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Page 76 of 921907 · PDF PAGE 21
…eve, And then forget: but we, elate, Live in a larger air: awake, Compassion in the Halls of Truth ! Disdain love for love’s very sake ! Take all our beauty, strength, and youth, And melt them in the crucible To that quintessence at whose gleam Gold shudders and grows dull; expel The final dross by intimate stream Of glowing truth, our lunar light ! Are you not ready? Who would stay? Arise, O Queen, O Queen of Night ! Arise, and leave the little day! XXXII. Lapy, awake the dread abyss Of knowledge in impassioned eyes ! Fathom the gulfs of awful…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…s bread ; The luckless living lose them.] Grotesque and grim the pageant struts; We sit a-straddle on the crosses. Our soulless missiles take for butts The passers’ hats, or in their guts Disturb their dinner’s process. Thus one man’s work is one man’s play ; The melancholy help the merry. , All tread the ordered stupid way At Paris, upon Dead Man’s Day, In Pere Lachaise his cemetery. AVE MORS. O VIRGIN ! O my sister! Ilear me, death! The tainted kisses of the harlot life Sicken me; hers is foul and fevered breath, This notsome woman I have mad…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…ast night," said Cyril. "Our first need is defence. The strongest form of defence is counter- attack; but you should arrange for that to take shape as far as possible from the place you are defending, In this game you are keeping goal, Lisa; I am full back; Simple Simon is the captain playing at half-back; and I think we have a fairly fit eleven! So that's all right. There is reason to believe that the enemy's goal is in Paris itself. And if we can keep the ball in their half all
1905 · PDF PAGE 140
…e, Mine, if your kisses maddened me or killed, Mine, at the price of my damnation deep, Mine, if you will, as once your glances willed ! Take me, or break me, slay or soothe to sleep, If only yours one hour, vue perfect hour, Remembrance and despair and hope to steep In the infernal potion of that flower, My poisonous passion for your blood! Behold ! How utterly I yield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirit’s quenchéd gold, Clothe love with my own soul’s immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold— O love, no words, no songs—your…
1905 · PDF PAGE 267
…e Calm, small, and still, directing desolation ; Death to the world athwart its path.—So he Cried out upon me, ‘‘ Till this barren staff Take life, and bud, and blossom, and bear fruit, And shed sweet scent—so long God casteth thee Out from His glory!” Stricken, smitten, slain— When—one unknown, a pilgrim with the rest, Darting long rugged fingers and deep eyes, Reached to the sceptre with his word and will— Buds, roses, blossoms! Lilies of the Light ! Bloom, bloom, the fragrance shed upon the air ! Out flames the miracle of life and love! Out,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
…alk of simpler matters until hunch is over." They began to discuss their private affairs. There was no reason at all why Lisa should not take up her residence with Cyril from that moment. She had merely to telephone her maid to pack, and come along. She offered to do so when Simon Iff said that he thought they ought to leave Paris without a day's delay. But he said: "I don't think it quite fair on the girl. It's a battle, and no call for her to [54] fight. Besides" — he turned to Cyril — "she would probably be obsessed in twenty-four hours." I …
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…the ten Sephiroth are projected therein; so also are there four separate consecrations of the Candidate.” The reception and consecration takes place in the black portion of Malkuth ; when it is finished the Candidate is conducted to the foot of the altar, the citrine portion of Malkuth, and the part receiving the impact of the Middle Pillar. The Hierophant then says to the Candidate: ‘Child of Earth! wherefore hast thou come to request admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeki…
1909 · PDF PAGE 278
…ification: ‘brought from among the rejected ones,” and gives unto him the symbol of Ruach, which is the Hebrew for Air. The Closing then takes place. “Let us adore the Lord and King of Air!” says the Hierophant. The prayer of the Sylphs follows ; and in the Name of SHADDAI EL CHAI the Temple is closed in the 2°=9° Grade of Theoricus. The following month, February, P. passed through the next grade, that of 3° = 8°. RITUAL OF THE 3° = 8° GRADE OF PRACTICUS This Grade is particularly attributed to the element of Water, and especially refers to the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 262
…the ten Sephiroth are projected therein; so also are there four separate consecrations of the Candidate.” The reception and consecration takes place in the black portion of Malkuth ; when it is finished the Candidate is conducted to the foot of the altar, the citrine portion of Malkuth, and the part receiving the impact of the Middle Pillar. The Hierophant then says to the Candidate: ‘Child of Earth! wherefore hast thou come to request admission to this Order ?” The Hegemon answers for the Candidate: “ My soul is wandering in the Darkness seeki…
1909 · PDF PAGE 278
…ification: ‘brought from among the rejected ones,” and gives unto him the symbol of Ruach, which is the Hebrew for Air. The Closing then takes place. “Let us adore the Lord and King of Air!” says the Hierophant. The prayer of the Sylphs follows ; and in the Name of SHADDAI EL CHAI the Temple is closed in the 2°=9° Grade of Theoricus. The following month, February, P. passed through the next grade, that of 3° = 8°. RITUAL OF THE 3° = 8° GRADE OF PRACTICUS This Grade is particularly attributed to the element of Water, and especially refers to the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 132
