascetic Florentine doctor, For a good modern account of vampires and their habits, consult Mr Bram Stoker's Dra- cula. Kriss, — The Malayan dagger.