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Page 73 of 871913 · PDF PAGE 7
…upreme Chiefs, had yet finally decided to say with Christ upon the Cross ; “ Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” even though this theory was some- what rudely shaken by Mathers spending the whole of one Sunday afternoon in rattling a lot of dried peas in a sieve under the impression that they were the revolted members : as subsequent events proved, they were only the ideas in his head. So we find Aleister Crowley still loyal, if a little sceptical, and searching within himself to discover a touchstone by which he might prove …
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
236 TANNHAUSER This, though I know thee. Aphrodite, no! Nor Anael,! nor Eva! Lather thou Lilith, the woman-serpent, she who sucks The breath of little children in their sleep, Strangles young maidens, and presides upon Sterile debauchery and unnatural loves. VENUS. Lilith! Ah, lover! name ! Thou hast known my TANNHAUSER, So; yet I love thee! MRended is the veil! Calling thee Ugliness, I guessed aright, Who saw, and see, all Beauty in thee still. Only, a beauty risen out of Hell ; Death and delusion—ay, corruption’s self, Wickedness sliming into…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
…Too busy with my work to lie, Or love lie’s prize—or work’s, forsooth !— Too strong to care which way may go The ensuing history of woe, Though I were jaw, and you were tooth ; So, more concerned with seeking sense Than worried over consequence, I'll speak, and you shall hear, the truth. 1 ‘*Comprendre, c’est pardonner.” —MME. DE STAEL., VI. TRUTH, like old Gaul, is split in three.? A lesson in anatomy, A sketch of sociology, A tale of love to end. But sce! What stirs the electric flame of eyes? One word—that word. Be destinv’s Inviolate fiat r…
1919 · PDF PAGE 313
…at insensitiveness which will have to be corrected before India can hope to make the best of her intellectual gifts in a world in which, though all may be illusory, the God-made illusion of Nature must in the end prevail over the man-made illusions of mythology and metaphysics.” I am perfectly in accord with the political conclusion of this book. He was doubtless paid to write it in this interest. However, I had no idea that Mr. Wil- liam Archer was such an unpleasant thing. The publisher says that he was born at Perth, Scotland. Perhaps, he wa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…in the cons shall not truth dissever The man = and the old through, Cast God to black oblivion for ever? Picture no longer in fallacious thought A doer for each deed ! the real Jurks Nowhere thus hidden: there is truly nought Substantial in these unsubstantial works. maker, smite lie But work thou ever! Thou who art or art not, Work that the fever of thy life abate ; Work ! though for weary ages thou depart not, At last abideth the sequestered state. Sure is the search! O seeker, as the bird, Homing through distant skies toward its rest, Shall …
1905 · PDF PAGE 225
… again upon the ground— Vea! but my head is higher. My face is shining with the fire of heaven. I move among my fellows as a ghost. With thought for bread and memory for leaven My life is nourished, yet my life is lost. I live and move among the starry seven, Nor count the deadly cost. Only I see the century as a child Call Truth and Justice, Light and Peace, to guide ; Wisdom and Joy, and Love the undefiled, Lead up true worship, its eternal bride. Stormy its birth; its youth, how fierce and wild ! Its end, how glorified ! O Spirit of Iimitabl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 431
…condition of any serious consultation whatever. Give him something to work on and little by little one is bound to fall into his line of thought, after which it is child's play to turn every incident to advantage. The client will come away from the consultation convinced of the supernatural powers of the charlatan. From the beginning of my investigation of so-called psychical research, I felt sure from mere consideration of the conditions of the problem that the adhesion of so many prominent men of science to spiritism must be explained by psyc…
1905 · PDF PAGE 218
THE HOLY OF HOLIES 211 Not one. I tell you, destiny is sure, Yet moves no finger: though it tune my tongue, My tongue shall tune it too: my words endure As destiny decays: my hands are flung In prayer to Heaven nay, to mine own crown, To raise myself, and not to drag it down !} O holiest Lord of the divine white flame Of brilliance sworded in the temple sky ! O thou who knowest my most secret name, Who whisperest when only thou and I Make up our universe: bestow thy kiss: Arise! Come, let us pierce the old abyss ! Rise! Move! Appear! Tet us go …
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…. Why must despair to madness drive The myriad fools that fear to die? God’s but a fervid phantom drawn Out of the hasty-ordered hive Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn. When vital force at lowest ebbs Anzemic nerves weave frailest webs. OF LIFE 85 IX. So, be content! Should science cleave The veil of things and show us peace Well :—but by wild imagining Think not a golden robe to weave ! Such moulder. By fantastic case Ye come not well to anything, Work and be sober: dotage thinks By worth of words to slay the Sphinx…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…satisfy my soul. Fresh strength from day to Each night new failure and each day fresh strength, A sense of something nearer day by day ; Though the ill road’s intolerable length, League upon league, fling back the torrid ray Of the fierce sunlight night can scarce allay With the incessant beating of cool wings, And men’s bleached skeletons infest the way ; Yet Hope her passion like a flower brings, And Courage ranks me with unconquerable kings. So, in the power of these who guard my path, I hope one day to earn a loftier crown Than that pale ga…
