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Page 110 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 242
…rous delight Thy straining bosom, and my kiss were death! Death! Dost thou live, Tannhauser? Sayest thou still: ‘* None but the dead can know the worth of love !”? TANNHAUSER, Still,- Iam not in any sense estranged. I yearn for thee in the first hour of spring, As in the dying days of autumn. I Would clasp thee, as a child its mother’s throat, Drinking celestial wine from that dear mouth, Or with goodwill see poison in thy smile, And die, still kissing thee, and kissed again ! This, though I saw thee crawl upon the earth, fowl at Her presence W…
1906 · PDF PAGE 83
…n of scourges, but whose wild Breast beat with splendour of sin, whose looks were mild, Hiding the cruel smile behind a tear. So she: “I know you never would ;” yet did Such acts that no end otherwise might be. So I: ‘‘I will not ever pluck the flower ;”’ Yet strayed enchanted on the lawns forbid, And bathed enamoured in the secret sea, Both knowing our words were spoken— for an hour. THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY. ‘* Persever in that clear way thou goest, And the gods strengthen thee.” Pericles, LINKED in the tiny shelf upon the ship, My blind eyes bur…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
THE WAKE WORLD 9 people reading them till they were so silly, they didn’t know what they were doing. And there were cheats, and doctors, and thieves; l was really very glad to go away. There were three ways into the Seventh House, and the first was Via? _ such a funny way. We walked through a pool, each on the arm of a “ cranium great big Beetle, and then we found ourselves on a narrow winding path. There were nasty Jackals about, they made such a noise, and at the end I could see two towers. Then there was the queerest moon you ever saw, only a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…nt them to fail!" "Oh no! I want them to succeed." Cyril turned rather angrily to Lisa. "He's impossible! I fancy myself at paradox, you know; but he goes beyond my understanding every time. I'm an amateur, and a rotten amateur at that." "Let me explain!" said Simple Simon. "If everybody did his Will, there would be no collision. Every man and every woman is a star. It is when we get off our orbits that the clashes come. Now if a Thing gets off its orbit, and comes into my sphere of attraction, I absorb it as quietly as possible, and the stars …
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…text-book—useful at least for examination purposes and “ sixth-form” students in psychology—follows in the main the theories more widely known in this country through the works of Minsterberg, and rejects such of those of Wundt as are based by him upon that a priori auxiliary function, the so-called “apperception.” “From the outstart,” states Professor Ziehen, “the conception ‘ unconscious psychical pro- cesses’ is for us an empty conception”; and so, on the strength of this assertion, he attempts to work out the whole of his argument empirical…
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…text-book—useful at least for examination purposes and “ sixth-form” students in psychology—follows in the main the theories more widely known in this country through the works of Minsterberg, and rejects such of those of Wundt as are based by him upon that a priori auxiliary function, the so-called “apperception.” “From the outstart,” states Professor Ziehen, “the conception ‘ unconscious psychical pro- cesses’ is for us an empty conception”; and so, on the strength of this assertion, he attempts to work out the whole of his argument empirical…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…e placarded with rival posters— Ne buvez pas de l’Alcool ! L’Alcool est un poison ! and Buvez de l’Alcool ! L’Alcool est un aliment ! We know now that alcohol is a food up to a certain amount; the precept, good enough for a rough rule as it stands, will not bear close inspection. What Buddha really commands with that grim humour of his, is: Avoid Intoxication. But what is intoxication? unless it be the loss of power to use perfectly a truth-telling set of faculties. If I w alk unsteadily it is ow ing to nervous lies—and so for all the phenomena…
1905 · PDF PAGE 215
…ic bosom where some serpent sleeps, Sweet mockery of a thousand saintlier creeds ! Even I, that breathe your perfume, taste your breath, Know, even this hour, ye are not life, but death! No death ye bring more godlike than de- sire, When seas roar tempest-lashed, and foam is flung Raging on pitiless crags, and gloomy fire Lurks in the master-cloud; corpses are swung Helpless and horrible in trough and crest— That death were music, and the lord of rest. No death ye bring as when the storm is rolled, An imminent giant on the sun-ripped snows, Whe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…er, “ not to send me any proofs before publication. It would be but an unnecessary trouble to you; to me such a mark of regard from an unknown benefactor would prove a burden and give occasion to my enemies for recrudescence of persecution. My mail is sure to be ransacked, if indeed I am to be blessed with any communication from the living. But when all the instalments are published and my name is flying from lip to lip, then, and then only, you, whoever you are, noble champion of the Men-Covers, please send me thirty-one copies to be given awa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…er, “ not to send me any proofs before publication. It would be but an unnecessary trouble to you; to me such a mark of regard from an unknown benefactor would prove a burden and give occasion to my enemies for recrudescence of persecution. My mail is sure to be ransacked, if indeed I am to be blessed with any communication from the living. But when all the instalments are published and my name is flying from lip to lip, then, and then only, you, whoever you are, noble champion of the Men-Covers, please send me thirty-one copies to be given awa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 211
