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Page 78 of 921905 · PDF PAGE 137
…f flesh consumes my soul; My body towards the city turns, My spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self; I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, The spoiler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgme…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…ot gainsay thee, Follow in the extreme desire, Mingling, tingling, mixed with thee Even to all Eternity. These, and all that of them is, Take from Calliope in this Single-hearted, many mouthéd, kiss. ORPIHIEUS, SEATED UPON OLYM.- PUS, TUNES HIS LYRE. ORPHEUS. First word of my song, First tune of my lyre, Muse, loved of me long, Be near and inspire! Bright heart! Mother strong! Sweet sense of desire ! Be near as I lift the first notes impassioned of fervour and fire! Not ever before Since Nature began Hath one cloven her core, Found the soul of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 236
… is the light and rapture of the will: We touch the stars—and they are tiny still ! O mighty thews! O godlike face and hair! Rise up and take me; ay, and keep me there, One tingle at thy touch from head to feet; Lips that cling close, and never seem to meet, Melting as sunlight melts in wine! Arise! Shame! Has thy learning left thee over- wise ? Thy lips sing fondly—to another tune. Nay! *twas my breathing beauty made thee swoon, Dread forkéd fire across the cloven sky ; Stripped off thy body of mortality— - Nay, but on steeper slopes my love s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
…raptures are like springtide rain Nestling among green leaves. ANGELA. The Lady of Love weaves Fresh nets of gossamer for thee and me. O take not back thy lips, even to sing!
1929 · PDF PAGE 431
… inexpugnable fear of death demands the resort to some spiritual soporific. 3. Their scientific training makes it impossible for them to take refuge in any superstitious religion. 3a. They probably lack the pagan courage to accept the situation philosophically, their moral integrity having been injured in childhood by their Christian upbringing. 4. They seek consolation in some theory of immortality which promises to verify its theses by scientific evidence such as they are accustomed to accept. 5. They approach their first sances with a subco…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
…and time and cause, eternal woof Of misery overproof : And aged thoughts assail The younger hopes, and passion stands aloof, And silence takes possession, and the tale Of earth is told and done. Then from the Sire of all the Gods, from War And Love and Wisdom and the eternal Sun Worship is torn afar : While unto Thee, O Hades, turn we now, Awful of breast and brow, And hear thee in the sea, behold thee in the Star. Ant. 1 [Echo of the Damned). Ay! is the earth and upper ether gone, And all the joy of earth, and gathered close The darkness and t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 248
…tion waits Me, made the vilest of the stars that fell. I must not die. .I dare not. But for thee, Thy love, one last extreme delirium !— Take thou this dagger! At the miracle Of a moment when our lips are fastened close Once more, in the unutterable kiss, Drive its sharp spirit to my heart ! TANNHAUSER. Not I! I will I know the spell.) I am warned. begone. VENUS. I swear I will not let thee! Thinkest thou So long I have held thee not to have the power To hold thee still by charm, or love, or force? Fool, for I hate thee! I will have thy life! T…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…s then in Patmos, and immediately after 395 was called to Rome to become a presbyter; but Rome findingthat the " Second Coming ” did not take place, it is argued that he was deprived and banished as a “false prophet.” Against this we have the fact that Chrysostom does not mention the book, but the date assigned agrees with criticisms as the book now stands. We must defer to the superior knowledge of this modern “ Unveiler,” though personally I am inclined to accept the views of those early Fathers who assign the authorship to Cerinthus, and als…
1911 · PDF PAGE 173
…s then in Patmos, and immediately after 395 was called to Rome to become a presbyter; but Rome findingthat the " Second Coming ” did not take place, it is argued that he was deprived and banished as a “false prophet.” Against this we have the fact that Chrysostom does not mention the book, but the date assigned agrees with criticisms as the book now stands. We must defer to the superior knowledge of this modern “ Unveiler,” though personally I am inclined to accept the views of those early Fathers who assign the authorship to Cerinthus, and als…
1905 · PDF PAGE 204
…f the broken ice, Know ye what dragon lurks within your waves ? Know ye the secret of the cockatrice? The basilisk whose shapeless brood Take blood and muck for food? The sexless passion, the foul scorpion spawn ? The witches and the evil-chanting ones Who strangle stars and suns, Ivclipse the moon, and curse against the dawn ? Know ye the haunts of death? The hole that harboureth _ The sickening breath, Whence all disease is bred, and all corruption drawn ? Nay, these ye know not, or your waters cold Would stagnate, shudder, putrefy for fear ;…
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
