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Page 20 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 124
…e had two delightful days. For some reason or other we had not brought the tent and slept in the crater in our ponchos. In the morning I found myself about three inches thick in hoarfrost. On the first day we climbed what was apparently the highest summit. (The formation is that of the rim of an enormous crater.) When we got there we found that another point a long way off was higher. The next morning Eckenstein was sick and I had to go alone. There was some difficult rock climbing on the wall which led to the ridge. But once there, the summit …
1906 · PDF PAGE 55
…ines, their tips ablaze, A crest caught Their feet dead black; the wind’s dark fingers warp To its own time their strings, a sombre mode Found by a ghost on a forgotten harp Or (still more terrible !) the lost dread ode That used to call the dead knights to their chief To the lone waters from the shadowy road. So deemed the weary Earl of the wind’s grief, And seemed to see about him form by form Like mighty wrecks, wave-shattered on a reef, Moulded and mastered by the shapeless storm A thousand figures of himself the mist Enlarged, distorted : …
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
…. Vol. I., No. 8. 3d, [. M. WATKINS. THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS. Of all this admirable series this is the best. Such prose I have rarely found in all my reading. I am beggared of wit to review it; but I implore all who seek the pure Light mirrored in flawless imagery to obtain it. ALEISTEK CROWLEY. THE APOCALYPSE UNSEALED. Being an Exatm‘c Intznþretatian of THE INITIATION or IOANNEs. By JAMES Μ. PRVSE. New York: John M. Pryse, 9-15 Murray Street, 1910. London: J. Μ. Watkins. 85. δεῖ. net. It is possible to write upon this book in a freer manner,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
…. Vol. I., No. 8. 3d, [. M. WATKINS. THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS. Of all this admirable series this is the best. Such prose I have rarely found in all my reading. I am beggared of wit to review it; but I implore all who seek the pure Light mirrored in flawless imagery to obtain it. ALEISTEK CROWLEY. THE APOCALYPSE UNSEALED. Being an Exatm‘c Intznþretatian of THE INITIATION or IOANNEs. By JAMES Μ. PRVSE. New York: John M. Pryse, 9-15 Murray Street, 1910. London: J. Μ. Watkins. 85. δεῖ. net. It is possible to write upon this book in a freer manner,…
1928 · PDF PAGE 5
TRANSLATORS PREFACE No bolder task can possibly be undertaken than the translation of prose so musical, so subtle, so profound as that of Charles Baude- laire. For this task I have but the one qualifica- tion of a love so overmastering, so absorbing, that in spite of myself it claims for me a broth- erhood with him. Charles Baudelaire is incomparably the most divine, the most spiritually-minded, of all French thinkers. His hunger for the Infinite was so acute and so persistent that nothing earthly could content him even for a moment. He even m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…learnt a great deal about camp life, the fine points of glissading, and the use of Steigeisen. In 1899, at the Montanvers, I had already found that his mechanically perfect "claws" worked miracles. We had shown a young man for Oxford, Dr. T. G. Longstaff, of what they were capable. Eckenstein would walk on a measured slope of over seventy degrees of hard black ice without cutting a step. On slopes up to fifty degrees he could simply stroll about. Nor could Longstaff pull him off by the rope. On the grand scale, too, I had proved their possibili…
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
…ny a pound, he refused to sell and was bringing the stuff back. The sack itself looked fabulous, so I got out the "butcher's terror" and found that it weighed four hundred and ten pounds. The whole business struck me as extraordinarily sublime. I dashed to old boy five rupees. This made him wild with happiness and restored his debilitated conviction in the existence of a Supreme Being who put in most of His time in caring for his faithful. {329} The next day, about four hours' ride took us to the top of the pass, from which we had a magnificent…
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
…ed Leapt from your hither eye, And straight my dream began To map that heavenyour eye, Aldeboran ! I launched the magic boat, and early found The Pirates cave and the Enchaunted Ground ; The cedared Lebanon, The Wizards Grot, the well of spice, The Hanging Gardens of great Babylon : All these then did I visit in a trice,
1913 · PDF PAGE 196
…onate, tearing lips, and thine arms around me, Knowing naught of the world, and caring naught, save this: Love, through this woman, hath found me. . . .
1913 · PDF PAGE 196
…onate, tearing lips, and thine arms around me, Knowing naught of the world, and caring naught, save this: Love, through this woman, hath found me. . . .
