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Page 96 of 1121910 · PDF PAGE 182
…l of darkness, and in purples and greys glorious beyond imagining, sad beyond con- ceiving, faded the superb Herald of the Day. But mine eyes have seen it! And this, then, is Dhyana! Walk with it, yet all but unremarked, came a melody as of the sweet-souled Vina. Again, by the Grace Ineffable of Bhavani to the meanest of Her devotees, arose the Splendour of the Inner Sun. As bidden by my Guru, I saluted the 166
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…l of darkness, and in purples and greys glorious beyond imagining, sad beyond con- ceiving, faded the superb Herald of the Day. But mine eyes have seen it! And this, then, is Dhyana! Walk with it, yet all but unremarked, came a melody as of the sweet-souled Vina. Again, by the Grace Ineffable of Bhavani to the meanest of Her devotees, arose the Splendour of the Inner Sun. As bidden by my Guru, I saluted the 166
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…ing on the current unexpectedly. But we shall make a close examination, for all that." He took a thick silk scarf, and bound it over her eyes. Then, with an electric torch, he swept the table. He pulled back her sleeves to the shoulder and fastened them there; and he went over her hands inch by inch, opening the fingers and separating them, searching the nails, proving, in short, to demonstration, that there was no deception. "You see," whispered Cyril, "we're not preparing for a scientific experiment; we're preparing for a conjuring trick. It'…
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
…fall upon barren soil. Well he knew how hard it is to get Power to listen to Reason! At the corner of the Place de l'Opera he lifted his eyes to assure himself of a free crossing. * * * * * The mind of Abdul Bey was in turmoil. His first night upon the yacht had been mere wallowing in debauch; but he woke with a clear head, acutely alive to the complexity of his situation. He was personally triumphant; there was nothing in his private affairs to worry him. But in charge, as he was, of the Turkish Secret Service in Paris, he knew the political s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 10
…k, still poison; for thy kiss, A serpent’s lips! An agony is this That sweats out venom ; thy clenched hands, thy feet Ooze blood, thine eyes weep bload; thine anguish is More keen than death. At last --there is no deeper vault of hell héneath ! XV. Then thine abasement brineeth back the sheaves Of golden corn of exaltation, Kipencd and sweetened by the very sun ' The conerete expression of the horror of the individual, 2 Morbid imaginations, which ever torment the traveller upon the path of asceticism,
1905 · PDF PAGE 271
… dews the woodland ones bedizen; So—so for me! Some forty years this earth knew song and passion Pour from my lips, saw gladness in mine eyes ! Some forty shall I sing some other fashion, Dance in strange measures, change the key of sighs. Then rise in Thessaly again, Thalassian ! Only, more wise,
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…ly fashion of the Order; and Brother Onofrio's scarlet robe contrasted magnificently with the soft green silk of Brother Cyril's. In the eyes of the Italian was a passionate reverence for the younger, but more gifted, man, coupled with a human affection which was almost more than friendship; there was in it the devotion, selfless and unsleeping, which is
1905 · PDF PAGE 242
…joy, Barred from thy kiss. TANNHAUSER. Call not thyself again Goddess. I saw thee in the Presence there. The scales are fallen, and mine eyes see clear. VENUS. Then you would leave me! Serpent if I were, My cvils should press in dolorous delight Thy straining bosom, and my kiss were death! Death! Dost thou live, Tannhauser? Sayest thou still: ‘* None but the dead can know the worth of love !”? TANNHAUSER, Still,- Iam not in any sense estranged. I yearn for thee in the first hour of spring, As in the dying days of autumn. I Would clasp thee, as …
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…r sense nor delusion nor dream, No spirit that wantons or weeps, no thought in its silence supreme. I sit, and am utterly still; in mine eyes is my fathomless lust Ablaze to annihilate Will, to crumble my being to dust, To calcine the dust to an ash, to burn up the ash to an air, To abolish the air with the flash of the final, the fulminant flare. All this I have done, and dissolved the primordial germ of my thought; I have rolled myself up, and revolved the wheel of my being to Naught. Is there even the memory left? That I was, that I am? It i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…as death; a mottled and empurpled nose, still showing trace of its original aggressive and haughty model, alone made for colour. For his eyes were even paler than the doctor's. In his hand was a bottle half full of raw whisky, with which he was seeking to restore his vitality. "I brought you some whisky," said Balloch, who knew the way to favour. "Put it down, over there. You've got some money." Balloch did not dare to lie. S.R.M.D. had spotted the fact without a word. Only a cheque. You shall have half to-morrow when I've cashed it." "Come her…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…and by the uncertain Sea of Glass, which is before the Divine Majesty, mighty and powerful; by the four beasts before the throne, having eyes before and behind; by the fire round about the throne; by the holy angels of Heaven; and by the mighty wisdom of Gop; I do potently exorcise thee, that thou appearest here before this Circle, to fulfil my will in all things which shall seem good unto me; by the Seal of BASDATHEA Batpacuia; and by this name PRimEuMATON, which Moses named, and the earth opened, and did swallow up Kora, Dathan, and Abiram. W…
