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…elf to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will suffer, but they will be loved.” “We have the right to give nothing, and we wish to suffer nothing,” said the spirits, hating love. “Remain in y…
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…ir service to their warrior liege lord. [JouN remains silent and does not move. CHINESE. Come, let us enter to rebuild the shrine! joun. Give me the sign. [Done, the zuLu moving his hand to the priest's knee. JOHN makes no motion.| The sign is wrong. ARAB. Not strict averred? Ihave the word. [Whispers.] JoHN. The word is wrong. zuLu. Not rightly spoken ? I have thetoken. [Geves tt by ratsing his hand and lowering it, then seeking to grasp JOHN'S hand. JOHN does not move.] JOHN. The token is wrong. Ye may not pass. CHINESE. Thou must, alas! [The…
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…ave left him legacies? Virtue has our admiration, our purse owes it nothing, that great lady is rich enough without us. One would rather give to vice, it is so poor! “T do not like beggars, and I only give to the poor who are ashamed to beg,” said one day a man of wit. ‘ But what do you give them since you do not know them?” “TI give them my admiration and my esteem, and I have no need to know them to do that.” ‘ How is it that you need so much money ?” they asked another, “ you have no children and no calls on you.” “I have my poor folk, and I…
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PART I RELIGIOUS MYSTERIES PROBLEMS FOR SOLUTION I.—To demonstrate in a certain and absolute manner the existence of God, and to give an idea of Him which will satisfy all minds. II.—To establish the existence of a true religion in such a way as to render it incontestable. III.—To indicate the bearing and the vazson a@étre of all the mysteries of the one true and universal religion. IV.—To turn the objections of philosophy into arguments favourable to true religion. V.—To draw the boundary between religion and super- stition, and to give the re…
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…u shalt die, being the Immortal Rose. x LIFE MEN say: “ For love's sake and for beauty’s sake We would make our songs immortal; we would give The passionate cry of summer, the secret ache That thou, our poet, knowest ;” I would live A lonely virgin for thy sake, and I Would fret no more the earth, nor tire the sky With ever-unbidden song. Ah! I would give All that my spirit hath learned of thee, to live Lonely and pure with the memory of thy kiss, And thy passionate, tearing lips, and thine arms around me, Knowing naught of the world, and carin…
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…n idolater; he is obliged to believe in it, and worship it. Our spirit should be silent before Him, and our heart alone has the right to give Him a name: Our Father!
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES This is an assertion. It remains to us to give an explanation and a demon- stration. That explanation and demonstration, in order to be com- plete, demand a work sufficient to fill a book. That book has been written, and we shall publish it shortly. Here is the title: The Reason of Miracles, or the Devil at the Tribunal of Science. “Why the devil?” Because we have demonstrated by facts what Mr. de Mirville had, before us, incompletely set forth. We say “‘incompletely”; because the devil is, for Mr. de Mirville, a fantas…
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…UINOX an eighth who costs more than the seven others. The seven are the seven deadly sins; the eighth is gambling.” Another dialogue :— “Give me five francs, sir, I am dying of hunger.” “TImbecile! you are dying of hunger, and you want me to encourage you in so evil a course? You are dying of hunger, and you have the impudence to admit it. You wish to make me the accomplice of your incapacity, the abetter of your suicide. You want to put a premium on wretchedness. For whom do you take me? Do you think I am a rascal like yourself? .. .” And yet …
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…boys from school altogether and kept them with himself at Adyar. 4. About the beginning of 1910 the defendant requested the plaintiff to give a letter constituting her the guardian of the boys; and after some persuasion both on the part of the defendant and Sir S. Subramania Iyer, for whom the plaintiff had great respect, the plaintiff gave such letter, especially as the defendant had assured the plaintiff that the only reason for asking the letter was that after the plaintiff's lifetime his relations might give trouble to the xxxii
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…you, you who need only say one word, make one sign, and the spirits will obey, take pity upon me, and restore to me what I have lost !” “Give me your grimoive/” said Eliphas. “What name used you to give to the spirit who appeared to you?” “T called him Adonai.” “ And in what language was his signature ?” “T do not know, but I suppose it was in Hebrew.” “ There,” said the Professor of Transcendental Magic, after having traced two words in the Hebrew language in the beginning and at the end of the book. ‘ Here are two words which the spirits of d…
