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Page 110 of 1291905 · PDF PAGE 223
…e, Not arming all men in an iron mould. Peaceful be thou: with watching and with prayer. But be not overbold. Fall, Austria! In the very day and hour That reverend head that holds thee in its awe Shall sink in peace, I see thy rotten power Break as the crumbling ice-floe in the thaw. Destruction shatters thy blood-builded tower. Death has thee in his maw. Stand, Russia! peace, Beneath the constant rule, the changing Czar. Thy many, thine inhospitable seas Shall ring thee round, a zodiac to thy star, And Frost, the rampart of thine iron ease, La…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…e yoke. Seven then are these found faithful unto death ; From Calais six ; and one from Nazareth. REVEIL D’ADONIS,! ADONIS, awake, it is day; it is spring! It is dawn on the lea, it is light on the lake! The fawn’s in the bush and the bird’s on the wing | Adonis, awake! Adonis, awake! We are colour and song And form, we are Muses most tender to take Thy life up to Art that was lost over long. Adonis, awake! Adonis, awake! thou hast risen above The fear in the forest, the brute in the brake. Thou art sacred to shrines that are higher than Love !…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…imax. Arthwait had finished his Grimoire. He was just in time. For the great operation of necromancy should properly begin on the second day of the waning of the moon, and there were nine previous days of most arduous preparation, no longer of the materials, but of the sorcerers themselves. They must eat dog's flesh, and black bread baked without salt or leaven, and they must drink unfermented grape-juice — the vilest of all black magical concoctions, for it implies the denial of the divine beatitude, and affirms God to be a thing of wood. Ther…
1907 · PDF PAGE 151
…l ye! give ear, O seasons, to these Fleet-footed, the strings of the lyre ! forth ! I invoke ye—and cease. VOL. III. Come O hours of the day, And hours of the night, Pause now while ye may In your heavenly flight ! Give answer and say, Have I called ye aright? Are the strings of my lyre as fire, the voice of my singing as light? THE Hours. Darkness and daylight in divided measure Gather as petals of the sunflower, In many seasons seek the lotus-treasure, Following as dancing maidens, mute for pleasure, The fervent flying footsteps of the Hour. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…OM PAX Via“ v. Serpens Domus IV v. Benignitas Ratio Naturae Naturatae Adeptum _ Oportel Rationis Facultatem Regnare they sit in them all day and play silly games with counters, and ohl dear me, how they do cheat and quarrel. When any one gets a million counters, he is so glad you can’t think, and goes away and tries to change some of the counters for the things he really wants, and he can’t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. But I was telling you about the ways to the Fourth House, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…for ideals; only the governments know what hypocrisy and sham it is; so the ideals will win, both in defeat and victory. Man! only three days ago France was the France of Panama, and Dreyfus, and Madame Humbert, and Madame Steinheil, and Madame Caillaux; and to-day she is already the France of Roland and Henri Quatre and Danton and Napoleon and Gambetta and Joan of Arc!" "And England of the Boer wars, and the Irish massacres, and the Marconi scandals, and Tranby Croft?" "Oh, give England time! She'll have to be worse before she's better!" "Talk…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…or a single instant, or of course I should have been turned into a horrid black toad. Then there was another passage called the Arrow by Day, and there was a most lovely lady all shining with the sun, and moon, and stars, who was lighting a great bowl of water with one hand, by dropping dew on it out of a cup, and with the other she was putting out a terrible fire with a torch. She had a red lion and a white eagle, that she had always had ever since she was a little girl. She had found them in a nasty pit full of all kinds of filth, and they were…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…isition. Then Martin returned to Maximus and bargained. Let this order be revoked, and he would receive Communion with the Ithacans next day at the election of the new Archbishop. The order was revoked, and Martin kept his word. But when he knew the cause of Humanity safe, he departed, and on his way back to Tours experienced a great agony. Why had he had dealings with the Ithacans? Ina lonely place he pondered sadly. An angel spoke to him. “Martin, you do right to be sad, but it was the only way.” Never again did he go to any council. He was w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…isition. Then Martin returned to Maximus and bargained. Let this order be revoked, and he would receive Communion with the Ithacans next day at the election of the new Archbishop. The order was revoked, and Martin kept his word. But when he knew the cause of Humanity safe, he departed, and on his way back to Tours experienced a great agony. Why had he had dealings with the Ithacans? Ina lonely place he pondered sadly. An angel spoke to him. “Martin, you do right to be sad, but it was the only way.” Never again did he go to any council. He was w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 45
…ruth for him! To me she is The rosy incarnation of a kiss, The royal rapture of a young delight, The mazy music of virginity, Sun of the day, moon of the night, All, all to me! Angela, angel! Thou hast made me map,
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
