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Page 90 of 1051929 · PDF PAGE 133
…. It says much for the personality of Sister Clara, and the force of her invocations, that this first impulse never came to so much as a word. But the priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God. The hour of the r…
1905 · PDF PAGE 74
…the sand. folk Are naked of his counsel and defence Against the tribe of Ammon, and stand aghast 5 Our feeble arms sway doubtfully long swords, And spears are flung half-heartedly ; and he With warlike garrison and stronger arms Who might have helped us, laughs, and violence Threatens the white flower of our homes: our wives, Daughters, and sons are as a prey to them, And where the children of the Ammonites Throng not swift hoofs for murder, Jephthah’s men Blaspheme our sanctuaries inviolate, And rob us of our dearest. Woe on woe Hangs imminent…
1905 · PDF PAGE 43
36 SONGS OF THE SPIRIT SONNET. THE woods are very quiet, and the stream Hardly awakes the stilled ear with its word ; The voice of wind above like dawn is heard, And all the air moves up, a sultry steam, Here in the flower-land, where I lie and dream And understand the silence of the bird ; My sorrow and my weakness are interred In the deep water where the pebbles gleam. I rouse the force persistent of my will . To compel matter to the soul’s desire, To make [leaven aid the mind that would aspire To touch its borders, and to drink their fill At…
1905 · PDF PAGE 178
…leeping foam, whase silver gleams* On motionless dark seas ; it seems As if some gentle spirit stiricel Their lazy brows with sume swift word. So, in the secret of the shrine, Night keeps them nestled ; so the gloom Laps them in waves as smooth as wine, As glowing as the fery womb Of some young tigress, dark as doom, And swift as sunrise. Love’s content Builds its own mystic monument, And carves above its vaulted tomb The Phoenix on her fery plume, To their own souls to testify Their kisses’ immortality. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE. O CRIMSON cheek…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
… flushed inwardly, knowing it for a lie, and therefore useless to avert the blow which he felt poised above him. He sought a new form of words. "I swear that we will not seek to break through your defences." This, he thought, should satisfy the captain of the gate, and yet permit him to do as he intended in the matter of trying to attack from within. Abdul Bey gasped out that it was well, that no more could be done, that the link with the White Lodge was broken. "But now our own blow strikes us to the earth." He fell backwards, as one dead. In …
1906 · PDF PAGE 79
…t my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion, and deters Her fear from spurning all the day’s due joys. She had not dared to speak one word, to tell How deep and pure a fountain sunward leapt In her life’s garden: but to-night she lay In my intense embraces : so the spell . Moved her: ‘I love you,” said she. So we kept, Remurmuring that one phrase until the day. THE NINETEENTH DAY. ‘« The boy is foolish, and I fear not him,” Richard I1, SHE dared not come into my room to-night. So? I was acquiescent, sharp despair And nervous purpose mixing i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…both those men are in collusion with Mottich. I'd stake my life Simple Simon isn't; but I wouldn't expect my own twin brother to take my word for it, in a matter like this. Then the curtains have been drawn; why? To [38] help the force along. Yet it is supposed to be kinetic force; and we cannot even imagine how light could interfere with it. Otherwise, it is that the light 'distresses the medium in her peculiar state.' Just as the policeman's bull's-eye distresses the burglar in his peculiar state! Now look here! These arguments about 'evident…
1935 · PDF PAGE 11
…ative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and arms to form the symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every thought, word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty—symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; as secret not to be told or even divined by any other…
1944 · PDF PAGE 120
…ion of thine Idea, and its Ex‐ altation, or by Concentration as thou understandest, by Virtue of thy Studies in the Book of the Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith, and Hadith that is the Core of every Star. And this last Going upon thy Ladder is easy, if thou be truly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fet‐ ters of Thought that thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation of Truth of Competence to draw thee unto itsel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…ion of one of those old castles that one sees everywhere on difficult heights, throughout most of Southern and even Central Europe; in a word, like a castle in a fairy- story. It looked from below, owing to foreshortening, as if it were built over a sheer rampart, like the Potala at Lhassa; but this was only the effect of merging a series of walls which divided the garden by terraces. "Is that the Butterfly-net?" cried Lisa, slapping her hands with delight. "That," he dissented, "is The Net." Once again Lisa felt a pang of something like distru…
1905 · PDF PAGE 183
…ead, Deathless, O my dead sweet maiden ! Lifeless, in the secret Aidenn !1 Let our bodies meet and mix On the spirit’s crucifix ! 1 This word is taken direct from Poe’s ’ in the sense in which it is used by 1 Apollonius of Tyana, the sage whose glance dissolved the illusion which Lamia had cast | ‘‘ Raven’ about herself. See Keats's poem. him.