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…universe; easily to be found by the elect, but for ever hidden from the eyes of the vulgar. Our secrets cannot be sold for money, but we give them free to every one capable to receive them.” As to the external organization of that society, it will be necessary to give a glance at its history, which has been one and the same in all. Whenever that spiritual society manifested itself on the outward plane and appeared in the world, it consisted at its beginning of a few able and en- lightened people, forming a nucleus around which others were x
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THE EQUINOX words because I have no others; but since you find my remarks absurd, you should conclude from that that I give to the same words a meaning which escapes you. When the Saviour revealed the dogma of the real presence, did he not say: “The flesh profiteth nothing, but my words are spirit and life.” I do not give you the mystery of the incarnation for an anatomical phenomenon, nor that of transubstantiation for a chemical manipulation. By what right do you exclaim “Absurd!” ? I do not reason about any of the things you know; by what ri…
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…ad. So let no requiem be said Over my mouldering head, And let no vague, sweet songs be sung By any tongue! For he to whom the songs are given Hath no ear to receive. The chord is riven, And he did not believe. He had no fear to die, for death could give No more pain . Than that he knew whilst he did live. He lives again In the earth Whence he had birth. Gladly he lies at rest, asleep, unknown, His ashes scattered to the four winds, blown About the world: his songs K2 147
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…ays music while 1 worships in silence. o. Exhausted, I sink. 1. I am dead, on the brink. o. Let us dance! I Let us dance! o. 1. The Lord give us power To be lost in the trance For an hour—for an hour! [They dance together. A pause of perfect stillness and silence follows; until O., sua sponte, advances and places 1. upon the altar. o. Exhaust me! 1. o. Ere I sink! I. I shall sink ! o. Drink wine! oh, drink wine! 1. Iam thine! 0. I am thine! [They drink and greet as before. Nay, drink ! 1. Art thou armed ? 0. With a knife. [o. draws the dagger f…
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…. THE EQUINOX The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the holy word? [Whispered] The word is rightly spoken. Hast thou the secret token? [Given, each extend- ing the forefinger and striking tt against that of the other.| The token is in order. Pass to my brother warder ! [They pass over to JULIAN. I am the camel brother of your priest, And we are come from north and south and east To build your God a new and nobler shrine. Give me the sign. [Done, each striking his breast Jive times with clenched hand] The sign is strict, averred. Hast thou the …
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…ished and dull, in clouds of dun And brilliant amber. Soft! Let be The tender dream! Stay here with me! So, to this dream, this dream, I give Again the pulsing life I live: The faded sunset thrills the sweet Core of my soul ;—ah! nimble feet Grown old! Oh! autumn woodlands fraught With pensiveness of waking thought! The gray night gathers, soft and cold, The old dead dreams, dead dreams of old,— The cold, gray, windy breath of time, The old dead loves, the unsung rime : Autumn, the pale, gray, crispéd star, Virginal, golden nenuphar, Folden upo…
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…nd woods, in gold inurned), And let the serpent flame therein A little, and thy soul shall win To lie within her bosom. Lo! Thou wouldst give all—and she cries: No! Take all, and take me! Gather spice And virgins and great pearls of price| Worship me in a single robe, Crowned richly! Girdle of the globe, 105
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…r? 1. When time hath no power. o. What is the place? 1. At the limits of space. 0. What God do we wake? 1 This is the nearest idea I can give of the text, which is in hieroglyph impossible to reproduce. 2 It is clear that this ritual is full of intentional blinds. G2 83
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…ould be the greatest of all disorders, an abiding blasphemy against truth. Such is that idle word of which Christ has said that one will give account at the Day of Judgment. A jesting word, a comicality which vecveates and causes laughter, is not an idle word. The beauty of the word is a splendour of truth. A true word is always beautiful, a beautiful word is always true. For this reason works of art are always holy when they are beautiful. 239
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…stroy, Being jealous that with only mortal powers We have dared to steal their own immortal joy? Yet, for each hour that we have stolen, give An zon of the life the high gods live! XXII IN THE END From bud to bud the butterfly of thought Hovers; around the red Rose of the Will He lingers, seeking for the honey wrought In its golden heart; the long hours linger still In silent sweetness, and from flower to flower He brings desire of love from hour to hour. The song is sung; the way is sharply set Under dim willowy woods; the thing is done: For m…