…s great idea brought with it a flood of imagination, and a million problems of detail. The servant girl was already half dressed for the day's work; and he made her fetch him a final whisky before he slept. Late in the following afternoon he woke, and sent Cremers, whom he had turned into a drudge, to telegraph to Balloch to come over, and to bring her friend Butcher to see him. Douglas had previously refused to see this man, [237] who was a Chicago semi-tough. He ran a fake Rosicrucian society in America, and thought that Douglas could give hi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 70
…e, Gathering roses from the quickening dust ; And faith despoiled and desecrated trust Wore pearlier plumes of a diviner dove. THE FIRST DAY. ‘¢ Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ?”” As You Like It. THE waving surf shone from the Peaceful Sea.} Young palms embowered the house where Beauty sate Still but exultant, silent but elate In its own happiness and majesty Of a mild soul unstirred by rivalry Of any life beyond its own sweet state. I looked around me, wondered whether Fate Had found at last a woman’s love for me. I had no hope: …
1929 · PDF PAGE 173
… economize, that is, withdraw himself to a kind of life where money is no longer needed in such quantity, or he [244] may devote himself day and night to his business, and so increase his salary. But there is no third course open to a man of self-respect. The sorcerer type of man appeals to lower planes of money-making. He begins by gambling; beaten there, he resorts to the still viler means of embezzlement; perhaps, finally, he attempts to cover his thefts by murdering his mother for the insurance money. "Notice how, as his plane becomes debas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 224
…ed at Barcelona, than Lisa became suddenly and terribly ill. After a week, the doctors decided upon a radical remedy-operation. The next day a girl child entered the world, very much alive, despite the irregularity of her entrance. No ordinary child, either. She was a beautifully made baby, with deep blue eyes; and she was born with four teeth, and with hair six inches long, so fair as to be silvery white. Like a tattoo-mark, just over the heart, was a faint blue crescent. Lisa recovered rapidly from her illness, but not too quickly for the amo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 44
…nthetic gin. An even more startling example comes from Venezuela, where running messengers chew coco leaves, cover their hundred miles a day, and sleep till they are rested. They have no bad reac‐ tion, and they do not acquire the habit. Cocaine is a different story. The adepts of the Tarot would say, quite simply, “We are alive and the plant is alive, so we can make friends. If you kill the plant first, you are asking for trouble.” All this is here written in defence of the system of the makers and users of the Tarot, of their methods of deali…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…nger.) “Let me illustrate the theory by an actual example. “I Write from Italy to a a man in France and another in Australia on the same day, telling them to join me. Both arrive ten days later; the first in answer to my letter, which he received, the second on “his own initiative”, as it would seem. But I summoned him because I wanted him; and I wanted him because he was my représentative ; and his intelligence made him résolve to join me because it judged rightly that the situation (so far as he knew it) was such as to make me desire his pres…
1905 · PDF PAGE 174
…an angel then, In copper-glowing lands that gnaws the prey He has regotten from the tribes of men. _ We lay like passion all that deadly day—- Thou wast a lion as an angel then ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover, Great hater of my body as my soul, To whom I gave my life and love thrice over, Fill me one last caress—the poison-bowl ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover ! FAME. O iF these words were swords, and I had might From some old prophet in whose tawny hair The very breath of the Jehovah were To smite the Syrian, and t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 205
…"©The Horror, the immense profundity, ‘¢ The stealthy, secret paces of thy Bower ! ‘* Thee we adore and praise ‘Whose breast is broad as day’s ; ‘¢Thee, thee, the mistress of the barren sea, ‘‘Deep, deadly, poisonous ; ‘* Accept the life of us, ‘¢Dwell in our midst; yea, show thy cruelty ! “Suck out the life and breath ‘* From breast that quickeneth ! ‘¢ Such pain is death, ‘‘Such terror, such delight—all, all is unto thee !” I too, I also, I have known thy kiss. I also drank the milk that poisons man, Sought to assume the impenetrable bliss By…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
… sensual and strong. [72] Cyril Grey had nicknamed him "The Merman of Mayfair" and claimed that Rodin got the idea for his "Centaur" the day that he met him. He was the younger brother of the Duke of Flint, his race probably Norman in the main: but he gave the impression of a Roman Emperor. Haughtiness was here, and great good-nature; the intellect was evidently developed to the highest possible pitch of which man as man is capable; and one could read the judicial habit on his deep wide brows. Against this one could see the huge force of the ma…
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…st In his face: slides spinning with her body’s twist Into the inmost agony of things. EPERVIER ET COLOMBE., WHEN, at the awful Judgment-day, God stands Shrunken and shaking at my gaze, before My hollow seat of agony, it may be He shall discover me the great excuse For an ill world ill shapen by ill hands, For unit joy and misery ten score, For all his work’s complaint; I think that He, Twitching his fearful fingers, may let loose This answer: Thus a kiss I brought to being Which by no other way were possible. Measure, O man! Balance with eyes …