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
…the fish that it will have to give up pumping water through its gills, it is apt to compromise for a few million generations; though the word may rankle if you call it a flying-fish, when swimming-bird is evidently a properer and politer name. She was permanently annoyed with Sister Clara; her motive for making excursions on that path had [287] been to get rid of the idea of Cyril and his magick; and he had not even come himself to welcome her, but set this woman to disguise herself and spy upon her thoughts! It was disgusting. Cyril had certai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
…were not made by man, nor can they be set aside by man; they were not made at all. There are no laws of Nature in the usual sense of the word "law"; they are but statements, reduced to a generalized form in accordance with reason, of the facts observed in nature; they are formulae of the inherent properties of substance. It is impossible to evade them, or to suspend them, or to counteract them; for the effort to do so is itself in accordance with those laws themselves, and the compensation, though it be invisible for a time, is adjusted with an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
…Thus spins out life its splendid charm :— Live, love, enjoy, yet do no harm, No rose of thought may bear or breed The poisonous thorn of word and deed.
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…wide, Till all the air took fire from that melodious roar; All the mute mountains heard, Bowed, laughed aloud, concurred, And passed the word along, the signal of wide war. All earth took up the sound, And, being in one tune securely bound, Even a star became the soul of silence most profound. Thus there, the centre of that death that darkened, I sat and listened, if God's voice should break And pierce the hallow of my ear that hearkened, Lest God should speak and find me not awake --- For his own sake. No voice, no song might pierce or penetra…
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
…give a dithyrambic epitome of the three chapters of the Book. I say distinctly that this message to mankind is to be identified with the Word of my Holy Guardian Angel. It is only as I write this that I realize that the poet in me perceived that Aiwaz and mine Angel were one. Till this moment I believed that I had reached this conclusion after many months of meditation in the last three years and accepted it provisionally with the greatest hesitation.
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…cuments are accessible. These documents are of immeasurably greater value than the lesser writings of the mediæval saints. In fact, this word mediveval is of use to us in describing Evelyn Underhill's state of mind. He, she, or it is rather narrow, vastly learned and curiously ignorant, capable of seeing far from within, utterly incapable of seeing an inch from without, a bit of a heresy-hunter and so on, It is clear that the mystic vision even is not his, or how could he remain sectarian? Had he only enough imagination to think of the earth as…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…cuments are accessible. These documents are of immeasurably greater value than the lesser writings of the mediæval saints. In fact, this word mediveval is of use to us in describing Evelyn Underhill's state of mind. He, she, or it is rather narrow, vastly learned and curiously ignorant, capable of seeing far from within, utterly incapable of seeing an inch from without, a bit of a heresy-hunter and so on, It is clear that the mystic vision even is not his, or how could he remain sectarian? Had he only enough imagination to think of the earth as…
1906 · PDF PAGE 250
… Theosophic rubbish, we find Sir Edwin Arnold writing : ) ‘© Whoever saith Nirvana is to cease, Say unto such they lie.” Lie is a strong word and should read ‘‘ translate correctly.” } I suppose it would not scan, nor rhyme: but Sir Edwin is the last person to be de- terred by a little thing like that. Dr. Paul Carus, too, in the ‘‘ Gospel of Buddha,” is pleased to represent Nirvana as a parallel for the Heaven of the Christian It is sufficient if I reiterate the unanimous opinion of competent scholars, that there is no fragment of evidence in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
… To dream of the lass I loved best. And the next night I lay half awake on my bed, When—a foot-fall as soft as the breeze ! Oh ! never a word nor a whisper she said To disturb the low song of the trees. But she crept to my side. close : Then: ‘‘ Have pardon and pity for me!” She whispered-—‘* your bluebell and violet and rosc--- I can give but one flower for three.” Awhile we lay V. RBRUNNHILDE.! THE sword that was broken is perfect: the hero is here. | Be done with the dwarfs and be done with the spirit of fear ! Hark! the white note of a bird…