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I hate myself because I love you still In that strange intermediate consciousness, The reason and the mind ! This middle way Ancients called safe —that damns it instantly ! Without some danger nothing great is done ! Let me be God ! Or, failing of that task. Were it but by an unit, let me fall ! And, falling, be it from so great a height That I may reach some uttermost Abyss, Inhabit it and reign, most evil one Of all the Horrors there — and in that path Seem, even deluded, to approach once more Infinity. For all the limitless Hath no distincti…
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…re ! Let me ride on more hastily than this. That so my body may be tired of me. And fling me to the old forgetful kiss. Sleep's, when my mind goes, riderless and free. Into some corner of eternity. Alas ! that mind returns from its abode With newer problems, fiercer thoughts ! But stay ! Suppose it came not ? It must be with God !— Then this dull house of gold and iron and clay Is happy also— 'tis an easy way ! 24
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…nhAuser. Lady pure, miracle of true love, 1 have a bitter word and harsh to say. This is my curse —no sooner do I speak, Or formulate my mind in iron words. That my mind grows, o'erleaps the limit set, And I perceive the truth that lies beyond— One further step into a new-fallen night. Hear then — I hate to hurt your perfect soul ; 127
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…n the vivid horse Whose neck God clothed with thunder, not the steer Sluggish and safe ! Yoke Hatred, Crime, Remorse, Despair : but ever mind the whirling fear. Let, through the tumult, break the poet's face Radiant, assured his wild slaves win the race ! " Two Poets of Croisic.
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…and dreams of me. Tannhauser {in sleep). Elizabeth ! Venus. His far-off baby-love ! I triunipli, then ! The Goddess hatli withdrawn. His mind works back to childhood, babydom, Will grow to manhood and remember me. Tannhauser {awaking, leaps to his feet). Freedom! Elizabeth! All hail to Her ! Radiant Goddess ! Liberty and love ! Venus. What sayest thou ? Curse Her ! Tannhauser. My Elizabeth! 68
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The centre and the whole. Fool's talk it is ! Consider the futility of mind ! Realize utterly how mean, how dull, How fruitless is Philosophy ! Elizabeth. Indeed My brain is baffled. But I see your point. Talking of God, even imagining. Insane! But for aspiring — that I will ! Tannhauser. That is true marriage, in my estimate. Aspire together to one Deity .-' Yes ! But to love thee otherwise than that ? Elizabeth. This one thing clearly do I understand : We shall not marry. It is well, my lord. Tannhauser. Miserable, miserable me ! I bring Hate…
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…m ! Belike 'tis some philosopher With words too big to understand himself. Tannhauser. With heart too seared to understand himself! With mind too wise to understand himself! With soul too small to understand himself! Eldest Pilgrim. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! Tannhauser. You know not, friend, the man to whom you speak. I have lived long in miracles enough, Myself the crowning miracle of all, That I am merely here. God speed you, sirs ! I ask your blessing, not to stay therewith My soul's own need (though that is dire enoug…
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…m fearful of mishap. Some fatal argument the God must find That linked us first. The dice are in His lap- Let Him decide in His imperial mind! My choice ; to see entirely —and be blind ! Yet I bethink me of that holy man, (Pagan albeit) my stirrup's wisdom-share : " Learn this from Thothmes the Egyptian. " Use only in thine uttermost despair ! " He whispered me a Word. " Beware ! Beware " Two voices are there in the sullen sea ; " Two functions hath the inevitable fire ; " Earthquake hath earth, and yet fertility : " See to thy purpose, and thy…
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…! Merely to love—to take such pride in it Gods must behold ! The childish easiness, Impossible to me, who am become Perhaps the subtlest mind of men. Alas ! Maybe in this I still am self-deceived, Merely the fool swelled up with bitter words, Imagination, and the toadstool growth, Thought, wounded ; as a scorpion to sting Its own bruised life out. This is Tannhauser! How long ago since he took pleasure in Such love— [-(4 horn winds. such music as yon horn below— \A chant is heard. Such worship as the simple chant that steals Calm and majestic i…
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…s, and the scent Subtle and sinful — thine, all thine, are these, What with my heart that only beats for thee, The many-throned and many-minded soul Centred to do thee worship. Hither, hither! TannhAuser. This shakes my spirit as a winnower Whose fan is the eternal breath of God ; Yet on my forehead I perceive a star That shames thy beauties and thy manifold Mind with its tiny triple flame. I go! Venus. Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TannhAuser. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work 74
