The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veiléd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 28
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…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veiléd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 28
…rd of Thebes, and I The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu; For me unveils the veiléd sky, The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit! 28
…ends complacently that the bridge is going up better than he ever expected. Just so, my gibes are directed at incidents ; but my heart's truth is fixed on the grand spiral. 481
…92 Zi De Morte (Concerning Death) HOU hast made Question of me concerning Death, and this is my Opinion, of which I say not: this is the Truth. First in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, individual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuith. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of he Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhabiteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And his Tabernacle is Subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse reacting to every Stimulus o…
…nds, with that grim humour of his, is: Avoid Intoxi- cation. But what is intoxication? unless it be the loss o! power to use perfectly a truth-telling set of faculties. If I walk unsteadily it is owing to nervous lies—and so for all the phenomena of d:u.ukenness, But a lie involves the assump- * Quoted below, ‘‘Science and Buddhism,” note. t “Ship me somewhere East of Suez, where a man in raise a thirst.”—R. KIPLING. t ‘* While as for Quilp Hop o’ my Thumb there, Banjo-Byron that twangs the strum-strum there. —Browninec, Pachiarotto (said of A.…
…, A goodlier godhead than the broken God ." It was in the winter of 1619 that Descartes made the famous resolution to “ take nothing for truth with out the clear knowledge that it is such ." Thus Jove like he discrowned the authority of a thousand years , and though the symbolization of his ideas was often at variance with the logic of his facts , it is to him alone that present - day agnosticism must look back on as its founder . Berkeley , as we have seen , carried the Cartesian principle to its logical result ; Hume , 1 The Sword of Song , v…
… the Order were pledged. (6) When the “rebellion” took place in 1900, I thought Mathers a wolf, and Westcott a sheep; but, recog- nizing Truth in the knowledge issued by the Order, maintained my allegiance to the Secret Chiefs 8°= 3°. (7) In 1904 I was ordered directly and definitely by a person who proved himself to be the messenger of a
THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH one simple, sane, clean truth, when glancing up, he saw that after all He had overlooked something. In the Infinite Universe which he had constructed there was a tiny crack. A tiny, tiny crack. Barely an inch of it. Well, the matter was easily remedied. As it chanced, there was a dainty little Spirit (with gossamer wings like a web of steel, and scarlet tissue of silk for his robes) flitting about, brandishing his tiny sword and spear in a thoroughly warlike manner. “Shun!” said the Great White Spirit. “ By the ri…
… the Order were pledged. (6) When the “rebellion” took place in 1900, I thought Mathers a wolf, and Westcott a sheep; but, recog- nizing Truth in the knowledge issued by the Order, maintained my allegiance to the Secret Chiefs 8°= 3°. (7) In 1904 I was ordered directly and definitely by a person who proved himself to be the messenger of a
THE DAUGHTER OF THE HORSELEECH one simple, sane, clean truth, when glancing up, he saw that after all He had overlooked something. In the Infinite Universe which he had constructed there was a tiny crack. A tiny, tiny crack. Barely an inch of it. Well, the matter was easily remedied. As it chanced, there was a dainty little Spirit (with gossamer wings like a web of steel, and scarlet tissue of silk for his robes) flitting about, brandishing his tiny sword and spear in a thoroughly warlike manner. “Shun!” said the Great White Spirit. “ By the ri…
…s right, John St. Johnl yet how is it that there is place for the great hunchbacked devil to whisper in thine ear the doubt: Is there in truth any mystic path at all? Is it all disappointmentand illusion ? And the “Poor Thing " John St. John moves off
…early dew ; he is the witness of all these orgasms, like a-many comets and meteors, assuaging thy desire. [persian] Waw My member is the Truth, never swerving from thy podex ; he is the advocate of its beauty, and strong is he like a young unweaned lion, assuaging thy desire. Solid is my member, a foster-father to thy podex, ever providing it with pearly dew ; and thankwor- thy is he, like a poet before a king, assuaging thy desire. My member reckoneth the orgasms of thy podex, he who began them ; he raiseth himself from the dead, and giveth th…
… . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth . Beyond the splendour of the world , False glittering of the gold , A Serpent is in slumber curled In wisdom's sacred cold . Life is the flaming of that flame . Death is the naming of that name . That star upon the serpent's head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life's plan . The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought's abyss of tears and woes .
…, another (and less metaphysically pretentious) way of speaking of the ‘ Higher Self” or “Genius.” It is indeed but a low aspect, for in truth the phenomenon pertains to Vififianam. Yet in simpler souls this peculiar Grace condescends—may one say ?—to this level, just as a father may join in the games of his child, thus gaining its sympathy and confidence as a basis for a higher union. xV “The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle guiders which glitter with the inflexible tracings of relentless fire.” “The Oracles assert that the types of Cha…
…, another (and less metaphysically pretentious) way of speaking of the ‘ Higher Self” or “Genius.” It is indeed but a low aspect, for in truth the phenomenon pertains to Vififianam. Yet in simpler souls this peculiar Grace condescends—may one say ?—to this level, just as a father may join in the games of his child, thus gaining its sympathy and confidence as a basis for a higher union. xV “The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle guiders which glitter with the inflexible tracings of relentless fire.” “The Oracles assert that the types of Cha…
…of woe. Ah ! God, I ache for turn of tide At ebb. Then let the moonrise kindle and burn beside The sunset. God ! if I have loved thee in truth, adored As none before me, given all my youth, dear Lord, To Thee, now hear me, hear me, hear me this one breath ! Give me this Mortadello to my kissand death !
…tative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235
…tative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235
…nces I have not scrupled to subvert anything that appeared to me to need subverting in the interests, always identical, of beauty and of truth. Anachron- ism may be found piled upon anachronism, and symbolism mixed with symbolism. II
…sinuate any charge of plagiarism) in other words, substantially this, that is to say of course it must be put mystic- ally, because if a truth is important, it should be the duty of every thinking man to conceal it from the masses, this, I say, that the score of life (what- ever the score at Tennis may be, that doesn’t matter) is at Love-all. O Gilbert gyrates like a grouse in the green of the horrible heather, (Mr Swinburne cannot abide my straightforward English (that’s one to me) way of talking, though his morality is imported and perfectly …