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Page 103 of 1211912 · PDF PAGE 6
…he contemplateth immortal change. Yet, perceiving that the changes themselves constitute stability, he is again baulked, and biddeth his men bear him to Egypt. xxviii. In an Egyptian temple he hath performed the Bloody Sacrifice, and cursed Osiris. Himself suffering that curse, he is still far from the Attainment, xxix. In the land of Egypt he performeth many miracles. But from the statue of Memnon issueth the questing, and he is recalled from that illusion. xxx, Upon the plains of Chaldea he descendeth into the bowels of the earth, where he be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
"Well, Europe's at war I have got your old commission back for you, with an appointment as Inteelligence Officer on the staf of General Cripps." "It sounds like Anarchism. From each according to his powers; to each according to his needs, you know. By the way, what's it about? Anything?" "The people think it's about the violation of solemn treaties, and the rights of the little nations, and so on; the governments think it's about commercial expansion; but I who made it know that it is the baptism of blood of the New Aeon. How could we promulgat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…ls, and the memory of heroic deeds in the lives of them and theirs to weigh against the everlasting pull of material welfare. When those men come back from a few years in the trenches, they'll make short work of the pious person that informs them of the wickedness of smoking, and eating meat, and drinking beer, and being out after eleven o'clock at night, and kissing a girl, and reading novels, and playing cards, and going to the theatre, and whistling on the Sabbath!" "I hope you're right. You're old, which tends, I suppose, to make you optimi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 88
…t cowards twit them with their mother’s lust. Even our own purity confirmed the trust. How long, O Lord, how long? Too long by half Till men read, wondering, wedlock’s epitaph. THE FORTY-FOURTH DAY. ‘lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death.” Romeo and Jultet. SLEEP, O deep splendour of disastrous years, Gone likea star fallen at the fall of night ! Wake, O mute mouth and majesty of light, Made of no sound that even silence hears,
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…y.” Never again did he go to any council. He was wont to say with tears that if he had saved the heretics he himself had lost power over men and over demons. They have outraged the meaning of the episode who explain Martin’s protest as merely against the surrender of the Church to Secular Power. It was 2se- humanité of which he held the Ithacans guilty. St. Martin of Tours was often called Martin the Thaumaturgist. He was noted for his power over animals. 10
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…y.” Never again did he go to any council. He was wont to say with tears that if he had saved the heretics he himself had lost power over men and over demons. They have outraged the meaning of the episode who explain Martin’s protest as merely against the surrender of the Church to Secular Power. It was 2se- humanité of which he held the Ithacans guilty. St. Martin of Tours was often called Martin the Thaumaturgist. He was noted for his power over animals. 10
1910 · PDF PAGE 375
…he contemplateth immortal change. Yet, perceiving that the changes themselves constitute stability, he is again baulked, and biddeth his men bear him to Egypt. xxviii. In an Egyptian temple he hath performed the Bloody Sacrifice, and cursed Osiris. Himself suffering that curse, he is still far from the Attainment, xxix. In the land of Egypt he performeth many miracles. But from the statue of Memnon issueth the questing, and he is recalled from that illusion. xxx, Upon the plains of Chaldea he descendeth into the bowels of the earth, where he be…
1910 · PDF PAGE 375
…he contemplateth immortal change. Yet, perceiving that the changes themselves constitute stability, he is again baulked, and biddeth his men bear him to Egypt. xxviii. In an Egyptian temple he hath performed the Bloody Sacrifice, and cursed Osiris. Himself suffering that curse, he is still far from the Attainment, xxix. In the land of Egypt he performeth many miracles. But from the statue of Memnon issueth the questing, and he is recalled from that illusion. xxx, Upon the plains of Chaldea he descendeth into the bowels of the earth, where he be…
1905 · PDF PAGE 158
…The thin casing of the godhead rots, Mere mummy-cloth: the rotten corpse within, Dust and corruption! Iam still the god, And gods slay women: therefore I slay thee. RATOUM. Then thou shalt see me once again a god ! [Ay a tremendous effort she towers before hint Silently they gase at one another for a while, he vatnuly endeavourins to force himself to strike. Al last she collapses into the throne; he springs forward and adres his kutfe 710 her, THE LEPrER. It is finished! The sacrament is made! The god Has flamed within the allar-cake: ’tis done…
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
… hear me sing ;— And I by pity moved and love Have not thy voice to grant him grace thereof ? Inexorable Lord ! Accursed and abhorred Of men, begin in Hell to show thy grace ! Not to a man’s weak life, Not to thy shuddering wife, But to the queen’s unfathomable face Dread beyond sorcery and prayer, And fearful even because it is so fair! Yea, from the ghastly throne Unchallenged and unknown Let the fierce accents roll athwart the skies ! My voice is given, my power Fares forth to save the flower Broken but plucked not by these fingers wise. I l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…ymptoms. She ran quickly to Brother Onofrio; he saw instantly that a new attack was in progress, and gave the sign agreed upon for retirement to a specially consecrated room in the square tower, a sort of inner circle, or citadel. The victims gathered in this room within a few minutes, and their symptoms abated on the instant. But Brother Onofrio had a glimpse of light, as he assisted one of the two boys, who was almost choking, to reach the refuge. The tower caught his eye, and it flashed upon him that perhaps the Tarot was referring to an act…
