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Page 149 of 1731929 · PDF PAGE 236
…s were overwhelming. Once he came upon a regiment of Turcos being transferred to another sector — every man of them with a trophy of the great battle. His intense love for all savage men, true men unspoilt by civilization, almost mastered him: he wanted to embrace them. He saw life assurgent, the menace of the enemy thwarted, and his joy flooded his heart so that his throat caught fire, and song leaped to his lips. And then chill caught him as he came suddenly upon a dreadful sight. Before him on the road stood a sign-post, the lance of a Spahi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 311
… any particular horrors are perpetratedin the grim recesses of these giant fanes. I do not know that at any time they were the scenes of great cruelty or other abominations, though certainly they present the completest mise-en-scéne for such excesses. What I do know is that, from the corner-stone to the coping of the highest gopura, they are the product of gloomy, perverted, morbidly overwrought imaginations, revelling in the most extravagant features of the most monstrous of all mythologies.” This is all that Mr. Archer gets from the greatest …
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
…d. On the contrary, it closely followed the measurements of the body of Christ or of a Man which it was supposed to represent. The three great canonical numbers are 2,368 (IESOUS CHRISTOS), 1,480 (CHRISTOS) and 888 (IESOUS), Numerous other numbers also occur but most hinge on these three. Here is an example. 888, 1,480 and 2,368 are to each other in the ratio of 3, 5 and 8. 358 is numerically equal to Messiah, and and 358} x6=2,151 which is again a symbol of the Hebrew Messiah, Alpha 339
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
…d. On the contrary, it closely followed the measurements of the body of Christ or of a Man which it was supposed to represent. The three great canonical numbers are 2,368 (IESOUS CHRISTOS), 1,480 (CHRISTOS) and 888 (IESOUS), Numerous other numbers also occur but most hinge on these three. Here is an example. 888, 1,480 and 2,368 are to each other in the ratio of 3, 5 and 8. 358 is numerically equal to Messiah, and and 358} x6=2,151 which is again a symbol of the Hebrew Messiah, Alpha 339
1929 · PDF PAGE 174
…into the pit that they have digged," said Iff. "All this applies to the question of magick. It is a question of debasing coinage. I have great sympathy with the ascetics of India and their monkish imitators in Europe. They held spiritual gifts to be of supreme value, and devoted their lower powers to the development of the higher. Of course mistakes were made; the principle was carried too far; they were silly enough to injure their lower powers by undue fasting, flagellation, and even mutilation. They got the false idea that the body was an en…
1929 · PDF PAGE 178
…e circumstances with which she was surrounded had aided to make it easy for her. It flattered her vanity that she was the keystone of so great an arch, destined to span earth and heaven. Her new conditions, the relaxation of the tension, threw down her exaltation. The experiment was over; well, then, it ought to be over — and she had months of boredom before her which must be endured with no stimulus but that of normal human duty. She was one of those people who will make any sacrifice at the moment, beggar themselves to help a friend, but who …
1906 · PDF PAGE 51
…s wind throws down the feeble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind: Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind? He, void of temperance and truth, from guilt, impurity, and sin Not free, the poor and golden robe he hath no worth to clothe therein.? Regarding temperance and truth, from guilt, impurity, and sin Freed, he the poor and golden robe indeed hath worth to clothe therein. They who see falsehood in the Truth, imagi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
LOVE-SONGS 57 And now the sea is loose and loud; Tremendous the typhoon Sweeps from the westward as a shroud, Wrapping some great god in a cloud, Abolishing the moon. And faster flying and faster still They gallop fast and faster. ‘© Turn, turn thy rein!” she shrieked again, “°Tis edged with sore disaster.” He looked her through with sight and will :— The pale bride knew her master. And now the skies are black as ink, The nightmare shoreward springs ; The lightning stoops to let them drink. They hold each other close, and think Unutterable thin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…ith bag complete; also lucky moles and love-charms, price two eleven three to regular subscribers to The Occult Review." But with June a great and happy change came over Iliel. She became enthralled by the prospect of the miracle that was so soon to blossom on her breast. Her sulkiness vanished; she was blithe and joyous from the day's beginning to its end. She bore fatigue and discomfort without a murmur. She made friends with Sister Clara, and talked to her for hours while she plied her needle upon those necessary and now delightful tasks of …
1939 · PDF PAGE 14
…gible to, and acceptable by, European minds. It is this system, and this interpretation of it, which I propose to put before you. 4. The great classic of Sanskrit literature is the Aphorisms of Patanjali. He is at least mercifully brief, and not more than ninety or ninety-five
1906 · PDF PAGE 32
