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Page 87 of 1031929 · PDF PAGE 204
…e made fat; but I am Banting, as the hart banteth after the water brooks. He that watereth shall be watered also himself: I will take a cold shower before the plunge. The Mother's Meeting will be held as usual at 8.30 on Thursday [286] evening. Those who are not yet Mothers, but who wish to become so, kindly apply to me in the Vestry at the conclusion of the service. Sister Clara, please play the people out quickly!" Cyril babbled out this nonsense in the tones of the Sweet Young Thing type of Curate; it was his way of restoring the superficial…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
WHY JESUS WEPT 49 — it is, I am told, an innocent child’s game !—one of the factory hands; and—he stumbled. He was sawn slowly into no less than thirty-eight pieces. Sir HERPEs Z. But how does this bear on the case ? SIR GRABSON J. Dying without issue, he has left all to Sir Percy here ; the King (cheers from large but unseen body of retainers, who have been eavesdropping), moreover, unwilling that the Marquisate should die out, will bestow it on the same lucky young fellow. SiR HERPES Z, This is marvellous news ! S1R GRABSON J. Again, Lady Bai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
…: Who doubts? [265] The sorcerer is perhaps — at best — trying to create a permanence of his complexities, as who should try to fashion gold from the dust-heap. But most sorcerers do not go so deeply into things; they are set upon the advantage of the moment. Douglas probably did not care a snap of the fingers for his ultimate destiny; it may be that he deliberately avoided thinking of it; but however that may be, there is no doubt that at this moment he was ruthlessly pursuing his hate of Cyril Grey. For great operations — the "set pieces" of …
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
134 THE GOD-EATER Did make in very deed: so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma- juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of …
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…ltimately the grand sceptic of all devised the following test just as I had passed the note to my medium, “ ΙΓ I can’t manage any of the old ways, I’ll try and write down the number and put it on the mantelpiece." And this was the test. The medium was to be taken from Whewell‘s Court (where we were) over to the Great Court 01 Trinity—well out of all hearing. I was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody 01 being a confederate. He was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction…
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…ltimately the grand sceptic of all devised the following test just as I had passed the note to my medium, “ ΙΓ I can’t manage any of the old ways, I’ll try and write down the number and put it on the mantelpiece." And this was the test. The medium was to be taken from Whewell‘s Court (where we were) over to the Great Court 01 Trinity—well out of all hearing. I was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody 01 being a confederate. He was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…nds as yet, was a rich and honoured officer in the service of the Sultan; he, Balloch, was an ill-reputed doctor, living on the fears of old maids, on doubtful and even criminal services to foolish people from the supply of morphia to the suppression of [121] the evidence of scandal, and on the harvest of half-disguised blackmail that goes with such pursuits. But he was respectability itself compared to S.R.M.D. This man, who called himself the Count Macgregor of Glenlyon, was in reality a Hampshire man, of lowland Scottish extraction, of the n…
1906 · PDF PAGE 226
… the ox! One, and one, and one: Creator, Preserver, Destroyer, ho! the Re- deemer! Thunder-stone: whirlpool : lotus-flower: ho! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded with gems, one on each knee. Dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. A horn grew from her forehead ; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, yet our Father bowed …
1929 · PDF PAGE 209
…, with Abdul Bey for bait, set out upon her journey to Naples. Arrived in that favoured spot, she bade Abdul Bey enjoy the scenery, and hold his peace. She would warn him when the hour struck. For Cremers was a highly practical old person. She was not like St. James' devils, who believe and tremble; she disbelieved, but she trembled all the same. She hated Truth, because the Truth sets men free, and therefore makes them happy; but she had too much sense to shut her eyes to it; and though she doubted the causes of magick, and scoffed at all spir…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…hat a poem which authorises the Archbishop of Canterbury to convey Dr. Clifford’s pet trowels, and makes possible the Gilbertian (in the old sense of pertaining to W. S. Gilbert) position of the Free Kirk to-day, is a poem which had better be burnt, as the most sensible man of his time proposed to do with Homer, or at least left to the collector, as I believe is the case with the publications of the late Isidore Liseux. Immoral is indeed no word for it. It is as criminal as the riddle in “ Pericles.” That our Pantosympatheticist is himself an A…
