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Page 74 of 821919 · PDF PAGE 258
… be chosen even from the grade of a Minerval. And herein lieth a most sacred Mystery. “The Electoral College possesses one most singular power. Every eleven years, or in case of a vacancy occurring, they choose two persons from the Ninth Degree, who are charged with the duty of Revolution. “It is the business of these persons constantly to criticise and oppose the acts of the Supreme and Most Holy King, whether or no they personally approve of them. Should he exhibit weakness, bodily, mental, or moral, they are em- powered to appeal to the O.H.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 164
…r, and continues : Naked as dawn, the purpose of the hour Grows on my vision, and my cynic laughter Chills in my veins: the old avenging power Shows me the thing that is to be hereafter. I gloated on the coming of the curse— I did create an hearse, Black plumes and solemn mourners; andI saw The triumph of some natural law Fit for a poet’s verse. I saw some common fate to lure, to tempt 5 (No mortal of the ages is exempt)
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…III. Myself being idle for an hour I dare one thing to speculate: Namely, that life hath cusps yet higher On this our curve : a prize, a power Lies in our grasp: unthinking Fate Shall build a brain to nestle nigher Unto the ultimate Truth: I burn To live that later lives may learn.
1929 · PDF PAGE 318
…ides after all? Is there a Path of the Wise? Am I simply fooling myself? And in the "King-Ghost" my only answer is to appeal to the very power whose existence is in dispute. The extreme beauty of the lines, their magic melancholy and their appropriateness to the circumstances of my journey encourage me to quote the poem, which I do: The King-Ghost is abroad. His spectre legions ....Sweep from their icy lakes and bleak ravines Unto these weary and untrodden regions ....Where man lies penned among his Might-have-beens. ........Keep us in safety, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
…y a garb of light Of perfumed fire immaculately made. These sins are deadly. God is merciless For Love that joins Man’s passion with His power, And makes to bloom on earth a fairer flower Than heaven bears. Our token of success Is that displeasure toward our sin unnamed Of a fierce demon jealous and ashamed. A SAINT'S DAMNATION. You buy my spirit with those peerless eyes That burn my soul; you loose the torrent stream Of my desire ; you make my lips your prize, And on them burns the whole life’s hope: you deem You buy a heart; but I am well awa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 54
…From this grim fight, whose horrid ranks are dim With mist of spuméd blood, whose long chill hour Beats out each second with the ghastly power, Reluctant tillthe morning. Shall they cease, These black battalions, and the dawn bring peace To a head holier? Or shall he succumb, Fight through long agonies and perish dumb, Sword gripped hard to the last? or shall he fall | Recreant, coward, and no more at all Reach the dim martyr-hall of heroes? Yet The surging shapes gape hideous, to heget Fresh arméd foemen to destroy the king. and first, on blac…
1919 · PDF PAGE 154
…hile in reality that tiny part is but a reflex of the Whole which is really You, but even this state must in the end give way before the Power of Nothing.” April 16th, 8.30 A.M. Finished reading the Life of Buddha, and then, lying down, composed myself for Meditation. Breathed regularly and deeply for a time, afterwards stopping all entries two or three times. (Shanmukhi Mudra.) Presently I passed into a state which was practically desireless. I could feel the Goal, but the wish to help others made it impossible to Become the State I contemplat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…the Gods, Horus, layeth the blade of his sword on the point of the Daath junction (i.e., of the brain with the spine) thus affirming the power of Life and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its hand on the Candidate’s head for the first time, at the words: “So help me the Lord of the Universe and my own Higher Soul.” And this is the first assertion of the connecting-link between them. Then after this connec- tion is established doth the Hierophant in the following words raise the Candidate to his …
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…the Gods, Horus, layeth the blade of his sword on the point of the Daath junction (i.e., of the brain with the spine) thus affirming the power of Life and Death over the natural body : and the Form of the Higher Self advanceth and layeth its hand on the Candidate’s head for the first time, at the words: “So help me the Lord of the Universe and my own Higher Soul.” And this is the first assertion of the connecting-link between them. Then after this connec- tion is established doth the Hierophant in the following words raise the Candidate to his …
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
…. To whom our Father : Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ! (For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) Then saith the sixth virgin openly : Power lieth in the river of fire. And our Father laughed aloud and answered : I am come from the waterfall. So at that the seventh virgin came forth: and her countenance was troubled. The seventh riddle : The oldest said to the most beautiful: What doest thou here ? 1 This is obscure. 2 0 + 1 + 2 + . . . + 21 = 231. 3 The Sepiroth. 4 The m aiden ( Malkuth) is blind ( unredeemed). Answer : She shall be what she…
