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…people would bow down to me. The richest man in the world ! Think of it! I'll do wonderful things. I’ll buy the Tower of London for poor old Martin, dear old boy. On my soul, I love him like a father. [A þama] What was it now? I’ve forgotten—I knew a minute ago. However did the idea strike me? Such a beautiful idea. Aha! Aha! [Manner again change: to intense/y furtive hate inspired by horror] It is his eye—that pale blue filmy eye. It is like the eye of a vulture. My blood runs cold. I will cut it out; the blood will run warm all over me. I shal…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
…bit. Come along, Fielding, eh? [He leads FIELDING to the consulting-mom, while MRS. BOB goes aut L.] Dr. F. This is an exceptional case, old man. I do hope you won‘t frighten her. Dr. B. Great God! always the same old story. They never come to me until the rest of you have finished them, and then it’s my candid opinion you want. Then you get it, by Heaven ! and instead of blaming yourselves, or the patient, or the disease, you blame me. \Vhy don’t you give me a chance? Why don’t you bring them while there 2'5 hope? You all look upon me as the un…
1912 · PDF PAGE 292
…d pass ! Much remains to be changed, I think: She died of the swollen head, alas ! That maidens catch from Maeterlinck, II Sixteen years old when she died 1 A Vestal, tending Minerva’s flame; It was not her time to read ; beside, Her life had hardly a hope or aim, Nor duties enough, nor little cares; She was never quiet; her mind was astir, Το Henrik Ibsen she said her prayers, And she worshipped Edward Carpenter‘ III Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope? We know that your soul was pure and true From Alan Leo’s Test Horoscope, And Cheiro’s words con…
1912 · PDF PAGE 294
252 TH Ε EQUINOX VII I loved you, Evelyn, all the while! My heart was full as it could hold Of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’ style—— Think what it cost me, I that was old. So hush ! I give you this leaf to keep— Seel I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ; 'Tis a tract on The Simple Life and Sleep ; You will wake, and remember, and understand. VICTOR B. NEUBURG‘
1912 · PDF PAGE 178
THE EQUINOX various precious pieces ofsilwer and gold, china and the like—HE fond/es and admires these, puts them back, lochs up, crosses to cache with utmost furti’zteness, opens same, pulls out sac/ks of gold coin, plays with them] MARTIN. They'll never discover old Martin Meyer’s cache, Iwarrant. Oh, the beautiful gold! When I was a young man I was fond of the kisses of beautiful women; did ever a pair of lips touch me as softly as the soft bright gold? [Laughs softly and gladly] How it trickles over my hands! Sweetest caresses ever I knew, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 174
…E SERGEANT and TW'O CONSTABLES COSTUMES : Twenty ymn- ago—the ptrum hing just?!ןמשש working men τ΄“ lucid! condition PROPERTIES REQUIRED Old-fashioncdsafe far/acie?}לשממ Bag: 0 “ treasure,” ui:/m d'un, etc.,for?;(:/פana :₪;/:: Shutter: and ban—far window: Clama, eis., and drinks (in Etc/chard) Lantern, practicable dar/e ὕψι”! Calendar: and other mitaþ/z dcwmtiw:
1912 · PDF PAGE 133
…asy summers. But she wasa hard-working orphan, too, with no relations but a semi-mythical brother on the Yukon who had not found enough gold to send her any; and she earned her living—two pounds a week—as violinist to the splendid tea-parties of the Hotelי1556011161? Her liking for Professor Zircon was little more than a child's, though the shaggy-headed old analyst told another story to his brother experts at the ΝΜ Office, And indeed, though her nature was incapable of great passion, what 5116 had she gave, and to the innocence of a child adde…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
… {actor of the personal equation. The idea returned. 50 long she had sat there 111 her childish purity that the conservatism of his hard old brain reacted. It could not be. Things could not change. Yet? In the upshot he was English enough to try her before condemning her, German enough to lay a trap for her in the very nature of that trial. His consideration passed from judgment to execution, and his face set like a mask. Ultimately he went to a small safe in the wall, took out a half-hoop diamond ring, and dropped it into the coal-scuttle. Rew…
1912 · PDF PAGE 283
…king so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders and fraternities which are concealed within Masonry or ha…
1912 · PDF PAGE 48
…ave been parson-baiting, and though he returned to Scotland in the spring, it was only for a few days. For on April 27, 1905, one of the old comrades of his journeys in Central Asia sought him out, and proposed a new Expedition. Fra. P. gleefully accepted, and on May 6, having got together his kit, left his home, and sailed for India on theי12111? His diary is henceforth barren of all interest to us. We learn only that the success of his plans was spoilt by a mutiny, which resulted in the death of four innocent people, and a good deal of damage…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