…you say one word to him?" Lisa's jaw dropped in amazement. "What? Who?" she stammered. "Why, that perfectly sweet Turk, Abdul. Sure, you know him, dearie!" Cremers was watching Lisa's face; she read the answer. She gave a low whistle, and round the corner Abdul Bey came running. He took Lisa in his arms, and rained kisses passionately on her mouth. She had no thought of resistance. The situation entranced her. The captive princess; the intrigue; the fairy prince; every syllable was a poem. "I've longed for you every hour for months," she cried,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…Anarchist would succeed in destroying society if he amounted to, say, a third of the population. Now Simple Simon, at this time, did not know Douglas for the enemy General; but he was in the closest possible magical touch with him. For he had absorbed the Thing in the garden into himself and that Thing had been a part of Douglas. So he set himself to the complete assimilation of that Thing; he made certain that it should be part of himself for ever. His method of doing this was as simple as usual. He went over the Universe in his mind, and set …
1904 · PDF PAGE 29
…hee what the Earth is, and what holdeth it up in the Waters; and what Mind is, and where it is; or any other thing thou mayest desire to know. He giveth Dignity, and confirmeth the same. He bindeth or maketh any man subject unto the Magician if he so desire it. He giveth good Familiars, and such as can teach all Arts. He is to be observed towards the West. He is of the Order of Dominations.". He hath under him 200 Legions of Spirits, and part of them are of the Order of Angels, and the other part of Potentates. Now if thou callest this Spirit P…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…ppeareth at first in the Form of a Flaming Fire; but after a while he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His office is to make one Wonderful Knowing? in Astrology and all the Liberal Sciences. He giveth Good Familiars, and can bewray Treasure that is kept by Spirits. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (59.) Orzax, or Orntas.—The Fifty-ninth Spirit is Oriax, or Orias. He is a Great Marquis, and appeareth in the Form of a Lion,’ riding upon a Horse Mighty and Strong, with a Serpent’s Tail;* and he holdeth in his Right Hand…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… they wished to collect. In fact, his human individuality was one of the things that had to be banished from her neighbourhood. She must know nothing of him but the purely magical side, when, clothed in robes suitable to the invocations of Luna and with word and gesture concentrated wholly upon the work, he sank Cyril Grey utterly in the Priest of Artemis — "thy shrine, thine oracle, thine heat of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming." [144]
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
… laughed when things were rough. Therefore, I take it, now in Hades The funny side of things—and ladies— Engages my attention. Well! You know enough of life in Hell. I was an altruist, my brothers ! My life one long kind thought for others : For me six maidens wear the willow :— Poisoning is a peccadillo. Hence I’m disposed to give advice Simple, if possibly not nice ; Shun life! an awkward task and deep. But if you cannot, then—shun sleep ! (Suppose I thus had prophesied, Gone to my wife to bed, and died !) EPILOGUE. THE KING-GHOST. THE King-G…
1954 · PDF PAGE 289
…e Empire State Building; when the architects protested, it is simple to reply : why, but of course! God was most careful not to let them know what they were really doing, or they would have died of fright! This argument was actually put forward by the Spiritists when Zancig confessed that his music-hall exploits· were accomplished by means of a code. It is quite useless to get any sense whatever into the heads of these bigoted imbeciles. 2. The date of the prophecy must antecede that of its fulfilment. The very greatest care must be taken to en…
1906 · PDF PAGE 81
…id with sweet tracery Of talismans of virtue: she is leal To come and live and be my love at last. UNDER THE PALMS. THE woodland hollows know us, enchanted, Likewise the spaces of the ghostly sea, The lake’s abundant lilies, the pale slanted Moonlight on flowers, the wind’s low minstrelsy; For all the tropic greenery is haunted By youandme........ bird- The tall palms bend and catch love’s tender ditty To learn a sweeter song to lure their mate. The soft wind sighs in amorous self-pity, Having no love wherein to laugh elate, And turns to the co…
1906 · PDF PAGE 85
…arried chastity.” Phenix and Turtle, YET ere the stars paled slowly in the east I could not sleep: and she—how else? What rest May a man know until his quiet breast Beats to her tune? I garbed me as a priest And moved towards my Host—on God I feast ! We lay in naked chastity, caressed Child-like or dreaming, till the dawn repressed Our sighs: that nuptial yet hath never ceased.
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
… same time producing the effect of transcendental sublimity. I find that I cannot even begin to think of a proper definition, although I know in my own mind perfectly well what the Hindus mean; if one soaks oneself in Oriental thought for a sufficient number of years, one gets a spiritual apprehension which it is quite impossible to express in terms applicable to the objects of intellectual apprehension; it is therefore much better to content ourselves with the words as they stand, and get down to brass tacks about the practical steps to be tak…