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Page 82 of 1031905 · PDF PAGE 34
…tempest, Seamed with wounds, like adamant, shod with iron, Torn by the earthquake. Still through all the stresses of doubtful weather IIfold the firm old pinnacles, sky-defying ; Still the icy feet of the wind relentless Walk in their meadows. Fields that flower not, blossom in no new spring-tide ; Fields where grass nor herb nor abounding darnel Flourish ; fields more barren, devoid, than ocean’s Pasture ungarnered. Deserts, stone as arid as sand, savannahs! Black with wrecks, a wilderness fruitless ; Still, to me, a land of the bluest heaven …
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
…um," retorted Cyril Grey. "I am half Scotch, half Irish." "Then pray give yourself the trouble to continue." "I may premise that I have told my idea to General Cripps. It convinced him that I am an imbecile or a joker." That was his "fact," his master-argument. It told heavily. The face of Foch grew instantly keen and eager with all expectation. "Let me hear it!" The General reached for a memorandum. Grey laughed. In a few words he repeated his theory of the German plans. "But it is certain!" cried Foch. "One moment; excuse me; I must telephone…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
… cube, will be so good as to produce a wooden cone — and a basin of water." Brother Cyril complied. "I want you to realize," went on the old man, "that all the talk about the Progress of Science is cheap journalism. Most of the boasted progress is mere commercial adaptation of science, as who should say that he is Experimenting with Electricity when he rides in an electric train. One hears of Edison and Marconi as 'men of science'; neither of them ever discovered a single fact; they merely exploited facts already known. The real men Science are…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…ist he putteth on Human Shape. His Office is to make Men wise, and to instruct them in divers things; also to Transmute all Metals into Gold; and to change Wine into Water, and Water into Wine. He governeth 33 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (49.) CroceLt.—The Forty-ninth Spirit is Crocell, or Crokel. He appeareth in the Form of an Angel. He is a Duke Great and Strong, speaking something Mystically of Hidden Things. He teacheth the Art of Geometry and the Liberal Sciences. He, at the Command of the Exorcist, will produce Great No…
1910 · PDF PAGE 350
…a mixture of “La Morte Amoureuse,” “Thomas Lake Harris,” “The Yoke” (Mr. Hubert Wales’ master- piece), and “The Autobiography of a Flea told in a Hop, Skip, and a Jump.” But I prefer Mr. Verbouc to Uncle Paul, and Bella to Nixie. From the point of view of pure literature, of course. The book then slobbers off into Gentle-Darwin-meek-and-mild Theosophy. Victoria at last, thank God! I think I’ll slip into the Crack, myself! ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE LITERARY GUIDE. Messrs. Watts and Co, 2d The Journeyings of Joseph. Joseph has gone a-wandering; and, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 350
…a mixture of “La Morte Amoureuse,” “Thomas Lake Harris,” “The Yoke” (Mr. Hubert Wales’ master- piece), and “The Autobiography of a Flea told in a Hop, Skip, and a Jump.” But I prefer Mr. Verbouc to Uncle Paul, and Bella to Nixie. From the point of view of pure literature, of course. The book then slobbers off into Gentle-Darwin-meek-and-mild Theosophy. Victoria at last, thank God! I think I’ll slip into the Crack, myself! ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE LITERARY GUIDE. Messrs. Watts and Co, 2d The Journeyings of Joseph. Joseph has gone a-wandering; and, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 153
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE almost in advance, and the new Illumination is as it were added to the old, and there is fresh wonder and joy in both. March 15th. I feel as if I were a highly strung musical instrument. My Will runs over the strings, causing complete and harmonious vibrations in my being, which seems to give forth at times an unformulated and therefore most delightful melody. March 28th. How can I write it, how put into words the least idea of that which is unformed? Yet I will try while yet a vestige of the thought remains. I have conce…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…ight hand, Sister Cybele on her left. They joined their hands about her. "I will now complete the formality of your reception," said the old man. "Say after me: 'I (your name).'" "I, Lisa la Giuffria —" "Solemnly promise to devote myself" She repeated the phrase. To the discovery of my true purpose in this life." She echoed in a lower tone. All three concluded "So mote it be." "I receive you into this Order," which Simon Iff, "I confirm you in the robe which you have won; I greet you with [101] the right hand of fellowship; and I induct you to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
…here, behind me! Quick, if you love him ! MOLLY. I will see him safe. What is this danger? CARRUTHERS. Danger of your sort. [She mounts. OLD TYSON comes out into the open. TYSON, Eh, less, wheer off noo ?
