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Page 91 of 1061905 · PDF PAGE 138
…d and shield ; My brows with mingled blood were red ; And on my cheek the kiss of hell, The hatred of ny Jezebel. I waited many days. At last The rushing of a chariot grew Frightful through all the city vast : Men were afraid. But I—I knew Jehu was here, whose sword should dip Deep in my love’s adulterous lip. The spirit filled me. Azad behold! I saw her dead stare to the skies: I came to her ; she was not cold, But burning with old infumtes. On her incestuous mouth I fell, And lost my soul for Jezebel. I followed him afoot, afire; Beneath her …
1905 · PDF PAGE 265
…, your song; The shameful story of your intercourse With—fiend or woman? And your burning will, Even in that horror, to the Highest ; at last Your choice of me—the middle course of them, Pure human love? And, if your song be true, As I, who heard the voice, the earnestness, Saw the deep eyes, and truth aflame in them, Know—then the choice be Mary’s and not mine } I love you better, were that possible ; Will make you a true wife, and lead your hand, Or be led by you, in the pleasant path. For me, I enter not—Blesséd be God !— In those dark probl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 275
…To return to the general Dogma of the Qabalists. The Figure of Minutum Mundum will show how they suppose one Quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure God-World Atziluth, then in the Angel-World Briah, and so on down to the Demon-Worlds, which are however not thus organised. They are rather Material that was shed offin the Course of Evolution, like the Sloughs of a Serpent, from which comes their Name of Shells, or Husks. Apart from silly Questions as to whether the Order of the Emanations’ is con- firmed by Paleontology, a Question i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 8
…p that looked for kisses ! O the poor fool that prates of love! Is it a garter, or a glove? IV. A FOOL indeed! For why complain, Now the last five-barred gate is ope, Held by a little boy? TI hope The hour is handy to explain The final secret. Have I any? Yes ! the small boy shall havea penny !
1906 · PDF PAGE 41
… own desire? Immaculate daughters of passion, Shalt thou as they pass be past? And thy people bewail thee, Thalassian, Lost, lost at the last? Ill. Nay, ere ye pass your people pass,. As snow on summer hills, As dew upon the grass, As one that love fulfils, If he in folly wills Love a lass. Yet on this night of smiles and tears A maiden is the theme. The universe appears An idle summer dream Lost in the grey supreme Mist of years.
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…e gay when we’re young—I’ve a sweetheart myself. FLORIMOND, And now be off! [Grves money. Lxeunt. Cold !—the devil! Ah! but to-night— at last I shall touch my Blanche. May Blanche warm me well with a hearty kiss! The little white cat! Three months! And I’ve not so much as exchanged a word. There must bean end to all that. Faith, but she makes me think of Biondetta, that I knew in the Italian campaign. O my Blanche! One moment, and I am in thine arms! Blanche! Sweet, sweet Blanche. O little white-faced rose of France. A soldier’s heart is thine …
1905 · PDF PAGE 197
…that sound. Where am I? Seven days my spirit fell, Down, down the whirlpools and the gulfs of hell : Seven days a corpse lay desolate—at last Back drew the spirit and the soul aghast To animate that clay—O horrible ! The resurrection pang is hardly past. Yet in awhile I stumbled to my feet To flee—no nightmare could be worse to meet. And, spite of that, I knew some deadlier trap Some worm more poisonous would set— mayhap! 1 Atreus, King of Mycenae, gave a banquet of pretended reconciliation to his half-brother Thyestes, at which the two sons of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…ed, he went away with the staff, and the lamp, and the tablet, to the sea shore. Along the coast he proceeded for some time, and came at last to a cave. Iliel followed him to its darkest corner; and there she saw a corpse lying. Strangely, it was the body of the old scribe himself. It came to her very intensely that he had two bodies, and that he always kept one of them buried, for safety. The old scribe left the
1905 · PDF PAGE 227
…, that Thou art the Lord! Forth Freedom flings skyward, a maiden Rejoicing, upsprung from the sea, And the wild lyre of Erin is laden At last with the songs of the free! Hail! Hail unto Thee! 1 Egyptian God of the Sun, and of War. Cf. p. 212, note 5. EPILOGUE. TO THE AMIERICAN PEOPLE ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR INDEPENDENCE, THE ship to the breezes is bended; The wind whistles off to the lee; The stn is arisen, the splendid ! The sun on the marvellous sea ! «And the feast of your freedom is ended, O sons of the free! Your shouts have gone up to…
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
…: «Honoured Hegemon, the final consecration of the Candidate having been performed, I command you to remove the rope from his waist, the last remaining symbol of Dark- ness ; and to invest him with the distinguishing badge of the grade.” 258
1909 · PDF PAGE 266
…: «Honoured Hegemon, the final consecration of the Candidate having been performed, I command you to remove the rope from his waist, the last remaining symbol of Dark- ness ; and to invest him with the distinguishing badge of the grade.” 258
