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48 ORACLES Travels the scent of flowers against the wind ? Not Sandal, Taggara, nor Jasmine scent ! But the odour of the good doth so, the good pervadeth unto every element. When Sandal, Lotus, Taggara and Vassiki their odour rare Shed forth, their fragrant excellence is verily beyond compare. Yet little is this fragrance found of Taggara and Sandal wood : Mounts to the Gods, the highest, the scent of those whose deeds are right and good. Perfect in virtue, living lives of Earnestness, Right Knowledge hath Brought into liberty their minds, that…
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92 THE ARGONAUTS THESEUS. ARGONAUTAE. | | Good Heracles ! Not all men owe thy strength —— ACTUS SECUNDUS. ARGO ARGUS. — Nay, let him try! ARGus the son of PHRIXUS, JASON, Take my toy hammer ! HERACLES, CASTOR, POLLUX, THE- SEUS, ORPHEUS. Chorus of Heroes. Chorus of Shipbuilders. SCENE: 472 open place near Lolchus. CHORUS OF SHIPBUILDERS. THE sound of the hammer and steel ! The song of the level and line! The whirr of the whistling wheel ! The ring of the axe on the pine! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pip…
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…ot dumb, Troubling his peace of mind; he shall to perfect knowledge never come. His thoughts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assail! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie Contemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on…
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…ES, Calm ! Control thy madness! I am sorry now My pungent wit so shamed his arrogance As made him seem to scorn Athena. ARGUS. Thou! The good ship Where’s my daily wage? But see me, I am ruined. Is finished ! JASON. Be sure I pay thee treble if thy tale be true. ARGUS, Ay! treble nothing! I shall buy a palace. JASON. ‘Treble thine utmost wish. ARGUS, Two evils then Thou pilest on one good! But come and see ! [Zhe Argo ts discovered. CHORUS OF HEROES. By Wisdom framed from ancient days The stately Argo stands above ; Too firm to fear, too great …
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…EA. Nay, consider first. Would he consent? The process is severe ! DANAIDES. We know the sire is not exactly brave, Though very wise and good. MEDEA. Tis clear to me ; Without his knowledge we must do the deed. ALCKSTIS. What is this ‘‘ deed ” ? MEDEA. A caldron is prepared ; And, having hewn your father limb from limb, We seethe him in a broth of magic herbs. ALCESTIS. And then ? MEDEA. The proper incantations said, There rises from the steam a youthful shape More godlike than like man. And he will fall In kind embraces on his children’s necks…
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…uth, my friend, if you would wear your crown This side of Orcus, you should go away. POLLUX. Ay! let the men work! Fora mind as yours Is good, and skill as theirs is also good. CASTOR. But mix the manual and the mental—well, No ship was built by pure philosophy. POLLUX. Nor yet designed by artisans. JASON. Enough ! Come, great Alcides, it is time to go. ARGUS. A fool allows a moment’s irritation To move the purpose of a thousand years. Go, go! HERACLES. Remember! We are met this day To call upon the name with praise and prayer Of great Athena, …
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…f dinner. With sacred thirst, I, soul-hydroptic,! Read Levi? and the cryptic Coptic ;3 With ANET’ HER-K UAA EN RaA,! And SM 8I NAD While good MacGregor* (who taught freely us) Bade us investigate Cornelius Agrippa and the sorceries black Of grim Honorius and Abramelin ; ® While, fertile as the teeming spawn Of pickled lax or stickleback, Came ancient rituals,“ whack! whack ! Of Rosy Cross and Golden Dawn.$ * Truth-lover. 164 10 15 20 30
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…s, like so many other (perhaps all) lines in these poems, is pregnant with a host of hidden meanings. Not only is it physical, of saying good-bye to a friend: but mental, of the dark- ness of metaphysics; occult, of the mystical darkness of the Threshold of Initiation: and physiological, containing allusions to a whole group of phenomena, which those who have begun meditation will recognise. Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass o…
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…ool (with whom is wisdom, deem The Scriptures—rightly !) in his heart Saith (silent, to himself, apart) This secret: “ obs Pe? 9 See the good Psalm! And thus, my friend ! My diatribes approach the end And find us hardly quarrelling. And yet—you seem not satisfiedP The literal mistranslated thing © Must not by sinners be denied. Go to your Chapel then to pray ! (I promise Mr. Chesterton % Before the Muse and I have done A grand ap-pre-ci-a-ti-on . Of Brixton on Ascension Day.) He’s gone—his belly filled enough ! Future plans of This Robert-Brown…
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…do not care one jot for matter, | One jot for spirit, while you say One is pure ether, one pure clay. I’ve talked too long : you’re very good— Practical ad- I only hope you’ve understood ! vice. Remember that ‘‘ conversion ” lurks Nowhere behind my words and works. Go home and think! my talk refined To the sheer needs of your own mind. You cannot bring God in the compass Of human thought? Up stick and thump ass! Let human thought itself expand— Bright Sun of Knowledge, in me rise! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand !…
