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Page 193 of 2031944 · PDF PAGE 83
… paws of the lion. Climbing up the left‐hand side of the wheel is Hermanubis, who represents the al‐ chemical Mercury. He is a composite god; but in him the simian element predominates. On the right hand side, precipitating himself downward, is Typhon, who represents the element of salt. Yet in these figures there is also a certain degree of complexity, for Typhon was a monster of the primitive world, personifying the destructive power and fury of volcanos and typhoons. In the legend, he attempted to obtain supreme authority over both gods and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…nd 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. All things that are, unknown and known, Bending in homage to your eyes ; We wander wondering, lift alone The world’s grey load of agonies. Make me a roseleaf with your mouth, That all the savour steal afar Unto the sad awaiting South, Where sits enthroned the answering Star. IX. WILL you not come: the unequal fever Of Paris hold our lives for ever? …
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
… Paganism was accomplished by the very outward and visible sign of its inward and spiritual grace, the raising of massive temples to the Gods ina style and manner to which history seeks in vain a parallel. Security is —nay, urgent—to inquire how and why? mortals’ chiefest enemy; so also the perfec- Which having discovered, we are bound to‘tion of balanced strength which enabled proceed with the problem: “* Wherewithal , Hwang- sze to force his enemies to build shall a young man cleanse his way?” receive;the Great Wall was the mark of the the an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
… silence of the lawn Came Charicles, the darling of the dawn, slowly, and to his steps took little heed ; IIe came towards the pool, his god-wrought reed Shrilling dim visions of things glorious, And saw the maiden, that disported thus, And worshipped. Then in doubt he stood, grown white And wonderful, with passion’s perfect might Viring his veins and tingling in his brain, He stood and whitened, and waxed red again. His oat' unheeded glanced beneath the wave, llis eyes grew bright and burning, his lips clave— A sudden cry broke from him: from …
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
…g what he imagines to be honours, such as knighthood, from England, is plotting sneakishly in the Bengali manner against her. I would to God that the British would withdraw from India for six months, so that the men of India might exter- minate these fatherless fish-eaters, this spawn of female dogs that, without caste even in its own slime of bastardy, asserts itelf in America as a ‘young nation.’ Kwaw Lr Ya. Tue Dance or Suiva. By Dr. ANANDA Kent Coomaraswamy. Sunwise Turn, Inc. Price, 8 annas. Tue plot thickens. There is certainly no one equ…
1939 · PDF PAGE 43
…scular movement made in producing the sound. Thus, the letter D originally means 'father'; so the original father, dead and made into a 'God,' was called Ad. This name came down unchanged to Egypt, as you see in the Book of the Law. The word 'Adhi' in Sanskrit was usually translated 'Lord.' In the Syrian form we get it duplicated Hadad. You remember Ben Hadad, King of Syria. The Hebrew word for 'Lord' is Adon or Adonai. Adonai, my Lord, is constantly used in the Bible to replace the name Jehovah where that was too sacred to be mentioned, or for…
1905 · PDF PAGE 45
…wavering on Eddying and rippling through the desart sky That now is peopled with the diamond wings That float through all the palaces of God. O now to join them rise the armies vast Of the lone spirits of the empty tomb, And there I see the lovers piteous Splendidly flash within the silver sphere Of light, and there I lose them at the last Most wonderfully passed within the veil Of Time ; caught up into the Infinite. Lay them together. And the hollow hill Shall echo me ‘‘ together,” and the sky, And the wide sea, and all the fragrant air, Shall…
1905 · PDF PAGE 199
…. I too was wounded: shameful runs the song. She nursed me through that melancholy long Month of despair: she won my life from death. Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption: love! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it? King Shalomeh saith. 1 Hebrew form of Solomon. See Canticles viii. 6, 7.
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
… whose beauty I abase My head, and bind my burning blood, And hide within the moss my face, I would not so—or not for that Would so: the gods knew well to save The mountain summit from the flat, Youth’s laughter from its earlier grave. It is a better love, exists Only because of these below it: Mountains loom grander in the mists: The lover’s foolish to the poet. I know. Far better strive and earn The rest you give me than remain Ever upon the heights that burn Sunward, and quite forget the plain. Beauteous and bodiless we are; __ Rapture is ou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…n Steps. Stoop not, forget Never the Splendid Image, and the realm Where lightnings overwhelm The evil, and the barren, and the vile, In God’s undying smile ! Stoop not, O stoop not, to yon splendid’ world, Yon darkly-splendid, airless, void, inane, Blind confines in stupendous horror curled, The sleepless place of Terror and distress, Luring damned souls with lying loveliness, The Habitation and the House of Pain. For that is their abode, the Wretched Ones, Of all unhappiness the sons ! And when, invoking often, thou shalt see That formless Fi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…n the hearts that revel in it, Drowned in the breath of the hell that pours In the heart of Paris its infamous wave. Damning the soul of God, I rise, Stumble among the dissolute bands, Grope to the steep inadequate stairs Scrawled with villainous names. My eyes Loathe the flare of the flickering brands. Out I climb through the greasy airs Into the cold and desolate road. Horror is sure of a safe abode Here in this heart, too pale for prayers, While over the Halls avenging stands Night, like a devil, with lidless eyes.
