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Page 48 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 204
…n to William Ernest Henley, who invited me to lunch with him in his house near Woking. My sonnet on Rodin's bust of Henley describes the man and the interview rather than the sculpture. Cloistered seclusion of the galleried pines Is mine today; these groves are fit for Pan --- O rich with Bacchus frenzy and his wine's Atonement for the infinite woes of man! And here his mighty and reverend high priest Bade me good cheer, an eager acolyte, Poured the high wine, unveiled the mystic feast ... Roast lamb and an excellent Chablis which had been sent…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…kiss in double death -pang , if dare ! Or one day I will strangle you within My heavy hair !? Slowly , and solely through temptation can man be purified . Burns, who was possessed with the happiest knack of striking the nail full on the head , driving it home at one blow , describes this well in his “ Address to the Unco Gude " : What's done we partly may compute But kenna what's resisted . It is this resistance alone which sanctifies man , body and soul . There is sparse morality in the well - fed , the well - housed , the well - dressed , the…
1912 · PDF PAGE 169
…atures of the Earth, and Men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling—places, let them forget their Names. The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. His buildings, let them become Caves for the beasts of the Field! Confound her understanding with darkness! For why? it repenteth me that I have made Man. One while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an Harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. 0 ye Heavens, arise ! The lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you ! Gove…
1912 · PDF PAGE 169
…atures of the Earth, and Men, let them vex and weed out one another; and their dwelling—places, let them forget their Names. The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. His buildings, let them become Caves for the beasts of the Field! Confound her understanding with darkness! For why? it repenteth me that I have made Man. One while let her be known, and another while a stranger: because she is the bed of an Harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. 0 ye Heavens, arise ! The lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you ! Gove…
1919 · PDF PAGE 72
… so sharp as steel; yet it pierceth the body more subtly. 14. Even as evil kisses corrupt the blood, so do my words devour the spirit of man. 15. I breathe, and there is infinite dis-ease in the spirit. 16. As an acid eats into steel, as a cancer that utterly corrupts the body; so am I unto the spirit of man. 17. Ishall not rest until I have dissolved it all. 18. So also the light that is absorbed. One absorbs lit- 66
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
…, which wear thou, etc. (31.) Foras.—The Thirty-first Spirit is Foras. He is a Mighty Pre- sident, and appeareth in the Form of a Strong Man in Human Shape. He can give the understanding to Men how they may know the Virtues of all Herbs and Precious Stones. He teacheth the Arts of Logic and Ethics in all their parts. If desired he maketh men invisible,’ and to live long, and to be eloquent. He can discover Treasures and recover things Lost. He ruleth over 29 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, which wear thou, etc. (32.) Asmopay.—The Thir…
1906 · PDF PAGE 79
…e shed upon our life, We clung still closer, till the soul ran through Body to body, twined like sunny snakes, Sinlessly knowing we were man and wife. THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY. “ Mal, Dispute it like a man. Macd. , I shall do so. But I must also feel it as a man.” Macbeth. | I HAD a fearful dream (on going away) Of scorpion women curled in my caress, And twenty days they closed on my distress ) Not giving me relief, but gold and gray, 1 Cornelius Agrippa distinguishes three frenzies; of Apollo, Dionysus, and Aphrodite; song, wine, and love.
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…y unmarred by pain and grief : Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby each life laments and hangs, (Now as I speak a lizard71 lies In wait for light-bewildered flies) 580 585 590 595 600 605 610 615 heaven suffers Hell’s pangs, owing to re- proa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…—but I will know Thee as Thou art. It is strange how my cries died down; how I found myself quite involuntarily swinging back to the old mantra that I worked all yesterday. However, I shall try a little longer in the Position of the Hanged Man, although sleep is again attacking me. I am weary, yet content, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing no man can be positive about from the nature of things—it must have happened so quietly that I never knew. Certainly I should not have thought that I had gone on…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…truth assumed for the benefit of my biographer I All these strange things suffered and enjoyed for no better purpose than to seem a great man. One cannot express the horror of this thought; it is The thought that murders the soul—and there is no answer to it. So universal is it that it is impossible to prove the contrary. So one must play the man, and master it and kill it utterly, burying it in that putrid hell from which it sprang. Luckily I have dealt with it before, Once when I lived at Paddington J—s and F—r were with me talking, and, when …
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…ge” an example of this fallacy of writing one unknown for another, and then crowing like Peter’s cock ?] I picture the true sceptic as a man eager and alert, his deep eyes glittering like sharp swords, his hands tense with effort as he asks, ‘‘ What does it matter?” I picture the false sceptic as a dude or popinjay, yawning, with dull eyes, his muscles limp, his purpose in asking the question but the expression of his slackness and stupidity. This true sceptic is indeed the man of science; as Wells’ “ Moreau ” tells us. He has devised some mean…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
…that is Zion! The marriage of the Starbeam and the Clod! The mystic Sabbath of the Saints of God! Bestride the Broomstick that is God-in-man! Spur the rough Goat whose secret name is Pan! Before that Rod Heaven knows itself unjust; Beneath those hoofs the stars are puffs of dust. Rise up, my soul! One stride, and space is spanned; Time, like a poppy, crushed in thy left hand, While with thy right thou reachest out to grip The Graal of God, and tilt it to thy lip? Lo! all the whirring shafts of Light, a web Wherein the Tides of Being flow and eb…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…pected “ mus.” Let glories of a novel climb Before that climb be dumb ; Nor of a record-breaking time Before the achievement hum. Let no man of his doings boast Before those deeds be wrought; No cook proceed his hare to roast Before that hare be caught.
