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…et still the dying craftsman strove to work his lust and pain within The glittering avatar of sin that seemed to mock him as he wove. At last his visage pale and grim lights with the laughter of the Pit. The Devil comes and praises it, and lays a wreath of fire on him. “ Well hast thou wrought, O Florentine! Thy work hath gathered in its spell The Daughters of the Lords of Hell, the Goddess-goats, the Women swine! “ These shall adore it age by age; to these shall it give lust and force, Absolve their spirits of remorse, and make them sage among …
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…tle stone. It lay forgotten on the road Far from the ways of man's abode. When on this stone mine eyes I cast I saw my Treasure found at last. —--0 stone, so red and rare and wise! 0 fragment of far Paradise l ” MACHEN.
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! couldst thou nowhere rest A pivot for the universe? Must all things be alike confessed Mere changes rung upon a curse? I swear by all the bliss of blue My Phryne…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…ut there is a holy Magician called Hermes, who takes me through so quickly that I arrive sometimes even at the very moment that I start. Last of all is the most mysterious passage of them all, and if any of you saw it you would think there was a foolish man in it being bitten by crocodiles and dogs, and carrying a sack with nothing any use at all in it. But really it is the man who meant to wake up, and did wake up. So that is his House, he is the old King himself, and so are you. So he wouldn’t care what any one thought he was. Really all the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
…a body—A traitor in the campi—Melchizedek Pasha’s cunning move—The river Kishon sweeps away the Moabites (by Mr. Frank Parker)—Battle at last—Desperate stand of the Kings of Edom— Marshal jah’s flank attack—Everlasting Mountains scattered— Perpetual Hills bowed (by Mr. Frank Parker)—Charge of the gallant Karnaim—Rout of the Edomites—The Dukes in full flight —And Grand Finale “ Blowing up of the Tower of Babel "(by Mr. Frank Parker). “ Goo Save THE KING.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 124
…surable void —Until his pallid voice confessed Himself in league with all the rest. (The breathless children round me crowd. I pause. At last one says aloud: “But tell us how he got to glory! " —I’m very sorry. That’s the story. But what’s the moral? asks a big Girl with the makings of a prig. First. Golf is long, and life is fleeting: Only one Bogey is worth beating. Moral the Second (Quiet, girls!) A sane squire is worth ten mad earls. And, most important, Number Three: Every one must trust somebody.) You do well to treat it lightly, said Basi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…nes And see the rapture of it all! This moral sense is sorry stuff—— You take the peas—give me the pod! Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. Who is Mr. Jones? asked Denzil. We have heard of him from our friend here already. Mr. Jones, said the big man, is the Unutterable Tao. Mr. Jones, said the doctor, is (on this illusory plane of Maya) one of the wonders of the world. He is never seen or heard, felt or smelt. Nor hath he been at any time tasted of any. Yet he is everywhere; in all, and causer of all, and apart from a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… their piggish food; He brings them to beatitude. “ Hua is God!" quoth Asmodee: “ There is none other God than He.” A silence ensued. At last, from Denzil: You mean very much what the Hindus mean by their doctrine of Maya? Exactly so; but of course they cannot mean what they say. The thinkable is false. All our attempts to crystallize Truth in words are just as futile as the trickery by which the artist gets his sunlight effects with some dull ochre. The impression ’5 good enough, maybe, at a distance, as an impression. Examine it close: it goe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…he had reduced the Universe to the Yang and the Yin and their permutations in the trigrams of Fo-hi and the hexagrams of King Wu. In the last year be abolished the Yang and the Yin, and became united with the great Tao. All this was very satisfactory to Kwaw. But even his iron frame had become somewhat impaired by the unvarying diet of tinned pro visions; and it was perhaps only by virtue of this talisman
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
… him and his silly questions. But hushl who comes here? Enter NEI-IUSHTAN, andpery‘orms Serpentine Dance. Exit. Bones. In answer to your last remark, you and I are near enough to the Halls of the Great Order to know how secret is the Brother hood. What if your fool with his silly question should be a Master of the Temple talking to you in Samadbic language? Bowie]. My dear man, I will destroy him as soon as the rest. 61':pi'y is my reply to Binah as well as to Jesod. But hushl who comes here?