… comes to make a third to myself and Geor Washington. For on p. 2 she says, "More than forty years ago . . . Ι was a girl of seven years old." This storms the citadel of confidence, and pulls out the back teeth of the Dragon Doubt. 1 was therefore prepared to believe anything she might say. And accordingly we get a simple, charming, old-fashioned motherly book, full of kindly thought and real piety; that it may have no objective value for the S.P.R. is quite unimportant for the class of readers whom it is intended to reach, Mrs. Davies is a “pro…
1912 · PDF PAGE 41
…e violin; Sorrow or joy: or saintliness or sin To him are one, if only he may win Unto the heart, the hidden heart that sings What grave old histories, what mysterious things I So there he squats to find the hidden flaw In the dark doorway. God ! I see him yet With aweless face that yet reflects the awe Of something greater than the music’s fret; On the dark soul within his thoughts are set ; No hope, no fear, no anguish, no regret, But only wonder at some secret Law That holds the sounds; he squats upon the straw. Under that grave, blue sky no t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 84
42 THE EQUINOX By my Will I swept away The web of metaphysic, smiled At the blind labyrinth, where the grey Old snake of madness \vove his wild Curse I As I trod the trackless way Through sunless gorges of Cathay, I became a little child. By nameless rivers, swirling through Chasms, a fantastic blue, Month by month, on barren hills, In burning heat, in bitter chills, Tropic forest, Tartar snow, Smaragdine archipelago, See me—led by some wise hand That I did not understand. Mom and noon and eve and night I, the forlorn eremit‘e, Called on Him wi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 223
DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT XXVI THE LORD OF WEALTH Tm of Pentndes AN Angelic Hand, holding by the lower extremity a branch whose roses touch all the Pentacles. No buds, however, are shewn. The symbols of z: and Vi. are above and below. The Pentacles are thus arranged ξτξ. Completion of material gain and fortune; but nothing beyond: as it were, at the very pinnacle of success. Old age, slothfulness; great wealth, yet sometimes loss in part; heaviness; dullness of mind, yet clever and prosperous in money transactions. Malkuth of( ?הRic…
1912 · PDF PAGE 79
…S.D. (for Stooping Dragon) will refer to somebody named Vera, or possibly ”the true woman,” or " true things." As I am ninety—four years old come Martinmas, and have much more of this “ Temple ” anyhow, I feel justified in leaving the rest of this ingeni— ous cipher to any lunatics who get tired of the Bacon-Shakespeare folly. Anybody who understands this entry of October 6— Brassies and Billiards. Council of War. The King’s letter to the Queen : “ Pussy the Prince is ill ” Paedicabo ego vos et inrumabo XVI. Called on Rev. J. A. Hervey— is welco…
1912 · PDF PAGE 287
…y developed, He had that simplicity of vision, that flashing insight, which stamps the highest types of intelligence. When only six years old, while meditating on the increasing difficulty οἳ earning an honest living, and the increasing risk of earning a dishonest one, he saw a fond mother give her little boy a penny to buy sweets. In a single second his mind was made up; his career was determined. How, thrilled the Master— Thought—how can I get that penny? A rapid calculation assured him of the soundness of his instinct. Probably at least a hund…
1912 · PDF PAGE 95
…edly enough, though his head hung lower than ever. “Kelker shows tray sho. Voo savvy ?—tray tray sho—par propre I " The shopman, not yet old enough to master his disgust at the familiar incident, brought forward several books of photographs “ Perhaps Monsieur will find there what he requires," he said coldly. Furtively and hurriedly, his glance divided between the forbidden book and the shop-door, his only safeguard from intrusion the thought that nobody who entered would be in a position to throw stones at a fellow—culprit, Theodore Bugg turned…
1912 · PDF PAGE 75
… Aug. 4. About to try the experiment of daily Aspiration in the Sign of Osiris Slain. Did this twenty—two minutes, with Invocation as of old. Cut cross on breast and circle on head. (SCIRE) The vow of Poverty is to esteem nothing save A (AUDERE) The vow of Chastity is to use the Magical Force only to invoke A (VELLE) The vow of Obedience is to concentrate the Will on A alone. (TACERE) The vow of Silence: so to regulate the whole organism that so vast a miracle as the Com- pletion of the Great Work excites therein no commotion. vm c 33
1912 · PDF PAGE 87
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Oct. 31. This account is almost unintelligible as it stands; so I edit it. He appears to have made the old “Preliminary Invocation.” Result rather like Yoga; he gets at once into Pratyahara and then makes Samyama on the Augoeides. " Invoked twice~terrible agony.” And then this note. ”Barbarous names. Supreme test (i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 175
…to the Blue Cow, Jack, for my night-cape [Going tum: : hand on JACK'S shun/den] I‘ve been thinking, lad, we must all die, and them as is old thinks a mort about it, jacki—never {earl I’ve been thinking, lady Jack Adams has been a son to me, and more than a son ]ACK. Why, no! Father, it’s me that is glad you bid me call you so. MARTIN. More than a son, and a kind, kind son, lad! Thinks I, I’ll see Lawyer Brown to-morrow, and tie up my little bit so that no one shall touch it after me but my dear lad, Jack Adams. jACK. No, no, Father! we’ll talk …