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
…I. by the noise of a banging door. SECOND DPASSER-BY. The saints be praised, tis my good gossip Peter IIalse. What, knowest thou not thy old friend? = [Firsr PAaAsser-by “/és kis lantern to the other's face. First PASSER-BY. Martin Cloche, by the Mass ! SECOND DPASSER-BY. Ay, Martin Cloche! And his lantern hath gone out, and his heart faileth him somewhat. But these be troublous times. [Enter FLORIMOND and waits. FIRST PASSER-BY. The town is full of these drunken Eng- lish men-at-arms. SECOND DPASSER-BY. The English be bad, but God save us from…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… that it is obviously to the advan- tage of the diviner to obtain this information from beings of the most exalted essence available. An old witch who has a familiar spirit of merely local celebritv such as the toad in her tree, can hardly expect him to tell her much more of private matters than her parish magazine does of public. It dépends entirely on the Magician how he is served. The greater the man, the greater must be his teacher. It follows that the highest forms of communicating daemons, those who know, so to speak, the court secrets, d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…e was restless and anxious, too, with another part of his brain; Lisa could see that, but she dared not question him. So she went on the old track. "Doesn't she get messages from the dead?" "It's not done much now. It's too easy to fake, and the monied fools lost interest, as a class. This new game tickles the vanity of some of the sham scientific people, like Lombroso; they think they'll make a reputation like Newton out of it. They don't know enough science to criticize the business on sensible lines. Oh, really, I prefer your fat friend with…
1906 · PDF PAGE 58
…y.” ‘What do you hope for?” Simply, “To die young.” SONNET FOR A PICTURE.?! ‘* rotxtdoOpov’, dbavar’ ’Adpodira.” Zarow. “e We have seen Gold tarnished, and the gray above —SWINBURNE. As some lone mountebank of the stage may tweak The noses of his fellows, so Gavin ? Tweaks with her brush-work the absurd obscene Academicians. How her pictures speak ! Chiaroscuro Rembrandtesque, form Greek ! What values! What a composition clean ! Breadth shaming broadness! Manner epicene ! Texture superb! Magnificent technique ! Raphael, Velasquez, Michael Angel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
… was far otherwise with the man on the engine. Almost before he had well left Paris behind him, he began to fret about the furnace, and told his fireman to keep up the fullest head of steam. At Melun the train should have slackened speed; instead, it increased it. The signalman at Fontainebleau was amazed to see the rapide rush through the station, eight minutes ahead of time, against the signals. He saw the driver grappling with the fireman, who was thrown from the foot-plate a moment after, but escaped with a broken leg. "My mate went suddenl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 9
…d dreams. My brain Beats to the double stroke; the double strain Warps its gray fibres; all the dream is wrought A spider-tapestry ; the old blood-stain Spreads through the air Some hot contagious growth to slay men unaware, Il. I have discovered God! His ghastly way Of burning ploughshares for my naked feet Lies open to me—shall I find it sweet To give up sunlight for that mystic day That beams its torture, whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head, to wither Love’s desire? III. I was a child long years ago, it seems, O…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…se Of their fair subjects.”’ The Sonnets. I LEARNT at last some sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thoughts immense Like this I thought: plumes of my amorous quill I tickled her withal: then grave and still Waited secure: the silence grew intense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not overbold ; quite powerless to destroy Her life’s long peace, the ten-year-walléd city…
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
… all black earth with tears. Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the. starry spheres. Wrapped in rose, green and gold, Blues many and manifold, A cloud of incense hides thy splendour of: light ; 1 An imaginary animal, sacred to Venus. Hides from the prayer’s distress Thy loftier loveliness Till thy veil’s glory shrouds the earth from night ; And silence speaks indeed, Seeing the subtler speed Of its own thought than speech of the Pan- dean reed! There no voice may be heard ! No place for any word ! The heart’s whole fervo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
244 TANNHAUSER TANNHAUSER. Ah no! I have been shown another way than yours | I am too old in this world’s weariness, Too hungry in its hunger unto God, Too foolish-wise, too passionate-cynical, To seek your royal road to Deity ! ANOTHER PILGRIM. Leave him! Belike ‘tis some philosopher With words too big to understand himself. TANNHAUSER. With heart too seared to understand himself! With mind too wise to understand himself ! With soul too small to understand himself ! ELDEST PILGRIM. Cling to the Cross, sir, there is hope in that ! TANNHAUSER. Y…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
… inches into the air. The Turk purred delight. "Quite evidential, don't you think, sir?" he observed to Simon. "Oh, quite," returned the old man, but in a tone that would have made any one who knew him well continue the conversation with these words
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…t curious person; he is a great big crab in the most lovely glittering armour, and he can just drivel His name is the mysterious name I told you about with eleven letters in it, but we call him Jehu for short, because he’s only nineteen years old. It’s important to know though because this journey is the most diflicult of all, and without the chariot one couldn’t ever ever do it, because it is so far—much farther than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. The passage where the twins live is very difficult too. They are two sisters; and…