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Page 61 of 2251907 · PDF PAGE 78
…deous clamour. Abhorred and careless she bids order cease. Her hate resolves the shriek into a stammer Of inarticulate rage. The wounded man Twisted in agony beneath her squirms To hear her raucous blasphemies outspan The grip of God at this his last of terms. Yea! he must die with horror in his ears, Hate in his heart. The mischief must endure. He hath expiated naught by death. His tears, His thoughts, these strike nor stay her not, be sure! She is Madness, and a fury; though were gone All life to war, she would scream on—scream on. 50
1908 · PDF PAGE 38
AMPHORA VII I EFORE the veil of death divide And usher man to bliss or bale He hath an hour to heal his pride And greet Thee with a glad “ All hail ” ! CHORUS ; Hail Mary, blessed through the ages ! Hail Mary, blessed to the term ! Thou hast stilled the heathen as he rages, And trod upon the laidly worm. II In calm and storm, in peace and strife, There is a lull ; be ours to scale Therein the pinnacles of life By greeting Thee with Mary hail ! III Some of us conquer and succeed ; Some in the battle flinch and fail : Thou art enough for either n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…ted facts have culminated in bringing "the time and the place, and the loved one all together". Eckenstein's parents had escaped from Germany in '48, or thereabouts, as political exiles, or so I imagine; I do not remember any details. But he was educated at Bonn and knew Bloody Bill intimately. This luckless despot {158} was at that time a young man of extraordinary promise, taking himself with the utmost seriousness as realizing the gigantic responsibilities of his inheritance. He was intensely eager to fit himself to do his best for Germany. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 415
…such tests of fitness as that of which we have been telling. In the ancient mysteries it was possible to appoint formal ordeals. A young man would go into the Temple to be initiated and he would know perfectly well that his life might depend on his proving himself worthy. Nowadays he candidate knows that his initiators will not murder him, and any ordeal proposed by them obviously appears a pure formality. In Freemasons' Hall he can swear quite cheerfully to keep silence under the penalty of having his throat cut across, his tongue torn out, an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
… thy podex, thou hadst a balm. Wise art thou who badest me sell this my garden to buy more pepper therewithal.6 Repine not, therefore, O man ! at the chastise- ments of Allah ! Each of these will He a thousand- fold repay. And the pain that I suffered at thine infidelities is well repaid by this thy love restored. Thou shalt never leave the side of El Qahar, and Laila shall be sold to Haroun the goatfaced Jew.7 1. [Persian text] the word used here “ has the value of 180, which is 4 times 45, so it means that his guardian angel is on all sides o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 56
…s Chamber. The Angel pushed me away, saying: “Thou shalt see these visions from afar off, but thou shalt not partake of them save in the man- ner prescribed. For if thou change so much as the style of a letter, the holy word is blasphemed.” And this is the manner prescribed: Let there be a room furnished as for the ritual of passing through the Tuat. And let the aspirant be clad in the robes of, and let him bear the insignia of, his grade. And at the least he shall be a neophyte. Three days and three nights shall he have been in the tomb, vigil…
1898 · PDF PAGE 17
…e dross, that wings the heart to its desire. XII. No prostitution may be shunned by him Who would achieve this Heaven. No satyr-song, No maniac dance shall ply so fast the thong Of lust’s imagining perversely dim That no man’s spirit may keep pace, so strong Its pang must pierce ; Nor all the pains of hell may be one tithe as fierce. 1 7
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches ! Flings his purse down. CARRUTHERS. O Lord Christ ! In one short day — he was a gentleman ! Sir Percival ! Would God I were dead too ! If he had lived — thank God he died ! Sir Percy, Lend me your pistol ; here’s a heart to hit ! Sir Percy descends, after taking farewell of Angela, and appears again on horse- back among his men. SIR PERCY. Arnold and Ritson, tend the wounded man ! To breakfast, gentlemen ! Looks up. Farewell ! ANGELA, waves her handkerchief and throws a kiss. Farewell ! Exeunt.
