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Page 200 of 2251906 · PDF PAGE 136
THE GOD-EATER* A TRAGEDY OF SATIRE 1903 [The idea of this obscure and fantastic play is as follows :— By a glorious act human misery is secured (History of Christianity). Hence, appreciation of the personality of Jesus is no excuse for being a Christian. Inversely, by a vile and irrational series of acts human happiness is secured (Story of the play) Hence, attacks on the Mystics of History need not cause us to condemn Mysticism. Also, the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a Tree whose fruit Man has not yet tasted: so that the Devil cheated Eve ind…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…to a wheel at all; the place you want to get to is the centre, if you want to be quiet. Then there was a really lovely passage, Via t v. Mantis like a deep wood in Springtime, the dearest old man came along who had lived there all his life, because he was the guardian of it, and he didn’t need to travel because he belonged to the First House really from the very beginning. He wore a vast cloak, and he carried a lamp and a long stick; and he said that the cloak meant you were to be silent and not say anything you saw, and the lamp meant you were…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…o himself, drug himself, hide himself; but he is always there. Magick will teach him that his mind is playing him traitor. It is as if a man were told that tailors’ fashion-plates were the canon of human beauty, so that he tried to make himself formless and featureless like them, and shuddered with horror at the idea of Holbein making a portrait of him. Magick will show him the beauty and majesty of the self which he has tried to suppress and disguise. Having discovered his identity, he will soon perceive his purpose. Another process will show …
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…rld-crisis?" [300] "I'm over here to buy Italy. Bowling bought Belgium, you know, some time back. He was thick with Leopold, but the old man had too much sense to deal. He knew he would be the first to go smash when the war came. But Albert pocketed the good red gold without a second thought; that's partly what the trouble is over. Germany found out about it." "And why buy Italy? To keep Austria busy, I suppose? These Wops can hardly hope to force the line, especially with the Trentino Salient on the flank." "That's the idea. It would have been…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…ey are fighting for ideals; only the governments know what hypocrisy and sham it is; so the ideals will win, both in defeat and victory. Man! only three days ago France was the France of Panama, and Dreyfus, and Madame Humbert, and Madame Steinheil, and Madame Caillaux; and to-day she is already the France of Roland and Henri Quatre and Danton and Napoleon and Gambetta and Joan of Arc!" "And England of the Boer wars, and the Irish massacres, and the Marconi scandals, and Tranby Croft?" "Oh, give England time! She'll have to be worse before she'…
1905 · PDF PAGE 159
…nk that I abjure sy this proud act, but let my monument Say lo succeeding peoples and dim tribes Unthought of: ‘‘‘This was born a living man Bound, and he cut the chain of circumstance, And spat on Fate.” And all the priests shall say And all the people: ‘‘ Verily and Amen.” [Stabs himself. Ciuorus. Spirit of the Gods! O single, sacred, secret, let the length least and west, the depth and height, North and south, with music tingle, Ring with battled clarion choirs of the far- resounding light ! Let the might Of Osirian sacrifice Dwell upon the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…nd a worse persecution was threatened. Then St. Martin left his cell at Marmontier, and set out a second time to Tréves. News of the old man coming along the road on his ass reached his enemies. They met him at the gate and refused him entrance. “But,” said Martin, “I come with the peace of Jesus Christ.” And such was the power of his presence that they could not close the city gates against him. But the palace doors were closed. Martin refused to see the Ithacans or to receive the Communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…nd a worse persecution was threatened. Then St. Martin left his cell at Marmontier, and set out a second time to Tréves. News of the old man coming along the road on his ass reached his enemies. They met him at the gate and refused him entrance. “But,” said Martin, “I come with the peace of Jesus Christ.” And such was the power of his presence that they could not close the city gates against him. But the palace doors were closed. Martin refused to see the Ithacans or to receive the Communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 45
… AIOLLY. O sir, my lord, how can I thank you? GLENSTRAE. Come in, my dear, and let us see your father about it... . Can you spare an old man a kiss? MOLLY. O my lord! GLENSTRAE (4issing her). There, there! Where is your father? - [ Zhey go tn. SCENE X. Farts. Night. SiR PERCY azd ANGELA on bed, the latter asleep. SiR PERCY. O Rose of dawn! O star of evening! O glory ofthe soul oflight! Let my bright spirit speed on urgent wing ! Let me be silent, and my silence sing Throughout the idle, the luxurious night ! [Tow soft she breathes! Elow tender …
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
