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Page 100 of 1211910 · PDF PAGE 349
…d” is always interesting; it is never enthralling. “Old as the World” is much better than “Morag the Seal,” and there is a marked improvement in the style. V.B.N. BLACK Macic. By MARJORIE BOWEN. Alston Rivers. 6s. Marjorie Bowen knows nothing of the real magic, but she has learnt the tales spread by fools about sorcerers, and fostered by them as the best possible concealments of their truth. Of these ingredients she has brewed a magnificent hell-broth. No chapter lacks its jewelled incident, and the web that she has woven of men’s passions is a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 349
…d” is always interesting; it is never enthralling. “Old as the World” is much better than “Morag the Seal,” and there is a marked improvement in the style. V.B.N. BLACK Macic. By MARJORIE BOWEN. Alston Rivers. 6s. Marjorie Bowen knows nothing of the real magic, but she has learnt the tales spread by fools about sorcerers, and fostered by them as the best possible concealments of their truth. Of these ingredients she has brewed a magnificent hell-broth. No chapter lacks its jewelled incident, and the web that she has woven of men’s passions is a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 297
…rdly any woman there at all. Yet not content with addiction to indiscriminate adultery and morphine, she finds pleasure in seducing young men and picking their pockets. Fie! you can surely show us a prettier picture than that, Why not return to your earlier manner? Not necessarily the manner ofAn [d;/ll in Bloomsbury, but you might advantageously find material in Brixton or Bayswater. FELIX. THE MASTER MASON’S HANDBOOK. By BRO. FRED. J. W. CROWE, P.M. 328, 2806; Member Lodge "Quatuor Coronati" 2076, P. Prov. G. Org, Devonh etc., with an Introduct…
1912 · PDF PAGE 297
…rdly any woman there at all. Yet not content with addiction to indiscriminate adultery and morphine, she finds pleasure in seducing young men and picking their pockets. Fie! you can surely show us a prettier picture than that, Why not return to your earlier manner? Not necessarily the manner ofAn [d;/ll in Bloomsbury, but you might advantageously find material in Brixton or Bayswater. FELIX. THE MASTER MASON’S HANDBOOK. By BRO. FRED. J. W. CROWE, P.M. 328, 2806; Member Lodge "Quatuor Coronati" 2076, P. Prov. G. Org, Devonh etc., with an Introduct…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
… of the Northern hemisphere. This gave them a second cause for cursing the South. A third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous windsj the menace of deserts or océans dreadful because mysterious and impassable; these also were connected in their minds with the South. But to us, aw^are of astronomical facts, this antagonism to the South is a silly superstition which the accidents of their local conditions suggested to our animistic ancestors. We see no enmitv between Right and Left, Up and Down, and similar pairs of opposites. These antithèses are…
1929 · PDF PAGE 219
…rious countess, and recounted the episode of the Thing in the Garden, to the delectation of the "Merman of Mayfair." He then offered to amend Bowling's coat of arms by the introduction of twelve prawns couchant, gules, gartered azure, and the substitution of Poltergeists for the Wild Men of the ducal escutcheon. Modestly disclaiming these heraldic glories, Lord Antony regaled his host with an ingenious account of a Swedish gentleman who materialized the most voluminous spectres from — as subsequently appeared in circumstances which can only be …
1905 · PDF PAGE 9
…gray fibres; all the dream is wrought A spider-tapestry ; the old blood-stain Spreads through the air Some hot contagious growth to slay men unaware, Il. I have discovered God! His ghastly way Of burning ploughshares for my naked feet Lies open to me—shall I find it sweet To give up sunlight for that mystic day That beams its torture, whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head, to wither Love’s desire? III. I was a child long years ago, it seems, Or months it may be—I am still a child ! They pictured me the stars as wheel…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…e impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought! THE TWELFTH DAY. ‘* T grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subjects.”’ The Sonnets. I LEARNT at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thought…
1906 · PDF PAGE 113
ACTUS QUARTUS 107 For none of all the sons of men That hath known Artemis, again Turns to the warmer earth, or vows His secrets to another spouse. The moon resolves her beauty in The sea’s deep kisses salt and keen ; The sea assumes the lunar light, And he—their eremite ! In their calm intercourse and kiss Even hell itself no longer is ; For nothing in their love abides That passes not beneath their tides, And whoso bathes in light of theirs, And water, changes unawares To be no separate soul, but be Himself the moon and sea. Not all the wealth…
1938 · PDF PAGE 8
way, and before Him the Earth reeleth in the rhythm of her Bacchanal dance! Then I knew also this: all these poor dead men that lay about me had been slain by their own fear, their fault of faith in deeming that the Sunor any Starcould die. And now I, who had only felt the fear of that figure, feel the fascination. I understand that Hewhoever, whatever He may beis He for whom we all so long had waited. As I fix my eyes upon it, I become aware that its blackness against the light of the Star is only relative; and as I gain confidence in my …
1996 · PDF PAGE 57
58 The Law is for All common even of men in a far higher station of life and with a much better education. Since childhood he had suffered con tinually from an incurable form of Psoriasis. This kept him in a state of almost constant irritation, spoilt his sleep, and made him lament that he was “a leper.” In fact, the scales of the eruption were so plentiful that his sheets had to be cleaned every morning with a dustpan and brush! He could only obtain relief (before trying to sleep) by being rubbed with oil of wintergreen, which filled his whol…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…s, then! TANNHAUSER. The Blessing of the Lord! May Mary’s self Be with you and defend you evermore, Most from the fearful destiny of him Men used to call the minstrel Tannhauser ! ELDEST PILGRIM. A sombre blessing ! On you and yours ! May God’s mercy fall TANNHAUSER. On mine, ah mine! Amen to that ! Amen, ELDEST PILGRIM (smiles). On her you love, my friend ! We will pass onward, by your honour’s leave: PILGRIMS (szmg’). Hail, hail, O Queen, to Thee, Spouse of Eternity ! Avé Maria! Mother in Maidenhood ! Saintly Beatitude ! Queen of the Angel Ho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
…acles for finger-tips. Earth spits on thee, contagious Caliban ! Hell spits on thee; her sin is spiritual, Only the awful slime and excrement That sin sheds off will own thee for a man. Only the worms in dead men’s bowels that crawl To lick a loathlier brother are content.
