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…o escape :— The yawning portals gape, The orbéd ring As by a whirlpool drawn Into that devil-dawn :— I sink and shriek and fawn Upon the thing. The Editor regrets that he is unable to publish this verse. 7
… power Should lift the sterile strength of that one curse Even to bring one thought to birth one hour. For now we knew; ” it is a lonely thing To sit supreme upon the single throne; ” But being come thus far, goes glittering: " It is a lovely thing to be alone! ” Silence! Beware to speak the fatal word That might inweave our two-ply with a third ! IX Wherefore again in sexless sanctity The mighty lingam rears its stilled sublime; The mighty yoni spreads its chastity Against the assaulting gods of space and time. Rather be Phoedra than Semiramis…
…LEM THE RATIONALE OF THE MYSTERIES Fartu being the aspiration to the unknown, the object of faith is absolutely and necessarily this one thing—Mystery. In order to formulate its aspirations, faith is forced to borrow aspirations and images from the known. But she specializes the employment of these forms, by placing them together in a manner which, in the known order of things, is impossible. Such is the profound reason of the apparent absurdity of symbolism. Let us give an example: If faith said that God was impersonal, one might conclude that…
…LEM THE RATIONALE OF THE MYSTERIES Fartu being the aspiration to the unknown, the object of faith is absolutely and necessarily this one thing—Mystery. In order to formulate its aspirations, faith is forced to borrow aspirations and images from the known. But she specializes the employment of these forms, by placing them together in a manner which, in the known order of things, is impossible. Such is the profound reason of the apparent absurdity of symbolism. Let us give an example: If faith said that God was impersonal, one might conclude that…
…n the cheeks of a Piccadilly street- walker. It didn’t even hurt his vanity to know that I thought him an offensive old ogre. He had the thing I wanted, I had the thing he wanted, and he didn’t care if I drugged myself to death to-morrow, provided I had paid his price to-day. The callous cynicism on both sides had one good effect from the moral point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great difference. With reasonable caution, for which we had every f…
… the collapse in the foreign exchanges, the decrease in the purchasing power of money, and the world’s gold all locked up in Washington, things are pretty awkward. But then, you know, it’s just that sort of situation which provides opportunities to a man with real brains. Victorian prosperity made us all rich without our knowing anything about it or doing anything for it.” “Yes,” I admitted, “ the gilt edges seem to have come off the gingerbread securities.” “Well, look here, Pendragon,” he said, pulling ‘his chair half round so as to face me s…
xX XI ro This is our truth, that only Nothing is, That is his truth that seems to sink supine a ; ) And Nothing is an universe of Bliss ; Into your bosom’s bliss, the scented snare, : That loves denote supernal ecstasies, Killed by your kisses shuddering in his spine And blinded in the bowers of your hair ! And saintship lurks in the colossal kiss. And blinded in the bower ook. . Loves are the letters of the holy word This is his truth, who seems to writhe and sob . . That contradicts the curse ’ Let Being be!” Beneath the earthquake pangs of y…
…nd Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void Ah ! men my friends What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts Ρ Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies; Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the unknown 15 fit for children. We are too well ware How vain is prayer, How nought is great, since all is im…
…nd Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour: imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void Ah ! men my friends What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts Ρ Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies; Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the unknown 15 fit for children. We are too well ware How vain is prayer, How nought is great, since all is im…
…should be enough for an intelligent and assiduous student. Let me insist that all that is worth while comes by experience . Learning one thing will give you the clue to another. Well do I know to my sorrow how hard it is, as a rule, to learn how to do a thing solely from written instruction ; so perhaps you had better arrange to see me one day about the actual setting-up of a figure. Probably , too , there will be a few points that you would like to discuss. I will end by betting you six clothing coupons to a pound of sugar that in two years co…
…nated into Understanding. Grow therefore, easily and spontaneously, developing all Parts equally, lest thou become a Monster. And if one Thing tempt thee overmuch, correct it by Devotion to its Opposite until Equilibrium be re- established. But seek not to grow by sudden Determination toward Things that be far from thee; only, if such a Thing come into thy Thought, construct a Bridge thereunto, and take firmly the first Step upon the Bridge. I shall explain this. Dost thou speculate upon the Motives of the Stars, and on their Elements, their Si…
…disgusting a sight, and found them fixed by two enormous orbs. I did not know at the first moment even that they were eyes. It’s a funny thing to say; but the first impression was that they were one of those thoughts that come to one from nowhere when one is flying at ten thousand feet or so. Awfully queer thing, I tell you—reminds one of the atmospherics that one gets in wireless; and they give one a horrible feeling. It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation o…
…said. “ But you know it makes, or rather will make, a big difference to my prospects. Unfortunately, I’m not a millionaire like you, old thing. I’ve been doing very well, but somehow, it’s gone as easy as it came. But I’ve scraped up twenty thousand of the best to buy an eighth share in this oil proposition that I told you about.” “No,” put in Lou, “ you didn’t tell us what it was.” “T made sure I had,” he laughed back ; “ I’ve got it fairly on the brain, especially since that lunch was put off. I need another five thou’, you see, and I was goi…
…feel any physical need of drugs any more. On the contrary, I feel a delightful bodily buoyancy at having got free. It’s an extraordinary thing, too, how normal appetite has returned. We've been eating five meals a day, one feeding like forty instead of Words- worth’s forty feeding like one. We had been starving ourselves for months, and we had to make up for it. The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to the earth ! But it doesn’t satisfy, even so. The intervals between one’s emotions are ap…
…e, O mortal over-rash !— The Universe were swallowed up in flame —Shemhamphorash ! Nor deem that thou amid the cosmic crash May find one thing of all those things the same! No! if creation did possess an aim (It does not.) it were only to make hash Of that most ‘‘high” and that most holy game, Shemhamphorash !
…upreme test (i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if the Augoeides had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if with fai…
…upreme test (i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if the Augoeides had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains’ (the most ridiculous thing that occurred to his mind)—if with fai…
…ight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely at the…
…ight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET SPEAKS HIERE shall be set the sigil of the sun, Gray world, soft light, strong wind, and burning day, L take the arrows cast by Blake away, Andfling them surely at the…
…ourselves by Strenuousness, Frater P. now saw more clearly than ever that this last charge of the Buddha was the one supremely important thing that he ever said. * Dhammapada, vy, 21. 141