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Page 68 of 1151911 · PDF PAGE 92
THE EQUINOX of the essence of all, and there is neither word nor thought wherein the image of its image is reflected. And whoso passeth into the outermost Abyss, except he be of them that understand, holdeth out his hands, and boweth his neck, unto the chains of Choronzon. And as a devil he walketh about the earth, immortal, and he blasteth the flowers of the earth, and he corrupteth the fresh air, and he maketh poisonous the water; and the fire that is the friend of man, and the pledge of his aspiration, seeing that it mounteth ever upward as …
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
INTRODUCTION 143 sang in words of surpassing beauty: for of course the thought in one or two passages of this poem is practically identical with that in certain parts of ‘‘ Queen Mab” and ‘‘ Prome- theus Unbound.” But the very beauty of these poems (especially the latter) is its weakness: it is possible that the mind of the reader, lost in the sensuous, nay! even in the moral beauty of the words, may fail to be impressed by their most important meaning. Sheiley himself recognised this later : hence the direct and simple vigour of the ‘‘ Masque …
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…the twentieth century , thousands and thousands of years since these primi tive times , should we not shake off these trammels of infant thought , and , assuming our manhood , decry an ideal that is not only brutal but absurd ; instead of reverencing it because of its great antiquity , or because of our conservative sympathies with the past days of our fathers . Woman is as clean as man , and a wife married or unmarried as pure as any virgin . Genera tion is no more filthy than alimentation ; both are necessary , both are accompanied by natural…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…ic philosophy , which is Agnostic, and from thence into a Self- Illum inism which baffles definition . For many centuries now , European thought has been labouring under the damnosa hereditas of fore gone conclusions . And as religion in the attempt to anthropomorphise power , through the medium of dialectic symbols , lost all footing and plunged head long into the pandemoniac majesty of Deity , so philo sophy , losing all grip of reality by clutching the illusive realism of its own creative faculties , was it self whirled into that furnace of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…attled in the Infinite against the Infinite—all these points the Great White Spirit noted and appreciated. This is certainly the person, thought He, to do my business for me. But alas! for five, and for twenty-five, and for sixty-five, 206
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…attled in the Infinite against the Infinite—all these points the Great White Spirit noted and appreciated. This is certainly the person, thought He, to do my business for me. But alas! for five, and for twenty-five, and for sixty-five, 206
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…ommon sense tells one how to guard against any such accident. They are in terror of brigands and also of numerous varieties of devils. I thought it polite to impress them with my majesty as a Magician. With this object I took Burton's hint that a star sapphire was universally venerated by Moslems, and having bought a very large and fine specimen of this stone in Ceylon and made it into a ring with a gold band of two interlaced serpents, I found that Burton was right. I had merely to exhibit this ring to command the greatest possible respect. On…
1911 · PDF PAGE 178
…is, and in the services held in the Temple of Solomon. Mention is also made ofthe preparations made by the ancient alchemists which were thought to have magic power. Short biographical sketches ofsome of the old masters of pharmacy appear, but after Liebig we have no special mention of the pharmacists of the last century. A interesting chapter on Poisons in History, introducing the stories of poisoners and the drugs employed, furnishes material for the budding novelist, to whom in fact the whole of this excellent work may be recommended. To the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 178
…is, and in the services held in the Temple of Solomon. Mention is also made ofthe preparations made by the ancient alchemists which were thought to have magic power. Short biographical sketches ofsome of the old masters of pharmacy appear, but after Liebig we have no special mention of the pharmacists of the last century. A interesting chapter on Poisons in History, introducing the stories of poisoners and the drugs employed, furnishes material for the budding novelist, to whom in fact the whole of this excellent work may be recommended. To the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
… have made in their own image, the others denying God with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that world of infinity which pertains to His great name. Philosophers have not sufficiently considered the physio- logical fact of religion in humanity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul just as much as intelligence and love. While man exists, so will religion. Considered in this light, it is nothing but the need of an infinite ideali…
