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…val handle that he had been very fond of. But I couldn’t go away without gfdulfl et something of his, so I took a shepherd’s staff, and a little whip with os'ii'iedism blood on it, and jewels oozing from the blood, if you know what I mean, that they had put in his hands when they buried him. Then I went away, and cried, and cried, and cried. But before I had got very far they called me back; and the people who had been so stern were smiling, and I saw they had taken the coflin out of the little C_urinter mortuos room with seven sides. And the cof…
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…ors, and there is a noise that means when you understand it, “joy! Joy! joy!" There 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…
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…ing. In the middle was a table all covered with beautiful pictures and texts, and there were ever such strange things on it. There was a little crucifix in the middle, all of diamonds Sepulchrum and emeralds and rubies, and other precious stones, and there was a ' dagger with a golden handle, and a cup full of the most delicious wine, and there was a curious coin with the strangest writing on it, and a funny little stick that was covered with flames, like a rose tree is with roses. Beside the strange coin was a heavy iron chain, and I took it and…
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8 KONX OM PAX Via W v. Dens Via D v. Caput Domus VIII v. Splendor and it was like a green universe full of flowers, and little children playing among them. So I said: “ Shall we be married in this House?” and he said: “ N 0, this is only the House where the business is carried on. All the Palace rests upon this House; but you are called Lola because you are the Key of Delights. Many people stay here all their lives though.” I made him kiss me, and we went on to another passage which opened out of the Servants’ Hall. This passage was all fire and …
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THE WAKE WORLD 15 married to the Fairy Prince, so I suppose we- shall always be near each other now. There was the way out of the little room with millions of changing colours, ever so beautiful, and it was lined with armed men, waving their swords for joy like flashes of lightning; and all about us glitter ing serpents danced and sang for joy. There was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. You see the Sixth House is really in a mountain called Mount Abiegnus, only one doesn’t see it because one goes throug…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…sterically combat their invisible foemen; such would I send to live in the bazaar at Delhi, where they shall haply learn that dirt makes little difl'erence after all. “There are slow men who need a few months’ experience of the bustle of the stockyards; there are business men in a hurry, and they shall travel in Central Asia to acquire the art of repose. “So much for the equilibrium, and for two months in every year each member of your governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. “ But what of the Great Tao? For one month …
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…marriage is right and adultery wrong. One thinks, and finds the beauty of the latter, the sordidity of the former; perhaps ending, with a little wit, in defending marriage because the delights of adultery are impossible without it. This attitude is good enough, indeed, while one is talking to the grovellers; but what educates the clergy (since miracles still happen) is a truism to an actress. We must go further, and perceive both sides of the question; then will open to us that world where there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, of whi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…le fondement de la philosophie absolue, c’est le supréme et inébranlable raison.”—LEVI. “One day when I was all alone I found a wondrous little 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.
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…ass, and you alone. What shall I say now death and life Wrangle before the jasper throne And cry to God to end the strife? Kind words? a little good advice? Patience, and fortitude, and prayer? Tracts are so suitable, and nice? “ Dear chyild, there’ll be no parting there ! "P O bourgeoisie! you read no doubt, But still you have a lot to learn. I am a lover, not a lout. My thoughts take quite another turn. I who have bitten through your skin Envy the surgeon who could dip His deft and conscious fingers in Your bowels, and twitch a scornful lip. I…
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abrluaallrlllaslilllfds wwmma, QU’RAN. . . un cantique Allégorique, hébraique, et mystique. PANNY. Except ye become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven—Anon. abs: tPDJt 15mm 11985 mmm v‘m m5: 333 We womb 1m snwn W1 334-R1flan 33;. Nuns snwm ne‘vah m‘rmw who at“; am Nit/"1P spins who trap *‘m s‘m zen-var ens min-n "an 8‘1‘7’5 “who mp 891123: Sum! :25“! m: saws IDRA SUTA VIII Ra-asa isalamanu para-di-zododa ol-kari-nu ass iala-pire-gahe qui-inu enai butamonu 0d inoasa ni pa-ra-diala; kasaremeji ugeare kahiralan…
