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Page 19 of 1301910 · PDF PAGE 277
…s; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at…
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
᾽ΙΟ. JOHN ST. ]ΟΗΝ οί weather, fog, blizzard, blight, by night or day, I know within 5" (usually within 2°) the direction in which I faced when I left that tent or hut. And if I happen to have observed its compass bearing, of course I can deduce North by mere judgment of angle, at which I am very accurate. Further, I keep a mental record, quite unconsciously, of the time occupied on a march ; so that I can always tell the time within five minutes or so without consulting my watch. Further, I have another automatic recorder which maps out distanc…
1911 · PDF PAGE 89
THE VISION AND THE VOICE But the knowledge of the Aethyrs is deeper than the know- ledge of the Sephiroth, for that in the Aethyrs is the know- ledge of the Aeons, and of aya. And to each shall it be given according to his capacity. (He has been saying certain secret things to the unconscious mind of the seer, of a personal nature.) Now a voice comes from without: And lo! I saw you to the end. And a great bell begins to toll. And there come six little children out of the floor of the chariot, and in their hands is a veil so fine and transparent…
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “A danger?” said he. ‘No; none that I know of.” “Have you not been assaulted by a monster phantom, who sought to strangle you? Did it not hurt you?” Eliphas remembered. “Yes,” said he, “certainly, I had the beginning of a sort of apoplectic attack, and a horrible dream. But how do you know that?” “At the same time, an invisible hand struck me roughly on the shoulder, and awoke me suddenly. I dreamt then that I saw you fighting with Astaroth. I jumped up, and a voice said in my ear: ‘Arise and go to the help of thy Maste…
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “A danger?” said he. ‘No; none that I know of.” “Have you not been assaulted by a monster phantom, who sought to strangle you? Did it not hurt you?” Eliphas remembered. “Yes,” said he, “certainly, I had the beginning of a sort of apoplectic attack, and a horrible dream. But how do you know that?” “At the same time, an invisible hand struck me roughly on the shoulder, and awoke me suddenly. I dreamt then that I saw you fighting with Astaroth. I jumped up, and a voice said in my ear: ‘Arise and go to the help of thy Maste…
1899 · PDF PAGE 199
LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 177 Love, love to-night. To-night is all we know, Is all our care; lips joined to lips we lie, Tender hands touching, hearts in tune to die, With willing kiss reluctant to let go; So sweet love’s last enduring sigh For sleep, so sure, so slow. Sleep, sleep to-night. Our arms are intertwined, Breath desires breath and hand imprisons hand, Breezes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—and found Death kind.
1912 · PDF PAGE 29
…s. At Ieast, she-devil, you have been well—treated. Aucta. O teagie farce—not even rimes completed! Nay, darling! no rebellion. When you know 32
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
… invitation is also made , and the following should even entice her prudish cerebellum : But stow your prudery , wives and mothers , You know as much muck as — those others ! Your modest homes are dull ; you need me ! Don't let your husbands know ; but -- read me !2 In this extraordinary volume , which seems to be the child of a promise made to Mr. Chesterton in the “ Sword of Song ,” we find a deeply cynical satire castigating with no little severity the menial servility of modern society , as scathing as a Beverland , as cynical as a Carlyle …
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
… But I go dancing.” And I wave my hand, and the Aethyr is empty and dark, and I bow myself before it in the sign that I, and only I, may know. And I sink through waves of blackness, poised on an eagle, down, down, down. And I give the sign that only I may know. And now there is nothing in the stone but the black cross of Themis, and on it these words: Memento: Sequor. (These words probably mean that the Equinox of Horus is to be fol- lowed by that of Themis.) Bou-SAapa. December 2, 1909. 4.50-6.5 p.m. Tue Cry OF THE I5TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
… and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are please to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories ? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to seek your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know ! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you hav…
