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craving of her nature, as urgent and devouring as hunger or thirst. Balloch, who had been all his life high-priest of Hecate, had never been present at an evocation of the force that he served. He shuddered — not a little — as the sorcerer recited his surgical exploits; the credentials of the faith of her servant then present before her. He had committed his dastardly crimes [273] wholly for gain, and as a handle for blackmail; the magical significance of the business had not occurred to him at all. His magical work had been almost entirely dir…
1905 · PDF PAGE 153
… THE LEPER. Nay! I have lived through all these barren years, Discrowned, diseased, abominable, cast out, And meditating on the event of life, And that initiated Hope that we, Royal, inherit, of the final life, Nor newer incarnation, and possessed Of strange powers, who have moved about this court Loathed, and unrecognised, and shunned, have thought That the old bondage was as terrible As thine incestuous mother’s iron hand, Rending the entrails of her growing realm To seek her bloody fate, whose violence Even now makes the abyss of wrath divin…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
… ruin many years of commonweal, And poison in an hour the politics Of states and thrones for—justice? Thou art just; But wisdom, but the life of innocents, The happiness of all, are better served By solemn thought and weighty counsel held. JASON. This is more simple. I abolish thee— One sword-sweep—and assume thy “ politics.” PELIAS. Thou art this “simple”! Will my liege allies (Willing with age and wisdom to accord) Not tremble at thy firebrand breed, not think Who hath in blood, an old man’s blood, made fast A perilous footing, may betimes di…
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
… writing is not to be blamed for this; but the engorgement of the translator in a matter of other import, as previously hinted. The true life of this man and his associates, with a veridic account of their researches into magical arts, etc., may be looked for in my forthcoming volume ; ‘History of the Order of the Golden Dawn.” —Ep, IO
1905 · PDF PAGE 112
…No soul still flickering in the lambent light Still shed from all the body’s excellence? No lamp unchidden of the utter night? Cannot my life be molten into thee Or thy death fall with rosier arms on me Or soul with soul commingle without sense, As the sun’s rays strike deep into the sea? O beauty of all beauty—central flower Of all the blossoms in the summer’s bower! Fades not all Nature in thy fall? the sun Not darken in the miserable hour? H? 113
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
… , Yet with a sense of something vague and unearthly stalking ( Step after step as I move ) me , to annul me , quell Hope and desire and life , bid light die under my eyelids , Bid the strong heart despair , quench the desire of Heaven . So I shudder a little ; and my heart goes out to the mountains , Rock upon rock for a crown , snow like an ermine robe ;
1961 · PDF PAGE 43
…velop through Variety, are accursed. Do thou with all thy Might of Manhood strive against these Forces, for they resist Change, which is Life: and thus they are of Death. c
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…re at fault. They sensibly enough reject error ; but they are over-proud of their lofty attitude, and, letting slip the real problems of life, busy themselves with side-issues, or try to satisfy the spiritual part of the brain (which needs food like any other part) with the husks of hate. How few among us can reach the supreme sanity of Dr. Henry Maudsley in such a book as “ Life in Mind and Conduct ” ! Hence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…l tell you. You have an inexpressible hunger of the soul; you despise earth and its delusions; and you aspire unconsciously to at higher life than anything this planet can offer. "I will tell you something that may convince you of my right to speak. You were born on October the eleventh; so Brother Cyril told me. But he did not tell me the hour; you never told him; it was a little before sunrise." Lisa was taken aback; the mystic had guessed right. "The Order to which I belong," pursued Simon Iff," does not believe anything; it knows, or it dou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 560
…re her that we bear no ill-will, that she will always be welcome when she learns her lesson: that love is the only principle which makes life tolerable. I gladly leave this wretched episode. The Ape and I left Cefalu for Paris early in February and took up, as usual, our abode with our friends Monsieur and Madame Bourcier, 50 rue Vavin, a few doors below the Boulevard Montparnasse near the Rotonde. I cannot let pass this occasion of expressing my affection and gratitude which these good folks have won. Their hotel has been my headquarters in Pa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 531
…ancient impressions. What I was really doing was penetrating to the deeper layers of my unconscious self. When, therefore, I remember my life as Cagliostro or Pope Alexander the Sixth, I am quite willing to interpret the experience as a dreamlike imagination, a dramatization of certain deeper elements in my character. I may, however, argue on the other side, that my present life is, almost equally, an artistic representation of my nature. There are also some fairly strong arguments for the actuality of such memories. Events in the past sometime…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…oe, Mingle, O maidens! Evoe! Evoe! 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 ; Ye shall sing in hollow and height In the festal mystical revel, The rapturous Bacchanal rite! O sweet soul of the waters! What would’st thou? The rocks and trees are yours, And the waters under the hill, By the might of that which endures, The holy heaven of will ! I kindle a flame like a torrent To rush from star to star ; Your hair as a comet’s horrent,…
1902 · PDF PAGE 143
…iss, dear. What is the strange song ? [ The great Goddess ariseth, weeping for the slain Osiris Tannkduser. Isis. Isis am I, and from my life are fed All stars and suns, all moons that wax and wane, 141
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…nd hissing of the levin; As the soft sough of tree-boughs wind-shaken ; As the fearful cry of souls in hell, When past death and blinder life they waken, Seeing Styx before their vision swell, 29
1910 · PDF PAGE 6
… the cutting of my fraenum linguae, that I might speak plainly. The operation, as this volume shews, was a complete success. Of my early life I remember little ; chiefly a large garden with, at the end of it, a wood which overlooked the road and afforded vantage for archers. There was war in the land ; my cousin Gregor Grant, six years older than myself, and a few other stern exiles, desperately banded against the rest of the neighbourhood. I remember leaping from the top of a sand pit in the character of Sir Garnet Wolseley and nearly transfix…
1924 · PDF PAGE 3
…ffects, may be morally indistinguishable from murder. 3. This state of affairs constitutes a menace of unprecedented gravity against the life and work of every individual citizen, and against the very foundations of public morality. The allegation that a man has been imprisoned as a white slaver is as vitally damaging as any that can be made. 3
1906 · PDF PAGE 31
…farthest sea, the yet untravelled land. Where thou hast trodden, I have trod ; Thy folk have been my folk, and thine abode Mine, and thy life my life, and thou, who art thy God, my God. VII. Draw me with cords that are not; witch me chanted Spells never heard nor open to the ear, Woven of silence, moulded in the haunted Houses where dead men linger year by year. I have no fear To tread thy far irremeable way Beyond the paths and palaces of day, Beyond the night, beyond the skies, Beyond eternity’s Tremendous gate; beyond the immanent miracle.4 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
…radio-activity, weight and hardness. The difficulty in defining and measuring them lies principally in the subtlety of their relation to life. Living protoplasm is identical with dead protoplasm in all but the fact of life. The Mass is a magical ceremony performed with the object of endowing a material substance with divine virtue; but there is no material difference between the consecrated and the unconsecrated wafer. Yet there is an enormous difference in the moral
1901 · PDF PAGE 17
… pass As an old worldly woman’s talk. MADELINE. O no! You bear the sainted fragrance of your love Higher than even my dreams. In earthly life 3
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…is in the sestet. To use it for narrative is absurd. A series of sonnets for a series of thoughts indeed is right. Rossetti’s “ House of Life ” is the best example of perfection in this art. He knows this well indeed, and achieves superb results now and then. The title sonnet, the 3rd, 4th, 11th, and some others are fine examples of this, though even here is a reference to the facts, a fatal fault in such jewel-work as a sonnet should be, and approaching the abyss of didacticism. Again, he is fatally obscure in many places. Often the sonnet-met…