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THE VIRGIN 71 eternal symbol of love and life , and the purest of human joys, " and which act being attributed to supernatural powers came under the authority of religion , and fell into the hands of an interested priesthood , giving them an immense power over women , and through women over men ; an influence that has been exercised in every land , and every age , by these spiritual leaders : an influence by which they have in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
…ather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank him for semi-e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
…ather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank him for semi-e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…at of universal truth , or with his being acutely affected by it, or even with his coming back and informing folks that he had fallen in love or had lost a friend, and that it was a tremendous ex perience . On top of all this he had to realise his self by losing it, to purge the personal out of his discovery, to re-clothe it, and to bring the universal back in a new embodiment which all men could recognise . To this the fine objective forms of the Drama and the Epic not only invited but compelled him . However difficult the task , he had to bui…
1919 · PDF PAGE 387
…this verse is less difficult to believe. By true devotion is meant a devotion which does not depend upon its object. The highest kind of love asks for no return. It is however misleading to say that “deva-sight and deva- hearing are not obtained in one short birth,” as that appears to mean that unless you are born with them you can never acquire them, which is certainly untrue. It is open to any one to say to any one who has acquired them, that he must have acquired them in a previous existence, but a more stupid argument can hardly be imagined…
1929 · PDF PAGE 340
…le weakness. Once again I had to admit that the superstition and sexual huperaesthesia, which go in England by the names of religion and love, had emasculated a man. Anglo-Saxonism is psychological phthsis. At the accession of the new sultan, his subjects took the opportunity of enjoying themselves, rejoicing in countries where the spirochaetas pallida of civilization does not make love luetic, liberty ataxic and life choreic. The people are spontaneous about amusements. To me nothing is more dreary than the policed processions of noble nonenti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…e— ‘I trust myself to you.’ “T bent on my right knee to her. ‘I take you,’ I said, ‘to be my lady, to fight in your cause, to honour and love you for ever.’ “She put out her right hand—oh, the delicate beauty of it | I kissed it. ‘My knight,’ she said, ‘Jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death—kiss me!’ “With a sob I caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. I closed my eyes in trance ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground before her. “When I opened my eyes again she too was praying. Softly, withou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…e— ‘I trust myself to you.’ “T bent on my right knee to her. ‘I take you,’ I said, ‘to be my lady, to fight in your cause, to honour and love you for ever.’ “She put out her right hand—oh, the delicate beauty of it | I kissed it. ‘My knight,’ she said, ‘Jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death—kiss me!’ “With a sob I caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. I closed my eyes in trance ; my muscles failed; I sank, my forehead to the ground before her. “When I opened my eyes again she too was praying. Softly, withou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
…ity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul just as much as intelligence and love. While man exists, so will religion. Considered in this light, it is nothing but the need of an infinite idealism, a need which justifies every aspiration for progress, which inspires every devotion, which alone prevents virtue and honour from being mere words, serving to exploit the vanity of the weak and the foolish to the profit of the strong and the clever. It is to this innate need of belief that one…
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
…ity, for in truth religion exists apart from all dogmatic discussion. It is a faculty of the human soul just as much as intelligence and love. While man exists, so will religion. Considered in this light, it is nothing but the need of an infinite idealism, a need which justifies every aspiration for progress, which inspires every devotion, which alone prevents virtue and honour from being mere words, serving to exploit the vanity of the weak and the foolish to the profit of the strong and the clever. It is to this innate need of belief that one…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…e And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained56 His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated “Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—I have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 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, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede Chri…
