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Page 9 of 781904 · PDF PAGE 25
BALLADE OF THE TYRANNY OF A COMMERCIAL EMPIRE IT is a funny thing That now and then we see, A poor and harmless king A-getting up a tree As fast as he can flee ; Much faster than his liking ; And you explain to me— “ That’s Freedom’s Eagle striking!” A poet cannot sing When lofty liberty Conceals beneath her wing Such lots of misery. Though labourers drink tea And all the girls are biking, I’m not so sure that we See Freedom’s Eagle striking! Philosophers may bring Their logic—I may be A fool or anything An out-of-date, a he 13
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX Existences, and rooted deeper than the No—Thing—Tree in the Land of No-Thing. 33. Now therefore thou knowest when I am within thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned Indus, and resistless as the Giant Glacier. 34. For as thou art before a lewd woman in Thy naked- ness in the bazar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva. 35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX Existences, and rooted deeper than the No—Thing—Tree in the Land of No-Thing. 33. Now therefore thou knowest when I am within thee, when my hood is spread over thy skull, when my might is more than the penned Indus, and resistless as the Giant Glacier. 34. For as thou art before a lewd woman in Thy naked- ness in the bazar, sucked up by her slyness and smiles, so art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva. 35. And in all shalt thou create the Infinite Bliss, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 425
… not interfere with this intensely intellectual medita- tion; and of course the whole object of it is to refrain from preferring any one thing to any other thing. When it says that “A thought as fleeting as the lightning flash will make thee thy three prizes forfeit—the prizes thou hast won,” this does not mean that if you happen to make a mistake in meditation you have to begin all over again as an absolute beginner, and yet, of course, in any meditation the occur- rence of a single break destroys, for the moment, the effect of what has gone i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 39
…olour, no form, no substance. Only now and then there seem, as it were, the shadows of great angels, swept along. No sound; there is something very remorseless about the wind, passionless, that is very terrible. In a way, it is nerve-shaking. It seems as if some- thing kept on trying to open behind the wind, and just as it is about to open, the effort is exhausted. The wind is not cold or hot; there is no sense of any kind connected with it. One does not even feel it, for one is standing in front of it. Now, the thing opens behind, just for a s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…ents his Bride to the Mother, who presents her to the Father. One may remark that it is necessary to be a Master of the Temple before anything like a full understanding of these mysteries can be attained. In the 3rd A2thyr the Guards to the further Grades are exhibited. Now it may be asked, “ What has become of the blood of the Adept which was put into the cup of BABALON, for that blood is his life?” In this supreme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…ents his Bride to the Mother, who presents her to the Father. One may remark that it is necessary to be a Master of the Temple before anything like a full understanding of these mysteries can be attained. In the 3rd A2thyr the Guards to the further Grades are exhibited. Now it may be asked, “ What has become of the blood of the Adept which was put into the cup of BABALON, for that blood is his life?” In this supreme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy…
1919 · PDF PAGE 93
…eheld the slow and dark One, the ancient one, the devourer of His children. 46. In the height and the abyss, O my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned for Thy delight. 47. Light cleaveth unto Light, and filth to filth; with pride one contemneth another. But not Thou, who art all, and beyond it; who art absolved from the Division of the Shadows. 48. O day of Eternity, let Thy wave break in foamless glory of sapphire upon the laborious coral of our making! 49. We have made …
1919 · PDF PAGE 336
THE EQUINOX thing should be enjoyed to the full, but always with the reservation that the absence of the thing enjoyed shall not cause regret. This is too hard for the beginner, and in many cases it is necessary for him to abandon pleasures in order to prove to himself that he is indifferent to them, and it may be occasionally advisable even for the Adept to do this now and again. Of course during periods of actual concentra- tion there is no time whatever for anything but the work itself; but to make even the mildest asceticism a rule of life …
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…y wrought. The shrine is grand; the god is ravished thence. On clawing hands and hardened knees the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise our love, and tender flesh, and wheat, Clamour for lust, and carrion, and grass. 61
