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…, thou puny verse ! 660 Weak tide of rhyme! Another argument Will block the railway train of blague you meant To run me over with. ‘This world Or that? We'll keep the question furled. ~rveferability of But, surely, (let me corner you !) ‘on- You wish the painter-mood were true! G66 To leave the hateful world, and see Perish the whole Academy ; So you remain for ever sated, On your own picture concentrated ! 670
1906 · PDF PAGE 77
THE SEVENTEENTH DAY 71 Might shelter love in some wave-carven tomb.| Of man and maid in all the world But Maytime shone in us; with words Is stilled the swift caress, of art Because my lover has me curled I drew her down reluctant to my heart, In her own loveliness. When night was silence and my bed| No kiss be such a night as this !— the gloom. Unless my Alice be the kiss. So without sin we took strange sacrament, No blade of grass awaiting takes Whose wine was kisses, and whose bread The dew, fresh-fallen above, the flower Because my lover sw…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
…things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If there is free As a mere mirage in the mind, will how can Un j fr Al. But all P leadiny there be pain p Jumps fee will. ut all 1m pleading or damnation? Is against pain and hell. Freewill not-Self being Then can damn man? No fearful mill an illusion. eae . nn : , Self or not-Self Grinding catastrophe, is speeding real? Chute Outside—some whence, some whither? And % d’Icare. I think we easier…
1906 · PDF PAGE 187
…eside. One hint of Amrita® to taste And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained * His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated ‘ 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 …
1906 · PDF PAGE 159
340 345 350 360 370 375 * ** For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” ASCENSION DAY 153 Samadhi-Dak,®! convenient To travel to Maha Meru,*” Or Gaurisankar’s * keen white wedge Spearing the splendid dome of blue, Or Chogo’s *4 mighty flying edge Shearing across the firmament,— But, first, to that exact event You Christians celebrate to-day. We stand where the disciples stood And see the Master float away Into that cloudlet heavenly-hued Receivin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 137
…’s ways In mystery of Maurya’s praise. Hear me, thy priest, at eventide ! These subtler throes Than love’s or life’s, invade, divide The world of woes. Thy smile, thy murmur of delight, be enough To fill the world with life and love ! [He bends over into deep reverence, yet with the air of one expecting a grace. [Maurya, dike one in trance, rises slowly, gathers her robes about her, and descends to the altar. Reaching over it, she bends and lifts him by his outstretched arms. She puts her lips to his forehead, and he, with a deep gasp, as of on…
1906 · PDF PAGE 249
…tence be grasped and anni- hilated, so that the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes, those which have already germinated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the Law), his certain anticipation of the approach of Nirvana is so intense as to bathe him con- stantly in the unfathomable ocean of the apprehension of immediate bliss. AUM MANI PADME HOUM.
1906 · PDF PAGE 289
…: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem ; END OF Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the slowing bud dissever : Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…ds and mortals wither ; Moons fade where constellations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Niumberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song! Sand-founded reels the House of Faith ; Up screams the howl of ruining sect ; Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith ; ‘God hath forsaken Ilis…
1906 · PDF PAGE 116
…mber, Bending the blue rays to the tune Of softly-sliding amber. Dim winds shall whisper echoes of Our slow ecstatic breath, Telling all worlds how sweet is love, How beautiful is death, MEDEA. Sing, Orpheus, this doth madden them the most. Should one man leap—This tune is terrible ! ORPHEUS. T am not moved, although Tam aman. So strong a safeguard is cool chastity. MEDEA. But love thou me !_ My husband is distraught. ORPHEUS. . Madness is on him for thy punishment. MEDEA. Sing, therefore ! ORPHEUS. This last song of theirs was sweet, MEDEA. Th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…their labours in other fields? —A, C. More, though the establishment of this new estate of consciousness seems to open the door to a new world, a world where the axioms of Euclid may be absurd, and the propositions of Keynes* untenable, let us not fall into the error of the mystics, by supposing that in this world is necessarily a final truth, or even a certain and definite gain of knowledge. But that a field for research is opened up no sane man may doubt. Nor may one question that the very first fact is of a nature disruptive of difficulty ph…
1906 · PDF PAGE 60
