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Page 55 of 831905 · PDF PAGE 171
… great circle of whirling dust (stirred by the iron rod of thought) that men call wisdom. So I looked deep in his beauty, and beheld its truth. The life of that fair youth was as a whiz of violent little whirls, helical coils of emptiness, grey curls of misty and impalpable stuff, torn, crooked, all ways and none at once, but ever pressed in idiot circles ; and one thing he lacked, now I looked from afar again, was rest. Thence I with- drew my sight, the eyeballs cracked with stain of my endeavour, and my will struck up with subtler skill than …
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
… serious on hand than to dine and chat and make themselves agreeable . For Howard 's pleasantry ( as old as Juvenal , and older ) has in truth very little sense to commend it. I am writing this by a window which stands open above a two - mile beach , along which the tide has for some three hours been advancing . Parables , analogies , have usually a weak point somewhere ; and so I dare say has this , which I take for an illustration only . But the seventh or ninth wave which hurls itself in on so proud a crest , to capture whole yards of territ…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…ed, whether or no it be extended in any of the categories. But we have already agreed to look to 0 for the Uncaused. Now if there was in truth 0 “before the beginning of y ears,” THAT 0 WAS EX- TENDED IN NONE OF THE CATE- GORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND! If our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as I have shown, de- pendent on the idea of categories. If these existed, then the whole question is m erely thrown back; we m ust reach a state in which this 0 is abso…
1905 · PDF PAGE 253
…ay, front the sober sun, Answer the slug-horn.! LANDGRAVE, You are pleased to riddle. Ever the poet ! TANNHAUSER (aside). Let me try the truth For certitude of incredulity ! (Aloud, laughing) I was in Venusberg ! ALL (except HEINRICH, who laughs). Save us, Maria! [They look about them fearfully and cross theniselves. 1 I prefer to follow Browning in his '* absurd blunder” than to imitate the alleged currectness of our critics.—A, C, LANDGRAVE. “ven in jest, such words !—Most dangerous leven to think of !—Dut to speak ! HEINRICH (aszde). These f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 304
… other . All -- bar Johnson --- hint - but oh ! how dimly ! -at what I now know to be true ? -no , not necessarily true , but nearer the truth . Huxley goes deeper in his demolition of Descartes . With him “ I see a cat proves “ something called consciousness exists ." He denies the assertion of duality ; he has no datum to assert the denial of duality . I have . 13 . Their ( the mystics of all lands ) endeavour has been to slow the rate of change ; their methods perfect quietude of body and mind , produced in varied , and too often vicious , w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
… Both the characters in the story were per- sons of considerable education and position. On this account, and because a statement of the truth (however guarded) would have com- promised persons of high rank, and was in any case too disgusting to publish in the press, the tragedy has not — one is glad to say in these days of yellow prurience — become matter for public comment. But the wife of the man, driven to drink and prostitution by the inhuman cruelty of his mistress —- this modern worse than Lucrezia Borgia or Mdme de Brinvilhers — and the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 159
…e bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. And that bright light of comfort, and that piercing sword of truth, and all that power and beauty that they have made of themselves, is cast from them, as it is written, “ I saw Satan like lightning fall from Heaven.” And as a flaming sword is it dropt through the abyss, where the four beasts keep watch and ward. And it appeareth in the heaven of Jupiter as a morning star, or as an evening star. And the light thereof shineth even unto the earth, and bringeth hope and he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 159
…e bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. And that bright light of comfort, and that piercing sword of truth, and all that power and beauty that they have made of themselves, is cast from them, as it is written, “ I saw Satan like lightning fall from Heaven.” And as a flaming sword is it dropt through the abyss, where the four beasts keep watch and ward. And it appeareth in the heaven of Jupiter as a morning star, or as an evening star. And the light thereof shineth even unto the earth, and bringeth hope and he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…y existence, is bound up in MAGICK. I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, but the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of giving to mankind: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” I trust that they will assert themselves as individually absolute, that they will grasp the fact that it is their right to assert themselves, and to accomplish the task for which their nature fits them. Yea, more, that this is their duty, and that not only to themselves but to others, a duty founded upon univer…
1907 · PDF PAGE 11
…scended , all is unified and transcendental ; neither is there joy nor laughter , sorrow nor weeping , for all is as a divine mastery of Truth and Knowledge to those who worship the new - born God , like the Magi of the East , with gold , and frankincense , and myrrh . Above whose heptagonal cradle flashes the magic star Lusanaher , that great star Cor Leonis , which heralds and directs our reverent pilgrimage . The Star has arisen ; let us like men drop the silly pretence of an ostrich - like self - delusion that the cindery asteroid still lig…
