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Page 3 of 801898 · PDF PAGE 19
PREFACE 15 now in the possession of the present editor, in which were found the MSS. which are here published. Mathilde, who knew how he treasured its contents, preserved it by saying to the officer, “ But, sir, that is mine. ” On opening this it was found to contain, beside these MSS., his literary will. All MSS. were to be published thirty years after his death, not before. He would gain no spurious popularity as a reflection of the age he lived in. “ Tennyson,” he says, “ will die before sixty years are gone by : if I am to be beloved of men…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…ce pierre? C’est le fondement de la philosophie absolue, c’est le supréme et inébranlable raison.”—LEVI. “One day when I was all alone I found a wondrous little stone. It lay forgotten on the road Far from the ways of man's abode. When on this stone mine eyes I cast I saw my Treasure found at last. —--0 stone, so red and rare and wise! 0 fragment of far Paradise l ” MACHEN.
1898 · PDF PAGE 57
…r the wilderness appear the moon With cold lips to bestow the inestimable boon. Still I have never prayed for death, but rather Would be found fighting toward the goal I seek, Stretching both hands toward a loving father, And struggling toward some barren voiceless peak With feet made stedfast, if God made them weak ; So, on the journey, in the hottest fight I would be found by Death, whose palace bleak 47
1919 · PDF PAGE 73
…ewelled with twelve stars; My body is white as milk of the stars; it is bright with the blue of the abyss of stars invisible. 29. I have found that which could not be found; I have found a vessel of quicksilver. 30. Thou shalt instruct thy servant in his ways, thou shalt speak often with him. 31. (The scribe looketh upwards and crieth) Amen! Thou hast spoken it, Lord God! 67
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
…s , with foreheads low , With eyes that looked despair ; One after one they learned at school That honesty will pay ; One after one they found the rule Broken upon life's way . And now they brought their shillings back , Their shillings five or seven , And hope once more had found a crack To shine on us from Heaven . Our spending grew and counted up To two pounds ten a week ; Each body had daily bite and sup, And each grew almost sleek . It couldn 't last, the children moved And made their scattered beds , Their mother died and I had proved Too…
1913 · PDF PAGE 219
… loud . “ All the day I work in silence , Half asleep my sails go round , But at night I think and listen To the thoughts the stars have found , For the day with all its brilliance Has not half the truth of night : Children plight their love in darkness But they veil it in the light . “ I have heard the boys at day prime , I have seen the men at noon , And the grey - beards pass me silent In the hush t' wixt sun and moon . They have sought the truth in day - time While I slept and let them play , But when night came down they found it, For ther…
1954 · PDF PAGE 230
MENTAL PROCESSES 197 then! Then I found that about two-thirds of my "absolutely essential" ritual was not necessary at all! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 242
… notes. The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the more certain it is that I only assert a limitation . I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking. I drank and danced all night with Doubt , and found her a virgin in the morning. (The Book of Lies) I wouldn't start to argue with the Chinese, if I were you; they might remind you that you exude the stench peculiar to corpses. Again, that other "Hymn to St. Thomas ," as I ought perhaps to have called it: Doubt. Doubt Thyself Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself Doubt all D…
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…unted me , The thunder crash , the swollen stream , I worshipped - wanton cruelty , Mad perils of a maniac dream . I peopled earth a new found hell With the new devil of my soul , That thought might find a place to dwell And the dire chaos seem a whole . For strange I saw my first sun rise And felt his warmth upon my flesh And screaming , with distorted eyes Fled from the dancing shadow - mesh ; And strange the spinning river whirled Past stone and tree which had no feet , And in my misbegotten world A Devil - god was good to meet . I found a s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 28
I found myself swimming for dear life. This is what comes, I thought, witty even in my boyhood, of the Volunteer Movement ! Why, Galahad, said my mother, how beautifully your linen is starched this week. . . . . [26]
1928 · PDF PAGE 31
… not without dan- ger, and one may sometimes have to pay heavily for them; but what does the eternity of damnation matter to one who has found in a second the Infinity of enjoyment?
