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Page 14 of 801930 · PDF PAGE 38
… His conduct on the resuit so obtained. Geomancy has the advantage of being rigorously mathematical. A hand-book of the science is to be found in Equinox I, II. The objection to its use lies in the limited number of the symbols. To represent the Universe by no more than 16 combinations throws too much work upon them. There is also a great restriction arising from the fact that although 15 symbols appear in the final figure, there are, in reality, but 4, the remaining 11 being drawn by an inéluctable process from the “Mothers”. It may be added t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…king off my boots. I had no idea that the place was famous, but it was. It was reputed unclimbable. Almighty Jones himself had failed. I found myself, to my astonishment, the storm centre. Jones, behind my back, accused me flatly of lying. Quite unconsciously, however, I put myself in the right. I have always failed to see that it is necessary to make a fuss about one's climbs. There is a good reason for describing a first climb. To do so is to guide others to enjoyment. One may also for the same reason describe interesting variations of a clim…
1899 · PDF PAGE 81
…he altar that kept watch, Some faithful fellow—he is gone to God. JEPHTHAH. How is ’t the cattle have been driven home? I trusted we had found a tender lamb, A lamb of the first year, unblemished, white, To greet me, that we do meet sacrifice, Fulfilling thus my vow, and all our duty. [A nose of timbrels and singing. Surely some merriment—our news hath reached. Glad news and welcome: God is very good. Enter Adulah, running, followed by singing Maidens.
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…re strictly business machines) who pick up men with the same nonchalance as the young "blood" picked up women in my time at Cambridge. I found myself, from the very beginning of my university career, urged by circumstances of every sort to indulge my passion in every way but the right one. My ill-health had prevented me from taking part in the ordinary amusements of the public school boy. My skill in avoiding corporal punishment and my lack of opportunity for inflicting it had saved me from developing the sadistic or masochistic sides to my cha…
1912 · PDF PAGE 57
…' Yama means literally “control.” It is dealt With in detail in Part II, “The Wand.” 2 Not, however, original. The whole sermon is to be found in the Talmud. 4.1
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…e moved in front of the still figure, and made a mock obeisance. She might have done the same to a stone image. To her astonishment, she found the hand of Lisa on her shoulder. A look, half shocked, half pious, was in her friend's eyes. She found herself rudely pushed aside. Turning, she saw Lisa squatting on the floor opposite the visitor, with her eyes fixed upon his. He remained apparently quite unconscious of what was going on.
1913 · PDF PAGE 205
…stare At my palace hanging serene in air . I know they hate me : I hear them cry, The mad magician has learnt to fly ! ” “ What , I have found you ? This is your face , Clear in the gloom of the market - place : “ Quiet and clear in the turbid crowd , You , like a star in a wrack of cloud . “ Now you have seen me - now the surprise Dawns in the dark of your dreaming eyes . “ You ,- oh for you the palace , the song , You that I built it for fair and strong , “ Will you come to me ? Answer me while you may , Ere the wind has caught my palace away…
1898 · PDF PAGE 40
…, O wasted breath ! I have no strength. Upright I kneel, lamenting The days when Love seemed fair, the bitter years When pain might have found truth, ere unrelenting I shipwrecked Life ! O agony of tears ! Vain tears ! In silence, with abated breath I drift, drift on to Death ! 30
1899 · PDF PAGE 12
126 MYSTERIES : Endowing which with sacred power I sought A little while, as thought that seeks for thought, And found his changeless love endure as mine, And all his passion round me as a vine. So clinging fibres of desire control My perfect body, and my perfect soul Shot flakes of light toward him, and my eyes, Seeking his face, were made divinely wise. So, solemn, silent, ’mid a merry folk - I bound him by my forehead’s silver yoke, And grew immense about him and within, And so possessed him wholly, without sin. For I had crossed the barrier…
1899 · PDF PAGE 148
126 MYSTERIES : Endowing which with sacred power I sought A little while, as thought that seeks for thought, And found his changeless love endure as mine, And all his passion round me as a vine. So clinging fibres of desire control My perfect body, and my perfect soul Shot flakes of light toward him, and my eyes, Seeking his face, were made divinely wise. So, solemn, silent, ’mid a merry folk - I bound him by my forehead’s silver yoke, And grew immense about him and within, And so possessed him wholly, without sin. For I had crossed the barrier…
1899 · PDF PAGE 191
…n of dawn’s herald strong ; The sea basks below in the atmosphere torrid, Waiting and waiting a lover. All men despise her: a woman once found Joy in the kisses whereby she was drowned, Love in her death to discover. I, in the pzan of earth, air, and ocean, Join and laugh loud for the love of my heart; Throbs the loud air with my throes of emotion ; Love hath prevailed with the adamant dart Poisoned, a tooth of a snake ; They shall grow in my breast and divide me with longing Dead and asleep and awake.
