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Page 66 of 801905 · PDF PAGE 164
…ears. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking —sober- sides ! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And I lay— A storm of weeping swept across frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager Led me to face a nation’s lunatic Roar of delight. I soon got over that, my And over--yes, the other thing. Three months— They used to quote me on the Stock Ex- change! I will say this to me, I will no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
…he dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground, I raise it, and its music hath not found One string or snapped or loosened, and the tune Is the old triumph garlanded and crowned ! Folly and hate! Blithe mockery of sorrow ! Shrill me no harsh lies of some sweet to- morrow !1 Soothe me no hateful mysteries of the moon, How one life lends what other lives may borrow ! I hate that foolish counterfoil of grief That one pain to its friend may give relief— Eurydice replace Eurydice Long hence—no se…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…e learned Dr E. V. Kenealy made senseout of it, but overdid the subject. He believed it to represent the Apocalyptic church of Adam, and found in its addresses to the “Seven Churches” the existence of agreat Asian hierarchy of the seven temples of the “twenty-four Ancients," and further, in its various characters, the acts of the twelve divine incarnations, or messengers, who follow each other at periods of 600 years, as taught in regard to the manifestations 01 Vishnu. Then, in (906, we have a book of the astronomer, Nicholas Marazofi‘, verified…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…e learned Dr E. V. Kenealy made senseout of it, but overdid the subject. He believed it to represent the Apocalyptic church of Adam, and found in its addresses to the “Seven Churches” the existence of agreat Asian hierarchy of the seven temples of the “twenty-four Ancients," and further, in its various characters, the acts of the twelve divine incarnations, or messengers, who follow each other at periods of 600 years, as taught in regard to the manifestations 01 Vishnu. Then, in (906, we have a book of the astronomer, Nicholas Marazofi‘, verified…
1919 · PDF PAGE 292
…s intensely, and I am not going to abuse books merely because they ask me to, and even if I had wanted to abuse this book, I should have found myself in the position of Balaam. It is an extraordinarily good book. I quite understand why the Times says that Mr. Cabell is “one of the most pretentiously attitudinizing of American authors.” The Times has had some. But what does the Times matter? It used to be the thunderer. It is now an imitation of thunder which only Martial could describe, or an ambitious Marine imitate. What in God’s name is an A…
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
…wasted breath ! am Ihave no strength. Upright I kneel, lament- ing The days when Love seemed fair, the bitter years When pain might have found truth, ere un- relenting I shipwrecked Life! O agony of tears! Vain tears! In silence, with abated breath I drift, drift on to Death ! PRIEST SPEAKS. Duy 1V. Vale VET) THE ( Proccdee to. LAY them together for the sake of Love Within a little plot of piteous earth, When life’s last flower is faded in the sun. Lay them together in the tender ground That summer showers may shed a trembling lear, And summer …
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…verance, in pre— Christian centuries, and further there are Mythraic traces in Revelation We also know from a large mass of inscriptions found in recent times, that the early Christians made use of the very ancient societies, and by that course spread their doctrine. Before the issue of the “ Unsealing," the same translatorpublished the " Magical Message of IGannes,” a translation of great value which receives much additional light from the later work, and the more so as it supplies, in a know- ledge of HermeticGreek, muchmeaningwhich escapes u…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…verance, in pre— Christian centuries, and further there are Mythraic traces in Revelation We also know from a large mass of inscriptions found in recent times, that the early Christians made use of the very ancient societies, and by that course spread their doctrine. Before the issue of the “ Unsealing," the same translatorpublished the " Magical Message of IGannes,” a translation of great value which receives much additional light from the later work, and the more so as it supplies, in a know- ledge of HermeticGreek, muchmeaningwhich escapes u…
1939 · PDF PAGE 41
…ference Seems terribly like what perhaps gains God's preference." It is a commonplace, and in some circumstances (such as constantly are found among foul-minded Anglo-Saxons) a sort of joke, that lovers are lunatics. Everything at their command is pressed into the service of their passion; every kind of sacrifice, every kind of humiliation, every kind of discomfortthese all count for nothing. Every energy is strained and twisted, every energy is directed to the single object of its end. The pain of a momentary separation seems intolerable; the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
…hat dream Drew back the veil of sleep; But strange: the king turned idly, sought to press The bosom where love lately burnt supreme, And found no ivory deep. He turned and sought out life ; and nothing lived : Death, and nought died. The king’s brow fell. Sore grieved He rose, not knowing :.and before his will Swan’s throat, dove’s eyes, moon’s breast, and woman’s mouth, And form desirable Of all the clustered love drew back: grew still ‘*O turn, my lover, turn thee to the South!” The girl’s warm song of the Siesta’s hour. lieedless of all that…
