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Page 26 of 781901 · PDF PAGE 80
… banquet than old Atreus planned ! Mind cannot fathom, nor the brain conceive, Nor soul assimilate, nor heart believe The horror of that Thing without a Name. Full on me, boasting, like Death’s hand it came, And struck me headlong. Linger, while I weave The web of mine old agony and shame. A little shadow of that hour of mine Touches thy heart ? Fill up the foaming wine, And listen for a little ! How profound Strikes memory keen-fanged ; memory, the hound That tracks me yet—a shiver takes my spine At one half-hint, the shadow of that sound. Whe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 21
… ignoring their malignity, but simply aware of their detestable presence, the heel is ground down in one generous impulse, and the slimy thing is no more. Decomposition, already far advanced, may be trusted speedily to resolve the remains into the ultimate dust of things, mere matter for some new and hopefuller avatar. Such a worm are you, M. D——, who once, as above described, voided your noxious nastiness in my presence, trusting to conciliate me by the intended compliment that my poems on Rodin were from myself and not from him, and that any …
1912 · PDF PAGE 66
…better but sleepy. I must really buck up, A better, but “ business ” is a nuisance, and prevents the mind concentrating. 18. A The usual thing. I forget about it till late, 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or unwilling, to sleep, recommenced A . '. Elaborate and really not bad. . Α most oppressive day—96°-—heat-exhaustion, nearly prostration. A gabbled. My thro…
1912 · PDF PAGE 66
…better but sleepy. I must really buck up, A better, but “ business ” is a nuisance, and prevents the mind concentrating. 18. A The usual thing. I forget about it till late, 19 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. or at least put it off. A man cannot serve two masters. I began A ; then deliberately stopped, as it was a farce. I appoint Sunday from waking to sleeping as a day of fast and penance. Unable, or unwilling, to sleep, recommenced A . '. Elaborate and really not bad. . Α most oppressive day—96°-—heat-exhaustion, nearly prostration. A gabbled. My thro…
1912 · PDF PAGE 39
…ening blood poured from the desolate steeps, Tumultuous fever of flood from the mountain that sweeps I would drain for this inaccessible thing made mine The ineffable bliss, the song of the spring, to be thine ! I would drink molten gold, and walk on white-hot steel, Once, only once to hold your body, once to feel The annihilation of sense and spirit in your caress, The imminent and intense bolt of your loveliness. MONICA. Well, yours the right reward of love and death. Time calls. Hells master hath toward a banquet in his halls. I am the whi…
1961 · PDF PAGE 58
…ger- ously. Was not this the Word of thine Uncle Friedrich Nietzsche? Thy meanest Foe is the Inertia of the Mind. Men do hate most those things which touch them closely, and they fear Light, and persecute the Torchbearers. Do thou therefore analyse most fully all those Ideas which Men avoid; for the Truth shall dissolve Fear. Rightly indeed Men say that the Unknown is terrible; but wrongly do they fear lest it become the Known. Moreover, do thou all Acts of which the common Sort beware, save where thou hast already full knowledge, that thou may…
1905 · PDF PAGE 164
…ctual years. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking —sober- sides ! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And I lay— A storm of weeping swept across frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager Led me to face a nation’s lunatic Roar of delight. I soon got over that, my And over--yes, the other thing. Three months— They used to quote me on the Stock Ex- change! I will say this to me, I …
1910 · PDF PAGE 9
…hipelago Of poison in each sea where life was holy. Their questions have no answer, But all’s converted to the abominable Soul-sickening thing that one is tied to. This is I Just as God in His Nature, wholly Involved therein, its tune, its motive, its quintessence. There were no meaning in Spring’s aspen spell, Where man’s sole treasury, the sky, Made bankrupt of His presence. Only, this God is a black fiend ; Of blood, the babe’s drink, weaned And fattened on—what liquor and meat ? Unnameable By all the giant horrors that haunt hell !
