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THE WAKE WORLD 23 more beautiful than anything, and along it my own dear lover passes to my bridal chamber. Then there are the three ways to the Holy House of the old King, the way by which he is joined with the new Fairy Prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. And there is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a…
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CONTENTS DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION . THE WAKE WORLD Au SLOPER . . . . . . . . THIEN TAO . THE STONE OF Aamcnus . . . . . . . PAGE vii 25 53
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THE WAKE WORLD A TALE FOR BABES AND SUCKLINGS (wrm EXPLANATORY norms in HEBREW AND LATIN FOR THE use 0F "rm: wrsn AND PRUDENT)
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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 …
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…s 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 was the other passage where there was a narrow edge Stimul…
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THE WAKE WORLD 13 before, even than when he used to kiss me After that they said I could go into the Bride-chamber, but it was only the most curious room that ever was with seven sides. There was a dreadful red dragon 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 th…
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THE WAKE WORLD 19 horribly disfigured with great advertisements, and every single house had written all over it: FIRST HOUSE This is his Majesty’s favourite'Residence. No other genuine. Beware of worthless imitations. Come in HERE and spend lifel Come in HERE and see the Serpent eat his Taill So I was furious, as you may imagine, and had 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. …
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…ters for the things he really wants, and he can’t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. But I was telling you about the ways to the Fourth House, and the third way is all full of lions, and a person might be afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth and shuts it. So we went through quite safely, and I thought of Daniel in the lions’ den. The Fourth House is the most wonderful of all I had ever seen. It is the most heavenly bl…
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…seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the most brilliant 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 …
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…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 the Veil. I don’t think I’d better tell you …
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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…
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… the crumbling remains of the ofiicers’ quarters; while in the little cemetery the hoofs of the wild ass beat (uselessly, if he wished to wake them) upon the tombs of the sportsmen that once thronged those desolate halls. During this time Kwaw devoted his entire attention to the pursuit of philosophy; for the vast quantities of excellent stores abandoned by the British left him no anxiety upon the score of hunger. In the first year be disciplined and conquered his body and its emotions. In the next six years be disciplined and conquered his mind …
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THE WAKE WORLD 15 married to the Fairy Prince, so I suppose we- shall always be near each other now. There was the way out of the little room with millions of changing colours, ever so beautiful, and it was lined with armed men, waving their swords for joy like flashes of lightning; and all about us glitter ing serpents danced and sang for joy. There was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. You see the Sixth House is really in a mountain called Mount Abiegnus, only one doesn’t see it because one goes throug…
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20 KONX OM PAX Via '1 v. Valium and seventy-eight is six times thirteen. To get into the Wake World you must know your thirteen times table quite well. So if you take them both together that makes eleven times thirteen, and then you say “Abrahadabra,” which is a most mysterious word, because it has eleven letters in it. You remember the Houses are numbered both ways, so that the Third House is called the Eighth House too, and the Fifth the Sixth, and so on. But you can’t tell what lovely things that means till you’ve been through them all, and …
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THE WAKE WORLD 21 sphinxes, one black and one white. The charioteer is a most curious person; he is a great big crab in the most lovely glittering armour, and he can just drivel His name is the mysterious name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult 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 …
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THE WAKE WORLD 9 people reading them till they were so silly, they didn’t know what they were doing. And there were cheats, and doctors, and thieves; l was really very glad to go away. There were three ways into the Seventh House, and the first was Via? _ such a funny way. We walked through a pool, each on the arm of a “ cranium great big Beetle, and then we found ourselves on a narrow winding path. 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…
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THE WAKE WORLD 17 and the din was simply fearful. 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 …
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THE WAKE WORLD 11 funny, because the girl next me thought it was Jesus Christ, till another Fairy Prince (my Prince’s brother) whispered as he kissed her: “ Hush, tell nobody ever, that is Satan, and he is the Saviour of the World.” I We were a very great company, and I can’t tell you of all the strange things we did and 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 Savi…
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…There was an Angel blowing ever so hard on a trumpet, and people getting up out of the coffins. My Fairy Prince said: “ Most people never wake up for anything less.” So we went (at the same time it was; you see in dreams people can only be in one place at a time; that’s the best of being awake) through another passage, which was lighted by the Sun. Yet there were fairies dancing in a great green ring, just as if it was night. And there were two children playing by the wall, and my Fairy Prince and I played as we went; and he said: “ The differen…
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THE WAKE WORLD 7 beautiful Palace that ever was. On the sunset side were all the baths, and the bedrooms were in front of us as we were. The baths were all Of pale olive-coloured marble, and the bedrooms had lemon-coloured everything. Then there were the kitchens on the sunrise side, and they were russet, like dead leaves are in autumn in one’s dreams. The place we had come through was perfectly black everything, and only used for offices and such things. There were the most horrid things everywhere about; black beetles and cockroaches, and goo…