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Page 21 of 841909 · PDF PAGE 271
…rophant confers on the Neophyte the Secrets and Mysteries of the grade; and explains to him the Symbolism of the Temple as follows: “The three portals facing from the East are the gates of the paths which alone con- duct to the Inner. . . .” “The letters shin, tau, and qoph, make by metathesis mwp (Qesheth), which signifies a bow, the rainbow of promise stretched over our earth, This picture of the Flaming Sword of the Kerubim isa representation of the guardians of the gate of Eden; just as the Hiereus and the Hegemon symbolise the two paths of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
… Tail of an healthy scepticism gleamed pale at the age of I 0, when I asked my form master how it was that Christ managed to be dead for three days and three nights between Friday night and Sunday morning. He said that he did not know, and (to a further question) that no one had ever explained it. This merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 79
… flow of knowledge in that subject is Dhyana. When that, giving up all forms, reflects only the meaning, it is Samadhi.” He combines these three into Samyama. We shall treat of Dhyana as a result rather than as a method. Up to this point ancient authorities have been fairly reliable guides, except with regard to their crabbed ethics,- but when they get on the subject of results of meditation, they completely lose their heads. 63
1912 · PDF PAGE 63
45 ACT III SCENE I. The Rialto. Three Jew merchants, meeting. SHACKABACK. OW we shall know the truth, Heres Issachar. ISRAEL. His eyes Half starting from his head with horror and surprise. ISSACHAR. I tell you, it is fierce. Theres nothing to be done. Theres hundred lies about ; I dont trust anyone. Some say the Doge is dead ; some say its the Princess ; I cant see anyone ; theres hundred lies, no less. Look, heres the nice young Count Alonzo. SHACKABACK. Good, my sons. I will ask him myself : I lent him money once. Enter ALONZO. Good-d…
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
TANNHAUSER A STORY OF ALL TIME TANNHAUSER. XVI One is incisive, corrosive ; Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant ; Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive; Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant : Five! . . . O Danaides, O Sieve! XVII Now, they ply axes and crowbars ; Now, they prick pins at a tissue Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar’s Worked on the bone of a lie. To what issue ? Where is our gain at the Two-bars? XVIII Est fuga, volvitur rota. On we drift : where looms the dim port? One, Two, Three, Four, Five, contribute t…
1898 · PDF PAGE 7
…l he could to calm me ; he thought I was mad ! The fool ! I was in the death struggle with self : God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered—now I have only one doubt left—which of the twain was God ? Howbeit, I aspire ! I
1904 · PDF PAGE 129
… clay to clay When Celia croaks. Ill dress her up in cloaks and toques Etcetera, earn her away And after sundry final pokes Hire her at three-and-six a day To G...H... what a hoax ! None but the dead shall have its way When Celia croaks. X When Celia rots, each poxy hole Will serve : she hath an hundred twats. Come finger, tongue, and fucking pole When Celia rots. Here, the old ulcers ! Happy spots ! Hail, pustules ! Hail, oh central goal Wherein some sucking devil squats Now surely as ever ! Broke the bowl. Loosed the old cord yet hop…
1961 · PDF PAGE 92
…e, and worked with all my Will. Thou knowest well how greatly I was rewarded. Yet in this last Initiation to the Grade of Magus, wherein three-and- seventy Days, as Men count Days, is but One Day, the Ordeal grew so fierce and intolerable that I gave back a Step. I did not utterly renounce the Work, but I swore not to continue unless mine Agony were abated. But after fifteen Days, I came to myself in a certain Ordeal, wherein I knew myself finally, that I could do no other than take up that fearful Burden that had broken my Spirit. And for thes…
1912 · PDF PAGE 22
…ot stir. The child complains—how feebly now! His eyes are blank ; he looks at her; The cold sweat gathers on his brow. To save the world—three days away|! His life in knighthood’s life is furled, And knighthood’s life in his—to-day |— His darling staked against the world | Will he die there, his task undone? Or dare he live, at such a cost? He cries against the impassive sun : The world is dim, is all but lost. Then, with the bitterness of death Cutting his soul, his fingers clench The piteous passage of her breath. The dews of horror rise and …
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
… to four strong stallion steers, To tear asunder, as they thought, The paladin of Arthur's peers. But he, a-bending, breaks the spine Of three, and on the fourth he rears His bulk, and rides away. Divine The wonder when the giant fails To stir the fatuous dwarf, malign Who smiles! But Bors on Arthur rails That never a knight is worth but one. “ By Goddes death ” (quod he), “ what ails
1906 · PDF PAGE 143
…I; and I the weeping wolf That howls about this hell that is my heart; And I the icy and intangible That beholds all, and is not. RUPHA. Three in one ! One in three ! Death to the sun! Glory to thee ! Thou wast there ! Enough ! It will grow. Ho! Ho! Criospa. In English, I was mad. But no new portents Confound the course of the sun. Ileft my home To seek thee out. When skill availed me not, I put to sea to try the Luck of Maurya.
