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Page 55 of 2251909 · PDF PAGE 366
…that I should find here the cover which I needed. I have it now, and mean to keep it.” “But what are you talking about?” said I. “I am a man; here is my house; and I don’t know anything about your cover. You are mistaking me for some unknown person or object, sir; pray let me go.” “Let you go! Abandon once more the cover which shall keep my thoughts in! You ave mad! Besides, why do you speak? And how is it that you come in such a shape?” “T tell you lam a man. Leave me alone, or I shall have to call for assistance and give you in charge. Iam a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 366
…that I should find here the cover which I needed. I have it now, and mean to keep it.” “But what are you talking about?” said I. “I am a man; here is my house; and I don’t know anything about your cover. You are mistaking me for some unknown person or object, sir; pray let me go.” “Let you go! Abandon once more the cover which shall keep my thoughts in! You ave mad! Besides, why do you speak? And how is it that you come in such a shape?” “T tell you lam a man. Leave me alone, or I shall have to call for assistance and give you in charge. Iam a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…er of Jesus of Naza- rethI am not concerned; but Vespasian’s ‘*Ut puto Deus fio” is commonly thought to have been meant as a jest. Our Romanticist’s unique and magnificent dramatisation of the war between the sceptic or lover of truth, and the religious man or lover of life, may be well quoted against me. Though Vespasian did jest, though Christ’s ‘‘It is finished” were subjectively but the cry of his physical weakness, like Burton's ‘‘ I am a dead man,” it is no less true that millions have regarded it as indeed a cry of triumph. That is so, s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
… the anguish and distress About him—save to him it clung And prayed. Give me omnipotence? I am no fool that I should fence That power, demanding every tongue To call me God—I would exert That power to heal creation’s hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm, a fire, a thirst for these ; A harp-resounding heaven for those ! And though you claim Salvation sure For all the heathen68—there again New Christians give the lie to plain Scripture, those words which must endure ! (The Vedas say the same !) and thou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
THE MAN-COVER hint about my wives suggested to me that I might soon have achild whom I could bring up in the idea that he was to take my place. I could also shape an infant better than an old seaman. So I left him to the whales and other fishes, and proceeded towards the oasis. The two wives he had spoken of were the same women who caused my last illness. But their sweet smile prevented me from using any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allow…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
THE MAN-COVER hint about my wives suggested to me that I might soon have achild whom I could bring up in the idea that he was to take my place. I could also shape an infant better than an old seaman. So I left him to the whales and other fishes, and proceeded towards the oasis. The two wives he had spoken of were the same women who caused my last illness. But their sweet smile prevented me from using any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
…ness of the past, and carelessness about the future, and it would be rigorously true to say, as a celebrated sophist once said, that the man who thinks is a degraded animal. Moreover, of all human passions, religious passion is the most powerful and the most lively. It generates itself, whether by affirmation or negation, with an equal fanaticism, some obstinately affirming the god that they have made in their own image, the others denying God with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 494
THE EQUINOX the initiator or the man of genius whose eternal destiny is to be killed by those whom he initiates. The disciple does not become the living realization of the thoughts of the Master until he has drunk his blood and eaten his flesh, to use the energetic and allegorical expression of the initiator, so ill understood by Christians. The conception of the primitive alphabet was, as one may easily see, the idea of a universal language which should enclose in its combinations, and even in its signs themselves, the recapitulation and the e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 301
…ness of the past, and carelessness about the future, and it would be rigorously true to say, as a celebrated sophist once said, that the man who thinks is a degraded animal. Moreover, of all human passions, religious passion is the most powerful and the most lively. It generates itself, whether by affirmation or negation, with an equal fanaticism, some obstinately affirming the god that they have made in their own image, the others denying God with rashness, as if they had been able to understand and to lay waste by a single thought all that wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 494
THE EQUINOX the initiator or the man of genius whose eternal destiny is to be killed by those whom he initiates. The disciple does not become the living realization of the thoughts of the Master until he has drunk his blood and eaten his flesh, to use the energetic and allegorical expression of the initiator, so ill understood by Christians. The conception of the primitive alphabet was, as one may easily see, the idea of a universal language which should enclose in its combinations, and even in its signs themselves, the recapitulation and the e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 157
…our of his fez. Black gives an air of gloom, he said : I should look beautiful in red ! He told the Mullah of his plight The good man answered : Very right ! Islam is free to all mankind : You only need to be resigned. The Jew agreed ; he learnt to pray Five several times each mortal day. Instead of Abraham, the Mullah Called him Habib Husain Abdullah. But (what indeed is hardly strange) His views on Art began to change. This reds a shrieking tone, I swear ! O for the black I used to wear !