1911 · PDF PAGE 52
…ith a shining veil, and on my lap is the open Book of the mysteries of the ineffable light. Iam the aspiration unto the higher; I am the love of the unknown. I am the blind ache within the heart of man. I am the minister of the sacrament of pain. I swing the censer of worship, and I sprinkle the waters of purification. I am the daughter of the house of the invisible. I am the Priestess of the Silver Star. And she catches me up to her as a mother catches her babe, and holds me up in her left arm, and sets my lips to her breast. And upon her brea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 420
THE EQUINOX tears ; the song of Castor and Pollux, whom death could not divide, and who love alternately in hell and upon earth. . . . Then he calls softly Eurydice, his dear Eurydice, his so much loved Eurydice: Ah! miseram Eurydicen anima fugiente vocabat, Eurydicen! toto referebant flumine rip. While he sings, that pallid statue of the sculptor death takes on the colour of the first tint of life, its white lips begin to redden like the dawn . . . Orpheus sees her, he trembles, he stammers, the hymn almost dies upon his lips, but she pales an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 420
THE EQUINOX tears ; the song of Castor and Pollux, whom death could not divide, and who love alternately in hell and upon earth. . . . Then he calls softly Eurydice, his dear Eurydice, his so much loved Eurydice: Ah! miseram Eurydicen anima fugiente vocabat, Eurydicen! toto referebant flumine rip. While he sings, that pallid statue of the sculptor death takes on the colour of the first tint of life, its white lips begin to redden like the dawn . . . Orpheus sees her, he trembles, he stammers, the hymn almost dies upon his lips, but she pales an…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
… named, being so wonderfully desirable. Whereat he smiled upon me merrily, answering that whoso named him well, being a poet, called him Love ; or else being a lover of wisdom, called him Force ; or being a cynic, called him Lust ; or being a pietist, called him God. The last—thou seest !—(he said), a lie of Hell’s, and all a partial course of the great circle of whirling dust (stirred by the iron rod of thought) that men call wisdom. So I looked deep in his beauty, and beheld its truth. The life of that fair youth was as a whiz of violent litt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
THE MOTHER 127 normal , love of man and woman for God is abnormal , and the abnormal in its turn breeds the lustful , whether the abnormality lies in the twists of the mind or the aberrations of the soul . Amnon lusted after Tamar , he was a mental monster ; Ezekiel devoured dung , he was a spiritual abortion . That a passionate nature is necessarily a lustful one , is often no more the case than that a lustful one need necessarily be passionate ; that lust as well as passion often inhabit the same mind is true enough , and that its forms are m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
…that One Art, the Art of uniting the mind to a Single Idea. And, that all these, The Union by Knowledge, The Union by Will, The Union by Love, The Union by Courage found their vanishing point in the Supreme Union through Silence; that Union in which understanding fails us, and beyond which we can no more progress than we can beyond the Equilibrium set forth as the Ultimate End by Gustave le Bon. There all knowledge ceases, and we like Bahva, when he was questioned by Vashkali, can only expound the nature of this Silence, as he expounded the nat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
…that One Art, the Art of uniting the mind to a Single Idea. And, that all these, The Union by Knowledge, The Union by Will, The Union by Love, The Union by Courage found their vanishing point in the Supreme Union through Silence; that Union in which understanding fails us, and beyond which we can no more progress than we can beyond the Equilibrium set forth as the Ultimate End by Gustave le Bon. There all knowledge ceases, and we like Bahva, when he was questioned by Vashkali, can only expound the nature of this Silence, as he expounded the nat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…red of woman for sodomy, and the toleration with which men re- gard Sapphism. 8. I cannot too strongly urge my readers to se- lect their lovers from their equals in rank and for- tune. It is the only safeguard against betrayal ; further, it fulfills the Greek ideal, and silences the voice of adverse criticism. A. L. Solon properly forbade the practice of sodomy to slaves ; and perhaps after all the English, slaves at heart as they are, do well to observe his law. Ed. 9. Besides all this, there is the question of “ na- ture ” and “ against natur…
1911 · PDF PAGE 34
…thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one. 10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart, and spit in the face of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly οί thy wife, and let the babe at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures. Il. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacra- ment of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And beholdl if by stealth thou keep unto thyself one tho…