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Page 102 of 1541906 · PDF PAGE 185
…say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard a7 acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say! I practice then, with conscious power Watching my mind, each thoug…
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
…ord Trenchant , that tore their scaly essences Like Lucian's sailor writhing in the clutch Of those witch - vines-- I slashed about like light , And noises horrible of death devoured That hateful suction of their clinging arms And wash of slippery bellies . . > 3 » 5 Life is a boiling cauldron of purposes , actions , and desires . At one moment all pessimistic with the “ toad spotted dew of Reality , at the next all full - hearted optimism , “ Yet I believe what e'er we do is best for me and best for you ” ;4 then as stoical as Marcus , “ I con…
1907 · PDF PAGE 325
…wers of nectar, and the Master's work is done . Nectar perfume gently stealing , masterful and sweet and strong , Cleanse the world with light of healing in the ancient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals , and be altogether lost !! The ecstasy of the saints and mystics , is , this enter ing into the kingdom of God which is within them . ” Hugo de Saint -Victor says : “ The soul , dead to the world and to itself , sleeps in bliss , and yields itself utterly to the kisses of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 297
…nging to an airy garment; and all was stained hideously with black. “My Remenu!” she said. “After so long!” He whispered in her ear. The light behind her flickered and went out. The spirit laid her violin and bow upon the ground. The music went on—a panting, hot melody like mad eagles in death struggle with mountain goats, like serpents caught in jungle fires, like scorpions tormented by Arab girls. And in the dark she sobbed and screamed in unison. She had not expected this: she had dreamt of love more pas- sionate, of lust more fierce-fantast…
1910 · PDF PAGE 297
…nging to an airy garment; and all was stained hideously with black. “My Remenu!” she said. “After so long!” He whispered in her ear. The light behind her flickered and went out. The spirit laid her violin and bow upon the ground. The music went on—a panting, hot melody like mad eagles in death struggle with mountain goats, like serpents caught in jungle fires, like scorpions tormented by Arab girls. And in the dark she sobbed and screamed in unison. She had not expected this: she had dreamt of love more pas- sionate, of lust more fierce-fantast…
1912 · PDF PAGE 90
…o need of West or East, of moon or sun. The door is shut, the marriage feast of God begun. There is a song that never tires, and there a light More sweet and strong than all the fires of day or night There is a taste, a savour shed ; is honey sweet, Is moon-wort chaste ? Its flavour fed the Paraclete ! There is a grace and a perfume no earthly bower Showers from its space of lily-bloom and passion flower. There is a touch, sublime, caress beyond all kisses Kissed overmuch in loves distressthey are not as this is ! Ah, me unworthy of the love …
1919 · PDF PAGE 100
… refulgent dalliance! Thus I concealed the name of Her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. 94
1909 · PDF PAGE 179
…draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother. Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Dark- ness, Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow—these are her manifested Powers in Nature—where also she binds the Great Waters to her Will. Now in the Vetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth (ze, a House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of ¥ is the Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic …
1909 · PDF PAGE 179
…draw an analogy from the Material World, consider the Moon, our Mother. Behold in her the Typic representative of the Powers of the Two. Light and Dark- ness, Flux and Reflux, Ebb and Flow—these are her manifested Powers in Nature—where also she binds the Great Waters to her Will. Now in the Vetziratic Attribution is the second number, Beth (ze, a House), an Abode, the Dwelling of the Holy One, shown to be equivalent to the Sphere of Kokab and his lords. And the symbolic weapon of ¥ is the Caduceus, whose Twin Serpents show again the Dualistic …
1913 · PDF PAGE 194
…Be it so. I have wandered through the worlds in seeking thee, And I have found thee, and thou art as pure As dung, as sweet as sweat, as light as lust. All these, all these I have found, oh, bitterness! O forsaken one, whom I have found, thou art ravished By the phallus of Time, of Time that pierceth thee So keenly that thou art torn, thy virgin body A prey to the lust of Time! Oh, bitterness ! Oh, threefold sadness! I have found thee now Too late, too late, too late. I am weary of flesh; It burns me now I have lost thee! I sicken of time, It s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 194
