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MR. TODD one never knows whether you are serious or not! But you wouldn’t make fun of my embarrassments—Society is so serious, isn’t it? But, oh do! do tell me what they say| carR. Well, Mrs. Ossory—you know our mysterious friend ? MRS. ossory. Mr. Todd? carr. Yes. Well, they say that—he is a King in his own country. MRS. ossory. And I’ve always disliked and distrusted him so! But perhaps that was just the natural awe that I suppose one must always feel, even when one doesn’t know, you know. I wonder, now, if we could get him to a little dinner…
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…ory? By cutting away every perception, every thought- form as it is born, until nothing thinkable is left, not even the thought of the unknowable. The man of science will often say “I do not know, I really do not know where these bricks came from, or how they were made, or who made them; but here they are; let us build a house and live in it.” Now this indeed is a very sensible view to take, and the result is we have some very fine houses built by these excellent bricklayers; but strange to say, this is the fatalist’s point of view, and a fatal…
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go XXXV “Yea!” quoth the knight, “TI rede the spell. This Beast is the Unknowable. I seek in Heaven, I seek in Hell; Ever he mocks me. Yet, methinks, I have the riddle of the Sphinx. For were I keener than the lynx I should not see within my mind One thought that is not in its kind In sooth That Beast that lurks behind : And in my quest his questing seems The authentic echo of my dreams, The proper thesis of my themes! Iknow him? Still he answers: No! I know him not? Maybe—and lo! He is the one sole thing I know! Nay! who knows not is different…
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THE EQUINOX He’s a devil; I’m sure of it. I know it was his fault, some- how. ossory. Nonsense, nonsense, my dear! He was not even in the car. MRS. OSSORY. It was his car, Alfred. ossory. You're a fool, Emily. carr. I think Mr. Ossory means that we could hardly hold him responsible if one of his steamers ran down a poor polar bear on a drifting iceberg. mrs. ossory. I know I’m quite unreasonable; it’s an instinct, an intuition. You know Saga of Bond Street said how psychic I was! [During the next few speeches CARR and EUPHEMIA Ccorre- spond by …
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MR. TODD ossory. Thank you, my dear lad. Anything you can do, of course—I will let you know at once. By the way, you haven’t asked her yet, I suppose? DELHOMME. Not yet, sir. I am rather diffident: I do not care to precipitate affairs. ossory. Well, I am really very anxious to see her future assured. And you know our proverb, “The early bird catches the worm.” [Potnts to him, and over his shoulder to her.] There's our scientific friend, eh? DELHOMME. Oh, I’m not afraid of him. A /arceur, no more, though sometimes a pleasant one. ossory. Tu fen …
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THE EQUINOX homme. Er—well, we all grow older, you know—one day— er—ah! Nice young fellow, Delhomme! EUPHEMIA. I refused him twenty minutes ago, father. ossory. What? How the deuce did you know what I was going to say? Bless me, I believe there may be some- thing in this psychic business after all! EUPHEMIA. Yes, father, I feel I have strange powers! ossory. But look here, girlie, why did you refuse him? Reculer pour mieux sauter is all very well, don’t you know, but he gives twice who gives quickly. EUPHEMIA. That's the point, father. If you a…
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… I am another’ is not wise, but he is like a house-dog of the gods.” And house-dogs shall we remain so long as we cling to a belief in a knowing sub- ject and a known object, or in the worship of anything, even of the Atman itself, as long as it remains apart from our- selves. Such a dilemma as this does not take long to induce one of those periods of “spiritual dryness,” one of those “dark nights of the soul” so familiar to all mystics and even to mere students of mysticism. And such a night seems to have closed around YAjfiavalkhya when he ex…
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
… of the beginner. There is of course much beyond this elementary study, and the neophyte will find nothing in the book which he does not know; but the book is addressed to those who know nothing. It will supply them with a fine basis for Qabalistic research, ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE PRIESTESS OF Isis, By EDOUARD SCHURE. Translated by F. RoTH- WELL, B.A. W. Rider and Son. 35. 6d. net. Books I and II. I have been trying to read this book for a week, but the rapidly recurring necessity to appear on the stage of “Pan, a comedy,” in the name-part, has …
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…delightful addition to our periodical literature. Its first number gives in clear type on a nice page the magnificent essay which we all know so well, yet of which we never tire. The one objection to Emerson is that he thinks all men know this Oversoul. They don’t. It’s a few holy illuminated men of God, and I hope that this includes John M. Watkins. A.C. Vol. I, No. 2. June. 1910. A TRUE CHRISTIAN. By JACOB BOEHME. A most exquisite treatise on the life of the soul. Boehme is a passive mystic, or quietist, of the very first water; he really per…
