The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)
34 SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT He was so sick and ill at ease And hot against his fellow men, He thought to end his purpose then— Nay! let him seek new lands and seas, Sir Palamede the Saracen !
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34 SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT He was so sick and ill at ease And hot against his fellow men, He thought to end his purpose then— Nay! let him seek new lands and seas, Sir Palamede the Saracen !
…althy warnings, and assist. 5. Quinary, Neverrise intoconsciousness at all,being helddown by themost perfect control. Hence the blank of thought, the forgetfulness of all things, including the object. Not partaking of any character at all, are the “ meteor ” thoughts which seem to be quite independent of anything the brain could think, or had ever thought. Probably this kind of thought is the root of irrational hallucinations, e.g., “And if you’re passing, won’t you?” * * These interrupting voice suggestions have been named by P. Telephone- cro…
…althy warnings, and assist. 5. Quinary, Neverrise intoconsciousness at all,being helddown by themost perfect control. Hence the blank of thought, the forgetfulness of all things, including the object. Not partaking of any character at all, are the “ meteor ” thoughts which seem to be quite independent of anything the brain could think, or had ever thought. Probably this kind of thought is the root of irrational hallucinations, e.g., “And if you’re passing, won’t you?” * * These interrupting voice suggestions have been named by P. Telephone- cro…
… track. Black, black, intolerably black] Go, spectre of the ages, go 1 Suffice it that I passed beyond. I found the secret of the bond Of thought to thought through countless years, Through many lives, in many spheres, Brought to a point the dark design Of this existence that is mine. I knew my secret. All I was I brought into the burning-glass, And all its focused light and heat Charred all I am. The rune's complete When allI shall öe flashes by Like a shadow on the sky. Then I dropped my reasoning. Vacant and accursed thing! 41
… track. Black, black, intolerably black] Go, spectre of the ages, go 1 Suffice it that I passed beyond. I found the secret of the bond Of thought to thought through countless years, Through many lives, in many spheres, Brought to a point the dark design Of this existence that is mine. I knew my secret. All I was I brought into the burning-glass, And all its focused light and heat Charred all I am. The rune's complete When allI shall öe flashes by Like a shadow on the sky. Then I dropped my reasoning. Vacant and accursed thing! 41
… the tyrant’s end. The gates are closed because of night, Whose heavy breath infects the air ; The dog-star gleams, a devilish light : I thought I saw behind me glare The eyes of fiends ; I thought I heard An evil laugh, a mocking word. The gates swing open at The Name, Without a warder roused from sleep ; I pass, with face of burning flame, That is not quenched, although I weep. (For even my tears are tears of fire, For loathing, madness, and desire.) Ah God ! the traps for fervent feet ! The morrow beaconed, and I came By where the golden gro…
…he robes of shame :— Lest he, to all the world plain victor, find Himself mere failure to his own white mind. LE PENSEUR. BLIND agony of thought! Who turns his pen Or brush or lyre to Art, shall see in this The symbol of his battle against men For men, the picture of the torturing bliss Of his necessity : sits clutched and closed Into himself the adept of wizard thought. Gripped in his own embrace he sits: keen- nosed The invisible bloodhounds ache upon the slot! Soon, soon they are on him: soon the fangs of hate, The sharp teeth of the infinit…
Rupert Brooke . in Grantche by day; all they . Thought Little children lovelier than a dream , A bosky wood , a slumbrous stream , And little kindly winds that creep Round twilight corners , half asleep . In Grantchester their skins are white ; They bathe by day , they bathe by night . The women there do all they ought ; The men observe the Rules of Thought . They love the Good ; they worship Truth ; They laugh uproariously in youth ; ( And when they get to feeling old , They up and shoot themselves , I'm told .) . . . Ah , God ! To see the bra…
DHAMMAPADA 47 Moving alone, far-travelling, bodiless, hidden i th’ heart, who trains His thought and binds it by his will shall be released from Mara’s chains. Who stills not thought, nor knows true laws; in whom distraction is not dumb, Troubling his peace of mind; he shall to perfect knowledge never come. His thoughts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assai…
…e of this character, in the most approved style of Mary Wilson. To skate lightly over the preliminaries, there was a beautiful milliner, thought strict, but really very lascivious, and a little girl of twelve with a hairless crack complete, thought lascivious but really very strict : and her schoolmistress, a tall woman of thirty with an arse like a steam-roller, a coyote like a slatequarry, and a clitoris like Lord Penrhyn, for it had been known to stand out for seven years against the demands of the work- man. They got the little girl at a di…
