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Page 6 of 791910 · PDF PAGE 281
THE HASHEESH EATER the time of their first presence considered trivial acts—as small as the cutting of a willow wand, all fled by his sense in arrow-flight; yet he remembered them as real incidents, and recognised their order in his existence. This phenomenon is one of the most striking exhibitions of the state in which the higher hasheesh exaltation really exists. It is a partial sundering, for the time, of those ties which unite soul and body. That spirit should ever lose the traces of a single impression is impossible. In the morning he awok…
1905 · PDF PAGE 32
…e. ORPHEUS FIRST word of my song, First tune of my lyre, Muse, loved of me long, Be near and inspire! Bright heart! Mother strong! Sweet sense of desire! Be near as I lift the first notes impassioned of fervour and fire! Not ever before Since Nature began Hath one cloven her core, Found the soul of her span ; No son that she bore Her spirit might scan ; But I, being born beyond Nature, have known her and yet am a man. Ye fieriest flowers, Life-stream of the world, In passionate bowers Of mystery curled, ct 33
1922 · PDF PAGE 386
…, who inherited and came to live at Ballycastle. It is the story of the curious spiritual experience which came to him there. It is in a sense a “ ghost story,” but it is told by an artist and a stylist. ‘“‘ The Residents,” moreover, are admirably contrasted, and in some cases deliciously humorously drawn. A charming, enigmatic, “ different ” book.
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…s with great emotions as with strong drink; to use them habitually is to abuse them. Now, every abuse of the emotions perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in order to procure them for one’s self. A romantic woman will easily become an Old Bailey heroine. She may even arrive at the deplorable and irreparable absurdity of killing herself in order to admire herself, and pity herself, in seeing herself die! Romantic habits lead women to hysteria and men to melancholia. Manfred, René, Lélia are type…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…s with great emotions as with strong drink; to use them habitually is to abuse them. Now, every abuse of the emotions perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in order to procure them for one’s self. A romantic woman will easily become an Old Bailey heroine. She may even arrive at the deplorable and irreparable absurdity of killing herself in order to admire herself, and pity herself, in seeing herself die! Romantic habits lead women to hysteria and men to melancholia. Manfred, René, Lélia are type…
1903 · PDF PAGE 59
…, like dewfall, drawn A veil o’er leaf and lawn— Mix night, and noon, and dawn, Dew, flower, and moon ! One kiss, intense, supreme ! The sense of Nature’s dream And scent of Heaven Shewn in the glint and gleam Of the pure dawn’s first beam, With earth for leaven ; Moulded of fire and gold, Water and wine to fold Me in its life, and hold !— In all but seven ! 39
1908 · PDF PAGE 54
AMPHORA III E still, my soul, and let the sense Of Her intuitive influence Steal like the whisper of young rains Upon thy bleak and barren plains. By many a mental martyrdom Our sterile souls to Mary come. Who passeth through the surge and fire At last shall win to his desire. Thy grace for us sufficient still To smite the arbiters of ill Shall grant the exceeding great reward To look by Thee upon the LORD. Be still, my soul, whate’er assail ! Through Mary they shall not prevail ; And thou resigned in peace await Her peace at Her appointed date…
1923 · PDF PAGE 3
MIG Some men are lost to every sense of shame : They use to call their country by its name. Abhorred offence ! it was indeed high time For Mussolini to suppress the crime. Perish the wretch whose Tyrolean soul Fails to blot out the accurséd name — Tyrol ! Ah Mussolini ! you have yet to learn What quality of flame is wont to burn In mountain air. ’Twere wiser not to risk Meeting the glacier breed of Basilisk. Tempt not the spirit of the Storm ! Mine eye Sees through the darkness of futurity, The modern Gessler meet a modern Tell — Tyrol ! hunt M…
1954 · PDF PAGE 519
486 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS "sunning over with little curls" is that Progress demands Anarchy tempered by Common Sense, and that the most formida ble 0 bstacle is this Biology. The experience of the Magician and the Yogi does suggest that there is room in the human brain as at present constituted for almost limitless expansion. At least our system of Training is more immediately practical than digging up our Corpora Quadragemina and planting them in a Monkey's Medulla just to see what will come of it. So put down that bread-knife! Love is the law,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 54
AMPHORA III E still, my soul, and let the sense Of Her intuitive influence Steal like the whisper of young rains Upon thy bleak and barren plains. By many a mental martyrdom Our sterile souls to Mary come. Who passeth through the surge and fire At last shall win to his desire. Thy grace for us sufficient still To smite the arbiters of ill Shall grant the exceeding great reward To look by Thee upon the LORD. Be still, my soul, whate’er assail ! Through Mary they shall not prevail ; And thou resigned in peace await Her peace at Her appointed date…
1904 · PDF PAGE 131
…We run three. Somes appy Cawthlics : Cuckolds an ores They like : in consikence Five they adores. All little buggers Whats gawt any sense Itches on a dildo, And damns the expense. [133]
1913 · PDF PAGE 96
…e up everything for Laylah. But ‘‘what I want” varies from hour to hour. This wavering is the root of all compromise, and so of all good sense. With this gift a man can spend his seventy years in peace. Now is this well or ill? Emphasize gzft, then man, then spend, then seventy years, and lastly peace, and change the intonations—each time reverse the meaning ! I would show you how; but—for the moment! —I prefer to think of Laylah.
