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Page 85 of 941929 · PDF PAGE 93
93 Wilkinson shrugged his shoulders, came over to us and entered his name at John's. Now comes an infamy almost incredible. The dean pursued his revenge. He wrote a long, bitter, violent letter to Wilkinson's tutor, giving an account of the affair at Oxford, and urging --- in such language that it was more like a command than a threat --- that Wilkinson be forthwith kicked out of Cambridge. The tutor sent for the offender and the following dialogue ensued: "I believe you know Mr. So-and-So, Mr. Wilkinson." "I have that honour, sir." "Dean of Bl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
…ting flame Of living water on their strand, live through With million flames candescent as the dew, Red flowers too queenly for a mortal name ! The sea is pregnant with green stars; the land, The sky, like lovers stand With kiss half-consciously exchanged, hand fast in hand. O lovers fair and free, the wings of peace Bear this voice onward ; linger as you will By moon-wrought glades, and softly mur- muring seas, Lands white with summer, and the guiet leas ! Linger, and let no word of music thrill Your hearts; young love is all the harp ye need …
1906 · PDF PAGE 223
… IV. What egg hath no shell? And our Father pondered a while and then said: On a wave of the sea: on a shell of the wave: blessed be her name ! The fifth virgin issued suddenly and said : Griphus V. I have four arms and six sides: red am I, and gold. To whom our Father : Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ! (For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) Then said the sixth virgin openly: Gripbus VI. Power lieth in the river of fire. And our Father laughed aloud and answered: I am come from the waterfall. So at that the seventh virgin came forth: and h…
1905 · PDF PAGE 218
… to drag it down !} O holiest Lord of the divine white flame Of brilliance sworded in the temple sky ! O thou who knowest my most secret name, Who whisperest when only thou and I Make up our universe: bestow thy kiss: Arise! Come, let us pierce the old abyss ! Rise! Move! Appear! Tet us go forth together, Into the solemn passionless profound, Into the darkness, and the thrilling weather, Into the silence louder than all sound, Into the vast implacable inane ! Come, let us journey thither once again ! THE CHANT TO BE SAID OR SUNG UNTO OUR LADY I…
1935 · PDF PAGE 15
…g him a symbol unknown and unintelligible to him, and he must interpret its nature by means of a vision as exactly as if he had read its name and description in the book when it was chosen. The power to make and “charge” talismans is tested as if they were scientific instruments of precision, as they are. inferior to the average mediocrity in mathematics, that despite repeated efforts he could not pass the “little go” at Cambridge — which the dullest minds can usually do. He was so deeply esteemed for his classics that a special “Grace” was pla…
1906 · PDF PAGE 229
…drunken, sexless, and spatulate ; an ape-dropping, a lousy, flat-backed knave: from such an one keep ye well away! Use hath he little: ornament maketh he nothing: let him be cast out on the dunghills beyond Jordan ; let him pass into the S. P. P., and that utterly ! With that our Father sighed deep and laid back his reverend head, and was silent. But from his heart came a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile change…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…e golden light, Till ruby crowns the river’s living flow And glory of colour in the sun’s own flame— Beyond, to colours without sense or name, Impossible to man, whose vivid sight Would blast him with their splendour as they came Flashing through spiritual space, withdrawn Now, and now flung triumphant in the dawn Not of mere sun’s. rise, but before the birth Of a new system on the unfolded lawn Of space beyond the sceptre of the Gods! I, seeing all this, would foil Time’s periods — For one small woman on this-one mear earth, Would spoil the pl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 292
… to be the thunderer. It is now an imitation of thunder which only Martial could describe, or an ambitious Marine imitate. What in God’s name is an American author to do? He has got such a dreadful milieu that it is almost impossible to discover him. I never blamed the cock who failed to notice the pearl in the dung hill. Fortunately, I had Mr. Mencken to indicate Mr. Cabell. Thus, I was able to read the book as if I knew nothing of its surroundings, which is of course the only way to read a book. It is admirably written. It is a defence of rom…
1943 · PDF PAGE 5
… are Light, Life, Love and Liberty. By Light shall ye look upon yourselves and behold All Things that are in Truth One Thing only, whose name hath been called No Thing for a cause which later shall be declared unto you. But the substance of Light is Life, since without Existence and Energy it were naught. By Life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorruptible, flaming forth as suns, self-created and self-supported, each the sole center of the Universe. Now as by Light ye behold, by Love ye feel. There is an ecstasy of pure Knowled…
1905 · PDF PAGE 226