1905 · PDF PAGE 243
…ts, all to seek The vision of the Holy Grail. And I Rode forth on that same foolish wandering, And found a-many ventures on the way ; At last an old Egyptian ; who bestowed The magic word, which, when I had pro- nounced, Called up thine evil corpse-light in the sky. He riddled me—ah God! I see it now! The bloody winepress? The ascending sun? Thy dawning beauty and thine evil bed! The double meaning! I had evil thoughts When [ pronounced it—else had She Herself, Hathoor or Mary, risen. Misery ! Incessant mystery of the search for Truth ! VENUS, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 109
…uch they lie.” Lie is a strong word and should read “translate correctly.”1 I suppose it would not scan, nor rhyme: but Sir Edwin is the last person to be deterred by a little thing like that. Dr. Paul Carus, too, in the “Gospel of Buddha,” is pleased to represent Nirvana as a parallel for the Heaven of the Christian. It is sufficient if I reiterate the unanim ous opinion of com petent scholars, that there is no fragment of evidence in any canonical book sufficient to establish such interpretations in the teeth of Buddhist tradition and practic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
… call Will of Zeus: the after scheme And primal fate and most primordial plan Shaped from the earth’s first protoplasmic dream Up to the last great mischief that is man. All this I challenge: that the suns and stars Work in due order and procession meet Without caprice in viewless, changeless bars, Nor self-determinate in their wingless feet. All nature and all consciousness and thought He hath thrown asunder and divided them; Fixing a gulf of agony athwart, Where rolls a tide no soul of man may stem. Himself fixed high, he mocked us with his n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…ing-wind hardens Your fruits once again ye shall have me to keep. A The sleep-god laments, and the love goddess pardons, When love atthe last sinks unweary to sleep. The green-hearted hours shall burst into flowers. The winds shall waft roses from uttermost Ind. Our nuptial dowers shall be birds in our bowers, Our couches the delicate heaps of the wind, Where the lily-bloom showers all its light, and the powers Of earth in our twinning are wedded and twinned. So singing I make reverence and retire; Not with high words of worship fairly flung To…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
…hines the waves of harmony, Lapped in the sun of day ; the tides Of wonder flow, the shore subsides ; And over all the horizon Glows the last glimmer of the sun. Ah ! when the moon arises, she Shall look on nothing but the sea. VII. | O LOVE! and were I with thee ever! Come with me over the round earth, O’er lake and fountain, sea and river ! Girdle the world with angel girth Of angel voyage! Shall we roam In teeming jungles poisonous? Or make ourselves an eyrie-home Where the black ice roars ravenous In glittering avalanche? Or else Hide in so…
1905 · PDF PAGE 137
…spirit seeks its fierier goal ; In wells of heaven to quench my thirst, And take God’s hand among the first. I conquered self; I grew at last A prophet chosen of the Lord ; I blew the trumpet’s iron blast That called on Zimri Omri’s sword; My voice inflamed the fiery steel That was to smite upon Jezreel. And now, I haste from yonder sands, With fervour filled, to say God’s doom To Ahab of the bloody hands, The spoiler of his father’s tomb, The slayer of the vineyard king. God’s judgment, and his fate, I bring. The city gleams afar; I see Samari…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…Arcy, and know what wonders may happen in an hour. [DENYS ‘furas bitterly, almost savagely, toward BLANCHE.| You will not disfigure your last hour by want of politeness to a lady? [DENYS flushes, accepts the rebuke, bows to both and says simply: DENYS. I give you my word of honour. [//zs deciston ts not uncoloured by the pathetic petitioning of the mute SLANCIIE, ALAIN, I thank you, sir; then I will leave you. [Zurns to go, stops.| Sir, you are young, you think me a hard man, and perhaps a coward. Remember, pray, that the tears of age are froze…
1939 · PDF PAGE 42
…e mind. 10. We may now turn to the consideration of Yoga practices themselves. I assume that in the fortnight which has elapsed since my last lecture you have all perfected yourselves in Asana and Pranayama; that you daily balance a saucer brimming with sulphuric acid on your heads for twelve hours without accident, that you all jump about busily like frogs when not seriously levitated; and that your Mantra is as regular as the beating of your heart. The remaining four limbs of Yoga are Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. I will give you t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 62
…uls that cast their trammels off, and spring On eager wing, Immaculate, new-born, toward the sky, And shall not die Until they cleave at last the lampless dome, And lose their tent because they find their home. KPILOGUE. LiKE snows on the mountain, uplifted By weather or wind as it blows, In hollows the heaps of it drifted, The splendour of fathomless snows ; So measure and meaning are shifted to fashion a rose, The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy that was white on the morrow Made music of viols at ease ; The th…