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Page 10 of 1591915 · PDF PAGE 5
…e trusted to put the "double-cross" on every one. The Kaiser never stirred. It would have been easy to destroy the Russian menace at the time when Japan was straining the sin- ews of the Tartar giant, or when the Moscow Revolution showed that the Tsar could not trust his own soldiers, and the Imperial Guard, hastily summoned from St. Pe- tersburg, shut up the garrison of Moscow in the Kremlin, trained their own guns upon them, and disarmed them. The Kaiser did nothing. Surely the Russo-Japanese war and the Boer war showed plainly if any fool …
1922 · PDF PAGE 151
…ves had become highly suspicious. They were itching to arrest me on the spot. The clerk argued with them garrulously for an interminable time. The manager seemed the most uncomfortable man in Capri. He protested silently roheaven—there being nobody on earth to listen to The situation was set going again by the reappearance of Lou on the arm of a chambermaid, followed by the doctor, who wore the air of a man who has once more met the King of Terrors in open combat, and knocked the stuffing out of him. Lou was exceedingly shaky, paling and flushi…
1928 · PDF PAGE 151
…id not feel themselves capable of so stern an action, ex- plicable enough as it was. Then they sent the waiter for fresh bottles to kill time, whose life is so hard; and quicken life, which flows so slowly.
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…ng of hatred upon the innocent. : And it came ‘to -pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R ‘Abu, who had been his friend: for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him: even to him the Mighty One! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and Jehjaour scorned not his art. ‘Roll on in time, thou ball!’ he cried. ‘Move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…Elohim ” going in to the daughters of men. To punish them, Allah hung them by their heels in a well at Babylon, where they wile away the time by giving magical instruction. The mean- ing, therefore, (argal !) of the whole passage is that unredeemed (i.e. uninitiated) man, however ordina- rily devout, is liable to become a sorcerer ! I cannot help thinking that Mahbub must have been hung up by his heels at one time ; nobody could ever think all that out right way up !
1929 · PDF PAGE 586
…of some people to defile whatever they touch. "As a matter of fact, no ceremonies of any nature took place during his illness, or at the time of his death. (signed) Jane Wolfe
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
56 KONX OM PAX We must begin therefore by the simple and austere process of beginning. The condition of Japan was at this time (what time? Here we are in trouble with the historian at once. But let me say that I will have no interference with my story on the part of all these dull sensible people. I am going straight on, and if the reviews are unfavourable, one has always the resource of suicide) dangerously unstable. The warrior aristocracy of the Upper House had been so diluted with suc cessful cheesemongers that adulteration had become a vir…
1899 · PDF PAGE 171
…r : She will not leave me ever till I die. Nay, though I die. Beyond the distant gloom Heaven springs, a fountain, out of Change’s womb! Time would all men within the grave inter— For Time himself shall no god find a tomb? Glory and love and work precipitate The end of man’s desire—so sayeth Fate. Man answers: Love is stronger, work more sure, Glory more fadeless than his shafts abate. Though «all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, he hath not his will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure : For us, these three d…
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…ervals that did not count. For about a week King Lamus tried to get me out of my groove by giving me cocaine, and asking me to employ my time by writing an account of my adventures from the time when I began to take it. The drug stimulated me immensely ; and I was quite enthusiastic for the time. I wrote the story of my adventures from the night of my meeting Lou to our return to England from Naples. But when the episode was over, I found the old despair of life as strong as ever. The will to live was really dead in me. But two evenings later K…
1902 · PDF PAGE 141
… I sis ! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above, beyond the Tomb of Time, Blending the darkness into the profound Chasms of matter—so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space, Limitless fields of Time. I knew in me That I must fall into the ground and die ; Dwell in the deep a-many years, at last To rise again—Osiris, slain and risen ! Light of the Cross, I see Thee in the sky, My future ! I must perish from the earth, Abide in desolate halls, until the hour When a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS [WE have long held Mr Swinburne and Mr W. S. Gilbert to be the greatest poets of all time. This attempt to combine their metres and styles ought consequently to produce the finest poem of all time. We affirm unhesitatingly that it has !] In the godlike golden glory of the vast irremeable insuperable weather (Where those perfectly beastly bad Rembrandt effects are, over by the sunset that looks so very much as if to-morrow would be wet) They have bridled the sun with a beautiful bit of black and purple clouds, to tie the P…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
68 INVOCATION The clinging skirts of Time. My place is fixed In the abyss beyond all Stars and Suns. I AM, the Resurrection and the Life ! Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light !
