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Page 41 of 781906 · PDF PAGE 120
…. Words must be aided by appalling deeds ! ALCESTIS. O! O! you frighten us. MEDEA. Be brave, my child ! I too passed through unutterable things ! ALCESTIS. Let me fetch father ! MEDEA. Nay, consider first. Would he consent? The process is severe ! DANAIDES. We know the sire is not exactly brave, Though very wise and good. MEDEA. Tis clear to me ; Without his knowledge we must do the deed. ALCKSTIS. What is this ‘‘ deed ” ? MEDEA. A caldron is prepared ; And, having hewn your father limb from limb, We seethe him in a broth of magic herbs. ALCEST…
1911 · PDF PAGE 148
…her small, very pretty; the nose very slightly less than straight, well-proportioned, rather large nostrils. Full of vitality, the whole thing. Not very tall, rather slim and graceful; a good dancer. There is another girl behind her, with sparkling eyes, mis- chievous, a smile showing beautiful white teeth; an ideal Spanish girl, but fair. Very vivacious. Only her head is visible, and now it is veiled by a black sun, casting forth dull rays of black and gold. Then the disk of the sun is a pair of balances, held steady; and twined about the cent…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
… in pamphlets whose authors had at one time been admirers of his doctrine, for the medium Vintras took it upon himself to dogmatize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witn…
1913 · PDF PAGE 550
…t Des- mousseaux has reprinted all the details in a book, published in 1854, entitled Mawrs et pratiques des démons. The most remarkable thing in this latter author is that he seems to divine the existence of the plastic medium or the fluidic body. “We have certainly not two souls,” said he, “ but perhaps we have two bodies.” Everything that he says, in fact, would seem to prove this hypothesis. He saw a shepherd whose fluidic form haunted a Presbytery, and who was wounded at a distance by blows inflicted on his astral larva. We shall here ask …
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
… in pamphlets whose authors had at one time been admirers of his doctrine, for the medium Vintras took it upon himself to dogmatize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witn…
1913 · PDF PAGE 550
…t Des- mousseaux has reprinted all the details in a book, published in 1854, entitled Mawrs et pratiques des démons. The most remarkable thing in this latter author is that he seems to divine the existence of the plastic medium or the fluidic body. “We have certainly not two souls,” said he, “ but perhaps we have two bodies.” Everything that he says, in fact, would seem to prove this hypothesis. He saw a shepherd whose fluidic form haunted a Presbytery, and who was wounded at a distance by blows inflicted on his astral larva. We shall here ask …
1922 · PDF PAGE 60
…ls of our first week in Paris. Details had ceased to exist. We whirled from pleasure to pleasure in one inexhaustible rush. We took everything in our stride. I cannot begin to de- scribe the blind, boundless beatitude of love. Every incident was equally exquisite. Of course, Paris lays herself out especially to deal with people in just that state of mind. We were living at ten times the normal voltage. This was true in more senses than one. I had taken a thousand pounds in cash from London, thinking as I did so how jolly it was to be reckless. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…ently, like golf clubs, a set of instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose. But, anyway, he called it a poem, and the title was something to do with the old woman of Berkeley and who rode behind her. The person who rode behind her was Mr. Montague Summers friend, the Devil. What she actually did to merit this favour is to me rather obscure, because I have forgotten the whole beastly thing. But I do remem- ber two lines, because I am in the same line of business myself. I have candles made of infants fat, I have feasted on rifled graves. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…olence, my attention was attracted by the little flames of lightning that played upon the iron uprights. I forgot about my axe. The next thing I knew was that I had been knocked down. I can hardly say that I felt any definite electrical shock; but I knew what must have happened. I was seized by a curious mixture of exhilaration and terror; and dashed down the face of the mountain at its steepest point, leaping from rock to rock like a goat. I easily beat the record from the summit to the hotel! Despite the intense concentration1 necessary to ju…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
