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…e scented nenuphars Give hope—oh! monolith! oh house of lies ! We change and change and fade, strange avatars In all the skies, Ill. One way sets free. That way is not to tread Through fire or earth or spirit, air or sea. That secret is not gathered of the dead. One way sets free. Not to desire shall lead to mot to be. There is no hope within, none overhead, None by the chance of fate’s august decree. It is a path where tears are ever shed. There is no joy—is that a path for me? Yea ! though F track the ways of utmost dread, One way sets free. …
1906 · PDF PAGE 146
…scension Day and Pentecost; with some Prose Essays and an Epilogue,’ just as the title is ‘The Sword of Song’ you know, just in the same way, just in the same way, just in the same way...” Alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream. “Oh, dear me! * This passage is a parody on one in “‘ Alice through the Looking-Glass.”’ 140 That's]. . Where references and explanations can be concisely given, harder than ever!” she said to herself, and then, looking determinedly intelligent : ‘‘So that’s what the song is called. I see. But what z…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…pothesis, empiric as it was, and is. But with the growth and gathering-together, classifying, criticism of our facts, we are well on the way to erect a surer structure on a broader basis. IX. AGNOSTICISM. It should be clearly understood, and well remembered, that throughout all these medi- tations and ideas, there is no necessary way to any orthodox ontology whatever. As to the way of salvation, we are not to rely on the Buddha; the vicious lie of vicarious atonement finds no place here. The Buddha himself does not escape the law of causation ;…
1906 · PDF PAGE 83
…And bathed enamoured in the secret sea, Both knowing our words were spoken— for an hour. THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY. ‘* Persever in that clear way thou goest, And the gods strengthen thee.” Pericles, LINKED in the tiny shelf upon the ship, My blind eyes burned into her mild ones: limbs Twined to each other while fine dew bedims Their quivering skins: lip fastened unto lip: Whole soul and body frenzied meet and clip; And the breath staggers, and the life- blood swims ! Terrible gods chant black demoniac hymns As the frail cords of honour strain and sl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 67
…, Lit by some fitful beam Of other light Than the mere sun, supreme On all the glint and gleam ; Shooting through night, Above the water-way Where my poor corpse must stay, I bend and float away From human sight. Unto the floral face, Carven in ancient grace Of Gods or Greeks, The whole sky’s way gives place : Open the walls of space, And silence speaks. 1 Swinburne, ‘‘ Ave atque Vale.”’ See ! I am floating far Beyond space and sun and star, As drifts a nenuphar Down lilied creeks. Beyond the heavens I see The pale embroidery Of some wan child …
1906 · PDF PAGE 238
…istence only leads to sorrow; that the ceasing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third); and you would seek in the fourth the Way, the Noble Eightfold Path. ‘‘T know, O Arahats, that you do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where Arahats do not grow on every tree. Little brothers, the night is fallen: it were well to sleep.”’
1906 · PDF PAGE 72
… the doom. Upon the blind blue sky A little cloud, no larger than an hand ! Whether I live and love, or love and die, I care not: either way I understand. To me—to live is Christ ; to die is gain: For I, I also, I shall come again. THE FIFTH DAY. ‘Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.” Richard Il. ALL thought of work is almost cast aside. I followed like a dog the way she went, Speaking but seldom, very well content To day-dream, oft imagining a bride, A wife, a lover, even a sister, tied By some soft bond of twinning: thus I blent A real…
1906 · PDF PAGE 218
…ing” in the sign of the Lion, that our Father set out from his Castle of Ug? to attain the Quint- essence or Philosophical Tincture. The way being dark and the Golden Dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the Lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. On the Bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the Eagle and the Man. But his back was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. And the Spirit of the Path met him. It was a young girl of two and twenty years, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 57
…d he but make the perfect choice of these. Farthest, loose tethered, at a stake’s control, A shallop rocked before the sullen breeze. Midway, a hermit’s hut stood solitary, A dim light set therein. Near and at ease A jolly well-lit inn—no phantom airy ! Solid and warm, short snatches of light song Issuing cheery now and then. ‘‘ Be wary!” Quoth the wise Earl, ‘‘ I wander very long Far from my quest, assuredly to fall Sideways each step towards the House of Wrong, ‘Were but one choice demented. Choice is small Here though. (A flash of insight in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 265