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
… 4 1-y and the name of THE BEAST, for that His number showeth forth this Union with the Angel, and His Work is no other than to make ail men partakers of this Mystery of the Mysteries of Magick. So then saying this Word or that, let the Adept wrestle with his Angel and withstand Him, that he may constrain Him to consent to continue in communion until the consciousness becomes capable of clear compréhension, and of accurate transmission2 of the 1. The essence of this matter is that the Word A U IM, which expresses the course of Breath (spiritual…
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
…t suffer him to be tempted by any other Spirit or otherwise. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, to be worn as a Lamen, etc. (65.) ANDREALPHUS.—The Sixty-fifth Spirit is Andrealphus. He is a Mighty Marquis, appearing at first in the form of a Peacock, with great Noises. But after a time he putteth on Human shape. He can teach Geo- metry perfectly. He maketh Men very subtle therein; and in all Things pertaining unto Mensuration or Astronomy. He can transform a Man into the Likeness of a Bird. He governeth 30 Legions of Infe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
116 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC To other hells, thou damned of God here- after, "Mid men’s contempt and hate and pitiless laughter. IT. Lust, impotence, and knowledge of thy soul, And that foreknowledge, fill the fiery lake Of lava where thy lazar corpse shall break The burning surface to seek out a goal More horrible, unspeakable. ‘The scroll Opens, and ‘‘ coward, liar, monster ” shake Those other names of ‘‘goat and ‘‘swine”’ and ‘‘snake”’ Wherewith Hell’s worms caress thee and control. Nay, but alone, intolerably alone, Alone, as here, t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…re is a stirring in the darkness; there is a stranger in the sacred grove!" "Artemis! Artemis! Artemis!" shrilled the girls, their instruments fierce and agitated. At that moment a great cry arose from the men, who were in waiting on the upper Terrace. It was a scream of abject fear, inarticulate, save for the one word "Pan!" They fled shrieking in every direction as Cyril Grey, clad in a rough dress of goatskins, bounded from the topmost terrace into their midst. In another moment, leaping down the garden, he [147] reached the parapet that ove…
1929 · PDF PAGE 221
…ulsion. For he knew well enough what sight chance had prepared for them. But the fascination drew him far more surely than if his temperament had resembled that of his friend. They approached the crowd. A ring was kept about the framework by a cordon of police. Just then the gates of the prison opened, and a little procession came out. All eyes were drawn instantly to its central figure, an old, old man whose jaw was dropped, and from whose throat issued a hoarse howling, utterly monotonous and inhuman. His eyes were starting from his head, and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…ed the Church Militant Here On Earth; while Iliel herself came under the direct care of Sister Clara, the point within the triangle of women. She took part in their invocations, as the focus to which they were directed; while the men were wholly busied in watching over the safety of the fortress, their faces turned inexorably outward, their sole business to assure the security of the three women and their treasure. Upon these facts being brought to the notice of Edwin Arthwait, he smiled. He had redeemed his earlier failures — due to the incapa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
WHY JESUS WEPT 25 A turbulent flood Whispers and yells, Alight in my breast. God ! for the spells That unseal men—a rest ! No higher? I have climbed This pinnacled steep. It mocks me, this heaven Of thine, Adonai ! Rather be limed In the dusk, in the deep, Seven times seven Thy hells, O Jehovah ! I tune the great Name To a million vowels :— It escapes me, the flame ! But deep in my bowels Growls the deep lust, The bitter distrust, The icy fear, The cruel thought ! O! Iam here— And here is nought. I must rave on. I hate the sun. Anon! Anon! Let …