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…ere were terrible lions, like furnaces for fury, and they all roared out: “ Holy! Holy! Holy!” and leaped and danced for joy. And when I saw myself in the mirrors, the dome was one mass of beautiful green mirrors, I saw how serious I looked, and that I had to go on. I hoped the Fairy Prince would look serious too, because it is a most dreadful business going beyond the Seventh House; but he only looked the same as ever. But oh! how I kissed him, and how I clung to him, or I thinkl should never, never have had the courage to go up those dreadful…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…There were nasty Jackals about, they made such a noise, and at the end I could see two towers. Then there was the queerest moon you ever saw, only a quarter full. The shadows fell so strangely, one could see the most mysterious shapes, like great bats with women’s faces, and blood dripping from their mouths, and creatures partly wolves and partly men, everything changing one into the other. And we saw shadows like old, old, ugly women, creeping about on sticks, and all of a sudden they would fly up into the air, shrieking the funniest kind of so…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…ne I found a wondrous little stone. It lay forgotten on the road Far from the ways of man's abode. When on this stone mine eyes I cast I saw my Treasure found at last. —--0 stone, so red and rare and wise! 0 fragment of far Paradise l ” MACHEN.
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…rful. So to get the noise out of my head, I took the little whip and whipped myself till all my blood poured down over everything, and I saw the whole house like a cataract of foaming blood rushing headlong from the flaming and scintillating Star of Fire that blazed and blazed in the candescent dome, and everything went red before my eyes, and a great flame like a strong wind blew through the House with a noise louder than any thunder could possibly be, so that I couldn’t hold myself hardly, and I took up the sharp knives of the machines and cut …
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
…cried, and cried, and cried. But before I had got very far they called me back; and the people who had been so stern were smiling, and I saw they had taken the coflin out of the little C_urinter mortuos room with seven sides. And the coffin was quite, quite empty. Then filiiiffiiiiue; they began to tell us all about it, and I heard my Fairy Prince within mumm' the little room saying holy exalted things, such as the stars trace in the sky as they travel in the Car called “Millions of Years.” Then they took me into the little room, and there was my F…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…nd said, or of the song we sang as we danced face out wards in a great circle ever closing in on the Devil on the throne. But whenever I saw a toad or a hat, or some horrid insect, my Fairy Prince always whispered: “It is the Saviour of the world,” and I saw that it was so. We did all the most beautiful wicked things you can imagine, and yet all the time we knew they were good and right, and must be done if ever we were to get to the House of Gold. 50 we en joyed ourselves very much and ate the most extraordinary supper you can think of. There …
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…ter it grew. My Fairy Prince said: “Everybody that ever was has come along this path, and yet only one ever got to the end of it.” But I saw a lot of people walking straight through as if they knew it quite well; he explained, though, that they were really only one; and if you walked through that proved it. I thought that was silly, but he ’5 much older and wiser than I am; so I said nothing. The truth is that it is a 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 p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…w me everything, and one day when we were married I should be mistress of it all. Then I wanted to be married to him at once, and then I saw it couldn’t be, because I was so sleepy and had bad dreams, and one can’t be a good wife if one is always doing that sort of thing. But he said I would be older one day, and not sleep so much, and every one slept a little, but the great thing was not to be lazy and contented with the dreams, so I mean to fight hard. By and by we came to a beautiful green place with the strangest house you ever saw. Round th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
102 KONX OM PAX He saw in every passer-by Black Magic and the Evil Eye, Interpreting the simplest act As being a Satanic Pact. Of course at times there were a few In some sort victims of the crew; For when his Countess coughed or sneezed, “ Obsessed! ” the poor old fellow wheezed. He sought the Mighty Powers of Good, Invoked the Great White Brotherhood. Like smart and punctual business men, They sent a man round there and then. How gladly reverent doth he greet The sage’s venerable feet! But in a while suspicion grows. “ This fellow, now, by Jo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…I smiled; I bent them to my will; I set them dancing deosil, And singing with seraphic glee “There is none other God than He.” The devil saw that he had failed. He came back very draggle-tailed; And, poised above me in the air, Whined “Mr. Sphinx, now, is it fair? My business is to rack the bones Of saints like you and Mr. Jones! I’m paid to accuse the brethren, sir!" “ I do not blame you, Lucifer. I take my pleasure in your frown Because you ‘represent the Crown.’ And all your prattle means to me: There is none other God than He.” The Devil se…