1905 · PDF PAGE 165
…ome hateful spouse Carry away the bride. That feeble prescience of events to come, That stultified imagining, hath lied ; And I can see, though all the signs be dumb . And auguries unfruitful—lI can see, Now, some intolerable tragedy Fit for a god to picture, not a man! I see the breaking of the rosary, And Fate’s cold fingers snap the span Of three most innocent and pleasant lives. So terrible a happening dives Swift from God’s hand to the abyss of hell, And in its torment thrives, Gathering curses from the darkest cave, Calling corruption fro…
1905 · PDF PAGE 226
… brandish the steel ; Heaven rings with their insults injurious ; Earth moans for their harrow and wheel. To Thee we appeal. They boast, though their triumph Hell’s gift is, On Africa’s desperate sons : ‘Qur thousands have conquered their fifties; Our twenties have murdered their ones.” That glory—that shame —let them trumpet To Europe’s unquickening ear. List Thou to the boast of the strumpet ! Lend Thou, Thou indignant, an ear ! Then—shall they not fear? O Lord, to Thy strength in the thunder, Thy chariot-wheels in the war, We, Ireland, look …
1907 · PDF PAGE 218
…deep in the endless coil ; Ourself is the cord that binds us, And ours is the selfsame toil. We are; we are not; yet our date is An age, though each life be a span ; And ourself and our state and our fate is The Spirit of Pan. O wild is the maiden that dances In the dim waned light of the moon! Black stars are her myriad glances: Blue night is the infinite swoon ! But in other array advances The car of the holier tune; And our one one chance is in mystical trances ;— Thessalian boon ! For swift as the wheels may turn, And fierce as the flames m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
…st of these messages were obtained through a “Mrs. Chenoweth”— a medium who has figured largely in the Reports of the American Society,— though Heaven only knows why, as she gives us a constant flow of the most ter- rible drivel which it is possible to conceive. Looking through the so-called Re- ports on this medium, one is impressed with the idea that it is criminal to waste time, and the Society’s money, obtaining such stuff, and criminal to keep pouring money down such a sink of Nothingness. What is the hold which this medium seems to have o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 99
…ough all the trees No pink pale blossom of his tender lips. The little ships Of silver leaf and briar-bloom sail here, No storm to fear, Though butterflies be all their mariners. The whitethroat stirs 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 …
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…Book I. was finished in Hawaii, ere June expired, and Book IT. begun. I had just begun to study the Theosophic writings—their influence, though slight, is apparent. So intent was I on producing a 1 Vide the Contents. Can the Spirit of Per- versity attribute the unwieldiness of the struc- ture to its formal symmetry and perfection?
1919 · PDF PAGE 302
…ut all is intensified and de- sires become actions and have effect in friends and loved ones. No one has been able to prove the power of thought and we are not able to prove that we do some things but when we find that the things we think and wish for are taking place then we realize that our thought has had some power even though we did not speak or act. I have no interest whatever that the things said do not match with what I believed in the past. One must tell things as they find them and not as they wish they were.” O tempora, o mores! Let …
1929 · PDF PAGE 271
271 I was shifting slowly back to Buddhism; though even more impatient than before of Buddhists, their parochial morality and their emphasis on the evils of existence. But I wrote a few lyrics about love and nature which are still among my best. I may mention "The Song". Dance a measure ....Of the tiniest whirls! Shake out your treasure ....Of cinnamon curls! Tremble with pleasure ....O wonder of girls! Rest is bliss, ....And bliss is rest, Give me a kiss ....If you love me best! Hold me like this ....With my hand on your breast! There was also…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
… the Pole Star, and the varied quarters to which these primitive men travelled is carefully indicated on the map at the end of the book. Though it may seem strange that they crossed vast oceans, it must be borne in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as Madagascar and Easter Island prove. The inhabitants of the former are Polynesian and not African, of the later, seemingly Melanesian, judging by their skulls…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
… the Pole Star, and the varied quarters to which these primitive men travelled is carefully indicated on the map at the end of the book. Though it may seem strange that they crossed vast oceans, it must be borne in mind that the configurations of the globe have changed since those remote periods; besides, primitive man did get about the world in a most extraordinary way, as such islands as Madagascar and Easter Island prove. The inhabitants of the former are Polynesian and not African, of the later, seemingly Melanesian, judging by their skulls…