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Page 18 of 781906 · PDF PAGE 110
…forward ABSYRTUS.] I know a better way than that, my lord. This boy shall come with us. JASON. Ah, not to Greece ! Aea needs to-morrow’s king. MEDEA. “With us” I said. ‘* To Greece ’—I said not. CHORUS. What is this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come love, to the long years of love with me ! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The body-guardians of the Golden Fleece ! MEDEA. Guarding your king and queen on every side— CHORUS. We sail triumphant to the land of Greece. MEDEA, A woman’s love, a woman’s power be told …
1996 · PDF PAGE 206
…at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are …
1899 · PDF PAGE 113
…d shore we seek That slopes to yonder peak Snow-clad, bright-gleaming, as the silver ore Plucked by pale fingers slow In balmy Mexico, A king on thunder throned, his diadem The ruby rocks that flash The sunlight like a lash When sunlight touches, and sweeps over them A crown of light! Behold! The white seas touch the gold, And flame like flowers of fire about the prow. It is the hour for sleep, Lulled by the moveless deep To sleep, sweet wife, to sleep! Yes, kiss me now!
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…the praise of the gold, and its glory be told where the heavenly fold rejoices to hold the stars in its sphere. O hero Iolchian! Warrior king! From the kingdom Colchian The Fleece dost bring! Our song shall be sung and its melody flung where the Lyre and the Tongue are fervid and young, all islands among where the Sirens sing.
1905 · PDF PAGE 21
… mercy Over the Cast Away. Melt me its gold to money, Coin me that small, small ring Stamped with the Hoof of Satan, Bearing the name of King. Then, in the murky midnight, Silently lead me down, Down into Hell’s dark portals, Far in the West of Town.
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING not. Free alike from fawning and from dislike do I do service to him who has bought me. This, your Majesty, is the basis of the Act of Truth by the force of which I turned the Ganges back.* In other words, by ignoring all accidents, all matters of chance, and setting to work, without favour or prejudice, to accomplish the one object in view, and so finally “to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” In truth this is an “Act of Truth,” the Power begot by Concentration and nothing e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING not. Free alike from fawning and from dislike do I do service to him who has bought me. This, your Majesty, is the basis of the Act of Truth by the force of which I turned the Ganges back.* In other words, by ignoring all accidents, all matters of chance, and setting to work, without favour or prejudice, to accomplish the one object in view, and so finally “to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” In truth this is an “Act of Truth,” the Power begot by Concentration and nothing e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 287
… of attack. It has become worth- less because their regular arrangement has been thrown into disorder. “At the Battle of Waterloo,” said King Lamus, turning from the wall and going back to his coffee, ‘“‘ Napoleon sent forward the Old Guard. A few minutes later he cried, ‘They are mixed,’ and drove in despair from the field. He did not have to wait to see them destroyed.”’ Lou’s breath was coming in great gasps. She had understood the essence of our friend’s tactics. We looked abominably ill ; we were actually suffering at the moment from the c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING However, this account in The Temple of Solomon the King is too clumsy, too overloaded with matter irrelevant to the main purpose, to serve as the book referred to in Lider Legis III. 39. It will form a book of reference for students, but not a popular treatise. Frater Perdurabo was conscious of this difficulty. A further revelation through another messenger was necessary before the matter could be brought to asatisfactory conclusion. It is unnecessary in this place to detail how this came about, as it is quite rec…
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING However, this account in The Temple of Solomon the King is too clumsy, too overloaded with matter irrelevant to the main purpose, to serve as the book referred to in Lider Legis III. 39. It will form a book of reference for students, but not a popular treatise. Frater Perdurabo was conscious of this difficulty. A further revelation through another messenger was necessary before the matter could be brought to asatisfactory conclusion. It is unnecessary in this place to detail how this came about, as it is quite rec…
1922 · PDF PAGE 320