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…cause he saw that their sense was partly hidden from me, he called to my memory two other writings from a compilation of certain Jews of old: All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; and this: The thought of foolishness is sin. Now did I understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their True Will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. This restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their True Will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference of ill-controlled …
1944 · PDF PAGE 35
… now is: to assign to Pure Number the moral ideas which go with it. This is partly a matter of experience, partly tradition derived from older experience. It would be unwise to discard tradition with complete contempt, because all thinking is bound by the laws of the mind itself, and Mind has been formed rough thousands of years of evolution in each man by the thoughts of his ancestors. The cells of all living brains are just as much the children of the great thinkers of the past as the development of the organs and limbs. There are very few pe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…ENYS. [Petzes himself.] You will perhaps sigh once—TI hope you will sigh once !—and then you will forget, and laugh, and go back to your old life. Ah! what can I think of all this? BLANCHE. I know what you must think, Monsieur de Beaulieu; you dare not say it—but you wrong me. Oh! before God, you wrong me. DENYS. [Distressed.| Don’t! Don’t! BLANCHE, Do yield: do marry me! Let me tell you how it all came about—you are so brave and young and handsome—I will not have you die. DENYS. You seem to think I stand in great fear of death. BLANCHE. [Flush…
1905 · PDF PAGE 108
…ng On the Leny’s thundrous shore ! “ Thrice three hundred have I smitten With my single arm this day ; Now of life my soul is weary, Tam old, I pass away. ‘* Grant me this, immortal monarch, Such a tomb as ne'er before, Such atomb as never after Monarch thought or monarch saw.” Then he called his sons around him, And he spake again and cried : ** Seven times a clansman’s bowshot Lay me from the Leny’s side. ‘Where the plain to westward sinketh, Lay me in ny tartan plaid, All uncovered to the tempest, In my hand my trusty blade.” Hardly had he s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 19
…w With dubious remorse. Oh! flame of tortur- ing flower-love ! sacrament Of Satan, triple element of mystery and love and shame, Green, gold, and crimson, in my heart you strive with Jesus for its realm, While Sorrow’s tears would overwhelm the warriors of either part. Jesus would lure me: from His side the gleaming torrent of the spear Withdraws, my soul with joy and fear waits for sweet blood to pour its tide Of warm delight—in vain! so cold, so watery, so slack it flows, It leaves me moveless as a rose, albeit her flakes are manifold. He hat…
1905 · PDF PAGE 235
228 TANNHAUSER Still, I must see his symbol of the Sun, The Winepress, and the Beauty! Puerile And pagan to that old mysterious one, The awful Light and the anointed Vial, The Dawning of the Blood, even as a smile :— Even asa smile on Beauty’s burning cheek— Ha! Inacircle? As this journey is? How vain is man’s imagining and weak ! Begod! my lady, and my lady’s kiss? Back swing we to the pitiful abyss, Liken God’s being to the life of man. So reason staggers. Angels, answer me ! Ye who have watched the far unfolding plan— How is time shorter tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
…thy shrine, and all its splendours these ! Awake to dream! Two desolate nudities Woven through sculpture into ecstasies, XXIV. AuM! I unfold the tinted robe, My love's embroideries one by one, Unveil her glories, globe on globe, And find beneath the quivering probe A shaking skeleton. The smile of vermeil lips is past ; The skull’s black grin awhile remains ; The fallen flesh displays aghast Ribbed bars of bone: was Venus cast For this? What Mars attains? Where is the poesy that shed Its dewfall downward through her eyes? | Gaunt sockets stare …
1906 · PDF PAGE 10
…tool, Heaven itself Our throne ! P.S.— BELOVED BRETHREN,—The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. For I, like Balaam (in the old legend), was com- pelled to express our real feelings and not our pretended ones. This, of course, abso- lutely ruins the adaptation. In fact, I am not certain as to whether it does not rather give us away ! Alas! we are only poor, weak, failing creatures ! Your broken-hearted, broken-winded, broken- kneed brother, Jubas CAIAPHAS TRUELOVE. (The man Truelove was at once put out of fellowship. He will be cer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…if it be agreed that much learning hath made us mad, that we may receive humane treatment and a liberal allowance of rubber-cores in our old age. 4. The Tree of Life is the skeleton on which this ‘body of truth is built.- The juxtaposition and proportion of its parts should be fully studied. Practice alone will enable the student to determine how far an analogy may be followed out. Again, some analogies may escape a superficial study. The Beetle is only con- nected with the sign Pisces through the Tarot Trump “The Moon.” The Camel is only conne…
1939 · PDF PAGE 56
…elf-evident assurance. In the language of the Great White Brotherhood (whom I am here to represent) you cross the abyss. 'Leave the poor old stranded wreck'Ruach'and pull for the shore' of Neschamah. For above the abyss, it is said, as you will see if you study