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…es are abolished and cease ! And for me, may I never forget how things came well as they are! It was long I had wandered yet ere my eyes found out the star. Be silent, love, and abide; the wanton strings must go To the vain tumultuous tide of the spirit’s overflow. I sing and sing to the world; then silence soon Be about us clasped and furled in the light of the moon. Forget not, never forget the terrible song I have sung ; How the eager fingers fret the lute, and loose the tongue Tinkles delicate things, faint thoughts of a futile past— We are…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
…cle and nerve! Thence, by great Will new- freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarco- phggus! an end! an end! Resounds the echo in the stone, incalculable myriads of tons poised in gigantic balance overhead, about, beneath. O blend your voices, angels of the awful earth! …
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…lish neighbours, did not shrink. Such café Turc I made her drink As she had never had before 3 Set her where you are sitting ; chatted ; Found where the fires of laughter lurk; Played with her hair, tangled and matted ; Fell over strict nice conduct’s brink, Gave all she would, and something more. She was an honest little thing, Gave of her best, asked no response. What more could Heaven’s immortal king Censed with innumerous orisons? So, by that grace, I recognised A something somewhere to be prized Somewhat. What portress studies song? My wor…
1944 · PDF PAGE 37
…stified by experience. The point (raised above) about the way in which the paths are selected to join certain numbers and not others, is found to express im‐ portant doctrines connected with the facts of initiation. It must always be 1Atu: House or Key, in Ancient Egyptian. Tahuti: Egyptian God of Wisdom, magick, Science, also Illusion. In Coptic, Thoth: in Greek, Hermes: in Latin, Mercury. The Hindu and Scandinavian Gods corresponding are de‐ based forms. borne in mind that the Tarot is not only an atlas for recording facts, but a guide‐book s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…n, the Snake is the mixed and deceptive nature, serving alike for good and evil, and the Eagle is the Higher and Divine nature yet to be found herein, the alchemical Eagle of Distillation, the Renewer of Life. As it is said: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the Eagle’s.” Great indeed and many are the Mysteries of this Terrible Key! After explaining a symbol of Typhon the Associate Adept turns to the 15th Key of the Tarot. The 15th Key of the Tarot represents a goat-headed Satyr-like demon standing upon * See Preface. 286
1909 · PDF PAGE 294
…n, the Snake is the mixed and deceptive nature, serving alike for good and evil, and the Eagle is the Higher and Divine nature yet to be found herein, the alchemical Eagle of Distillation, the Renewer of Life. As it is said: “Thy youth shall be renewed like the Eagle’s.” Great indeed and many are the Mysteries of this Terrible Key! After explaining a symbol of Typhon the Associate Adept turns to the 15th Key of the Tarot. The 15th Key of the Tarot represents a goat-headed Satyr-like demon standing upon * See Preface. 286
1905 · PDF PAGE 39
…f death Whence I may wake—ah, where? In some new world Where Consciousness doth touch the Infinite, And all the strivings of the soul be found Sufficient to beat back the waves of doubt, To pierce the void, and grasp the glorious, To find out Truth? Would God it might be SO, Since here is nothing for the soul to love Or cling to beyond self. My chamberlain Once showed me a pet slave, dwarf, savage, black, A vile, lewd creature, who would cast a staff? Far wheeling through the air :—‘twould suddenly Break its swift course, and curving rapidly Co…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…nd head, The silence of deep midnight shall be bound, And with the mighty concourse of the dead That live, that contemplate, my place be found, Even mine, throughall theseasons that areshed Like leaves upon the darkness, where the sound Of all high song through calm eternity Shall beat and boom,thine own maternal sea. For in the formless world, so swift a fire Shall burn, that fire shall not be com- prehended; So deep a music roll, that our desire Shall hear no sound;; shall beam a light so splendid That darkness shall be infinite: the lyre Fas…
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
THE EQUINOX the moon treacherously gleaming through blown wrack of clouds. I found it impossible to ride my pony, for his hoofs slipped on the wet flags in the darkness. Walking was almost as bad, for my ironshod mountain boots were as slippery as the shoes of the tatu. But we pushed on, gasping, up hill, down dale, all through the night. Dawn broke, chill and grey, on the crest of a great mountain. Far in the distance I saw specks. I left my pony, and ran headlong down the slopes. I had got almost to the bottom of the hill when I saw the Consu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
…nd our dreams are as done. Reality closes Our life into roses ; We are infinite space: we are one. There is one! that hath sought me and found ine In the heart of the sand and the snow: He hath caught me, and held me, and bound ine, In the lands where no flower may grow. His voice is a spell, Hath enchanted me well ! I am his, did I will it or no. But I will it, I will it, I will it! His speck of a soul in its cars Shall lift up immensity ! fill it With light of his lyrical bars. His soul shall concentre All space ;. he shall enter The beautifu…