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… shalt thou be when sun and star, My sun, my star, the vault that span, Rush in their rude, impassive rages Down to some centre guessed afar By mindless Law? Their death-embrace A simple accident of space? Vv. Where is thy fame, when million leagues OF flaming gas absorb the roll Of many a system ruinous hurled With infinite pains and dire 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…
1939 · PDF PAGE 30
…nd out only too soon what it means to do wrong; by our very thesis itself all action is wrong. Any action is only relatively right in so far as it may help us to put an end to the entire process of action. These relatively useful actions are therefore those which make for control, or 'virtue.' They have been classified, entirely regardless of trouble and expense, in enormous volume, and with the utmost complexity; to such a point, in fact, that merely to permit oneself to study the nomenclature of the various systems can have but one result: to…
1939 · PDF PAGE 54
…gnetic forces appear as entirely alien. Gravitation has been absorbed, as it were, into Riemannian geometry, and the notion of force, so far as gravitational phenomena are concerned, has been abolished. But the electro-magnetic forces still flourish undisturbed. There is no hint that they are manifestations of the geometrical peculiarities of the space-time continuum. And it can be shown to be impossible to relate them to anything in Riemann's Geometry. Gravitation can be shown to correspond to certain geometrical peculiarities of a Riemannian …
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
… [Zuvoking HADES. Str. I. Now is the gold gone of the year, and gone The glory of the world, and gathered close The silver of the frost. Far splendid snows Shine where the bright anemone once shone. Ay! for the laughter live Of youths and maids that strive
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…summer through, And merry when the autumn tinged with brown The glades, and in the winter thought we knew Behind the cloudy weather some far sky was blue.
1905 · PDF PAGE 226
… the sea know His ways. The cedars of Lebanon hear Thee, The desert of Kadesh hath known ; The Sons of Men know Thee and fear Thee, Flee far from the Light of Thy Throne. For Thou art alone. O Lord! Is Thy path in the Water, The marvellous ways of the Deep? Not there, O not there! Wilt Thou slaughter Oblivion’s sons in their sleep? Ilath the deep disobeyed Thee or risen In wrath and revolt to Thy sky, Broken loose from the bands of her prison? Held counsel against the Most High? Yea, even as [! But I, O Most Mighty, invoke Thee, Whose footsteps…
1939 · PDF PAGE 46
…You have only got to read a quite simple and elementary work like Professor Joad's Guide to Philosophy to find that any argument carried far enough
1939 · PDF PAGE 41
… to undertake a course of this kind requires careful planning. You have got to map out your life in advance for a considerable period so far as it is humanly possible to do so. If you have failed in this original strategical disposition, you are simply not going to carry through the campaign. Unforeseen contingencies are certain to arise, and therefore one of our precautions is to have some sort of reserve of resource to fling against unexpected attacks.
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
…hralled, Sheer to the sight Of sun and city: thither in his trance The king’s slow steps advance. There stood he, and with eyes unfolded far (Clouds shadowing a star Or moonlight seen through trees—so came the lashes Over—and strong sight flashes !) Travelled in thought to life, and in its gleam Saw but a doubtful dream. His was a city crescent-shaped whose wall Was brass and iron: in the thrall Of the superb concave Lay orbed a waveless wave. Four moons of liquid light revolved and threw Their silvery fountains forth, whose fruitful dew Turned…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…love! Linger about me and above, Thou perfumed haze of incense-mist ! The air hath circled me and kissed Here in this room, on mountains far, Yonder to seaward, toward yon star, With your own kisses. Yes! I see The roseate embroidery Yonder—I know: it seems to give The lie to me in throat and teeth. That is the surface: underneath I live in you: in you I live. XV. WILE you not learn to separate The essential from the accidental, Love from desire, caprice from fate, The inmost from the merely mental? Our star, the sun, gives life and light : Let…
1905 · PDF PAGE 99
…s The beech-leaves to awake the tiny breeze That soothes the seas, And yet gives breath to shake their fairy sails ; Young nightingales, Far through the golden plumage of the night, With strong delight 1 A gentle sophistication of the story of Actaeon who beheld Artemis at the bath, and being changed into a stag, was torn to pieces by her hounds. 2 From sophistication Crowley proceeds to pure invention.