…Be it so. I have wandered through the worlds in seeking thee, And I have found thee, and thou art as pure As dung, as sweet as sweat, as light as lust. All these, all these I have found, oh, bitterness! O forsaken one, whom I have found, thou art ravished By the phallus of Time, of Time that pierceth thee So keenly that thou art torn, thy virgin body A prey to the lust of Time! Oh, bitterness ! Oh, threefold sadness! I have found thee now Too late, too late, too late. I am weary of flesh; It burns me now I have lost thee! I sicken of time, It s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 165
… of creation’s pain, Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby each life laments and hangs, (Now as I speak a lizard TM lies In wait for light-bewildered flies)
1907 · PDF PAGE 151
… STAR IN THE WEST That flies to the House of Fire , The Rose of Honey -in - Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulf ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future , a dream of the day , When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Ofsunlight shall flash and the dew die away! Rose of the World , Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory , Rose of the High Host Of Heaven , mystic , rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows ). ? Thus we end our chapter which…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
… seems to me that the Eastern methods are very arid, and chiefly valuable as a training of the Will, while the Ceremonies of the Magic of Light tune up the soul to that harmony when it is but one step to the Crown. The real plan is, then, to train the Will into as formid— able an engine as possible, and then, at the moment in the Ritual when the real work should be done, to fling forth flying that concentrated Will “ whirling forth with re-echoing Roar, so that it may comprehend with 55
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…1. [Persian text] : Hakim — doctor, not to be confused with [Persian text] Hakim — official. 2. Wolf’s Tail — the false dawn or Zodiacal Light. 3. One M.S. omits the sentence, and finishes the previous couplet “ O flabby and withered lips ! ” ([Persian text]) lit. “ lips of one who fasts.” 4. Probably a pun [Persian text] to kiss [Persian text] rotten. 5. Reputed aphrodisiacs. In reality of little more use than the boasted South American Damiana. Chobchini (wood of China) is the “ ginseng ” of Sze- chuen and Corea. The modern biological methods…
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
XII PREFACE. impressively read. Next, an hour or two about the Lord’s care of the school, the way He brought sin to light. Next, when well worked up, and all our nerves on the jump, who stole what ? Silence. Next, the Lord’s care in pro- viding a witness — like the witnesses against Naboth ! Then the witness and his story, as smooth as a policeman’s. Next, sentence. Last, execution, with intervals of prayer ! Champney’s physique being impaired, one may suppose by his excessive devotion of Jesus, he arranged to give 60 strokes one day, and 60 th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…: Cursed, cursed be the Earth, for her iniquity is great. Oh Lord! Let Thy Mercy be lost in the great Deep! Open thine eyes of Flame and Light, O God, upon the wicked! Lighten thine Eyes! The Clamour of Thy Voice, let it smite down the Mountains! Let us not see it! Cover we our eyes, lest we see the End of Man. Close we our ears, lest we hear the cry of Woman. Let none speak of it: let none write it: I, I am troubled, my eyes are moist with dews of terror: surely the Bitterness of Death is past. And I turned me to the South and lo! a great lion…
1919 · PDF PAGE 414
… being from BEING, and the rest, but merge the Ocean in the deep, the drop within the Ocean. This too can be considered in an elementary light as meaning: “Begin even at once to destroy the sense of sepa- rateness.” 18. So shalt thou be in full accord with all that lives; bear love to men as though they were thy brother-pupils, disciples of one Teacher, the sons of one sweet mother. g2
1922 · PDF PAGE 77
… wander over Paris. The night was delicious. Nowhere but in Paris does one experience that soft suave hush ; the heat is dry, the air is light, it is quite unlike anything one ever gets in England. A very gentle breeze, to which our fancy attributed the redolence of the South, streamed up from the Seine. Paris itself was a blur of misty blue; the Pantheon and the Eiffel Tower leapt from its folds. They seemed like symbols of the history of mankind; the noble, solid past and the mechanical efficient future. I leant upon the parapet entranced. Lo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 110
… in a blaze of glory not to be spoken of. And the half-seen symbol of my Lord Adonai therewith as a mighty angel glittering with infinite light.