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Page 9 of 781905 · PDF PAGE 127
…NIMA LUNAE A child cried out that he had seen that face Limned with incomparable grace Even in the shape of splendour as she passed. The king’s thought turned at last To that forgotten story : and desire Filled all his heart with aureate fire Whose texture was a woman’s hair : so fine Bloomed the fair flower of pleasure : Not the wild solar treasure Of gleaming light, but the moon’s shadowy pearl, The love of a young girl Before she knows that love : so mused the king ; “ I am not weary of the soul of spring” He said, “ none happier in this cau…
1905 · PDF PAGE 125
… the tablet is so fair And still stands bare, There being none to beautify the same With the moon-curved Arabian character.” Whereat the king, “ Thy grief itself removes In its own cry its cause.” And thence there came Soft laughter that may hardly stir The flowers that shake not in the City of Loves. (For so men called the city’s name Because the people were more mild than doves, More beautiful than Gods of wood or river ; And so the city should endure for ever.) But the king’s mood was otherwise this day. Along time’s river, fifty years away,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 104
…esty of light Shed from the splendour of our Queen Athena! mystery and might ; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep ; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep ; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban king; And armed men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy g…
1922 · PDF PAGE 266
…. game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan. King Lamus is trying to train a number of selected people to act as a sort of brain for the world in its present state of cerebral collapse. He is teaching them to co-ordinate the facts in a higher synthesis. The suggestion is that of his old teacher, Prof. Henry Mauds- ley, with whom he studied insanity. Herbert Spencer, too, had a similar idea. But King Lamus is the first to endeavour to make a practical eff…
1911 · PDF PAGE 299
THE RITE OF LUNA By the Lord of the Waves and the Waters, the King of the Hosts of the Sea, The fairest ofall of whose daughters was mother to me ; By the Lord of the Winds and the Breezes, the King of the Spirits of Air, In whose bosom the infinite case is that cradled me there ; By the Lord of the Fields and the Mountains, the King of the Spirits of Earth That nurtured my life at his fountains from the hour of my birth; By the Wand and the Cup I conjure ; by the Dagger and Disk I constrain ; Iam he that is sworn to endure; make thy music again…
1911 · PDF PAGE 299
THE RITE OF LUNA By the Lord of the Waves and the Waters, the King of the Hosts of the Sea, The fairest ofall of whose daughters was mother to me ; By the Lord of the Winds and the Breezes, the King of the Spirits of Air, In whose bosom the infinite case is that cradled me there ; By the Lord of the Fields and the Mountains, the King of the Spirits of Earth That nurtured my life at his fountains from the hour of my birth; By the Wand and the Cup I conjure ; by the Dagger and Disk I constrain ; Iam he that is sworn to endure; make thy music again…
1909 · PDF PAGE 16
…are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, Ο king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength and Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the St…
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
…ur lovers shall assuage the amorous pain With spiritual lips more keen and bland, And ye shall take God’s hand. THE NAMELESS QUEST.! Tue king was silent. In the blazoned hall Shadows, more mute than at a funeral True mourners, waited, waited in gloom ; Waited to hear what child was in the womlh Of his high thoughts. As dead men were we all; As dead men wait the trumpet in the tomb. the The king was silent. Tense the high-strung air” Must save itself by trembling—if it dare. Then a long shudder ran across the space ; Each man ashamed to see his …
1926 · PDF PAGE 15
…are of us. 21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, Ο king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be under- stood: if the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength and Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the St…
1912 · PDF PAGE 204
… flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the King or Queen Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping Flames of Fire. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. If ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering She rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the North Pole. V of Δ Princess and Empress of the Salamandersi Throne of the Ace of Wands. IX THE LORD…
1912 · PDF PAGE 204
… flames of fire leaping from it the whole way down; but the flames are ascending This club or torch is much longer than that carried by the King or Queen Beneath her firmly placed feet are leaping Flames of Fire. Brilliance, courage, beauty, force, sudden in anger or love, desire of power, enthusiasm, revenge. If ill dignified, she is superficial, theatrical, cruel, unstable, domineering She rules the heavens over one quadrant of the portion around the North Pole. V of Δ Princess and Empress of the Salamandersi Throne of the Ace of Wands. IX THE LORD…
1906 · PDF PAGE 8
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1961 · PDF PAGE 143
…of the Enemy, and to order his own Forces rightly, according to that Information; but he hath no will, only Obedience to the Word of his King to outwit and to overcome the Opposite. Nor doth that King make War by his own Whim, if he be wise and true, but solely because of the Necessity of his Country, and its Nature, whereof he is but Executive Officer and Interpreter, its Voice as the Marshal is its Arm. Thus then do thou understand thyself, not giving Place to thy Mind to dispute thy Will, nor through Ignorance and Carelessness allowing the E…
1904 · PDF PAGE 30
18 BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM O the birds that are glad to sing After the meal on the early worm! O I am happier now than a king! Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term! ENVOI Prince, or pauper, be what you may, Business is quiet, but stocks are firm ; Never believe in the “ bears” in May! Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term!