1906 · PDF PAGE 222
…and earth was utterly darkened. And the marriage of that virgin was on this wise: She had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,! should know three was cight,” if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my Brethren! And she gave him the great and perfect gift of Magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. Now at that great wedding was a Suggler,® a riddler: for he said, ‘‘ Thou hast beasts: I will give thee weapons one for one.” For the Lion did our Father…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…in that man; I know he's got something that I haven't, and I want it. However, Simple Simon has been nice to me; only he won't talk Phenomena — says that, like a certain Pope, he has seen too many miracles to believe in them. Which is my own case, only he is referring to genuine ones. Hence difficulty in comprehension of his attitude. "I hope you're having a great time with the devil; I envy your blue skies; London is wrapped in fog, and even on fine days I have to go to the War Office. But isn't it a pity those wicked bad naughty men know wher…
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
love. And she understood, in some sub-current of thought, why Suffragettes forced men to use violence upon them; it is but a repressed sexual instinct breaking out in race-remembrance of marriage by capture. But more dangerous even than such ideas were many which she learned to group under a name which one of them gave her. It was not a name that one can transcribe in any alphabet, but it was exactly like a very short slight cough, hardly more than a clearing of the throat, a quite voluntary cough of the apologetic type. She had only to make th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 174
…clung to mine awhile ! Thou wast a lion as an angel then, In copper-glowing lands that gnaws the prey He has regotten from the tribes of men. _ We lay like passion all that deadly day—- Thou wast a lion as an angel then ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover, Great hater of my body as my soul, To whom I gave my life and love thrice over, Fill me one last caress—the poison-bowl ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover ! FAME. O iF these words were swords, and I had might From some old prophet in whose tawny hair The very breath of …
1905 · PDF PAGE 205
…ear, Shake the intangible chain that hungereth. That Mother of Mankind Sprang in the thunder-wind ! The strong words bind For evermore, Amen! the keys of Hell and Death.! Central, supreme, most formidable, Night Gathered its garments, drew itself apart ; Gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite Veil of deep agony, display the heart ; Even as a gloomy sea, Wherein dead fishes be, Poisonous things, nameless ; the eightfold Fear, Misshapen crab and worm, The intolerable sperm, Lewd dragons slime-built. foul mere Crawled, moved, gave tongue, The es…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…r knowledge which burnt in that great brain. One could conceive him capable of monstrous deeds, for he would let no man, no prejudice of men, stand in his way. He would certainly have fiddled while Rome was burning if it had been his hobby to play the violin. This man was the mainstay of the Society for Psychical Research. He was the only absolutely competent man in it, perhaps; at least, he stood well above all others. He had the capacity for measuring the limits of error in any investigation with great accuracy. Just as the skilful climber ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
spirit of a demon into the goat, and slaying the animal at that moment of possession upon the corpse of Gates, to endow that corpse with the demoniac power, in a kind of hideous marriage. The object was then identical with that of spiritism, or "spiritualism," as it is commonly and illiterately called; but Dr. Vesquit was a serious student, determined to obtain results, and not to be duped; his methods were consequently more efficient than those of the common or parlour medium. Arthwait opened the Grimoire and began his conjurations. It would b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
… clasp a siren in his span, And feel her kiss grow strong To drag him with caresses wan Into the [louse of Wrong.! Another : ? how the women grew Like vines of tender grape, And how they laughed as lovers do, And took a lover’s shape, And how men sought them, free to woo— elo leave them, no escape! Another :* how a golden cup A golden girl would pour, And whoso laughed and drank it up Grew wise and warrior : But whoso stayed to smile and sup Returned—ah, never more! And yet again 4—a river steep, A maiden combing light, [ier hair’s enchantment—…
1929 · PDF PAGE 189
…ze. His non-reappearance would not cause surprise; he might have gone out the other way; in fact, he would naturally do so. But in the moment of his finding himself alone, he could, if he knew the secret, press a hidden lever which caused the floor to descend bodily. Arrived below, a corridor with three right-angled turns — this could, incidentally, be flooded at need, in a few moments, — led to the last of the defences, a regular door such as is fitted to a strong room. There was an emergency exit to the cellar, equally ingenious; it was a sor…