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…is better than all things; if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of earth in splendour and pride; but always in the love of 256
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…ity The topics I dwell on were unlawful— Or worse, that I trench with undue levity On the bounds of the holy and the awful— I praise the heart and pity the head of him, And refer myself to Thee, instead of him, Who head and heart alike discernest, Looking below light speech we utter Where frothy spume and frequent splutter Prove that the soul’s depths boil in earnest !”’ But.I have after all little fear that I am seriously wrong. That I show to my critics the open door of the above city of refuge may be taken as merely another gesture of contem…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…posite portraits. My own poor effort is the most crude photography. Also, I beg him to excuse my personalities. He is too great a man at heart to resent jests at the expense of his perishable vehicle; he is himself a star bright-blazing, the more glorious for the thickness of the terrestrial vapours which it has had to pierce. We wandered back to Boleskine, after arranging with a doctor named Percival Bott to come and stay with us and undertake the accouchement. I asked my Aunt Annie to preside over the household, and an old friend of Gerald's …
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…e in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of many a human heart . But surely now that we have reached the twentieth century , thousands and thousands of years since these primi tive times , should we not shake off these trammels of infant thought , and , assuming our manhood , decry an ideal that is not only brutal but absurd ; instead of reverencing it because of its great antiquity , or because of our conservative sympathies with the past days of our fathers . Woma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
…there is among the wicked an absolute solidarity of fatal culpability and necessary chastisement. Cri meresides in the tendencies of the heart. Circumstances which are almost always independent of the will are the only causes of the gravity of the acts. If fatality had made Nero 253
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
…there is among the wicked an absolute solidarity of fatal culpability and necessary chastisement. Cri meresides in the tendencies of the heart. Circumstances which are almost always independent of the will are the only causes of the gravity of the acts. If fatality had made Nero 253
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…pical : Sir Percy . Ah , love , love , how I love you. This is the world ! Love ! Love ! I love you so , my darling . Oh my white golden heart of glory !' Eternity is moulded in form of her kiss , and even if “ Hell belch its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there ” cries Sir Percy as he and Molly rush backwards and forwards kissing and kissing before they can finally part . And no sooner has he parted with her , having sworn eternal love and to meet her at moonrise , than he stumbles across a bedizened hag of sixty - three ( so…
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
…wards, This is Mula Bandha.§ 8. Jalandhava Mudra. Contract the throat and press the chin firmly against the breast (four inches from the heart). This is Jalandhara Bandha. . . .|| 9. Viparitakavani Mudra. This consists in making the Sun and Moon assume exactly reverse positions. The Sun which is below the navel and the Moon which is above the palate change places. This Mudra * “Hatha-Yoga Pradipika,” p. 48; “Shiva Sanhita,” vol. iv, 23-30. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap iv, 31. This is perhaps the most important of the Mudras. The “Hatha Yoga Pradipik…
1910 · PDF PAGE 337
THE THREE WORMS citadel of her heart, which like a faded and extinguished censer, rusts in the decadence of its scented memories. The three worms dispose themselves and begin to talk. The little worm which is issuing from her mouth begins: “Tam her mouth, her beautiful mouth, that sweet frail chalice where her soul delighted to dissolve itself and to lie. That mouth of hers, so nervous, so intimately sensible, that it is pleasant to think of it as the fragile rim of the holy and wonderful amphora of her strange exultant being. “TI am—since I wa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
…wards, This is Mula Bandha.§ 8. Jalandhava Mudra. Contract the throat and press the chin firmly against the breast (four inches from the heart). This is Jalandhara Bandha. . . .|| 9. Viparitakavani Mudra. This consists in making the Sun and Moon assume exactly reverse positions. The Sun which is below the navel and the Moon which is above the palate change places. This Mudra * “Hatha-Yoga Pradipika,” p. 48; “Shiva Sanhita,” vol. iv, 23-30. + “Shiva Sanhita,” chap iv, 31. This is perhaps the most important of the Mudras. The “Hatha Yoga Pradipik…
1910 · PDF PAGE 337
THE THREE WORMS citadel of her heart, which like a faded and extinguished censer, rusts in the decadence of its scented memories. The three worms dispose themselves and begin to talk. The little worm which is issuing from her mouth begins: “Tam her mouth, her beautiful mouth, that sweet frail chalice where her soul delighted to dissolve itself and to lie. That mouth of hers, so nervous, so intimately sensible, that it is pleasant to think of it as the fragile rim of the holy and wonderful amphora of her strange exultant being. “TI am—since I wa…
