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Page 57 of 1031906 · PDF PAGE 124
… to admit to these Fools—charge the child with lack of fortune ! MEDEA. Yea! I bade her take a waxen shape, carved well To look like the old man ALCESTIS. Nay! nay! the Sire Himself we stole on sleeping —— CHORUS. Hewn apart ! Ai Ai! MEDEA. I said not thus ! ALCESTIS. I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. ACASTUS. Enough of this ! It is the malice of that sorceress Disguised —she well knows how. CHORUS. Thus, thus it is! We know the witch’s cunning. JASON. Dogs and fools! For this ye die. MADNESS. Nobility and love . Urge my own sanction t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
… from a window on the first floor streamed a blaze of light. The window was wide open to the street ; voices came from it. “The first an old, harsh, menacing voice, with all the sting of hate in it; nay, the sting of something devilish, worse than hate. A corrupt enjoyment of its malice informed it. And the words it spoke were too infamous for me to repeat. They are scarred upon my brain. Addressed to the vilest harridan that scours the gutter for her carrion prey, they would have yet been inhuman, impossible; to the voice that answered .. . ! …
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
… from a window on the first floor streamed a blaze of light. The window was wide open to the street ; voices came from it. “The first an old, harsh, menacing voice, with all the sting of hate in it; nay, the sting of something devilish, worse than hate. A corrupt enjoyment of its malice informed it. And the words it spoke were too infamous for me to repeat. They are scarred upon my brain. Addressed to the vilest harridan that scours the gutter for her carrion prey, they would have yet been inhuman, impossible; to the voice that answered .. . ! …
1911 · PDF PAGE 111
…ze her and administer the sacrament. Glory to God in the Highest for one more soul torn from the grasp of Satan. My beloved daughter, behold you now at peace with God and with His holy church. Your sins are forgiven you. But the secular arm is not yet satisfied ; your crimes, the crimes 10 which you have confessed, must be expiated according to law, The sentence of the Court is that you be handed over to the secular arm ; and I beg of you [turning lo the Representative of the King efferum/em], the Court begs of you, that you will deal mercifully…
1911 · PDF PAGE 238
…n sinks, and royal rays Of moonrise flash across the day‘s. [He rise: and/"aces altar. I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold. I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night. Yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. I have risen! I am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, I the first—born of the Mother in her ecStasy of o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 111
…ze her and administer the sacrament. Glory to God in the Highest for one more soul torn from the grasp of Satan. My beloved daughter, behold you now at peace with God and with His holy church. Your sins are forgiven you. But the secular arm is not yet satisfied ; your crimes, the crimes 10 which you have confessed, must be expiated according to law, The sentence of the Court is that you be handed over to the secular arm ; and I beg of you [turning lo the Representative of the King efferum/em], the Court begs of you, that you will deal mercifully…
1911 · PDF PAGE 238
…n sinks, and royal rays Of moonrise flash across the day‘s. [He rise: and/"aces altar. I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold. I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night. Yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. I have risen! I am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, I the first—born of the Mother in her ecStasy of o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…ublime madman, that genius of lucid extravagance, has depicted with terrifying reality the night- mares of perversity. ... “T killed the old man because he squinted.” “I did that because I ought not to have done it.” There is the terrible antistrophe of Tertullian’s Credo guia absurdun.. To brave God and to insult Him, is a final act of faith. “The dead praise thee not, O Lord,” said the Psalmist; and we might add if we dared: ‘‘ The dead do not blaspheme thee.” “O my son!” said a father as he leaned over the bed of his child who had fallen int…
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…ublime madman, that genius of lucid extravagance, has depicted with terrifying reality the night- mares of perversity. ... “T killed the old man because he squinted.” “I did that because I ought not to have done it.” There is the terrible antistrophe of Tertullian’s Credo guia absurdun.. To brave God and to insult Him, is a final act of faith. “The dead praise thee not, O Lord,” said the Psalmist; and we might add if we dared: ‘‘ The dead do not blaspheme thee.” “O my son!” said a father as he leaned over the bed of his child who had fallen int…
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…re beautiful than ever. Bad man Yes, and deserve a better husband. Adam is as good as But his poor health. Hes had a cold ever since he left Eden, this climate is so terribly uncer- tain. Yes, hes not very strong, poor man. He gets tired easily. Yes with a sigh. I see you have been doing your best to supply his place. For Eve had not changed her position during this interview, and her moist fingers still played among the golden hair. Oh ! I didnt mean to. Ah ! Duchess, what a pity and what a sur- prise …
1913 · PDF PAGE 464