1901 · PDF PAGE 117
( 103) THE PESSIMIST’S PROGRESS ORTAL distrust of mortal happiness Is born of madness and of impotence; A miserable and distorted sense, Defiant in its hatred of success. Even where love’s banners flame, and flowers bless The happy head ; all faith and hope immense Fly, for possession dwells supreme, intense ; And to possess is only—to possess. But, as the night draws snailwise to its end, And sleep invades the obstinate desire, And lovers sigh—but not for kisses’ sake— There comes this misery, as half awake I watch the embers of my passion-fir…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
DESESPOIR NTO the inmost agony of things She sees, through glamour of untrusty sense, The full corruption of omnipotence, The infinite rage of fishes to have wings, The lust of beasts for tentacles; caught thence . Corollary, syllogism, she strides tense Into the inmost agony of things. So, fearless, amid gods and evil kings, She sits, poor wretch, eternal scientist, Straining mild muscles, leaving to its list The spasm-shaken body. So she flings The teeth-set fate of Fortune’s face unkissed Against the fiat: sets her clenchéd fist In his face:…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…IX TOOTH ? WHEN THEY ARE PAST, THOU SURELY HAST THE SILENCE OF THE TRUTH FLAWLESS THAT TRUTH AND FIXED YET APT TO EACH APPEAL NATURE AND SENSE TO INFLUENCE THE MAGNET TO THE STEEL ! OH ! THIS TRUE TOUCH WITH ALL ELASTIC AND EXACT THAT YET ABIDES ABOVE THEIR TIDES THE SILENCE FREE FROM ACT ! HE THAT HATH THIS SHALL COME LITTLE BY LITTLE, A BREATH, SO FLOWETH HE NOW, TO TRUTH OF TAO, WHEREIN HE VANISHETH.
1905 · PDF PAGE 4
…erversity; nowhere more strikingly demonstrated than in “The Poem,” throughout which there is a struggle for the supre- macy between his sense of the ridiculous and his sense of the sublime. I am also aware that his views on religious matters will be found unpalatable in some quarters. But it should be re- membered that these writings represent the ideas of a man of an unconventional mind brought up in conventional surround- ings. When he came to man’s estate he not unnaturally revolted: and the result has been, as in many such cases, that his …
1954 · PDF PAGE 465
…h: the Book of Wisdom or Folly. The book is itself Education; there are, however, six chapters which treat of the subject in the special sense in which your question has involved us. So I shall fling these chapters headlong into this letter. De Voluntate Juvenum Long, 0 my Son, hath been this Digression from the plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his Fellows; and that is n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 205
… so forth, I think it was; anyhow, something perfectly dotty. She was now quite without power to criticize her actions by reason or good sense; the voice of the 'Spirits' was for her the voice of God. So they sent her to the Bank for money, and to the Steamship office for a passage to Europe; and when she got to Liverpool they sent her to London, from London to Paris, from Paris to Genoa. And when she came to Genoa they told her which hotel to choose; and then they sent her out to buy a revolver and some cartridges; and then they told her to co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 216
… this was not a pain , but peaceable Like young -eyed love , reviving ; it consumed And consecrated and made savour sweet To our changed senses . And the dual self Of love grew less distinct and I began To feel her heart in mine , her lips mine . Then mistier grew the sense of God without , And God was I , and nothing might exist , Subsist , or be at all , outside of Me , Myself Existence of Existences . This magnificent passage is the very consummation of idealism . The sense of God the crude outer reality growing dim , dimmer , and yet more d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 451
418 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS contempt the theory of "original sin" in the sense which you probably meant me to take: the defect deliberately implanted in man by "Old Nobodaddy" with no better object than to prepare the grotesquely tragic farce of the "Atonement." I will merely remark that no idea at once so base and so contemptible, so bestial and so idiotic, can challenge its ignoble absurdity. Rotten with sex-perversion, it is a noisome blend of sadism and masochism based on the most abject form of fear. The only argument for it is that it ever d…