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Page 85 of 1591911 · PDF PAGE 199
…nts, and other men. We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its Cycle, and give place To other beings, with their own time-doom Infinite aeons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after the last man Has joined the mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kindness, love or hate : If toads and vultures are obscene to sight, If tigers burn with beauty and with might, Is it by favour or by wrath of fate ? All substance lives and struggles evermore Thro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
…nts, and other men. We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its Cycle, and give place To other beings, with their own time-doom Infinite aeons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after the last man Has joined the mammoth in earth’s tomb and womb. We bow down to the universal laws, Which never had for man a special clause Of cruelty or kindness, love or hate : If toads and vultures are obscene to sight, If tigers burn with beauty and with might, Is it by favour or by wrath of fate ? All substance lives and struggles evermore Thro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
…XENTASER; ARBA PIRE GAH GAHA GAHAL GAHALANA VO ABRA NA GAHA VELU- CORSAPAX. And the voice of the aeon cried: Return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles in the throat of the mighty dragon of eld. Thou canst not pass by me, except thou have the mystery of the word of the abyss. Now the angel putteth back the sapphire stone into his breast; and I spake unto him and said, I will fight with thee and overcome thee, except thou expound unto me the word of the abyss. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
…” said he, “certainly, I had the beginning of a sort of apoplectic attack, and a horrible dream. But how do you know that?” “At the same time, an invisible hand struck me roughly on the shoulder, and awoke me suddenly. I dreamt then that I saw you fighting with Astaroth. I jumped up, and a voice said in my ear: ‘Arise and go to the help of thy Master; he is in danger.’ I got up in a great hurry. But where must I run? What danger threatened you? Was it at your own house, or elsewhere? The voice said nothing about that. I decided to wait for sunr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
…” said he, “certainly, I had the beginning of a sort of apoplectic attack, and a horrible dream. But how do you know that?” “At the same time, an invisible hand struck me roughly on the shoulder, and awoke me suddenly. I dreamt then that I saw you fighting with Astaroth. I jumped up, and a voice said in my ear: ‘Arise and go to the help of thy Master; he is in danger.’ I got up in a great hurry. But where must I run? What danger threatened you? Was it at your own house, or elsewhere? The voice said nothing about that. I decided to wait for sunr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…how is it possible to judge the relationship between cause and effect , or in other words the per ceived and not perceived ? “ The first time a man saw the communication of motion by impulse . . . (billiard balls ) . . . what alteration has happened to give rise to this new idea of connexion . Nothing but that he now feels these events to be connected in his imagination Hume thus arrives at the conclusion that cause and effect can only be inferred from each other , and never > 3 1 Gargoyles, vol . iii, p . 93 . 2 Every change of motion is propo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 251
The Final Plunge 237 All the time he has been able to realise dimly that he was slipping down the dark slope to insanity. He has mixed it all up with the idea of me. He had begun to identify me with the phantom of murderous madness which he recognised as destroying him. A look of trouble comes into his face every now and then; and he begins to repeat plaintively in a puzzled voice with his eyes fixed on mine :-— “Know you now why her eyes So fearfully glaze, beholding Terrors and infamies Like filthy flowers unfolding? Laughter widowed of ease,…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
APPENDIX I 74 British Governm ent, when he was a baby Nat. “The Queen of Heaven and the Lord of the Gods chewed betel for quite a long time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire Hum bert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious m ind to flirt with his distinguished guest ! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. “While he wa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…otin a well, as lewd fellows have impotently pretended: but here, here on the stage of the Grand Guignol. It was just what happens every time, when anyone is fool enough to sacrifice themselves. It was magnificent ; it was war ! Curtain-lifter No. 2 was a still wittier scene, yet the element of improbability! damped, not indeed the en- thusiasm of the mob, but our own more sober and 1 A débutante with her mother finds herself by inadvertence at a ‘‘ gros numéro.” But we betray our correspondent’s reticence. Enough.—ED.
