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Page 42 of 1591929 · PDF PAGE 43
'Individuals' who come to the surface in hundreds or thousands of minds at the same time. Liberty, for example. It begins to push through. It is noticed by one or two men only at first; that is like the point of the cone. Then it spreads gradually — or it breaks out suddenly, just as the circle would, if, instead of a cone, you dropped a spiked shield upon the water. And that is all the lesson for this afternoon, child. Think it over, and see if you have it all clear, and if you can find any other little problems to straighten out. The next les…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
… him with the title of creator ; philosophers, with a wider outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. Time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. Thus, where shall we put Isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? As the type of motherhood? Asthe moon? As the great goddess Earth? As Nature? As the Cosmic Egg from which all Nature sprang? For as time and place have changed, so she 1s …
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
… ” Perhaps the {act that “ My wife was very ill " accounts for the variation Mr Stratford D. Jolly is much too busy a man to devote much time to the “Serious study ofthe occult,” and it is a pity he should have spent so much time upon the forty-five chapters which comprise this work, instead of upon some other subjects with which he might be more conversant, In short, it is a flabby, gentlemanly book, which should find a ready sale among the more “ goody " portion of Suburbia, the only place where the Hero could be appreciated 1 Despite the author…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
… ” Perhaps the {act that “ My wife was very ill " accounts for the variation Mr Stratford D. Jolly is much too busy a man to devote much time to the “Serious study ofthe occult,” and it is a pity he should have spent so much time upon the forty-five chapters which comprise this work, instead of upon some other subjects with which he might be more conversant, In short, it is a flabby, gentlemanly book, which should find a ready sale among the more “ goody " portion of Suburbia, the only place where the Hero could be appreciated 1 Despite the author…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
… he caught her legs and smashed her brains against the wall. GEORGE. Oh damn it! {358} FENELLA. You baby! So, ever since, she comes from time to time to try and pick her brains off the wall. I certainly used to hear the "rolling of the head", but when I put in a billiard table, the old gentleman preferred it to the corridor and confined his amusements to the gunroom. Even before that, he had always stopped at the Pylon of the corridor which marked off from the rest of the house the wing which was consecrated to Abra-Melin. I have never discover…
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…enusa! Even Greece Forget! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and the sea And snake no longer are, And single through eternity Exists alone the Star, And utter Knowledge rise and cease In that which is beyond the Peace!
1908 · PDF PAGE 58
AMPHORA VII In Time of Trouble QUEEN, deliver me from the infernal kings ! O shield me in your span, ye everlasting wings ! I kneel at Mary’s shrine ; the incense fumes ascend To bring my spirit through to GOD’S appointed end. Though in the valley of the shade of death I be, I fear not ; for Thy rod and staff they comfort me. I imprecate the aid of Mary, Mother mild ! The asp and dragon bow before Her Holy Child. The heathen did uprise ; the folk of fear and doubt. Great bulls of Bashan did encompass me about. The lions roared for prey ; the ea…
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…l the steep Pathways of heaven gleam with loftier fires Than earths desires. So shall thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time, And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God !
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
110 A SLIM GILT SOUL FEW men are given, twixt heaven and hell, To play one part supremely well. On all times tablets there are few Who make a first-rate show of two, While those who perfectly play three We knew not, until you were he. For what were lovelier on the lawn Than you, pearl-naked to the dawn, Wrapped in a scarlet dressing-gown Not thirty miles from London town, The observed of all observers save That Scotland Yard, serene and suave, When trouble came, went tramping by ; Closed one, and winked the other eye. How pleasantly you m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 146
… As once did sleep the present , sleeps the past : Who knows whether the same still sentinels of trees Await not in some nether depth of time The reinsurgence of their reign of sleep , When men shall hail them once again with joy A new land watching o' er the unknown sea . 127
1922 · PDF PAGE 387
…al pursuit it proved. In fact the lady of his choice so far dissembled her love, as frequently to threaten his further existence. At the time, Evan was acting as secretary to old Simeon Deaves, famed as the possessor of the “ tightest wad” in New York. Now certain individuals had designs upon old Simeon and his hoard, and amongst them was the forcible and beautiful object of Evan’s affections. Like The Owl Taxis, it goes with a splendid snap, and is packed with exciting and humorous incidents. ROSEANNE Madame Albanesi The author calls this an “…
