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Page 100 of 1141944 · PDF PAGE 21
…mean anything at all unless there is something else, some other position with which it can be compared. One has to describe it. The only way to do this is to have another Point, and that means that one must invent the number Two, making possible The Line. But this Line does not really mean very much, because there is yet no measure of length. The limit of knowledge at this stage is that there are two things, in order to be able to talk about them at all. But one cannot say that they are near each other, or that they are far apart; one can only …
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
…emb- ling hand, Teach me to love; I do not understand.” He clasped her to him, but no word might say, And led her from the pool a little way, And there he laid her on the flowery mead, And watched her weeping. [His forgotten reed Floated away, a ship for fairy folk, Along the limpid rivulet. Then broke From smitten heart and ravished lips the tongue Of fire that clad its essence with the robe of song. O love! O mistress of my SONG OF CHARICLES. Man’s days are dim, his deeds are dust, His span is but a little space, He lusts to live, he lives to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 213
….! So deepen all the mountains: even so The wandering shadows close upon the day; The sunlight burns its fading ruby glow On the chaotic way. Night falls, and I must tread the dizzy steep Again, to plunge to the devouring deep. The blessing of the Highest shall be set On your white heads, O monarchs of the snow ! The blessing of the Highest, lightening yet The burdens that ye know. So, as three golden arrows of the sun Strike, may the threefold sacrament be One ! O visionary valley of my Soul! When shall thy beauty, even thine, be made As pure …
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…ghts! But stay ! Suppose it came not? It must be with God !— a Then this dull house of gold and iron and clay Is happy also—’tis an easy way ! So easy, I am fearful of mishap. Some fatal argument the God must find That linked us first. The dice are in His lap— Let Him decide in His imperial mind ! My choice ; to see entirely—and be blind! Yet I bethink me of that holy man, (Pagan albeit) my stirrup’s wisdom-share: ‘‘Learn this from Thothmes the Egyptian. ‘* Use only in thine uttermost despair !” He whispered me a Word.! ‘Beware! Beware ! ‘“ Two…
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…o The Smart Set if the manuscript had been sent there and had happened upon a hospitable editorial mood. L’homme Moyen Sensuel is in its way a more striking affair, because the attempt to spring is so evident that one is positively startled by its not coming off. You wonder where the author has landed; and you find, quite surprisingly, that he has not landed at all. The verse is so Byronic in its demeanour that you feel there must be barbs in it somewhere; it is really a shock not to discover a single one. There is a profoundly American phrase …
1939 · PDF PAGE 43
…secutive things, that of space two non-coincident things, that of causality two connected things.' 13. Samadhi, on the contrary, is in a way very easy to define. Etymology, aided by the persistence of the religious tradition, helps us here. Sam is a prefix in Sanskrit which developed into the prefix 'syn' in Greek without changing the meaning'syn' in 'synopsis,' 'synthesis,' 'syndrome.' It means 'together with.' 'Adhi' has also come down through many centuries and many tongues. It is one of the oldest words in human language; it dates from th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
… nor fina. O afloat in me curled ! Cry aloud to the world That I and my kisses are kind ! O lover! O poet ! O maiden To me in my magical way ! Be thy songs with the wilderness laden ! Thy lyre be adrift and astray :— So to me thou shalt cling ! So to me thou shalt sing Of the beautiful law of the day ! 1 Possibly intended as a reference to the poet himself,
1919 · PDF PAGE 296
…e as though he had seen the world, make $125 a week, never forget any name or telephone number once heard, write a short story or a Broadway Revue, draw comic cartoons, manage his wife, never look more than thirty-five, and live to be a hundred. Yet Mr. Pound is ignored by the great American public. When all the readers and reviewers in the land should be hasting in their thousands to acclaim this ‘new birth of our new soil, the first American’—as indeed Mr. Pound is the first Complete American high-brow, armed at all points, accoutred cap-d-pi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 418
…irl amuses herself by trying to excite the old man's passions. That night there is a thunderstorm; and an English girl, who has lost her way, takes refuge in his hut. He combines the element of his thought during sleep, chops her to pieces, stacks her limbs neatly by the hut, and goes off to his regular work. A rescue party discovers him. The story ends, "They told him of a widow lady in Paris who could beat him at his own game." {667} I am passionately indignant that the persistent beastliness of the average mind insists that the woodcutter vi…
1939 · PDF PAGE 18