1911 · PDF PAGE 38
AMPHORA VII I EFORE the veil of death divide And usher man to bliss or bale He hath an hour to heal his pride And greet Thee with a glad “ All hail ” ! CHORUS ; Hail Mary, blessed through the ages ! Hail Mary, blessed to the term ! Thou hast stilled the heathen as he rages, And trod upon the laidly worm. II In calm and storm, in peace and strife, There is a lull ; be ours to scale Therein the pinnacles of life By greeting Thee with Mary hail ! III Some of us conquer and succeed ; Some in the battle flinch and fail : Thou art enough for either n…
1912 · PDF PAGE 36
…ng savage head Lurks at him through the forest shades. This was a naked Indian, Who led within the city gate The fooled and disappointed man, Already broken by his fate. Here were the brazen towers, and here The sculptured rocks, the marble shrine Where to a tall black stone they rear The altars due to the divine. The God they deem in sensual joy Absorbed, and silken dalliance: To please his leisure hours a boy Compels an elephant to dance. So majesty to ridicule Is turned. To other climes and men Makes off that strong, persistent fool Sir Pala…
1912 · PDF PAGE 192
57- 58. 59- 60. 61. 63. 64. 65, 150 ΙΙ. . The Foolish Man . The Magi- cian The High Priestess . . The Ein— press . The Em— peror The Hiero— phant The Lovers . The Chariot Fortitude THE EQUINOX THE TWENTV-TWO KEYS OF THE BOOK The Spirit of Ακθη’ρ The Magus of Power The Priestess of the Silver Star. The Daughter of the Mighty Ones Sun of the Morn- ing, chief among the Mighty The Magus of the Eternal The Children of the Voice; the Oracles of the Mighty Gods The Child of the Powers οί the Waters; the Lord of the Triumph of Light The Daughter of the…
1912 · PDF PAGE 192
57- 58. 59- 60. 61. 63. 64. 65, 150 ΙΙ. . The Foolish Man . The Magi- cian The High Priestess . . The Ein— press . The Em— peror The Hiero— phant The Lovers . The Chariot Fortitude THE EQUINOX THE TWENTV-TWO KEYS OF THE BOOK The Spirit of Ακθη’ρ The Magus of Power The Priestess of the Silver Star. The Daughter of the Mighty Ones Sun of the Morn- ing, chief among the Mighty The Magus of the Eternal The Children of the Voice; the Oracles of the Mighty Gods The Child of the Powers οί the Waters; the Lord of the Triumph of Light The Daughter of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 94
…s to death: death is the crown of all thine aspiration. Triple is the cord of silver moonlight; it shall hang thee, O Holy One, O Hanged Man, O Camel - Termination- of - the - third - person - plural for thy multiplicity, thou Ghost of a Non-Ego! Could but Thy mother behold thee, O thou UNT!*" The Infinite Snake Ananta that surroundeth the Universe is but the Coffin-Worm!
1929 · PDF PAGE 413
…dragon". The hero, Edgar Rolles, meets a girl at the Taverne Panthéon (where I wrote the story) and takes her to a fight between a white man and a Negro, the latter suggested by Joe Jeannette, whom I had just seen and much admired for his physical beauty. He takes her to his studio and recognizes her as a member of the order. He proposes to put her through the ordeal of crossing the Abyss. She fails and they part. Ida meets the Negro, who loves her. Rolles and Ninon (Nina Olivier already mentioned) lunch with them. Ida takes pleasure in torturi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 165
…an see, though all the signs be dumb . And auguries unfruitful—lI can see, Now, some intolerable tragedy Fit for a god to picture, not a man! I see the breaking of the rosary, And Fate’s cold fingers snap the span Of three most innocent and pleasant lives. So terrible a happening dives Swift from God’s hand to the abyss of hell, And in its torment thrives, Gathering curses from the darkest cave, Calling corruption from the grave To form one shape of aspect multiple Divided in its single spell ; One spectre smooth and suave, More horrible than a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…ernment - and Reform . The outlaw of to - day was the citizen of yesterday , so the law of to - day will become the crime of to morrow . Man being inherently lazy , and hence conservative , this power is forever reacting on him , and binding him down to a government unsuited to his times , and it is this power that he has chosen to call — the Moral code ; notwithstanding the fact that it is not based in any way on the perceptions he has obtained from Nature's code as it now is reflected , but on that re flection which was obtained by his ancest…
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
THE EQUINOX of the great mountain upon which he was standing the summit seemed but a furlong above him, it was in truth many a year’s weary march away, and ridge upon ridge lay con- cealed, and each as it was gained presented an increasing difficulty. This Silence or Equilibrium is described in the “ Shiva Sanhita” * as Samadhi: “When the mind of the Yogi is absorbed in the Great God,{ then the fulness of Samadhi t is attained, then the Yogi gets steadfastness.§ Though Frater P. had not attained to this Steadfastness, he had won a decisive vict…
1910 · PDF PAGE 206
THE EQUINOX of the great mountain upon which he was standing the summit seemed but a furlong above him, it was in truth many a year’s weary march away, and ridge upon ridge lay con- cealed, and each as it was gained presented an increasing difficulty. This Silence or Equilibrium is described in the “ Shiva Sanhita” * as Samadhi: “When the mind of the Yogi is absorbed in the Great God,{ then the fulness of Samadhi t is attained, then the Yogi gets steadfastness.§ Though Frater P. had not attained to this Steadfastness, he had won a decisive vict…
1919 · PDF PAGE 444
…se. It gives an entirely false picture of the Adept, who does not whine, who does not play Pecksniff. All this business about protecting man from far greater misery and sorrow is absurd. For example, in one passage H. P. B. explains that the lowest hell is a man-bearing Planet. There is a certain amount of melancholia with delusions of persecution about this verse. Natural, perhaps, to one who was betrayed and robbed by Vittoria Cremers? 79. Would’st thou thus dam the waters born on Sumeru? Shalt thou divert the stream for thine own sake, or se…
1922 · PDF PAGE 213
… of my triumph. “Here, you get out of this,” he said, ‘and don’t come back without it. I know where you can get it. Andrew McCall is the man’s name. I know him to the bottom of his rotten soul.” He gave me the address. It was a magnificent house near Sloane Square. He had married a rich old woman, and lived on the fat of the land. I had met him once myself in society. He was a self-made Scot, and thought evening dress de nigeur in Paradise. Peter sent me off with a sly snigger. There was some insane idea at the back of his mind. Well, what did …