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Page 94 of 1201910 · PDF PAGE 373
ARGUMENT i, Sir Palamede, the Saracen knight, riding on the shore of Syria, findeth his father’s corpse, around which an albatross circleth. He approveth the vengeance of his peers. ii, On the shore of Arabia he findeth his mother in the embrace of a loathly negro beneath blue pavilions. Her he slayeth, and burneth all that encampment. iii, Sir Palamede is besieged in his castle by Severn mouth, and his wife and son are slain, iv. Hearing that his fall is to be but the prelude to an attack on Camelot, he maketh a desperate night sortie, and wil…
1919 · PDF PAGE 197
… for we can no longer see the Sun, any more than in our little old-zeon consciousness we could see ourselves. All around us is perpetual Night, but it is the Starlight of the Body of Our Lady Nuit in which we live and move and have our being. Then, from this height we look back upon the little planet Earth, of which we, a moment ago, were a part, and think of Ourself as shedding our Light upon all those little individuals we have called our brothers and sisters, the slaves that serve. But we do not stop there. Imagine the Sun concentrating His …
1954 · PDF PAGE 472
…d lose; if BRUSSELS-SPROUTS, he would win. Hyphens need not be given. CASHMERE is a "word"; it is a kind of shawl, etc; so is CHARLEY, a night-watchman . Don't argue: the Dictionary decides. 7. This game calls not only for an extensive vocabulary but for courage, foresight, judgment, resource, subtlety and
1922 · PDF PAGE 30
…nt to the better regulated type of mid-Victorian mind, the best thing you can do is to sleep with your forefathers. So that’s that. Good-night. I told you that Lou was “ quite an ordinary and not a particularly attractive girl.” Remember that this was the first thought of my “ carnal mind” which, as St. Paul says, is ‘‘ enmity against God.” My real first impression had been the tremendous psychological experience for which all words are inadequate. Seated by her side, at leisure to look while she babbled, I found my carnal mind reversed on appe…
1922 · PDF PAGE 41
…possibility of fatigue; one’s energy was equal to one’s task. ““Q ‘Thou dancer with gilded nails, that un- braidest the star hair of the night! 1 adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” Lou’s slim, lithe body lay in my arm. It sounds absurd, but she reminded me of a light overcoat. Her head hung back, the heavy coils of hair came loose. All of a sudden the band stopped. For a second the agony was indescribable. It seemed like annihilation.
1922 · PDF PAGE 177
…ugust 21 I don’t remember anything. I must have gone off suddenly to sleep as I was. Cockie is out... . He has been going round town all night; the clubs and that. He got two sniffs from Mabel Black; but she was shy herself. He and Dick Wickham went down to Limehouse. No luck! They nearly got into a row with some sailors... . Madame Bellini has brought breakfast. Horrible, beastly food. We must eat some; I’m so weak... . She came in to clear it away and do the room. I
1929 · PDF PAGE 186
… The weather was moderate on June 30th and July 1st. But from July 2nd to 6th was a continuous snowstorm. There was no remittance day or night. It was this which made Camp 10 unpopular. We got rid of the Austrians on July 1st by sending them to Camp 11 {316} at the corner of the north-east ridge of Chogo Ri. At this point the glacier divides into two large snow basins. One leads to the pass which I have named Windy Gap (21,500 feet) on whose north- west is the mountain at the head of the valley, which I called Staircase Peak, from the well-mark…
1922 · PDF PAGE 236
…some terrible secret which he had to keep from me. He always seems afraid of being spied on or overheard. I went up to the magic room to-night, Peter was sitting in the old man’s chair writing in a book. I couldn’t understand it at first. I had come straight up, and he was fast asleep downstairs! Then, of course, the whole mystery became clear. While he’s asleep, his astral double comes up and does magic. I knew it was very dangerous to disturb any one’s astral double, so I tiptoed out of the room ; but the double followed me noiselessly. Every…
1922 · PDF PAGE 353
…an to take it. The drug stimulated me immensely ; and I was quite enthusiastic for the time. I wrote the story of my adventures from the night of my meeting Lou to our return to England from Naples. But when the episode was over, I found the old despair of life as strong as ever. The will to live was really dead in me. But two evenings later King Lamus came to smoke a pipe with me on the terrace at sunset. In his hand was the Paradiso record which I had written. Sister Athena had typed it. ‘““ My dear man,” he said, “ what I can’t see is why
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…e state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B. V.) in "The City of Dreadful Night"; we come to wish for-or, more truly to think that we wish for "blest Nirvana's sinless, stainless Peace" (or some such twaddle-thank God I can't recall Arnold's mawkish and unmanly phrase!) and B.V.'s "Dateless oblivion and divine repose." I insist on the "think that you wish," because, if the real You did really wish the real That, you could never have come to exist at all! ("But I don't exist."-"I kno…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