…urse, it wasn’t true. And yet, who can tell the real root of one’s motives? If he chose to insist that we were doing what the leaders of thought have always done, how could I contradict him ? A buoyant billow of bliss bounded in my brain. It might not be true; but, by God, we’d make it come true. I suppose a light leapt in my eyes, and enabled him to read my thought. Respice finem! Judge the end; The man, and not the child, my friend!” he quoted gaily. And then, to my absolute blank amazement, he took me back into the studio, got a bottle of he…
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE cloth. Landing, I was surrounded with men in an Eastern costume, Arabs or Turks I thought. One old man took me by the hand, I made the sign of the Pentagram over him, but he smiled and said “Come along, it’s all right,” and led me along a street paved with cobbles, the houses of which overhung, till we reached a sort of a mosque. Entering this he led me to the altar, which was supported by brackets from the wall, and above which was a beautiful stained window. At the sides were thin columns and sort of boxes, similar to t…
…weet, O children of the Night, Are your wide realms for our philosophers, Who must in hard gray balance-shackles bind The essence of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the poor sense of touch they judge that this Or that is real or not. Have they divined This simplest spirit-bond, The joy of some bad woman’s deadly kiss ; The thought-flash that well tunes a lover’s mind Seas and gray gulfs beyond ? So that which is impalpable to touch, They judge by touch; the…
…? A smile, a tear? that trembling, in their deep Violet passion, of the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? Speak to me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams Somewhat too troublous to be virginal. MADELINE. My dear kind Cora, do they lie to you, These fancies of my idle hours? Believe, I seem to tremble at my inward thought ; My heart is full of wonder. When I go Nightward beneath the moon, and take my thoughts
were a length aheadsuddenly I heard my husbands thought. It was the most hideous and horrible laugh that it is possible to conceive. No devil could laugh so. I screamed, and dropped my paddle. Both the men thought me ill. I assured myself that it was not the laugh of some townee on the bridge, distorted by my over- sensitive organization. I said no more; Arthur looked grave. At night he asked abruptly after a long period of brooding, Was that my thought? I could only stammer that I did not know. Incidentally he complained of fa- tigue, and …
… of falling, a dumb ecstasy of changeless fear. There were no waves upon that sea of shame, no troubling of those accursed waters by any thought. There was no hope of any ground to that abyss, no thought that it might stop. So tireless was that fall that even acceleration was absent; it was constant and level as the fall of a star. There was not even a feel- ing of pace; infinitely fast as it must be, judging from the peculiar dread which it inspired, it was yet infinitely slow, having regard to the infinitude of the abyss. I took measures not …
…over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. III. o. The Ox is Thought. Man, rule thy Thought! How else shalt thou master the Holy Spirit, and answer the High Priestess in the Middle Gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. (a) Avoid thinking of a definite subject and ail things con- nected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occu- pies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense- perceptions or the conv…
…nd all the instruments exactly suited to the task. Yet another point. Besides getting rid of the emotions and sensations which cloud the thought, the fact that you are constantly asking yourself "Now, in which drawer of which cabinet does this thought go?" automatically induces you to regard the system as the important factor in the operation, if only because it is common to every one of them. So not only have you freed Sanna (perception) from the taint of Vedana (sensation) but raised it (or demolished it, if you prefer to look at it in that l…
…my childhood in the brotherhood Of poets, to descend to this absurd Quibble of tedious morality ? Shame not your truth with that ignoble thought! And also—tell me, once for all, the truth! [Aztterly. Say that you love him—it is on your tongue! CORA. Learn the momentous horror of thy birth! [A pause. ULRIC. I would not urge my suit against that plea, But—I have known you, and your own pure soul Should cast no doubt against me—you have said ‘‘Rather we love such as the child of love; And pity—he is not unpitiful In this vile system ; and respect …
…and, being challenged, proceeded to make good. It is here inserted, not for any value that it may have, but to test the reader. If it is thought to be a joke, the reader is one useless kind of fool ; if it is thought that Fra. P. believes that the makers of the rimes had any occult intention, he is another useless kind of fool. Soror Virakam chose the rimes at hazard.