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<°TIS PITY——” 7 IN A LESBIAN MEADOW. I. UNDER the summer leaves In the half-light Love his old story weaves Far out of sight. Here we are lone, at last. Heaven is overcast Yet with no night. Ere her immortal wings Gather the thread of things Into her might, Up will the moon arise Through the black-azure skies : Birds shall sing litanies Still of delight. II. Let my lips wander where Tender moss grows, Where through their dusky air Beams a red rose. Where the bee honey sips Let my desirous lips, Kissing, unclose Delicate lips and chaste, Sweetne…
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…within the forest’s virgin womb Tranced in the sweetness, nuptial, indolent, Of the faint breeze and tropical perfume, And all the music far lone waters lent Unto the masses of magnolia bloom, Tall scarlet lilies, and the golden scent Shed by strange clusters of more pallid flowers, And purple lustre strewn amid the twilight bowers. Far, far the pastureless, the unquiet sea Moaned ; far the stately pyramid of cold Shrouding the stars, arose: sweet witchery That brought them in the drowsing eye, to fold The picture in: the winged imagery That He…
1906 · PDF PAGE 261
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 255 And this is Agnosticism. We have a scien- tific religion. How far would Newton have got if he had stuck to Tycho Brahe as the One Guide? How far the Buddha had he reverenced the Vedas with blind faith? Or how far can we proceed even from partial truth, unless a perfectly open mind be kept regarding it, aware that some new pheno- menon may possibly overthrow our most fun- damental hypotheses! Give me a reasonable proof of some (intelligent) existence which is not liable to sorrow, and I will throw the First Noble Truth t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…similation of meta- physics is due to the actual lack of experi- ence in the mind of the reader of the phenomena discussed. I will go so far as to say that perhaps Mr. Spencer himself is so bitter because he himself has actual ex- perience of ‘‘ Transfigured Realism” as a directly presented phenomenon; for if he supposes that the normal healthy mind can perceive what he perceives, Berkeley’s argu- ments must seem to him mere wanton stupidity. I class the Hindu philosophy with the Idealist; the Buddhistic with that of Mr. Herbert Spencer; the gr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
… curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far ! What love as sweet as theirs is lies In Sun or planet, moon or star? What nymphs as sweet as ours are dwell By foreign grove and alien well? With every watchman’s cheery cry, ‘‘Land ho!” through all the journeying years Our ever-hoping hearts reply, ‘A land of bliss at last appears.” But what land laps a foreign foam So sweet as is the hero's home? At every port the novel sights Charm for an hour—delusiv…
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…is reaping ! Wilt slumber, dear? One last kiss, I be- seech ! Come to us, Death! My love and I are sleeping! EPILOGUE TO ‘‘GREEN ALPS.”? FAREWELL, my book, whose words I have not given One tithe of those fierce fires that in me dwell ! Now, after these long nights that I have striven, Farewell ! My spirit burns to know, but may not tell, Whether thy leaves, by autumn breezes driven, Fly far away beyond the immutable ; Whether thy soul shall find its home in heaven, Or dart far-flaming through the vaults of hell— To him that loveth much is much …
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TIME 269 Myst. Oh never! The word “real” im- plies to us subjectivity; a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us; even its Un- knowability is a species of knowledge of it: and, by Savitri! when I say real Zo us, I say real absolutely, since all things lie to me in the radius of my sensorium. ‘‘ To others” is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysi…
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…rnestness, Dispersion Death’s disciples tread : The earnest never die, the vain are even as already dead. Who understand, have travelled far on con- centration’s path, delight In concentration, have their joy, knowing the Noble Ones aright. In meditation firmly fixed, by constant strenu- ous effort high, They to Nibbana? come at last, the incom- parable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thou…
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…forgotten, deem- ing I see in sleep, in many-coloured night, More hope than in the flame-waves of the light. Light ! ever light ! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light in- vades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow . . The bitter draught of Truth; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine; the whole | sea’s plades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo— The Sea herself my tune and my desire ! The Sun himself my lover …
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…be found to verify them in every particular—that whatever arguments are brought forward destructive of the reality of Dhyana, apply with far more force to the normal state, and it is evident that to deny the latter seriously is pso facto to become unserious. Whether the normal testimony may be attacked from above, by insisting on the superior reality of Dhyana—and @ fortiori of Samadhi, which I have- not experienced, and conse- quently do not treat of, being content to accept the highly probable statements of those who profess to know, and who …
