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…e ancient to oblivion! Oh! Love is grown fury! TANNHAUSER. Kall me! VENUS. In the kiss. [TANNHAUSER Sleeps, ACT III. For Love is lord of truth and loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden piumes up to the purest sky, Above the reach of loathly sinful lust, Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weak wings dare not to heaven fly, But like a moldwarp in the earth doth lie. His’ dunghill thoughts, which do themselves enure To dirty dross, no higher dare aspire, Nor can his feeble earthly eyes endure The flaming light of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…gn and abide in maiden Beauty for ever ! Love me, love me, love me as I desire it, Strong sweet draughts not drawn of a well of passion, Truth’s bright crystal, shimmering out of sunlight Into the moon-dawn. Closer cling, thou heart of amazed rapture, Cords of starlight fashioned about thee net- wise, Tendrils woven of gossamer twist about us ! These be the binders ! Night winds whirl about the avenger city ; Darkness rides on desolate miles of moor- land ; Thou and I, disparted a little, part not Spirit from spirit. Strange and sister songs in…
1905 · PDF PAGE 178
…s ulcers ! Mock me, ye clinging lovers, at your peril ! God turns to dust the blossom of your youth. The fruit of lust is poisonous with—truth ! Its immortality is-—to be sterile ! This lie of Love hath no abiding : “Two loves are ended; one, the infant band, Rises more splendid.” sand ! Two loves are one ; but O to their dividing! Spin the rope of Fertility—distaste’s adoption ! Her body’s growth—desire’s mortality ! I look and loathe. Behold how lovers die, And immortality puts on corruption ! ASMODEL.! Cat. down that star whose tender eyes W…
1919 · PDF PAGE 173
…learly the state of Unity produced by the practice of Raja Yoga. There is a clearer conception, and the feeling of be- ing very near the Truth. N.B. During meditation the Light above head was beginning to envelope the mind, but was disturbed by R. calling me to come to bed.’ (R. must be told not to call you to come to bed. The feeling that she may pos- sibly do so is enough to prevent concentration. Also, as a general rule, it’s very bad to sleep with another person in the room. O.M.) 165
1905 · PDF PAGE 124
… slaver slimes and slakes The soul-consuming fevers that within Thy heart the fires of hell on carth begin! O heart whose yearning after truth for- sakes The law of love! O heart whose ocean breaks In sterile foam against some golden skin ! O thou whose bedy is one perfect prayer, One long regret, one agony of shame, Lost in the fragrance, speeding, subtle and rare, Up to the sky, an avenue of Hamc! My soul, thy body, in the same sin curled, With vivid lust annihilate the world. A WVODLAND IDYLL. FResH breath from the woodland blows sweet O’er …
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…r wanes the tempestival moon. Her course is tether. Waxes the eightfold ecstasy ; exceeds The minor sestet, where some passion bleeds Or truth discourses: or eclipse may end, Proof against thought ; but if man com- prehend The stars in all their stations sing together. measured in the sonnet’s Il. What power or fascination can there lie In this fair garden of the straight-kept rows, sonnet ? knows Why, having written in mere ecstasy One sonnet-thought, the metre cannot dic But urges, but compels me to compose More and still more,! and still my …
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
… are each other, that their sum and their substance is None; But the knowledge itself can excel, its fulness hath broken its bond; Alls Truth, and alls falsehood as well, andwhat of the region beyond? So, still though I sit, as for ever, I stab to the heart of my spine; I destroy the last seed of endeavour to seal up my soul in the shrine Of Silence, Eternity, Peace; I abandon the Here and the Now; I cease from the effort to cease, I absolve the dead I from its Vow, I am wholly content to be dust, whether that be a mote or a star, To live an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…cury. VOL, IIT. XXIT, Droor the great eyelids purple-veined ! Stand, pure and pale and tremulous! Dare to believe, O soul unstained, The truth unguessed and unexplained ! The unquiet air monotonous Wreathes the sad head in whirring mist. Hath the delicate will disdained The delicate lips that would be kissed? Like far blue snows by sunrise caught Love lights the enlightened eyes of blue. Dare to believe the child-heart’s thought, And wake in wonder! For I knew From the first hour that This was true. XXIII. PROTOPLASM. ALTHOUGH I cannot leave th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 76
…Ammon bore On the angry shore, JEPHTHATI _ 69 Trusting to the mercy rare Of Jehovah, than to bare Hearts and bosoms to a friend Who high truth and faith may swear, And betray us at the end To his robber bands. So we clasp our humble hands, Praying God to Tift His sword rom our bleeding state, that stands Tottering to its fall. Though we call not Jephthah back To repel the harsh attack, Nor his followers call, [fear thou, O Most Thigh, give ear To our pitifl complaint : Under woes of war we faint. Pity, Lord of Hosts, our fear ! Hear, Most Tligh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 140