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…heard with pride: he called: his sickness and his whore Together at his vitals tore, and rent him that he laughed and died. 50, with the last convulsive shred of spending life, his fingers fold So subtly on that face of gold that all its peace is perfected. 1- * a» i- i- it And there it hangs, a thought obscene, to haunt our love with damned ghosts— Hark to their execrable hosts exulting as I kiss Katrine! It conquers? We will show it things memorial of its splendours gone, Things grosser than it looked upon where Neva rolls or Tiber swings. We …
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
… Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the mom was dewy wet An hog for the Muezzin upstood, and chanted from the Minaret. “ There is no God! no God! (he sware) Mohammed was a charlatan! Sleep is more excellent than prayer! and pork is pleasant in the pan !” The elders knew that only one could crack such execrable quips. They hurried off to have the fun of slicing him in litt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…ing had made him mad. Yet, well as he knew Greek and Latin, he had not yet read enough to see therein the luminous image of the Creator. Last was a doctor who, gazing ever on madness, had himself become mad. He, too, saw God, but, being already mad, died not. Men thought they understood him, and for that reviled him. Being mad, he did not care. All these men smoked heavily, and the silence of the world lay upon them.
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…have filched from Thomas Moore’s grandson: Take care, my friend, do not display thy wit! For what the people want to-day is But alasl the last word ofthe line is lost, and who shall find it? How much more so to-day, eighty years since that lusty decadent (l) swam the Hellespont; in this period, in which the blue blow-flies of Rational Rot have been stirred from the privies of our laboratories by such experts as Oliver Haeckel and Ernest Lodge, and which now batten on the sumptuous princeliness of mediaeval pedom. This age which has replaced the cl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
…receive it? Will he not be misunderstood? Will not one set of fools cry “ Casuist !” and their twin brethren exclaim: “ Here, indeed, at last shine wisdom, and virtue, and multiscient truth 1"? No: for the Essay, and the Hearer, what are they but dog-faced demons, that manifest no sign of Truth, but seduce ever from the Sacred Mysteries? Aflirm their identity with the One that is None, or destroy them—these are the two aspects of the supreme Ritual, and these two are one, which is None. Thus far the authentic voice of O. M. [Respectful silence. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…lie down in peace together." Kwaw ceased, and the heavy and regular breathing of Iuju assured him that his words had not been wasted; at last that restless and harried soul had found supreme repose.
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
x KONX OM PAX Alas! but either way is the Last Step; lucky are most of us if only we can formulate some circle—any circle! Nor avails it, 0 man, to transcend the reason by ignoring it. Thou must pass through the fire to Adonai-Melekh, child of earth! Thou canst not slip by on either side. Only when the Destruction of the Babel-Tower of Reason comes as an actual catastrophe of thy career canst thou escape from the ruins. Otherwise, what answer hast thou (0 perfect mystic !) to whom the doctor speaks of men “ self-hypnotized into cataleptic trance…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…or. But when they asked for Kwaw, he was not to be found. He had left trained men to carry out the discipline and the initiations, these last being the chief purpose of the building, saying that he was home sick for the lions and lizards of Wei-Hai-Wei, and that anyway he hadn’t enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. There is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…owledge; and yet so far may the Adept fall from his Samadhic consciousness that he is found with atavistic ardour recalling his father’s last instructions ere he left home for school—“ and, Talbot, mind you always tell the truth, what ever comes of it I” the “ Talbot ” itself being a deliberate lie told under the sacred seal of baptism in the silly snobbish hope of persuading strangers that his ancestors were all Talbots, and that it is but by some complication of the 102' Salz'gue that his surname is Stubbs—even though that is notoriously but …
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…e are violet flames darting through the air, each one a little sob of happy love. One began to see what the dream~world was really for at last; every time any one kissed any one for real love, that was a little throb of violet flame in this beautiful House in the Wake-World. And we bathed and swam in the pool, and were so happy you can’t think. But they said: “Little girl, you must pay for the entertainment.” [I forgot to tell you there was music like fountains make as they rise and fall, only of course much more wonderful than that.] So I asked …