…e thunder, Light-speared, with a sword that is flame, He bursts the vast spaces asunder. His angels arise and proclaim : The Lord is His Name! O Lord! Thou didst march out of Edom! Thou leapedst from the Mountains of Seir! The breath of hy voice was as Freedom ! The nations did tremble with fear. The heathen, their fury forsook them ; The Moabites trembled and fled. O Lord, when Thy countenance shook them, Thy voice in the House of the Dead. O Lord! Thou hast said ! The lightnings were kindled and lightened, Thy thunder was heard on the deep; T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING he pledges himself to keep secret the Order, its name, and the names of the members, as well as the proceedings which take place at its meetings. To maintain kindly and benevolent relation with all the Fratres and Sorores of the Order. To prosecute with zeal and study the occult sciences, &c. &c. He then swears to observe the above under the awful penalty of submitting “ myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the Order, by which I should fall slain or paralysed without visibl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 263
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING he pledges himself to keep secret the Order, its name, and the names of the members, as well as the proceedings which take place at its meetings. To maintain kindly and benevolent relation with all the Fratres and Sorores of the Order. To prosecute with zeal and study the occult sciences, &c. &c. He then swears to observe the above under the awful penalty of submitting “ myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the Order, by which I should fall slain or paralysed without visibl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
… Doris Fischer, born in 1889 (of German parents), who de- veloped, in all, five distinct personalities, each of which received a special name. Besides the original “Doris,” we find “Sick Doris,” “Margaret,” and “Sleeping Margaret,” and “Sleeping Real Doris.” These five personalities are said to have shown varied characteristics (as is invariably the case) and to be essentially dif- ferent, from the psychological point-of-view. As usual, also, several of them developed as the result of emotional shock, and disappeared under hypnosis and psycholo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 99
…sis caused him to behold his image in a pool; he pined of love for the reflection, and was changed into the flower which still bears his name. 2 The reader may consult Keats’s poem of ‘¢ Endymion.” Of one? beneath the hoary stone who hid And watched unbid When one most holy came across the glade, Who saw a maid So bright that mists were dim upon his eyes, And yet he spies So sweet a vision that his gentle breath Sighed into death: And others say that here the fairies bring The fairy king,? And crown him with a flower of eglantine, And of the vi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
… What egg hath no shell ? And our Father pondered a while and then said : On a wave of the sea : on a shell of the wave : blessed be her name ! The fifth virgin issued suddenly and said : I have four arms and six sides : red I am, and gold. To whom our Father : Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ! (For wit ye well, there be two Arcana therein.) Then saith the sixth virgin openly : Power lieth in the river of fire. And our Father laughed aloud and answered : I am come from the waterfall. So at that the seventh virgin came forth: and her countenance was …
1944 · PDF PAGE 264
…ne side, Fire and Air; on the feminine side, Water and Earth. The original concept of the Tao as developed by the Teh, is resumed in the name Thâi Kî. The Yang and the Yin are called the I or Yao. When these are combined two at a time, we obtain four figures, called the Hsiang, which may be compared to Tetragrammaton, and this stage of development is so secret in the Chinese idea that practically nothing is said about these forms. They only come out into the clear light when the combinations of the Yang and the Yin are taken three at a time as …
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…the Assyrian brake. She stole upon me as I slept: Who wonders I am nympholept? Her face is round and hard and small And pretty—hence the name I gave her Of the boot-button girl. Appal These words? Ah, would your spirit save her? She’s right just as she is: so wise You look through hardly-opened eyes One would believe you could do better. Ma foi! And is your God your debtor? So, my true love, I paint you three Portraits of women that love me. XXII. THESE portraits, darling, are they yours? And yet there sticks the vital fact That these, as you, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…than three years in fits of alternate enthusiasm for, and disgust of, it. My best friends have turned weeping away when I introduced its name into conversation; my most obsequious sycophants (including myself) were revolted when I approached the subject, even from afar. I began Book I. in San Francisco one accursed day of May 1901. I was then a Qabalist, deeply involved in ceremonial magic, with a Pantheon of Egypto-Christian colour, in fact, the mere bouillon of which my ‘‘ Tannhauser ’” was the froth. The idea was to do the ‘‘ biggest thing e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 311
…e the various faculties of the mind; but the uppermost point, which should link the human consciousness with the divine, is missing. Its name is Daäth, Knowledge. The Babylonian legend of the "fall" is a parable of the shutting out of man from Paradise by the destruction of this
1905 · PDF PAGE 258
…eaven’s archipelagoes; Yet lighted not the glory whence it came, Nor shone upon the surface of the sea. Time, and the Great One, and the Nameless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb with- held That spiritual fire, and brooded still: Nature and Time, their solenesss undispelled. Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten: uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath of the Eternal and t…