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Page 102 of 1231905 · PDF PAGE 261
254 TANNHAUSER Two is by shape the Coptic aspirate,! Life breathed, and death indrawn. And so Rounds you at last the ten, completion’s self, The circle and the line. Why stick at nought? BERTRAM. Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle. LANDGRAVE. This is noble talk ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
…he continuity between one life and the next. Briefly, the orthodox theory as put forth by H.P.B. is that one works off one's Karma after death in Devachan, or Kama Lika, or some such place; when the balance is exhausted one may come back to earth, or in some other way carry on the Great Work. One theory-see Opus Lutetianum, The Paris Working-says that when one has quite finished with Earth-problems, one is promoted to Venus, where 'bodies' are liquid, and thence to Mercury, where they are gaseous, 1. It is quoted at the end of this particular l…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…ligature, from my unsavoury perch, flung, in spite of my tender years, to the floor, and with a roar like the crash of a universe in its death-pang, a vast and hairy gut-stick plunged into the yawn- ing abyss which the lobster-pot of the gluttonous Guelph offered to its raging lust. Instantly a volley of viscous baby-juice spurted from the loose cor- ners of the now delighted whim-wham, and a yell of obscene bawdy-talk from the crapulous and [40]
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
…d plain ; The serried ranks like foam flung free, Long billows, flashing on the main. Past the eye’s grip their legions roll— Anguish of death upon my soul! For, sheltered by the guiet hill, Like two small flocks of kids that wait, Going to water, ere the chill Blow from the East’s forsaken gate, Lie my weak spears: O trembling tide Of fear false-faced and shifty-eyed ! God ! how we smote them in the morn! Their ravening tides rolled back anon, As if the cedared crest uptorn Roared from uprooted Lebanon Down to the sea, its billows hurled Back,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
198 The Diary of a Drug Fiend What’s-his-name in The Wrong Box when he had to have a false death certificate, and wanted a “ venal doctor.” It annoyed me that it was daylight, and I didn’t know where to go. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there came the name and address of the man who had helped Billy Coleridge out of her scrape. It was a long way off, and I was horribly tired. I was hungry, but the thought of lunch made me sick. I felt that people were looking at me strangely. Was it the scar by my eye? I bought a thick veil. The girl looked surpris…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…r mammer this question of the Nature of Ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of Life and Death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of Nature. He has perhaps a tendency to perceive the ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he …
1996 · PDF PAGE 174
…ed to hide. She agonized, ridiculous and obscene; gave all her beauty and strength of maidenhood to suffer sickness, weakness, danger of death, choosing to live the life of a cow—that so Mankind might sail the seas of time. She knew that man wanted nothing of her but service of his base appetites; in his true manhood-life she had nor part nor lot; and all her wage was his careless contempt.
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
… whole lump I rammed my arse-wedge frantically into his holes as they formed, as if in the insane hope of damming the damage of damned deaths fell flood. Indeed for a week or so I did more than this. The patient actually gained weight. But time tells on the strongest. In the second week I kept barely level : in the third he steadily lost ground : in the fourth he fell to pieces under me : in the fifth I sedulously and conscien- tiously buggered the pieces one by one : but it was no good. Steven Jimson was (in the immortal word of Poe) a near…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…t of Jesu’s lambs! Bull’s blood. — Supposed to be a poison by the ancients. Thus Themistocles is said to have died. Cypress. — Symbol of death. Acacia. — Symbol of resurrection, The poppy-fields. — They killed themselves with laudanum. Yahoos. — See Swift’s Voyage to Laputa, It is to be feared that the mad Dean intended to satirize mankind, the race for which the Lord of Giory died! Xalpere, vixduev, Rejoice, we conquer. It si really very extraordinary how Satan's blind- ness and fury possess them to the very end. Even as they died, maybe one f…
1944 · PDF PAGE 105
…een Him, or who have not known His Name. 1See the Book of Lies Cap. πβ, Bortsch. This is the threshold of life; this is the threshold of death. All is doubtful, all is mysteri‐ ous, all is intoxicating. Not the benign, solar intoxication of Dionysus, but the dreadful mad‐ ness of pernicious drugs; this is a drunkenness of sense, after the mind has been abolished by the venom of this Moon. This is that which is written of Abraham in the Book of the Beginning: “An horror of great darkness came upon him.” One is reminded of the mental echo of subc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 207
