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…uglas in any scheme, however atrocious, which would secure his advancement in the Lodge. He was only there through muddle-headedness; so far as he had an object beyond the satisfaction of his vanity, it was innocent in itself — the acquisition of knowledge and power. He was entirely the dupe of Douglas, who found him a useful stalking-horse, for Gates had a considerable reputation in some of the best circles in England. Douglas had chosen him for this business on excellent points of cunning; for he neither hated nor loved his intended victims, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 200
… you were there; and, knowing you were not an initiate, I can guess pretty well what you must have seen. You saw things 'accurately,' so far as you could see them; that is, you saw a projection into your own mind of something really in being. How right such vision can be, and yet how wrong! Watch my hand!" He suddenly raised his right hand. With the other he held a book between it and her eyes. "I can't see it!" she cried petulantly. "Look at its shadow on the wall!" "It's the head of the devil!" "Yet I am only making the gesture of benediction…
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
…han hell fire, And bid them fade, as if the bryony Let her flower die, And banished them through space, as if a star Dropped through the far Vault of the sky, and, as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan The scroll of heaven, and see if there be not, Black with no. blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew, This message of good hope, good trust, good fate And good estate : ‘* Work on, hope ever, let your …
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…him because he was my représentative ; and his intelligence made him résolve to join me because it judged rightly that the situation (so far as he knew it) was such as to make me desire his presence. “The same cause, therefore, which made me Write to him made him corne to me; and through it would be improper to say that the writing of the letter was the direct cause of his arrivai, it is évident that if I had not written I should hâve been different from what I actually am, and therefore my relations with him would hâve been otherwise than they…
1919 · PDF PAGE 155
…comprehend it ever so much better than when I first read it some three months after its publication. Then, it seemed like a dream of the far distant future; now, many parts seem like records of my own experiences, only ex- pressed infinitely better than I have been able to put them. Now, of what value are the experiences I have gained? Why is the state of Oneness with Adonai not lasting, or rather, is it possible to remain always conscious of that State? How is it when reading an account like J. St. John’s that I know what he is talking about, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…nt dangers. It had been hitherto sufficient to exclude evil and ignorant beings, things of the same class as Douglas' watcher; but now a far more formidable problem was in view, how to dissuade a Soul, a being armed with the imperial right to enter, from approaching. Demons and elementals and intelligences were only fractions of true Entities, according to the theory; they were illusions, things merely three-dimensional, with no core of substance in themselves. In yet another figure, they were adjectives, and not nouns. But a human soul is a co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 159
…e trend of his life, about him. She could see the unhappy Maximilian, once Emperor of Mexico, a frail thing struggling in an environment far too intense for him. He was stifled in his own web, and seemed afraid either to stay where he was, or to attempt to approach the cone. Less hampered, but almost equally the prey of hideous vacillation, lack of decision, was General Boulanger, whose white horse charged again an again through space toward the cone, only to be caught up each time by the quick nervous snatch at his rein. Next him, a gracious g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 260
…th. I passed that gate! O pitiful! The same Mystery holds me, and the flame Of Life stands up, unbroken citadel, Beyond my sight, vague, far, intangible. Broken are will, and witchery, and prayer. Remains the life of earth, which is but hell, Destiny’s web, and my immense despair. LANDGRAVE. Your words are terrible! We knew them true Even while you sang. But see! the light of day ! Beauty in all things and—-for you—true love! All the blind horror of the song recedes. There is a sequel; is there not, my friend? Of love, your theme, we have not h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 327
…re! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. {531} I eat my flesh: I drink my blood: ....I gird my loins: I journey far: For Thou hast shown the Rose, the Rood, ....The Eye, the Sword, the Silver Star. I pray thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. Prostrate I wait upon thy will, ....Mine Angel, for this grace of union. O let this Sacrament distil ....Thy conversation and communion. I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. I intended to use this Invocation in practice. The amethyst was to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…ure. He passed from one story to another, quite indifferent to the tumult on the boat, and ended by transporting the minds of the others far from the ice of the Atlantic to the sunny joys of the May Week at Cambridge. He had got everybody worked up as to what would happen after "First shot just before Ditton, and missed by half a blade; Jesus washed us off, and went away like the devil! Third were coming up like steam, with Hall behind them, and old T.J. cursing them to blazes from his gee; it was L for leather all up the Long Reach; then, than…
