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…Houses are numbered both ways, so that the Third House is called the Eighth House too, and the Fifth the Sixth, and so on. But you can’t tell what lovely things that means till you’ve been through them all, and got to the very end. So when you look at the Ring and see I.N.R.I. and T.A.R.O. on it that means that it is like a policeman 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 …
1907 · PDF PAGE 34
14 KONX OM PAX Crux Ansatn had forgotten to tell you about. It was a kind of cross with an oval 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 the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…ryst Within this ring of Amethyst. l have not told you anything about myself, because it doesn’t really matter; the only thing I want to tell you about is my Fairy Prince. But as I am telling you all this, I am seventeen years old, and very fair when you shut your eyes to look; but when you open them, I am really dark, with a fair skin. I have ever such heaps of hair, and big, big, round eyes, always wondering at everything. Never mind, it’s only a nuisance. I shall tell you what happened one day when I said
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…mp and a long stick; and he said that the cloak meant you were to be silent and not say anything you saw, and the lamp meant you were to tell everybody and make them glad, and the stick was like a guide to tell you which to do. But I didn’t quite believe that, because I am getting a grown-up girl now, and I wasn’t to be put off like that. I could see that the stick was really the measuring rod with which the whole Palace was built, and the lamp was the only light they had to build it by, and the cloak was the abyss of darkness that covers it al…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
… interesting; but mind you don’t go in those passages without the Fairy Prince. And of course there’s the Veil. I don’t think I’d better tell you about the Veil. I’ll only put your mouth to my head, and your hand—there, that’ll tell any body who knows that I’ve really been there, and that it’s all true that I’m telling you. This Sixth House is called the Treasure House of Gold; it’s a most mysterious place as ever you were in. First there’s a tiny, tiny, tiny doorway, you must crawl through on your hands and knees; and even then I scraped ever …
1907 · PDF PAGE 42
22 KONX OM PAX Domus I I I v. lntellectio Abest Egoitas Ego est Non-ego Puerperium Partus Vita Adepti Vin 7 v. Clavus Via H v. Fenestm Vin 'I v. Port: catch hold of to help you, and there is no Fairy Prince any more: you can’t even hear his voice calling to you to come on. There ’s nothing to tell you which way to go, and you feel the most horrible sensation of falling away from everything that ever was. You’ve got no nothing at all; you don’t know how awful it all is. You would turn back if you could only stop falling; but luckily you can’t. S…
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…e goes through indoors all the way. There’s one House you have to go outdoors to get to, because no passage has ever been made; but I’ll tell you about that afterwards; it’s the Third House. So we got on the horse and went away for our honeymoon. I shan’t tell you a single word about the honeymoon. Explicit Capitulum Secundum 'uel De Collegz'o ad S. S. porta Collegii Interni. PART III YOU mustn’t suppose the honeymoon is ever really over, because it just isn’t. But he said to me: “ Princess, you haven’t been all over the Palace yet. Your specia…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…n is a form of Truth. But even if, as you say, it is often a question of courage and will, these are the very qualities which this truth telling stimulates. It’s a V.C. touch to reply to a lady who asks how her hat suits “ Not at all." Bowley. It seems to me mere boorishness. Bones. No! the lady is none the worse for the stab to her silly vanity; and though she may be angry or sulky, she will remember it in your favour when anything serious turns up. Bowlqy. You dog! You devil 1 You Machiavellian satyrl On my word, sir—words fail me. Bones. One…
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… from the audience.) “I reside on Abiegnus, and my name is ‘ Flodden ' Iames. I am not up to small deceits or any sinful games: And I’ll tell in simple language what I know about the bounder That broke up our Society—and also broke the founder l ” The Clippers . . . . Eccentrics. Happy Hal Barthe with Tim Urah and Ike Baker . . Quick Change Artists. Le Marbre . . . . Lightning Calculator. Mac and Mic . . . . Face Artists. THE YONLY YEATS. \Vhat are Yeats? Berridge and his Magic Clasp. Mo Locke and Bill Feegur . Serios. Miss Schnarr . . . . Dise…
