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Page 10 of 781906 · PDF PAGE 64
…lind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, So hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. Ah! men my friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts? Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies, Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the unknown Is fit for children. We are too well ware How vain is prayer, How naught is great, since all is i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…i. The Hercules of Persia, though his feasts are more famous than his feats or his sta- ture. But here the bulk is clearly the important thing. 5. Hunchback — not merely an unfortunate, but a bad man. Witness “ Expect 42 ills from the cripple, and 80 from the one-eyed man ; but when the hunchback arrives, say Allah help us ! ” 6. Bukhti is the two-humped camel of Bac- tria. Ali is therefore the fellow’s name ; Bukhti his laqab or nickname — which none escape.
1922 · PDF PAGE 292
…howed that she was entirely on the enemy’s side. “Lamus noticed my annoyance, and hastily changed the conversation. “I’m afraid the only thing you can do,” he said to me, ‘‘is to chain yourself to Buckingham Palace and then go on hunger-strike, until they give you permission to vote more early and often than ever, after which you won't care to go to the polls at all. That’s another example of the same old story. However little we want a thing, we howl if we discover that we can’t get it; and the moment we've got it the whole business drops out …
1922 · PDF PAGE 227
Towards Madness 213 spirits and demons every day than he ever saw in ten years. They are nothing to be afraid of. I should like to see the old Boy himself. I’d—— , September 18 We found a book in the library one rainy afternoon. It told us how to make the Devil appear. Cockie’s grandfather was great on that stuff. There’s a room in the north tower where he did his stunts. We went up after dinner. Everything had been left more or less the way it was. Uncle Mortimer never troubled to alter anything. There was a legend about this room too. For one…
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…rt is listening ! In England now the leaf leaps, and the tree Gleams dewy, and the bird woos noisily. Here in the tropics now is no such thing. Dull heavy heat burns through the clouded sky, And yet no promise of the latter rains. Earth bears her fruit, but unrefreshed of death. In winter is no sorrow, in the dry Harsh spring no joy, while pestilence and pains Hover like wolves behind the summer’s breath. I02
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
…et tingling in my memory. Nay, start not from Thy throne ! I go At Thy black damning to the deep. Thou canst not follow me ! I know This thing I had, and this I keep. God ! I have loved. I love ! I love, And shall love through Thine ageless hell. Thou hast the kingdom of the Above, And I, her memory. Fare Thee well ! To Thine I Amsupreme exclaim, The total of all that may be said ! I answer from the abyss of flame : Dorothy ! and her mouth was red.
1912 · PDF PAGE 71
XXIV “ One thing at least ” (quoth Palamede), “Beyond dispute my soul can see: This Questing Beast that mocks my need Dwelleth in deep obscurity.” So delveth he a darksome hole Within the bowels of Etna dense, Closing the harbour of his soul To all the pirate-ships of sense. And now the questing of the Beast Rolls in his very self, and high Leaps his whole heart in fiery feast On the expected ecstasy. But echoing from the central roar Reverberates many a mournful moan, And shapes more mystic than before Baffle its formless monotone! Ah! mocks h…
1919 · PDF PAGE 115
…e thought, he may leap forth upon It with the massed violence of his Self, and destroying both these, become that Unity whose name is No Thing. Seek ye all therefore constantly to unite your- selves in rapture with each and every thing that is, and that by utmost passion and lust of Union. To this end take chiefly all such things as are naturally repulsive. For what is pleasant is assimilated easily and without ecstacy: it is in the transfiguration of the loathsome and abhorred into The Beloved that the Self is shaken to the root in Love. Thus …
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
The Grinding of the Brakes 179 Something inside me screamed. “ But I must see her,” I cried insanely, feeling the ground cut suddenly from under my feet. ‘‘ I’m afraid it’s impossible, madame,’’ he said, mis- understanding me altogether. “‘ She was buried yester- day morning.” So that was why she hadn’t sent the stuff! I stood as if I wasinatrance. I heard him explaining, mechani- cally. I did not take in what he was saying. It was like a record being made on a gramophone. ‘“‘ She was only ill two days,” the man said. ‘ The doctors called it se…
1899 · PDF PAGE 218
…ay—in the twilight gloom A maiden’s feet. Silent and slim and delicate The flower shall spring, Till there be born immaculate A fair new thing. Tall as the mother-lily, still By faint winds swayed ; Tender and pure, without a will— An English maid. No tree of poison, at whose feet All men lie dead ; No well of death, whose waters sweet Are tinged with red. No hideous impassioned queen For whom love dies ; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their mothe…
1943 · PDF PAGE 5
… of the Law, as it hath been made known unto me in divers places, upon the mountains and in the deserts, but also in great cities, which thing I speak for your comfort and good courage. And so be it unto all of you! Know first, that from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the center of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love and Liberty. By Light shall ye look upon yourselves and behold All Things that are in Truth One Thing only, whose name hath been c…
1901 · PDF PAGE 88
76 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. “ A RELIGIOUS BRINGING-UP.” ITH this our “ Christian ” parents marred our youth : “ One thing is certain of our origin. We are born Adam’s bastards into sin, Servants to Death and Time’s devouring tooth. God, damning most, had this one thought of ruth To save some dozens—Us : and by the skin Of teeth to save us from the devil’s gin— Repentance ! Blood ! Prayer ! Sackcloth ! This is truth.” Our parents answer jesting Pilate so. I am the meanest servant of the Christ : But, were I heathen, cannibal, profane, My cruel spirit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 106
…all In kind embraces on his children’s necks. ALCESTIS. O queen, this process seems indeed severe. MEDEA, Without his knowledge must the thing be done..