134 THE GOD-EATER Did make in very deed: so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma- juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…olar sybil? Orion’s signal banner dips: ‘* This is the folly of your youth, Achieving the exalted aim 3 Because you have gained a higher truth To call it by a lower name.” XIX. ROsE on the breast of the world of spring, I press my breast against thy bloom, My subtle life drawn out to thee: to thee its moods and meanings cling. I pass from change and thought to peace, woven on love’s incredible loom, Rose on the breast of the world of spring ! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take form and harmony and sing? How shall the ecstasy of light fal…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…ooked for some others in his heart, but drew blank. If he had any others, too, I suppose he would have worn the appropriate ribbons. The truth about Coote-Comstock crapulence is this. Manx Cats subscribe to the Society for the Suppression of Persian Cats. These funds go to support 338
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…ooked for some others in his heart, but drew blank. If he had any others, too, I suppose he would have worn the appropriate ribbons. The truth about Coote-Comstock crapulence is this. Manx Cats subscribe to the Society for the Suppression of Persian Cats. These funds go to support 338
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
… insistent call Of the constant waterfall. There, to such a setting be The carven gem of deity, A central flawless fire, enthralled Like Truth within an emerald! Thou shalt have a birchen bark On the river in the dark; And at the midnight thou shalt go To the mid-stream's smoothest flow, And strike upon a golden bell The spirit's call; then say the spell: "Angel, mine angel, draw thee nigh!" Making the Sign of Magistry With the wand of lapis lazuli Then, it may be, through the blind dumb Night thou shalt see thine angel come, Hear the faint whi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…ote 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 Underhill, being no artist, expresses only human error. CANDLESTICK. DEATH. HEREWARD CARRINGTON and JOHN R. ΜΕΑυΕκ. Wm. Rider & Son. S:. 64’. net. A most interesting and fairly able book. Mr Carrington’s hysteria is thoroughly diluted by Mr Meader, or else he has taken a little nourishment and feels better. The Vitality book was the scream of a. schoolgirl. The “ theories " of these writers are, howe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 169
…ote 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 Underhill, being no artist, expresses only human error. CANDLESTICK. DEATH. HEREWARD CARRINGTON and JOHN R. ΜΕΑυΕκ. Wm. Rider & Son. S:. 64’. net. A most interesting and fairly able book. Mr Carrington’s hysteria is thoroughly diluted by Mr Meader, or else he has taken a little nourishment and feels better. The Vitality book was the scream of a. schoolgirl. The “ theories " of these writers are, howe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…et a love, and that for ever, Ut, Canc. sublatum iri dixisse. Vae Capri- corno!! (Author's Note.) THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY. ‘She having the truth of honour in her, hath made him that gracious denial which he is most glad to receive,” Measure for Measure. OF course I might have known it was a lie. Nathless, I wept all morning and de- spaired. Nothing for any life of earth I cared, Neither for heaven: I railed against the sky, 1 This intentionally obscure note means that she said she had cancer. Now Capricorn; the opposite to Cancer in the Zodiac, i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 250
…that Buddhism, alike in theory and practice, is a scientific religion ; a logical superstructure on a basis of experimentally verifiable truth; and that its method is identical with that of science. We must resolutely exclude the accidental features of both, especially of Buddhism; and unfortunately in both cases we have to deal with dishonest and shame- less attempts to foist on either opinions for which neither is willing to stand sponsor, Professor Huxley has dealt with the one in his ‘‘ Pseudo-Scientific Kealism”’ ; Professor Rhys Davids ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
himself; he had no conception of the price paid by the members of the Black Lodge. The truth is, that as its intimates advance, their power and knowledge becomes enormously greater; but such progress is not a mark of general growth, as it is in the case of the White Brotherhood; it is like a cancer, which indeed grows apace, but at the expense of the man on whom it feeds, and will destroy both him and itself in the long run. The process may be slow; it may extend over a series of incarnations; but it is sure enough. The analogy of the cancer is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…me out Wrapped in a spotless winding-sheet, and soothe These nerves ill nuzzled by the black swine’s snout With thine eternal anodyne of truth! The foul beast grunts and snorts; but hear me, death! Thy wings are wind-white as her hoofs are dunged. Thy songs are faint and pale with honey breath, Honey and poppy! as her mouth hot- tongued Spews out its hideous lust. O loathéd life! Thou nameless horror of the bestial strife Of love and hate, I straitly charge thee quit This bed of nastiness, this putrid sea3 For not by any amorous tricks of wit S…