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…chith. Hear the prayers of Thy servant who putteth his trust in Thee : Hagalgalim. Let thy Holy Angels be commanded to assist me at this time and at all times. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Hadonat. Command Thy Holy Angels above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be assisting and aiding Thy servant: Tophiel. That I may command all spirits of air, water, fire, earth, and hell: Masloth. So that it may tend unto Thy glory and unto the good of man. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Elohim. God with us, God b…
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…fe to better life, this pain Is needful : that I grant again. Did they at last in glory live, Satan and Judas69 might forgive The middle time of misery, Forgive the wrong creation first Or evolution’s iron key Did them—provided they are passed Beyond all change and pain at last Out of this universe accurst. But otherwise ! I lift my voice, Deliberately take my choice Promethean, eager to rejoice, In the grim protest’s joy to revel Betwixt Iscariot and the Devil, Throned in their midst ! No pain to feel, Tossed on some burning bed of steel, But …
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
…tma cease ” From its eternity of peace, Develop this disgusting drear System of stars, to gather again Involving, all the realm of pain, Time, space, to that eternal calm? Blavatsky’s Himalayan Balm * Aids us no whit—if to improve Thus the All-light, All-life, All-love, By evolution’s myrrh and gall, It would not then have been the All. Thus all conceptions fail and fall. But see the Cyclopzdia-article On “ Metaphysics”; miss no particle 310 320 325 330 335 340
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
…ength he is uplifted by his aspiration— and now he stands upright. Now then he makes a journey in his new house, and perceives at stated times, each time preceded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. Death he sees, and the Life of Nature whose name is Sorrow, and the Word that quickeneth these, and his own self—and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the apex of a descending triangle is admitted to the lordship of the Double Kingdom. Thus is he a member of t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
… out to the Dome to drink my final citron pressé and to avoid the Visconti. Am returned, and in bed. I shall try and sleep now, waking in time for midnight and the quiet hours. I have endured the supreme temptation and assault of the Enemy. In this wise. First, I found that I did not want sleep—I couldn’t stop “Waiting." Next, I said ”Since last night that Black Ritual (see entry 10.55) did at least serve to turn all my thoughts to the One Thought, I will try it again . . .“ Then I said: “No; to do so is not pure ‘waiting.’ ” And then—as by a fla…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…udelaire, unsurpassed for insight and impartiality, and Ludlow, tainted by admiration of de Quincey and the senti- mentalists.* * At the time of writing this article, I had only glanced rapidly through Baudelaire’s essay. When I made the experiments, I knew only Ludlow, and the brief note in “ Martindale and Westcott.” My research results, therefore, 34
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…throw upon the working of the brain. But as itis! All the sacred literature of the world is full of them ; all the art and poetry of all time is inspired by them ; and, by the Lord Harry! we know nothing about them. Nothing but what vague and troubled reflections the minds 87
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…udelaire, unsurpassed for insight and impartiality, and Ludlow, tainted by admiration of de Quincey and the senti- mentalists.* * At the time of writing this article, I had only glanced rapidly through Baudelaire’s essay. When I made the experiments, I knew only Ludlow, and the brief note in “ Martindale and Westcott.” My research results, therefore, 34
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…throw upon the working of the brain. But as itis! All the sacred literature of the world is full of them ; all the art and poetry of all time is inspired by them ; and, by the Lord Harry! we know nothing about them. Nothing but what vague and troubled reflections the minds 87
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…ather his assumed or poetic name, called the Takhallus, though few of the older poets paid strict attention to this rule previous to the time of Hakim Sanayi, between A.D. 1150 and 1180. Anwari occasionally introduces his own name in his Ghazals, but it is the exception and not the rule in his case. As a general law, the Ghazal must consist of at least five couplets, and not more than fifteen ; but on this subject authors by no means agree, either with one another or with real facts. Hafiz, for example, has several Ghazals consisting of sixteen…
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
…s mine, who sought to be my naked self. Knowest thou that in my soul is utmost fear? And such is my force and my cunning, that a hundred times have I been ready to leap, and for fear have missed. And a thousand times am I baulked by them of the City of the Pyramids, that set snares for my feet. More knowledge have I than the Most High, but my will is broken, and my fierce- ness is marred by fear, and I must ever speak, speak, speak, millions of mad voices in my brain. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am Commander, With a burning spear…