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… a poem on the culinary uses of placentas, which fell still-born from the press, gave up the unequal contest and had himself buggered to death in the principal Harman of Constantin- ople. The Pope signalized his approbation of my ser- vices by appointing me to a fat bishopric, with the run of all the choir-boys in the district. But I had my work cut out in other ways, for Leila was still with me, and you know from your own experience that she has but to grip once your father-confessor with her amazing man-trap, and it is not so easy to withdraw…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…old despair That Christ hath brought upon the land: By Mary and the false blind beastly Lies of the prudish and the priestly: By God and death and hate I swear That man shall rise, shall understand. I swear by this my lucid Eye, By all the freedom I have won, That men shall learn to love and doubt, Put faith and slavery to the rout, And eagle-pinioned even as I Soar to the splendour of the sun! All right! all right! said the doctor, rather testily. But you want everybody to use your methods. Hurrah for Huxley! Down with Jesus! By heaven, your t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 185
…agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands , thy feet Ooze blood , thine eyes weep blood ; thine anguish is More keen than death . At last — there is no deeper vault of hell beneath ! Then comes the great reward . We have travelled knee deep through the mire of life , yet if our souls be spotless our abasement , “ ... bringeth back the sheaves ” XV . Of golden corn of exaltation , With strange intoxications mad and manifold . It is this curious phase , yearning towards Perfection , which forms the great stumbling - block to all pr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 102
…ime; his agony of failure was awful; {or he knew that he was failing; but though he cried a thousand times unto Adonai with the Voice of Death, he could not—he could not. Again and again he stood at the gate, and could not enter. And the Violet Flames of Ajna triumphed over him. Then Brenner said: “ Let us take a little rest!”—oh irony l—and he came down from his throne, staggering with fatigue. . . . If you can conceive of all his anger and despair! His pen, writing this, forms a letter badly, and through clenched teeth he utters a fierce curse…
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…is but one light. Hail unto thee who knowest not thy right nostril from thy left; for in the aeon of my Father there is neither life nor death. Hail unto thee who knowest not thy right ear from thy left; for in the aeon of my Father there is neither sound nor silence. Whoso hath power to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the Universe. Let me dwell in peace within the breast of the Angel that is warden…
1919 · PDF PAGE 80
THE EQUINOX 34. Thy name is Death, it may be, or Shame, or Love. So thou bringest me tidings of the Beloved One, I shall not ask thy name. 35. Where is now the Master? cry the little crazy boys. He is dead! He is shamed! He is wedded! and their mockery shall ring round the world. 36. But the Master shall have had his reward. The laughter of the mockers shall be a ripple in the hair of the Beloved One. 37. Behold! the Abyss of the Great Deep. Therein is a mighty dolphin, lashing his sides with the force of the waves. 38. There is also an harper …
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
… wicked city ? Perhaps you might yourself have one wee fling , If you were pretty . 3 What might not hard starvation drive you to , With Death so near and sure ? Perhaps it might drive even virtuous you, If you were poor. And in “ Orpheus " he well describes the social trinity : Nay ! virtue is the devil's name for vice , And all your righteousness is filthy rags Wherein ye strut , and hide the one base thought . To mask the truth , to worship , to forget ; These three are one .“ The moral character of a nation is its true capital , and the two…
1961 · PDF PAGE 207
…e to mine own Genius and my Law is that unless I sleep or create, my Soul is sick, and fain to claim the Reward and the Recreation of my Death. But (I hear thee say it) this is not the Case of All, or even of many Men; but their Act of Will is satisfied easily at its first Guerdon. Should not hen their Wisdom be to resist themselves for a Space, as Water heaped up by a Dam gathereth Force, and Hunger feedeth upon Abstinence? Also, there is that which I have written in a former Chapter of the right Use of Discipline; and thirdly, his free Flowin…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
…ence has matured into sanctification; he is the initiated Priest whose function is to create; it is Good Friday, the day of darkness and death. Where shall he seek his salvation? Where is Monsalvat, the mountain of salvation, which he has sought so long in vain? He worships the lance: immediately the way, so long closed to him, is open; th£ scenery revolves rapidly, there is no need for him to move. He has arrived at the Temple of the Graal. All true ceremonial religion must be solar and phallic in character. It is the wound of Amfortas which h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 19