…aw, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of foolish fables beneath the intellectual level of a negro or a clergyman, and the moral level of a drug-fiend or a lawyer. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice. “Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?” He says again: ‘‘ Where I am, these are not.” There is much more of the same kind ; enough has been quoted already to make all clear. But there is a further injunction. “Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 180
…d out of the presence of the more advanced adept; and his inborn ecclesiastical contempt for women showed through the tissue of his good manners. Cyril's most admirable patience tried her even more sorely. "Are you my lover or my grandfather?" she screamed at him one night, when he had been more than usually tactful. Had the matter rested there, it had been ill enough with her. But the mind of man is a strange instrument. "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do" is a rattling good piece of psychology. Iliel had nothing to occupy h…
1944 · PDF PAGE 44
…rable. One can go into a museum and see rows of glass globes and bottles which contain the chemical substances which go to make up the human body; but the collection is very far from being a man. Still less does it explain the difference between Lord Tomnoddy and Bill Sykes. Nineteenth century chemists were at great pains. to analyse opium and isolate its alkaloids, rather like a child pulling a watch to pieces to see what makes it go. They succeeded, but the results were not altogether wholesome. Morphine has much more direct hypnotic effect t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
…roned above the moon! Inspire a holy tune Lichter and lovelier than flowers and wine Offered in gracious gardens unto Pan By any soul of man |! imperfect St 3. In vain the solemn stars pour their pale dews Upon my trembling spirit; their caress Leaves me moon-rapt in waves of loveliness All thine, O rose, O wrought of many a muse In Music, O thou strength of ecstasy Incarnate in a woman-form, create Of her own rapture, infinite, ultimate, Not to be seen, not grasped, not even imagi- nable,. But known of one, by virtue of that spell Of thy sweet…
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
… I fee: a stirring in my blood. Pours through my veinsa delicate pale flood Of memory. Not the pale and terrible Goddess whose throne is manifest in Hell —I am again a child, a playful child. ORPHEUS., And therefore, O most beautiful and mild Sweet mother! art the girl beloved again Of Hades mighty on the Nysian plain. And therefore are thine eyes with sorrow dim For me, and thy word powerful with Him. PERSEPHONE, Ah me! no fruit for guerdon, Who bore the blossom’s burden ; There shines no sunlight toward Persephone. Ravished, O iron-eyed ! Fro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
…o tread. (By the Blossom and Fruit theory, I mean the existence of a body of initiates pledged to devote themselves to the redemption of mankind.) It sounds as if I had become a bit of a prig. I expect a good deal of my attitude was due to exhausted vitality. Chogo Ri was perhaps still taking his revenge. I had picked out Boleskine for its loneliness. Lord Lovat and Mrs. Fraser-Tyler, my nearest neighbours, were eight miles away, while Grant of Glenmoriston was on the other side of Loch Ness. Besides, Boleskine was already the centre of a thous…
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
…as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan The scroll of heaven, and see if there be not, Black with no. blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew, This message of good hope, good trust, good fate And good estate : ‘* Work on, hope ever, let your faith be built Of gold ungilt ; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; Your faith wax firmer than a ship at sleep On the grey deep, An…
1906 · PDF PAGE 222
… one for one.” For the Lion did our Father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his Eagle a cup of ever flowing water : for his Man the Suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but him- self only), while for a curious coin he bartered his good Bul]. Alas for our Father! Now the Suggler mocks him and cries: ‘‘ Four fool’s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit to go forth and meet a fool for thy mate.” But our Father counted thrice seven and cried: ‘‘ One for …
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
…h soul; no benediction seek From any spirit but our own ! Crown not the mighty with the weak! The Tower be a Tower, and not a Throne! In man-carved stone the endless coil Arise untopped, the Tower of Toil ! Deem not that prayer or sacrifice Will ever cause the work to end! Serene, sufficient, let it rise Alone ; it doth not ask a friend, Nor shall it bend a fatuous knee To a fantastic deity. What crest or chrism were so good To work as Art, the crown upon Work’s brow? Thy will with love endued Lift up this loftier Parthenon| Thine art the conse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…here the Red Queen screams before she pricks her finger.) “Let me illustrate the theory by an actual example. “I Write from Italy to a a man in France and another in Australia on the same day, telling them to join me. Both arrive ten days later; the first in answer to my letter, which he received, the second on “his own initiative”, as it would seem. But I summoned him because I wanted him; and I wanted him because he was my représentative ; and his intelligence made him résolve to join me because it judged rightly that the situation (so far as…
1905 · PDF PAGE 205
…rated in the breath. Hell, Death, and Sin must hear, Tremble and visibly fear, 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 sper…