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
…and replaced By Law most bountiful and maiden - faced And Mother - minded : passing the low bound Of Man's poor law we leapt at last and found Passion ; and passing the dim halls disgraced Found higher love and larger and more chaste , A calm sphinx waiting in secluded ground .' The first day of meeting he gazes on her , and wonders whether Fate had found at last a woman's love for him ; hopelessly he turns away and sinks the dream of his soul in despair and “ Kindled a corpse light and proclaimed ' The day '!” Thither I fled , busied myself wi…
1939 · PDF PAGE 64
… to the effect that the general subject of the series was the mental exercises of the Yogi; and the really remarkable feature was that I found it impossible to discuss them at all thoroughly without touching upon, first of all, ontology; secondly, ordinary science; and thirdly, the high Magick of the true initiates of the light. 2. We found that both Ontology and Science, approaching the question of reality from entirely different standpoints, and pursuing their researches by entirely different methods, had yet arrived at an identical impasse. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 90
78 is dissolved. But, instead of that, he is found hidden in the earth, tend- ing a garden. This mystery is all too complex to be elucidated in these fragments of impure thought; it is a suitable subject for meditation.
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…say that it is "absurd" to try to raise a thunderstorm by beating a drum; it is not even fair to say that you have tried the experiment, found it would not work, and so perceived it to be "impossible." You might as well claim that, as you had taken paint and canvas, and not produced a Rembrandt, it was evident that the pictures attributed to his painting were really produced in quite a different way. You do not see why the skull of a parricide should help you to raise a dead man, as you do not see why the mercury in a thermometer should rise an…
1914 · PDF PAGE 21
CHICAGO MAY He took the name of Bailey Bey ‘And tried to bilk Chicago May. Alas| he found her pearls were sham, Heer jewels coloured glass :— But not until my Mary's lamb Had been baptized an ass. Before the booby could say “ knife” He found that Mary was his wife! So now by night it’s baccarat, By noon it is blackmail, ‘Until some windy grandpapa Arrives to swell their sail— A combination gambling-hell And brothel near the Tour Eiffel. i Praise the Lord, O my soul! praise the Lord! Praise Him, the Father and the Friend of all, Whose service is…
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
…t, And each rolls through eternities afar Beneath the threshold of the Infinite. How is it that with all that space to roam I should have found this mote that spins and leaps In what unutterable sunlight, foam Of what unfathomable starry deeps Who knows ? And how this thousand million souls And halfa thousand million souls of earth That swarm, all bound for unimagined goals, All pioneers of death enrolled at birth, How were they swept away before my sight, That I might stand upon the single prick Of infinite space and time as infinite, Who knows? …
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
…t, And each rolls through eternities afar Beneath the threshold of the Infinite. How is it that with all that space to roam I should have found this mote that spins and leaps In what unutterable sunlight, foam Of what unfathomable starry deeps Who knows ? And how this thousand million souls And halfa thousand million souls of earth That swarm, all bound for unimagined goals, All pioneers of death enrolled at birth, How were they swept away before my sight, That I might stand upon the single prick Of infinite space and time as infinite, Who knows? …
1929 · PDF PAGE 288
… much upset by that natural curiosity of the natives at seeing a white woman and interpret their interest as intentional insult. When he found with what practical common sense I travelled, he realized immediately that there was going to be no trouble. During this lunch he gave me more genuinely valuable information about China that I had had in the whole previous course of my life. One of his sayings was this: whatever one hears, however extraordinary, is true in China somewhere or other! He also told me the main psychological difference betwee…
1929 · PDF PAGE 500
…f the cause. Whenever a train passed, the light from the funnel became visible whenever the trees thinned out. I explored the woods, and found the gaps corresponded to these calculations. That ghost was laid. I could see only a narrow section of the river close to the shore. At 10:07 on the second night this section was traversed by a rowing boat manned by two men and a shapeless heap in the stern, which might have been a third or a cargo -- it was too dark to make sure. They rowed in dead silence with muffled oars. They were clearly about some…