…st spark of man? ls He not moulded also in His own eternal plan? Even so; as the woes of earth is the angry crested sea. Even so; as Her great peace abideth in the deep—so He! What wreck floats by us? What pale corpse rolls horribly above, Tossed on the unbewailing foam, cast out of light and life and love? The sea shall draw thee down, O brother, to her breast of peace, Her unimaginable springs, her bridal secre- cles. Even so draw me in life, O Mother, to thy breast ! Below the storm, below the wind, to the abiding rest ! That I may know thy …
1906 · PDF PAGE 109
… and for joy to see Your joy exceed my joy. Then, MEDEA. Reward indeed Awaits thee from such folk as us, who stand In fear of life, when great Aeetes hears This news, and how. all came. MESSENGER. My lady’s smile Is the reward I sought, not place nor gold. MEDEA. Thou hast it, child. SECOND MESSENGER, The hero is at hand. CHORUS. O happy of mortals! O fronter of fear, The impassable portals ! Ye heavens, give ear ! Our song shall be rolled in the praise of the gold, and its glory be told where the heavenly fold rejoices to hold the stars in its…
1905 · PDF PAGE 244
…s, Your arms—a culminating ecstasy, Darkness and death and rapture. you? Sing to 1 From [Latin pedZ7s, skin. What song? too oft My first great cry of love inaudible Sapped me of music. My tunes are played upon VENUS, Sing me that again! TANNHAUSER. Who is this maiden robéd for a bride, White shoulders and bright brows adorable, The flaming locks that clothe her, and abide, As God were bathing in the fire of Hell? They change, they grow, they shake As sunlight on the lake: They hiss, they glisten on her bosom bare. O maiden, maiden queen ! The l…
1905 · PDF PAGE 156
…mature beauty, standing before them with the wand uprarsed, Wonder and worship! Sing to me the song Of the extreme spring! Rejoice in my great streneth And infinite youth and new fertility, And lave your foreheads in this holy milk That springs, the fountain of humanity, Luminous in the temple! Raise the hymn. Cuorus. Through fields of foam ungarnered sweeps The fury of the wind of dawn ; Through fiery desolation creeps The water of the wind withdrawn. With fire and water consecrate The foam and fire are recreate. With air uniting fire and wate…
1919 · PDF PAGE 140
… yourself or another to do anything unbalanced in thought or action in it. In will and deed make this room a temple and a symbol of that greater Temple which is your HIGHER SELF. THE EXERCISES. The First Exercise. Rise to time, and without undue haste, wash and dress, robe yourself and enter the room you have set apart; burn a little incense and turning to the East repeat some simple orison such as: “May the light of Adonai arise within me, may it guide me through this day and be as a lamp to lighten my darkness.” Then make a general confession…
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
… of entire freedom to love without barrier or restraint; but always there seems a something holding me back, invisible, formless, but of great strength, so that I yearn and open my arms (as it were) but am not satisfied; and so I turn and direct it towards that formless vision of Adonai within. Maybe, some day a spark will fire it and it will break loose; & then? (This sounds very good indeed. O.M.) Aug. 27. The most perfect peace I have experienced for a long time. Sep. 1. This is the last day of the six months. Nov. 9. Nearly two months since…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…f the signatories to a favourable report on a medium named Jansen; the following year he had brought the man over to America, and made a great deal of money out of the tour. The action destroyed both Jansen and the earlier report. In New York the Scandinavian medium had been exposed, and when Morningside had objected that this did not invalidate the earlier report, his opponent retorted: "No: Your presence there does that!" But Bowling, with whom he had just crossed from England, knew him better than to think venality of him, and still valued h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…love, I feel the sweet murmur in me, My soul is in tune with the sea. The stars are above me, The rocks are below me, The sea is around! Great Gods that love me Lead me, and show me Their powers profound. Their lightnings move me To stir me, to throw me As into a swound, The song of the infinite surf that is beaten and bound As a fierce wolf-hound, The song that lures me, and lifts me, and mingles my soul into sound! 1 The bulk of this Book I. was written at Waikiki, which is described in this Parabasis. O Nature, my mother, Heart melted on hea…
1905 · PDF PAGE 80
…s mercy was mighty on us ; Ilis lips are as rosy as day Broken out of the sea at the sunrise, as fragrant as flowers in May. Our sin was great in His sight: We chased from our gates our brother, We shamed his father’s might, We spat on the grave of his mother, We laughed in his face and mocked, look- ing slyly one to another. But God beheld, and His hand Was heavy to bring us grief; He brought down fire on the land, And withered us root and Icaf Until we were utterly broken, lost men, without a chief. But whom we scorned we have set A leader an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 69
… His furnace, Fate, My destiny drew near the glowing shore Where California hides her golden ore, [ler rubies and her beryls ; gross and great, Her varied fruits and flowers alike create Glories most unimaginable, more Than Heaven’s own meadows match ; yet this is sore, A stain; not one of these is delicate. Save only the clear green within the sea— Because that rolls all landless from Japan. I did not know until I missed it here How beautiful that beauty is to me, That life that bears Death’s sigil! traced too clear, Blue lines within the beau…