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Page 94 of 1121996 · PDF PAGE 61
…an defending mankind against plague with exorcisms on the one hand and useless herbs on the other. A charred stake is driven through the heart of a vampire, and his victim is protected with garlic. The strength of God, who can doubt? The strength of taste and of smell are known facts. So they measured strength against strength without considering whether the one was appropriate to the other, any more than as if one were to ward off the strength of steel swords by the strength of the colour of one’s armour. Modern science, by correct classifica…
1899 · PDF PAGE 249
…e far flat land, Know never more the day and night apart, . Know not where frost has laid his iron hand, Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ © We should like to give other examples, but we can only name some of those pieces that seem to us the most remarkable. Such are ‘An II] Dream,’ of which the glowing imagery seizes and holds fast the vagueness of shifting impressions; a ‘ Farewe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
… If I curse thee or chide Shalt thou tremble not, Thou? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my arrows divide Not the heart of thee now? Art thou cased in strong iron to mock the spells that all others avow? Art thou muffled or hidden In adamant brass? Is my music forbidden In Orcus to pass? Have I cursed thee and chidden? My flesh being grass, I curse not as yet, but command thee; the names that avail I amass. No sound ? no whisper? No answer to me? From dawn-star to Hesper I call upon thee! In the hour of vesper I change th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
…riospa. The luck of Maurya ! [fe draws quickly his dirk ; 2t flashes on high, he leaps on to the body of Maurya, and plunges tt into her heart. Cri- CURTAIN. ACT II. FORTY YEARS AFTERWARDS. The scene ts an open and stormy sea, RUPHA, with her staff, wave-riding in a cockle- shell. RUPHA, Ha! Ha! In the storm I ride. The winds bear me. The waves fear me. I appal ; I inform Their pride. Let him hither, Drifting ever Wrecked and lost ! His life shall wither. The dirk shall sever His rune ill-crossed. I hear him come Across the foam With a bang and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…w, but uttered not, his rune. II, Now when the time was fully come The dying man was dumb, But with his failing hand did make A sign: my heart doth ache. At that the kingly man, the fourth, Rose up and spat against the North. Then made the dying man a sign: My head is running like strong wine. The agéd man lifted his mouth And spat against the South. He clutched his throat in pang of death, As if he cried for breath. Whereat the second beat his breast And frowned upon the West. Then the man sighed, as if to say : The glow of life is gone away. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 207
LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS 201 We see thee unclouded, Whose hearts have been thinned, Whose souls have been shrouded, Whose ears are bedinned By hell’s clamour. How did The strength that has sinned Avail in the crowded Abodes of the wind? By lightning of rapture The soul of my song My love doth recapture ; Lead up to the long Years in blithe measure Of summer and ease ; Linger at leisure For passion and peace. Sadness and pleasure Relent and release :— A torrent, a treasure, A garden of Greece ! Selene, our sister, ¢ Our lover and friend, Thy li…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
…y Douglas in this miserable and criminal farce was due to his enjoyment of the sufferings of his wife. Each new spurt of filth wrung her heart afresh; and withal she was aware that all these things were but the prelude to an act of fiendish violence more horrible than them all. Mr. Butcher, Cremers, and Abdul Bey, their functions ended, were led out of the cellar. Balloch remained to perform the operation from which the bulk of his income was derived. But there was yet much sorcery of the more secret sort to be accomplished. Douglas who, up to …
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
…right arm waving them out into the world—where? No matter where: somewhere away: somewhere into the good places of the world—not a boy’s heart but was stirred within him: and the brave old English blood rose in them as he spoke, in his deep bass tones, of the worth of a single man in those far-off lands;—an oration destined to bear fruit in after-days, when the lads, who talk yet with bated breath of the speech and the speaker, shall grow to man’s estate. “Dangerous, Dick,” said Farmer John. “What should I do with my labourers?” “Don’t be afrai…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…igible image of his own true Will, to do which is the whole of the law of his Being. Also the Angel appeareth in Tiphereth, which is the heart of the Ruach, and thus the Centre of Gravity of the Mind. It is also directly inspired from Kether, the ultimate Self, through the Path of the High Priestess, or initiated intuition. ITence the Angel is in truth the Logos or articulate expression of the whole Being of the Adept, so that as he increases in the perfect understanding of — 300 ~
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…t dieth not and the fire that is not quenched”;1 that is, “the secret serpent coiled about to spring” and “the flame that burns in every heart of man”— Hadit. In other words, we take up arms against falsehood; we cannot help it if that falsehood forces the King it has imprisoned to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of his oppressor, and to fear Truth as once Jehovah did the Serpent. 1 [Mark 9:44, paraphrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.] 2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has it. [This iss…
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
…ld prate of this ? I know the secret thought that blossomed ! Extol the truth of love’s disdain ! Love, daring by no glance to gladden A heart that waits but that to madden In purple pleasure plucked of pain. | Nay! let our tears, that fail to sadden, . Extol the truth of love’s disdain ! Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture ! _ Hardly our eyes reveal the inward Dliss, ' Sealed by no speech and shadowed by no kiss. Love is no wizard to elude recapture | _ In the strong prison of his silences! | Let deeper silence shield the deeper raptu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
…, Rudely uprising ere your turn was come :— And you abuse our patience to insult The noble minstrel whose impassioned song Touched every heart. Sing in your turn you may. Love is the theme, not imbecility !
