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Page 52 of 1971913 · PDF PAGE 171
Victor B. Neuburg . This I knew when long ago I came to God suffused in woe , And he gave his life to me, And he died upon the tree, And the tree gave fruit and bloom , And it grew a god 's green tomb . And he rose again to be All the pulsing world to me. "SEASCAPE . ACROSS the sandy shallows The salt winds cry and mourn ; The little twittering swallows Cry out their notes ; forlorn The grass at the sea 's edge On the cliff ledge . A cold grey sky ; the wind Rustles through the trees ; Chilled grasses weep ; unkind To them the icy breeze . Brow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 35
…ave no interest. Therefore the best king would be Pure Chance. It is Pure Chance that rules the Universe; therefore, and only therefore, life is good.
1928 · PDF PAGE 172
sistency of wet plaster. By me energetic treat- ment I had given him back pride and life. Then I made a number of signs to make him understand that I considered the discus- sion at an end; and rising with the satisfaction of a sophist of the Portico I said to him, Sir, you are my equal. Do me the honour to share my purse with me, and remember, if you are really a philanthropist, that you must apply to all your brothers when they ask alms of you the theory which I have had the pain of trying upon your back! He swore emphatically that he had un…
1913 · PDF PAGE 578
…t soul much affection or great respect, ifin the thought which he communicates magnetically to it the thaumaturgist can persuade it that life is still necessary to it, and that happy days are still in store for it below, it will certainly return, and for the man of everyday science the apparent death will have been only a lethargy. It was after a lethargy of this kind that William Postel, recalled to life by Mother Jeanne, reappeared with a new youth, and called himself no longer anything but Postel the Resurrected, Postellus vestitutus. In the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 578
…t soul much affection or great respect, ifin the thought which he communicates magnetically to it the thaumaturgist can persuade it that life is still necessary to it, and that happy days are still in store for it below, it will certainly return, and for the man of everyday science the apparent death will have been only a lethargy. It was after a lethargy of this kind that William Postel, recalled to life by Mother Jeanne, reappeared with a new youth, and called himself no longer anything but Postel the Resurrected, Postellus vestitutus. In the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…arts ache, ‘Who eateth shall not have his cake.’’) If XIV. AccEpr measIam! I give All you can take. If you dislike Some fragments of the life I live, They are not yours: I scorn to strike One sword-swift pang against your peace. See! T’mamountaineer. Release That spirit from your bonds: or come With me upon the mountains, cease This dull round, this addition sum Of follies we call France: indeed Cipher! And if at times I need The golden dawn upon the Alps, The gorges of Himalayan rock, The grey and ancient hills, the scalps Of hoary hills, the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
202 I went through life at this time with a kind of cynical bonhomie; nothing was really any particular good, so I might as well do what was expected of me. I wrote even of Buddhism with a certain detached disenchantment, as may be seen by reference to my Summa Spes, which I published separately (twelve copies contain the portrait of me by Haweis and Coles, subsequently reproduced in volume II of the vellum edition of my Collected Works) and sent to some of my friends in Paris on my departure for England. After Rodin, the most important of thes…
1903 · PDF PAGE 43
Epivogue. Sonnet. Fo A. Mm. w. Sleep, O wep [plendour of difaftrous ware, Gone life a ftar faley at He fall of night! Wake, O mute mouth and majefepy of light, Mar of no found Hat eBay fitena fears, But Sory of férings imtangiFle, of fphers Shakey of Hote, a mighfier mufic’s might, HFeailer f found Hay XWfall is & fight! Wake, O (Beet foul incorporate of are! Or elfe dram oy, and let no ears Lege Rok’s cowry of Horns, nfanguine diarm, Gut Cet pale Riffes Bloffom, frarry (hrine OF fips mofé watHlife, Hat ndure oiBine hale ftcep s or parfing’s or…
1903 · PDF PAGE 35
…thin the sea— Because that rolls all landless from Japan. I did not know until I missed it here How beautiful that beauty is to me, That life that bears Death’s sigil traced too clear, Blue lines within the beauty that is man. (I) Line 4 cannot with any certainty be deciphered. 13
