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Page 105 of 1211912 · PDF PAGE 5
…nketh of the Beast as author of Evil, because Free of Will. The Beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow ; but at the moment of Its death It is reborn from the knight’s own belly. xiv, At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. He chaseth and slayeth it ; it proves but a child’s toy. xv. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men, Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. xvi. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonli…
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…g thought aloft: It blazed in battle on his plume : With sage and warrior enfeoffed,? He rushed alone through tower and tomb. The myriad men, the cohorts armed, Are shred like husks: the ensanguine brand Leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed To fire the pyramid heaven-spanned Wherein dead Pharaoh sits and stares Swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, With eyes whose horror flits and flares Like corpse-lights glimmering in the gloom, 1 Accompanied by those sages and warriors who owed him feudal service.
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…hat, consequently, absolute fasting would confer immortality. This was of course easy to prove — in America. He had continued with experiments in weighing souls, photographing thoughts, and would probably have gone fishing for the Absolute if he had only thought of it! He was a prop to the editors of the New York Sunday Newspapers, and was at present engaged on writing a scenario for moving pictures in which he was to incorporate the facts of psychical research. Nobody in the world was better aware than he that everything reliable could be pack…
1910 · PDF PAGE 374
…nketh of the Beast as author of Evil, because Free of Will. The Beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow ; but at the moment of Its death It is reborn from the knight’s own belly. xiv, At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. He chaseth and slayeth it ; it proves but a child’s toy. xv. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men, Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. xvi. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonli…
1910 · PDF PAGE 374
…nketh of the Beast as author of Evil, because Free of Will. The Beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow ; but at the moment of Its death It is reborn from the knight’s own belly. xiv, At Rome he meeteth a red robber in a Hat, who speaketh nobly of It as of a king-dove-lamb. He chaseth and slayeth it ; it proves but a child’s toy. xv. In a Tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a Satyr, that the Gods still dwell with men, Mistaking orgasm for ecstasy, he is found ridiculous. xvi. Baiting for It with gilded corn in a moonli…
1919 · PDF PAGE 173
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE cloth. Landing, I was surrounded with men in an Eastern costume, Arabs or Turks I thought. One old man took me by the hand, I made the sign of the Pentagram over him, but he smiled and said “Come along, it’s all right,” and led me along a street paved with cobbles, the houses of which overhung, till we reached a sort of a mosque. Entering this he led me to the altar, which was supported by brackets from the wall, and above which was a beautiful stained window. At the sides were thin columns and sort of boxes, similar to t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…al calculus ; Makes sulphuretted hydrogen ; And, if the poor dumb thing could speak, He’d say: Hic labor omnibus Prodest : vitae verae limen, Deinde missa juventute Ave ! cum otio dignitas !! So I: and strove and did not shirk. But now? Confront me life and duty; Toil is my daily hap, alas! And work is still the sire of work, Shall I repine? What joys are hid In weariness of idleness ? Rich, young, beloved, shall I rececle? Enjoy? NotI! I work unbid; Book follows book ; ideas press Ilurrying over the green mead 1 This work is good for all men, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 69
…ast phantoms of desire, Impossible and epicene, Familiar souls of Messaline. And as, when thunder broods afar Imperial destinies of war, Men see the haze and heat, and feel The sun’s rays like a shaft of steel, Seeing no sun; even so the night Clouds that deep miracle from sight : Until this destiny be done Tlangs the corona on the sun ; And I absorbed in those unclean Ghost-haunted veins of Messaline. CALIFORNIA. FORGED by God’s fingers in His furnace, Fate, My destiny drew near the glowing shore Where California hides her golden ore, [ler rub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…ecutive sleepless night have been known to pray their Maker for sudden death at least two hours before the occurrence of the first "phenomenon." To be asked to keep the attention unceasingly on things of not the slightest intrinsic interest or importance is absolutely maddening to anyone above the mental level of a limpet. "Observe how advantageously we are placed," whispered Cyril to Lisa as they took seats on the divan, toward which the table had been drawn. "For all we know, one or both those men are in collusion with Mottich. I'd stake my l…
1905 · PDF PAGE 250