… C . . . drove him headlong, as if by the Cherubim, from the Gates of the Garden of Eden. G . . . , the famous society painter, came one night, and was literally hounded out of the room by a swift and pitiless attack on the part of D . . . and the young ethicist. A bullet-headed Yan- kee, rashly supporting him, shared the same fate, and ever after sat in solitary disgrace downstairs, like a whipped hound outside its masters door. The subject of conversation did not mat- ter. A fool reveals himself, though he talk but of greasing gimlets, in su…
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
… of the dark, As an angel did guide me, As I pass in my flight On the awed storm cloud, Steeps steeper than sleep, oe Depths deeper than night, | Waving the brand I have furrowed and ploughed | Of the dawn’s red spark. (Deep calling to deep !) My measures mark The influence fine Through the spaces of light, e The heads of them bowed Of the voyage divine ° Of the airy bark For the fears that weep, ; And the joys that smite, Wherein I travel And the loves disallowed. : O’er mountain and level, They are risen ; they leap ; The land, and the sea. T…
1922 · PDF PAGE 20
…t town was a much inferior creature. Everything more or less bored him, and he was quite definitely irritated by an overdone cutlet. The night I met Lou, I turned into the Café Wisteria in a sort of dull, angry stupor. Yet the only irritating incident of the day had been a letter from the lawyers which I had found at my club after flying from Norfolk to Barley Grange and motoring up to town. Mr. Wolfe had very sensibly advised me to make a settlement of a part of the estate, as against the event of my getting married; and there was some stupid …
1954 · PDF PAGE 208
…implicity succeed each other in sublime systole and diastole, in strophe and antistrophe chanting against each other to the stars of the Night and of the Morning! Of course it is easy as pie to knock all this to pieces by "lunatic logic," saying: "Then toothache is really as pleasant as strawberry shortcake." You are hereby referred to Eight Lectures on Yoga. None of the terms I am using have been, or can be defined. All my propositions amount to no more than tautology: A is A. You may even quote The Book of the Law itself: "Now a curse on Beca…
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
… water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. 45. There is death for the dogs. 46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. 4…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…one, had avenged Arabi Pasha, when on the stricken field of Tel-el- Kebir, she pitched her cunt and poxed eleven thousand Tommies in one night. She was the vet- eran who stood by statued Memnon at sunrise, and with the music of her farts out sang the sto- ried stone. She, uncrowned Empress of mankind, she, carrion of a million stallion men, she was my love, my dove, my undefiled ! To me, the mere boy bugger of the Bay of Biscay, this peerless rantipole [43]
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
…pace, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Démons, dog-faced, that show no mortal sign Of Truth, but desecrate the Light Divine, Seducing from the sacred mysteries. But, after ail these Folk of Fear are driven Before the avenging levin That rives the opening skies, Behold that Formless and that Holy Flame — 292 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
446 As I lay one night sleepless, in meditation, bitter and eager, upon this mystery I was suddenly stabbed to the soul by a suggestion so simple, yet so stupendous, that I was struck into shuddering silence for I know not how long before I could bring myself to switch on the electric light and snatch my notebook. At the first trial the solution sprang like sunlight in my spirit. I remained all that night in an ecstasy of awe and adoration. I had discovered the lost Word! The obvious line of criticism is this: How can you be sure that the Word …
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
…ld be consciously devoted to the service of the great work. "Whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God." One night in Granada I met one of these gypsies. The setting was supremely romantic. The burden of his life fell from the shoulders of the poet. I experienced that spontaneous and irresistible stroke of love which only exists when the beauty of the human form and the beauty of the rest of nature are harmonized automatically. It was one of those experiences which come even to the most romantic poets, and to them on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 377
… the Ray Mead Hotel. He had just received another letter, which said plainly that some man was going to be at his first wife's flat that night. He rushed up to London. When not clamouring for chastity in language which would have seemed to Savonarola violent and extreme, Gnaggs exhorted his wife to enjoy herself with any man she fancied. Neuburg was engaged in a furious flirtation with her, and he and I went back to Gnaggs's house with Mrs. G. and my own inamorata. Neuburg wanted to stay the night; and his hostess, who was very drunk, was a gre…