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
…the last lever of the key to the little door beyond the abyss, yet ye gloss and comment thereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. Truth itself is but illusion. Yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. Let thy lips blister with my words! Are they not meteors in thy brain? Back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am I; back into the night of my father, into the silence; for all that ye deem right is left, forward is backward, upward is downward. I am the great god adored of the holy ones. Yet am I the accu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 570
…der of initiation. Her trouble was that she lacked the means of discrimination between the most contemptible drivel and the most exalted truth. She begged me to stay in her house till I left for Cefalu, urging that I was ill and in need of loving care. She overcame my hesitation by emphasizing her need of a strong hand to guide and help her. Finally I consented. I was well aware that she was precisely one of those wrong people against mixing with whom the "Yi" had so earnestly warned me. I went with my eyes open, saying to myself, "Whatever mis…
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
… Cousin Jenny! (Cousin Jenny was a blot on the ’scutcheon of the Buggs). You‘re a harlot, miss ! " And then, with an awful change as the truth came home to him: “0 my God! Ο my God! Damn it!” he screamed, “ how did you get the keys of my little safe ?” The girl had frozen colder than the stone, but there was a new light in her eye, and if the curl of a lip could treada worm into the dust, that lip was hers and that worm the author of her being. She had withdrawn as one who comes suddenly upon a toad, and the first flaming of her face had died ins…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
…. To quote the preface of Horatio Bottomley, “ Louise Heilgers is the only female writer of short stories of the present day." She is in truth one of the ten million, her heart is their heart, her mind their mind, and consequently her thoughts their thoughts. She will soon be acclaimed as a popular author. lt is refreshing indeed to find somebody writing direct from the heart without in any way striving after originality, Excepting as to their length, these stories do not in any manner resemble those of Baudelaire. Buuco. THE (?םיחOF LIGHT. By W…
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
… Cousin Jenny! (Cousin Jenny was a blot on the ’scutcheon of the Buggs). You‘re a harlot, miss ! " And then, with an awful change as the truth came home to him: “0 my God! Ο my God! Damn it!” he screamed, “ how did you get the keys of my little safe ?” The girl had frozen colder than the stone, but there was a new light in her eye, and if the curl of a lip could treada worm into the dust, that lip was hers and that worm the author of her being. She had withdrawn as one who comes suddenly upon a toad, and the first flaming of her face had died ins…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
…. To quote the preface of Horatio Bottomley, “ Louise Heilgers is the only female writer of short stories of the present day." She is in truth one of the ten million, her heart is their heart, her mind their mind, and consequently her thoughts their thoughts. She will soon be acclaimed as a popular author. lt is refreshing indeed to find somebody writing direct from the heart without in any way striving after originality, Excepting as to their length, these stories do not in any manner resemble those of Baudelaire. Buuco. THE (?םיחOF LIGHT. By W…
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
…a note of optimism, always leaves an impression of failure. I well know how strangely perverse this criticism must sound, but I feel its truth in the marrow of my bones. In my own writings the tempestuous energy of my soul invariably sweeps away the wreckage of my mind. No matter to what depth I plunge, I always end with my wings beating steadily upwards towards the sun. The actual writing which releases my unconscious produces the effect. I inevitably end by transcending the problem of the poem, either lyrically or satirically. Turn to any pag…
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
… How can science doubt the infinite harmony? Because the sanctuary of the absolute is always closed for the majority. But the kingdom of truth, which is that of God, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. There exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this tradition is transcendental magic. There only are found the absolute of knowledge and the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the Eden of the intelligence, the ease of the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
… How can science doubt the infinite harmony? Because the sanctuary of the absolute is always closed for the majority. But the kingdom of truth, which is that of God, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. There exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this tradition is transcendental magic. There only are found the absolute of knowledge and the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the Eden of the intelligence, the ease of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…work of this kind. It is quite an effort for me to shift a sixty pound load for even a few feet. So much for the sufficiently remarkable truth. Of course imagination improved on the story. I received an indignant letter from New York from the lady who had lent me the cottage, reproaching me for having built a dam right across the lake, to the detriment of navigation! This spasm of energy continued without abatement for some three weeks, after which I gradually recovered the balance of my normal faculties. The effect of my operations was now to …