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…s loosened, and the petals of the Rose are the mingled hues of sunset and of dawn; and the Cross is the Golden light of noon, and in the heart of the Rose there is the secret light that men call midnight. And a voice: ‘Glory to God and thanksgiving to God, and there is no God but God. And He is exalted; He is great; and in the Sevenfold Table is His Name writ openly, and in the Twelvefold Table is His Name concealed.’ And the Pyramid casts a shadow of itself into the sky, and the shadow spreads over the whole stone. And an angel clad in blue an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
…is this written: He shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe alie. And again it is written: The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And again it is written that God tempteth man. But thou hadst the word and the sign, and thou hadst authority from thy superior, and licence. And thou hast done well in that thou didst not dare, and in that thou dost dare. For daring is not presumption. And he said moreover: Thou dost well to keep silence, for I perceive how many questions arise in thy mind; yet already thou knowest that the answering, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…ershadowed even the abhorrence due to every part. The madness of the living is a thing so abominable and fearful as to chill every human heart with horror; it is less than nothing in comparison with the madness of the dead! A further complication now arose in the destruction irrevocable and complete of that compensating mecha- nism of the brain, which is the basis of the sense of time. Hideously distorted and deformed as it had been in the derangement of the brain, like a shapeless jelly shooting out, of a sudden, vast, unsuspected tentacles, t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
… 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human mind , be trayed thy trust , sacrificed love on the altar of Mam mon , leaving the heart as a blighted flower , the soul as a hollow shell , void , execrable . Even love is sold , the solace of all woe Is turned to deadliest agony , old age Shivers in selfish beauty's loathing arms And youth's corrupted impulses prepare A life of horror from the blighting bane Of commerce ; whilst the pestilence that springs From unenjoying sensualism, has filled All human life with hydra -headed woes. So sa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…ast , I sang in tuneless agony the spell ; Rolled athwart space the black words : then some force Tore me : I heard the tears drop in my heart . I heard the laughter of some utmost god Hid in the middle of matter . That was I, The hideous laughter of the maniac laugh When loathing makes the bed to lust , and twine 1 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 131 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 299
…, philosophy , nor religion ; for it is the science , the ethics , the philosophy , the religion of all times , and when manifest in the heart of the adept , the full blaze of a divine glory will descend , life will be van quished , and the soul set free . To attain to this freedom is the end of life ; in this respect both yogi and mystic agree , and that every thing which entails the loss of freedom is sin , there fore change is sin and illusion , maya , and our great object is to get beyond this changeable changeability into an unchangeable c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 52
…f the mysteries of the ineffable light. Iam the aspiration unto the higher; I am the love of the unknown. I am the blind ache within the heart of man. I am the minister of the sacrament of pain. I swing the censer of worship, and I sprinkle the waters of purification. I am the daughter of the house of the invisible. I am the Priestess of the Silver Star. And she catches me up to her as a mother catches her babe, and holds me up in her left arm, and sets my lips to her breast. And upon her breast is written: Rosa Mundi est Lilium Coeli. And I lo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 135
…bend closer, and the gold Burns brighter, and the eyes are cold With life at last withdrawn. And all the spirit passing down Involves my heart with gray: So the pale stars of even crown The glow of twilight ; dip and drown The last despairs of day. Oh ! closer yet and closer yet The pearl of faces grows. The hair is woven like a net Of moonlight round me : sweet is set The mouth’s unbudded rose. Oh never! did our lips once meet The dream were done for ever, And death should dawn, supremely sweet, One flash of knowledge subtle and fleet Borne on…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…er's children , and his loins With double fervour gat a double flower ; And we indeed were born of drudging wives, Pale spouses whom his heart despised , but thou Wast of a fairer face and brighter eyes , And limbs more amorous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell Street , its celebration mis understood and prostituted by the Church , and its life t…