1905 · PDF PAGE 163
…eless sacrifice, rebuke the Lord ? Why, there’s Convention’s corral ; ring her round ! Here’s shame’s barbed wire ; push out the unclean thing ! Here’s freedom’s falconry ; quick, clip her wing ! There, labour’s danger—thrust her underground ! 158
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…omewhat inclined to do, as their theory of the Universe is precisely confirmed in every detail by the facts here set down. But it is one thing to recognize a disease, another to dis- cover a remedy. Frankly, my whole being revolts from their methods, and I had rather acquiesce in the ulti- mate destiny and achieve it as quickly as may be. My earnest preoccupation is to avoid the preliminary tor- tures, and I am convinced that the explosion of a dyna- mite cartridge in the mouth is the most practicable method of effecting this. There is just the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 185
… af Saturn’s?!.זג/!ונחלוש BROTHER AQUARIUS, the house of Saturn?,יin Chesea’, becauseFirm is water.- "Hufe." BROTHER CAPRICORNUS, in the thing af Caþnlcamw, the house of Saturn; in thurah, buduse Mars is exalted therein Hz is Mars in Caþn'æmus. BROTHER CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS. THE LEADER OF ΤΗΕ CHORUS, 01‘ CHORAGOGE. SCENE—«1n the East is a Wei/ed shrine, containing an altar. Tσ its Cito/emuli, Bina/t, Chesea', und Gzhumh are M T., M. C., Bro, A., and Bra. C. "werth/el]. Bra. €. Ε, is disgm'szd as an urdinafy member of the garrison.
1911 · PDF PAGE 185
… af Saturn’s?!.זג/!ונחלוש BROTHER AQUARIUS, the house of Saturn?,יin Chesea’, becauseFirm is water.- "Hufe." BROTHER CAPRICORNUS, in the thing af Caþnlcamw, the house of Saturn; in thurah, buduse Mars is exalted therein Hz is Mars in Caþn'æmus. BROTHER CAPRICORNUS EMISSARIUS. THE LEADER OF ΤΗΕ CHORUS, 01‘ CHORAGOGE. SCENE—«1n the East is a Wei/ed shrine, containing an altar. Tσ its Cito/emuli, Bina/t, Chesea', und Gzhumh are M T., M. C., Bro, A., and Bra. C. "werth/el]. Bra. €. Ε, is disgm'szd as an urdinafy member of the garrison.
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…definite one ; and it is the funda-mental ideas of consciousness of which we are treating, and to which we are com pelled to refer every thing, whether proximately or ultimately. So also my equation, fantastic as it may seem, has a perfect and absolute parallel in logic. Thus: let us convert twice the pro- position “some books are on the table.” By negativing both terms we get “Absence- of-book is not on the table,” which is precisely my equation backwards, and a thinkable thing. To reverse the process, what do I mean when I say “some pigs, but…
1919 · PDF PAGE 108
THE EQUINOX By Light shall ye look upon yourselves, and behold All Things that are in Truth One Thing only, whose name hath been called No Thing for a cause which later shall be de- clared unto you. But the substance of Light is Life, since without Existence and Energy it were naught. By Life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorrup- tible, flaming forth as suns, self-created and self-supported, each the sole centre of the Universe. Now as by Light ye beheld, by Love ye feel. There is an ecstacy of pure Knowledge, and another of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 441
XXIV “ One thing at least ” (quoth Palamede), “Beyond dispute my soul can see: This Questing Beast that mocks my need Dwelleth in deep obscurity.” So delveth he a darksome hole Within the bowels of Etna dense, Closing the harbour of his soul To all the pirate-ships of sense. And now the questing of the Beast Rolls in his very self, and high Leaps his whole heart in fiery feast On the expected ecstasy. But echoing from the central roar Reverberates many a mournful moan, And shapes more mystic than before Baffle its formless monotone! Ah! mocks h…