… Diary of a Drug Fiend it, in its turn, becomes a measure of the grandeur of the rock. We walked up from the station to the residence of King Lamus, high on the hillside above the neck of Jand which joins it to the rock. The cliffs towered above us. They were torn into huge pinnacles and gullies ; but above the terrific precipices we could see the remains of successive civilisations ; Greek temples, Roman walls, Saracen cisterns, Norman gateways, and houses of all periods were perishing slowly on the gaunt, parched crags. It was very hard work …
1901 · PDF PAGE 21
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE. 9 TO RICHARD WAGNER. (BEFORE HEARING “ SIEGFRIED.”) MASTER of the ring of love, O lord Of all desires, and king of all the stars, O strong magician, who with locks and bars Dost seal that kingdom silent and abhorred That stretches out and binds with iron cord The hopes and lives of men, and makes and mars ! O thou thrice noble for the deadly scars That answered vainly thy victorious sword ! Wagner ! creator of a world of light As beautiful as God’s, bend down to me, And whisper me the secrets of thy heart, That I may f…
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
330 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Object of familiarising the mind with ideas which normally excited. The whole system of King Lamus was to enable people to take no notice, that is, no emotional notice, of anything soever in life. A great deal of the fascination of drugs arises from the fuss that is made about them; the focusing of the attention upon them. Absinthe, forbidden in France, Switzerland, and Italy, is still sold freely in England, and no one ever met an English absinthe fiend. If any one took it into his head to start a newspaper campai…
1898 · PDF PAGE 95
…editor : Steal from his stock of suffering ; his tender mercies rob at will ; Destroy his graciousness, until he must avenge the name of king. Strange fascinations whirl and wind about my spirit lying coils ;
1899 · PDF PAGE 149
…d he rose and grasped his broadsword, And he prayed to mighty Thor : “God of thunder, god of battle, God of pillage and of war, Hear the King of Scotland dying On the Leny’s thundrous shore! “Thrice three hundred have I smitten With my single arm this day; Now of life my soul is weary, I am old, I pass away. “Grant me this, immortal monarch, _ Such a tomb as ne’er before, Such a tomb as never after - Monarch thought or monarch saw.”
1899 · PDF PAGE 160
…ar. The pageant whirls and boils, Restricted not by space and time, my dream Foresees the doom of Fate ; My spirit wrestles in the Dream-King’s toils Always in vain, and Hope’s forerunners gleam Alway one step too late.
1913 · PDF PAGE 83
…lurks some serpent - eyed Fear , passion , or man 's deadly wife Desire , the suicide ! Before me dwells the Holy One Anointed Beauty 's King ; Behind me , mightier than the Sun , To whom the cherubs sing , A strong archangel , known of none , Comes crowned and conquering . An angel stands on my right hand With strength of ocean 's wrath ; Upon my left the fiery brand , Charioted fire , smites forth ; Four great archangels to withstand The furies of the path .
1922 · PDF PAGE 75
…meant by saying the stuff didn’t have any special effect upon you. Why, you're perfectly gorgeous | ”’ “You bet Iam,” laughed Lou. “ The king’s daughter is all-glorious within ; her raiment is of wrought gold, and she thrusts her face out to be kissed, like a comet pushing its way to the sun. Didn’t you know I was the king’s daughter ? ” she smiled, with such seductive sublimity that something in me nearly fainted with delight. “ Hold up, Cockie,’’ she chirped. ‘“‘It’s all right. You're it, and I’m it, and I’m your little wife.” I could have to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…mless hours. But nothing seemed to get me out of the fixed idea that life was heroin with intervals that did not count. For about a week King Lamus tried to get me out of my groove by giving me cocaine, and asking me to employ my time by writing an account of my adventures from the time when I began to take it. The drug stimulated me immensely ; and I was quite enthusiastic for the time. I wrote the story of my adventures from the night of my meeting Lou to our return to England from Naples. But when the episode was over, I found the old despai…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
… ................ 31 CAPIT 4. The Queens Quandary ; or, Leaves from the Journal of My Life in the Highlands........ 35 CAPIT 5. The Kings Appendix................... 42 CAPIT 6. My Aunts Amusement ; or, Aching for Arse-plugs ............ 49 CAPIT 7. The Frigging Photographers ; or, The Secrets of a Sommier ...... 53 CAPIT 8. Tupping a Tombstone ; or, The Corpse and the Cleric...... 56 CAPIT 9. The Birch and the Bottom ; or, A Milliners Manners.............. 62