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…ngs Sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world, and flaps for lust of Death —and Love! Venus. This man was drained of music ! Five new songs Chase the three ancient to oblivion ! Oh ! Love is grown fury ! TannhAuser. Kill me! Venus. In the kiss. [ Tannhduser sleeps. 63
III Is love indeed eternal ? Otherwise Is evolution an eternal plan ? Must I move upward in the stream of Man, God-ward : my life as Christ to sacrifice, As Buddha to repress : to grow so wise, Space, time shall lie within my finger-span ? I know not which I wish : either I can ; Not both, unless all meditation lies. I am not sure : if love as great as ours May not be God to part of us at least, Leaving the Rest to find its heights and powers In other spheres ; that, night’s enamoured priest ; This, on the lake the dewy lotus-flowers That lift …
…self, 0 my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the num- ber of the man; and the name of thy house 418. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit ; and blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely Star! 23
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 179 Thus, till the monster-birth of serpent-man Linked in corruption with the serpent- woman, Slavering in lust and pain—creation’s ban. The horrible beginning of the human. The savage monkey leaping on his mate ; The upright posture for sure murder taken ; The gibberings modified to spit out hate : Struggle to manhood—surely God-for- saken. The bestial cause of Morals—fear and hate. At last the anguish-vomit of despair, The growth of reason—and its pangs abate No whit: the knife replaces the arm bare. Fear grows, and t…
… education, so it came about that he discovered that the Great Attainment fer se was identical in all systems irrespective of the symbol man sought it under. Thus Yah- weh as a clay phallus in a band-box was as mucha reality to the Jews of Genesis as Brahman in Brahma-loka was to the Aryas of Vedic India; that the vision of Moses when he beheld God as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of the Chaldean Oracles; and that Nib- bana the Non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the Christian heaven with its h…
… education, so it came about that he discovered that the Great Attainment fer se was identical in all systems irrespective of the symbol man sought it under. Thus Yah- weh as a clay phallus in a band-box was as mucha reality to the Jews of Genesis as Brahman in Brahma-loka was to the Aryas of Vedic India; that the vision of Moses when he beheld God as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of the Chaldean Oracles; and that Nib- bana the Non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the Christian heaven with its h…
…peace, and I am that which is beyond them. I am weakness and I am strength, and I am that which is beyond them. Yet by none of these can man reach up to me. Yet by each of them must man reach up to me. Thou shalt laugh at the folly of the fool. Thou shalt learn the wisdom of the wise. And thou shalt be initiate in holy things. And thou shalt be learned in the things of love. And thou shalt be mighty in the things of war. And thou shalt be adept in things occult. And thou shalt interpret the oracles. And thou shalt drive all these before thee in…
…ckly were the swords beaten into absinthes, and the spears into tournedos ! S . . . , again, with a face like a portrait by Rembrandt, a man of no great intellect, but making no pretension thereto, how he was loved for his jolly humour, his broad smile, his inimitable sto- ries ! Yet it must not be supposed that the average man, however sincere, had much of a welcome there. Without intention to wound, he was yet hurt the arrows of wit shot over his head, and he could never feel at home. I am perhaps the one exception. Without a ghost of talen…
…, or submitted to, becomes a providence, or a fatality, for all one’s existence. Those strange figures which the Egyptians gave to the human symbols of divinity represent the fatal forms. Typhon has a crocodile’s head. He is condemned to eat ceaselessly in order to fill his hippo- potamus belly. Thus he is devoted, by his greed and his ugliness, to eternal destruction. Man can kill or vivify his faculties by negligence or by abuse. He can create for himself new faculties by the good use of those which he has received from Nature. People often s…
…, or submitted to, becomes a providence, or a fatality, for all one’s existence. Those strange figures which the Egyptians gave to the human symbols of divinity represent the fatal forms. Typhon has a crocodile’s head. He is condemned to eat ceaselessly in order to fill his hippo- potamus belly. Thus he is devoted, by his greed and his ugliness, to eternal destruction. Man can kill or vivify his faculties by negligence or by abuse. He can create for himself new faculties by the good use of those which he has received from Nature. People often s…