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…thy fierce fingers sweep the lyre forgotten ! Recall the ancient glory of thy chanted Music that thrilled the hearts of men, and haunted Life to adore thee ! Cleanse thou our market-places misbegotten ! Fire in my heart and music to my pæan Lend, that my song bow, past the empyrean, Phœbus, before thee ! 83
1905 · PDF PAGE 35
…nd thunder! The world-souls wonder At me and my might! All-piercing, all-winding, All-moving, all-blinding, All shaken in my hissing; My life’s light finding All spirits, and binding Their love with my kissing; 36
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…its spell From hemp of madness, grown in hell. Only by energy and strife May man attain the eternal rest, Dissolve the desperate lust of life By infinite agony and zest. Thus, O my Kali, I divine The golden secret of thy shrine! 72
1911 · PDF PAGE 79
… dread King, The curse of Eve, the serpent of desire ! Aid Thou thy servant in her travailing ! Ease Thou the dolour dire ! O Thou whose life brought Light into the Light, Be with us now to comfort and console That this Thy servant, through Thy maiden might, Achieve the goodly goal ! Or, if Thy pleasure be to take from earth Thy servant to Thy holy house above, That Thou mayst hold her, safe in happier birth, In Thine especial love :— Or, if Thy pleasure be to take the child To join Thy choir of innocents in Heaven, We do assure Thee, Virgin un…
1913 · PDF PAGE 172
…or rain , Dead , save for pain . And the weary , changeless sea With spiritless white foam Lies level as a lea Under the empty dome : No life on sea or earth ; A cold , slow dearth . But the swallows cry in the rain , And a gull that floats on the sea , Cries out and cries out again , In listless monotony . And the wind cries and cries , And never dies . 153
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
the other affairs of life should lose it completely when they tackle Magick. It goes far to justify the helief of the semi- educated that Magick is rather a crazy affair after ail. However, there are none of these half-baked lunatics connected with the A.*. A.’., because the necessity for hard work, for passing examinations at stated intervals, and for keeping an intelligible account of what they are doing, frightens away the unintelligent, idle and hysterical. There are numerous models of magical and mystical records to be found in the various…
1944 · PDF PAGE 210
…ng element. On the one hand, it receives the influence of the Ten, Malkah the Virgin. The arrangement of the cups is that of the Tree of Life. But, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other. The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due. This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disrup‐ tive force which inevitably attacks every supposed perfection. His energy displays the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
…t in the crowd of gods,4 And soul went down5 in the turbid tide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,6 And I was—anyhow, what’s the odds ? The life to live ? The thought to think ? Shall I take refuge In a tower like once Childe Roland‡ found, blind, deaf, huge, Or in that forest of two hundred thousand Trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,9 I warrant you’ll journey a wiser man ever hence ! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, Cares nought if that be, or be not, God’s right use…
1922 · PDF PAGE 127
…o his normal self, so that he forgot all but a few lines of the poem. Similarly, we have Herbert Spencer taking morphia every day of his life, decade after decade. Without morphia, he would simply have been a querulous invalid, preoccupied with bodily pain. With it, he was the genius whose philosophy summarised the thought of the nineteenth century. But Lou and I were born with a feeling for romance and adventure. The ecstasy of first love was already enough to take us out of ourselves to a certain extent. The action of the drugs intensified an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
THE HILLS 55 conscious and unconscious strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated deed of mere brute muscle and nerve! Thence, by great Will new- freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarco- phggus! an end! an end! Resounds the echo in the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 247
… be seen that our founder, born as he was to the purple, has fulfilled it. Ihave not the volume at my side, living as I am this her- mit life in New Hampshire, but its gist is that Kings and Popes have not power to redeem the world because they sur- round themselves with splendour and dignity. They possess all that other men desire, and therefore their motives are suspect. If any person of position, says Levi, insists upon living a life of hardship and inconvenience when he could do otherwise, then men will trust him, and he will be able to exe…