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
… tremulous chorus. Oh, it is vague and vacillatin; Aucta. Love, ‘Young love of maidens, is the soul thereof. And in the midst, behold, O man! The image of great Pan. at
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS 187 RHADAMANTHUS. For righteous thought and deed Apportioning its meed ; For evil act and mind Rewarding in its kind ; So sit we: but our power Apportions not an hour To light the dying lamp, revive the faded flower. MINOS. But thou, be strong to sing! . ALACUS. Loose arrows from the string ! RHADAMANTHUS. Bid the wild word take wing ! MINOS. Hades hath evil fame To suppliants—bitter shame !— Inexorable. AE ACUS. Aim Yet the swift prayer, abide His word whate’er betide. What worse? RHADAMANTHUS, The Gods thy guide! Go …
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
THE VIRGIN 69 “ Can that have been human ? ” I see you point through the drizzling night to a cramped and shivering form . Can that have been a woman ? That living death , de graded by crime , brutalized by vice , vitiated , unsouled ; lower than a slave , worse than a dog ; spurned by man , shunned by woman , a human wreck , a growing horror ? Even so , once a smiling girl , sweet as a rose , pure as a lily ; now the bedraggled gin -sodden har ridan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human min…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…hich in the homogeneous protoplasm causes fission , is as mystical to - day as that added " something " which will cause the mind of one man to admire a Wagnerian opera , and another a drawing by Beardsley . No sound is in the air , vibrations only pass . No sound is in the brain , molecular changes only result . Where then is sound ? It is a creation in the mind by the divine “ I ” ; that unextended absolute Passivity , whose dwelling is in that equilibrating activity which balances action and reaction . Hegel (outside the realms of the divine…
1909 · PDF PAGE 232
…om, rocked in the cradle of Caste, and nursed on the soured milk of Creed. And as with the individual so with the nation, the one or the many, it is taught to work its way into one narrow groove, and like the water in a drain or a gutter to flow for a time unobtrusively between dignified cobbles and over re- spectable cement, and then to vanish as genteelly as possible underground. Sometimes there is a stoppage ; too much filth has accumu- lated, and it refuses all conventional methods of being removed. Then comes a flood—a revolution—for a tim…
1909 · PDF PAGE 232
…om, rocked in the cradle of Caste, and nursed on the soured milk of Creed. And as with the individual so with the nation, the one or the many, it is taught to work its way into one narrow groove, and like the water in a drain or a gutter to flow for a time unobtrusively between dignified cobbles and over re- spectable cement, and then to vanish as genteelly as possible underground. Sometimes there is a stoppage ; too much filth has accumu- lated, and it refuses all conventional methods of being removed. Then comes a flood—a revolution—for a tim…
1910 · PDF PAGE 321
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV of being a great hysterical Countess Tarnowska; she had many lovers who went mad over her body, and whom she could drive to drink—or to murder, but she had not done so; she had only driven some of them to suicide, and some even to the loss of their self-respect. The Man who stole Eyes was one of these. Without going into their respective or joint history let it be simply recorded that the proud collector of ocular jewels made present to the Lady of a pair of magnificent ear-rings— which were none other than the eyes of li…
1910 · PDF PAGE 321
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV of being a great hysterical Countess Tarnowska; she had many lovers who went mad over her body, and whom she could drive to drink—or to murder, but she had not done so; she had only driven some of them to suicide, and some even to the loss of their self-respect. The Man who stole Eyes was one of these. Without going into their respective or joint history let it be simply recorded that the proud collector of ocular jewels made present to the Lady of a pair of magnificent ear-rings— which were none other than the eyes of li…
1912 · PDF PAGE 289
…children to be entirely without foundation. At least it is certain that nothing was ever brought home to him. While he was still a young man he definitely founded an organization on the lines of the well-known and justly admired Children's Scripture Union. He issued a card, price one penny, with the days of the year, and a “portion of Scripture" indicated for reading on this day. As the card could be prepared in half an hour by any one, and printed at about fourpence halfpenny a hundred, there was a small but sufficient margin of profit— or would …