1906 · PDF PAGE 72
…ife, a lover, even a sister, tied By some soft bond of twinning: thus I blent A real joy with a brighter element Of fancy free to wander far and wide. For as I followed by the shore and bended Over her footsteps in the wood, my will Rose to high strength assertive and transcended. The petty forms of the seducer’s skill. Chaste love strode forth, a warrior’s stern and splendid Determined footsteps on the Arcadian Hill. THE SIXTH DAY. ‘* Are there not charms By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abuséd ?”’ Othello, I DREW a hideous t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…letter to be opened a year after death. Any medium divulging the contents before that date receives the felicitations of her critics. So far no one has succeeded, though success would mean many thousands of
1905 · PDF PAGE 94
…rus of | Touch the lips whose coldness saith : Maidens understand, and break into) Thou art clay. wating, The old men gradually \ Let us fare away, away understand and fill the air with | To the ice whose ocean gray ancoherent lamentations, Behind\ Tumbles on the beach of rock, Jeruruan the soldters, with white | Where the wheeling vultures mock lips, have assumed thetr stilitarjy | Our distress with horrid cries; formation, and stand at attention \ Where the flower relenting dies, Lenter ELEAZAR and Chorits. ELEAZAR. Most welcome, conqueror ! …
1905 · PDF PAGE 155
…FATAL FORCE So absolute as I shall do to-day In this new infamy. For I must pass Desolate into the dusk of things again, Having risen so far-to fall to the abyss, Deeper for exaltation ; I must go Wailing and naked into the inane Cavernous shrineless place of misery, Forgetful, hateful, impotent, except The last initiation seize my soul, And fling me into Isis’ very self, The immortal, mortal. Let me know this night Whether my place is found among the stars That wander in the deep, or made secure As the high throne of her that dwells in heaven,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 185
…mpotence so complete as even to inhibit an issue in death. And she knew, too, that these shapes were born of her own weaknesses; yet, so far from rousing herself to stamp them out in her mind, she gloated upon their monstrosity and misery, took pleasure in their anguish, which was her own, and fed them with the substance of her own personality and will. It was this, a spiritual "Nostalgie de la boue," which grew upon her like a cancer or a gangrene; treacheries of the body itself, so that the only possible remedy is instant extirpation; for onc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 190
… pair of motor-goggles, behind whose glass was a steel plate. The cellar itself was arranged as a permanent place of evocation. It was a far more complex device than that used by Vesquit in Naples, for in confusion lay the safety of the Lodge. The floor was covered with symbols which even the Fourteen did not wholly understand; any one of them, crossed inadvertently, might be a magical trap for a traitor; and as each of the Fourteen was exactly that, in fact, had to be so to qualify for supreme place, it was with abject fear that this Unholy of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
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…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…t with kisses ! IX. KATIE CARR. "Twas dark when church was out! moon Was low on Rossett Ghyll;? The organ’s melancholy tune Grew subtle, far, and still. the All drest in black, her white, white throat Like moonlight gleamed ; she moved Along the road, towards the farm, Too happy to be loved. ‘‘O Katie Carr! how sweet you are!” She only hurried faster: She found an arm about her waist: A maiden knows her master. Through grass and heather we walked to- gether ; So hard her heart still beat She thought she saw a ghost, and fast Flickered the tiny …
1906 · PDF PAGE 86
80 ALICE: AN ADULTERY That was the best: far sundered by the tide Dolorous, endless as Oceanus,! A serpent-river girdling the large earth, Still in that pure embrace we bring to birth A thousand pleasant children born of us, Sacred and sinless, if unsanctified. LETHE. WE have forgotten all the days of fear, The nights of torment when the kiss expired, Lost upon lips with love not overtired, But fearing many things—the after year, The end, the man—O no, not him! the tear, The children’s sorrow, and our own shame fired Not less in doing all that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…e of light like comets' tails, wrapping her in a motion that was music. A flaming boundary to her sphere, the fires of the circle blazed far into the night, forked swords of scarlet light in everlasting motion, snakes of visible force extended every way to keep the gates of her garden. She saw the forms of Brother Onofrio and his captains, of the same shape as those of Sister Clara and her companions, but blazing with a fierce and indomitable heat, throwing off coruscations into the surrounding blackness. She was reminded of a visit that yonder…