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…he chamber of Art ;—and 1? Oh Adonai my Lord, surely I did invoke Thee with fervour; yet Thou camest not utterly to the tryst. And yet I know that Thou wast there; and it may be that the morning may bring remembrance of Thee which this consciousness does not now contain. But I swear by Thine own glory that I will not be satisfied with this, that I will go on even unto madness and death if it be Thy will—but I will know Thee as Thou art. It is strange how my cries died down; how I found myself quite involuntarily swinging back to the old mantra t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 35
…epared for the chafing dish which stood beside them; there was a basket of pears and grapes of more value than a virtuous woman — and we know that her price is above rubies! In the background stood the wines in cohorts. There was hock from the cellars of Prince Metternich; there was Burgundy — a Chambertin that could have given body to a ghost, and hardly lost its potency; there was a Tokay that really was Imperial; there was 1865 brandy made him 1865 — which is as rare as radium in pitchblende. Simon Iff took it upon himself to explain his app…
1910 · PDF PAGE 268
…n mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succeeds their exaltation demands a renewed indulgence, and acco…
1910 · PDF PAGE 268
…n mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succeeds their exaltation demands a renewed indulgence, and acco…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…l Out of the way, girl ! [She pus/1e: LEDMIYA roughly/”ram the window] Booty! He must be well and victorious! Bring him in! Now we shall know—good tidings! good tidings! [Shepaces?שקand down .]/?!”שמשמ /”?[6711631151 with a young girl. ACHMET. The duty of my Lord! Good tidings from the battle. The spoils of my lord's spear! He prays you to keep her among the women until he return and place her in his harem. LAYLAH. A man! He is a man! I have borne a man- child, a lion, a conqueror! ACHME'I‘. Indeed, he has slain twenty Christians with his own h…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…l Out of the way, girl ! [She pus/1e: LEDMIYA roughly/”ram the window] Booty! He must be well and victorious! Bring him in! Now we shall know—good tidings! good tidings! [Shepaces?שקand down .]/?!”שמשמ /”?[6711631151 with a young girl. ACHMET. The duty of my Lord! Good tidings from the battle. The spoils of my lord's spear! He prays you to keep her among the women until he return and place her in his harem. LAYLAH. A man! He is a man! I have borne a man- child, a lion, a conqueror! ACHME'I‘. Indeed, he has slain twenty Christians with his own h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…leman by his clothes, and a thief by his manner, and I daresay a good fellow. [Goes to FLORIMOND and slaps him on the back.] Sir, do you know this cursed Paris? My inn, which I have lost, is the Sign of the Green Grass—I should say the Field o’ Spring--and ’tis hard by the Church of St. Anselm, that is hard by,the river, and the hardest of all is that neither church, inn, nor river can I find this devil ofa night. [Catches FLORIMOND and shakes him by the shoulder. FLORIMOND. Know you are speaking to a captain in the army of Duke Charles! Modera…
1922 · PDF PAGE 245
…arate bone Cold, an incarnate groan Distilled from the icy sperm Of Hell’s implacable worm.” We repeated them over and over. ... I don’t know how one thing ever turns into another. We are living in an eternity of damnation. It is a mystery how we ever get from the fire to the table or the two big Chesterfields. Every action is a separate agony rising to a climax which never comes. There is no possibility of accomplishment or of peace. “Every separate nerve Awake and alert, on a curve Whose asymptote’s name is ‘never’ In a hyperbolic ‘for ever !…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…not have been able to nourish the contending forces. But though it is profitable for the soul to contemplate the extent of what we dont know, it is in some ways more satisfying to our baser natures to consider what we do know in a reasonable sense of the word. It is not disputable that the battle of Waterloo was fought and won. It is not disputable that it was the climax, or rather the denouement, of cam- paigns lasting over a number of years. And there is no reason for doubting that Napoleon was born in Corsica, that he entered the French arm…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
… far garden of the South, The herald of our happening there! Fragrant, caressing, steals the breeze; Curls into kisses on your lips :— I know interminable seas, Winged ardour of the stately ships, Space of incalculable blue And years enwreathed in one close crown, And glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bard’s renown :— Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight : her God Weary, his old eyes sad and dim In his intolerable abode. 20