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
…y sign of Spring ! Poor folly mine: I cannot see Save from one corner of one star ! So many millions over me; So many, and the next, how far! O Wisdom-crowned Ta-hu-ti,? lend Thy magic: let my light extend !3 I cannot comprehend one truth. My sight is biassed, and my mind— One snake-skin thought is of its youth ; Grows old, and casts the slough behind. O Themis,* Lady of the plume, Shed thy twin godhead in the gloom ! How ugly is this life of mine ! How slimes it in the terrene mud ! Clouds hide the beauty all-divine, The moonlight has a mist o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 23
…or anything but to discover him, And her large eyes with weeping grew more dim Than are the mists of Autumn on the hills, She sought him far and near; the rocks and rills Could tell her nought; the murmur of the trees Told her their pity and no more ; the breeze That cooled its burning locks within the sea, And dared not pass o’er the dank swamps where he Was hid, knew nothing; nor the soughing waves, Through all the desolation of those caves
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…ove’s lesson: still, to excuse Myself to you, who could not choose But make some weak apology Before the concierge’s eye ! True, you are far too high to accuse— Perhaps would rather not be told? You shall hear. Does a miner lose If through the quartz he gets to gold ? Yes: Nina was a thing of nought, A little laughing lewd gamine, Idle and vicious, void of thought, Easy, impertinent, unclean— Utterly charming! Yes, my queen! She had a generous baby soul, Prattled of love. Should I control, Repress perhaps the best instinct The child had ever ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 311
…ouble gives that hideous despair which is only tolerable because in the past it has ever been the Darkness of the Threshold. But this is far worse than ever before; I wish to go from A to B; and I am not only a cripple, but there is no such thing as space. I have to keep an appointment at midnight; and not only is my watch stopped, but there is no such thing as time ... But surely I am not a dead man at thirty! From this date till the first week in February, I was intellectually insane. The actual ordeal is described with intense simplicity and…
1939 · PDF PAGE 35
… because, for the first time in his life, he has become really unconscious of the body. Life has been one endless suffering; and now, so far as this particular Asana is concerned, the plague is abated. I feel that I have failed to convey the full meaning of this. The fact is that words are entirely unsuitable. The complete and joyous awakening from the lifelong and unbroken nightmare of physical discomfort is impossible to describe. 21. The results and mastery of Asana are of use not only in the course of attainment of Yoga, but in the most ord…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…se!”? To lose ? Ay ! earth and heaven for one small kiss ! But he shall sing beside our fire The epic of the world’s desire; How Freedom fares, how Art yet revels Sane in the dance of dogs and devils. His thunder voice shall climb and crash, Scourge liars with tongue’s lightning lash, Through ranks of smitten tyrants drive, Till bosoms heave, and eyes outflash, And it is good to be alive. He shall ride off at dawn, and we Shall look upon our life again 3; You old, and all your beauty be Broken, and mine a broken brain. Yet we shall know; deligh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 39
…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 Come hard upon himself who threw. Even so These vile deformities—our souls—cast forth Missiles of thought, and seek to reach some end With swift imagining—and end in self. What sage? called God the image of man’s self He sees cast dimly on a bank of cloud, Thrice his own size? AndI whose life has been [Cry without. 1 A …
1905 · PDF PAGE 213
…e sky. Thither I pressed at midnight, and the dawn Saw my swift feet move faster than the fawn. Pale seas of blue soft azure lie beyond, Far o’er the gleaming green: the smoke is risen Out of the cloudy north ; the incense-wand That binds dead souls in prison, That prison of the day, when sleepless dead Rest for awhile from agony and dread. Strange ! how a certain fear possesses me Alone amid their crag-bound solitude. Even beyond the keen delight—to Be— Steals that diviner mood Of wonder at the miracle—the plan Of Nature crowned by the astound…
1919 · PDF PAGE 308
…’orts, Mr. Bragdon is not a clear thinker like Hinton. He is just a little bourgeois who has put on Hinton’s hat, and it comes down very far indeed over his eyes. He cannot see that the interpretation of phenomena as 204