1898 · PDF PAGE 29
…d young men fatherless! And old men reft Of children! Grant us victory to avenge Their innocent shed blood, and ruined land. So, to gain time for prayer and penitence For grievous trespass of idolatry Done to th’ accurséd Baalim, and time To gather fugitives, and make them men, And straggling herdsmen for our armament, We send thee, herald, to the furious king Who lies with all his power encamped somewhere Hence southward toward Mahanaim. Say Unto the king of Ammon: Thus saith Jephthah : Why hast thou come with bloody hands against us? Our holy…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
… Her secret wonders grow and glow, limned in the luminous patine. Worship, the sculptors, clean forgot in worship of her body lithe And time forgotten with his scythe, and thought, the Witenagemot, Confused in rapture : peace is culled a flower from the arboreal root, The vision dulled, the singer mute, shattered the lute, the song annulled.
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS. Black egg and white ray 10 , Five breaks. between pillars* (E). Golden Dawn Symbol t(E). ry Very bad. Bad cold, dust, shaking, etc., prevented concentration.{ Golden Dawn Symbol (E). 10 4 Four breaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discover…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OBJECT MEDITATED UPON. TIME, REMARKS. Black egg and white ray 10 , Five breaks. between pillars* (E). Golden Dawn Symbol t(E). ry Very bad. Bad cold, dust, shaking, etc., prevented concentration.{ Golden Dawn Symbol (E). 10 4 Four breaks. R. Reet A.C. 23 Nine breaks. Against this particular practice P. wrote: “I think breaks are longer in themselves than of old; forI find myself con- centrating on them and forgetting the primary altogether. But I have no means of telling how long it is before the error is discover…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…ut this thou mayst achieve nothing.” Under his direction, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations morning and evening, upon such simple objects as—a white triangle; a red cross; Isis; the simple Tatwas; a wand; and the like. I remained after some three weeks for 593} minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. Now I began also to cons…
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…ut this thou mayst achieve nothing.” Under his direction, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations morning and evening, upon such simple objects as—a white triangle; a red cross; Isis; the simple Tatwas; a wand; and the like. I remained after some three weeks for 593} minutes at one time, wherein my thought wandered 25 times. Now I began also to cons…
1922 · PDF PAGE 54
…ase of indiscretion!’’ He'd as good as called me a fool to my face. I thought of him as the sea, shaking with derisive laughter. All the time I had been chuckling over my dear old squad commander. Not a great flyer, am I? This will show him! And that was true enough. I was incomparably better than I had ever been before. And yet I had omitted just one obvious precaution. I suddenly realised that things might be exceedingly nasty. The only thing to be done was to shut off, and volplane down to the straits. And there were points in the problem wh…
1899 · PDF PAGE 47
…d young men fatherless! And old men reft Of children! Grant us victory to avenge Their innocent shed blood, and ruined land. So, to gain time for prayer and penitence For grievous trespass of idolatry Done to th’ accurséd Baalim, and time To gather fugitives, and make them men, And straggling herdsmen for our armament, We send thee, herald, to the furious king Who lies with all his power encamped somewhere Hence southward toward Mahanaim. Say Unto the king of Ammon: Thus saith Jephthah : Why hast thou come with bloody hands against us? Our holy…