…; he began to mutter rapidly and un- intelligibly. I was horribly frightened. I got up and lit the gas. The poor boy’s face was white as death; but small, dark crimson flushes burnt on the cheek-bones. I sat at the table for some time and thought. I didn’t dare send for a doctor. He might know what was the matter and take him away from me; take
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…asurably higher, upon the Plane of Spirit, Subject and Object join to disappear, leaving a transcendent unity. This third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. When a sculptor sees a block of marble h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…asurably higher, upon the Plane of Spirit, Subject and Object join to disappear, leaving a transcendent unity. This third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. When a sculptor sees a block of marble h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 133
…cary’s ointment of the honey- moon, though I didn’t notice it, was that something in me missed the excitement of the daily gambling with death to which the war had accustomed me. The slightest reminder of the wilder passions—a couple of boatmen quarrelling, or even a tourist pro- testing about some trifle, sent the blood to my head. I only wanted a legitimate excuse for killing a few hundred people. But nature is wise and kind, and I was always able to take it out of Lou. The passions of murder and love are inseparably connected in our ancestry…
1922 · PDF PAGE 221
… bother my head about any such theories. He simply laughed in my face and called me his favourite nightin- gale. ‘Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird,’ he chuckled, ‘but neither wast thou born to take a course of Neo-Platonism.’ His whole point is that one mustn’t leave the rails. If I had convinced myself
1929 · PDF PAGE 582
…ow explain the incident which let to Betty's temporary absence from the abbey from the Sunday evening before the Friday of her husband's death, till the following day. It is an absolute rule of the abbey not to attack people behind their backs. Betty had taken a frantic dislike to Sister Cypris and pestered us with complaints, not of anything definite that she did, but on general grounds. I happened to hear an outburst of this sort and put my foot down at once. I told Betty that we all agreed with her on many points, but it was none of our busi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 266
… equal of the greatest minds in the world. a [~~ We had decided to take the prussic acid in our coffee. I do not think we were afraid of death ; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed. There was no object in going on. It was simply not worth while. On the other hand, there was a certain hesitation about stopping because of the effort required. We felt that even to die required energy. We tried to supply this with Dutch courage,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…ication of the loneliness, a more utter absorption in the shame. I could but hope that in the ultimate stagna- tion of all vital forces, death would become final, hell merged into annihilation. This started a train of thought which ended in a de- termination to hasten the process. I thought of blowing out the brains, remembered that I had no means of do- ing so. I thought of freezing the body, imagined a story for the nurse, reflected that no cold could excite in his soul aught icier than that illimitable void of black. I thought of telling the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 40
…rict itself within the form of Two; on the contrary. But Sin is to resist the operation of the reversion to Naught. “The wages of Sin is Death” [Romans 6:23]; for Life is a continual harmonious and natural Change. See Liber 418 and Liber Aleph. Sin (see Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary) is connected with the root vYs, “to be.” This throws a new light on the passage. Sin is restriction, that is, it is “being” as opposed to “becoming.” The fundamental idea of wrong is the static as opposed to the dynamic conception of the Universe. This explanatio…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
…ical appeal to me, reminded me of our love, and said he couldn’t believe it was all a sham. Why had I gone into the plot to drive him to death? He doesn’t eat, because he thinks the food is poisoned ; and when he saw that I wasn’t eating, it convinced him that I was in the plot against him. I tried to tell him this was all nonsense. I told him that I was not in any plot against him. It didn’t set his mind at ease. I had to tell him my great secret that I am the woman clothed with the sun in the Book of Revelations, and that he must protect me. …