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…ening their quiet ears with hideous clamour, Abhorred and careless she bids order cease. Her hate resolves the shriek into a stammer Ofinarticulate rage. The wounded man Twisted in agony beneath her squirms To hear her raucous blasphemies outspan The grip of God at this his last of terms. Yea! he must die with horror in his ears, Hate in his heart. The mischief must endure. He hath expiated naught by death. His tears, His thoughts, these strike nor stay her not, be sure ! She is Madness, and a fury; though were gone All life to war, she would s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
…s the dirk and tests the point. And will to-morrow show me aught? [He extinguishes the lamps, goes to the door and opens it. The clang startles him. I hate that door! air Should bring back manhood! pitiest her ! Man, thou art whelmed in that red tide of lust That rolls over strong loathing by vast will, Hideous rapture of death. That’s for thee, man! Thine are the scalding tears of sympathy, Strange that the outer Man, thou The tender love for the young flower. And these Are none of the priest’s. Enough! [Hxit. The door clangs again. The curtai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…. SPEAK, O my sister, O my spouse, speak, speak ! Sigh not, but utter the intense award Of infinite love ; arise, burn cheek by cheek ! Dart, eyes of glory ; live, O lambent sword O’ the heart’s gold rushing over mount and moor Of sunlit rapture ! rise all runes above, Dissolve thyself into one molten lure, Invisible core of the visible flame of love ; Heart of the sun of rapture, whirling ever ; Strength of the sight of eagles, pierce the foam Of ecstasy’s irremeable river, And race the rhythm of laughter to its home In the heart of the woman,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 173
…e place A starry bed I saw, Gemmed with strange stones in many a space Of yodlike rune and law. Such fancies as the fiery face Of living Art might draw. sut rising up I lift my head Beyond the ripples clean: My arms with spray dew-diamonded Stretched love-wise to my queen That danced upon the light, and shed Her own sweet light between. But never a mortal joy might know, Hold never a mortal lover! Whose limbs like moonshine glint and glow, Throb, palpitate, and hover :— Pale sunrise woven with the snow Athwart a larchen cover! So danced she in …
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…n, It is clear that the mystic vision even is not his, or how could he remain sectarian? Had he only enough imagination to think of the earth as seen from Cor Scorpionis, all such diatribes would seem infinitely petty. We may splutter about with our little verbal fireworks, as 1 am doing now; but to take it seriously! " There's nothing serious in mortality;” God is All in All. The Universe is but a mote playing in that sunbeam ; why bother to fill 600 dull pages? Nothing 15 worth writing but literature. Art is the expression of divine Truth; Mr Un…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…n, It is clear that the mystic vision even is not his, or how could he remain sectarian? Had he only enough imagination to think of the earth as seen from Cor Scorpionis, all such diatribes would seem infinitely petty. We may splutter about with our little verbal fireworks, as 1 am doing now; but to take it seriously! " There's nothing serious in mortality;” God is All in All. The Universe is but a mote playing in that sunbeam ; why bother to fill 600 dull pages? Nothing 15 worth writing but literature. Art is the expression of divine Truth; Mr Un…
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…by’s thumb. where the The Yankee God frowned also on the plan. We had enough, no more. But I insist, Still thinking I was master of my heart: Saying, ‘ Another month to be a man, Another month to kiss her and be kissed, And then—all time to Magic and to Art!” 1 That is, the imaginary author. 2 Japan. 3 The dollar. THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY. ‘* He has strangled His language in his tears.” K. Hen, VII. My comedy has changed its blithe aspect To bitterest face of tragedy ; she said: ‘*Alas! O soul of mine! I am surely dead, Seeing my life is by a‘serpe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…ly philosophical and scientific spirit of austere classification that is found in the other cards. There leaps at us the language of the Artist. These names are, the Fool, the Juggler, the High Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, the Lovers, the Chariot, Lust, the Wheel of Fortune, Adjustment, the Hanged Man, Death, Art, the Devil, the House of God, the Star, the Moon, the Sun, the Aeon, the Universe. Obviously these are not plain, straightforward symbolic representations of the signs, elements and planets concerned. They are r…
1905 · PDF PAGE 245
…the deep! All mortals mourn and weep To see thee, seeing that all love must die Beside thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I cry for all mankind—they are slain, even as I! [TANNHAUSER pauses, bends eagerly towards VENUS, She smiling luxu- viously, he continues. Who cometh wanton, with long arms out- spread ? Who cometh with lascivious lips aflame? Whose eyes invite me to the naked bed Stark open to the sun, dear pride of shame? Whose face draws close and near, Filling the soul with fear, Till nameless shudders course in …
1919 · PDF PAGE 298
…eliminaries, but never the achievement. The most elaborate and painstaking preparations have been made for Mr. Pound’s marriage with his Art, but alas! the union has never been consummated. Yet even about his sterility there is something engaging. He is much too Amer- ican for any Englishman ever to dislike him. The Americans who rile us are the ones who are not American enough. As it is impossible to be angry with the authentic professor or the authentic American, so it is impossible to be angry with Mr. Pound. For one thing, what a simple who…