1922 · PDF PAGE 162
…erybody wants it whether they want it or not, and anybody but a member of parliament would know that if you offer a man twenty or thirty times what a thing is worth in itself, he’ll go to a lot of trouble to make you want to buy it.... : Well, we found this man was a fraud. He tried to sell us packets of snow in the dark. He tried to prevent Cockie examining the stuff by pretending to be afraid of the police. | But as it happened, Cockie’s long suit was chemistry. He was the wrong man to try to sell powdered borax to at a guinea a sniff. He tol…
1954 · PDF PAGE 360
…itedly to her feet, and told the chauffeur to drive down it. I was astonished, she being hysterically anxious to meet the train, and our time being already almost too short. But she swore passionately that the villa was down that lane. The road became constantly rougher and narrower . After some time, it came out on the open slope; a low stone parapet on the left protecting it. Again she sprang to her feet. "There," she cried, pointing with her finger, "is the Villa I saw in my dream!" I looked. No villa was visible. I said so. She had to agree…
1898 · PDF PAGE 65
…for me, that I may go Two months upon the mountains, and bewail, I and my fellows, my virginity ! JEPHTHAH. Go! CHORUS OF MAIDENS. O the time of dule and teen! O the dove the hawk has snared ! Fate the cruel and obscene, Fate that snaps us unprepared, We, who else had dared Every mountain cold and keen, Cleft and stricken in between By the joy our bosoms shared ; Would to God we had not been, We, who see our maiden queen, Love has slain whom hate had spared. Sorrow for our sister sways All our maiden bosoms, bared To the dying vesper rays, Wher…
1911 · PDF PAGE 58
AMPHORA VII In Time of Trouble QUEEN, deliver me from the infernal kings ! O shield me in your span, ye everlasting wings ! I kneel at Mary’s shrine ; the incense fumes ascend To bring my spirit through to GOD’S appointed end. Though in the valley of the shade of death I be, I fear not ; for Thy rod and staff they comfort me. I imprecate the aid of Mary, Mother mild ! The asp and dragon bow before Her Holy Child. The heathen did uprise ; the folk of fear and doubt. Great bulls of Bashan did encompass me about. The lions roared for prey ; the ea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…t" was materialism (or modern thought). Other scenes also I saw in His Life: and behold I also was crucified! Now did I go backwards ion time even unto Berashith, the Beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. First the Abyss of the Water: on which I, even I, brooded amid other {192} 1. This incident was once quoted by one of my critics as illustrative of the absurdity of Magick --- as if Magick were responsible for the irrationality of dreams! 2. This horrible phrase was not my own: I must not be judged by it. dusky flames as Shin …
1930 · PDF PAGE 106
…to an hour or more. Let him further investigate any mental results w’hich may occur. 6. Third Practice. — In order both to économisé his time and to develop his powers, let the Zelator practise the deep full breathing which his preliminary exercises will hâve taught him during his walks. Let him repeat a sacred sentence (mantra) or let him count, in such a way that his footfall beats accurately with the rhythm thereof, as is done in dancing. Then let him practise Pranayama, at first without the Kumbhakam, and paying no atten¬ tion to the nostri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 98
…rcises, moral exercises, they are not Love. Yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true Love leap unasked into thy méditation. Yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. It may be that thou hast no tinder near. In the end shall corne suddenly a great flame and devouring, and burn thee utterly. Now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and of these beginnings of the Infinité Fire, thou shalt thus be aware. For the sparks thy heart shall leap up, and thy…
1898 · PDF PAGE 40
Which dips, one wide black shaft, most horrible, Down to the nether Hell. Yet there seems time. God’s grief has not forgotten His mighty arm, and with His pitying breath A strong wind woke me ere my boat grew rotten With venom of the stream, that quivereth Now as He blew upon it—fish and bird Live at that silent word ! And I arose to seek the oars of Lying Wherewith I had embarked—the wind had torn Their wood to splinters—“ Jesus ! I am dying ! Send me Thy cross to fashion some unborn Oarage of Truth to quit this stream of Death ! ” O vain, O w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 118
…g, not forced. CHORUS. Yet going—that is good! JASON, To Corinth! Bride of my own heart, Medea, Well hast thou put thy power off for the time Preferring love to pomp, and peace to revel. MEDEA. And the soft cushions of the moss-grown trees To royal pillows, and the moon’s young light To gaudy lamps of antique workmanship— JASON. And music of the birds to harps of gold Struck by unwilling fingers for gold coin. MEDEA. Come! lest the curse I call upon this house Eat us up also! May the red plague rot Their bones! I lift my voice and prophesy: The…