…p, twitching, and loathlier than all mesh of hates and lusts, defiling; nor any voice it had, nor any motion, it was infinite in its own world of horror, irredeemably bad as everywhere sunlit, being this world, forget not ! being this world, this universe, the sum of all existence; so that opposing fierce resistance to the all-law, stood loves and joys, delicate girls, and beautiful strong boys, and bearded men like gods, and golden things, and bright desires with wings, all beauties, and all truths of life poets have ever prized. .So showed th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…n none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower? 1 Hades plus Minos; he both rules and judges the dead, according to Hindu mytho- logy. The seeker shall subdue this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power; The seeker find that Path as skill of t herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends ar…
1906 · PDF PAGE 210
…ions (1-5) produce unusual brain-changes; hence their summary (6) is of unusual kind. Its projection back into the apparently phenomenal world is therefore unusual. Herein then consists the reality of the opera- tions and effects of ceremonial magic,t and | conceive that the apology is ample, so far as the ‘‘effects” refer only to those phenomena which appear to the magician himself, the ap- pearance of the spirit, his conversation, possible shocks from imprudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the one hand, and death or madness on the other. B…
1906 · PDF PAGE 90
…f Athens. Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, The six months glory of life past on earth About to yield to Hades’ bridal birth, The world’s sad sympathy with Perse- phone. | | Yet I myself, while tuning to her kéy My sighs of sorrow, mused in secret mirth: ‘‘T am convinced at last of money’s worth, For lack of which she cannot cross the sea.” I told her, like a fool, a day too soon. She went and told her story to the priest ; She wept, and borrowed money of the | beast. She told me she would go: June fell from June. I, left in limbo; she, …
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… He turned to the wall and sought a bundle of old writing on a shelf. ‘‘ Take this,” he said. ‘‘ Edit it as if it were your own: let the world know how wonderful it was.” I took the manuscript from the frail, white hand. He seemed to forget me altogether. ‘* Namo tassa Bhagavato arahato samma- sambuddhasa,”’' he murmured, turning to his little black Buddha-rupa. There was a calm like unto—might I say, an afterwards? : ‘ There is an end of joy and sorrow, Peace all day long, all night, all morrow,” he began drowsily. A shrill voice rose in a gre…
1906 · PDF PAGE 132
…rd ! Mightiest of monarchs !”—‘‘ Cease, thou crow ! Thine errand ! ere the eunuch’s sword Snatch thy bald head off at a blow.” “* Mercy, World’s Light !” Swings clear and clean The call ‘‘ Room for the Queen! The Queen !” Strong as a man, the Queen strides in. Even she shrank frighted !—my aspect More dreadful than all shapes of sin Her dreams might shape or recollect, Hideous with fasting, madness, grief, Beyond all speaking or belief. But the first glance at those bold eyes! Ah! let me fling me at her feet ! Take me, O love! Thy terror flies.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 254
…piritual order with a simple statement which, if not certain, is at least not improb- able. ‘here is, he will tell you, a “‘ spiritual ” world, or to avoid any (most unjustifiable) misunderstandings, let us say a world of subtler matter than the visible and tangible, which has its own laws (analogous to, if not identical with, those laws of matter with which we are acquainted) and whose inhabi- tants change, and die, and are re-born very much as ordinary mortal beings. But as they are of subtler matter, their cycle is less rapid.! As a nominali…
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… vision following ; Dryad and bird and fount and valley blending Into one dreamy consciousness of spring ; And all the night and all the world is ending, And all the souls that weep and hearts that sing! So, as the dew hides in the lotus blossom, Sleep draws me with her kiss into her bridal bosom. METEMPSYCHOSIS. Written at Vera Crus. Dim goes the sun down there behind the tall And mighty crest of Orizaba’s snow: Here, gathering at the nightfall, to and fro, Fat vultures, foul and carrion, flap, and call Their ghastly comrades to the doméd wall…
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…the babe defeat. [Aloud.] Listen, my brother’:s son!- Nay, stoop not so, — Bending ashaméd brows upon the earth ! I am well weary of the world of men. I grow both old and hateful to myself, Most on the throne: power which to youth is sweet To age looks fearful. Also I have wept— Alas ! how often !—and repented me. Of those unkingly deeds whereby I gained This throne whose joy is turned to bitterness. I will make peace with thee, and justice still Shall have a home and shrine in Thessaly. Be patient notwithstanding! Prove thyself Valiant and wis…