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Page 56 of 2251912 · PDF PAGE 289
…children to be entirely without foundation. At least it is certain that nothing was ever brought home to him. While he was still a young man he definitely founded an organization on the lines of the well-known and justly admired Children's Scripture Union. He issued a card, price one penny, with the days of the year, and a “portion of Scripture" indicated for reading on this day. As the card could be prepared in half an hour by any one, and printed at about fourpence halfpenny a hundred, there was a small but sufficient margin of profit— or would …
1922 · PDF PAGE 45
Over the Top ! 31 Who had given the address to the man, and where were we ? I can only suppose that, consciously or subconsciously, Lou had done it, for she showed no embarrassment in pressing the electric bell. The door opened immediately. I was snowed under by an avalanche of crimson light that poured from a vast studio. Lou’s voice soared high and clear :— ‘“‘O Thou scarlet dragon of flame, enmeshed in the web of a spider! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” A revulsion of feeling rushed over me like a storm ; for in the doorway, with …
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
This tradition represents the original idea adapted to the under‐ standing of the aver‐ age peasant. The Green Man is a personification of the mysterious influence that produces the phenomena of spring. It is hard to say why it should be so, but it is so: there is a connection with the ideas of irresponsibility, of wantonness, of idealization, of romance, of starry dream‐ ing. The Fool stirs within all of us at the return of Spring, and be cause we are a little bewil‐ dered, a little embarrassed, it has been thought a salutary custom to externa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…rimond de Champ- divers to move toward his bliss ! [Motse of clashing armour, ribald laughter, &°-c. Enter the Watch, R., avrunk. A WATCHMAN. Ho, boys! a gay night for thieves. FLORIMOND. Curse the sots ! [ Crouches back in the shadow. SECOND WATCHMAN. ( Szzes) The soldier’s life is short and merry, His mistress’ lips are ripe as a cherry, Then drink, drink ! The guns roar out and the swords flash clean, And the soldier sleepeth under the green, Oh, the soldier’s life for me ! But a scurvy night it is, comrades, when the streets are slippery, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
THE MOTHER 127 normal , love of man and woman for God is abnormal , and the abnormal in its turn breeds the lustful , whether the abnormality lies in the twists of the mind or the aberrations of the soul . Amnon lusted after Tamar , he was a mental monster ; Ezekiel devoured dung , he was a spiritual abortion . That a passionate nature is necessarily a lustful one , is often no more the case than that a lustful one need necessarily be passionate ; that lust as well as passion often inhabit the same mind is true enough , and that its forms are m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
…conoclasm of a Swinburne . Christ , firstly , as the Son of God , is divine , omni potent , in fact he is God ; secondly , as the Son of Man , is noble , generous , lovable , in fact , man ; but , thirdly , as the offspring of the carnalities of a Byzan tine mob , which is the true Christ of history , he assumes a vampire form , a horror fed on the blood of children , the virility of youths , the chastity of maidens . Hardly a single evil of the present day , if traced back a few hundred years , and frequently not half so long as that , but fin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…rédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an incredibly strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intentio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…rédéric there is a hope that it will pass. Woe to the earth when Bumble and Rockefeller and their victims are the sole economic types of man! Roderic sat down on his favourite bench against the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an incredibly strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intentio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
…n Spanish and Italian cards, is called " Cups ") is the letter Mem (the Hebrew word for water), which has for its Tarot trump the Hanged Man. This Hanged Man represents the Adept hanging by one heel from a gallows, which is in the shape of the letter Daleth — the letter of the Empress, the heavenly Venus in the Tarot. His legs form a cross, his arms a triangle, as if by his equilibrium and self-sacritice he were bringing the light down and establishing it even in the abyss. Elementary as this is, it is a very satisfactory hieroglyph of the Grea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
… best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a man of no education), formulates its dogmas with signs buried in the rubbish of the ancient world, re-discovers the mysteries of Thebes and of Eleusis, and writes for us the most learned reveries of India with the occult alphabets of Hermes ? What is that force? I will tell you. But I have still plenty of other miracles to tell; and this article is like a judicial investigation. We must, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