THE EQUINOX Tome!” And with these words “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” III. In the next chapter of our book is given the word of Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that iis, is a crystalli- zation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: …
…ergies as we do through their material bases. In fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images.) 14. Man is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives; for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will. (Illustration: Man has used the idea of God to dictate his personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellows, to excuse his crimes, and for innumerable other purposes, including tha…
…f suffering a share, Leave me unmoved, or leave me conquering. O miserable ! that it should be so ! Lord Jesus, Sufferer for the sins of man, Thou didst invite me to Thy shame and loss. And I am happy ! Pity me ! Bestow The right to work in the eternal Plan, The right to hang on the eternal Cross ! I
Tannhauser. I have no hope nor trust in man at all ; But I will go. Fare well, Elizabeth ! [^Going, returns and kneels before her. Dare you once kiss these grey and withered brows ? As 'twere some flower that fell amid my hair, The lotus of eternal hope and life. Elizabeth. Dare I } 1 kiss you once upon the brow, Praying that God will make the purpose clear. And on the eyes —that He may lend them light. [ Tannhauser rises, and silently departs. Oh God ! Oh God ! That I have loved him so ! Be merciful ! Be merciful ! to him, The great high soul,…
…self, 0 my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the num- ber of the man; and the name of thy house 418. 79. The end of the hiding of Hadit ; and blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely Star! 23
68 THE STAR IN THE WEST leaving the by-ways of vice high and dry , inviting , crying to the sated wanderer . Man lives by paradoxes and contraries ; martyrs and tortures himself , building around him lofty re strictions bristling with moral frises , and broken ethical beer -bottles , digging deep trenches around his joys , and then filling them with the tears of ex asperation at his lot . All is either monopoly , or slavery , or taboo . Free in his actions he conceived law and solicitors ; free in his aspirations , religion and priests ; free i…
132 THE STAR IN THE WEST of a libidinous papacy . Many witty and lascivious books , which in those times were openly enjoyed , have been handed down to us . In the north the puritanic upheaval , still so felt, set in ; and in its first stages it probably was strictly anti - vicious , but in its second merely a screen to hide vice from the public gaze . This , in its turn , led to the good feeling a disgust for the bad , which in our age has developed into an in born shame which condemns open vice , but tolerates , even endows it, when hidden . …
…the flight— remain as they do to-day. The seal is well known to be an animal in which the maternal instinct is abnormally developed, and many of the tales have this fact as their basis. Here is a particularly charming one—the story of Gioga’s son: One day, as a boat’s crew were completing a successful raid on the seals, a great storm came on, and one of the party, who had become separated from the rest, was unavoidably left behind on the Skerry. The waves were dashing against the low rocks, and the unfortunate man had resigned himself to his fa…
…the flight— remain as they do to-day. The seal is well known to be an animal in which the maternal instinct is abnormally developed, and many of the tales have this fact as their basis. Here is a particularly charming one—the story of Gioga’s son: One day, as a boat’s crew were completing a successful raid on the seals, a great storm came on, and one of the party, who had become separated from the rest, was unavoidably left behind on the Skerry. The waves were dashing against the low rocks, and the unfortunate man had resigned himself to his fa…
… back as a breaker does when it hits a rock. “Guard my back!” I cried to Lou. She hardly needed telling. The spirit of the true Englishwoman in a crisis was aflame in her. Fixing the crowd with my eyes and my barrel, we edged our way to the door. One man took up a glass to throw; but the padrone had slipped out from behind the bar, and knocked his arm down. The glass smashed to the floor. The attack on us degenerated into a volley of oaths and shrieks. We found ourselves in the fresh air—and also in the arms of half a dozen police who had run u…