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Page 94 of 1121996 · PDF PAGE 82
… on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! 62. At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say—and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple—To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. Commentary: It is evident that Our Lady, in her Personality, contemplates some more or less open form of worship suited for the laity. With the establishment of the Law something of this sort may become possible. It is only necessary to kill out the sens…
1906 · PDF PAGE 289
… the slowing bud dissever : Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, O heart-free master, one last certain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre; lake, rise up in mist to …
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
…t run And return them again ; By the fire that is lit in the Lion, the wave in the Scorpion den ! By the One that is Seven, The whirling eyes ; The Two made Eleven, The dragon’s devise ; The Eight against Heaven, All crowns of lies ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, take shape and arise! By the cross and the wheel I call ye to hear ; By the dagger of steel I command ye, give ear! By the word that ye feel, The summons of Fear ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, arise and appear !
1954 · PDF PAGE 405
…blem; and sooner or later the moment comes when it appears to you quite natural to succeed in getting out of the body, or in opening the eyes on the astral plane, or in getting hold of the particular form of elemental energy which has until that moment escaped you. I ought incidentally to mention that this sudden illumination-that is not quite the right word but I cannot think of a better one-is quite different to the sudden confidence which takes hold of one in the Yoga practices. The more I think of it the more I feel that the question of sen…
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
…himself), Words, thoughts, that fail her? How should acts exceed? (Aloud.) Better sit thus and read each other’s thoughts— I in the blue eyes, in the hazel you! Then, bending, I may touch my lips upon Sweet thoughtful brows. ELIZABETH. Your kisses move my soul. Strange thoughts and unimagined destinies Take ship, and harbour in the heart of me. TANNHAUSER. Words mean too much, and never mean enough. Look, only look ! ELIZABETH. I am so happy—so! SCENE II. Court assembled in the Great Hall. LANDGRAVE enthroned, ELIZABETH by his side. Facing them…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
WHY JESUS WEPT 29 My limbs are pliant ; Sage, to confusion ! My eyesight swims. Problems to solve? Come tome! Come tome! Here is my life! Thee have I sought ! My secret is told— Thou that wast dumb to me, What is your name, Come—I am nought ! O fairest of women? [Striving ever to follow her, he Bosom of gold! faints and falls, The girl Faultless your fame ! stops. An aeon were shame Your beauty to hymn in! MOLLY. Will you be mine, Dear me! The young gentleman’s ill ae and aed only | . a 3eauty divine, too, Whata nice boy it is! I must go and Ho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 360
… confidence she dragged him within and forced him to show her over the house. I sat in resigned disgust, not deigning to follow. Then my eyes suddenly saw down the garden, two trees close together. I stooped. Their tops appeared. They
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…n the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One last stroke, O heart-free m aster, one last certain calm of will, And the maker of Disaster shall be stricken and grow still. Burn thou to the core of matter, to the spirit’s utmost flame, Consciousness and sense to shatter, ruin sight and form and name! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre; lake, rise up in mist to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…I, shall I quail at a nod? Shall I fail for a God? [s the soul of me shaken? Darklier winding And steeper the way, Baffling and blinding Eyes used to the day. Rocks cloven by thunder And shattered by storm Awry or asunder Rise and reform In marvellous coils Round the adamant road Whose tangles and toils Lead on the abode, Where dwell in the light Of justice infernal The judges that smite, That judge men aright, Whose laws are eternal ! Those kings that in reigning For bribing or feigning Swerved never an hair From justice and truth ; Turned nev…
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg.) 50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green. Commentary: There is here suggested the Image of “the Star n:2i and the Snake.”
