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Page 61 of 1591928 · PDF PAGE 73
lips seemed like warm caskets of perfume, whence he exhaled a subtle scent, and every time he signed, musk-scented butterflies gat light, on their winged way, from the ardour of his breath. Around his purple tonic was twisted as a belt a gleaming serpent, who, with raised head, turned languorously toward him eyes that were like glowing coals. From this living girdle were suspended alternatively phials full of deadly liquids, shining knives, and surgical instruments. In his right hand he held another phial, filled with a luminous red liquid, and…
1905 · PDF PAGE 202
…ertain pledge of immortality, Child-cry of Man at the eternal Breast. SYNTHESIS. WHEN I think of the hundreds of women I have loved from time to time, White throats and living bosoms where a kiss might creep or climb, Smooth eyes and trembling fingers, faint lips or murderous hair, All tunes of love’s own music, most various and rare ; When I look back on life, as a mariner on the deep Sees, tranced, the white wake foaming, fancies the nereids weep ; As, on @ mountain summit in the thunders and the snow, I look to the shimmering valley and weep…
1919 · PDF PAGE 175
…s in the nature of realization rather than in any language. (Not at all bad. O.M.) Dec. 12. To-night, while walking, I thought that some time, when I can find the right person, it would be well to get him to record for me one of these experiences such as that of last night, during its occurrence; (1) providing I could speak without altering the state of consciousness; (2) providing I could find the neces- sary person. (No good. O.M.) Dec. 15th, 11.50 to 12.9 P.M. Astral Journey. On first trying to project astral it went rapidly off in a N.E. di…
1905 · PDF PAGE 125
…, More beautiful than Gods of wood or river ; And so the city should endure for ever.) But the king’s mood was otherwise this day. Along time’s river, fifty years away, There was a young man once Ruddier than autumn suns
1912 · PDF PAGE 269
… to the stage The women are now dressed in the gayest peasant [astu/nes. LILITH, of resumes the dance tune and leads on EEL, who by this time is dancing with absolute abandon, All make wayfor him and stand bath, laughing. The musie stops. EEL, suddenly brought to himself; stares andgasps. He wouldgo of; but AWL stops him,] AWL. Na, Elder, ye’ve made this teen 3 hell Iang eneughl Tae the fountain, lads] [They catch him, and ditch him halfa dozen times. [Enter MEEK. MEEK [throws up his arms]. An' what, i’ the Lord’s name, is come to Houghmagandie…
1912 · PDF PAGE 269
… to the stage The women are now dressed in the gayest peasant [astu/nes. LILITH, of resumes the dance tune and leads on EEL, who by this time is dancing with absolute abandon, All make wayfor him and stand bath, laughing. The musie stops. EEL, suddenly brought to himself; stares andgasps. He wouldgo of; but AWL stops him,] AWL. Na, Elder, ye’ve made this teen 3 hell Iang eneughl Tae the fountain, lads] [They catch him, and ditch him halfa dozen times. [Enter MEEK. MEEK [throws up his arms]. An' what, i’ the Lord’s name, is come to Houghmagandie…
1913 · PDF PAGE 6
…se have seen ; (4) to the editors of the following papers for kind permission to reprint poems which have appeared in their pages :- The Times ( Women 's Supplement ), Country Life , Poetry and Drama , The Poetry Review , The Equinox , The Nation , The New Age , The Westminster Gazette , The Eyewitness , The Cambridge Review , The Cambridge Magazine , and The Granta ; (5) to the following firms of publishers for allowing me to make use of copyright matter : Mr . Heineman , for poems from “ The Bird of Time ," by Sarojini Naidu ; Mr . Edward Arn…
1944 · PDF PAGE 200
…ove thesis. Mercury is the Will or Word of the All‐Father; here its influence descends upon the most receptive of the Signs. At the same time, the combination of these forms of energy brings in the possibility of somewhat mysterious ideas. Binah, the Great Sea, is the Moon in one aspect, but Saturn in an‐ other; and Mercury, besides being the Word or Will of the All‐One, is the guide of the souls of the Dead. This card requires great subtlety of interpretation. The pomegranate was the fruit which Persephone ate in the realms of Pluto, thereby e…
1911 · PDF PAGE 113
…neral confusiongradually subsides. URCHIN. Uncle Isaac, take me on thy stout shoulders I want to see the witch burnt. ISAAC. All in good time. The holy Bishop is still cursing, I think. BISHOP [concluding raises his voice to drown the general conversation]. In Saecula Saeculorum. Amen! ALL. Amen! K. OF J. [enthronea’ near the Bishop]. Let the sentence be executed. [The Executioner firings forward his torch, which he lights at the BISHOP’S candle. BISHOP [blessing]. Absolvo te. [The Executioner thrusts his torch into the fiyre. The 105
