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Page 81 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 205
… cavern called to her continuously. And so the external reconciliation had no deep root. For a few weeks she was better and healthier in body and mind. Then she slipped back into her sulks, and went "fairy-tale-ing" as she called it, with a very determined mind to be on guard against the interference of Sister Clara. She had begun to familiarize herself with the laws of this other world, and could distinguish symbols and their meanings to some extent; she could even summon certain forms, or banish them. And she set a mighty bar between herself …
1929 · PDF PAGE 346
…lad. At the foot of the Cross is the Mother of God, And Her tears are like rain to enliven the sod, While the Blood of the Lord from his Body that runs Is the heat of the summer, the fire of its suns. See where the cherubim pallid and plumed Swing with their thuribles praises perfumed! Jesus is risen and Mary assumed: Ave Maria! {560} O sorrow of pure eyes beneath The heavy-fringed estatic lids, Seeing for maiden song and wreath Sphinxes and pagan pyramids! O Mary, like a pure perfume Do thou receive this failing breath,
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
… of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying: “Is it not written that if thine Eye be single thy whole body shall be full of Light?” Adding: “In thee is no power of mental concentration and control of thought: and without this thou mayst achieve nothing.” Under his direction, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations …
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
… of humiliation, and, as I may say, despair: but spake words of comfort saying: “Is it not written that if thine Eye be single thy whole body shall be full of Light?” Adding: “In thee is no power of mental concentration and control of thought: and without this thou mayst achieve nothing.” Under his direction, therefore, 1 began to apply myself unto the practice of Raja-yoga, at the same time avoiding all, even the smallest, consideration of things occult, as also he bade me. Thus, at the beginning, I did meditate twice daily, three meditations …
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…s, guess the secret why I burn for you These years so cold to woman as I was! Guess why your laugh, your kiss, your touch run through My body, as it were a tunéd glass ! 1 Holy Queen-—one of the many thousand titles of the Goddess. You cannot guess ?—false devil that you are! To Cruelty’s add calm’s analysis ! You love me? Yes—then crown me a bearded Sar Bull-breasted by my sleek Semiramis !? Did you not hear those men below? spoke Of one I think you have forgotten long ; Talked of his ruined life—half as a joke— But I— But I—it is my whole hea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 170
… P.M. Slight feeling of Joy. (Bother joy! O.M.) Aug. 25, 1.33 to 10.55 P.M. Changed my Asana once during practice and found I could move body without affecting the particular part which was in the calm state. (Good. O.M.) Aug. 26. A quiet evening at home, for which I am grateful. It seems as if so little is entered in this diary and so much remains unsaid. How one longs some- times to express things and thoughts and generally ends by some commonplace entry. I think to-night I will try a little more than usual. All this time I have been plodding…
1905 · PDF PAGE 98
…flame like that most perfect star Whose kisses are So red and ripe! Oh, let thy limbs entwine Like love with mine! Oh, bend thy gracious body to my breast To sleep, to rest ! But chiefly let thine eyes be set on me, As when the sea Lay like a mirror to reflect the shape Of yonder cape Where Sappho stood and touched the lips of death ! Thy subtle breath Shall flow like incense in between our cheeks, Where pleasure seeks In vain a wiser happiness. And so Our whispers low Shall dim the utmost beauty of thy gaze Through moveless days And long night…
1905 · PDF PAGE 188
…like a living flower3 To die in your embraces, in the shower Thatdews like death your swooning loveliness To knew you love me; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps 5-- Ah tin the very triumph-hour of Tell Satan himself remembers whence he fell! CONVENTIONAL WICKEDNESS. Berore the altar of Famine and Desire The Two in One, a golden woman stands Holding a heart in her ensanguine hands, The nightly victim of her whore’s attire. Quick…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
…re one, as the mountain is one with the gale. THE CHILDREN OF EARTH. Our hair deep laden with the scent of earth, The colour of her rosy body’s birth, Our mother, lady and life of all that is divine ; We gather to the sombre sound, as spring Had whispered, ‘ Follow.’ hiding in her wing Her glorious head and flowing breast of wine. Though in the hollow of her heart be set So deep and awful a fire, though the net Of all her robes be frail as we are fine, We gather, listening to the living lyre Like falling water shot with amber fire, And blown al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…some time, and came at last to a cave. Iliel followed him to its darkest corner; and there she saw a corpse lying. Strangely, it was the body of the old scribe himself. It came to her very intensely that he had two bodies, and that he always kept one of them buried, for safety. The old scribe left the
1905 · PDF PAGE 107
…hadow blind My own love’s face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. O suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body, as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey-bee ! I felt a perfect soul embracing me, And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea. IT. Hk did not kiss me with his mouth ; his eyes Kissed mine, and mine kissed back; it was not wise, But yet he had the strength to leave me; so I was so glad he loved enough to go, My arms could never have released his neck ; Ife sa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…night; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With solemn joy and laughter of love; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, O spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest !
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…is of spiritual fervour. But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces of the body and the soul; and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the Kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has giv…
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…is of spiritual fervour. But close observers of human nature are accustomed to discover an intimate connection between the forces of the body and the soul; and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the Kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has giv…
1904 · PDF PAGE 93
…n the demon was wroth and shrieked : “Thy mother to black hell ! She is mine !” So the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. But our Father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs many, and good, with which our Father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven offerings :2 The first offering, dust ; The second offering, ashes ; The third offering, sa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 177
…oddess keen, And sighs and laughters caught between. For, swooning at the fervid lips Of Artemis, the maiden kisses Sob, and the languid body slips Down to enamelled wildernesses. Fallen and loose the shaken tresses ; Fallen the sandal and girdling gold, Fallen the music manifold Of moving limbs and strange caresses, And deadly passion that possesses The magic ecstasy of these Mad maidens, tender as blue seas. Night spreads her yearning pinions ; The baffled day sinks blind to sleep ; The evening breeze outswoons the sun’s Dead kisses to the sw…
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
…putrefaction. But, in sleep, I will put off that evil as a clout Cast by a begyar. VENUS. And the sore is left. TANNHAUSER. Oh, but this body, very consciousness ! I banish both. I cross the crimson wall— My spirit shall reach up to and attain That other. VENUS. So Persephone must hold Thy life divided in Her dark domain.” TANNHAUSER. Already I have tasted once of this In its own lesser way. en years ago I loved a maiden called Elizabeth. A child she was, so delicate and frail, Far, white, and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
…e fair, i. 76 When the wearily falling blossom of midnight, iii, 67 Where, in the coppice, oak and pine, i. 169 Where was light when thy body came, ii. 9 Whether we adopt Herbert Spencer's dictum, li, 250 Who art thou, love, by what sweet name I quicken? iii, 169 Ah, my dear, Strive, 1. 45 Why is thy back made stiff, unrighteous priest, i, 141 Will you not come: the unequal fever, iii. 4 Will you not learn to separate, iii. 7 Wild pennons of sunrise the splendid, i. 218 With calm and philosophic mind, ii. 169 With feet set terribly dancing, ii.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 20
…witha] strode on To the vast margin of the waters wan That barred him from his goal; his cloak he stripped, Then in the waves his sudden body dipped And with his strenuous hands the emerald water gripped. ? Long had he struggled (for Poseidon’s hand Heaped foam against him) toward the seemly strand, But that Love’s Mother, journeying from Rome, Passed in her car the swimmer, while her home Scarce yet was glimmering o’er the waste wide sea Against whose wrath he strove so silently ; Whom now beholding, checked her eager team, Dipped to the foam …
1906 · PDF PAGE 144
…k, O mist of morning! [The stage, which ts full of mist, gradually clears. It shows the Temple as in Scene I. On the throne the embalmed body of MaurRvA is seated. The altar flames with glowing charcoal, and a thin steam of tncemse arises. RUPHA and CRIOSDA are zn front, R. Two priests minister ; a goodly crew of choristers intone low litanies. A few young folk are at a barrier by the footlights (centre) in prayer. An old woman enters and brings an offering of flowers, which the priests receive and cast before the throne. RUPHA motions CRIOSDA …