… best of prayers. And you will ask yourself what is that force which, independently of the will, and of the greater or less knowledge of man (for Vintras is a man of no education), formulates its dogmas with signs buried in the rubbish of the ancient world, re-discovers the mysteries of Thebes and of Eleusis, and writes for us the most learned reveries of India with the occult alphabets of Hermes ? What is that force? I will tell you. But I have still plenty of other miracles to tell; and this article is like a judicial investigation. We must, …
1898 · PDF PAGE 22
… INTENDED AS THE PROLOGUE TO A PLAY—AT PRESENT UNFINISHED. An old tower, very loft, on a small and rocky islet. In the highest chamber a man of some forty years, but silver-haired, looks out of the window. Clear starry night, no moon. Chamber furnished with books, alchemic instruments, etc. He gazes some minutes, sighs deeply, but at last speaks. Ph. The world moves not. I gaze upon the abyss, Look down into the black unfathomed vault Of Starland and behold—myself. The sea To give a sense of motion or of sound Washes the wall of this grey tower…
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…contagious Caliban! Hell spits on thee ; her sin is spiritual. Only the awful slime and excrement That sin sheds off will own thee for a man. Only the worms in dead men’s bowels that crawl To lick a loathlier brother are content. 73
1907 · PDF PAGE 79
…alleried pines Is mine to-day: these groves are fit for Pan— O rich with Bacchic frenzy and his wine’s Atonement for the infinite woe of man! Is there no God of Vital Art to dwell Serene, enshrined, incensed, adored of us? Were not a cemetery His citadel? His treasure-house some barred sarcophagus? And here his mighty and reverend high-priest Bade me good cheer, an eager acolyte, Poured the high wine, unveiled the mystic feast ;— Swooped the plumed anguish of inveterate night; Devouring torture of insight shot. Night hovered; Dawn smote. I bowe…
1908 · PDF PAGE 61
…u, O chaste and Holy One, Our spirits keep ! O shed Thy radiance forth in streams To keep us in the Land of Dreams ! The subtle enemy of man Marshals his hosts to work us ill. His demons bloat or deathly wan Sustain his will. More than day’s arrow doth affright The Fear that walketh in the night. Keep Thou our dreams ! Let holy words And angel voices breathing balm And sweetly-tuned celestial birds Uplift their psalm ! Our meditations on Thy grace Blend to the vision of Thy face. N 54
1907 · PDF PAGE 191
…ts shadows in a singer’s soul, He feels the arrow from a party bow Who yet hath strength to struggle with the whole. I love my wife. The many-coloured throne Of Grecian meadows hath nor charm nor lure Now she is gone. Lamenting and alone My dulled heart aches, most that it must endure. Give this decree, O masters! Few the days And light the hours since Heracles de- scended The dusky steep, the intolerable ways, And one prey—Theseus—from your prisons rended By might of godhead and the skill of man. But now with music from a Muse’s breast Sweeten…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
22 THE STAR IN THE WEST frenzy : “ The man must be prurient and lecherous as a dog -faced baboon in rut to have aught of passion excited by either.” This is all true enough , but I must call a halt . I had not intended here to write a series of apologetics , for I leave that to the poet and his pen , who can well look after themselves ; but what I wished to point out was the deplorable state into which our literature has fallen . Its ever increasing demand for sensation has been its destruction ; everyone now is a mental Trimalchio whose appeti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
…ie had fallen on his opponent, now too weak to counter or to guard, and smashed him here, there, and everywhere. It was as oneusided asa man beatinga carpet. Twice he knocked him through the ropes. The first time he rose unsteadily, only to fall instantly. The second time his friends, careless of the rules, helped him to rise. A mistaken kindness; the black rushed him round the ring under a hail of pitiless blows, and with a last smashing drive flung him clean through the ropes out of the ring before the referee had time to stop the fight. Edgar R…
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
…ie had fallen on his opponent, now too weak to counter or to guard, and smashed him here, there, and everywhere. It was as oneusided asa man beatinga carpet. Twice he knocked him through the ropes. The first time he rose unsteadily, only to fall instantly. The second time his friends, careless of the rules, helped him to rise. A mistaken kindness; the black rushed him round the ring under a hail of pitiless blows, and with a last smashing drive flung him clean through the ropes out of the ring before the referee had time to stop the fight. Edgar R…
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
…new it to be vain. Dr. B. There’s where you are wrong. What’s the use of lying and cheating? I never saw any good come of it. You tell a man he may get well this year—next year—sometime— never—like a silly girl blowing a puff-ball. Pah ! Mrs. B. If you only had sympathy, Bob dear, if you only had imagination ! If you only could realize what these people really feel when you condemn them I Dr. F. And h0pe is the best medicine; at least it helps the man to live out the little life that remains to him. An artist might finish his creation. Dr. B. Oh…