1905 · PDF PAGE 154
…he hideous fruit Of what strange poisons? But in mine own self I am the king and chief of all the priests ; And thou, in thine own eyes, art a young god, Strong, beautiful, and lithe, a leaping fawn Upon the mountains. We are priests SAFI. Yea, I am a god. I am fire against the fountain of my birth, The storm upon the earth that nurtured me !} Leave me: we twain have no more words to speak. THE LEEPER. Neither in heaven nor in hell. I go, The dead king, worshipping the living man. [Aves. S’AFI. I have been a god so long, my thoughts run halt Fr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
…se pallid heroes, after panting round the vélodrome for God knows how many hours, would fall from their racers into the arms of the stalwart vampires who had annexed them. The best known of England’s “heroic widows” at that time kept a tame but half-witted giant with an enormous black beard; the whole of his body was, I was told, as hirsute as a bear. A daughter of the nobility contented herself with more lyric loves than these. A well-to-do girl from Calcutta practised sheer promiscuity; an exquisitely beautiful woman of the middle classes did…
1913 · PDF PAGE 267
…se pallid heroes, after panting round the vélodrome for God knows how many hours, would fall from their racers into the arms of the stalwart vampires who had annexed them. The best known of England’s “heroic widows” at that time kept a tame but half-witted giant with an enormous black beard; the whole of his body was, I was told, as hirsute as a bear. A daughter of the nobility contented herself with more lyric loves than these. A well-to-do girl from Calcutta practised sheer promiscuity; an exquisitely beautiful woman of the middle classes did…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
…t was no idle boast of hers that she had destroyed Madame Blavatzsky. Together with another woman, she had wormed her way into the big-hearted Theosophist's confidence, and betrayed her foully at the proper moment. She [294] had tried the same game on another adept; but, when he found her out, and she knew it, he had merely continued his kindnesses. The alternative before her was repentance or brain fever; and she had chosen the latter. Her disbelief in magick had left her with its correlate, a belief in death. It was the one thing she feared, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 213 The secret corruption of ages ORYPUREUS. Ye cling to, and hold as ye can, Apollo! And abandon the songs of the sages For Passion—and Pan ! O thou heart of hate and inmost terror! O thou soul of subtle fear and Just ! Loathsome shape of infamy, thy mirror Shown as spirit or displayed as dust ! O thou worm in every soul of matter Crawling, feasting, rotting; slime of hell ! Beat and batter! shear and shatter ! Break the egg that hides thee well! Pan! I call thee! Pan! I see thee in thy whirling citadel. I alone of all…
1919 · PDF PAGE 256
…his grade is symbolically that of beauty and harmony; it is the natural stopping-place of the majority of men and women; for to proceed farther, as will appear, involves renunciation of the sternest kind. Here then all is joy, peace, well-being on all planes; the Sovereign Prince Rose Croix is attached equally to the higher and the lower, and forms a natural link between them. Yet let him look to it that his eyes are set on high! “In this degree the Most Wise Sovereign of each chapter will appoint a committee of four persons, two men and two wo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…r it, Sir HERPES Z. You have some good news to announce, I think, as well as I. SIR GRABSON J. Sad for the general commonwealth, but of particular joy in this house. The Marquis of Glenstrae had the misfortune yesterday to fall against a circular saw in motion. Sirk HERPES Z, Dear, dear ! and how was that ? StR GRARSON J. His lordship was very fond of children, as you may know. It seems he was pursuing 1 Certain of our little-instructed surgical readers have expressed themselves dissatisfied with the explanation given by Sir G. Jobbs. They argu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 40
… to hold the reins Tight on the fretful horses of the state Whose weary burden makes them slip—-nay, fall On the stern hill of war. Thou art appointed, 1 This voice is again heard, using the identi- cal words, at the last great crisis of his life. VOL. I. Being the wisest man in all the realm, (So spake the king) the second to him- self. Ph. Thy vessel waits? Aless, For dawn. Ph. Then hasten thee To tell them Iam ready. The meanwhile I will devote to prayer. Afess. At dawn, my lord. [Avee Messenger. Lh. [Turns to window.) O Maker and O Ruler of…
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
…y sought his home, Whose double incarnation is divine Beyond the old stories. Yes, Iam a god. AMENTATEP. Beware the fatal magic of her heart ! For she is great and evil, and her voice Howls blasphemy against yet living gods. Thou knowest not the story of thy birth, The truth. S’AFI. Then speak the truth, if so a priest May tune his tongue to anything but lies. AMENHATEP. Sixteen strange seasons mingle gold and grey Since in this very temple she, the Queen, Spake, and threw open to our reverent gaze A royal womb made pregnant with that seed Of w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 246
…nt. Consider the analogy of a debutante at her coming‐out ball. She is introduced to sev‐ enty‐eight grown people. Assuming her to be a particularly intelligent girl, with a very high social education, she may know all about the position and general characteristics of these people. This, however, will not imply real knowledge of any one of them; she will have no means of saying how any one will react to her. At most, she can know only a few facts from which deductions may be made. It is unlikely, for example, that the V.C. will hide in a cellar…