1911 · PDF PAGE 113
…neral confusiongradually subsides. URCHIN. Uncle Isaac, take me on thy stout shoulders I want to see the witch burnt. ISAAC. All in good time. The holy Bishop is still cursing, I think. BISHOP [concluding raises his voice to drown the general conversation]. In Saecula Saeculorum. Amen! ALL. Amen! K. OF J. [enthronea’ near the Bishop]. Let the sentence be executed. [The Executioner firings forward his torch, which he lights at the BISHOP’S candle. BISHOP [blessing]. Absolvo te. [The Executioner thrusts his torch into the fiyre. The 105
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy victory over Time? VI. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build thee an house, and call it heaven? Rush on! there foams the cataract, Blind steersman leader of the blind, Sole devil herald of the seven Thy garnished halls should house, O Christ, Thou being dead, thou sacrificed VII. Not for atonement, not for bliss ; Truly for nothing : so it was. Nay, friends, think well! the dream ! Seek …
1898 · PDF PAGE 18
…y doubt of his complete insanity ; for three weeks he had been raving with absinthe, and satyriasis. He survived his confinement no long time ; the burning of the asylum with its inmates was one of the most terrible events of the war of 1870. So died one of the most talented Englishmen of his century, a man who for wide knowledge of men and things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau guzzled, who sold soul and body to Satan for sheer love of sin, whose mere lust of perversion is …
1905 · PDF PAGE 140
… the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, “ ἀγ ὡς ταχιστα, του χρονου δε σοι φθονω ”—“ Why waste we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains ! ” So the wise, enlightened by compassion, Seeks that bliss for all the world of sorrow, Swears the bitter oath of Vajrapani : “ Ere the cycle rush to utter darkness Work I so that every living being Pass beyond this constant chain of causes. If I fail, may all my being shatter Into millions of far-whirling pieces ! ” Swears that oath, and works, and studie…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…nt . A little more clothing in our uncertain climate might perhaps have been attended with advantage . To us this volume , for the first time , conclusively settles that Mr. is not a mere brilliant rhetorician or melodious twanger of another man's lyre , but authentically a poet ." So writes the critic . The name I have omitted is that of the last of the great Victorian poets , Algernon Charles Swinburne . In the dying glory of this last great singer of the nineteenth century , the deepening twilight shows but few rising stars ; alone perhaps a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 131
…ved at Brenner’s studio, and went on with the “ moulage ” of my Asana. Left the Studio; walk with mantra. Mantra-march. Pranayama; quick time. Very brac- ing and fatiguing, both. At Döme to drink a Citron pressé. Reflections have been in my mind upon the grossness of the Theistic conception, as shewn even in such pictures as Raphael’s and Fra Angelico’s. 2 B 129
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
…hich dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued. Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill…
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
…hich dawns upon the free; Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise, And to remoter time Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime; And leave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued. Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill…
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…ly to take the vows afresh every week: he seems to have recorded no practices, though he evidently did them daily. The diary is all this time blank of any records of any sort.) Renewed vows as usual. Went to A — P?־H—, C.
1912 · PDF PAGE 76
…ly to take the vows afresh every week: he seems to have recorded no practices, though he evidently did them daily. The diary is all this time blank of any records of any sort.) Renewed vows as usual. Went to A — P?־H—, C.
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…ushing me out ! Get up ! And Eve jumped up alarmed to find Satan quietly emerging from his citadel. Adam jumped for a club. But by the time he arrived a change had arisen. The old snake-skin dropped and Satan stood in his own shape, a radiant spirit. You bit me, said Adam, embarrassed. For your own good ! God doomed you to death. My bite has filled your blood with a poison that will take away Deaths terrors, that will make him welcome even ! What is this poison called ? said Eve. And Satan replied Syphilis ! As he went away he…