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…let were her lips, comely was her countenance, most pleasing to the sight was her earthly body, a temptation to the Angels her soul. Her eyes expressed the Infinite Sweetness, the Love Merciful; the Pure Innocence of the Eternal Equi-balanced. They were like crystalline drops of dew falling on a perfect rock of Carrara marble; eyes that looked upon you and created you holy; eyes clearer than the clearest rivulet, more beautiful than the most royal amethyst; eyes that illuminated the darkest corner of Hell; eyes that set the fashion to the stars…
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THE HIGH HISTORY OF GOOD So halted he his horse, and bent To catch remembrance from the eyes That stared to God, whose ardour sent His radiance from the ruthless skies. Then like a statue still he sate; Nor quivered nerve, nor muscle stirred; While round them flapped insatiate The fell, abominable bird. But coldest horror drave the light From knightly eyes. How pale thy bloom, Thy blood, O brow whereon the night Sits like a serpent on a tomb! For Palamede those eyes beheld The iron image of his own ; On those dead brows a fate he spelled To str…
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV of being a great hysterical Countess Tarnowska; she had many lovers who went mad over her body, and whom she could drive to drink—or to murder, but she had not done so; she had only driven some of them to suicide, and some even to the loss of their self-respect. The Man who stole Eyes was one of these. Without going into their respective or joint history let it be simply recorded that the proud collector of ocular jewels made present to the Lady of a pair of magnificent ear-rings— which were none other than the eyes of li…
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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT She knows him, and black fears bedim Those eyes ; she offers to his gaze The blue-veined breasts that suckled him In childhood’s sweet and solemn days. Weeping she bares the holy womb! Shrieks out the mother’s last appeal : And reads irrevocable doom In those dread eyes of ice and steel. He winds his horn: his warriors pour In thousands on the fenceless foe; The sunset stains their hideous war With crimson bars of after-glow. He winds his horn : the night-stars leap To light ; upspring the sisters seven ; While…
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… life. Let us look into the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, look into it as we would have strangers look into our own with the child eyes of fancy and imagination, rather than with the cold and scaly eyes of knowledge. Only to vulgar and brutish eyes is there any horror, for 317
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…LADY OF THE BREECHES habit. She dressed often as a man; and, one day, riding by Lionel’s cottage, she noticed the thin-armed youth whose eyes were big and haloed. Their eyes met; she smiled, he trembled. Both were pleased. The next day rose'and brought them again together. A formal introduction followed. Mary the male conquered Lionel the female. Thereafter, the “cheval hongre” lost his nick- name. Nor did he give any widow the chance of horse-whip- ping him again. XVIII THE MOON THEY were very happy; he learnt the joy of health and the ineffab…
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV: DE LA RATIBOISIERE’S ACCOUNT OF THE TYPHLOSOPHISTS OF SOUTH RUSSIA BY J. F. C. FULLER anp GEORGE RAFFALOVICH 293
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV Briefly—for the time is approaching which we must better utilize—Piotr’s hand shook so that he missed touching the lobe of little Ljubov’s ear. The jewel he held up to her face touched, instead, one of the empty orbits of his little friend. Our villain, the Man who bought and stole Eyes, must have done his job very properly indeed, for Ljubov, who, in a vain attempt to see that which was shewn her, had opened wide the dark cavities under her eyebrows. Well, I suppose the eye touched a still sensitive nerve. No sooner had …
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV winter, starved to madness, and had begun eating two cows in their shed, when little Ljubov chanced upon them and was discovered half an hour later, surrounded by two hundred of these wolves, which were pushing and kicking one another to lick her hands. On another occasion, extraordinary miracle, one glance from her eyes had stopped the tongue of a drunken pope who was swearing at a peasant in the foulest of language. She was, of course, a favourite with all in the village: the simpler and nearer Nature their souls, the m…
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…austed: as if she was trying to sound a particular phrase, and always fell back baffled at the last moment. Nor did any light infuse her eyes. There was intentness, there was weariness, there was patience, there was alertness. And the room was strangely silent, unsympathetic to her mood. She was the dimmest thing in that gray light. Still she strove. She grew more tense, her mouth tightened, an ugly compression. Her eyes flashed with—was it hate? The soul of the song was now all anguish, all pleading, all despair —ever reaching to some unattain…
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… There are voices like that, and when men hear them, they live a lifetime in an instant, mate, rear children, are widowed, or have their eyes closed for them for the last time by these women whose souls they thus secretly and inviolately espouse.” After a little silence the worm which issued from her eyes then spoke: “IT am her eyes, and she was bad, bad as her mouth says. Some of that mouth’s warm tribute came indeed to me, and I was shut from seeing with the close lips of men beating time to the superb madness of their love music with rhythmi…
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV man and a philosopher. Therefore, what need is there for me to think, to fathom the depths of childish or human sorrow, to send my brains into a tiring process of elucidation? far more pleasant it is to remain a contemplative individual. Therefore, O Mexican Gaucho, pass me thy pellote pouch and let me take a helping of the leaves and root of thy wonderful mescal plant. And without thought and without fatigue, I can then SEE. Where was I, my little brethren, fathers of larva, sons of the she-goat? Ah, I know. Well, poor l…
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316 THE EQUINOX Your eyes His stars—come, let our Venus lash Our bodies with the whips of Her desire. Your bed’s the world, your body the world-ash, Adela! Shall I give the word to the man of the gondola? ALEISTER CROWLEY.