1910 · PDF PAGE 284
…e lost the memory of that one demoniac toll, that while writing these lines I have put my hand to my forehead, hearing and feeling some- thing, through the mere imagination, which was an echo of the original pang. It is this persistency of impressions which explains the fact of the hasheesh state, after a certain time, growing more and more every day a thing of agony. It is not because the body becomes worn out by repeated nervous shocks; with some constitutions, indeed, this wearing may occur; it never did with me, as I have said, even to the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 284
…e lost the memory of that one demoniac toll, that while writing these lines I have put my hand to my forehead, hearing and feeling some- thing, through the mere imagination, which was an echo of the original pang. It is this persistency of impressions which explains the fact of the hasheesh state, after a certain time, growing more and more every day a thing of agony. It is not because the body becomes worn out by repeated nervous shocks; with some constitutions, indeed, this wearing may occur; it never did with me, as I have said, even to the …
1898 · PDF PAGE 47
…he autumn of the year. But when the summer came, the violet guessed, By some slow dream that thrilled her gentle breast, That some sweet thing might come to her ; she thought Through the long days of how her dream was wrought : 37
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
…nd palaces of day, Beyond the night, beyond the skies, Beyond eternitys Tremendous gate ; beyond the immanent miracle. O secret self of things ! I have nor feet nor wings Except to follow far beyond Heaven and Earth and Hell, Until I mix my mood And being in thee, as in my hermits hood I grow the thing I contemplate that selfless solitude !
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
…eaves. " I’m getting on splendidly. Mr. Davis thinks I ought to go to Paris and study properly. Do let me." "How can you think of such a thing, Gertrude? A daughter of mine] Study properly ! ΙΙ No indeed ! Alittle sketching is a nice accomplishment for a young lady, but—" His jaw dropped. A thin, graceful pencil sketch it was that he clutched in frenzied fingers; but he could not mistake the subject. ”Wretched girl,” he shouted, " where did you get the— the—the- Damn it all, what d’ye call it P—the—ay! that’s it !—the model for this Vile, filthy,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
…eaves. " I’m getting on splendidly. Mr. Davis thinks I ought to go to Paris and study properly. Do let me." "How can you think of such a thing, Gertrude? A daughter of mine] Study properly ! ΙΙ No indeed ! Alittle sketching is a nice accomplishment for a young lady, but—" His jaw dropped. A thin, graceful pencil sketch it was that he clutched in frenzied fingers; but he could not mistake the subject. ”Wretched girl,” he shouted, " where did you get the— the—the- Damn it all, what d’ye call it P—the—ay! that’s it !—the model for this Vile, filthy,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
…And moreover , in my opinion, Carthage ought to be destroyed." Got it? You teach the mind to push your thought automatically to the very thing from which it was trying to wander. "Yes, I get you Stephen! ... But, Uncle Dudley, come clean, do you always do all this yourself? Don't you sometimes feel embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your letter, or 'create a scene' in the public street when you suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or simply forget about the whole thing?" Yes, I do. Well now, have I any s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 34
…oman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any…
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
86 THE EYES OF DOROTHY O MISTRESS of a myriad mysteries ! I can remember every curve and span Of every lovely thing ; I have the plan Of every crested crag and maze of ice That ever I beheld ; then what device, Strange sorceress, has barred me with its ban From you ? How is it, mistress, that I can Remember nothing of you but your eyes ? Your eyes ! Live arrows with a thousand deaths Armed ! Suns of poison, menacing the wreaths Of bay and myrtle that you twined ! Dread spies Of Satan that unveil the God in me, And strip it naked with their mock…
1912 · PDF PAGE 38
32 And thereto at the end is Hell. Believe! And why believe? Because It is a thing impossible.” Sir Palamede his pulses pause. “It is not possible” (quod he) “That Palamede is wroth, and draws His sword, decapitating thee. By parity of argument This deed of blood must surely be.” With that he suddenly besprent All Scythia with the sage’s blood, And laughing in his woe he went Unto a further field and flood, Aye guided by that wizard’s head, That like a windy moon did scud Before him, winking eyes of red And snapping jaws of white: but then What…