…all speak your hearts, and understand ; Your lovers shall assuage the amorous pain With spiritual lips more keen and bland, And ye shall take God’s hand. THE NAMELESS QUEST.! Tue king was silent. In the blazoned hall Shadows, more mute than at a funeral True mourners, waited, waited in gloom ; Waited to hear what child was in the womlh Of his high thoughts. As dead men were we all; As dead men wait the trumpet in the tomb. the The king was silent. Tense the high-strung air” Must save itself by trembling—if it dare. Then a long shudder ran acros…
1939 · PDF PAGE 46
colour and size; moves its position; gets out of shape. And one of the essential difficulties in practice is that it takes a great deal of skill and experience to become really alert to what is happening. You can go on day-dreaming for quite long periods before realising that your thoughts have wandered at all. This is why I insist so strongly on the practices described above as producing alertness and watchfulness, and you will obviously realise that it is quite evident that one has to be in the pink of condition and in the most favourable men…
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
…las! They will not comprehend. Accept this gospel of disease In wanton words proclanned, receive The biood-wrought chaplet that J weave, Take me, and with thine infamies Mingle my shame, and on my breast Let thy desire achicve the rest. ACELDAMA, ‘«Six months and | sit still and hold In two cold palms her cold two feet; , Her hair, half grey half ruined vold, | Thrills me and burns me in kissing it. _ Love bites and stings me through to see Her keen face made of sunken bones, Her worn-out eyelids madden me, ‘That were shot through with purple o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…ubtlety of soul. Ah God! this Law maketh hearts ache, ‘Who eateth shall not have his cake.’’) If XIV. AccEpr measIam! I give All you can take. If you dislike Some fragments of the life I live, They are not yours: I scorn to strike One sword-swift pang against your peace. See! T’mamountaineer. Release That spirit from your bonds: or come With me upon the mountains, cease This dull round, this addition sum Of follies we call France: indeed Cipher! And if at times I need The golden dawn upon the Alps, The gorges of Himalayan rock, The grey and anc…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…F SOLOMON THE KING he pledges himself to keep secret the Order, its name, and the names of the members, as well as the proceedings which take place at its meetings. To maintain kindly and benevolent relation with all the Fratres and Sorores of the Order. To prosecute with zeal and study the occult sciences, &c. &c. He then swears to observe the above under the awful penalty of submitting “ myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the Order, by which I should fall slain or paralysed without visible weapon, as…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
…F SOLOMON THE KING he pledges himself to keep secret the Order, its name, and the names of the members, as well as the proceedings which take place at its meetings. To maintain kindly and benevolent relation with all the Fratres and Sorores of the Order. To prosecute with zeal and study the occult sciences, &c. &c. He then swears to observe the above under the awful penalty of submitting “ myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the Order, by which I should fall slain or paralysed without visible weapon, as…
1905 · PDF PAGE 50
…t the cliff’s edge we stand together now ; The parting of our ways has come at last. Mine is the bitterest journey, as I trow, A man may take, so solitary, so vast, It binds the future now, and stultifies the past. Only the hope that God may reunite Our ways diverging, and make one again The deathless love that burns a beacon bright On the black deeps, the irremeable main, That men must launch on, the exalted plain Of Life. We sever, and our tears are few, Knowing perchance beyond the moment’s pain We shall regather where the skies are blue, An…
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
…! How slimes it in the terrene mud ! Clouds hide the beauty all-divine, The moonlight has a mist of blood. O Hathoor,® Lady of the West, Take thy sad lover to thy breast ! Even the perfumes of the dawn Intoxicate, deceive the soul. Let every shadow be withdrawn ! Let there be Light, supreme and whole ! O Ra,® thou golden Lord of Day, The Sun of Righteousness display ! The burden is so hard to bear. I took too adamant a cross; This sackcloth rends my soul to wear ; My self-denial is as dross ! O Shu,’ that holdest up the sky, Hold thou thy serva…
1906 · PDF PAGE 128
…ve—coward’s work ! ‘¢T have loved mercy,” that He said ; Nor bade me slay the Syrian Chief. Yet my head answers for his head ; My people take his people’s grief. Sin, troth, to spare one harmless breath, Sith all my innocents earn death ! By timely mercy peace becomes, And kindly love, and intercourse Of goodly merchandise, that sums Contention in united force. ‘* Praise who, relenting, showeth pity; Not him who captureth a city !” A wild strong life I’ve made of mine. Not till my one good deed is done— Ay! for that very deed divine— Comes the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
… and shod. ‘* Thus,” riddled he, ‘‘ thy heart shall know its Peace !” Let be! I ride upon the sand instead, Look to the Cross, whereon I take mine ease ! Let be! Just so the Roman soldier said. Esaias?2 He is dead—as I am dead ! What was his symbol and his riddle’s key? Go, seek the stars and count them and explore ! Go, sift the sands beyond a starless sea! So, find an answer where the dismal shore Of time beats back eternity! No more! 1 7,e., Tiphereth, the Sphere of Beauty. 2 See Mark xv. 35, 36 for the obscure allu- sions, Let me ride on mo…