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Page 55 of 1301912 · PDF PAGE 249
…have been introduced in order to make its abuse impossible.~O.M.] 1. THE Significator. Choose a card to represent the Querent, using your know— ledge or judgment of his character rather than dwelling on his physical characteristics 2. Take the cards in your left hand. In the right hand hold the wand over them, and say: I invoke thee, I A O, that thou wilt send Η R U, the great Angel that is set over the operations of this Secret Wisdom, to lay his hand invisibly upon these consecrated cards of art, that thereby we may obtain true knowledge of hi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…? God ! His rod is feeble and His vengeance slow . God ! What a thing to ask ! Why bother me ? I' ve drunk a bit — that 's all I seem to know . Yet sometimes I have wondered — Who is He ? The everchanging wind and dreamy tide Rule Ocean ; that at any rate is sure . Make them your gods and you shall learn to ride Upon the veriest typhoon secure . Yet in the tropics , when the heavens melt 136
1954 · PDF PAGE 463
…; this is not the same as "stuffing in." I refuse to enlarge on this theme ; it is all-important. To extract something, you should first know what is there. Here astrology ought to give useful hints ; its indications give the mind something to work on. Experience makes "confirmation strong as Holy Writ" ; but beware of a priori. Do not be dogmatic; do not insist in the face of disappointment. Astrology in education is useful as geology is to the prospector ; it tells you the sort of thing to look for, and the direction in which to explore . The…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
… semblance of the Man I love, And fountains and fresh grass by magic spell Are suddenly around me. And above I hear the voice my visions know so well : ‘Well striven all this day against the power of Hell!” I know these mercies still diviner grow Each day I strive. But should I sit and rest One hour of dawn, and cry, ‘‘I will not go Another step without more sleep,” that blest' Dove flies away, the fountains are re- pressed, 1 J,e,, to serve as a direction. The grass is withered, and the angry sky Rages more fierce that day, and from the crest …
1912 · PDF PAGE 87
…o for a pedlars wares ! Do you believe him ? Ass ! 1ST VOICE. No, on my soul its true ! I swear it by the Mass. ALESSANDRO. How do you know for sure ? Im Thomas, want to see The prints o the nails, the wound i the side ! 2ND VOICE. Its true, trust me ! 3RD VOICE. And if its true, by God, theres not a man that quails. Well tear the prison down with our own finger-nails. ALESSANDRO. Oh ! wait a little ! Ask the governor ; hes my friend. VOICES. Cut ! Shame ! your friend ! The brute ! The traitor ! ALESSANDRO. Fiddlesticks end ! Silence…
1926 · PDF PAGE 9
… let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest! Thus ye have star and star, system and system: let not one know well the other! 51. There are four gates to one palace; the floor of that palace is of silver and gold; lapis—lazuli and jasper are there; and all rare scents; jasmine and rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore : dress ye a…
1926 · PDF PAGE 15
Are left to the dead and the dying, The folk that not know me as yet. 18. These are dead, these fellows ; they feel not. We are not for the poor and for the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk. 19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 226
…hou again ! The voice of the Lord is uplifted; The wilderness also obeys ; The flames of the fire they are rifted ; The waves of the sea know His ways. The cedars of Lebanon hear Thee, The desert of Kadesh hath known ; The Sons of Men know Thee and fear Thee, Flee far from the Light of Thy Throne. For Thou art alone. O Lord! Is Thy path in the Water, The marvellous ways of the Deep? Not there, O not there! Wilt Thou slaughter Oblivion’s sons in their sleep? Ilath the deep disobeyed Thee or risen In wrath and revolt to Thy sky, Broken loose from…
1905 · PDF PAGE 93
… that was Even as a veil for thy face, thy face in a breathed-on glass, Hangs there a vulture, and tears with a beak of iron and fire. I know not his name, for he wears no feathers of my desire. It is thou, it is thou, lone maiden ! My heart is a bird that flies Far into the azure laden with love-lorn songs and cries. O Goddess of Nature and Love ! Thyself is the lover I see. But thou art in the above, and thy kiss is not for me.