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…upon Mahakalpa until an Asankhya! of Crores? have passed away: and Maha Brahma will still sit Jone and meditate upon his Jotus throne.’ ‘Good, good !’ said the magus, ‘though there seems a reminiscence of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Light of Asia somewhere. Surely you don’t read Edwin Arnold?’ ‘I do,’ said the God disconsolately, ‘we Hindu Gods It’s the only way we can get any clear idea of who we really are.’ ‘*Well, here was Perdw’ R Abu, after his latest fiasco, installed as a Worthy, Respect- able, Perfect, Ancient and Accepted, Just, Regular…
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…ity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most immoral and absurd — —(A priest’s invention, in a word)— Of all religions, I have hope In the good Dhamma’s ® wider scope, Nay, certainty ! that all_at last, However came they. in the past, Move, up or down—who knows, my friend ?— But yet with no uncertain trend Unto Nibbana.in the.end. I do not even dare despise | Your doctrines, prayers, and ceremonies ! Far from the word “you'll go to hell !” I] dare not say“ you do not well!” I must obey my own mind’s laws, Accept its limits, seek its cause : My me…
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…! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What thoughts invade, insult, impress? There comes a lightning of my wit And sees—nor good nor ill address Itself to task, creation’s ill, But a mere law without a will,” Nothing resolved in something, fit Phantom of dull stupidity, And evolution’s endless stress All the inanity to knit Thence: such a dark device I see! Nor lull my soulin the caress Of Buddha’s “ Maya fashioned it.” # My mind seems ready to agree ; But still my senses worry me. Nor can I see what sort of gain God finds in this …
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…s, come !] First, God made heav’n, earth: Earth gauche, void; deep, dark. God's Ghost stirred sea, God said ‘ Light!" "Twas. ‘Saw light, Good, split off dark, call’d light ‘day,’ dark ‘night.’ Eve, Morn, day I. ‘Said, ‘‘’Twixt wets be air, split wets !"’ ‘Madeair, split wets ‘neath air, wets top air; so. Call’d air ‘heav'n.’ Eve, morn, day II. ‘Said, ‘* Low wets, Cling close, show earth.” So. ‘Call’d dry ‘earth,’ wet ‘sea.’ Rubbed hands, smacked lips, said ‘ good.’ [Here John was seized By order of Augustus. He maintained, In spite of the imper…
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… drink your mystic fill * Great slam-—a term of Bridge-Whist. + John iii, 18, ‘‘ He that believeth not is condemned already.”’ Under the good tree Igdrasil © Where is at all your use for Christ? Hath Krishna not at all sufficed? I hereby guarantee to pull A faith as quaint and beautiful As much attractive to an ass, And setting reason at defiance, As Zionism, Christian Science, Or Ladies’ League, ® ‘‘ Keep off the Grass !”’ From “ Alice through the Looking-Glass.” Hence I account no promise worse, Fail to conceive a fiercer curse Than John’s th…
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…King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, most enviable sir ; That Aeson hath such grand inheritance. JASON. You have grown fat beneath an evil rule. Your period is at hand. Go, one of you, And drag the impious wretch before my sight ! MEN. Aeson? Thy father? JASON. Play not with my wrath ! My mood is something dangerous. MEN. Dangerous sir, I go indeed, to bring some danger more Hither. JASON. Poltroonery dislikes the wise. Fair maidens, I…
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…and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 16 Cares nought if that be, or be not, God’s right use of it),'® In all that forest of verses one tree?! Yclept “ Red Cotton Nightcap Country”: How a goldsmith, between the Ravishing Virgin And a leman too rotten to put a purge in, 20 Day by day and hour by hour, In a Browningesque forest of thoughts having lost himself, Expecting a miracle, solemnly tossed himself Off from the top of a tower…
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… reputed wise. Hast thou not learnt a lesson from the hap Of Heracles supreme in—shipbuilding? I by my meekness will abash thy strength. Good Argus, thou art unsurpassed in art To curve the rougher timbers, to make smooth The joints and girders, and to plane and work The iron and the nailheads, and to lift Row after row the tiers of benches thrice In triple beauty, and to shape the oars, To raise the mast—— ARGUS. Thy knowledge staggers me! IIow wast thou thus instructed? JASON. By much thought. To clamp the decks—— 1 Argus is wittily character…
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…y,! a circumstance which gives room for a fractional amount of freewill. If this be not so, it matters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there. We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this be so, nothing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must ap- pear), then our reason is valid, and we should seek out the right path and pursue it. The question therefore need not trouble us at all. Here then we see the use of …
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… me sprung from Tophet, Either the Beast or the False Prophet; And by all sorts of monkey tricks Adds up my name to Six Six Six. Retire, good Gallup !*?_ In such strife her Superior skill makes you a cipher! * Crowley's mother. 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105