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THE WAKE WORLD Y name is Lola, because I am the Key of Delights, and the other children in my dream call me Lola Daydream. When I am awake, you see, I know that I am dreaming, so that they must be very silly children, don’t you think? There are people in the dream, too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. There is only one, for there never could be any one like him. I call him my Fairy Prince. He rides a horse with beautiful wings like a swan, or sometimes a strange creature like a lion or a …
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…rgument of the Paper. That rune these boys forget, miserable ones! Therefore, lost in the unthinkable depths of their depravity, do they dream evil dreams called “ Others,” “ Fellow-men ” and the like (Fellow-men is really a nightmare so appalling that only the “pass men” of the G. W. B. ever dream it, since it implies the ghastly and horrible phantasm of “ mankind”). Now in their better selves is a certain force whose troubled reflec tion is called “Love.” This tinctures the dream, and they instantly feel compassion for the “ Others "—who, bein…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…hould be the Saviour of the World, which is what one wants to be, isn’t it? Only sometimes the world means all the other children in the dream, and sometimes the dream itself, and sometimes the wake-things one sees before one is quite, quite awake. The prince tells me that really and truly only the First House where his Father lived was really a wake-House, all the others had a little sleep-House about them, and the further you got the more awake you were, and began to know just how much was dream and how much wake. Via" v. Pertica Then there w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…d so are you. So he wouldn’t care what any one thought he was. Really all the passages to the first Three Houses are very useful; all the dream-world and the half-dream world, and the Wake-world are governed from those passages. I began to see now how very unreal even the Wake-world is, because there is just a little dream in it, and the right world is the Wide-Wide-Wide-Wake-World. My lover calls me little Lola Wide awake, not Lola Daydream any more. But it is always Lola, because I am the Key of Delights. I never told you about the first two ho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
…ng on saying “ Pass along, please l” I would have liked to stay in the Fourth House all my life, but I began to see it was just a little dream House too; and I couldn’t rest, because my own House was the very next one. But it’s too awful to tell you how to get there. You want the most fearful lot of courage, and there ’5 nobody to help you, nobody at all, and there’s no proper passage. But it’s frightfully exciting, and you must wait till next time before I tell you how I started on that horrible journey, and if I ever got there or not. Explici…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The passage where the twins live is very difficult too. They are two sisters; and one is very pure and good, and the other is a horrid fast woman. But that shows you how silly dream language is— really there is another way to put it: you can say they are two sisters, and one is very silly and ignorant, and the other has learnt to know and enjoy. Now when one is a Princess it is very important to ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…ant light it is possible to think of. And it was wake-light too; and everybody knows that even wake-darkness is really brighter than the dream-light. So you must just guess what it was like. There was more than that too; I can’t possibly tell you. I know too what I.N.R.l. on the Ring meant: and I can’t tell you that either, because the dream-language has such a lot of important words missing. It’s a very silly language, I think. By and by I came to myself a little, and now I was really and truly
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…men go and put all the proper numbers on them, and a little sarcastic remark to make them ashamed; so they read: Fifth House, and mostly dream at that. Seventh House. External splendour and internal corruption. and so on. And on each one I put “ No thoroughfare from here to the First House. The only way is out of doors. By order.” This was frightquy annoying, because in the old days we could walk about inside everywhere, and not get wet if it rained, but nowa days there isn’t any way from the Fourth to the Third House. You could go of course by…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…illuminating the blooming bees. I often hold long conversations with people, and discover long after that I wasn’t there at all. I often dream and am honestly puzzled whether the events of it have or have not happened. Bones. Consciously refuse to admit that your sensorium is not another's—that is all. About my second advantage—Brother, what is a Black Magician?
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
… down into it, and I will come to you.” So I made up a pretty poem to say every time I woke up, for you see I am a very sleepy girl, and dream ever so much about the other children; and that is a pity, because there is only one thing I love, and that is my Fairy Prince. 50 this is the poem I did to worship the ring, part is words, and part is pictures. You must pick out what the pictures mean, and then it all makes poetry. THE INVOCATION OF THE RING ADONAIl Thou inmost A, Self-glittering image of my soul, Strong lover to thy Bride’s desire, Cal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…ilt, and the lamp was the only light they had to build it by, and the cloak was the abyss of darkness that covers it all up. That is why dream-people never see beautiful things like I’m tell ing you about. All their houses are built of common red bricks, and C l
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…tand it, “joy! Joy! joy!" There are violet flames darting through the air, each one a little sob of happy love. One began to see what the dream~world was really for at last; every time any one kissed any one for real love, that was a little throb of violet flame in this beautiful House in the Wake-World. And we bathed and swam in the pool, and were so happy you can’t think. But they said: “Little girl, you must pay for the entertainment.” [I forgot to tell you there was music like fountains make as they rise and fall, only of course much more won…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…agon on the floor, and all the sides were painted every colour you can think of, with curious figures and pictures. The light was not like dream light at all; it was wake light, and it came through a beautiful rose in the ceiling. In the middle was a table all covered with beautiful pictures and texts, and there were ever such strange things on it. There was a little crucifix in the middle, all of diamonds Sepulchrum and emeralds and rubies, and other precious stones, and there was a ' dagger with a golden handle, and a cup full of the most delici…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
… very difficult Palace to talk about, and the further you get in, the harder it is to say what you mean because it all has to be put into dream talk, as of course the language of the wake-world is silence. So never mind! let me get on. We came by and by to the Sixth House. I forgot to say that all those three paths were really one, be cause they all meant that things were difi‘erent inside to outside, and so people couldn’t judge. It was fearfully interesting; but mind you don’t go in those passages without the Fairy Prince. And of course there’s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
… everything is all harmony and beauty below, and crowned above with the crown of twelve stars, which is the only way you can put it into dream talk. Now you see you don’t need to struggle to go on any more, because you know already that all the House is one Palace, and you move about in your own wake world, just as is necessary. All the paths up to the Second House all open—the path of the Hierophant with the flaming star and the incense in the vast cathedral, and the path of the Mighty Ruler, who governs everything with his orb and his crown an…