…pride in it Hark ! he tunes again. Gods must behold! The childish easiness, Impossible to me, who am become Perhaps the subtlest mind of men. Alas! Maybe in this I still am self-deceived, Merely the fool swelled up with bitter words, Imagination, and the toadstool growth, Thought, wounded ; as a scorpion to sting Its own bruised life out. This is Tannhauser! How long ago since he took pleasure in Such love— [A horn winds. such music as yon horn below— [4 chant ts heard. Such worship as the simple chant that steals Calm and majestic in the solit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…e royal force Of armed insistence against my restraint. ‘What is worth while, though, to a woman found Fragrant and fearful to a host of men Even yet? they throng me, hunt me! should I Do this unutterable wickedness? Because that Moina Marjoribanks grins and boasts She will achieve him? Angela, not so! For its own sweet, most damnable sake, say yes | Why Look to those cheeks, redress the red-gold | hair, Awake the giant wit, the master sin That is, for an apple’s sake, Lord of us all: These shall despoil her; these shall ruin him. Yes, I shall …
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…ness does not so much as soil our shoe-heather." Despite her years of practice in the art of not understanding English, "Baby " winced momentarily. For her dearest thought was the social prestige which she enjoyed. It was terrible to see that the Real Thing was not under the slightest illusion. She did not mind a thousand "exposures" as a fraud; but she did want to keep up the bluff of being a Countess. She was past thirty-five; it was high time she found an old fool to marry her. She had designs on the Pasha; she had agreed to certain proposal…
1905 · PDF PAGE 130
… where they ply Those pallid wings, or turn our vessel’s beak With utmost fury to the North, to dye Our prows with seaweed, such as wise men seek For cleansirz of their altars with slow blood Wrenched trom the long dark leaves, with fingers weak With age and toil ; to stem the restless flood That boils between the islands ; to attain The ultimate ice, where some calm hero stood And looked one last time for a sail in vain, And looking upward not in vain, lay down And died, to pass where cold and any pain Are not. So still the night is, like the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 218
…hat I, Ambrose, called I. A. O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journeys he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,! the Star Suaconch ? being” 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…
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
202 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST Slow steals the ambient light; white peace resumes In planet, element, and sign, her sway. The twisted ether shapes itself: relumes The benediction all the faded fumes With holier incense: in the fervid way All nature rests: .with holy calm I blend Blessing and prayer at the appointed end. THE ROSE AND THE CROSS.! Our of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charméd music gathered from my tongue, And where I chained strange archipelagoes Of fallen stars ; where fie…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…ssing night, We are in thee; and thou art everywhere, Lie still, and read thy soul upon my face. Swayed slowly by the wind, made crafts- men of The mystery of happiness, we lie and rock us to and fro, and to and fro. Shrined in the temple of the world, O love, We wait self-worshipped through eternity, Until ‘‘to ignore” is equal to ‘‘ to know.”
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…ing her “ wild oats” and can enter any phase of life without being spat upon and “ chucked out,” degradation will cease. And when such women as are Jorn prostitutes are utilized by the State for the benefit of men who are not monogamists by nature, procuring will vanish. But, if these women be so used, it behoves the nation to care for these talented girls, just as she cares, or should care, for her soldiers; and when the time was expired, she should pension them off, and award them a long service and good-conduct medal should they deserve it. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…ing her “ wild oats” and can enter any phase of life without being spat upon and “ chucked out,” degradation will cease. And when such women as are Jorn prostitutes are utilized by the State for the benefit of men who are not monogamists by nature, procuring will vanish. But, if these women be so used, it behoves the nation to care for these talented girls, just as she cares, or should care, for her soldiers; and when the time was expired, she should pension them off, and award them a long service and good-conduct medal should they deserve it. …
1906 · PDF PAGE 55
…are, Until full vengeance rightly wrought Bring all their house of wrong to nought ! Scorn, the catastrophe of crime, These be their monuments through time ! And Ireland, green once more and fresh, Draw life from their dissolving flesh! By Saxon carcases renewed, Spring up, O Shamrock virgin-hued ! And in the glory of thy leaf Let all forget the ancient grief! Now is the hour! The drink is poured! Wake! fatal and avenging sword ! Brave men of Erin, hand in hand, Arise and free the lovely land ! Death to the Saxon! Slay nor spare ! O God ofJusti…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…ink that his sense of awe misleads him in one respect. The Buddha, the Christ, and He whom some of us know as Frater Perdurabo, were all men before they became lost in the Infinity of what some call the One, others the All, others the Naught; and their documents are accessible. These documents are of immeasurably greater value than the lesser writings of the mediæval saints. In fact, this word mediveval is of use to us in describing Evelyn Underhill's state of mind. He, she, or it is rather narrow, vastly learned and curiously ignorant, capable …