1907 · PDF PAGE 175
…ing loveliness Lulled its own light to fond distress, As if the soul were hardly yet Fit to remember or forget New-born ! and though the goddess bade The nymph-bud blossom to a maid, And soulless immortality Reach to a soul, at last to die, For love’s own sake, bliss dearly bought For change’s altering coin ill-wrought, It seemed as though the soul were strange, Not fledged, not capable to range At random through the world of sense Opened so swift and so intense Unto the being. Thus she stood Impatient on the patient flood With wonder waking in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…he Hindus say that all actions, especially important (z.e. spiritual) ones, are written therein. It is an Automatic Recording Angel. Let God’s highest heaven receive the man who dies— All hath an end: he falls: the stains and scars Are his throughout unwatched eternities. The roses and the scented nenuphars Give hope—oh! monolith! oh house of lies ! We change and change and fade, strange avatars In all the skies, Ill. One way sets free. That way is not to tread Through fire or earth or spirit, air or sea. That secret is not gathered of the dead…
1919 · PDF PAGE 300
…al zoologists used to frequent the neigh- bourhood of his house on Sunday afternoon. We have also seen that he thinks like a monkey, the god whom he has made in his own image being more ferocious than a gorilla, and far less intelligent. What then are the differences between Mr. Bishop and a monkey? They are not obvious, and I do not think that any man of science will disagree that it is better to leave it to the monkeys to discover them. But if they insist that he is a Nuctanthropus, we must try again, and see if we cannot class him among the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 217
…ng, swiftly grows A new soul's joy, a fuller-petalled rose. Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan Old Gods that die to constitute a Fate: Flow many Fates then, think you, must control The stainless aspiration of the soul? 1 See the ‘48 Calls or Keys” of Dr. Dee, from which this is quoted.
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…not nor sleeps : its destiny is worse. It thinks not, knows not, acts not, nor appeals, But hangs, remembers ; it abides and feels As if God's vulture clung to it amain, And furies fixed with fiery darts and wheels Their horror, thought-exceeding, manifold, Vertiginous within me—and the cold Of Styx splashed on me, making me im- mortal, Invulnerable in its bitter mould5 Leaving its own ice, penetrating streams, Grim streaks, and dismal drops, abysmal beams Thrown from the gulph thorough the place and portal, Each drop o’erladen with a curse tha…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
… black beyond belief, Tremendous, only just the ripple keeps Our souls from perishing in the inane, With music borrowed from the soul of God. We twain go thither, knowing no desire To lead us 3 but some strong necessity Urges, as lightning thunder, our slow steps Upward. For on the pleasant meadow-land That slopes to sunny bays, and limpid seas (That breathe like maidens-sleeping, for their breast Is silver with the sand that lies below,) Where our storm-strengthened dragon rests at last, 1 Referring to the story of the accidental discovery of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
…curse Its dreadful stature, its appalling shape. In giant horror the clouds rolling drape Earth, like a pluméd pall upon an hearse, Till God looms up, half devil and half ape, Heaven exulting in the hateful rape ; And still the strong curse rolls Over accursed and immortal souls, Covering the corners of the universe Without escape.
1905 · PDF PAGE 29
…d wonderful, began to range Over her cheeks ; she bitterly began : ‘“*T will not yield to thee—a mortal man Alone shall know my love. No God shall come From his high place and far immortal home To bend my will by force. Freeborn, I live In freedom, and the love that maidens give To men I give to one, but thou, most high, (For woman’s wits through your deceptions Spy And know ye for Olympians) shalt know A maiden’s heart no lover may win so. Farewell, and find a fairer maid to love! Farewell!” But he: ‘‘ Through all the silent grove I sought the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
… Cessation”; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, ‘‘ dy’ ws rdxuora, To0 xpbvov dé co. POovar’” —“ Why waste we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains !” So the wise, enlightened by compassion, Seeks that bliss for all the world of sorrow, Swears the bitter oath of Vajrapani: ‘‘ Ere the cycle rush to utter darkness Work I so that every living being Pass beyond this constant chain of c…