…ay so appalling? Heaven, as I understand, Nearer than some folk would make it ; God—should you stretch out a hand, Who can be quicker to take it? Then you have pacted an oath—judge you if He will forsake it ! I have had hope in the spring -- Trust that the God who has given Flowers, and the thrushes that sing Dawnwards all night, and at even Year after year, will be true now we are speaking of heaven. Breezes carcss me and creep Over the world to admire it ; sweet air shall sigh me to sleep, Softly my lips shall respire it, Lying half-closed: w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 39
…ylon, sent from Mexico in duplicate for certainty by way both of Eng- land and Japan. The allusions are Hermetic or Alchemical. VOL. IT. Take fiery to enkindle a new flame: The Eagle of the High Lands yet that came By the red sunset to an eastern sky Shall plume himself and gather him and fly Even as a Man that rideth on a Beast Trained, to the Golden Dawn-sky of the Kast. Therefore his word shall seek the Ivory Isle By double winds and by the double Style, Twin doorways of the Sunset and the Dawn. And thou who tak’st it, shalt be subtly drawn …
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
inspection; and the fact has been used by shallow thinkers as an argument against their reality. It is a foolish point to take, as will now be proved. The range of our senses is extremely limited. Our sensorial apparatus only works properly with reference to a very few of very many things. Every child knows how narrow is the spectrum, how confined the range of musical tone. He has not yet been drilled properly to an understanding of what this may mean, and he has not been told with equal emphasis many similar facts relating to other forms of pe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 298
…ough the mo- tions’ not only in L’homme Moyen Sensuel: he is always making you think he is about to do something, then he never does it. Take any of the first four Pavannes pieces. There are all the preliminaries, but never the achievement. The most elaborate and painstaking preparations have been made for Mr. Pound’s marriage with his Art, but alas! the union has never been consummated. Yet even about his sterility there is something engaging. He is much too Amer- ican for any Englishman ever to dislike him. The Americans who rile us are the o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 197
…s voice came: "What I said outside was nonsense, just to put the Gwalkins off the trail, my dear; there is only one rule, and that is to take things as they come — in this country." She pushed Iliel deliberately from the window-sill; with a scream she flew through the blackness. But the chubby little old clergyman explained to her that she must go into the castle on the islet. It was only a little way to walk over the ice of the lake, but there was no sign of an entrance. The castle was fitted cunningly to the irregularities of the rock, so tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
… if you'll add 40,000 words of dialogue about love and make the story end happily perhaps we might do something.” A publisher offered to take my Erci/doune if I’d “ pad it to 150,000 words!” Well, Maude Annesley, ma méme, you're a very lucky child to get your novels published at all in this rotten country, and if the homage and devotion of a colleague who has no such luck can serve you, command it! 229
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
… if you'll add 40,000 words of dialogue about love and make the story end happily perhaps we might do something.” A publisher offered to take my Erci/doune if I’d “ pad it to 150,000 words!” Well, Maude Annesley, ma méme, you're a very lucky child to get your novels published at all in this rotten country, and if the homage and devotion of a colleague who has no such luck can serve you, command it! 229
1919 · PDF PAGE 314
…ily Grant Hutchings, that I can but be prejudiced most favorably with regard to anything with which she may be connected. I consequently take especial pains to discount the obligation, and I may be relied upon to say the worst of Patience Worth. It is, I think, beyond all question the most interesting of the records ‘purporting to be the utterance of the stiff. There is an unquestionable personality in Patience Worth with perhaps no one beyond the scope of “subliminal Mrs. Curran” and the hypothesis is reasonable since Mrs. Curran is always at …
1919 · PDF PAGE 157
… drawer, is becoming like a horrible fiend. It worries me when I do not enter it; and yet it requires a great effort even to touch it or take it out, while to enter it daily appears an almost superhuman task. Why is this? I have done exercises this week as usual, but a little earlier than previously, because I have to be at the office by 8.30 A.M. instead of nine o’c. as heretofore. I think Fra. P.A. might write to me. I feel that he is testing me, and have tried to hold to that idea. I know that really it does not matter, but I am weak yet, an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 79
…hts, Old man; I trust no word of thine; but these Full-hearted mourners, them will I believe Upon their oath most solemn and secure. But take thou warning now! I shall not spare Grey hairs or faltering limbs for treachery. ELEAZAR. Lift up your hands, all people of this land, And swear with me this oath my lips pro- nounce: By Wisdom, father of the world, we swear; 3y Understanding, mother of the sea, By Strength and Mercy, that support the throne, by Beauty, Splendour, Victory, we swear, And by the strong foundations, and _ the Kingdom, Flower…