…arre and dismal dream. It seemed to him that he was in a dilapidated room of gothic architecture, rather like the abandoned chapel of an old castle. A door hidden by a black drapery opened on to this room; behind the drapery one guessed the hidden light of tapers, and it seemed to Eliphas that, driven by a curiosity full of terror, he was approaching the black drapery... . Then the drapery was parted, and a hand was stretched forth and seized the arm of Eliphas. He saw no one, but he heard a low voice which said in his ear: “Come and see your f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 464
…arre and dismal dream. It seemed to him that he was in a dilapidated room of gothic architecture, rather like the abandoned chapel of an old castle. A door hidden by a black drapery opened on to this room; behind the drapery one guessed the hidden light of tapers, and it seemed to Eliphas that, driven by a curiosity full of terror, he was approaching the black drapery... . Then the drapery was parted, and a hand was stretched forth and seized the arm of Eliphas. He saw no one, but he heard a low voice which said in his ear: “Come and see your f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
….’ (2.) AGARES.—The Second Spirit is a Duke called Agreas, or Agares. He is under the Power of the East, and cometh up in the form of an old fair Man, riding upon a Crocodile, carrying a Goshawk upon his fist, and yet mild in appearance. He maketh them to run that stand still, and bringeth back runaways. He teaches all Languages or Tongues presently. He hath power also to destroy Dignities both Spiritual and Temporal, and causeth Earthquakes. He was of the Order of Virtues. He hath under his govern- ment 31 Legions of Spirits. And this is his S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
… editor's appendix or translator's footnote . Enter GLENSTRAE . (To conceive him asketh not Imagination's waistcoat buttons undone ! Any old gentleman in any club in London . ) ? Meeting Molly he asks her for a glass of milk , and comforts her on hearing that she intends going into service , saying : “ And so you shall , my dear, so you shall . Come and live with my wife as her companion , and we will try and find your lover for you . No doubt the arts of this - er --designing female will soon lose their power —there , there , no thanks , I beg…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
… hand of Idealism , pro duced as effect a fanciful spiritualism , which sought in the mysteries of life an answer that lay still on the cold lips of Death . These two powers , the Pantheonic materialism and the Gnostic spiritualism , bore the hybrid - Christianity . As all religions have finally become subservient to an interested priesthood , so have all religions ( how ever spiritual they may have been in their youth ) been materialized and sacrificed on the altar of gain . To this rule Christianity forms no exception ; once crudely and since…
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…er which he had bought (and loaded, under the shopman’s guidance) against burglars. Yes, he must kill himself. He drew back the hammer. Cold sweat beaded his flabby face. He could not; and any- how, how did one? He thought of many stories of people who had shot themselves ineffectively. He felt for his heart and failed to find it, wondered if it had stopped and he were dying, had a fit of fear paralysing all his will. He thought of himself lying dead. ”No, by God! I can't do it!” he cried, and flung the pistol back into the drawer. As luck would h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…er which he had bought (and loaded, under the shopman’s guidance) against burglars. Yes, he must kill himself. He drew back the hammer. Cold sweat beaded his flabby face. He could not; and any- how, how did one? He thought of many stories of people who had shot themselves ineffectively. He felt for his heart and failed to find it, wondered if it had stopped and he were dying, had a fit of fear paralysing all his will. He thought of himself lying dead. ”No, by God! I can't do it!” he cried, and flung the pistol back into the drawer. As luck would h…
1919 · PDF PAGE 375
…of a Buddha. “Yea, cried the Holy One, and from Thy spark will I the Lord kindle a great light; I will burn through the grey city in the old and desolate land; I will cleanse it from its great impurity. “And thou, O prophet, shalt see these things, and thou shalt heed them not. 53
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
7 unconquerable dislike for for the cold plunge, and at the same time a vivid passion for ceremonial speech. These two qualities have played highly important parts in his development. This baptism, by the way, though it never worried him, provided a peril to the soul of another. When his wife's conduct compelled him to insist upon her divorcing him --- a formality as meaningless as their marriage --- and she became insane shortly afterward, an eminent masochist named Colonel Gormley, R.A.M.C. (dead previously, then and since) lay in wait for he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
… debauchery of devil dances, the pointless profession of Pansil (the Five Precepts of the Buddha), the ceremonial coddling of shrines as old maids coddle cats, voluble veneration and rigmarole religion: such is the threadbare tinsel which they throw over the nakedness of their idleness, immorality and imbecility. Indians plausibly maintain that some god got all the worst devils into Ceylon, and then cut it off from the continent by the straits. But then, how rich, how soft, how peaceful is Colombo! One feels that one needs never do anything any…