…u progress that there are some conditions that cannot be eliminated at all in your particular circumstances; and then you have to find a way of dealing with these so that they make a minimum of trouble. And you will find that you cannot conquer the obstacle of Yama, and dismiss it from your mind once and for all. Conditions favourable for the beginner may become an intolerable nuisance to the adept, while, on the other hand, things which matter very little in the beginning become most serious obstacles later on. Another point is that quite unsu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
… slow, steady emancipation from repressive conditions. The description is even happier than that given by the Qabalah, although in every way congruous with it. Practical considerations are never absent from Chinese thought, even at its most abstruse and metaphysical. The fundamental heresy of the Black Lodge is con tempt for “the world, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 262
…ng to the body of thy sin For mere delight—Ah, deadly is to us The pleasure wrapping us, and holding in All love, all hate—the miserable way ! Dawns no devouring day Still on the infinite slow tune of limbs Moving in rapture ; sleepy echo swims In the dissolving brain, Love conquering lassitude at last to win Pain out of peace, and pleasure from a pang ; Then, scorpion-stung of its own terrible tang, Burnt of its own fire, soiled of its own stain, Falls conquered as a bird Bolt-stricken through the brain, To the resounding plain : The double wo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
…y insupportable, BLANCHE smiles through her tears in gratitude and zs secretly tickled at hts confusion. DENYS gets annoyed, and swings away on his heel with an expression of disgust. ALAIN. I am afraid, Monsieur de Beaulieu, that you do not perfectly understand—the alterna- tive. Follow me, I beseech you, to this window. [TZhey cross to the window, DENYS shrugging his shoulders.) Look out! [DENYS looks out into the blackness. ALAIN points to just below.) Were are hooks. Iron hooks. Fastened into the wall. Strong. [Zhey turn back into room.] An…
1939 · PDF PAGE 32
…rnatively, freeze the water and dance on it! A great deal of Hindu endeavour seems to consist in discovering the most difficult possible way to attain the most undesirable end. 10. When you start tying yourself into a knot, you will find that some positions are much more difficult and inconvenient than others; but that is only the beginning. If you retain any posture long enough, you get cramp. I forget the exact statistics, but I gather that the muscular exertion made by a man sleeping peacefully in bed is sufficient to raise fourteen elephant…
1905 · PDF PAGE 113
…t the shaken helm | On Galilee, who quelled the wrath of God, And rose triumphant over faith, and trod With calm victorious feet the icy way When springtide burgeoned, and the rosy day Leapt from beneath the splendours of the snow :— Christ, ultimate master of man’s hateful foe, And lord of his own soul and fate, strikes still From man’s own heaven, against the lord of ill; | Stage thunders mock the once terrific nod That spoke the fury of the Christian God, Whose slaves deny, too cowardly to abjure, Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead …
1906 · PDF PAGE 138
… resists. No God dethrones himself; none can. Will he, nill he, God must be God: it is a luckless fate for a girl’s dower, a thank- less way for a maiden’s feet. MAuRYA. Why, then, am I not the Goddess Maurya? Criospa. Yes! yes! of course, but only by my making. MAURYA. Was not my birth miraculous? and strange The death of the old people of this house That left you guardian? CRIOSDA. Yes, girl, that was strange. You are a
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
… FOUR ACES The Aces represent the roots of the four elements. They are quite above, and distinct from, the other small cards in the same way as Kether is said to be symbolized only by the topmost point of the Yod of Tetragrammaton. In these cards is no real manifestation of the element in its material form. They form a link between the small cards and the Princesses, who rule the Heavens around the North Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Ele‐ ments rule, going Eastward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Thu…
1939 · PDF PAGE 36
…because it is much better for you to perform the practices, obtain the experience, and come to me yourself with the information. In this way you will know that you have got the right thing, whereas if I were to tell you now, you would very likely imagine it. 2. Automatic rigidity: the body becomes still, as the result of a spasm. This is perfectly normal and predictable. It is customary to do it with a dog. You stick him in a bell-jar, pump in oxygen or carbonic acid or something, and the dog goes stiff. You can take him out and wave him around…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…h are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they? hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His m…
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
… it is necessary, in order to hold a position, to pay attention to it. That is to say: you are going to become conscious of your body in ways of which you are not conscious if you are engaged in some absorbing mental pursuit, or even in some purely physical activity, such as running. It sounds paradoxical at first sight, but violent exercise, so far from concentrating attention on the body, takes it away. That is because exercise has its own rhythm; and, as I said, rhythm is half-way up the ridge to Silence. Very good, then; in the comparative …