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Page 106 of 1201929 · PDF PAGE 116
… of Mars was like mother's milk to Brother Onofrio. For he was himself of the strongest Martial type, having been born with Scorpio, the night house of Mars, rising, and the planet himself conjoined with Herschel in the mid-heaven in the sign of the Lion, with the Sun rising in trine and Jupiter conjoined with Saturn making an additional trine from the sixth house, which governs secret things such as magick [167] It was as formidable a combination as Mars could make in a thousand years. He happened also to belong to that grade of the Order — Ad…
1929 · PDF PAGE 200
…lance, white you plod painfully over the other, letter by letter, and probably copy it wrong after all. That's what happened to you last night. I know you were there; and, knowing you were not an initiate, I can guess pretty well what you must have seen. You saw things 'accurately,' so far as you could see them; that is, you saw a projection into your own mind of something really in being. How right such vision can be, and yet how wrong! Watch my hand!" He suddenly raised his right hand. With the other he held a book between it and her eyes. "I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…she not perceived a difficulty in getting him. As to that gentleman himself, if grief tore at his [318] heart strings, he showed it that night in an unusual way. It may have been but simulation of philosophical fortitude; there is no need to enquire. His actions are of more interest: they consisted of picking up a cocotte on the Boulevard des Italiens, and taking her to dinner at the Cafe de Paris. At the conclusion of a meal which would have certainly been prescribed as a grief-cure to any but a dyspeptic, the maitre d'hotel approached their t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
…e, as if a star Dropped through the far Vault of the sky, and, as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan The scroll of heaven, and see if there be not, Black with no. blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew, This message of good hope, good trust, good fate And good estate : ‘* Work on, hope ever, let your faith be built Of gold ungilt ; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; …
1906 · PDF PAGE 222
…g-shell cut in two ; The sixteenth day, a glance ; The seventeenth day, an honeycomb; The eighteenth day, a dream; The nineteenth day, a nightmare ; The twentieth day, a wolf, black-muzzled; The twenty-first day, a SOrrOW ; The twenty-second day, a bundle of herbs ; The twenty-third day, a piece of camphor ; The twenty-fourth day, a moonstone ; The twenty-fifth day, a sigh; The twenty-sixth day, a refusal; ‘The twenty-seventh day, a consent ; and the last night she gave him all herself, so that the moon was eclipsed and earth was utterly darken…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
it so closely that it must hâve been started before the time of the Work. E. g. I work to night to make X in Paris Write to me. I get the letter the next morning, so that it must hâve been written before the Work. Does this deny that the Work caused the effect? “If I strike a billiard-ball, and it moves, both my will and its motion are due to causes long antécédent to the act. I may consider both my Work and its reaction as twin effects of the eternal Universe. The moved arm and bail are parts of a State of the Cosmos which resulted necessarily…
1905 · PDF PAGE 205
…d Sprang in the thunder-wind ! The strong words bind For evermore, Amen! the keys of Hell and Death.! Central, supreme, most formidable, Night Gathered its garments, drew itself apart ; Gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite Veil of deep agony, display the heart ; Even as a gloomy sea, Wherein dead fishes be, Poisonous things, nameless ; the eightfold Fear, Misshapen crab and worm, The intolerable sperm, Lewd dragons slime-built. foul mere Crawled, moved, gave tongue, The essential soul of dung That lived and stung ; That spoke: no word that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 189
…his for his place of evocation was rewarded by complete freedom from disturbance or suspicion. Any one could enter at any hour of day or night, with every precaution of secrecy, without drawing more than a laugh from the police on guard. The entrance to the sorcerer's den was similarly concealed — by cunning, not by more obvious methods. A sort of cupboard-shelf, reached by a ladder from the dancing cellar and by a few steps from one of the bedrooms in the house above, was called "Troppman's refuge," it being said that that celebrated murderer …
1935 · PDF PAGE 10
…into the Abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the Third Order, as a Babe in the womb of our Lady BABALON, under the Night of Pan, to grow up to be Himself wholly and truly as He was not previously, he remains in the Abyss, secreting his elements round his Ego as if isolated from the Universe, and becomes what is called a “Black Brother”. Such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the Universe, despite his now desperate efforts to insu- la…
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…r, so more beautiful and fleet, So free, so exquisite, The world of dreams and impearled With solitary shaft of Truth? O children of the Night, shadows, not Too sweet, Are your wide realms for our philoso- phers, Who must in hard gray balance-shackles bind The essence of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the poor sense of touch they judge that this Or that is real or not. Have they divined This simplest spirit-bond, The joy of some bad woman’s deadly kiss ; T…
1906 · PDF PAGE 72
…ndous, terrible ! Thus I forgot my soul and dwelt alone In the strong fortress of the active mind Whose steady flame burned eager in the night ; Yet was some shadow on the starry throne, Some imperfection playing hoodman- blind So that I saw not perfectly aright.