… the opal , deepening into a limitless amethyst , darkens , and the sun goes out . The spangled pall of Night is drawn , and the lull of death is o'er us ; but no , hark ! the distant boom of a beetle is carried across the still glowing welkin , it is the signal drum announcing the marriage of Night and Day . The crescent moon rises , diaphanous and fair , and the world wakes to a chant : DIONYSUS I bring ye wine from above , From the vats of the storied sun ; For every one of ye love , And life for every one . Ye shall dance on hill and level …
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
THE HARLOT 119 burning the royal palace of Persepolis , and after his death married Ptolemy , King of Egypt ; and was it not at the feet of Lais that such men as Demosthenes and Diogenes were to be found ? Was it not also Catullus who sang to the fickle Lesbia : Give me kisses thousand fold , Add to them a hundred more ; Other thousands still be told , Other hundreds o'er and o'er . And Propertius to the wayward Cynthia : Cynthia's unsnaring eyes my bondage tied : Ah wretch ! no loves , till then , had touched my breast , Love bent to earth the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…s , And he with rosy finger points the way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdale ," there grows a wavering doubt , which leaps out furiously in the “Preliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improving idea " of Christ : Let there be light !-the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean .4 Almost a Shelleyan slur lies in the la…
1996 · PDF PAGE 204
…y heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet there fore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a fool ish word: for it is I that go. 8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. 9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sor rows are but as shadows; they pass &c are done; but there is that which remains. 10. O prophet! thou hast …
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
9 up the very moment of death; but once the saints had been called up, the day of grace was finally over. Various alarums and excursions would take place as per the Apocalypse, and then would come the millennium, when Satan would be chained for a thousand years and Christ reign for that period over the Jews regathered in Jerusalem. The position of these Jews is not quite clear. They were not saved in the same sense as Christians had been, yet they were not damned. The millennium seems to have been thought of as a fulfilment of god's promise to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…e spirit : and above Hangs Sin , vast vampire , the corrupt , that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world , and flaps , for lust of Death - and Love ! 1 " Kill me,” cries Tannhäuser . “ In the kiss , ” answers Venus : thus ends Act II . Act III opens a different scene . The outer materi ality of body is all but sated , the starved soul within cries for sustenance ; he murmurs “ Elizabeth ,” and then wakes strong through her perfection . Venus still entices , but her power has vanished , and at the name of “ Ave Maria !” the exorcism entang…
1907 · PDF PAGE 183
…herein I went . In verse vi we find the mysticism of Bera shith “ Nothing was everything "; and in verse vii , the perfection of life in death “ Absorbed my life in 92 | Aceldama , vol . i, p . 2. a Omar Khayyam ,
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…could he ever hope to draw man- kind to that great illimitable LVX, from which he had * The world of unrest and transiency, of birth and death. + The Great Attainment of Buddhism. Our terminology now degenerates into the disgusting vulgarity of the Pali dialect. } The Mahay4na Buddhists’ Boundless Light. Compared;with the canonical Nibbana it bears a very similar relation to it as the Ain Soph Aur, the Illimit- able Light, does to the Ain, the negatively Existent One. In the Brihadaranyka Upanishad 4. 4. 66. Brahman is termed “jyotisham jyotis”…
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…could he ever hope to draw man- kind to that great illimitable LVX, from which he had * The world of unrest and transiency, of birth and death. + The Great Attainment of Buddhism. Our terminology now degenerates into the disgusting vulgarity of the Pali dialect. } The Mahay4na Buddhists’ Boundless Light. Compared;with the canonical Nibbana it bears a very similar relation to it as the Ain Soph Aur, the Illimit- able Light, does to the Ain, the negatively Existent One. In the Brihadaranyka Upanishad 4. 4. 66. Brahman is termed “jyotisham jyotis”…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
…at this day unité with love under will let fall success; may strength and skill unité to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty. (DEATH) (Ail standy Head erecty Eyes open.) The DEACON. Term of ail that liveth, whose name is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE END) The DEACON. Unto them from whose eyes the veil of life 355
1906 · PDF PAGE 203
…e.” On opening this it was found to contain, besides these MSS., his literary will, All MSS. were to be published thirty years after his death, not before. He would gain no spurious popularity as a reflection of the age he lived in. ‘‘ Tennyson,” he says, ** will die before sixty years are gone by: if 1 am to be beloved of men, it shall be because my work is for all times and all men, because it is greater than all the gods of chance and change, because it has the heart of the human race beating in every line.”* This is a patch of magenta to ma…