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…use where is no pity, But in the desolate halls and lonely vales of sand : Not in the laughter loud, Nor crying of the crowd, But in the farthest sea, the yet untravelled land. Where thou hast trodden, I have trod ; Thy folk have been my folk, and thine abode Mine, and thy life my life, and thou, who art thy God, my God. VII. Draw me with cords that are not; witch me chanted Spells never heard nor open to the ear, Woven of silence, moulded in the haunted Houses where dead men linger year by year. I have no fear To tread thy far irremeable way B…
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… Now, all unaware My kisses underneath the veil of vair Woke her: she turned and sighed and Keld me tight. Her child slept gently on the farther side. But we took danger by the throat, de- spised All but the one sole splendour that we prized ; . 1 Crowley was accustomed to wear a black robe of a magical pattern aS a vole de chambre. And she, whose robe was far too slight to hide The babe-smooth breasts, was far too frail to cover Her heart’s true fire and music from her lover. THE TWENTIETH DAY. ‘* Val. How long hath she been deformed? Speed. E…
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…ht, aching in bosom and brain. Surely, O Mother, thou knowest! not followed thy star? I have gone whither thou goest, bitterly followed afar, Have I 1 A secret Order, probably established by Crowley himself, Buried my heart in thy sorrow, cast down my soul at thy knees. Thou, thou hast left me no morrow. Days and desires, what are these? Nay, I have torn from my breast passion and love and despair : Sought in thy palaces rest, sleep that awaited me there ; Sleep that awaits me in vain: I have done with the hope of things ; Passion and pleasure …
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…uld know thereof. Yet were all right, both he and they. But truth ran quickly about ; for that was the House of Truth; and Mercury stood far from the Hammer of Sun. Yet the Suggler was ever in the Sign of Sorrow, and the Fig Tree bor. was not far. So went our Father to the Fool’s Paradise of Air. But it is not lawful that I should write to you, brethren, of what there came to him at that place and time; nor indeed is it true, if it were written. For alway doth this Arcanum differ from itself on this wise, that the Not and the Arcanum. Amen,! pa…
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…The perpetual rhythm of change, On earth and in heaven deluded With time, that the soul of us kills, I have passed. I have brooded, fled far to the wooded And desolate hills. Not there is the changing of voices That lament or regret or are sad, But the sun in his strength rejoices, The moon in her beauty is glad. As timeless and deathless time passes, And death is a hermit that dwells By the imminent masses of ice, where the grasses Abandon the fells. There silence, arrayed as a spectre, Is visible, tangible, near, To the cup of the man pours n…
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…as it is unavoidable. Excluding this folly, there- fore, we may conclude that if the command be obeyed—and those of Buddha have gained a far larger share of obedience than those of any other teacher—the Enlightened One was not only a potential but an actual thief, Further, all voluntary action limits in some degree, however minute, the volition of others. If I breathe, I diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. In those far distant ages when Earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being …
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…" How clever I am / PENTECOST To-DAY thrice halves the lunar week Since you, indignant, heard me speak Indignant. Then I seemed to be So far from Christianity ! Now, other celebrations fit The time, another song shall flit Reponsive to another tune. September's shadow falls on June, But dull November's darkest day Is hghted by the sun of May. Here’s how I got a better learning. It’s a long lane that has no turning ! Mad as a woman-hunted Urning, The lie-chased alethephilist : * Sorcery’s maw gulps the beginner: In Pain’s mill neophytes are gris…
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… abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice An unseen hand has caught the uplifted knife, A grinning face lurked out from the blank air Between me and that filthy sorceress. SECOND WOMAN. Daily I poison the she-devil’s drink, And nothing harms her ! THIRD WOMAN. I have a toad whose breath Destroys all life CHORUS. Thou dealest in such arts? ‘THIRD WOMAN. Ay ! for this hate’…
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…, not two! Thus East and West from A to Z Agree—Alas: so do not you? (It matters nothing—you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind.) As far as normal reasoning goes, Mind’ssuperior I must admit my concepts close functions. Exactly where my worthy friend, Great Mansel, says they ought to end. But here’s the whole thing in a word: Olympus in a nutshell! | Jdave a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty ot…
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… or sin —, in which case the expression is unreal, w and may be neglected. 2 Two or more things cannot form part of any one thing, in so far as they remain two, Considered in relation to that of which they form part, they become fractions. 3 Cf. A. B, Douglas, Reminiscences. S. Fourth-dimensionally ; no more. M. Yet his right optic nerve will see through his left eye? S. Of course. Af. Then of an event, an argument, a dialectic euhemerism, protoplasmic or blasto- dermic? S. I see what you mean. You would say that duality irresolvable into unity…