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Page 52 of 1591913 · PDF PAGE 141
…E OF SOLOMON THE KING Slaying even God, should He distract Thy attention from the chosen act! Last, all these things in one o’erpowered, Time that the midnight blossom flowered! The oneness is. Yet even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to rapture’s darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness ; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! Yet, immediately follow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 141
…E OF SOLOMON THE KING Slaying even God, should He distract Thy attention from the chosen act! Last, all these things in one o’erpowered, Time that the midnight blossom flowered! The oneness is. Yet even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to rapture’s darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness ; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! Yet, immediately follow…
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
Chance. The weather forecasters themselves cannot guess wrong every time. But even if your act had merited reward, we should still have been powerless; for, as you remember, our conversation was strictly unofficial. "Unofficially, however, you get your step and the K.C.B. Favouritism, sir, rank favouritism! Now go across to General Foch, Major — he wishes to present you to two gentlemen named respectively Joffre and Poincar'e. Boot and saddle! No time to waste," he said hastily, to check any expression of gratitude. But as the two men gripped h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
… the sun’s ray to my smitten soul! How should I sing who cannot even see? Grope through a mist of changeless misery. An age-long pain—no time in wretchedness ! — As of an hammer annihilating me 115
1905 · PDF PAGE 127
It is not cruel if the ripe fruit fall— But never an elegy funereal Wept for untimely burial, but cried Aloud against the Fates, forbore to call In pity or passion on the Gods of peace; But cursed, but wailed, nor bade its sharp tongue cease Until the lightning spat, sharp to divide Bone from its marrow for their blasphemies! So I should curse, unless indeed my grief Be not too great to yield me such relief. Methinks a sob must start and mar the roar Of loud harsh laughing bitter unbelief Scarring the sky with poisonous foam of song. Also, what…
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
… of Silence and of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night- blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world ! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia— but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe ; and nought remains. 34
1919 · PDF PAGE 201
…er heard nor seen Nor felt the Idalian. Between My soul and all its knowledge of The universe of light and love, Thought, being, nature, time and space, The Mother’s heart, the Father’s face, All that was agony or bliss, Stretched an infinite abyss. All that behind me! but my soul, With no star left to point the pole, Witless and banned of grace or goal, Beggared of all its wealth, bereft Of all its images, unweft Its magic web, its tools all broken, Its Name forgot, its Word unspoken,
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
THE BIG STICK a lot of holy souteneurs in idleness—and they find it pays to foam at the mouth from time to time against the other souteneurs who live on poor prostitutes instead of wealthy virgins, I should like, too, to ask Mr. Coote a rather curious question. We were talking about paternity. His then secretary, Mr. Hewston, had given me to understand that the Vigilance Society made a practice of paying (on behalf of and at the expense of the fathers) allowances to the mothers of illegitimate children, of caring for the mothers, helping them t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
THE BIG STICK a lot of holy souteneurs in idleness—and they find it pays to foam at the mouth from time to time against the other souteneurs who live on poor prostitutes instead of wealthy virgins, I should like, too, to ask Mr. Coote a rather curious question. We were talking about paternity. His then secretary, Mr. Hewston, had given me to understand that the Vigilance Society made a practice of paying (on behalf of and at the expense of the fathers) allowances to the mothers of illegitimate children, of caring for the mothers, helping them t…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…at the head ; others are still obscure unless a clear under- standing of, and sympathy with, the man’s position (and the woman’s) at the time be ever xv
1926 · PDF PAGE 34
… of Silence and of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night- blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world ! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia— but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe ; and nought remains. 34
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
…) knew what was going on in the house, it would break his heart". Pure bluff! but the following term I was entered at Tonbridge. By this time I had acquired a considerable facility in making the best of my advantages. I had in some ways much more experience of life than most boys of my age. My holidays, what with fishing, mountain climbing and running after girls, were full of adventures of one kind and another, in which I was always being thrown on my own resources. By the time I reached Tonbridge I had developed a kind of natural aristocracy.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 402
…f the judge's surname to make a sentence describing a deplorable fact in pathology, and accuse his lordship of outraging propriety every time he signed a cheque. The judge made rather malicious fun of both sides. Every few minutes some mysterious fact would crop up which I could explain better than anyone else. "But surely," the judge would murmur, "the proper person to tell the court about this is Mr. Crowley. Why don't you call Mr. Crowley?" And both sides would deplore the impossibility of discovering where Mr. Crowley was, though I was sitt…
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
… orgiastic opulence of mirth, And left me ever in His arms close curled, Never, O never ! to shrink back again, But (through all ruinous time violently hurled) Never to lose the stigma of that pain, The martyrs crown of shameful spines that weighs Even now upon these brows, that bear in vain Fantastic myrtles and deceitful bays And vine-leaves withering even ere they clung. For in His love, His love beyond all praise, I am still beautiful, still wise, still young. Nay, in the nuptial of that fruitful night Of fruitless joy unmeasured and unsun…
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
…sible and heat it thoroughly through. Round this they smear their paste of flour and water, twisting the while into their shawls. By the time they have arrived in camp the paste is baked through and still hot. One cannot wash on the glacier --- nay, not so much as one''s hands. The extreme dryness of the atmosphere removes all the natural grease of the skin, which becomes so brittle that the touch of water causes it to peel of, leaving a horribly painful, and practically unhealable, wound. It let my hands get as greasy and as dirty as I could t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 395
…e various forces would manifest, but I understood the sort of thing I might expect. I decided to take the journey rather than wait for a time when a more encouraging symbol might be given. I felt that in the circumstances I had no right to expect anything better. The symbol promised success. I ought not to complain at paying its price. So much for what I can do. Now for what I can't. I used to test my methods by predicting the course of political and economic events. They confirmed my calculations. Theoretically, I should have been able to back…
1910 · PDF PAGE 480
…The Questing Beast I sware to attain And all this miracle is naught. Off on my travels once again ! I keep my youth regained to foil Old Time that took me in his toil. I keep my strength regained to chase The Beast that mocks me now as then Dear Christ! I pray Thee of Thy grace Take pity on the forlorn case Of Palamede the Saracen!” 104
1910 · PDF PAGE 480
…The Questing Beast I sware to attain And all this miracle is naught. Off on my travels once again ! I keep my youth regained to foil Old Time that took me in his toil. I keep my strength regained to chase The Beast that mocks me now as then Dear Christ! I pray Thee of Thy grace Take pity on the forlorn case Of Palamede the Saracen!” 104
1928 · PDF PAGE 117
…ok terrible with their big hollow eyes and flaming cheeks, you cannot help loving them; you are afraid, you want to cry, and yet all the time you are happy. . . . And then, funnier
1954 · PDF PAGE 158
14 Noise Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask me what is, at the present time, the greatest obstacle to human progress. I answer in one word: NOISE. You will recall that in Yoga the concise compendium of Initiated Instruction is: Sit still Stop thinking Shut up, and Get out. The second of these postulates the third; for one can neither think nor stop thinking with all that row going on. Then again, the Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; on this subject I must refer you to Little Essays Toward Truth (No. 14, p…