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…e would crumble away like a biscuit. Then there was another passage which was really too secret Via r v. Hamus for anything; all I shall tell you is, there was the most beautiful God dess that ever was, and she was washing herself in a river of dew. If you ask what she is doing, she says: “ I’m making thunderbolts.” It was only starlight, and yet one could see quite clearly, so don’t think I’m making a mistake. The third path is a most terrible passage; it’s Via 9 v. Os all a great war, and there’s earthquakes and chariots Of fire, and all the c…
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…ecause the girl next me thought it was Jesus Christ, till another Fairy Prince (my Prince’s brother) whispered as he kissed her: “ Hush, tell nobody ever, that is Satan, and he is the Saviour of the World.” I We were a very great company, and I can’t tell you of all the strange things we did and said, or of the song we sang as we danced face out wards in a great circle ever closing in on the Devil on the throne. But whenever I saw a toad or a hat, or some horrid insect, my Fairy Prince always whispered: “It is the Saviour of the world,” and I s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
88 KONX OM PAX With some most lucid miracle Of love too sweet to think or tell. “ Kiss me again before I die l ” And, as I kissed her, tenderly Shone like pale flames the sudden spheres Of dewy light, of eager tears. She touched my soul’s divinest chord: “I am so happy, dear my Lord.” And, breaking to the spirit bliss, “I go, dear. 0 so keen to kiss Our baby when I get to God ! ” Charrningl Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns…
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THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 87 Unveil the Pyramid of Stone! He simply wants to be alone. Women suspect it. Tell one that To change her to a frenzied cat! ’Tis the one cliflwhere all their waves Break back to spumed and shattered graves. A man (at heart they’re well aware) May love, maybe! can never care. I bore you with an old fool’s prosing? No? I was right, then, in supposing Modern conditions hamper youths Who seek to grasp these simple Truths. But to my yarn. Carlotta lay So sleepy-soft one summer’s day That really I could not resist it. I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…ere? Aflovely night !— \Vhat you were saying, though, is right: Man scorns repulsion and attraction; Woman is wholly reflex action.— I’ll tell you of a splendid joke I had once. Have another smoke? No? Well. I wanted to determine Rightly the nature of the vermin. (A pity scientific study Makes the hands poisonous and bloody!) You see yon finger chaste and cool That moonlight flings across the pool?
1907 · PDF PAGE 124
…llid 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 Basil. It’s the most terrible …
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…on as he is, the simulation of belief is almost surrender to the belief itself. Constantine probably became a real Christian in the end. Tell us about your friend, though! from Basil. “I hitched it into verse and good,” said the big man. But as it ’s a tale with a moral, please imagine yourselves to be a set of children. I wrote it for them. Here goes! THE SUSPICIOUS EARL THERE was a poor bedevilled Earl Who saw a Witch in every girl, A Wehr-Wolf every time one smiled, A budding Vampire in a child, A Sorcerer in every man, A deep-laid N ecroman…
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…You may as well enjoy the joke; you cannot damage your position. The moral is—when mothers crossed perform the usual Christian revel And tell their children they are “lost,” they simply drive them to the deviL
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…y. Oh, come! I've given you all the best speeches. The Lord hath given—look out! Bones. I trust to your honour. Where were we? Anyway, I tell you this: it 's a ripping good formula as such. Bowley. Now we come down to the Black Magician and his circle again; all right, I am with you. I can never help suspecting you of morality, though ; you’re a devilish deep Johnny, but the atavism comes through. As long as you wear a tie that the Neanderthal cave man would have discarded as out of date I can never quite class you with this century. Bones. Bef…
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… “The Synagogue of Satan ! " gasped the outraged Daimio. “ --And you are everywhere hailed as the Godfather of your country l ” “ Do not tell me that the British war has ended disastrously for us!” and he called for the elaborate apparatus of hari-kari. “On the contrary, my lord, the ridiculous Sa Mon, who would never go to sea because he was afraid of being sick, although his genius for naval strategy had no equal in the Seven Abysses of Water, after a month as stowaway on a fishing boat (by the order of Kwaw) assumed the rank of Admiral of the…
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… see. Now you must know that my Fairy Prince is my lover, and one day he will come for good and ride away with me and marry me. I shan’t tell you his name because it is too beautiful. It is a great secret be~ tween us. When we were engaged he gave me such a beautiful ring. Virgo Mundi Adonai Pegasus Sphinx V.V.V.V.V.