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… when Fairy Princes were really and truly married they became Fairy Kings; and that l was quite wrong ever to be ashamed of being only a little girl and afraid of spoiling his prospects, because really, you see, he could never become King and have a son a Fairy Prince without me. But one can only do that by getting to the Third House, and it ’s a dreadful journey, I do most honestly assure you. There are two passages, one from the Eighth House and one from the Sixth; the first is all water, and the second is almost worse, be cause you have to ba…
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… and the Wake-world are governed from those passages. I began to see now how very unreal even the Wake-world is, because there is just a little dream in it, and the right world is the Wide-Wide-Wide-Wake-World. My lover calls me little Lola Wide awake, not Lola Daydream any more. But it is always Lola, because I am the Key of Delights. I never told you about the first two houses, and really you wouldn’t understand. But the second House is gray, because the light and dark flash by so quick it’s all blended into one; and in it lives my lover, and …
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…leton, in her songs “ I’m the Empress of Rosher,” etc. Tabicat . . The Horny Man from Mazawattee. Superrnen and other supers. Nogah “The little bit of sweet-stuff.” Lieber Herr Gott with his trained beasts; includes the Uni corn from the Stars, only one in Europe. Adam Cadman Low Comic. TIn: Tem'ble Tetragmmmaton. Graeca-jewislt Wrestler. GRAND PATRIOTIC SPECTACLE. Warlike Preparations—General Eloah arrives from Temain of Edom -Colonel Holiun summoned from Mount Paran—The Wilderness of Seir—The Tents of Cushan—A Dervish stronghold—General Tetra…
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…n of gas, And I, or any otherguess ass, Could bring to our mystical moonlight mass Those empty-headed Athenians. In fine, I have precious little use For empty-headed Athenians. The birds I have snared shall all go loose; They are empty-headed Athenians. I thought perhaps I might do some good; But it 's ten to one if I ever should— And I doubt if I would save, if I could, Such empty-headed Athenians. So (with any luck) I shall bid farewell To the empty-headed Athenians. For me, they may all of them go to hell, For empty-headed Athenians. I hate y…
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…e all the evil that religion has wrought. As I looked on Granada and its cathedral, this is what I thought. Can you blame me? And from a little leathem pocket-book he began to read these lines: ON A PROSPECT OF GRANADA CATHEDRAL FROM THE ALHAMBRA BROWN bloated toad that squattest in the sun! Loose thankless mouth whose greed is never done!
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…i Hai Wei. His only companions were the lion and the lizard, who frequented the crumbling remains of the ofiicers’ quarters; while in the little cemetery the hoofs of the wild ass beat (uselessly, if he wished to wake them) upon the tombs of the sportsmen that once thronged those desolate halls. During this time Kwaw devoted his entire attention to the pursuit of philosophy; for the vast quantities of excellent stores abandoned by the British left him no anxiety upon the score of hunger. In the first year be disciplined and conquered his body and…
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44 KONX OM PAX Enter NOGAI-I. My little bit of sweet-stufi'l [She exhibits her External Splendour and Internal Corrup tion, and exit. Bones. As to levels though, all levels are one. If I cancel out a and —a, the result is the same as if I cancel roooa and -- ioooa. I am only concerned to cancel. Bowley. All right, my gay Io=I—in Kether it’s all very well. In the Ruach one must do as the Ruach does. [MRS. BONES, without, sereaming, “My spoons! My silver spoons! Where are my spoons?” Bones. Then what becomes of our Great Work? Bowley. Ignore the f…
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…leasant 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 little strips. But Iblis met him with a grin worth ninety-nine per cent. per annum. “ You’ve missed the fun—but pray walk in !—we’re off this minute to Jehannum l ” In sooth, the fiend’s unseemly mirth mocked all their wagging beards alike, , - As from the bowels of the earth quacked an ironical “ Labbaik! ” The moral is—if all your folk are sure you are a black magician, You may as well enjoy the joke; you can…
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…ally quite alive; so one can bargain with him to great advantage. Mrs. Bones. Well, I’m sure it will all be most delightful. We get very little of the old-fashioned Christmases now. Bones. Two thousand years hence we shall all be saying the same about Bowleymas Day in the sunset of Bowleyanity. Bowley. Respect my modesty—Pyrrho-Zoroastrianism, if you please. Mrs. Bones. More coffee? Bowley. Please. You do not ask what your husband means. Mrs. Bones. I give you two up. Bones. To-day we celebrate Christ’s birth; then, Bowley’s. Bowls). I,hide my …
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…n keeping on saying “ Pass along, please l” I would have liked to stay in the Fourth House all my life, but I began to see it was just a little dream House too; and I couldn’t rest, because my own House was the very next one. But it’s too awful to tell you how to get there. You want the most fearful lot of courage, and there ’5 nobody to help you, nobody at all, and there’s no proper passage. But it’s frightfully exciting, and you must wait till next time before I tell you how I started on that horrible journey, and if I ever got there or not. …