1913 · PDF PAGE 84
KE®AAH ST MARGERY DAW I love LAYLAH. I lack LAYLAH. ‘* Where is the Mystic Grace?” sayst thou? Who told thee, man, that LAYLAH is not Nuit, and I Hadit? I destroyed all things; they are reborn in other shapes. I gave up all for One; this One hath given up its Unity for all? I wrenched DOG backwards to find GOD; now GOD barks. Think me not fallen because I love LAYLAH, and lack LAYLAH. I am the Master of the Universe; then give me a heap of straw in a hut, and LAYLAH naked! Amen.
1928 · PDF PAGE 142
XL THE MIRROR A SHOCKINGLY ugly man comes in and looks at himself in the glass. Why do you look at yourself in the mirror, since you cannot see yourself there but with displeasure? Sir Ugly answers me, Sir, ac- cording to the immortal principles of the year 89, all men have equal rights; ergo, I possess the right of looking at myself,whether with pleasure or chagrin is no ones business but my own. In the name of good sense, I was doubtless right; but from a legal standpoint he was cer- tainly not wrong.
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
174 THE STAR IN THE WEST darkness into light . “ The stone becomes a plant, the plant an animal , the animal a man , and man greatens into Deity ." I Nothing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existen…
1909 · PDF PAGE 41
…. 5°= 6° Adeptus Minor. . & . A majestic king, a child, a cru- 6 cified god Flies. . . .| 4°= 7 Philosophus. . . f . A beautiful naked woman . 7 Lice . 3°= 8° Practicus. bs An Hermaphrodite 8 a) Frogs a°= 9" Theoricus . . . } 6 ¢ A beautiful naked man, very 9 P strong r°=r109 Zelator . Water ened {d= o! Neophyte \ y \ A seuss woman crowned and| 10 CXXIX. CXXVIII. CXXVII.* Pairs ofAngels ruling Meaning of Col. CKXVII. Seven Heavens of 0 so Seay Seng House of Giory, made of pearls . . . . Dar al-J alal 2 PONT MDDY 3 oe Spee Gers House of Rest or …
1916 · PDF PAGE 9
…n order to perceive the rights and wrongs of all such matters independence of mind is just as necessary as clearness of vision. When the man can be influenced by considerations of his own welfare, when hope and fear find any place in his mind, he is no longer to be trusted. The only man who can fulfil this condition is the prophet. (It must be remembered that the functions of poet and prophet were originally identical. The distinction between them is the artificial one of form. The states of mind are identical.) A true prophet lives only by vir…
1906 · PDF PAGE 280
…on ! Scept. As a coefficient rather. Let us construct a scale of vividness from a to 2, and we can erect a formula to express all that a Man is. For example he might be: 10a + 33125 + 890¢ + 800112658e + 992/ + ww ween +... 2, and, if we can find the ratio ofa: 6:¢:d: e:fi......:n, we can resolve the equa- tion into a single term, and compare man and man. Myst. Y catch the idea. Fanciful as it of course is in practice, the theory is sound to the core. You delight me! Scept. Not at all, not at all. Further, I see that since the memory is a store…
1909 · PDF PAGE 318
…he Adept. Having reached him, she embraced his feet and then lewdly climbed and writhed up him. “Get to your stye,’ he said in a low, commanding voice. At which I felt intensely sorry for her. “The Adept, noticing my sympathy, turned to me and said : ‘She is lust, fresh-fleshed and lovely, but rotten. She would clog the power of a man.” “T thereupon thanked the Adept. But he, taking no notice of my thanks, pointed out to me a distant star through a hole in the roof, and then said, ‘ Journey there.’ “This I did, streaming up towards it like a co…