1905 · PDF PAGE 173
…cle and nerve ! Thence, by great Will new-freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarcophagus ! an end ! an end ! Resounds the echo in the stone, in- calculable myriads of tons poised in gigantic balance overhead, about, beneath. O blend your voices, angels of the awful eart…
1910 · PDF PAGE 467
…Veil of God is thin as gauze! ”— That almost they had dulled or drowned The laughter (in its belly bound) Of that dread Beast he had not found. Nathless—although he would away— They forced the lack-luck knight to stay And lecture many a weary day. Verily, almost he had caught The infection of their costive thought, And brought his loyal quest to naught. It was by night that Palamede Ran from that mildewed, mouldy breed, Moth-eaten dullards run to seed ! gr
1910 · PDF PAGE 467
…Veil of God is thin as gauze! ”— That almost they had dulled or drowned The laughter (in its belly bound) Of that dread Beast he had not found. Nathless—although he would away— They forced the lack-luck knight to stay And lecture many a weary day. Verily, almost he had caught The infection of their costive thought, And brought his loyal quest to naught. It was by night that Palamede Ran from that mildewed, mouldy breed, Moth-eaten dullards run to seed ! gr
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…the first and easiest broken of the false fires of Loki that surround the Virgin of the World l—and yet a week or so passed by, and he was found carping at a question of mere verbal accuracy. [BONES, camcz'ence-smillm, protest: fiebly] Truth and falsehood in the British “ I’m a plain man, sir, and I like a plain answer to a plain question " sense are, on the lowest grounds, but details of Morality: Morality is but a branch of that Tree of Knowledge; and yet so far may the Adept fall from his Samadhic consciousness that he is found with atavistic a…
1899 · PDF PAGE 120
…, Our bodies met, and, meeting, did not touch But interpenetrated in the kiss. * * | * * # This writing is engraved on lamina Of silver, found by me, the trusted friend And loving servant of my lady and lord, In that abandoned chapel, late destroyed By Etna’s fury. Nothing else remained (Save in the ante-room the sword we knew So often flashing at the column-head) Within. I think my lord has written this. And for the child, whose rearing is my care, And in whose life is left my single hope, This writing shall conclude the book of song His fathe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 63
… or repose for its raiment Your power, like a pyramid, stands; My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truthin the sands, Found truth, and must placein poor payment this bookin your hands.
1912 · PDF PAGE 106
…s genius, and how is it produced? Let us take several specimens of the species, and try to find some one thing common to all which is not found in other species. Is there any such thing? Yes: all geniuses have the habit of concentration of thought, and usually needlongperiodsofsolitude to acquirethis habit. Inparticular, the greatest religious geniuses have all retired from the world at one time or another in their lives, and begun to preach immediately on their return. . Of what advantage is such a retirement? One would expect that a man who so…
1912 · PDF PAGE 25
…e to seek this goodly thing. But now the dwarf doth beat his breast, And speak on this wise to the king, That he should worthy knight be found Who with his hands the dwarf should bring By might one span from off the ground. Whereat they jeer, the dwarf so small, The knights so strong: the walls resound
1905 · PDF PAGE 156
…les of young pines, their tips ablaze. Their feet dead black ; the wind’s dark fingers warp To its own time their strings, a sombre mode Found by a ghost on a forgotten harp 151