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Page 100 of 1201929 · PDF PAGE 135
…le. From her room a stairway led [191] to a tall turret, circular, with a glass dome, so as to favour all such observations. But on this night the garden tempted her. Nox erat et caelo fulgebat Luna sereno inter minora sidera. The moon hung above Capri, two hours from her setting. Iliel held her vigil upon the terrace, by the side of the basin of the fountain. When the moon was not visible, she would always replace her by looking upon the sea, or upon still water, for these have much in common with the lunar influence. Something — she never kne…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…tter very much, for it is over so very quickly. But the record of the transaction is I. He ought to be refreshed, more than after a full night’s deep sleep. This forms one test of his skill. — 140 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 262
…tance and took it upon himself to come up. The moment his back was turned, Righi became insane. Everyone had passed a most uncomfortable night at the absurd bivouac. I decided to go no further than Camp 3 the next day. Tartarin was abosoutely astonished that the men which whom he had been having such trouble behaved quite simply and naturally as soon as I was on the spot. He claimed that they had positively refused to go further, but they picked up their loads and strolled cheerfully up the slopes without so much as a word of admonition. {433} …
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
… a bright snake curled Round the vine of the World ! O sleeper through dawn and through day- light, | O sleeper through dusk and through night ! O shifted from white light to gray light, From gray to the one black light ! O silence and sound In the far profound ! O serpent of scales as an armour To bind on the breast of a lord ! Not deaf to the Voice of the Charmer, Not blind to the sweep of the sword ! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being ! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart ! Lift up till the e…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
…eaming goal? Cover that shame with sweeter shame than this? MEDEA. Thou knowest that his vigil was to keep, Invoking all Olympus all the night, And then to yoke the oxen, and to plough The fearful furrow, sow the dreadful seed, Smite down the armies, and assuage the pest Of slime thrice coiled about the sacred grove. CHORUS. Thy bitter love disturbed that solitude ? MEDEA. Not bitter, hervues. See ye yet the end? 1 ‘The hopeless are happy, like the girl Pingala”’ (Buddhist Proverb). Pingala waited for her lover, and mourned because he came not.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 359
… to arrive we motored out as a forlorn hope to Posilippo before meeting him at the station at 4 o'clock or thereabouts. But the previous night Virakam had a dream in which she saw the desired villa with absolute clearness. (I had been careful to say nothing to her about the Persian Nuts, so as to have a weapon against her in case she insisted that such and such a place was the one intended .) After a fruitless search we turned our automobile towards
1922 · PDF PAGE 187
… before, and we don’t want to take any chances. It wants a lot of clever steering to keep the course. For instance, we took too much one night and made ourselves sick. It took three or four hours to get back, and that was absolute hell. My heart is a little fretful at times. It’s certainly great, Peter Pan having medical knowledge. He went out and got some strychnine and put me right. Champagne helps H. quite a lot. Youmustn’t drink it off. The thing to do is to sip it very slowly. It helps one to move one’s hands.
1922 · PDF PAGE 192
…run down. It doesn’t matter. I can call on Mabel any time I like. I may as well go now. I’ll drink a small bottle and go along.... It is night. Cockie has not returned. Just when I needed him most! I’m frightened of myself. I’m stark staring sober. I went to the glass to take my hat off. I didn’t know who I was. There is no flesh on my face. My complexion’s entirely gone. My hair is lustreless and dry, and it’s coming out in handfuls. I think I must be ill. I’ve a good mind to send for a doctor. But I daren’t. It has been a frightful shock! ...…
1929 · PDF PAGE 527
527 years --- but even if the central heating had been the flames of hell itself, I doubt whether I should have been warm. Night after night I sat, all through, rigid as a corpse, and icier; the whole of my life concentrated in two spots; the small section of my brain which was occupied in the work, and my right wrist and fingers. I remember with absolute clearness that my consciousness appeared to start from a perfectly dead forearm. The book is written in prose, yet there is a formal circumscription more imminent than anything which would hav…
1906 · PDF PAGE 105
… MEDEA. Ye know me a most powerful sorceress. CHORUS. So I have heard, O lotus-footed! one ! Nathless I see not any miracle. MEDEA. Last night the heavy-hearted audience Broke up, and Jason wended wearily His way, oppressed by direful bodements of The fate of this forenoon. J] saw him go | Sad, and remembered how sublime he stood, 1 An epithet common in the East, conveying a great compliment.