1913 · PDF PAGE 565
…. Judge the teachers by their works, said the supreme Master. This rule of judgment is infallible. If you wish me to believe in what you know, show me what you do. God, in order to exalt man to moral emancipation, hides Himself from him and abandons to him, after a fashion, the government of the world. He leaves Himself to be guessed by the grandeurs and harmonies of Nature, so that man may progressively make himself perfect by ever exalting the idea that he makes for himself of its author. Man knows God only by the names which he gives to that…
1913 · PDF PAGE 565
…. Judge the teachers by their works, said the supreme Master. This rule of judgment is infallible. If you wish me to believe in what you know, show me what you do. God, in order to exalt man to moral emancipation, hides Himself from him and abandons to him, after a fashion, the government of the world. He leaves Himself to be guessed by the grandeurs and harmonies of Nature, so that man may progressively make himself perfect by ever exalting the idea that he makes for himself of its author. Man knows God only by the names which he gives to that…
1928 · PDF PAGE 29
Perhaps; but it was simpler to suppose that he himself did not know why. I have been more than once a victim of these cries and impulses, which give ground for the belief that malicious demons may pos- sibly be asleep within us and cause us to per- form, unknown to ourselves, their maddest whims. One morning I got up in a bad temper, sad, tired of idleness, and impelled, it seemed to me, to do something big, a brilliant action; and I opened the window. Alas! (Observe, I beg you, that the spirit of mys- tification which, with some people, is not…
1928 · PDF PAGE 96
…ole invisible for all except for myself, where mingled in a strange amalgam the rays of art with the halo of the martyr. Fanciullo, by I know not what particular grace, introduced the
1910 · PDF PAGE 243
…Your respected father is my warmest advocate. EUPHEMIA. You distress me, sir. It is impossible. DELHOMME. Ah, fairest of maidens, well I know your English coyness and modesty! [Taking her hand.] Ah, give me this pure hand for good, for ever! This hand which has been ever open to the misery of the poor, ever closed to box the enemies of your country ! EUPHEMIA. It is not mine! DELHOMME. I do not understand. Iam too worn a slave in the world’s market for my fettered soul to grasp your inno- cence. Ah! you are vowed to Our Lady, perhaps? Yet, beli…
1910 · PDF PAGE 243
…Your respected father is my warmest advocate. EUPHEMIA. You distress me, sir. It is impossible. DELHOMME. Ah, fairest of maidens, well I know your English coyness and modesty! [Taking her hand.] Ah, give me this pure hand for good, for ever! This hand which has been ever open to the misery of the poor, ever closed to box the enemies of your country ! EUPHEMIA. It is not mine! DELHOMME. I do not understand. Iam too worn a slave in the world’s market for my fettered soul to grasp your inno- cence. Ah! you are vowed to Our Lady, perhaps? Yet, beli…
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
…ad 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 immanent The vast content Of all the universe unalterabler We know too well How no one thing abides awhile at all, How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. So we, Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may…
1911 · PDF PAGE 284
…ad 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 immanent The vast content Of all the universe unalterabler We know too well How no one thing abides awhile at all, How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. So we, Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may…
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
… will. And so good night. My hand is yours to bend and kiss. Let its blood pulse what breast allures to burning bliss. I wouldI wouldI know not what I would. But you Divine it. MORTADELLO. Ah ! MAGDALENA. The night is hot, no wind beats through The hushed canals. So is my heartfor you, my lord, My excellent lord ! and soto part. MORTADELLO. Draw out my sword ! [She does so. So, sweet, while faintest fear can threat my troth-plight wife Shall its blade quiver and ache and fret to have her life. Be reassured. MAGDALENA. Death sits, your vassa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 406
KNACK 373 the master, and the reason for that is really rather beyond my analysis so far as that has gone at present. I do not know whether it is some kind of awakening of some faculty of the magical self, though that seems to me the simplest and most probable explanation; but in any case there is no doubt about the nature of the experience, and there can be no difficulty about the recognition of it when it occurs. It reminds me of the story of the Psychologist who wanted to judge the difference in temperament between an Englishman, a Scotsman …
1901 · PDF PAGE 86
…e, But hated me the more. Serene and suave, He fenced with deep contempt. I stumble, slip, Guard wide—and only move his upper lip. “ You know I will not strike, Sir pure and brave ! Fight me your best—or I shall find a whip ! ” That stung me, even me. He wronged me, so : Therefore some shame and hate informed the blow ; Some coward’s courage pointed me the steel ; Some strength of Hell : we lunge, and leap, and wheel ; Hard breath and laboured hands—the flashes grow Swifter and cruel—this court hath no appeal ! He gladdened then. I would not sl…