1906 · PDF PAGE 94
…verend and refined, Saw majesty in all that tottering gait, And honour in the goat-like beard of him ! FIRST WOMAN. A week ago your blue eyes were in tears, Sidelong regarding the old mountebank. SECOND WOMAN. To-day I would not be his concubine For all Iolchus—for all Thessaly ! THIRD WOMAN. I see the same glance seek out Jason now. SECOND WOMAN. Ay, there's a man! What muscles! What fine fire In the quick eye! What vigour and warm strength ! FIRST WOMAN. Yes, in your wishes. But indeed he is A proper man. Away, you ancient egg ! PELIAS. With …
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
…se," pursued the sorcerer, "you won't know what that means?" Douglas took from his pocket a fifty-franc note. The Turk caught it up, his eyes grown momentarily wider with surprise. "Examine it!" said Douglas, coldly. The Turkish agent held it to the light. In the figures numbering the note were two small pinpricks. "Allah!" he cried. "Then you are —" "I am. You may as well know that my colleague in the Lodge, 'A.B.', is going to stir up trouble for the British in India. Her influence with certain classes of Hindus is very great. For your part, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…seed Of word and deed! ‘To thine assured fruition we may trust This weary dust. We who are old, and palsied, (and so wise !) Lift up our eyes To little children, as the storm-tossed bark Hails in the dark Some hardly visible harbour light ; we hold The hours of gold To our own breasts, whose hours are iron and brass :-— So swift they pass And grind us down :—we hold the wondrous light Our scattering sight Yet sees, the one star in a night of woe, We trust, and so Lift tp our voices in the dying day Indeed to pray: 0 little hands that are so sof…
1899 · PDF PAGE 249
…t few stars immaculate Watch their own beauty in its depth, and chill Their own desire within its icy stream. Let me move on with vacant eyes, as one Lost in the labyrinth of some ill dream, Move and move on, and never see the sun Lap all the mist with orange and red gold, row some lank windmill into iron shade, And stir the chill canal with manifold Lays of clear morning ; never grow afraid When he dips down beyond the far flat land, Know never more the day and night apart, . Know not where frost has laid his iron hand, Save only that it faste…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…soon divide Into the likeness of a curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far ! What love as sweet as theirs is lies In Sun or planet, moon or star? What nymphs as sweet as ours are dwell By foreign grove and alien well? With every watchman’s cheery cry, ‘‘Land ho!” through all the journeying years Our ever-hoping hearts reply, ‘A land of bliss at last appears.” But what land laps a foreign foam So sweet as is the hero's home? At every port the nove…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
… have I found! No! Life thrills in me; Vibrates on the lyre; The Fates still spin me Their thread of desire : Still, woo and win me Soft eyes, and the dire Low fervour of sensual phrase, song kin to the nethermost fire ! In silence I wait For his voice to roll, For the coming of Fate, The strength of my soul. My words create One glorious whole From the fragments divided that seem past a man’s or a god’s control. I, seeing the life Of the flowers renew, The victorious strife Of the spring run through, The child’s birth rife With loftier dew— I k…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
…the members of the Order, in their robes. At the East, where an oriel opened toward the dawn, she could see the figure of Simon Iff, his eyes fixed, awaiting the rising of the Sun. A beam touched his face; and he began: "Hail unto thee that art Ra in thy rising; even unto thee that art Ra in thy strength, that travellest over the Heavens in thy Bark in the uprising of the Sun! Tahuti standeth in his splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm; hail unto thee from the abodes of night!" It seemed to her that the whole assembly, uniting…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
…reap who sow. Ho! Ho! [4 boat driftsin, L. In it the aged CRIOSDA, Azs white hatr afloat in the storm, 7s standing with folded arms. His eyes are dull, as seeing wnward. RupHA. Ela! Ha! Tis the priest. Dost think O’ the feast ? Criosda. shrink ! The rune is woe. Ho! Ho! Criospa. Mother of Sin! RUPHA. Ho! Ho! Criospa. Thus then at last the Luck of Maurya throws A double-six to lost Criosda. RupuHa. Ho! The Luck of Maurya! The power of the deed. CriIosDA. I find thee, mother, at last. Life’s final flash Gleams through the storm. RUPHA. I am found…
1996 · PDF PAGE 119
… is inherently incapable of discovering the truth about anything, even in part. Let me illustrate. I see a drop of water. Distrusting my eyes, I put it under the microscope. Still in doubt, I photograph and enlarge the slide. I compare my results with those of others. I check them by cultivating the germs in water, and injecting them into paupers. But I have learnt nothing at all about the “infinite & unknown”, merely producing all sorts of different impressions according to the conditions in which one observes it!
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
…n her, and was a bout to depart. She detained me to show me this "something." She went and took a folded cloth from a drawer. "Shut your eyes," she said. When I opened them they saw a cloth four feet or more in length, on which was a magnificent copy, mostly in applique silk, of the Stele. She then told me that in February 1917, she and her young man had gone to the South of France to get cured of the opium habit. In such cases insomnia is frequent. One night, however, he had gone to sleep, and on waking in the morning found that she, wakeful, …