1901 · PDF PAGE 104
…Death ! Thy little span of life is sped, Sighed out thy little breath. The worm that never dies is thine ; the fire that lingereth ! ” “ Three voices has thy frame, Their music is but one. Fool-demon, slave of night and shame, That canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God : make thou homage and orison ! ” The wild heads sank in fear : Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gates of Paradise. Again the Voice rolled in the deep, mingled with murmuring sighs : “ I mind me of the day One came from Death to me ; …
1910 · PDF PAGE 115
…ldish a source as the pun between Guhr and Guh [Persian text] (dung). It is more obvious in the oblique Guh-ra and Guhr-ra. 12. The last three verses are probably spu- rious. Verse 11 supplies a natural end, with the takhallus. A. L. (It will be observed that some of these notes are redundant. We have not altered or cut any of Ma- jor Lutiy’s notes, though we have added a small number of our own. On the rare occasions of our disagreement, we have added his initials to his note, and added our own view in brackets. Ed.)
1944 · PDF PAGE 233
…in the form of the Hexagram, which is shown in skeleton. In the centre blushes and glows the light rose‐ madder of dawn, and without are three concentric circles, golden yellow, salmon‐pink, and amber. These colours show Tiphareth fully realized on Earth; it reaffirms in form what was mathematically set forth in describing the Ace. The planets are arranged in accordance with their usual attribution; but they are only shown as disks irradiated by the Sun in their centre. This Sun is idolized as the Rose and Cross; the Rose has forty‐ nine petals…
1903 · PDF PAGE 34
…erpend! (Hark back to Hamlet!) If You stand thus poised upon the cliff Freewill—I await that will; (One) laughter; (Two) the old kiss ; (Three) silence after. No? Then vacate the laboratory! Psychology must crown the event, And sociology content, Ethics suffice, the simple story! (Oh! that a woman ever went Through course of science, full and whole, Without the loss of beauty’s scent, And grace, and subtlety of soul. Ah God! this Law maketh hearts ache, “Who eateth shall not have his cake.”) 32
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…of the most senseless atrocity. Her firstborn son, the aforesaid, was remarkable from the moment of his arrival. He bore on his body the three most important distinguishing marks of a Buddha. He was tongue-tied, and on the second day of his incarnation a surgeon cut the fraenum linguae. He had also the characteristic membrane, which necessitated an operation for phimosis some three lustres1 later. Lastly, he had upon the centre of his heart four hairs curling from left to right in the exact form of a Swastika2. He was baptised by the names of E…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…erything in the cause of Science. In a moment now she'll be ready for the sitting." Indeed, she changed suddenly into Personality Number Three, a very decorous young Frenchwoman named Annette, maid to the wife of a Jewish Banker. She went with rather stiff decorum to the table — she had to lay breakfast for her mistress, it appeared — but the moment she got there, she began to tremble violently all over, sank into the chair, and resumed the "Baby" personality, after a struggle. "Det away, bad Annette — naughty, naughty!" was the [45] burden of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 194
SWIFTNESS EIGHT OF WANDS The remaining three cards of the suit belong to Sagittarius, which represents the sub‐ tilizing of the Fiery energy; and Mercury rules the card, thus bringing down from Chokmah the message of the original Will. The card also refers to Hod, splendour, in the suit of Fire, whence it refers to the phe‐ nomena of speech, light, electricity. The pictorial representation of the card shows the Light‐wands turned into electrical rays, sustaining or even constituting Matter by their vibrating energy. Above this restored uni‐ ver…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…ed in watching over the safety of the fortress, their faces turned inexorably outward, their sole business to assure the security of the three women and their treasure. Upon these facts being brought to the notice of Edwin Arthwait, he smiled. He had redeemed his earlier failures — due to the incapacity of his assistants — by a sweeping success. For to his magic, evidently, was due the observed change in nature! Shortly after the arrival of Vesquit, he had completed his latest operation, the bewitchment of three nails in such a manner that, if …
1911 · PDF PAGE 57
VI THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON Oh, your love was a marvellous thing, [63111161 It was dawn, it was fire, it was birth, it was spring, Jeanne! But this is the curse, that it quickens its rate, Lest man by love should escape from fate And win from the dust to the Uncreate, Jeanne ! Nay, we are lovers, you and I— And we must die, and our love must die! How have we striven, each of us, Jeanne! To break the bars of the prison-house, Jeanne! We have raged like cats in a ring of fire, Driven by desire that was true Desire, The hate οί the lower, the lov…