1913 · PDF PAGE 485
…us is revealed the equilibrium of the moral world; here is the basis of all the prophecies, and the fulcrum of all intelligent political thought. To abandon a force to its own excesses is to condemn it to suicide. Dupuis failed to understand the universal religious dogma of the Qabalah, because he had not the science of the beautiful hypothesis, partly demonstrated and realized more from day to day by the discoveries of science: I refer to wzversal analogy. Deprived of this key of transcendental dogma, he could see no more of the gods than the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
… have made in their own image, the others denying God with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that world of infinity which pertains to His great name. Philosophers have not sufficiently considered the physio- logical fact of religion in humanity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul just as much as intelligence and love. While man exists, so will religion. Considered in this light, it is nothing but the need of an infinite ideali…
1913 · PDF PAGE 485
…us is revealed the equilibrium of the moral world; here is the basis of all the prophecies, and the fulcrum of all intelligent political thought. To abandon a force to its own excesses is to condemn it to suicide. Dupuis failed to understand the universal religious dogma of the Qabalah, because he had not the science of the beautiful hypothesis, partly demonstrated and realized more from day to day by the discoveries of science: I refer to wzversal analogy. Deprived of this key of transcendental dogma, he could see no more of the gods than the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…with the result that the confusion and exaggeration of madness with all its poignancy was superadded to the simpler hell. One might have thought that any confusion would have been a welcome relief to a lucidity so appalling; but this was not so. The torture was infused with a shat- tering sense of alarm. The images rose up threatening, disappeared only by blasting themselves into the pultaceous coprolite which was, as it were, the main body of the army which composed Arthur. Deeper and deeper as he dropped the phenomena grew constantly in every…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…ss, ili. 64 Bitter reproaches passed between us, ll. 77 Black Ares hath called, ii. 112 Black thine abyss of noon, ii. 30 Blind agony of thought! Who turns his pen, ili, 118 Blind Chesterton is sure to err, il. 185 Blind the iron pinnacles edge the twilight, i. 27 Blood, mist, and foam, then darkness, i. 109 Blow on the flame, ii. 7 Brethren, what need of wonder, ili. 186 Brutal refinement of deep-seated vice, iii. 123 Buddham Saranangachami, ii. 259 But first ; I must insist on taking, ii. 149 But if das Essen ist das Nichts, ii. 171 ‘* But if…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
… awhile in the caress Of that strange super-consciousness. After one memory—O abide ! Vivid Savitri lightning-eyed !— Nothing is worth a thought beside. One hint of Amrita55 to taste And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained56 His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated “Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—I have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (’tis no such life…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS 187 RHADAMANTHUS. For righteous thought and deed Apportioning its meed ; For evil act and mind Rewarding in its kind ; So sit we: but our power Apportions not an hour To light the dying lamp, revive the faded flower. MINOS. But thou, be strong to sing! . ALACUS. Loose arrows from the string ! RHADAMANTHUS. Bid the wild word take wing ! MINOS. Hades hath evil fame To suppliants—bitter shame !— Inexorable. AE ACUS. Aim Yet the swift prayer, abide His word whate’er betide. What worse? RHADAMANTHUS, The Gods thy guide! Go …
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
… perhaps remember it some day ; but above all , sacrifice to me , or by Jove ! I will sacrifice you : and the fool , even in his folly , thought it were better to lose his wits than his brains , and his turnips than his turnip ; so he dug and he dug , and he slew and he slew , religion growing fatter and fatter , spawning churches and breeding sects , till unfortunate man found himself so hedged in by the spiritual , that in order to maintain his life in this world he had to acknowledge the Church's supreme authority , and grovel before her in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 333
…ed to begin to try to stop thinking . For needless to say , the universe, including the thinker , exists only by virtue of the thinker's thought ' (Berkeley , Hume , etc. ). “ These are real , these illusions : I am of them , false or frail .”? And they cannot be overthrown even by travellers in Morocco who administer to possessed Moors Seidlitz powders , first giving the alkali , and then the acid , the patients firmly believing that in the effervescence consequent to the evolution of gas , the evil spirit has been dislodged from their interio…
1911 · PDF PAGE 52
…yphilis, which the Romans supposed to have been brought from Syria; and it seems to have been con- founded with leprosy, which also they thought was caused by fish-eating. 50