1906 · PDF PAGE 84
…ned And prayed me oft forbearance.” Cymbeline, How sweet the soft looks shot, endearing shame With their warm fragrance of love’s modest eyes ! The secret knowledge of our secrecies Shone from their distance with a subtle flame, And gave to pudency a rosier name When the long lashes drooped, and saintlier sighs Took softer meanings, till my arteries Throbbed with the glad desire that went and came. ‘¢ I charge you in the very name of love.” Quoth she: ‘* We have all day to steal below And snatch short kisses out of danger’s throat. Why beg you …
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
…f, so great But there shall come upon some grotesque Chinese | are moods, in which the heights are attained dragon with huge and hideous eyes leering round the delight of the daffodils ; or it may be some rude Priapus looking over the calm rock- shadowed beauty of the lake; or even, hang- ing amid the glory of elm or beech, an human skeleton, whose bones shall rattle in the breeze, and from whose eyeless sockets shall glare I dare not bid you guess what evil knowledge. Then, an you be wise, you shall know that a wise gardener wisely put them th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
… will show." "I will, I will," she cried, "I will go now, quickly. Kiss me first!" Once again the tears gathered in the magician's [333] eyes; he understood, more deeply than he had ever done, the Sorrow of the Universe. He saw how utterly incompatible are all our human ideals with the Laws of Life. He took her slowly and gently in his arms; and he kissed her. But Lisa did not respond; she understood that this was not the man whom she had loved: this was a man that she had never known, one whom she dared not love. A man set apart, an idea to ad…
1905 · PDF PAGE 38
…n And brazen chain, Far from the change that men call life fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep, We see our loved one, and vain eyes desire In vain to weep. Woeful our gaze, ifon lone Earth descendent, To view the absence of yon flame afar— Yetin the Heavens, anew, divine, resplendent, Behold a star! One light the less, that steady flamed and even Amid the dusk of Earth’s uncertain shore; One light the less, but in Jehovah’s ITeaven One star the more ! 1 A maternal aunt of the poet. THE QUEST. APART, immutable, unseen, Being, before it…
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
…ulped it in his greed. All this he knows, only too well; he is right, by his own lights, to loathe and fear the act, to hide it from his eyes, to swear he knows it not. With tawdry rags of sentiment, sacksful of greasy clouts, he swathes the corpse of Love, and, smirking, sputters that Love had never a naked limb; then as the brute in him stirs sleep ily, he plasters Love with mire, and leering, grunts that Love was never a God in the Temple Man, but a toothsome lump of carrion in the corner of his own stye. But we of Thelema, like the artist,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 22
…in delight, for still across the sea Stole sensuous breaths of Sapphic melody Ifrom the far strand of Lesbos; then there cume Into their eyes a new and awful flame Suddenly burning; now upon the beach The waves kept tune in unexpressive speech As the sad voice drew nigh ; the hero shrank Like one in awe ; the flame shot up and sank From the crimson-vestured altar; then the song Found in the wavering breeze from over sea a tongue. Here, on the crimson strand of blood-red waters, We, Cypris, not thy daughters, Clad in bright flame, filled with un…
1905 · PDF PAGE 89
82 JEPHTHAH And my wife’s eyes were welcome more desired Than chains of roses, and the song of children, And swinging palm branches, and milk-white —elders. CHORUS. Fie on thy railing! But his wife is sick, And cannot leave the borders of her house. AHINOAM. But he hath one fair only daughter! Friends, With maidens bearing trimbrels, and with dances, Let her go forth and bring her father home. -JARED [aszde]. Horrible! I must speak and silence this Monstrous impossible villainy of fate. CHORUS. O wise old man, thou speakest cleverly. AHINOAM, S…
1919 · PDF PAGE 162
…t. It is the empty shrine await- ing the in-dwelling of the God. to P.M. I experienced another peculiar state just now, Having closed my eyes for a few moments (concentrating), I thought I would try and think backwards over the last few things I had been doing, but found, try as I would, I could not think of things done even a moment before. All was the “present peculiar ex- perience,” and there was no getting away from it. The concentration acted just like a magnet, and became automatic. Again, on trying to look back over this retirement, it a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…ecame quite clearly visible. It was a dull fiery red. The head was turned toward her, and she was suddenly shocked to see that it had no eyes. The old man advanced towards it. He had abandoned his prophetic attitude. His whole gait expressed indifference — no, forgetfulness. He was merely a quiet old gentleman taking an evening stroll. He walked right into the Thing. Suddenly, as it enveloped him, Lisa saw that a faint light was issuing from his body, a pale phosphorescence which kindled warmly as he went. She saw the edges of the Thing contrac…