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THE WAKE WORLD 5 I saw the image of the One: I came from darkness into L.V.X. I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I.N.R.l.—me crucified, Me slain, interred, arisen, inspire! T.A.R.O.—me glorified, Anointed, fill with frenzied A! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I eat my flesh: I drink my blood I gird my loins: l journey far: For thou hast shown 0, +, j], 777, mpfihov, I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. Prostrate I wait upon Thy will, Mine Angel, for this grace of union…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…d Allah, so that he always trod upon the name of God! They killed Burckhardt for that, by the way. A pure invention in both instances. I saw his feet, and they were just like anybody else’s, only dirtier. Poverty and paralysis were his crimes, I warrant ye, my masters! Anyway, it was a great joke, and I made a splendid Arabian Tale of it. Read it! was the chorus. Which he did. THE MOSQUE BEWITCHED AN aged sorcerer there dwelt within the town of Marrakesh The fangs of Hell in life who felt twitching his soul out through the flesh. Though not orig…
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
…eking they fled, and all was still; the perfume of the place was spilt Even on the domes of ivory gilt that soar on Allah’s holy hill. I saw the threescore iron kings smite thrice upon the Burning Throne Till Mecca’s black enchaunted stone resolved the rapture of their wings. The proud Emirs bowed low before the awful fervour of the wind
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…ase imagine yourselves to be a set of children. I wrote it for them. Here goes! THE SUSPICIOUS EARL THERE was a poor bedevilled Earl Who saw a Witch in every girl, A Wehr-Wolf every time one smiled, A budding Vampire in a child, A Sorcerer in every man, A deep-laid N ecromantic plan In every casual word; withal Cloaked in its black horrific pall A Vehmgericht obscenely grim, And all designed—to ruin him!
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…enough to see therein the luminous image of the Creator. Last was a doctor who, gazing ever on madness, had himself become mad. He, too, saw God, but, being already mad, died not. Men thought they understood him, and for that reviled him. Being mad, he did not care. All these men smoked heavily, and the silence of the world lay upon them.
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…les; because, whatever he sees, he sees what is beyond as well, and so nothing ever happens. His mouth is redder than any roses you ever saw. I wake up quite when we kiss each other, and there is no dream any more. But when it is not trembling on mine, I see kisses on his lips, as if he were kissing some one that one could not see. Now you must know that my Fairy Prince is my lover, and one day he will come for good and ride away with me and marry me. I shan’t tell you his name because it is too beautiful. It is a great secret be~ tween us. Whe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…red ever so softly, “you will be a mother; there will be a Fairy Prince again to run away with another pretty little Sleepy head. Then I saw S mbola odos Chamelionis S bola G ius et Serpens Mons Abiegnus v. Cnvernarum Cnput candidum NDN erit ND‘N
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
… me all to right? Who of all our proud Olympus shall avail me or befriend? Ah, my lords! but I am weary. See ye any one the end? Nay! we saw her grape and stumble for the secret sidelong door, Lift the latch with trembling fingers, pass within and be no more. There we stood and worshipped sadly (for the cry had touched us home), Worshipped till the gray was azure as the sun rekindled Rome.
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…; for that can never be. The thinkable is false, then? (once more!) _Yea, but equally it is true. So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery; right, too, they who “interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” Yet the latter is the higher formula; the narrowing of the Magical Circle to a point is an easier task than the destruction of that circle (and all both within and without) by the inrush of a higher dimension.
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…hanks to God. “ The instructed infidel shall no longer sneer at the church-goer, for he will have been compelled to go to church until he saw the good points as well as the bad; and the instructed devotee will no longer detest the blasphemer, because he will have laughed with Ingersoll and Saladin. I “Give the lion the heart of the lamb, and the lamb the force of the lion; and they will lie down in peace together." Kwaw ceased, and the heavy and regular breathing of Iuju assured him that his words had not been wasted; at last that restless and h…