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…ointed for the Enlightenment of mine Eyes. Now then of this may I not speak, seeing that it involveth the Mystery of the Transcending of Time, so that in One Hour of our terrestrial Measure did I gather the Harvest of an Æon, and in Ten Lives I could not declare it. r
…akespeare was a leader of thought, he saw through the humbug of the star-gazers; if not, he was a credulous fool; not the one man of his time, not a ‘‘debauched genius” (for Sir R. Burton in this phrase has in a sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time? Then we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, " My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” _-but there is …
…from the world the light hath slowly faded ; I have left the groves of Pan that I might gaze upon Thee, Gaze upon the Virgin that before Time was begotten, Mother of Chronos, and the old gods before him, Child of the womb of the Silence, whose father Is the unknown breath of the most secret Goddess, Whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness. “ Now do I come before Thee in Thy temple, With offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water That girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; And all the austerity of the brooding …
…im away... But all these dreams gradually faded out. Lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. The time of his knowledge had come. XV THE DEVIL I trust I said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. Men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. Among others, Sir Anthony Lawthon and his daughters. I propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, Mary Lawthon. I hardly know how to describe her. She was a woman of six and twenty, m…
…from the world the light hath slowly faded ; I have left the groves of Pan that I might gaze upon Thee, Gaze upon the Virgin that before Time was begotten, Mother of Chronos, and the old gods before him, Child of the womb of the Silence, whose father Is the unknown breath of the most secret Goddess, Whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness. “ Now do I come before Thee in Thy temple, With offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water That girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; And all the austerity of the brooding …
…im away... But all these dreams gradually faded out. Lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. The time of his knowledge had come. XV THE DEVIL I trust I said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. Men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. Among others, Sir Anthony Lawthon and his daughters. I propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, Mary Lawthon. I hardly know how to describe her. She was a woman of six and twenty, m…
… have seen the eternal Gods Sit, star-wed, in old Egypt by the Nile; The same calm pose, the inscrutable, wan smile, On every lip alike. Time hath not had his will to strike At them; they abide, they pass through all. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them, even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, weknow; let, then, the writing go! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love. Some…
LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 191 Of space, for being the centre of all things, Time is to us the Now, and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates, is a part , Of our own thoughts and souls ; because we love. Thou shudderest, clinging to me; though the night Jewels her empire with the frosty crown Of thousand-twinkling stars, whose hoary crests Burn where light touches them, with diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pierces the marrow, since it is the word Of the Almighty, and cuts throug…
…the fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass/of religion. That its apologists should have devoted so much time, thought, scholarship, and ingenuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, revert to the most. elementary ideas of cannibal savages, challenge all the Most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my theory, _ I clearly fo…
…dry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never change because they do not instruct them- selves; but peoples instruct themselves. Shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31
…dry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never change because they do not instruct them- selves; but peoples instruct themselves. Shepherds and butchers of the people, you are then 31
…Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Bo…
…ox of the Gods, loc. cit. more fitting to show the beginning of the Aeon; for all that is known about the next Aeon, due in 2,000 years’ time, is that its symbol is the double‐wanded one.1 But the new Aeon has pro‐ duced such fantastic changes in the settled order of things that it would be evidently absurd to attempt to carry on the outworn traditions, “the rituals of the old time are black.” It has consequently been the endeavour of the present Scribe to preserve those essential features of the Tarot which are independent of the periodic chan…
… split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it Night. After the last day came his Mother, his Redeem er, and Him self ; and joining together they were even as I am who write unto y ou. Seventeen they were, the three Fathers : with the three Mothers they were thirty -two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion is…
…n altogether misleading term ; monodrama is perhaps better. It is really a series of introspective studies ; not necessarily a series in time, but in psychology, and that rather the morbid psychology of the Adept than the gross mentality of the ordinary man. It may help some of my readers if I say that my Tannhauser is nearly identical in scheme with the " Pilgrim's Progress." Literary and spiritual experts will however readily detect minor differences in the treatment. It will be sufficient if I state that "the Unknown," whether minstrel, 13
… any cause. Had 0° been extended in causality, no change could have taken place. Here, then, are we, finite beings in a finite universe, time, space, and causality themselves finite (inconceivable as it may seem) with our individuality, and all the illusions’; of the Advaitists, just as real as they practi- cally are to our normal consciousness. ‘As Schopenhauer, following Buddha, points out, suffering is a necessary condition of this existence. The war of the contending forces as they grind themselves down to the final resultant must cause end…
…ave wrecked fair cities in a night , One poet's song may bid a kingdom fall .? And that which is below is as that which is above ; for : Time is to us the Now , and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . So we see : For Gods , and devils too , I find Are merely modes of my own mind !4 2 1 Aceldama , vol . i, p . 4. Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 110 . 3 Ibid . vol . i, p. 119 . + Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 177 .
… Yet ofwhat men count deeds I have done no small share. I have travelled abit, written abit . , . I seem to have been hard at it all the time—and to have got nothing finished or successful. One Tragedy—one little comedy—two essays—a dozen poems or so—two or three short stories—odds and ends of one sort and another: it’s a miserable record, though the Tragedy is good enough to last a life. It marks an epoch in literature, though nobody else will guess it for fifty years yet. The travel, too, has been rubbish. It’s been a petty, peddling year. The …
…ster gets no fun out of the rose. This state establishes a dualistic conception, such as Mansel was unable to transcend, and at the same time places the original rose in its cosmic place. The creative forces that have made the rose and the observer what they are, and established their relation to one another, are now the sole consciousness. Here lives the philosopher. Easily enough, this state passes into one of pure con- sciousness (Vififianam). The rose and the observer and their tendencies and relations have somehow vanished. The phenomenon …
…ster gets no fun out of the rose. This state establishes a dualistic conception, such as Mansel was unable to transcend, and at the same time places the original rose in its cosmic place. The creative forces that have made the rose and the observer what they are, and established their relation to one another, are now the sole consciousness. Here lives the philosopher. Easily enough, this state passes into one of pure con- sciousness (Vififianam). The rose and the observer and their tendencies and relations have somehow vanished. The phenomenon …