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…upport the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light ; discedes From dark and deliquescent night, From futile thoughts and fatuous deeds. Your girl, your gems, your mournful tones Irk not perfection with their goad. One thing I know—a set of bones Is travelling on upon this road !” 1 Arahat. 2 Stanza.
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
…at one loud slow Mantra, ze. when no Kumbhaka was possible. Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after 10 seconds of Kumbhaka. This seventh time I forgot all about everything and breathed out of both nostrils. Quite quietly—pure mental abstraction. Mental Muttering of “ Aum Shivayavashi,” for seventy-five minutes. Several times lost concentration or consciousness or something,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
…at one loud slow Mantra, ze. when no Kumbhaka was possible. Mental Muttering for ten minutes “Aum Shivayavashi.” Results similar to last night’s, somewhat more easily obtained. Mental Muttering of “Aum Shivayavashi.” Result better than usual. Pranayama. Seven minutes after 10 seconds of Kumbhaka. This seventh time I forgot all about everything and breathed out of both nostrils. Quite quietly—pure mental abstraction. Mental Muttering of “ Aum Shivayavashi,” for seventy-five minutes. Several times lost concentration or consciousness or something,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
… your fitness would be when you got three people right out of four, in a total of a score or so. Well, allow for my being in a "mood" to-night; call it two out of three. If it were guesswork, after all, that means you are bringing it off at seven to one.
1954 · PDF PAGE 225
…age, to repeat the Novocastrian Experiment. Undeterred, he insisted: "But you must." (Now we go back, or forward, I know not which, to a night when I found myself stranded in London. I asked hospitality of a stranger; it was readily afforded. Some hours later my hostess fell asleep; I could not do so; something was nagging me. I suddenly took my notebook, and wrote a certain passage in a certain book, since published .) "Must, my foot!" He persisted: "You have published the secret of the nth degree of O.T.O., and you must take the corresponding…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
every day thrice, or at least once, and let the sleep of the Philosophus be broken for some purpose of dévotion at least once in every night. Now to some it may seem best to appoint fixed hours for the ceremony. To others it may seem that the ceremony should be performed as the spirit moves them so to do 3 for this there is no rule. 9. Concernlng the Robes and Instruments : — The Wand and Cup are to be chosen for this Art 3 never the Sword or Dagger, never the Pantacle, unless that Pantacle chance to be of a nature harmonious. But even so it is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…To tremble before thee :— I, I adore thee ! O Hawk of gold with power enwalled, Whose face is like an emerald ; Whose crown is indigo as night ; Smaragdine snakes about thy brow Twine, and the disc of flaming light Is on thee, seated in the prow Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above With lapis-lazuli for love And ruby for enormous force Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round With leopard’s pell, and golden sound Of planets choral in their course! O thou self-formulated sire! Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light; …
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…s that are flowered In purple and white, Embossed and embowered By the love of the light, Gold-sandalled and showered, Dew-kissed of the night, Your song is too faint and too joyous for mortals to hear it aright. Blue pansies, and roses, And poppies of red, Pale violets in posies Where Hyacinth bled, The flower that closes Its dolorous head ;— What song may be sung, or what tune may be told, or what word may be said ? All tropical scent, Blossom-kindled perfume Love-colours new-lent By the infinite womb, Gold subtlety blent With the scarlet blo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 296
…ther humiliating to have to admit. There was also a trace of sturdy British feeling that the thing to do was to stick it out and trust a night’s rest to tone up my nerves. Lamus had advised us to take Turkish baths if we felt unduly depressed. We had found them very useful. We had got down to three goes a day two days running, chiefly by following his advice to take one of the white tablets instead of the heroin whenever the craving became irresistible. He made rather a point of that, by the way. . It was a bad thing, he said, to yield to stres…
1996 · PDF PAGE 82
…old are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. 61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the…