1929 · PDF PAGE 454
…in my memory uncontaminated by the sordid stupidity of Stockholm, the tedium of the discomfortable dreariness of the return to London. I found my work precisely where I had left it. The tenth and last number of The Equinox was published in due course. There was a certain pride in having triumphed over such opposition, in having "carried on" despite neglect, misunderstanding and treachery; in having achieved so many formidable tasks. There was also infinite satisfaction in so many signal successes. I could not doubt that I had made the Path of I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 157
…the East. Then, with a sudden inward catch of awe As if behind him sprang some silent beast, So shuddered he, and spurred his horse, and found A black path towards the water ; he released The bridle ; so the way went steep, ill bound On an accursed task, so dark it loomed Amid its yews and cypresses, each mound About each root, a grave, where Hell entombed A vampire till the night broke sepulchre And all its phantoms desperate and doomed
1909 · PDF PAGE 19
12.7. 12.18. 12.20. 12.28. 12.33. JOHN ST. JOHN The Second Day The Stroke of Twelve found me duly in my Asana, practising Pranayama. Let me continue this work ; for it is written that unto the persevering mortal the Blessed Immortals are swift . . . What then should happen to a persevering Immortal like myself? Trying meditation and mantra. I find thoughts impossible to concentrate; and my Asana, despite various cowardly attempts to "fudge” it, is {rightfully painful. In Hanged Man posture, meditating and willing the Presence of Adonai by the Ri…
1912 · PDF PAGE 43
…. He has just heard the Turks have sacked Con- stantinople. MARCO. No, but an idol breaks, a temple is defiled : Your Princess Monica is found to be with child. GIUSEPPE. Hum ! MATTEO. Its a dirty lie. FILIPPO. A dirty lie ! EUPHEMIA. You hog ! MARGARITA. You filthy beast. GIUSEPPE. Its false, I make no doubt, the dog ! I suppose you are the father. MARCO. O ! no one knows who he is, But she. FILIPPO. You sayt again ! NINA. A saint as sweet as she is ! Lets tear the lying tongue from him ! GIUSEPPE. To the canal ! And cool his brains ; hes…
1913 · PDF PAGE 232
…e where, under a rainy moon, Are nuptials, and a feasting, and a swoon? (xv) For art’s sake let there be no more delaying; Since we have found Love, with him let us linger: Upon our hearts new chords he'll still be playing— Upon what secret strings shall stray his finger? We talk so foolishly of love! We lie Lip unto lip, heart pressed to beating breast All too oblivious of the hours that fly For ever onward to eternal rest. 194
1913 · PDF PAGE 232
…e where, under a rainy moon, Are nuptials, and a feasting, and a swoon? (xv) For art’s sake let there be no more delaying; Since we have found Love, with him let us linger: Upon our hearts new chords he'll still be playing— Upon what secret strings shall stray his finger? We talk so foolishly of love! We lie Lip unto lip, heart pressed to beating breast All too oblivious of the hours that fly For ever onward to eternal rest. 194
1928 · PDF PAGE 41
…liate for a mo- ment their foolish pride, that there are pleas- ures superior to theirs, pleasures more vast and more refined. Those who found colleges, who teach peoples, missionary priests exiled to the end of the earth, without doubt know something of these mysterious intoxications, and in the bosom of the vast family which their genius has made for themselves, they must sometimes laugh at those who compassionate them for their troubled fortune and for their life so chaste.
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…t the conversation would not suddenly by a bullet being put through him, for Eckenstein always looked a very formidable customer; but he found himself charmingly invited to come with us and climb Popocatapetl, so as to acquire first-hand knowledge of mountains and the men who climbed them. He gaily and gratefully accepted this insidious proposition. We rode merrily up to the sulphur ranch, where intending climbers stay the night. The next morning the fun began. One of the world's records which we had left in tatters was that for pace uphill at …
1901 · PDF PAGE 22
…l years. The city was itself; Hard thinking if hard drinking—sober-sides! One night I stepped up tremulous on the stage, Sang something, found my senses afterward Only to that intolerable sound Of terrible applause. They shook the sky With calling me to answer. And J lay— A storm of weeping swept across my frame— Till the polite, the hateful manager Led me to face a nation’s lunatic Roar of delight. I soon got over that, And over—yes, the other thing. Three months— They used to quote me on the Stock Exchange! I will say this to me, I will not s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 21
…ALESSANDRO.] Ill rival her as far as welcome goes. ALESSANDRO. Ive come from Paris crowned for being cold and clever ; Lorenzo will be found more amorous than ever. Youve ruffled all my hair ; to him your hearts are stone. Please to make him your care, and leave my locks alone ! LUCREZIA. Cruel ! ZELINA. Too cruel ! LORENZO. [To the women.] Cruel ! They dipped your hearts in Styx ! ALESSANDRO. Look here ! fair plays a jewel ; lets talk of politics. The Doge is older now than when I went to school And wiser ? Anyhow he may be still a fool.…