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…igh of my suffering. And the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. And the cup of wine is the outpouring of the Blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the Newer Life. And the Bread and the Salt are as the Foundations of my Body. Which I destroy in order that they may be renewed. For I am Osiris Triumphant, even Osiris Onnophris the Justified, I am he who is clothed with the Body of Flesh: Yet in whom is the Spirit of the Mighty Gods. I am the Lord of Life triumphant over Death. He who partaketh with me shall rise with m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…igh of my suffering. And the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. And the cup of wine is the outpouring of the Blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the Newer Life. And the Bread and the Salt are as the Foundations of my Body. Which I destroy in order that they may be renewed. For I am Osiris Triumphant, even Osiris Onnophris the Justified, I am he who is clothed with the Body of Flesh: Yet in whom is the Spirit of the Mighty Gods. I am the Lord of Life triumphant over Death. He who partaketh with me shall rise with m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…gh matter. I did not “sit for” a medical baronetcy by wishing I had it, or by an “act of faith”, or by praying to God “to move Pharaoh’s heart”, as our modem mental, or our mediaeval, mystic, miracle- mongers were and are muddlers and maudlin enough to advise us to do. A few general observations on the Magical Link may not be amiss, in default of details} one cannot make a Manual of How to Go Courting, with an Open-Sesame to each particular Brigand’s Cavern, any more than one can furnish a budding burglar with a directory containing the combina…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…, with a sort of silky ferocity, and flung her from him violently on to the sofa. He was gone. She lay upon the cushions, and sobbed her heart out. The whole evening was a nightmare for her — and also for Lavinia King. The pianist, who had looked in with the idea of dinner, was thrown out with objurgations. Why had he brought that cad, that brute, that fool? Amy Brough was caught by her fat wrists, and sat down to the cards; but the first time that she said "large building," was bundled bodily out of the apartment. Finally, Lavinia was astounde…
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
…a bosom warm And accents sweet ) To help to raise (and no man will upbraid you) Your sisters fallen far? ’Tis vain! God’s worst omission—Heart— has made you The thing you are ! THE LITTLE HALF-SOVEREIGN.! RED is the angry sunset, Murk is the even grey, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lord, can an angel find Fifty, but fifty, righteous— Body—I say not Mind.” Sadly the angel turneth— ‘* Stay, ere thou fleest, stay ; Canst thou not find me twenty?” ‘‘ Nay” is the answer, ‘‘ nay.” ‘* Are there not t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…rld of spirits, the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, etc. But, with all that, we are not really one step advanced into the heart of the inquiry which lies at the heart of philosophy, ‘‘ What zs anything ?”’ I see a cat. Dr. Johnson says it is a cat. Berkeley says it is a group of sensations. Cankaracharya says it is an illusion, an in- carnation, or Gol, according to the hat he has got on, and is talking through. Spencer says it is a mode of the Unknow- able. But none of them seriously doubt the fact that I exist ; that a cat exis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
… found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer wrong. We know these words are just. not. Though thy song Were the sole word of Zeus, Should that avail to loose The bands of Being firm, invulnerable dews Tincturing its bitter brass, Shielding its vital mass From every word that cries, ‘‘ Thus, and thy day shall pass.” We avail ALACUS. Typhon ! Typhon ! Typhon ! Heard ye that awful moan Leap through the blackness from the mis…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…d deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty — symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It 238 —