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Page 70 of 831907 · PDF PAGE 59
…d know more? I, I am concentrate In the unshakable state Of constant rapture. Who should pour lis ravings in the air for winds to whirl, Far from the central pearl Of all the diadem of the universe? Let God take pen, rehearse Dull nursery tales ; then, not before, O rose, Red rose ! shall the beloved of thee, Infinite rose ! pen puerile poetry That turns in writing to vile prose. no more; who would 11. Were this the quintessential plume of Keats And Shelley and Swinburne and Verlaine, Could I outsoar them, all their lyric feats, Excel their utt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
…eath in the west ; A magical zeon ! Nor love-song nor pzean, But a flame with a silvery crest. There shall rise a sweet song of the soul Far deeper than love or distress ; Beyond mortals and gods shall it roll ; It shall find me, and crave, and caress. Ah! me it shall capture In torrents of rapture ; It shall flood me, and fill, and possess. For brighter from age unto age The weary old world shall renew Its life at the lips of the sage, Its love at the lips of the dew. With kisses and tears The return of the years Is sure as the starlight is tr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 105
… I written for the sake of truth, And for his sake who bears his father’s sword— I pray God under my fond guardianship As worthily. Thus far, and §0—the end. THE HONOURABLE ADULTERERS I. I LooKED beneath her eyelids, where her eyes Like stars were deep, and dim like summer skies 3 I looked beneath their lashes; and be- hold ! My own thought mirrored in their maiden gold. Shame drew to them to cloud their light with lies, And shrank back shamed ; but Love waxed bright and bold. The devilish circle of the fiery ring! Became one moment like a litt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
…st strange, not to be told, Not to be understood by strife Of brain, nor bought for gleaming gold, Nor known by aught but love? And love Far from resolving soul to sense, Stands isolated and above Immaculate, alone, intense, Concentrate on itself. But should The lesser leave me, as it might ; The lesser never touch you ; would Your will be one with my delight? Leave all the thoughts and miseries ! Invade the glowing fields of sun ! Cross bleak inhospitable seas, Until this hour be past and done, And we in some congenial clime Are then reborn, w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…very tune evokes its musical Lord ; And every rhyme tingles and shakes in me The hlaments of the great web of Love. 19. O Rose all roses far above In the garden of God’s roses, Sorrowless, thornless, passionate Rose, that lies Full in the flood of its own sympathies And makes my life one tune that curls and closes On its own self delight ; A circle, never a line! Safe from. all wind, Secure in its own pleasure-house confined, Mistress of all its moods, Matchless, serene, in sacred amplitudes Of its own royal rapture, deaf and blind To aucht but…
1906 · PDF PAGE 62
…and its burden Set free in the silence remote, Grows a sorrow divine for my guerdon, A peace in my struggling note. Compassion for earth far extended Beneath me, the swords and the rods, My Spirit hath bended, bowed me and blended My self into God’s. But God—what divinity rises To me in the mountainous place? What sun beyond suns, and surprises Mine eyes at the dawn of His face? No God in this silence existing, No heaven and no earth of Him skills, Save the blizzards unresting, whirling and twisting Adrift on the hills,
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…saith : ‘There is no peace for him who lingereth.” Love is a cinder now that was a coal : Either were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know Indeed that he is caught therein who craves ; But I, desiring not, accept the glow And blossom of that Knowledge that is Love. RONDELS (AT MONTE CARLO). Written in the Casino, Monte Cario. I. THERE is no hell but earth: O coil of fate Binding us surely in th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 300
…noon. We have also seen that he thinks like a monkey, the god whom he has made in his own image being more ferocious than a gorilla, and far less intelligent. What then are the differences between Mr. Bishop and a monkey? They are not obvious, and I do not think that any man of science will disagree that it is better to leave it to the monkeys to discover them. But if they insist that he is a Nuctanthropus, we must try again, and see if we cannot class him among the cockroaches. There is a great gambit in what may be called by history the olfac…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
12 THE STAR AND THE GARTER Back! OI love you evermore. But, be our bed the bridal sky ! I love you, love you. Iither, shore Of far unstained eternity ! There we will rest. Beware! Beware! For I am young, and you are fair. Nay! Iam old in this, you know! Ah ! heart of God! I love you so! XXV. O WHAT pale thoughts like gum exude From smitten stem of tropic tree ! I talk of veils, who love the nude ! Witness the masterpieces three Of Rodin that make possible Life in prosaic Paris, stand About the room, its chorus swell From the irritating to the g…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…the other hand, Spirit represents Kether. Perhaps it was never in the mind of the Exempt Adept or Adepts who invented the Tarot to go so far into this matter. The point to re‐ member is that, both in their appearance and in their meaning, the Aces are not the elements themselves, but the seeds of those elements. THE FOUR TWOS These cards refer to Chokmah. From the point of view