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…ng awake) through another passage, which was lighted by the Sun. Yet there were fairies dancing in a great green ring, just as if it was night. And there were two children playing by the wall, and my Fairy Prince and I played as we went; and he said: “ The difference is that we are going through. Most people play without a purpose; if you are travelling it is all right, and play makes the journey seem short.“ Then we came out into the Third (or Eighth, it depends which way you count them, because there are ten) House, and that was so splendid y…
1913 · PDF PAGE 6
…orm a valuable reference book. In it he traces the sources of the teaching of the philosophy and rites of the Craft, right back into the night of time—before the Aryan civilization. The mystery tradition was the sole survivor in the West, and in the Operative Guilds a genuine mystery tradition was preserved and handed down to modern times. This splendid book carries conviction in every line, and all brethren who take a serious interest in Masonry should study it. 6
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…a and the yellow sand ; And the face of earth is dark with love Of the lords of hell and the spirits above That move in the foggy air of night, And the spirit of God, most like a dove, Hovers, and lingers, and wings his flight, Spurned and rejected and lost to sight ; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills; For God is strong, and His iron word Mocks at the gods of the woods and rills. For our God is as a fire That consumeth every one That is underneath the sun. We, for uttermost desire, Must abase, with rent attire…
1905 · PDF PAGE 153
… forth avenging ; men shall understand And worship, seeing justice as a spouse Lean on thine iron hand. not made for For Murder walks by night, and hides her face, But righteous Wrath in the light, and knows his place ; For hate of a mother is ill, and the lightning flashes But foil a harlot’s will, burn the earth to ashes, Cleanse the incestuous sty of a whore’s desire, Scatter the dung to the sky, and burn her with fire ! So the avenging master shall cleanse his fate of shame, Set his seal of disaster, a royal seal to his name. [ Bxeusnt. SAF…
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…Republic. You may kiss my hand. But you have pursued the defeated enemy; you have annihilated their strongest regiments; and, after last night, I am afraid that they will abandon the attack altogether. The situation is lamentable." "But they invoked the death-current themselves," objected Brother Onofrio. "How could I tell that they would send for poor old Vesquit, and prepare an operation so formidable that something definite was bound to happen, one way or the other?" "But you failed to deal gently with the young man Gates! " "I know I'm liab…
1905 · PDF PAGE 134
…ight, A flower like lightning, adamant and white. There needs no more or sun or sea Or any light ; On golden wheels Eternity Revolves in Night. The island peoples are too proud and free And full of might To care for time or space, but glorious wend A royal path of flowers to the end. I pray thee, God, to weapon me With this keen fire, That I may set this people free As my desire ; That the white lilies of our liberty Grow on Life’s crags still higher, Till on the loftiest peaks their blossom flower, The rampart of a people and their power. ELEG…
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…orm a valuable reference book. In it he traces the sources of the teaching of the philosophy and rites of the Craft, right back into the night of time—before the Aryan civilization. The mystery tradition was the sole survivor in the West, and in the Operative Guilds a genuine mystery tradition was preserved and handed down to modern times. This splendid book carries conviction in every line, and all brethren who take a serious interest in Masonry should study it. xxii
1913 · PDF PAGE 22
…orm a valuable reference book. In it he traces the sources of the teaching of the philosophy and rites of the Craft, right back into the night of time—before the Aryan civilization. The mystery tradition was the sole survivor in the West, and in the Operative Guilds a genuine mystery tradition was preserved and handed down to modern times. This splendid book carries conviction in every line, and all brethren who take a serious interest in Masonry should study it. xxii
1906 · PDF PAGE 90
…ver - through— Words came not: only ever: ‘I :love you !” - With broken kisses and stained cheeks of love. So all day long and. half the night we. wan- dered oO Down deep lanes and in gardens, like lost souls. Strong kisses that had surfeited a score Of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered ; And tears like fire, and looks like burn- ing coals, Without a word passed on for evermore. THE FIFTIETH DAY. Suffolk, ‘‘IfI depart from thee I cannot live.”’ Margaret. ‘*let me hear from thee, For whereso’er thou art in this world’s globe I have an Iri…