…liberately set their face against such an attempt. I am not of them; humanity has grown up; if the knowledge be dangerous in unsuspected ways, what of bacteriology? I have obtained one result; a result striking “at the very condition of consciousness; which I may formulate as follows: ‘‘Tf a single state of consciousness persist unchanged for a period exceeding a very few seconds, its duality is annihilated ; its nature is violently overthrown ; this phenomenon is accompanied by an indescribable sensation of bliss.” Very well! but I want this f…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…, and wiping his blade he kissed it and went on, knowing that his luck should now he ill. And ill it was, for a temple was set up in his way, and there he saw the grisly Goat enthroned. But he knew better than to judge a goat from a goats head and hoofs. And he abode in that temple awhile therefore, and worshipped ten weeks. And the first week he sacrificed to that goat! a crown every day. The second a phallus. The third a silver vase of blood. The fourth a royal sceptre. The fifth a sword. The sixth a heart. The seventh a garland of flowers. T…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…ime we must win or die.’ ‘Goetia! expects every God to do his duty,’ he excitedly lunographed to Swarga.? But Ganesha was already on his way. ‘©The elephant-headed God was in great spirits. ‘ Never say die!’ he cried genially, on beholding the downcast appearance of his fellow-conspirator. ‘This’ll break the slate. There is no change in the Arupa- Brahma-Loka!’2 ‘Rupe me no rupes!’ howled the necromancer. ‘Get up, fool!’ roared the God. ‘I have got Perdu’ R Abu elected Maha Brahma.’ ‘Oh Lord, have you really?’ said the wizard, looking a little …
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…pt. But the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. But the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew so mighty a blast that the dead rose all from their tombs, and our Father among them. ‘‘ Now away!” he cried. ‘‘I would look upon the sun!” And with that the fire…
1906 · PDF PAGE 184
…yer. Prayer and averages, Are the results of meditation due to auto- hypnosis ? So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer ®!—test its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. ‘ O God,” I prayed, “‘ for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times--what a thumping…
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
… Well! I guess Brer Buddha’s right ! I am no brutal Cain * to smash an Abel ; I hear that blasphemy’s unfashionable : So in the quietest way well chat about it ; No need to show teeth, claws of cat about it ! With gentle words—fiat exordium ; Exeat dolor, intret gaudium ! * It had a design of 666 and Crowley's name in Hebrew (which, like most names, adds up to that figure) on the reverse. Necessity of poem. Mysticism wv. literal interpre- tation. Former excused. Buddha re- bukes poet. Detailed scheme of modified poem.
1906 · PDF PAGE 161
…lieve, whate’er we do Is best for me and best for you And best for all: I line no brow With wrinkles, meditating how.) Well, but another way remains. Caird's inter- Shall we expound the cosmic plan Heese his By symbolising God and man identification And nature thus? As man contains of it with ohris- Cells, nerves , grey matter in his brains, to be mystical. Each cell a life, self-centred, free His interpreta- Yet self-subordinate to the whole tion false. For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
…enominated ‘ Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an illiterate man, tius Pil…
1906 · PDF PAGE 110
…hase, Our Argo is not battered by rough winds So far but what some fight were possible. MEDEA. [Leads forward ABSYRTUS.] I know a better way than that, my lord. This boy shall come with us. JASON. Ah, not to Greece ! Aea needs to-morrow’s king. MEDEA. “With us” I said. ‘* To Greece ’—I said not. CHORUS. What is this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come love, to the long years of love with me ! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The body-guardians of the Golden Fleece ! MEDEA. Guarding your king and queen on every s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 212
…eristic of Tahuti. 157. Roland's crest.2°—See ‘‘ Two Poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.21—See above : Ascension Day. 126, A mysterious way.??— ‘* God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm,” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.®—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I have not the documents at hand—is attributed to the late Bishop of Natal, though I doubt this, as the consistent and trustful piety of its sentiment is ill-suited to the author of those d…
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…f the snake is bright ORPHEUS, - With one immortal star, ° But now Lighting her coils with living light I see the haze lift on the water-way, To where the nenuphar And hidden headlands loom again. Sleeps for her couch. All darkness dreams ‘The thing that is not, only seems. JASON. I know That star upon the serpent’s head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa ! Even Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worsh…