TIME 269 Myst. Oh never! The word “real” im- plies to us subjectivity; a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us; even its Un- knowability is a species of knowledge of it: and, by Savitri! when I say real Zo us, I say real absolutely, since all things lie to me in the radius of my sensorium. ‘‘ To others” is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…nd broke out into a passionate denunciation of the book. His manner was so ferocious that I was positively startled; and the interesting thing about the incident is this. I had been so long so alert lest I should be accused of disbelief, that it almost took my breath away to hear a man in authority speak so openly1. I have explained how I had vainly sought supreme wickedness in the Church of England. I had even gone to so-called "high" churches and on one occasion dared to enter the portals of the papists. But I had found nothing wicked even th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tiny hand in his, a little later. “ They are beautiful things, Piotr,” she answered. “ They are beautiful to the eye.” “Hah!” he sighed—for that was the one thing he could not well realize. “They are stones with fire or water in them.” 304
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
…did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tiny hand in his, a little later. “ They are beautiful things, Piotr,” she answered. “ They are beautiful to the eye.” “Hah!” he sighed—for that was the one thing he could not well realize. “They are stones with fire or water in them.” 304
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
… I have tasted! And you want me to remain cold at the bidding of an ecclesiastical authority which finds it more convenient to deny everything than to examine the least thing!. . .” “By permission, sir; it is in religious matters, above all, that authority can never be wrong. . . ._ In religion, good is hierarchy, and evil is anarchy; to what would the influence of the priesthood be reduced, in effect, if you set up the prin- ciple that one must rather believe the testimony of one’s senses than the decision of the Church? Is not the Church more…
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
… I have tasted! And you want me to remain cold at the bidding of an ecclesiastical authority which finds it more convenient to deny everything than to examine the least thing!. . .” “By permission, sir; it is in religious matters, above all, that authority can never be wrong. . . ._ In religion, good is hierarchy, and evil is anarchy; to what would the influence of the priesthood be reduced, in effect, if you set up the prin- ciple that one must rather believe the testimony of one’s senses than the decision of the Church? Is not the Church more…
1922 · PDF PAGE 49
…hough he had never studied medicine officially. But I was not aware of what was going on. Cocaine was singing in my veins. I cared for nothing. Lou came over impulsively and flung herself across my knees. She held the goblet of Benedictine to my mouth, chanting ecstatically :-— “Q Thou sparkling wine-cup of light, whose foaming is the heart’s blood of the stars! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” We swooned into a deep, deep trance. Lamus interrupted us. “You mustn’t think me inhospitable,” he said. “ She’s come round all right ; but I o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 180
…the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, - But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one 410 Thing at a time — suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !) ® And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends, Division, 415 Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. Some poetry. There is a Jake * amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break. 420 Oh! the deep brilliance of the lake! The roar of ice th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
… more foolish than he who prays to an omnipotent con ception ; the former was jealous and exacting , and so is the latter , the former a thing , the latter an idea , and both an ideal . This evolution is very vividly de scribed in the poem entitled “ The Growth of God ”: Fear grows , and torment ; and distracted pain Must from sheer agony some respite find ; When some half - maddened miserable brain Projects a god in his detesting mind . A who made him -- to the core all evil , In his own image - and a God of Terror ; A vast foul nightmare , an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 122
…alon of eight years ago—no, seven years ago.” Roderic stared in surprise. How should any one—such a man, of all men—remember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? The oldster read his thought. “There was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply,” he said. “TI called to see you; you had gone—none knew where. I am indeed glad to have met you at last. Perhaps you would be good enough to show me your pictures —you have other pictures of Paris? I am interested in Paris—in Paris itself—in the stones and bricks of it. Migh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 323
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING “After this I returned to the central altar, where every- thing fell from me, and then I returned to earth, assuming my sword and red robe to dominate the astrals. Thus did I return,” No. 18. To see Sappho. “With bewildering speed I was carried upwards, and in the midst of my flight an angel approached me apparently to aid me, yet I tarried not, but still ascended. On, on I flew, until at length I became surprised at the great distance of my journey. “ Eventually I arrived in a strange land, and after some perplex…