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Page 40 of 1001954 · PDF PAGE 436
67 Faith Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Dear me! dear me! this is very unexpected. I wrote you a long while ago about doubt, and now I suppose the seed fell in fertile ground! My chaste remarks have prompted a new question "arising out of the previous answer, Sir." You point out quite correctly that the doubt of which I wrote in passages of such burning eloquence is after all what used to be called "philosophic" doubt; and by "philosophic" people apparently meant something rather Ii ke "Pickwickians. " Not the genu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 140
…, incredibly right ! “The Lord Adonai is about me as a Thunderbolt and as a Pylon and as a Serpent and as a Phallus.” . . . » Have had a long talk on Art with B . " The master considers himself always a student.” So, therefore, whatever one may have attained, in this as in Art, there is always so much more possible that one can never be satisfied Much less, then, satiatedl . Having gone back into the life of the world—yet a world transfiguredI—I did all my little work, my little amusements, all the things that one does, very quietly and beatifical…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…Two for One again! No combination of thoughts can be greater than the think- ing brain itself; all we can think of God or say of Him, so long as our words really represent thoughts, is less than the whole brain which thinks, and orders speech. Very good; shall we proceed by denying Him all think- able qualities, as do the heathen? All we obtain is mere negation of thought. Either He is unknowable, or He is less than we are. Then, too, that which is unknowable is unknown; and “God” or “ There is God” as an answer to our question becomes as meani…
1912 · PDF PAGE 33
…lter anything or believe in the possibilityof altering anything?,־but there are those who think existenceeven in heaven intoler- able so long as there is one single being who does not share that joy. There are some who may wish to travel back from the very threshold of the bridal chamber to assist belated guests. Such at least was the attitude which Gotama Buddha adopted. Nor shall he be alone. Again it may be pointed out that the contemplative life is generally opposed to the active life, and it must require an extremely careful bal- ance to p…
1919 · PDF PAGE 236
…nce, leading its mem- bers step by step to knowledge and power hardly even dreamed of by the profane. 66. Brethren of the Order who take long journeys over- seas are received in places where they sojourn at the Pro- fess-Houses of the Order for the period of one month. TENTH HOUSE 67. Women of the Order who are about to become mothers receive all care, attention, and honour from all Brethren. 222
1928 · PDF PAGE 145
…te is already a decadence. It is then that one definitely hunts for beauty; as for me, gentlemen, I flatter my- self that I have arrived long since at the cli- macteric epoch of the third grade, when beauty itself no longer suffices unless it is sea- soned by perfume, adornment, and the rest. I will even admit that I sometimes aspire as if to an unknown happiness, to a certain fourth de- gree, whose stigma should be perfect calm; but, during my life, except at the age of Chérubin, I have been more sensitive than anyone else in the world to the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
GILLES DE RAIS Long ago when King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares, a gentleman whose Christian names were Thomas Henryyou may possibly have heard of himhe was no less a personage than the Grand- father of the great Aldous Huxleyonce found himself threatened by a predicament similar to that in which I stand tonight. He had been asked to lecture a distinguished group of people. What bothered him was this : what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience ? He adopted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old …
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
…ght was sin. I cannot sin! Alas, one sin were sweet ! But sin is living—and we cannot meet ! (To call it life that grows This bitter- So long ago, so miserably long ! I was a maiden—oh how rich and rare Seemed the soft sunshine woven in my hair! How keen the music of my body’s song ! How white the blossom of my body’s light ! How red the lips, how languorous the eyes, How made for pleasure, for the sleepy sighs Softer than sleep; amorous dew-dreams of night That draw out night in kisses to the day ! So was I to my seeming as I lay. That soft sm…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…e adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. IT know it, and will not await the answer. But dawn shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, passing here the night in prayer, will wait And with thee offer up propitious doves, And firstline males of all the flocks of us, JEPIVITIATE. Not so: but [ will have you hence in haste To gather food and arins and carriages, That all our soldiers may …
1898 · PDF PAGE 17
…dissolves to death ! Ah ! let me perish so, and not endure Thy falsehood who have known thy love was sure, Built up by sighs a palace of long years Lo ! it was faery, and the spell of tears Dissolves it utterly. O bid them go, These white-faced boys, where calmer rivers flow And birds less passionate invoke the spring Or seek their loves with weaker, wearier wing. Turn back from safety ! Let Gods rivers pour Brimstone and fire, and all his fountains roar Lava and hail of hell upon my head, So be he leave us altogether dead,
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…lted The star above her garter ; Her strong-room I assaulted, And occupied her farter. From which you all may gather That it will not be long Before I am a father . . . And that is all my song. There ! Let me alone now, and I will continue the Archbishops recital. How was it that days so sweet must pass ? Oh Jimson ! Oh divine maestro and thy Opera Or- ange Pekoe ! To this hour the lust of thy dear shit-sewer sends the creamy essence of immortal- ity all over my drawers. But it ended, and bit- terly. The careless youth got too near S...y B…
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work : burn thereon in silver or gold! 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work : burn thereon in silver or gold! 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
1902 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS ‘‘ LISTEN to the Jataka !” said the Buddha. And all they gave ear. ‘‘ Long ago, when King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares,! it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weaver named Suraj Ju? and his wife Chandi. And in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu.4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 98
86 THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. My veins : some deadlier asp or cockatrice Slimes in my senses : I am half awake, Half automatic, as I move along Wrapped in a cloud of blackness deep as hell, Hearing afar some half-forgotten song As of disruption ; yet strange glories dwell Above my head, as if a sword of light, Rayed of the very Dawn, would strike within The limitations of this deadly night That folds me for the sign of death and sin— O Light ! descend ! My feet move vaguely on In this amazing darkness, in the gloom That I can touch with trembling sens…
1909 · PDF PAGE 79
]ΟΗ Ν ST. JOHN 3.35. I have been asleep at good deal——one long dream in which P t, Lord M y of B—n and my wife are all staying with me in my mother‘s house. My room the old room, with one page torn out—for I conceived it as part of a book, somehow! Oh such a lot of this dream! Most of it clearly due to obvious sources—I don’t see where Lord M y comes in. Very likely he is dead. I have had that happen now and again. [P.S.—This was not the case] The dream changed, too, to a liner; where Japanese stole my pipe in a series of adventures of an annoy…
1961 · PDF PAGE 145
…h a Woman her whole Craft and Device is to persuade thee of this, so that thou utter the Secret of thy Soul, and become her Prey. But so long as thou feed her with her own Food of Falsity, thou art secure. m
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
… those depths of azure sea Where her eyes dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his breath Sighs, till her longing grows divine as death— So, fairer far, drew dawn on Ida’s grove. The young sun rose, whose burning lips of love Kissed the green steeps, whose royal locks of flame Brushed o’er the dewy pastures, with acclaim Of tuneful thrushes shrill with mountain song, And noise of nightingales, and murmur long— A sigh half-sad, as if remembering earth And all the massy pillars of her girth ; Half-jubilant, as if fo…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…ttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma-juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be ! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…pposed to do so. Might be worth trying anyway; things can hardly be worse than they are. Or, one might go over to the Hammam, and have a long bath and sleep—but who can tell whether it would refresh, or merely destroy the whole edifice built up so laboriously in these ten days? At Pantheon. ἑdozen Marennes, Rognons Brochette, Lait chaud.