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
…e scream of light. Creating silence drops Into that silence when creation — stops. -— 112 — XIII So — é finita la commedia. ‘ And if the King lke not the comedy ” (Twine in your hair the fallen gardenia!) ‘“ Why then, belike he likes it not, pardie! " What will the “ King’’ — the British Public — say When they perceive their sorrow was my fun, Their Hecuba my mocking Brinvilliers? * I neither know nor care. What we have done We have done. Admit, though, you are rare and rich! This palely-wandering knight has found a flame Both merciless and bea…
1904 · PDF PAGE 20
BALLADE OF BICYCLING In fact, I should plunge and go nap On the quite unassailable ground Of Ace, King, Queen, Knave—verbum sap— “ Hi, mister, your wheel’s goin’ round !” L’ENVOI I doubt if the verse I distil Will be by th’ Academy crowned, I don’t care a bit if it will, As long as the voices are shrill ;— “ Hi, mister, your wheel’s goin’ round!”
1919 · PDF PAGE 360
… of these modes of Truth: Hast thou not passed through knowledge of all mis- ery—truth the first? 85. Hast thou not conquered the Maras’ King at Tsi, the portal of assembling—truth the second? 86. Hast thou not sin at the third gate destroyed, and truth the third attained? 87. Hast thou not entered Tau, the “Path” that leads to knowledge—the fourth truth? The reference to the “Maras’ King” confuses the second truth with the third. [See “Science and Buddhism.”] The third Truth is a mere corollary of the Second, and the Fourth a Grammar of the Th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
… These Works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy. The Yi King. (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press.) The “Classic of Changes”; gives the initiated Chinese System of Magick. The Tao Teh King. (S. B .E. Sériés.) Gives the initiated Chinese System of Mysticism. Fannhanser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soûl; the Tannhauser story slightly remodelled. The Upanishads. (S.B.E. Sériés.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-know…
1910 · PDF PAGE 158
…n, the method of Buddha pro- duced a submersion of Karma in the bournless ocean of Nibbana. In Chapter I of Book II of ‘The Questions of King Mi- linda” NAgasena lays down that he who escapes rebirth does so through Wisdom (Pafifia) and Reasoning (Yonisomanasikara) and by other “Good Qualities.” The Reason grasps the object and Wisdom cuts it off, whilst the good qualities seem to be the united action of these two, thus we get Good Con- duct (Silam), Faith (Saddha), Perseverance (Viriyam), Mind- fulness (Sati) and Meditation (Samadhi), all of w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 158
…n, the method of Buddha pro- duced a submersion of Karma in the bournless ocean of Nibbana. In Chapter I of Book II of ‘The Questions of King Mi- linda” NAgasena lays down that he who escapes rebirth does so through Wisdom (Pafifia) and Reasoning (Yonisomanasikara) and by other “Good Qualities.” The Reason grasps the object and Wisdom cuts it off, whilst the good qualities seem to be the united action of these two, thus we get Good Con- duct (Silam), Faith (Saddha), Perseverance (Viriyam), Mind- fulness (Sati) and Meditation (Samadhi), all of w…