1905 · PDF PAGE 81
… and make them men, And straggling herdsmen for our arma- ment !—(a/oud) We send thee, herald, to the furious king Who lies with all his power encamped some- where Hence southward toward Mahanaim. Say Unto the king of Ammon: Thus. saith Jephthah : Why hast thou come with bloody hands against us? Our holy God, that bound the iron sea With pale frail limits of white sand, and said : Thus far, and not one billowy step beyond ! Saith unto thee in like commandment: Thou Who hast destroyed my people from the land So far, shalt not encroach upon their…
1905 · PDF PAGE 23
…ll open straight And thou must lie forgotten till his rage Have lost its first excess—then may we wage A more successful war against his power.” But Charicles: “Shall I for one short hour Fly from his tyranny? Am I such man As should flee from him? Let the pale and wan Women have fear—in strength of justice, I {lis vain fierce fury do this hour defy !” There shot through Heaven an awful tongue of fire, Attended by its minister, the dire Black thunder. In clear accents, cold and chill, There sounded: ‘‘ Boldest mortal, have thy will! I do revers…
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
…ute muscle 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 …
1907 · PDF PAGE 7
…, however, not despise other folk, but pity them, and for this pity’s sake, retire (xxxi.) to meditate, and by this means to achieve the power of redeeming them. He formu- lates lyrically (xxxii.) this conclusion; and sums up the whole (xxxili.), insisting finally on the value of the incident as a stepping- stone to the ultimate. The quotation is from Acts xvii. 23, ‘‘ To the Unknown God.” A
1944 · PDF PAGE 66
…th from water, the feminine, fluid element. In her right hand she bears the lotus of Isis; the lotus represents the feminine, or passive power. Its roots are in the earth beneath the water, or in the water itself, but it opens its petals to the Sun, whose image is the belly of the chalice. It is, therefore, a living form of the Holy Grail, sanctified by the blood of the Sun. Perching upon the flamelike uprights of her throne are two of her most sacred birds, the sparrow and the dove; the nub of this sym‐ bolism must be sought in the poems of Ca…
1919 · PDF PAGE 304
…obwebs which time spins over the door of the cavern of our imagination. We realize the meaning of those words, “A man was drowned.” This power to make us feel is the divine thing in art. It is the creative force which answers “Yea” to the prophet’s cynical, “Lord, shall these dead bones live?” Now this is exactly what Yvette Guilbert has done for song. She has not done it for one century only. She has made all time speak, give up its secret, to those who are capable to live in that divine air of the spirit which magazines, cocktails, and automo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
…hese figures there is also a certain degree of complexity, for Typhon was a monster of the primitive world, personifying the destructive power and fury of volcanos and typhoons. In the legend, he attempted to obtain supreme authority over both gods and men; but Zeus blasted him with a thunderbolt. He is said to be the father of stormy, hot and poisonous winds; also of the Harpies. But this card, like Atu XVI, may also be interpreted as a Unity of supreme attainment and delight. The lightnings which destroy, also beget; and the wheel may be rega…
1906 · PDF PAGE 108
…ful teeth of woe, Cadmean stock Of Thebes’ old misery, and presently Pacing the furrowed field, he scattered them With muttered words of power athwart the course | Of the bright moon, due path of pestilence And terror. Ere the last bone fell to earth The accurséd harvest sprang to life. Armed men, Fiery with anger, rose upon the earth While Jason stood, one witnessing a dream, Not one who lives his life. The sword and spear | Turn not to him, but mutual madness strikes The warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades Their hearts of fury, and wit…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…ate the anarchy Wrought in one hour ! The fickle sands Run through the glass, and all the light is gone. Abysses without name the mighty power Spans with spread fingers; on the horizon Blood stains the setting sun, The shattered sun ; it shall not rise again ! No resurrection to the trampled flower, No hope to angels watching as in vain Love—lies—slain ! Madness and Terror and the deadly mood of Fortitude, A misbegotten brood Of all things shameful—O the desolate eyes Of the cold Christ enthroned! The weep- ing heaven Answers for angels: the op…
1919 · PDF PAGE 296
… Puritanism is too distantly inherited. Like modern American Puritanism, it is a melancholy survival, drained of creative or destructive power. It is not a fierce and terrible thing, any more than the Puritanism of the modern New Englander is fierce and terrible. It nibbles at Mr. Pound, but it does not devour him; it has not strength left for that. It is not a Demogorgon, but a schoolmaster, not a victim or a priest. He has all the schoolmaster’s love of the chalk and the blackboard, he has the true pedagogic flair for dogma, the true pedagogi…