of the ordinary person, Chok‐ mah is really No. I and not No.2, because he is the first manifestation; Kether is completely concealed, so that nobody knows anything abou…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…plained in due course. THE ORIGIN OF THE TAROT The origin of this pack of cards is very obscure. Some authorities seek to put it back as far as the ancient Egyptian Mysteries; others try to bring it forward as late as the fifteenth or even the sixteenth century. But the Tarot certainly existed, in what may be called the classical form, as early as the fourteenth century; for packs of that date are extant, and the form has not varied in any notable respect since that time. In the Middle Ages, these cards were much used for fortune telling, espec…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…wns unto which a gambler’s fingers cling ; A libertine caress from hungry Adeline ; The sound of music, lulling, silver, clean, Like the far cry of human suffering : All these, deep bottle! are of little worth Beside the piercing balm thy fertile girth Holds in the reverent poet’s lifted soul ; To him thou givest youth, and hope, and life, And pride, this treasure of all beggar’s strife That gives us triumph, Godhead, for its dole. CHALDEAN FOOLS. CHALDEAN fools, who prayed to stars and fires, Believed there was a God who punished liars. These …
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
…ental pursuit, or even in some purely physical activity, such as running. It sounds paradoxical at first sight, but violent exercise, so far from concentrating attention on the body, takes it away. That is because exercise has its own rhythm; and, as I said, rhythm is half-way up the ridge to Silence. Very good, then; in the comparative stillness of the body, the student becomes aware of minute sounds which did not disturb him in his ordinary life. At least, not when his mind was occupied with matters of interest. You will begin to fidget, to i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
…destal. And seeing this, That yet an hour was left her, Archais Lift up her voice and prayed with zeal divine To Aphrodite, who from her far shrine Heard and flew fast to aid over the night-clad brine. PRAYER OF ARCHAIS. O Mother of Love, By whom the earth and allits fountains move In harmony, Hear thou the bitter overwhelming cry Of me, who love, who am about to die Because of love. O Queenliest Shrine, Keeper of keys of heaven, most divine Yet Queen of Pain, Since Hell’s gates open, and close fast again Behind some servants of thy barren and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 255
…ientist will concur. We need not discuss the question whether or no he would find others to add. Buddhism may not be com- plete, but, as far as it goes, it is accurate. like
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…fter vacantly. A week, and he would see no more! His lady long had gone—O Lor’! I hear ‘‘ St. Agnes’ Eve” * suggest To this 8’s better a far best ; Spenserian solemnitie Fits this part of my minstrelsie. Now is the breath of winter in the hall. The logs die out—the knight would be alone ! The brave Sir Percival de Percivale Sits like an image hewen out of stone. Ay! he must die. The doctors all are gone, 1 Many of Scott’s narrative poems are in the same metre as this passage. 2 By John Keats, written in Spenserian stanzas. What follows is in pa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…he Second Order is manifest. While I remained in the Outer Order, I had not definitely realized the fact that I was bound up with the welfare of humanity and could only satisfy my aspiration by becoming a perfect instrument for the regeneration of the world. I quote once more: The obligation of the Operation. I, Perdurabo, in the Presence of the Lord of the Universe, and of all Powers Divine and Angelic, do spiritually bind myself, even as I am no physically bound unto the Cross of Suffering. (1) To unite my consciousness with the divine, as I …
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…rkness 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 studies silence, Takes his refuge in the triple jewel, Strangles all desires in their beginning, Leaves no egg of thought to hatch its serpent Thrice detested for unnatural breeding— Basilisk, to slay the maddened gazer. Thus the wise man, for no glory-guerdon, Hope of life or joy in earth or heaven, Works, rejecting all the flowers of promise Dew-lit tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…d uterine Is shot with dawn and scented with the YOSe ; The deep dim prison-house of corn and wine, Flowers, children, stars, with flame far subtler glows Formless, all-piercing, death-defying, divine, A sweet frail lamp whose shadow gleams and shows No darkness, is as light is where its rays Cross, interweave, and marry with the day’s ! Iam: the heart that flames from central Me Seeks out all life, and takes again, to iningle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till the vast floods of the man’s being tingle And glow, self-lost within my sou…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…ple may even fail to see the high seriousness and noble purpose of such statements as the above. The degradation of humanity has gone so far that marriage with a Canadian seems almost normal and natural. There is no mistaking the great advance made by Mr. Wilkinson upon his pre- vious novel, The Buffoon. In that work, there was, indeed, power and wit. But it was on the whole a pleasant book. There was plenty of comic relief—e.g., Powys’ duodenum. In A Chaste Man the author moves stately and terrible from peak to peak of tragedy. The book remind…