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV wounded ears under a thick ornament of pearls and gold. It was not bad with her! Besides, what is she to you, anyhow, billy-goat? “And now, all of ye, clear out, and walk ye all to your rooms with the mantra.” FINIS 309
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Normal amount of sleep. Speech only when necessary. Pranayama, A’sana with eyes turned up. October Walking as exercise. 2nd. 8.30 a.m. Mantra “Aum Tat Sat Aum.” 9.10-10.50 A’sana with Mantra and eyes turned to Ajna Chakkra. am. am. Chittam distinctly slowing towards end. 10.50-12.5 Continued lying down, [Did I sleep ?] am. p.m, 12.35-1.45 For a walk muttering Mantra. p.m. p.m. 2.20-2.45 A’sana. Always forgetting to repeat the Mantra, Maitra- p-m.p.m, nandra Swami says this is right. Ajna is now more steely in appe…
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV I “TELL it us! O tell us it!” Elphénor Pistouillat de la Ratiboisiére, the Master Magi- cian, hearkened unto his disciples, who sat cross-legged around his incense-bowl. His lips parted in that unapeable grin of his, and he stopped his nostrils awhile with his two fore- fingers. Then he blew on the charcoal and began. “Yes, I will tell it to you, intellectual infants, I will. Listen. Two hundred and one years ago—when I was thin and thirty—I chanced upon a couple, living in South Russia. Boy and girl they were still; but,…
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THE EQUINOX And, acting upon an impulse, she dropped her eyes in her hand and threw them behind her without a sigh. I picked them up, my friends, while the two children stood, their arms linked together, a sad but resigned ex- pression gradually coming over their faces. Ay, I picked them up, but I won’t shew them to you, un- worthy foxes. And now, Lights please . . . let us take to the ritual. Brother H., fill the Holy Cups . . . Holy be the Lamps of Joy! Holy be the Lamps of Sorrow! Let us enter the Ark of Increased Knowledge!” VII A little la…
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…me, Making in mine ears the noise of tumbling waters; But two voices I heard, and they spake one to the other: “Who stands with downcast eyes in the temple of our Lady?” And the answer: “ A wanderer from the world who hath sought the halls of silence; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, And cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, Utterly immo…
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THE EQUINOX eyes of the gilded courtezan—Babylon, thou harlot of the Seven mansions of God’s Glory! But he kept it free from rust, sharp and glittering bright, so that when the time came wherein he should be called upon to use it, it might leap forth from its sheath like a flash of lightning from betwixt the lips of God, and slay him who had ventured to cross his path, silently, without even so much as grating against his bones.
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THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV “What, do they burn? do they feel cool to the hand?” “Only to the eye, dear. remember. One sets them in gold and wears them hanging from the ear, or round one’s neck.” “Would you like to /ee/ some, Ljubov?” “Oh yes! ... But, it’s no use, dear, I couldn't see them.” “Perhaps you would like just to pass your fingers over them, and try to imagine what they . .. er . . . look like?” “TI think I would. Then I could explain better to you what I mean.” Piotr sighed again and soon left her. In the evening he wandered around the h…