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…xiine vase, And lose my purpose in its silent sea, And lose my life, and find my life, and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. An holy man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him : he bade me not despair. " The Blood of the Osiris " was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) "The life, the tears, the tomb ! " The Love of I sis is its name ! " (I heard This for the love of Mary.) In her womb Brews the Elixir, and the roses…
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…on staggers. Angels, answer me ! Ye who have watched the far unfolding plan— How is time shorter than eternity ? Prove it and weigh ! By mind it cannot be. All our divisions spring in our own brain. See ! As upsprings on the horizon there A clefted hill contemptuous of the plain. (Why, which is higher ?) I am in despair. Let me essay the Pharaoh and his prayer ! [ Tannh'diiser speaks the Word of Double Power. 26
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… The Key of all that is not and that is, And that which — climb, imagination ! climb ! — Transcends them both— the mystical abj'ss Where Mind and Being marry, and are Bliss. So have I journeyed —like a fool ! Ah, well ! Let pass self-scorn, as love of self is past ! But—am I further forward ? Who can tell ? God is the Complex as the Protoplast : He is the First (not " was"), and is the Last (Not " will be "). Then why travel ? To what end? What is the symbol I am set to find ? What is that burning heart of blood to spend Caught in a sunset with…
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… are we, to one Star bound in Heaven ! Not to thy presence in the veil and vision Of solemn lies that men miscall the world ; Not to thy mind the lightnings truthward hurled I turn. I laugh dead distance to derision !— Spirit to spirit : there our loves are curled, Not to thy presence in the veil and vision ! 6
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…nd round that vanished glory of the globe. Unto that sky beyond the starry deeps, Beyond the Toils of Time — then formulate In thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, The Lion of the Light, a child that stands On the vast shoulders of the Steed of God : Or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod With the flame-sandals. Then, lift up thine hands ! Centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought Limpid with brilliance of the Light above ! 120
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…Between two fingers, dreamily enough ! Then, too, you went away out of my life ! You see the symbol you have been to me ? The swift high mind, the heart of gold and fire. The living purpose and the mystic life Of lonely seeking for the Grail of God ! I—call you husband ? When I said your name, It was to set the task impossible :— Had they but known it —just as one should say : " Bring down St Michael : let me marry him ! " They knew the angels were too pure ; but you, They guessed not how exalted were your hopes ; How utterly unselfish, pure, a…
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… in this passionate Life in our secret mountain, well I know Thy beauty, and Thy love, (although they be Infinite, far beyond the mortal mind, Body, or soul to touch, to comprehend. And dwell in) that the utter intimate Knowledge of Thee, if once I ravelled out Thy secret, laid Thee naked to the bone— Nay, to the marrow ! were to come, aware. Face to face full with deity itself And this I strive at ! Therefore is my love Wholly in tune with that concealed desire Bred in each mortal, though he never know, (Few do know) to transcend the bound of …
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… of a series of regular changes, and presently has the life-history of the being that he is examin- ing clear from Alpha to Omega in his mind ; as, during a battle, the relative importance of its various incidents is lost, the more so owing to the excitement and activity of the combatant, and to the fact that he is himself involved in the vicissitudes which he may have set himself to observe ; while even for the commander, though the smoke-pall may lift now and again to show some brilliant charge or desperate hand-to- hand struggle, he may fail…
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of mind, reason, or imagination ; no more : I deny to any one religion the possession of any essential truth which is not also formulated (though in a different language) in every other. To this rule Buddhism appears a solitary exception. Whether it is truly so I have hardly yet decided : the answer depends upon certain recondite mathematical considerations, to discuss which would be foreign to the scope of my present purpose, but which I hope to advance in a subsequent volume. If you do not accept my conclusion that all religions are the expre…