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…le as before, renewing vows. Twenty-eight mins. Got the Threshold—the awful doubt whether one shouldn’t walk away and throw up the whole thing—presented first as a temptation, then as a doubt. Wherefore the cry, " Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.” But got no further—save from a sense of dew distilling from the Eye in the Triangle by the Ray. Am still very much below par. Not that I feel bad ; but I sleep absurdly after massage. (As a matter of fact, he suffered intensely from neuralgia and eye trouble all this summer, with hardly any intermission) Re…
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…le as before, renewing vows. Twenty-eight mins. Got the Threshold—the awful doubt whether one shouldn’t walk away and throw up the whole thing—presented first as a temptation, then as a doubt. Wherefore the cry, " Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.” But got no further—save from a sense of dew distilling from the Eye in the Triangle by the Ray. Am still very much below par. Not that I feel bad ; but I sleep absurdly after massage. (As a matter of fact, he suffered intensely from neuralgia and eye trouble all this summer, with hardly any intermission) Re…
1961 · PDF PAGE 47
…g well that thou wilt rejoice exceedingly therein, since it is an Expression of thine own Will, and it may be a Discovery thereof, which Thing thou vehemently seekest. I charge thee therefore that thou permit none to tyrannize any other in Thought, or to threaten, or in any other Wise to blaspheme the great Liberty of our Father the Sun in the Great Cosmos, or of His Vice- regent in the Little. t
1910 · PDF PAGE 146
…hipelago Of poison in each sea where life was holy. Their questions have no answer, But alls converted to the abominable Soul-sickening thing that one is tied to. This is I Just as God in His Nature, wholly Involved therein, its tune, its motive, its quintessence. There were no meaning in Springs aspen spell, Where mans sole treasury, the sky, Made bankrupt of His presence. Only, this God is a black fiend ; Of blood, the babes drink, weaned And fattened onwhat liquor and meat ? Unnameable By all the giant horrors that haunt hell !
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
… , terrible His rod . Caspar , bear witness !— Who is God ? Caspar . God ? God ! His rod is feeble and His vengeance slow . God ! What a thing to ask ! Why bother me ? I' ve drunk a bit — that 's all I seem to know . Yet sometimes I have wondered — Who is He ? The everchanging wind and dreamy tide Rule Ocean ; that at any rate is sure . Make them your gods and you shall learn to ride Upon the veriest typhoon secure . Yet in the tropics , when the heavens melt 136
1954 · PDF PAGE 463
…ion means "leading out" ; this is not the same as "stuffing in." I refuse to enlarge on this theme ; it is all-important. To extract something, you should first know what is there. Here astrology ought to give useful hints ; its indications give the mind something to work on. Experience makes "confirmation strong as Holy Writ" ; but beware of a priori. Do not be dogmatic; do not insist in the face of disappointment. Astrology in education is useful as geology is to the prospector ; it tells you the sort of thing to look for, and the direction i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
… position. This lion can bite back. CHRISTIANITY But why — we may indeed ask — all this heavy me- tal to bombard a brothel ? Has no good thing come out of Nazareth?
1912 · PDF PAGE 88
72 MORTADELLO Come, prick the imposthume Rumour ! These blessed heathen roar, And all the people doth imagine a vain thing, As David went so far one morning as to sing. They think your cloistered lily withered up or plucked ! Come out, although you stream like the new aqueduct ! [THE GOVERNOR appears at the window. GOVERNOR. Ah, Sandro ! what is this ? I did not hear you call. I was with the Princess, conversing in the hall. ALESSANDRO. There ! you hear that ? GOVERNOR. Whats wrong ? ALESSANDRO. These people think shes dead. GOVERNOR. Shes j…
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…rap of paper and wrote “Amid all the complications and perplexity there remains, back of all, the Will. The Will to Be. The Will to Be Nothing, which is the only state inconceivable to the mind. The old God willed to be some- thing, and the Universe appeared, The New God wills to be Nothing and be- reflection of which was caught by the body. So joyful it became that it whirled round in a mad dance, and was filled with music. It was stifled by the confines of the room; but “I” was Free, so it couldn’t matter much. (This is the second experience …
1910 · PDF PAGE 104
…nly the consciousness of bliss.1 This is contrary to reason, for how can bliss exist, ex- cept as the quality of some person or sensible thing ? Nevertheless, these experiments which I have performed upon thy podex, solely with a view to investigating these statements,2 make for a similar conclusion. It is excessively annoying to the pious that any analogy in Nature to their follies should seem to supply a base for these wild and irrational theories. It is the call of the Muezzin ; but I must purify myself, for during these reflections thy pode…
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
…ex- tremely careful to make no statement at all that cannot be verified in the usual manner; or where this is not easy, at least avoid anything like a dogmatic statement. In Their second book of practical instruction, Liber 0, occur these words: “By doing certain things certain results will follow. Students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philo- sophical validity to any of them.” Those golden words! In discussing Dhyana, then, let it be clearly understood that some- thing unexpected is about to be described. We…
1912 · PDF PAGE 42
…trouble. MARGARITA. Her money helped to free me When I was put away by Issachar the Jew. She gave me clothes besides. FILIPPO. Theres nothing she can do. For Venice folk she leaves forgotten or undone. GIUSEPPE. Yes, shes a saint of God and a friend to every one. EUPHEMIA. She dews us with her tears she suns us with her smiles. MATTEO. By God, the guardian angel of the City of the Isles ! [The crowd, in chatting, have moved up nearly off stage. L. Enter R. ALLESSANDRO and LUCREZIA. ALESSANDRO. Now then to sound the core of the apple of our pl…