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THE EQUINOX How shall I have speech of Thee, who know not Thy speak- ing? How shall I behold Thee, who art hidden in the darkness? Lo! I bend mine eyes before Thee, and no sign dost Thou vouchsafe me; I whisper love-words before Thee, and I know not if Thou hear me, Thou who art the darling of the Night and of the Silence; Yellow art Thou as the sunlight through the corn-fields, Bright as the sun-dawn on the snow-clad mountains, Slow as the voice of the great green gliding River. Calmly in Thy silence am I come to rest me, Now from the world th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 248
…n. ossory. I can’t see him, Thomas. [Zurns.] I beg your pardon, Mr. Todd. The fact is, I’m damnably worried over pay-day. I really don’t know you well enough to ask you, perhaps, but the fact is, I’ve a good sound business proposi- tion which I must put before some one, and I believe you're the very man to help me. Now. (Topp takes him by the shoulder and whispers in his ear. Why, really, that is good of you—damned good of you! Why, damme, sir! you’re a public benefactor. Come, let us arrange the preliminaries-—— [They go out, ossory clinging t…
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… a saint, and so put to him several questions concerning the Vedanta philosophy, and its most noted exponents, to see what he really did know. “Do you know Swami Vivekananda?” I asked. 285
1910 · PDF PAGE 247
…illion from him if I want it; but I don’t care to unless—unless things—unless you EUPHEMIA. I’m the goods, am I? You old bear! ossory. I know, Phemie, I know. It’s those damned bulls on Wall Street! How could I foresee—— EUPHEMIA. At least you might have foreseen that I was not a bale of cotton. ossory. But I shall be hammered, my dear child. We shall all have to go to the workhouse! EUPHEMIA. [coldly]. I thought mamma had three thousand a year of her own. ossory. That’s just what I say. The workhouse! EUPHEMIA. My dear father, I really can’t p…
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…e twelve young men. He was a bad-tempered man, and a very theatrical one. He rose and walked to him who had caused them all to laugh. “T know you, sir,” Elphénor said, purple in the face, “IT know you, unwholesome monkey. Your father was adealer in pork sausages and cooked ham, a trader in swine. Nothing better could be expected from you than your pig-like groans.” His blood was boiling already, and these few words he uttered were but a preliminary letting out of steam. He walked in the dark to a large cupboard at the far end of his room and to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 235
MR. TODD your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. mrs. ossory. Who is he? Does any one know? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! ossory. Well, we hardly know—I wonder if his credit is good. [Mis voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear bo…
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…s; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at…
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…n mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succeeds their exaltation demands a renewed indulgence, and acco…
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… which came from the woman’s heart, turned to the other two, and said: “Tam her heart . . . her beautiful, beautiful heart. “What do you know of the deeds of the Queen who were never in her council chamber? “When you were bold, I was perhaps afraid, and when you exulted, there was I know not what trouble of sadness throbbing within me. All that you were I sustained: all your pleasure stirred through me, and you but harvested that which I sowed. “When you were all aflame, it was I who lit you, and you could not even be sad without me. “Not less …
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…ard,” quoth he, “ And by thy venerable age I charge thee this my riddle ree.” Then said that gentle eremite: “This task is easy unto me! Know then the Questing Beast aright! One is the Beast, the Questing one: And one with one is two, Sir Knight! Yet these are one in two, and none Disjoins their substance (mark me well !), Confounds their persons. Rightly run Their attributes: immeasurable, Incomprehensibundable, Unspeakable, inaudible, 45
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VIII Know ye where Druid dolmens rise In Wessex on the widow plain? Thither Sir Palamedes plies The spur, and shakes the rattling rein. He questions all men of the Beast. None answer. Is the quest in vain? With oaken crown there comes a priest In samite robes, with hazel wand, And worships at the gilded East. Ay! thither ride! The dawn beyond Must run the quarry of his quest. He rode as he were wood or fond, Until at night behoves him rest. —He saw the gilding far behind Out on the hills toward the West! With aimless fury hot and blind He flung…